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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 184510" data-attributes="member: 27">I have to say, this is one of my all-time favorites.  Every character is well-drawn, and even as we were supposed to dislike some of them (The Idiot Bains, of course, as well as Tom's bitchy daughter-in-law whose name escapes me at the moment), I looked forward to hearing from them every episode.  Diana of course was a force of nature and I liked how Tom used the "doddering old man" persona to keep others around him off-balance.  He learned a lot during all that time he spent with Clint Eastwood and Jane Russell, I guess.  Years ago I read that some Hollywood folks had plans to make an Americanized version.  I thought it was a great idea, since the series had a lot of "American sitcom" touches already and would not have needed too many alterations.  Richard Mulligan and Olympia Dukakis were said to be the chosen leads, but they never got the chance to film a pilot because Mulligan died unexpectedly and the backers lost interest.</blockquote>