Pulling Moves — Season 1, Episode 6: Catch The Pigeon
Comedy, Drama • 30 min • 1 season, 10 episodes • ★ 6.0/10
Episode synopsis
After the death of elderly pigeon racer Barney The Bird, the lads dismantle his pigeon shed as a favour for Barney's wife. They find a bottle of Barney's secret formula, which he fed to his pigeons to make them the fastest birds in Belfast. The lads start a bidding war between two pigeon fanatics, Hong Kong Paddy and Petesy Pigeon. Disaster strikes when the lads accidentally break the bottle of formula but luckily they find the recipe on the bottle label. The boys assemble most of the ingredients but they are missing one vital part of the cocktail - steroids. Shay persuades the boys to let him approach Hoker to supply them. They plan to sell the formula to all the pigeon racers in Belfast thinking that they've made their fortune. However, when Wardrobe threatens Hoker and refuses to pay him the rest of his money, Hoker slips the wrong ingredients into their new batch of formula. Meanwhile, Ta is still locked out by an angry Una and is living with Darragh. It appears that the only way h
About Pulling Moves
Pulling Moves was a Northern Irish television programme set in Lenadoon, West Belfast. It follows the exploits of four friends: Wardrobe, Ta, Shay and Darragh. Wardrobe is the leader of the group, who only loves one person, his 'wee ma' and he would do anything for her. Ta lives with Una, the mother of his kids. She is always on his case, trying to get him to leave the group, get a respectable job and make a living for her and the kids, but his nature stops him from doing this. Darragh is always trying to impress his ex-wife to allow him to keep seeing his son. Shay is the youngest in the group, and the one who always makes the mistakes. He is always getting into trouble and his mother always hopes that one day he will be able to get a job and be sensible like his wee sister Niamh. Each episode follows the guys trying different scams to earn money. These schemes vary from nobbling pigeon-racing to dog-breeding, and always with something funny happening to the group. They are joined by other various characters, including "Hoker," an anti-social element who can get anything from stolen cars to lost dogs for the crowd. Wardrobe doesn't like this guy, but Hoker is a friend of Shay's, and he's useful now and again. Crazy Horse is the local wino, he's always drunk and sitting outside the butcher's shop, and finally, Tiny Tim, who owns a pet salon, who the guys help out now and again.