The Liver Birds, a sort of female Likely Lads starring Nerys Hughes and Polly James, began in 1971. But this wasn't quite how the programme started. In the late 1960s, a pair of Liverpudlian ...

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.

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One of the most popular sitcoms of the 1970s, The Liver Birds is often overlooked today, but played a significant, boundary-breaking role in representing women in television comedy.