Nominated as the best factual series for the British Academy of Film and 'revision Arts Award, and as the best documentary series for the Broadcasting
Press Guild Award in 1985. A series of ten films in which
Alan Whicker talks to a wide range of enterprising Brits who have gone to live and Work in the USA.
1: 1 Thought I'd Put Myself up for Sheriff....
"avid Harvey is a cowboy, forking high in the Colorado
Rockies; until six years ago he was with the Metropolitan Mounted Police in London.
Peter Vanson, also once with the London police, is now on Patrol in Los Angeles.
In San Diego lives
Vikram Khalsa - once Victor Briggs , lead guitar of the Animals. He is now a Sikh and a plumber. Ken Crutchlow , an East
Ender, settled in the wine country north of San
Francisco, where he imports old London taxis and sells them as toys....
Fascinating stuff.... compulsive
Vising (SUNDAY TIMES) The roving reporter supreme....
(THE GUARDIAN) the best tele of the week
(NEWS OF THE WORLD)
Addictive (OBSERVER) Consistentlyentertaim^sene^^
(MAIL ON SUNDAY)
They're fascinating, these accounts of Britons who have found the grass is greener across the Atlantic (STANDARD) Research DEBORAH ISAACS
Producer JONATHAN STEDALL BBC Bristol (R)
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