![]() ![]() All of these have failed to replicate the quality of their originals. We have had numerous examples of this in the past – Steptoe and Son (1962-74) becoming Stanford and Son (1972-7) Man About the House (1973-6) becoming Three’s Company (1977-84) Whose Line is it Anyway (1988-98) given a facelift as Whose Line is it Anyway (1998-2006) The Office (2001-3) reworked as The Office (2005-13) Life on Mars (2006-7) becoming Life on Mars (2008-9) Eleventh Hour (2006) becoming Eleventh Hour (2008-9) The Prisoner (1967-8) remade as The Prisoner (2009) and Being Human (2008-11) remade as Being Human (2011-4), while other attempts to do Transatlantic versions of Doctor Who (1963-89, 2005– ), Fawlty Towers (1975-9) Absolutely Fabulous (1992-2004), Cracker (1993-6) and Red Dwarf (1988-99) wisely never got past a pilot episode, if that. With this film version, Edge of Darkness joins a host of other British tv series that were uplifted and transplanted across the Atlantic for American audiences. Its success made the careers of several people – the unknown Bob Peck and Joanne Whalley who respectively played the police detective and his daughter, as well as that of Martin Campbell who went onto become an A-list director in the decade ahead. Even aside from that, it was stunning in terms of drama and writing. ![]() In the guise of a thriller, it was a damning condemnation of Margaret Thatcher’s England that took up its placards to protest alongside the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, not to mention joined the embryonic environmentalist movement to deliver a strong warning about the way the world was heading. Edge of Darkness (1985) was one of the great television works of the 1980s. ![]()
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