Billy Liar
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1973 - 1974
- 26 episodes (2 series)
Billy Fisher gets lost in his imagination in order to escape from the drudgery of everyday life. Stars Jeff Rawle, George A. Cooper, Pamela Vezey, May Warden, Colin Jeavons and Sally Watts
Billy Liar
Novel upon which the sitcom was based.
When Keith Waterhouse's comic novel Billy Liar was first published in 1959, rave reviews compared it to Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, Colin MacInnes's Absolute Beginners, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, and other youth cult novels. Billy Liar is a regional comedy about a youth who attempts to escape his dull family life through fantasy.
First published: Wednesday 27th June 1973
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Catalogue: 0140017836
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