Hey, I Don't Remember This Show: Love Thy Neighbour

Back in the early 1970s, adapting British sitcoms with strong racial elements into American TV shows was all the rage for American TV networks. And indeed, two of the most successful shows of the time -- All in the Family and Sanford and Son -- started out in just such a fashion.

Unfortunately, the American version of the British sitcom Love Thy Neighbor proved to be the great exception. Not only did the American version flop so badly that hardly anyone save yours truly remembers it, but the show which inspired it appears to have become one of the more obscure Britcoms of the 1970s -- so obscure, in fact, that I never even realized it existed until just last week. Perhaps because it wasn't classy enough to appeal to the type of people who liked shows like Benny Hill and Are You Being Served?...