Since this was brought up in another thread I thought I'd print out the list I have, I was going to use it to make a quiz but couldn't quite figure out how to, if anyone wants to use this info to make a quiz, feel free. I got the list from"Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy"


Britain to America
Agony / The Lucy Arnez Show
Are You Being Served? / Bean's Of Boston PB
Astronauts / The Astronauts PB
Billy Liar / Billy
Birds of a Feather / Stand By Your Man
The Bounder / The Bounder PB
Butterflies / Butterflies PB
Dad's Army / Rear Guard PB
Dear John / Dear John *
The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin / Reggie*
Fawlty Towers / Snavely PB; Amanda's
A Fine Romance / A Fine Romance PB
For the Love of Ada / A Touch of Grace
Full House / No Place Like Home PB
George and Mildred / The Ropers
Girls On Top / (Not known) PU
Home To Roost / You Again?
Keep It in the Family / Too Close For Comfort*
The Likely Lads / Stubenville PU
Love Thy Neighbour / Love Thy Neighbor
Man About the House / Three's Company*
The Many Wives of Patrick / The Many Wives of Patrick PU
Men Behaving Badly / Men Behaving Badly
Mind Your Language / What A Country!
Miss Jones and Son / Miss Winslow and Son
My Wife Next Door / My Wife Next Door PB
Nearest and Dearest / Thicker Than Water
News At Twelve / news At Twelve PU
Nightengales / Nightengales PU
No-Honestly / No-Honestly PU
On the Busses / Lotsa Luck
One Foot in the Grave / Cosby
Pig in the Middle / Oh, Madeline*
Porrige / On the Rocks
The Rag Trade / The Rag Business PB
Red Dwarf / Red Dwarf PU
Rising Damp / 27 Joy Street PU
Robin's Nest / Three's A Crowd*
Second Time Around / Second Time Around PU
A Sharp Intake of Breath / Harry's Battles PB
Steptoe and Son / Sanford and Son
Three Up, Two Down / 5 Up, Two Down PB
Till Death Do Us Part / All in the Family*
Tom, Dick and Harriet / Foot in the Door
Two's Company / The Two of Us*


America To Britain
The Commuters / Something in the City
Ethel and Albert / Chintz
The Golden Girls / The Brighton Belles
Good Times / The Fosters
Mad About You / Loved By You
Married... With Children / Married For Life
Maude / The Upper Hand
Starting From Scratch / Close To Home
Who's the Boss / The Upper Hand


(PB- indicates the the program only extended to a pilot, not a full series PU indicates that said pilot was not broadcast.
* Indicates that the US adaption has itself aired in the UK)

fawlty Towers had another sitcom in the US - with John Larroquette called "Payne."

I forgot to add that this list is from 1998, so there may be more.

I thought this was hilarious:

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The most revered British sitcom of all time is one whose total episodes number barely a handful: "Fawlty Towers". Would we have still liked Basil and Sybill and Manuel if they'd gone on for 22 episodes a year for over a decade? John Cleese obviously doubted it, and the Americans to whom he sold the format have found it almost impossible to adapt. Years later, Cleese bumped into one of the execs in Los Angeles. "We've finally figured out the problem," the exec said. "We've got rid of that guy Bayzil."
(http://www.steynonline.com/index2.cfm?edit_id=29)

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I recently watched the British version of "Coupling" and loved it. The American version starts this fall, but I doubt it will be as funny.

Funny tidbit, quite a few people at the local PBS station rallied to not have this show shown, my mother being the first of them. Boy was she upset to hear me laughing so hard.

Molly - is there any talk of a "Deep South" version of the Vicar of Dibley ? now that might be funny!

You're right that would be funny. I went to the IMDb and couldn't find anything about an american version of Vicar of Dibley.

Roseanne Barr purchased the rights to produce an American version of the UK TV series, Absolutely Fabulous in the United States, but it seems to have sunk without trace.

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One Foot in the Grave / Cosby

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Cosby was based on One Foot in the Grave? I would never have thought it was. Cosby could never be taken seriously as the grumpy old man next door ... well not like Richard Wilson (?) anyway.

I thought Cosby was about a black family with a doctor as the father - what show am I thinking about?

I think I've lost the plot - Cosby is nothing like One Foot in the Grave and I think Cosby started first!

There have been a couple of shows starring Bill Cosby called Cosby, the one where he was a doctor and had a lawyer wife was The Cosby Show. I believe the one they are refeering to is the most recent Cosby venture.

I knew it was Cosby and not the Cosby Show that they meant - but he does have the same wife in both shows and the similar name which is confusing. I can see the similarities, I suppose, but not enough to say that it is based on the original.

One of my favorite shows, Who's Line is it Anyway?, originated in the UK I think). Great, funny stuff.

Yes, Whose Line did originate in the UK, but it had most of the same cast, Ryan Styles, Greg Proops, Colin Mochery, and a couple of the others that have been on the show. So I don't know if that can really be catergorized as an American version of the show.