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Re: US/Brit Sitcoms

lang thompson <[log in to unmask]>
Mon, 3 Mar 1997 05:48:42 GMT
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In <[log in to unmask]> JULIANN E JENKINS
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>
Can you imagine a US universe that would make a hit out
>of a WWII sitcom in the 1980s?  (Mash being a Viet Nam sticom.)
>
 
***** MASH was set during the Korean War.  And though it's too early to
count, Hogan's Heroes was a popular WW2 sitcom that seems particularly
odd when you think about it taking place in a POW camp, esp when the
war was closer in time.
 
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