I'm sorry I wasn't clear.  I meant that Mash was a sitcom response to
the Viet Name war transposed to Korea, following the film exactly. VN
is still off limits for comedy.  When US tv addresses VN, it's always
drama, whether movies or series. And Hogan dates from the 70s.  WWII
is strictly cable or PBS on US TV.  Endlessly on nonfiction cable
stations, or cable movie channels.  Setting a comedy in a POW camp was
my point:  which is odder taking the punch out of Stalag 17 to make a
long running comedy series or making a comedy about the Gestapo and the
French Resistance?
 
I thought about Butterfilies after the fact--it too was only ever on
PBS stations.  ANd thinking about Butterflies made me think of the
whole series of comedies that were also on PBS starring Penelope
___________ (?)--To the Manor Born; the one where a totally comme il
faut couple lives next door to a counterculture couple who give cows as
Christmas presents.  I know people who love the Darling Buds of May.
 
I wonder if it's possible to call the Rumpoles sitcoms?  All the
shenanigans in chambers is straight sitcom and uses great sitcom
regulars like the man who played the Czech grocery store magnate who
bought the manor in To the Manor Born and plays one of the dense but
big cheeses on Rumpole. There's a great sitcom in all the who's
sleeping w/whom and the careerism on Rumpole.  Julie
 
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