Am Sonntag, 28. Januar 2018 18:01:19 UTC+1 schrieb Dave Smith:
> On 2018-01-28 10:19 AM, graham wrote:
> > On 2018-01-28 5:43 AM, wrote:
>
> >>>> Nope, I loathe them.Â* When posters on usenet are talking about them, I
> >>>> don't know a thing. The last comedy I watched and enjoyed was All in
> >>>> the Family because it wasn't simply comedy, it also had social
> >>>> connotations.
> >>>>
> >>> But it wasn't a patch on the British original!
> >>
> >> There have been so many British ones, what is it that they do that
> >> made me completely unable to enjoy NA comedy?Â* With Corrie one can see
> >> the difference, the NA soaps are all about extremely wealthy folk in
> >> contrast to Corries working people.Â* For ages I was able to pick up
> >> Open All Hours on PBS.Â* Maybe later today I will hunt some of them
> >> down, good to have a laugh in winter
>
> Three's company was a copy of a British show, Man About the House.

I loved the latter!
But there's a scene in "Stay tuned" referring to the former to die for...

> The Office started as a British show and ran for quite a while before
> an American version was aired on this side of the ocean. It was so much
> better that I cannot bear to watch the American copy.

Both "Das Büro" and "Stromberg" are older than both.

Bye, Sanne.