The Liver Birds "Man is the dog, and woman is the bone. He eats the best of you, and buries the rest of you, and when his dish is empty—he'll dig you up again." This would be the last series with Beryl; as Polly James explained: "The reason I left the programme in the end was that I felt I was in danger of caricaturing what was already a pretty outrageous character." Producer Sydney Lotterby had to find a new leading actress to keep the series going after Polly James' departure. In 1971 he'd replaced Pauline Collins with Nerys Hughes, and Hughes herself
Pretty Polly (ballad) is the musical basis for "Ballad of Hollis Brown" by Bob Dylan who played "Pretty Polly" himself in his early years. Woody Guthrie used the tune of "Pretty Polly" for "Pastures of Plenty". David Lindley's version alters the ending and has Polly draw a razor and kill Willie instead. The song was performed by Hilarie Burhans for the closing credits of the sixth episode of Season 2, "Something Very Expensive" of the HBO series "Deadwood". The song was sung by Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) in Season 2 Episode 4 of the Netflix original series "House of Cards". Pretty Polly (ballad)