Here not there: American imperialists and British invaders. -- Danger men: Secret agent and The prisoner. -- Mrs. Peel goes to Washington: The avengers. -- Down the up staircase: The Forsyte saga, Masterpiece theatre, and Upstairs, downstairs. -- (Naughty) bits of Limey eccentricity: That was the week that was and Monty Python's flying circus. -- All in the Anglo-American family: Hollywood reproductions of the originals. -- British television and American culture: something completely different?
Summary
Between Emma Peel and the Ministry of Silly Walks, British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s. In Something Completely Different, Jeffrey Miller offers the first comprehensive study of British programming on American television, discussing why the American networks imported such series as The Avengers and Monty Python's Flying Circus; how American audiences received these uniquely British shows; and how the shows' success reshaped American television
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-236) and index
