The Liver Birds
bloodynora
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Is anyone else watching The Liver Birds? ( Weekdays on Drana at 1pm)
Its years since I last saw it and it didn't dawn on me then that despite being a "Liver bird" Polly James had a broad Lancashire accent, yet her parents on the programme had Liverpool accents!
Its years since I last saw it and it didn't dawn on me then that despite being a "Liver bird" Polly James had a broad Lancashire accent, yet her parents on the programme had Liverpool accents!
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I loved Butterflies, its on Drama on Saturday that again.
I think she was from Oswaldtwistle.......
'if you're standing on a corner all alone and feeling low ........................'etc etc
Christopher Timothy,
John Nettles
Mollie Sugden,
Even Nerys Hughes and Elizabeth Estenson went on to do other series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y9VW2ldaJI
Our Lucien (Michael Angelis) narrated Thomas the Tank Engine after Ringo Starr didn't want to do it any more. Which is funny because his brother Paul was Ringo's speaking voice in the Yellow Submarine film.
Would that be the first time an established pop combo or rock muscian wrote a TV theme tune ? pre-dating Mike Hugg's Likely Lads opus.
They're the one's i remembered as a kid, and though i watched the Polly James ones on repeats later in my childhood, nowadays i find watching her to be too loud and grating. Just wish the later ones would be shown, but there's about 7 series before we get to them based on what drama are showing.
Annoying that when they made the new one for one series in the 90s, they rewrote history and made lucien be Polly's relative and wrote Liz out of the history books!
Series 5/6/7 scheduled to air on drama!!
True story.
They never seem to show the pilot and first series which had Pauline Collins rather than Nerys Hughes either
That would be because those episodes are among the 'missing presumed wiped' from the archive. Unless the series was sold abroad, it's not likely that they'll be out there anywhere.
Well that would certainly explain that
I missed Beryl the 1 st time around
I have recorded it but not sure I will continue to watch it now Beryl isn't in it!
Yeah same, although i might watch a couple more, just to see if it gets better, its just not the same without Beryl though.
I was too young first time around to watch the Liver Birds, but I've loved watching the repeats...the clothes & hair styles:D Anyway, I do think Elizabeth is being unfiarly compared, all because folk were used to Polly..from what I can see she's a fine comedic actress. I'm going to keep watching.