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   From: dmatthews03@sympatico.ca   
      
   >> > 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."   
      
      
      
   Thinking about it a memory stirred - and it was correct - of seeing _DIAL M   
   FOR MURDER - as a "77 Sunset Strip" episode - it became _THE FIFTH   
   STAIR_http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0503488/ - That's the one where Kookie   
   does his closing line with Bugs Bunny's voice (courtesy of Mel Blanc) -   
   forget whether he said "What's up Doc?" or "That's all folks".   
      
   Dave in Toronto   
      
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