Billy (1979 TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Billy


caption =
genre = Sitcom
director = John Rich
starring = Steve Guttenberg
Peggy Pope
James Gallery
country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 7
producer = John Rich
runtime = 30 mins.
channel = CBS
first_aired = February 26, 1979
last_aired = April 28, 1979

"Billy" is the name of a short-lived sitcom that CBS aired in the United States in 1979. The series was based on Keith Waterhouse's 1960 British play "Billy Liar".

ynopsis

"Billy" starred Steve Guttenberg as Billy Fisher, a mortician's clerk with a tendency to daydream. His Walter Mitty-like tendency would have him imagining that he was a famous surgeon, a rock superstar, a disk jockey, a television network executive, or a football star. Each episode of "Billy" had at least two of his fantasies, which included appearances by Suzanne Somers, Don Adams, Larry Csonka, Merv Griffin, and Lou Ferrigno.

Peggy Pope and James Gallery portrayed Billy's often-frustrated parents (she thought Billy had a vivid imagination; he viewed Billy as a chronic, compulsive liar). Paula Trueman played his grandmother, who believed that Billy was insane, and Bruce Talkington played Billy's friend Arthur Milliken, a fellow worker at Shadrack and Shadrack funeral home.

"Billy" replaced the ill-fated "Co-Ed Fever" in CBS' Monday night lineup in February 1979. It didn't fare much better as "Billy" was cancelled two months later. Its last episode was broadcast by CBS on April 28, 1979.

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