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
The Polly Bergen Show Side". Luther Henderson, Jr., conducted the orchestra. In the series finale on May 31, Jack Carter helped Bergen reminisce in a nostalgic look at the past seventeen episodes. Bergen sang "Today I Love Everybody" and "You'll Never Know". The cast was said to be leaving for Las Vegas after the concluding episode. Songs performed were "I'm Late", "Cuanto Le Gusta," and "Ridin' High." "The Polly Bergen Show" and "Club Oasis" followed "The Perry Como Show" and preceded "The Gisele MacKenzie Show", both NBC variety programs. Cast opposite "The Polly Bergen Show" was "The Gale Storm Show", a CBS situation comedy,