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Many television series that began life in the UK have been remade by American networks for American audiences. Not all have been successful. Here are ten UK shows that were remade in one form or another and how they fared.

A Chinese invasion of South Vietnam triggers a new world war between East and West. In the town of Rochester, Kent, the anticipation of a nuclear attack leads to mass evacuations. This one-off drama proved to be so controversial that the BBC, who made it, refused to broadcast it for 20 years.

The Battle of Culloden, which took place on April 16th 1746, was the last battle fought on British soil. This docu-drama blurred the distinctions between documentary and drama and proved to be ground-breaking television.

Schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris is retiring because of ill-health, and Taplow, one of his pupils, brings him a present on the eve of his retirement in this Terence Rattigan play from 1966.

"We are all conceived in close prison: in our mother's wombs, we are close prisoners all...and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death..." John Donne.

Worst Week of My Life is a hysterical farce-like take on the premise of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em.

Doris Day was one of the few successful film actresses who made a smooth transition to television and her half-hour sitcom saved her from bankruptcy.

A soldier returns to India to find the girl he loved but had to leave.

Critically acclaimed BBC drama series that tracks the lives of four friends from the sixties to the nineties.

Joel Fleischmann, desperate to find funding for a medical scholarship, finds himself trading his skills in return for his fees of $125,000 being paid for.

Brutally real drama series, set in Baltimore, USA. The Wire centres around the city's inner-city drug scene, the dealers and the law enforcement agency that tries to bring them down.

Brian Potter and his hapless band of staff and regulars are determined to make the Phoenix Club a success no matter what.