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   From: takebackamerica@2008.com   
      
   In article <5rr56tF15djpsU1@mid.individual.net>, David Matthews   
    wrote:   
      
   > > I once saw an episode of 77 Sunset Strip (another Warners series) that   
   > > redid Strangers On A Train, with no credit to Hitchcock, Chandler or   
   > > Highsmith....   
   >   
   >   
   > I remember that.  I was surprised at it but I guess Warners owned the   
   > property outright so could do what they liked with it.  According to   
   > Hitchcock very little of Chandler's work remained in the final screenplay   
   > for the original movie version.   
   >   
   > Dave in Toronto   
      
      
   This happens all the time.  I saw an episode of "Okovango" (an Aussie   
   series that ran on FX briefly after launch) that precisely duplicated   
   "Old Yeller" -- and I doubt the Okovango people were in any way   
   connected to WaltCorp.   
      
   I also remember an episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" that was redone   
   (even to the camera angles) a month or two later on Doris Day's sitcom.   
   It was about a girl who wanted to play a guitar during some school   
   talent show, and a lot of the adults didn't like that because guitars =   
   hippies = Communists, et bloody cetera.   
      
   BTW, Warner routinely swapped scripts among its cookie-cutter (or maybe   
   I should say Kookie-cutter) detective shows of that era.  If you liked   
   an episode of "77 Sunset Strip," Warner thought you'd like it even more   
   on "Bourbon Street Beat" or "Hawaiian Eye."   
      
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