Budgie (voiced by Richard Pearce) lives and works at Harefield Airfield and is best friends with Pippa (a single-engined plane voiced by 13-year-old Abigail MacVean). His catchphrase is “Rocketing rotors!”
Budgie works alongside Chuck (voiced by Kerry Shale) – a CH-47 Chinook who is tasked with most of the heavy lifting – and Lionel (voiced by Jeremy Nicholas), the senior helicopter (a Westland Lynx) who is in charge of all the aircraft at Harefield. His catchphrase is “Juddering joysticks!”
Other characters include Dell (a baggage cart tow truck), Smokey, the airfield fire engine (voiced by Ray Lonnen), and Don, the stairs lorry (Anthony Jackson).
Patsy, an American stunt plane and Wally, an old Supermarine Walrus seaplane (voiced by It Aint ‘Alf Hot Mum star Melvyn Hayes), were introduced in series two.
The human characters are twin children Ben (Adrian Hansel) and Lucy Kitchen (Zoe Hodges), their mother, Mrs Nancy Kitchen (voiced by Pippa Haywood), and mechanics Ken Wrench (Anthony Jackson) and Mike Sprocket (William Vanderpuye).
The control tower operator (voiced by Ray Lonnen) was heard but never seen.
The show aired in the United States on FOX as part of the Fox Cubhouse programming block from 1995 to 1996 and moved to the Fox Family Channel in 1999 as part of It’s Itsy Bitsy Time (redubbed with American voices).
After initial success in 1994 and 1995, the third series did not rate so well, and ITV subsequently declined a fourth series.
Budgie
Richard Pearce Pippa
Abigail MacVean Lionel
Jeremy Nicholas Chuck
Kerry Shale Smokey/Controller
Ray Lonnen Don/Ken
Anthony Jackson Mrs Nancy Kitchen
Pippa Haywood Ben Kitchen
Adrian Hansel Lucy Kitchen
Zoe Hodges Mike Sprocket
William Vanderpuye Wally Melvyn Hayes Narrator/Dell
Jeff Rawle
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Budgie works alongside Chuck (voiced by Kerry Shale) – a CH-47 Chinook who is tasked with most of the heavy lifting – and Lionel (voiced by Jeremy Nicholas), the senior helicopter (a Westland Lynx) who is in charge of all the aircraft at Harefield. His catchphrase is “Juddering joysticks!”
The human characters are twin children Ben (Adrian Hansel) and Lucy Kitchen (Zoe Hodges), their mother, Mrs Nancy Kitchen (voiced by Pippa Haywood), and mechanics Ken Wrench (Anthony Jackson) and Mike Sprocket (William Vanderpuye).
Budgie
Mrs Nancy Kitchen
