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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 438313" data-attributes="member: 23">I&#039;d heard of this but never got round to watching. I just took a look at it and I can see why it wasn&#039;t picked up. Compared withThree&#039;s Company, which created a different identity from the British version (even using the same material), Beane&#039;s mostly just felt to me like watching the life sucked out of the original (and familiarity with that didn&#039;t help my experience). I suppose casting is vital and this one had the double-whammy of trying to both match&nbsp; very specific archetypes that also had great screen chemistry. I&#039;d say it fell down on at least one of those. I had read that Jeremy Croft felt that Alan Sues was miscast as Mr Humphries, and I wouldn&#039;t disagree. Also, were&nbsp; Mrs Slocombe&#039;s trademark cat double entendres excised from the adaption? I thought I&#039;d watched Beane&#039;s in full, but missed it if there were any (the British episode of the adapted script had a lovely moment where Wendy Richard can be seen trying not to corpse at Mollie Sugden&#039;s solemn delivery of &quot;this sort of thing just isn&#039;t fair on my pussy&quot;).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 438313, member: 23"] I'd heard of this but never got round to watching. I just took a look at it and I can see why it wasn't picked up. Compared with[I]Three's Company, [/I]which[I] [/I]created a different identity from the British version (even using the same material), [I]Beane's[/I] mostly just felt to me like watching the life sucked out of the original (and familiarity with that didn't help my experience). I suppose casting is vital and this one had the double-whammy of trying to both match very specific archetypes that also had great screen chemistry. I'd say it fell down on at least one of those. I had read that Jeremy Croft felt that Alan Sues was miscast as Mr Humphries, and I wouldn't disagree. Also, were Mrs Slocombe's trademark cat double entendres excised from the adaption? I thought I'd watched [I]Beane's[/I] in full, but missed it if there were any (the British episode of the adapted script had a lovely moment where Wendy Richard can be seen trying not to corpse at Mollie Sugden's solemn delivery of "this sort of thing just isn't fair on my pussy"). [/QUOTE]

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