Remember Perfect Strangers? It was a long-running and much-loved 1980s sitcom starring Mark-Linn Baker and Bronson Pinchot, in which an immigrant from GreeceMypos comes to live with his cousin in Chicago. It lasted eight seasons in total and even spawned the spin-off series Family Matters, which gave the world black nerd Urkel.
So beloved is the show that some enterprising people have put together a shot-for-shot remake of the opening titles but set in Seattle instead of Chicago. Here you can see them side by side for comparison.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
