Birds in the Bush

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Birds in the Bush
Genre	Situation Comedy
Creator(s)	David Croft
Starring	Hugh Lloyd Ron Fraser Alastair Duncan Kate Fitzpatrick Elli MacLure Ann Sidney Susan Lloyd Briony Behets
Country of origin	UK-Austrialian
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producer(s)	Margaret Bond
Running time	Approximately 30 minutes per normal episode.
Broadcast
Original channel	Austrialian?
Original run	3 May 1972 – ?

Birds in the Bush was a UK-Australian situation comedy series produced in 1972.

The series was set on a remote Australian property run by seven beautiful but naive young women. When the property is inherited by an English water diviner (Hugh Lloyd) he and his Australian half-brother (Ron Fraser) and an assistant (Kate Fitzpatrick) begin living on the property and attempt to teach the nubile young women the ways of the world.

The series focused on the physical attractiveness of the young women - who all wore skimpy blue smocks and had names like Abigail, Lolita, Tuesday, Wednesday and Buster - along with Carry On-style innuendo. Amongst the actresses as the young women were Briony Behets and Kate Sheil.

The series was written and directed by David Croft and was intended primarily for a UK audience. As UK television was by this stage transmitting in colour it meant that Birds in the Bush was also shot in colour, but this necessitated shooting the series on film rather than videotape, as the ATN7 television studios in Australia were yet to be converted to colour.

The series began on air in Australia on 3 May 1972 but rated poorly there. Likewise UK ratings were low and the series run was cancelled there before all the episodes had been shown. Just one season of 13 30-minute episodes was produced.