“Re-versioning” is the little-known term for the process of remaking a television series for a foreign market. Recently a slew of popular Australian shows have been flooding foreign markets in re-versioned formats, but the trend is nothing new: “All in the Family” was a re-versioning of the British classic “Till Death Do Us Part”; “Sanford & Son” was based on the UK’s “Steptoe & Son”; “Man About the House” became “Three’s Company”; and “George and Mildred” was known as “The Ropers”. – The Age (Melbourne) 04/13/00