The Liver Birds (1969)
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.
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Seasons
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Season 9
Season 10
Episodes season 1
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1x1
Potent perfume
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1x2
The photographer
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1x3
Aristocracy and crime
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1x4
Torremolinos, costa del sol or southport?
Episodes season 2
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2x1
The wedding
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2x2
Look before you leap
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2x3
Housekeeping
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2x4
The proposal
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2x5
The good samaritans
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2x6
Three’s a crowd
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2x7
The new neighbour
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2x8
The new flat
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2x9
The dog
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2x10
Grandad
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2x11
Mother’s day
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2x12
Promotion
Episodes season 3
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3x1
One's a crowd
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3x2
Birds on the dole
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3x3
Good little girls should be in bed
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3x4
Birds on strike
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3x5
Fella-a-day girl
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3x6
Birds and bottom drawers
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3x7
The christening
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3x8
Birds on horseback
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3x9
Valentine's day
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3x10
Birds in the club
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3x11
The driving test
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3x12
Liverpool or everton
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3x13
The parrot
Episodes season 4
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4x1
Anybody here seen thingy?
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4x2
Friends at first sight
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4x3
Life is just a bowl of sugar
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4x4
Where's beryl?
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4x5
Girl saturday
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4x6
Pack up your troubles
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4x7
Have hen will travel
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4x8
Love is
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4x9
Anyone for freedom
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4x10
Follow that ring
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4x11
The bride went that-a 'way
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4x12
Let sleeping dogs lie
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4x13
And then there was one
Episodes season 5
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5x1
It takes all kinds
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5x2
Look after the children...
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5x3
You've got to laugh...
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5x4
Love is a many stupid thing
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5x5
Dinner for three
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5x6
The lily and the dandelion
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5x7
Everybody is beautiful
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5x8
Special: in every street
Episodes season 6
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6x1
Facing up to life
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6x2
The maypole
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6x3
Honey
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6x4
The never-ending end
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6x5
Badgers and otters
Episodes season 7
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7x1
Friends and lovers
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7x2
She dreams a lot
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7x3
A mark on the world
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7x4
Love 'em: and almost leave 'em
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7x5
Oh, the shame of it
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7x6
Cry please
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7x7
The nearly hat
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7x8
Yellow and green make blue
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7x9
Special: it insists on coming once a year
Episodes season 8
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8x1
Something beginning
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8x2
The flower-picker
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8x3
You've no idea what i've been through
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8x4
God bless us and save us
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8x5
They decide up there what goes on down here
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8x6
The edge
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8x7
The struggle
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8x8
Special: open your eyes... and it still hasn't gone
Episodes season 9
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9x1
There’s no place like away from home
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9x2
The sixth day
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9x3
Various kinds of old
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9x4
Weeds
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9x5
Somewhere to live some to love
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9x6
The best things in life are not free
Episodes season 10
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10x1
Hello again
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10x2
Mrs boswell comes to call
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10x3
Spare that tree!
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10x4
On the town
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10x5
Going into hospital
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10x6
Out of hospital
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10x7
Moving out
