The Liver Birds sequence for series one also exists but in poor quality. The first series was stopped after four episodes because Polly James' hectic schedule—working every evening on "Anne of Green Gables" in the West End, then rehearsing all day for the TV show—was proving too much. By the time James was available again, Pauline Collins had moved to LWT's "Upstairs, Downstairs". The producer Sydney Lotterby remembered having worked with Nerys Hughes on "The Likely Lads" and, wrongly believing the Welsh actress was from Liverpool, asked her to read for a part in "The Liver Birds". (Neither actress really had a Liverpool
Polly James actress "Once More with Music" in 1976, appeared as a soubrette in Alan Clarke's 1982 production of "Baal", and in "Doctor Who" in 1984. She appeared, too, in the West End musicals "I and Albert" and "Anne of Green Gables". In 1971, James appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in "The Merchant of Venice" with Judi Dench. She was particularly praised for her performance as Jenny Wren in the 1976 BBC adaptation of Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend". She is divorced and has one child. Polly James Polly James (born 1941) is an English actress with a career in theatre, film,