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To: Gamecock

I can remember watching an interview with Garry Marshall. In it, he mentioned that when they wrote episodes for “Laverne and Shirley”, he and his writers would take scripts from “The Odd Couple” and re-tweak them to fit that show but then would sometimes keep the same scenes and dialogue word by word. Nobody noticed the near duplicate similarities between the “Odd Couple” and “Laverne and Shirley” apparently, lol.


9 posted on 07/08/2016 5:45:23 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: OttawaFreeper

There was an A-Team episode that reused a Starsky & Hutch script. In both, a main character was wounded and in danger of dying in a restaurant being controlled by a hostage taker.


53 posted on 07/08/2016 6:15:12 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: OttawaFreeper

A lot of episodes of The Rockford Files were reworked episodes of Maverick.


76 posted on 07/08/2016 7:52:43 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dallrymple)
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