Buzby was a yellow talking cartoon bird, launched in 1976 as a marketing campaign by the then Post Office Telecommunications

Post Office Telecommunications

Post Office Telecommunications was set up as a separate department of the UK Post Office, in October 1969. The Post Office Act of that year was passed to provide for greater efficiency in post and telephone services; rather than run a range of services, each organisation would be able to focus on...

, which later became British Telecommunications (BT). Buzby appeared in a series of television commercials with the catchphrase: "Make someone happy with a phone call". It spawned many marketing items, such as toys, badges, a comic strip in "TV Comic

TV Comic

TV Comic was a British comic book published weekly between November 9, 1951 and June 29, 1984 for 1,697 issues. With its bright, eye-catching covers, it featured stories based on television shows running at the time of publication. The first issue had 8 pages and had Muffin the Mule on the cover....

", and books, and lasted until well into the 1980s.

British Telecom produced & sold a "Buzby" wrist watch with the Buzby perched on the second hand, As the second hand moved the Buzby bird went around with the secondhand. The watch had a blue strap. 1980/1981c

Buzby's voice was provided by Bernard Cribbins

Bernard Cribbins

Bernard Cribbins, OBE is an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over half a century who came to prominence in films in the 1960s, has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950s, and as of 2010 is still an active...

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