The original series ended in 1979. However a further season was made in 1996, featuring the earlier Liver Bird characters Sandra and Beryl. All of the main cast later admitted they felt this tenth run was perhaps a mistake.
In a definite sign of the times, Polly James and Nerys Hughes drank then-popular Pernod milkshakes while going over their lines.
Co-Writer Myra Taylor left the show as, working on scripts in London, she found she was missing her family too much. A heartbroken Carla Lane wept when she left.
In a stroke of good fortune while casting the new part of flatmate Carol, Nerys Hughes spotted Elizabeth Estensen in the stage play "John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert", and insisted that Series Producer Sydney Lotterby also went to see her in it.
Series Creator Carla Lane confessed that Sandra was essentially based on herself, Mrs. Hutchinson was her mother, and Beryl was co-Creator Myra Taylor.