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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 411853" data-attributes="member: 23">It&#039;s good to get this context. Even though it may have run longer than JLB and Burns had wanted, I suppose limiting the extension to two years could help give it a focus as it moved towards the end. The one arguable advantage of the tower block apartment over the more intimate setting of the original was the opportunity for neighbour-related material. As the move took place, I found myself wondering if it would open things up to the occasional guest-star playing some random neighbour, or further recurring characters. But this seems not to have been the case. Of course this could have taken it even further away from the original premise, but it at least could offer some kind of home life for Mary that didn&#039;t involve her colleagues knocking the door at all hours. That makes sense. I&#039;m trying to think if this was also still the case in Britain in 1975, and I think it&#039;s probably to a lesser degree. I can think of a few examples of this kind of humour going back to the late Sixties in British sitcoms, but most of the key ones I thought of (Fawlty Towers&#039; The Kipper And The Corpse episode; funeral parlour-based sitcom In Loving Memory) came after this point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 411853, member: 23"] It's good to get this context. Even though it may have run longer than JLB and Burns had wanted, I suppose limiting the extension to two years could help give it a focus as it moved towards the end. The one arguable advantage of the tower block apartment over the more intimate setting of the original was the opportunity for neighbour-related material. As the move took place, I found myself wondering if it would open things up to the occasional guest-star playing some random neighbour, or further recurring characters. But this seems not to have been the case. Of course this could have taken it even further away from the original premise, but it at least could offer some kind of home life for Mary that didn't involve her colleagues knocking the door at all hours. That makes sense. I'm trying to think if this was also still the case in Britain in 1975, and I think it's probably to a lesser degree. I can think of a few examples of this kind of humour going back to the late Sixties in British sitcoms, but most of the key ones I thought of ([I]Fawlty Towers' The Kipper And The Corpse[/I] episode; funeral parlour-based sitcom [I]In Loving Memory[/I]) came after this point. [/QUOTE]

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