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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.

Andrew Cobby is on the trail of his favourite three Columbo episodes.

Exploring the history of the scripted crime shows that we watch on our TV screens today which owe much to television's innovation of the 1950s.

Robert Ross explains how a single episode of 'Comedy Playhouse' changed the course of situation comedy forever.

We open the file on unwilling British government assassin David Callan.

In spite of all the major domestic news stories of 1963; The Great Train Robbery, The Profumo Affair, everything else was eclipsed by the world shattering events in Dallas Texas on 22nd November.

Andrew Cobby remembers 1983: VCRs, Columbo and Top of the Pops.

Andrew Cobby takes a humorous look at 1970s daytime TV: Crown Court, A Handful of Songs and Nancy Kominski - who wouldn't want to skip school for that?

Onome Okwuosa reveals the facts of the fiction in creating the hit TV series Downton Abbey.

"Fictional detectives generally try to win our attention by pointedly not playing it by the book." David McVey looks at maverick cops.