The Liver Birds

Jul 25, 1969 (en) Comedy [30] Min
  • First Air Date
    Jul 25, 1969
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    The Liver Birds
  • Release
    Jul 25, 1969
  • en
    -

Overview

The Liver Birds is a British sitcom set in the city of Liverpool, in the north-west of England, which aired on BBC1 from 1969 to 1978, and again in 1996. It was created by Carla Lane and Myra Taylor. These two Liverpudlian writers had met at a local writers club and decided to pool their talents. Having been invited to London by Michael Mills and asked to write about two young women sharing a flat, Mills brought in sitcom expert Sydney Lotterby to work with the writing team. Lotterby had previously worked with Eric Sykes, Sheila Hancock and on The Likely Lads. Carla Lane in fact wrote most of the episodes, Taylor co-writing only the first two series. The pilot was shown as an episode of Comedy Playhouse, the BBC's breeding ground for sitcoms, in April 1969.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer

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Casts

  1. Nerys Hughes

    Sandra Hutchinson

  2. Polly James

    Beryl Hennessey

  3. Mollie Sugden

    Mrs Hutchinson

  4. Michael Angelis

    Lucien

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 4 / Crews : 0

Season 1 ( 1969-07-25)

Potent Perfume

Episode: 1

The Photographer

Episode: 2

Aristocracy And Crime

Episode: 3

Torremolinos, Costa Del Sol Or Southport?

Episode: 4

Season 2 ( 1971-01-07)

The Wedding

Episode: 1

Look Before You Leap

Episode: 2

Housekeeping

Episode: 3

The Proposal

Episode: 4

The Good Samaritans

Episode: 5

Three’s A Crowd

Episode: 6

The New Neighbour

Episode: 7

The New Flat

Episode: 8

The Dog

Episode: 9

Grandad

Episode: 10

Mother’s Day

Episode: 11

Promotion

Episode: 12

Season 3 ( 1972-02-11)

One's a Crowd

Episode: 1

Birds on the Dole

Episode: 2

Good Little Girls Should Be in Bed

Episode: 3

Birds on Strike

Episode: 4

Fella-A-Day Girl

Episode: 5

Birds and Bottom Drawers

Episode: 6

The Christening

Episode: 7

Birds on Horseback

Episode: 8

Valentine's Day

Episode: 9

Birds in the Club

Episode: 10

The Driving Test

Episode: 11

Liverpool or Everton

Episode: 12

The Parrot

Episode: 13

Season 4 ( 1974-01-02)

Anybody Here Seen Thingy?

Episode: 1

Friends at First Sight

Episode: 2

Life Is Just a Bowl of Sugar

Episode: 3

Where's Beryl?

Episode: 4

Girl Saturday

Episode: 5

Pack Up Your Troubles

Episode: 6

Have Hen Will Travel

Episode: 7

Love Is

Episode: 8

Anyone for Freedom

Episode: 9

Follow That Ring

Episode: 10

The Bride Went That-A 'Way

Episode: 11

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Episode: 12

And Then There Was One

Episode: 13

Season 5 ( 1975-09-05)

It Takes All Kinds

Episode: 1

Look After the Children...

Episode: 2

You've Got to Laugh...

Episode: 3

Love Is a Many Stupid Thing

Episode: 4

Dinner for Three

Episode: 5

The Lily and the Dandelion

Episode: 6

Everybody Is Beautiful

Episode: 7

Special: In Every Street

Episode: 8

Season 6 ( 1976-02-13)

Facing Up to Life

Episode: 1

The Maypole

Episode: 2

Honey

Episode: 3

The Never-Ending End

Episode: 4

Badgers and Otters

Episode: 5

Season 7 ( 1976-10-17)

Friends and Lovers

Episode: 1

She Dreams a Lot

Episode: 2

A Mark on the World

Episode: 3

Love 'Em: And Almost Leave 'Em

Episode: 4

Oh, the Shame of It

Episode: 5

Cry Please

Episode: 6

The Nearly Hat

Episode: 7

Yellow and Green Make Blue

Episode: 8

Special: It Insists on Coming Once a Year

Episode: 9

Season 8 ( 1977-09-23)

Something Beginning

Episode: 1

The Flower-Picker

Episode: 2

You've No Idea What I've Been Through

Episode: 3

God Bless Us and Save Us

Episode: 4

They Decide Up There What Goes on Down Here

Episode: 5

The Edge

Episode: 6

The Struggle

Episode: 7

Special: Open Your Eyes... and It Still Hasn't Gone

Episode: 8

Season 9 ( 1978-11-28)

There’s no place like away from home

Episode: 1

The sixth day

Episode: 2

Various kinds of old

Episode: 3

Weeds

Episode: 4

Somewhere to live some to love

Episode: 5

The best things in life are not free

Episode: 6

Season 10 ( 1996-05-06)

Hello again

Episode: 1

Mrs Boswell comes to call

Episode: 2

Spare that tree!

Episode: 3

On the town

Episode: 4

Going into hospital

Episode: 5

Out of Hospital

Episode: 6

Moving Out

Episode: 7
Jul 25, 1969 (en)
Comedy
[30] Min
  • First Air Date Jul 25, 1969
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato 50%
Original Title The Liver Birds
en

Overview

The Liver Birds is a British sitcom set in the city of Liverpool, in the north-west of England, which aired on BBC1 from 1969 to 1978, and again in 1996. It was created by Carla Lane and Myra Taylor. These two Liverpudlian writers had met at a local writers club and decided to pool their talents. Having been invited to London by Michael Mills and asked to write about two young women sharing a flat, Mills brought in sitcom expert Sydney Lotterby to work with the writing team. Lotterby had previously worked with Eric Sykes, Sheila Hancock and on The Likely Lads. Carla Lane in fact wrote most of the episodes, Taylor co-writing only the first two series. The pilot was shown as an episode of Comedy Playhouse, the BBC's breeding ground for sitcoms, in April 1969.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer