This is evident with TAGS and Gomer Pyle. Several TAGS scripts were used in Gomer Pyle, such as where Sgt. Carter saved Gomer's life.
1. Similarities Between Shows (m white) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 22:03:47 +0000 (UTC) From: m white <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Similarities Between Shows Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Tags fans, Was just reading the comment here about seeing similarities between Andy Griffith Show episodes and episodes of Petticoat Junction. In Bob Denver's book "Gilligan, Maynard and Me" he talks about there being a rule back then that a writer could use a script on more than one show so long as the second usage of the script was 10% different from the first usage. Bob talked about one writer/producer who would literally go through previous scripts from Dobie Gillis and change every tenth word. Obviously, that's pretty extreme (and he didn't like that practice) but maybe something similar happened across different shows like TAGS and Petticoat. Sam | _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.wbmutbb.com/
