In which American cop series did the hero keep a cockatoo called Fred
Cockatoo World Parrot Trust. Two 1970s police dramas featured protagonists with pet cockatoos. In the 1973 film "Serpico", Al Pacino's character had a pet white cockatoo and the television show "Baretta" saw Robert Blake's character with Fred the Triton cockatoo. The popularity of the latter show saw a corresponding rise in popularity of cockatoos as pets in the late 1970s. Cockatoos have been used frequently in advertising; a cockatoo appeared in a 'cheeky' (and later toned-down) 2008 advertising campaign for Cockatoo Ridge Wineries. A team of scientists from Oxford University, the University of Vienna and the Max Planck Institute conducted tests
A Show Called Fred and "Son of Fred". The 1995 convention of the Goon Show Preservation Society was billed as "A Weekend Called Fred", followed in 2003 by its successor, the "Great Grandson of a Weekend Called Fred", held in Egham, Surrey. A Show Called Fred A Show Called Fred was the successor series to "The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d". It was made by Associated-Rediffusion and broadcast only in the London area. It was 25 minutes plus adverts. It was predominantly a sketch comedy attempting to translate the audio antics of "The Goon Show" into visual antics in bizarre and often surreal comedy sketches