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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 186806" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>I guess the internet made it so much easier for people around the world to become acquainted with international television programs (shows they would otherwise not know about). This would possibly explain why the networks cut back on renaming shows in the 1990s--the show may have already developed an online following using the original title. </p><p></p><p>I'm guessing the person who was tasked with coming up with an appropriate name for the show happened to watch an episode that featured Sheriff Roscoe Coltrane prominently, and somehow came to the conclusion that he was more central to the show than he actually was. He was a supporting character at best. I recall Johnny Carson making a joke many (<em>many</em>) years ago that when the western series <em>Bonanza</em> was sold to China, it was renamed <em>Hop Xing, King of the Wild Frontier</em> supposedly after the Cartwrights' cartoony, Chinese manservant as if he was the star of the show.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 186806, member: 27"] I guess the internet made it so much easier for people around the world to become acquainted with international television programs (shows they would otherwise not know about). This would possibly explain why the networks cut back on renaming shows in the 1990s--the show may have already developed an online following using the original title. I'm guessing the person who was tasked with coming up with an appropriate name for the show happened to watch an episode that featured Sheriff Roscoe Coltrane prominently, and somehow came to the conclusion that he was more central to the show than he actually was. He was a supporting character at best. I recall Johnny Carson making a joke many ([I]many[/I]) years ago that when the western series [I]Bonanza[/I] was sold to China, it was renamed [I]Hop Xing, King of the Wild Frontier[/I] supposedly after the Cartwrights' cartoony, Chinese manservant as if he was the star of the show. [/QUOTE]
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