Saturday, 9 March 2019

A Comedy On This Day: The Liver Birds - Fella-A-Day Girl (10 March 1972)


 Sadly the girls have moved away from their Victorian tenement to a less visually interesting modern flat, but the series continues to offer a feast of diverting period costumes to look at. Beryl starts the episode in a pea green dressing gown with long ridged cuffs and moves on to a strange part-patchwork dress, but the most arresting outfit is the matching pink shirt with pendulous collars and magenta patterned tie worn by Colin Bell as her supposedly dishy boyfriend.

 Sandra has also been paired up with an equally eligible man, although he only appears inside a car in a nocturnal filmed insert, the unflattering lighting making John Nettles look uncharacteristically rough. Paula Wilcox also turns up as Beryl's heavily pregnant sister, handicapped by the most unconvincing 'stuff a couple of cushions up her and that'll do' padding.

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