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I got great respond with a British Star Trek Series.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=253839
Now Let take a British show to the US.

You are a British Citizen who grew up on Doctor Who. You wanted to work in the British Film or Television industry. But you could not get Hired. You there fore in 1976, moved to Hollywood CA.
You look at the newspaper and magazines about Film industry. The Director of the Academy Award Nominated film American Graffiti , George Lucas is doing a Space Opera film. The Director of Jaws, One of the Biggest film hits ever, Steven Spielberg, is doing a Alien contact film, Close Encounters.
It same like Sci Fi is in, in Hollywood. If one of the Film is a Success, then the TV networks are going to want Sci Fi TV shows.

How about a American Version of the Show, you Love it Britain, Doctor Who? You make some calls and get the rights to the basic outline of the Show, Doctor Traveling in Time/Space Machine, Doing Good, fighting evil.
Because of the way the BBC works, you don't have the rights to the Daleks or any other monster or creature on the Show.

You need a American Producer. Your First Choice Gene Roddenberry is busy trying to bring Star Trek Phase Two to TV.
So you get Leslie Stevens and Joseph Stefano as the Producers.
They worked together on The Outer Limits and Stevens has Produces Show like the Name of the Game, It Take A Thief, The Invisible Man and Search.
Stefano work on Hitchcock Psycho as Well as the Outer Limits. \

They recommend that you Hire David Gerrold as the script editor. He best known as the writer for the Star Trek Episode Trouble with Tribbles. He also has work as the script editor on the Sid and Marty Croft show, Land of the Lost. For that show, he was able to get real science fiction authors like Larry Niven, Ted Sturgeon, Ben Bova and Norman Spinrad to do scripts. He should be able to bring similar talent to Doctor Who.

Now you have decisions to make.
Who do you cast as the Doctor? Do you go with a known actor like Vincent Price or Leonard Nimoy? or do you consider a younger person like a stand up comedian like Robin William? Who do you pick?

Do you keep the TARDIS in the shape of a Police Box? American would have no idea what a Police Box is. If you change it, than what would the outside look like? A Car? A statue?

Ok it up to you. How does the show go?
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