Steptoe And Son USA
Steptoe And Son, 1965, Sanford And Son, 1972
By 1965 Steptoe And Son was a huge success in the UK. Writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson were invited to the USA by Joseph E. Levine to create an American version...
ALF
ALF, 1986
Hugely popular here in the UK. ALF was the US sitcom that ran for 99 episodes over four series, between 1986 and 1990. However 3 episodes ran for 60 minutes but were divided into two parts for broa...
Mork And Mindy
Mork And Mindy, 1978
Mork and Mindy was the hit US sitcom that became extremely popular in the UK.The series was a spin off from a hugely popular episode of another US sitcom that proved popular in the UK ...
It’s Sergeant Bilko
The Phil Silvers Show, 1955
The Americans were doing sitcom long before us and many of their sitcoms have been massively popular here in the UK.The Phil Silvers Show, often referred to as Sergeant Bilko is...
How To Irritate People
How To Irritate People, 1968
How To Irritate People was a one off TV show made in 1968. It featured a host of top class writers and was the brainchild of David Frost.The show was made in the UK for the Am...
Diff’rent Strokes
Diff'rent Strokes, 1978
Diff'rent Strokes was a hugely successful American Sitcom that was also very popular in the UK, where it went out on a Tuesday afternoon at the end of ITV's Children's programming.B...
Cheers, 1982
Cheers, 1982
One of the most popular American sitcoms to air on UK TV screens, in fact it still finds regular repeats around the various digital stations today - Cheers.Cheers was the hit US sitcom, develo...
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man, 1975
The Invisible Man was an American Sci-Fi series. Starring British actor David McCallum, the series also proved to be a hit on British TV screens.After a pilot episode in May 1975, ...
Game Of Thrones
Game Of Thrones, 2011
Every now and then a piece of TV launches onto screens and just hits the spot becoming a global phenonomin. That's exactly what happened with Game Of Thrones.Game Of Thrones is an Am...
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, 1972
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home was an American animated sitcom from the successful animation team at Hanna-Barbera, aimed at a more adult audience than many of it's other...