The Liver Birds
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1969 - 1996
- 86 episodes (10 series)
Sitcom exploring the lives and loves of two young, single females sharing a flat together in Liverpool. Stars Nerys Hughes, Polly James, Elizabeth Estensen, Pauline Collins, Mollie Sugden and more.
Episode menu
Pilot - Comedy Playhouse
Notes
This episode no longer exists in the archives. It is missing, believed wiped.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 14th April 1969
- Time
- 7:30pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Polly James | Beryl Hennessey |
| Pauline Collins | Dawn |
| Roy Marsden | Nigel |
| Hugh Walters | Terence |
| Carla Lane | Writer |
| Myra Taylor | Writer |
| Lew Schwarz | Writer |
| Sydney Lotterby | Director |
| Sydney Lotterby | Producer |
| Ronnie Hazlehurst | Composer |
| Gillian Howard | Production Designer |
Press
It was accurate enough, but it had to be funny too. Pauline Collins and Polly James are the birds, one slightly superior and the other dead common, and they started off in what I keep thinking of as the first episode with a little too much Liverpudlian bounce, trying too hard to be sharp and witty in the way we expect from that over-publicised city.
Ann Purser, The Stage, 17th April 1969Perhaps the accents didn't always ring too true but the cheeky line in bedsitter belt backchat did and the dialogue had a distinct flavour that could be the making of these female equivalents of The Likely Lads.
R. W. W., Liverpool Echo, 15th April 1969Comedy Playhouse returned last night to BBC1 with "The Liver Birds," not so much a play perhaps as a chirpy dialogue in the variety programme manner. But although the Liver Birds may have had little body, they twittered amusingly enough to make one quite happy to stay with them for half an hour.
Jessie Palmer, The Scotsman, 15th April 1969