在这部Billy Liar喜剧片中,Based on the 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar was adapted for a tv series that was first broadcast in 1973 and 1974. It ran for 26 episodes over 2 series. The series starred Jeff Rawle as Billy Fisher, a lowly clerk for an undertaker. Bored in his job, Billy spends his time indulging in fantasies and dreams of life in the big city as a comedy writer. Life at home proves just as boring and his daydreaming provides a constant source of annoyance to his Dad.
Billy is an idealistic young man who is trapped in a boring life. He works in a tedious job in an undertaker's office with a permanently uptight employer, dates a soppy girl who fails to satisfy him emotionally or physically and lives with his parents and grandmother who stifle his personality. To forget about all of this, Billy escapes into his imagination and fantasizes his life away.