Underplayed Gems

The Liver Birds (1969)

The Liver Birds poster
Genre
sitcom
Country
United Kingdom
Length
10 seasons, 86 episodes
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two young women share a flat in Liverpool and navigate their lives, work, and friendships in the late 1960s and 1970s. The show follows their everyday adventures and misadventures as they deal with family, romance, and living independently.

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What happens

The Liver Birds is a British sitcom, set in Liverpool, North West England, which aired on BBC1 from April 1969 to January 1979, 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. They were 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, 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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