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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 95649" data-attributes="member: 23">Well that&#039;s got to be good news, I think.Having read about the crossovers that GG, EN and Nurses sometimes did I&#039;d love to have experienced that. I do have dim memories of watching Nurses - usually when one of the Girls appeared in it - but I don&#039;t recall serious crossovers like Hurricane Sunday. I suspect the episodes were out of sync by the time they got to the UK (although The Golden Girls was very popular here, so it&#039;s possible Channel 4 did air them correctly and I just missed it).Oh... erm... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!&nbsp; &nbsp; :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" />Well, speaking of crossovers and backdoor pilots, a Series Three episode of Father, Dear Father was called A Man About The House. The episode had the girls taking in a male friend who was having marital problems but having to hide him from their father Patrick whose skiing trip was cut short when he injured his ankle.Man About The House, which had the same creative team, was still over three years away at this point. But it&#039;s noteworthy that it did hit some of the same marks: the two girls and their platonic relationship with the man; the idea that the older man would be outraged if he realised two women and a heterosexual man were sharing the same space; the older woman being somewhat in on the secret (Nanny here, Mildred in Man About The House) the increasingly farcical methods of hiding their friend (towards the episode&#039;s end, the girls drag their friend up in their clothes and try to pass him off as a woman).While I don&#039;t think it was intended as any kind of dry run, and perhaps it wasn&#039;t even directly responsible for inspiring the later series, I can&#039;t help feeling that the seed for the Man About The House series was sown with this episode.Series Four is now underway in the O&#039;Drama household. I&#039;m now greatly looking forward to my nightly fix.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 95649, member: 23"] Well that's got to be good news, I think. Having read about the crossovers that [I]GG[/I], [I]EN[/I] and [I]Nurses[/I] sometimes did I'd love to have experienced that. I do have dim memories of watching [I]Nurses[/I] - usually when one of the Girls appeared in it - but I don't recall serious crossovers like Hurricane Sunday. I suspect the episodes were out of sync by the time they got to the UK (although [I]The Golden Girls[/I] was very popular here, so it's possible Channel 4 did air them correctly and I just missed it). Oh... erm... :oops: Well, speaking of crossovers and backdoor pilots, a Series Three episode of [I]Father, Dear Father [/I]was called [I]A Man About The House. [/I]The episode had the girls taking in a male friend who was having marital problems but having to hide him from their father Patrick whose skiing trip was cut short when he injured his ankle. [I]Man About The House[/I], which had the same creative team, was still over three years away at this point. But it's noteworthy that it did hit some of the same marks: the two girls and their platonic relationship with the man; the idea that the older man would be outraged if he realised two women and a heterosexual man were sharing the same space; the older woman being somewhat in on the secret (Nanny here, Mildred in [I]Man About The House[/I]) the increasingly farcical methods of hiding their friend (towards the episode's end, the girls drag their friend up in their clothes and try to pass him off as a woman). While I don't think it was intended as any kind of dry run, and perhaps it wasn't even directly responsible for inspiring the later series, I can't help feeling that the seed for the [I]Man About The House [/I]series was sown with this episode. Series Four is now underway in the O'Drama household. I'm now greatly looking forward to my nightly fix. [/QUOTE]

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