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
Nerys Hughes Hobbs Bursary. One of Hughes's early dramatic roles was in Ken Loach's television series titled "Diary of a Young Man" in 1964. She is best known for the role of Sandra Hutchinson in the enormously successful BBC TV series "The Liver Birds" which ran from 1969 to 1978 with a brief revival in 1996. Her main co-stars were Mollie Sugden and Polly James. She later played the eponymous lead in "The District Nurse", a series which was written for her, and won the Variety Club Television Actress of the Year Award. The series was released on DVD in 2006. She