03008nam 2200637Ia 450 991081292950332120200520144314.00-8166-8972-5(CKB)1000000000346969(EBL)310478(OCoLC)476094733(SSID)ssj0000248597(PQKBManifestationID)11188561(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000248597(PQKBWorkID)10202245(PQKB)10224050(MiAaPQ)EBC310478(OCoLC)567983612(MdBmJHUP)muse39846(Au-PeEL)EBL310478(CaPaEBR)ebr10159529(CaONFJC)MIL522738(EXLCZ)99100000000034696919990715d2000 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSomething completely different British television and American culture /Jeffrey S. Miller1st ed.Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota Pressc20001 online resource (270 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-3241-3 0-8166-3240-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-236) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Here Not There: American Imperialists and British Invaders; 2. Danger Men: Secret Agent and The Prisoner; 3. Mrs. Peel Goes to Washington: The Avengers; 4. Down the Up Staircase: The Forsyte Saga, Masterpiece Theatre, and Upstairs, Downstairs; 5. (Naughty) Bits of Limey Eccentricity: That Was the Week That Was and Monty Python's Flying Circus; 6. All in the Anglo-American Family: Hollywood Reproductions of British Originals; 7. British Television and American Culture: Something Completely Different?; Notes; IndexBetween Emma Peel and the Ministry of Silly Walks, British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960's and 1970's. In Something Completely Different, Jeffrey Miller offers the first comprehensive study of British programming on American television, discussing why the American networks imported such series as The Avengers and Monty Python's Flying Circus; how American audiences received these uniquely British shows; and how the shows' success reshaped American television.Popular cultureTelevision broadcastingGreat BritainInfluenceTelevision broadcastingUnited StatesTelevision programsUnited StatesPopular culture.Television broadcastingInfluence.Television broadcastingTelevision programs302.23/45/0973Miller Jeffrey S67177MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812929503321Something completely different4127755UNINA