For other uses, see The Liver Birds (disambiguation).
The Liver Birds
Polly James (left) and Nerys Hughes
Genre
Sitcom
Created by
Carla Lane Myra Taylor
Written by
Carla Lane Myra Taylor Lew Schwarz Jack Seddon David Pursall
Starring
Polly James (1969–1974, 1996) Pauline Collins (1969) Nerys Hughes (1971–1979, 1996) Elizabeth Estensen (1975–1979)
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language
English
No. of series
10
No. of episodes
86
Production
Running time
24 minutes
Original release
Network
BBC1
Release
14 April 1969 (1969-04-14) – 29 December 1978 (1978-12-29)
Release
6 May (1996-05-06) – 24 June 1996 (1996-06-24)
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The Liver Birds is a British sitcom, set in Liverpool, North West England, which aired on BBC1 from April 1969 to December 1978, and again in 1996. The show was created by Carla Lane and Myra Taylor. The two Liverpudlian housewives had met at a local writers club and decided to pool their talents. Having been invited to London by Michael Mills, the BBC's then Head of Comedy, and asked to write about two women sharing a flat, Mills brought in sitcom expert Sydney Lotterby to work with the writing team.
Lotterby had previously worked with Eric Sykes and Sheila Hancock, and on The Likely Lads. For the Liver Birds, Carla Lane wrote most of the episodes, Taylor co-writing only the first two series. The pilot was shown on 14 April 1969 as an episode of Comedy Playhouse, the BBC's breeding ground for sitcoms at the time.[1]
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in The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), 80,000 Suspects (1963) and The Leather Boys (1964). Other television work includes roles in TheLiverBirds, Casualty...
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