Billy (TV series)
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Billy was the title of two different American sitcoms.
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[edit] 1970s series
The first Billy aired on CBS from February to April 1979 and starred Steve Guttenberg as Billy Fisher. It was an adaptation of the UK novel Billy Liar which was also adapted as a film and TV series. The premise is the titular character allows his overactive imagination to get the better of him to the point where everyone else thinks he's a habitual liar.
[edit] 1990s series
The second series called Billy aired on ABC for half a season during 1992.
A spin-off of Head of the Class, the series starred Billy Connolly as Billy MacGregor, a Scottish teacher who moves to America in order to build a new life for himself. Following the end of the Head of the Class series, Billy moves to California where he marries Mary Springer (played by Marie Marshall), a single mom with several children. The marriage is arranged in order to prevent Billy from being deported back to the UK.
The series follows Billy's misadventures as he adjusts to life in California while staying one step ahead of immigration officials seeking to prove his marriage is a sham. Meanwhile, his relationship with Mary's children deepens to a parental level, and Billy and Mary likewise find themselves drawing closer together, although the series was cancelled before this subplot could be carried out.
[edit] See also
- Green Card (a 1990 film with a similar theme)
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