Billy Liar (TV series)

[2] The semi-comical premise is based around William Fisher, a Northern working-class 19-year-old living with his parents and grandmother in the fictional town of Stradhoughton in Yorkshire.

[3] Other regular cast members included Pamela Vezey as Alice, Colin Jeavons as Shadrack, May Warden as Billy's grandmother, and Sally Watts as Barbara.

Guest appearances were made by Thora Hird, Windsor Davies, Mollie Sugden, Magnus Magnusson, Kathy Staff and Roy Kinnear, among others.

An American adaptation entitled Billy and starring Steve Guttenberg, Peggy Pope, and James Gallery aired briefly on CBS in 1979.

Billy Liar featured as a short five-minute-long special as part of the All Star Comedy Carnival on 25 December 1973, an annual Christmas-special containing new mini-episodes of popular British sitcoms.