I liked the part where he talked about the show

Amanda's by the Sea = Faulty Towers.

Could this be why Bea didnt participate in GOLDEN PALACE? She didnt want to do another hotel sitcom!!

I took one glance at it and... this was an Americanization of Fawlty Towers, wasn't it?

"You have to excuse him......he's from Barcelona." 🤣

Bea’s comic performance was still remarkable in this series! Thank you for all the incredible research you put into this series. I’m having so much fun watching!

Dustin: As a HUGE fan of Bea Arthur, I appreciate your deep dive into this "valley" between two huge professional peaks. Thank You!!

I remember hearing about Bea Arthur's lost series a while ago, but couldn't find anything about it. Today you changed that, and I thank you.

Thank you. Bea was always awesome

Faulty Towers is STILL one of the greatest TV comedies ever made. John Cleese is one in a million.

A great and informed breakdown, thankyou. There was a UK version of The Golden Girls called Brighton Belles, it failed despite a great cast...

Great video! I sat through a couple episodes of Amanda’s on KZfaq awhile back, and just remember how many lines she had to memorize. So much work!

Dustin: Could you also do a deep dive video on the short-lived (17 Episodes), but fondly remembered "SQUARE PEGS"? Thank You.

American remake of British sitcom Fawlty Towers 1975-1979 . Love Bea Authur but John Cleese (Basil Fawlty) did a much better job with this show.

Honestly that's how Bea Arthur's character is the first few episodes of The Golden Girls also just kind of non-stop sarcasm

Thank you so much for doing this. I really appreciate it. Very, very well done. ❤

Excellent video. I'm a Bea Arthur fan, and tonight I learned a lot about a show I knew almost nothing about. Thanks, Dustin!

Enjoyable and informative!

There's a 1971 episode of Doctor at Large called "No Ill Feeling" that was written by Cleese and is a sort of proto-Fawlty Towers.

I really love your in-depth, well researched videos. I can't wait to see more! I remember watching this series when it originally aired on ABC. Knowing nothing about "Faulty Towers," I was just disappointed Bea Arthur was not being utilized to her greatest ability! The humor seemed forced! Great analysis. I look forward to more from you in the future. Do Bette Midler's failed sitcom next.

Not sure if your'e aware of this, but during the time that Amanda's was airing, Fawlty Towers was actually syndicated, and airing on many PBS stations across the country.

Thanks for covering this and glad I'm subbed. I love the doc style and while I could already tell that you were not AI, I appreciated bringing your face onto camera. I look forward to watching about the other lost shows!

23:39 When the Porch of the TV set is the biggest highlight of the episode

Bea was awesome, but there's no replacing John Cleese for Basil Fawlty.

You said "the golden girls would not be the same without Arthur". I would LOVE to hear your take on Golden Palace. Also, loved everything about this video. New subscriber. Off to watch your take on "Life with Lucy"

No one has forgotten Bea Arthur's sitcom. You can be assured of that.

Just went down an Amanda’s rabbit hole. Kevin McCarthy was almost 70 years old when he filmed this show and continued acting until he died in 2010. He also guest-starred on a season 1 episode of Golden Girls, which is what I recognized him from.

Well done! I never heard of AMANDA'S BY THE SEA, but I was a fan of her other work. I saw her in a one-woman show after The Golden Girls run had ended.

I forgot about this show, but now I think I vaguely remember seeing ads for it. But I don't remember watching any episodes. If I did watch any of the early episodes, I was probably put off by how rude Amanda was to her guests. It's ironic that Betty White starred in a previous Fawlty Towers adaptation before ending up together with Bea on Golden Girls. It's also ironic that when Golden Girls ended and Bea left, the rest of the cast took over a struggling hotel called the Golden Palace. It's like it came full circle. In fact, now I vaguely remember that when I first heard about Golden Palace, I think it reminded me of Amanda's premise. It's weird you say they reran this show on A&E. I mean, why rerun a show that did not do well? It's also interesting that the guy who played the burglar/robber in this show also played a burglar/robber/ex con on Soap. And on this show, he talked about a guy he knew named Dutch, while that was the name of the burglar on Soap. And Soap's production company was the same one that created Golden Girls, so I wonder if Amanda's was also the same producers.

Bea Arthur is an icon. You don't discuss how Norman Lear just regurgitated previous British shows.

Suggestions for future - Flo and The Ropers

"Amanda's" also provides a visual bridge between the Bea of "Maude" and the Bea of "The Golden Girls." The two only vaguely resemble one another because of things like weight loss, cosmetic surgery and clothing/hairstyle changes. This version of Bea is in the middle of the two more familiar looks. 😉

Believe it or not, but Amanda's was the first thing I ever saw Bea Arthur in - the show aired on Finnish television some time in the 80s. It may sound very offensive now, but when I saw her in her tall stature and deep voice, I was curious as to has that person always been a woman?

It’s a who’s who of Golden Girl guest stars

Amanda's by the Sea was the US Version of the BBC show FAWLTY TOWERS starring John Cleese, that series also had only 13 episodes. But nothing beets FAWLTY TOWERS.

Love the way you tied up the plot. Also learned what a breadtuber is lmaooooo TY for that.

Newly discovered your channel. Love IT! Great content. Greetings from the UK.

Wow! I forgotten about Amanda's so much that I don't even remember it at all!

Glad this video did well:) on my third time watching it

Bea Arthur is my hero. I love Maude. I love Dorothy of The Golden Girls. I adore her.

Oh, shit. I’m 47. Maude was definitely a lot more mature than me.

We just watched every episode of the show Amanda's and couldn't stop laughing. It's better than the new stuff. It should never have been off the air so soon

Sanford and Son wasn't a Normann Lear production, You mean The Jeffersons.

This is marvelous! One small note: the actor playing Mundy is Keene Curtis. (Not Curtis Keene,.)

Aurthur never had the comedic timing of Cleese. Nor was her character made to look "Dunning-Krueger," which Cleese played up so well. Fawlty Towers was genius... you can't improve on perfection.

In her first appearance on All in the Family, the episode ends with Maude getting sick. They heavily edited out footage from each episode when they were rerun in later years to fit in more commercials.

Holy crap! lol you're doing God's work son. These are exactly the super interesting deep dives that simply didn't exist until you created them. Maude was always a curiosity for me and recently I went back to see what it was really all about and now as an adult understand the social messages the show was dishing out. But I NEVER knew about Amanda's which is almost shameful to admit. But apparently no one else did either! So please keep these coming. You're digging in and showcasing obscure TV shows in ways that needed to be showcased.

So it's just a reboot of faulty towers with John Cleese

Great job covering this as many don’t know this existed. I’ve seen several episodes of this show and I didn’t particularly care for it.

Bea Arthur was an icon even in this mediocre show! I had never heard of this show before seeing this video, and I thank you !

Wow, I never heard of this show. Thanks for sharing. I laughed quite a bit and shows how Bea could carry almost any show. What an amazing talent! Seeing Michael Constantine in first episode was great as Krinsky (sp?) He had such a great career. People may know him best as Gus from My Big Fat Greek Wedding. He was in Room 222 a great show with Karen Valentine. Was he replaced by a different actor in the other episode the character was in?

Loved you're video. I saw that series and enjoyed it.

Jes that was Actress Rue McClanahan Is only 38 years old here ..born Feb 1934 And this is 1972 so she's Again 38+..not in her late 40's And Actress Bea Arthur was just turning 50 Ok remember that.. ✌️ Peace 7.24.2024

An hour-long video?! You are spoiling us

Quite spooky that she left a show where she was the only real star about running a wacky hotel to them do golden girls and then be the only golden girl that didn’t go on to make a show about running a hotel with wacky guests. There a symmetry to it that appeals to me. Hollywood voodoo, like every time someone wins an Oscar their next film is always a demonic horror movie. You can check it almost always is. Rarely the horror movie will come right before the win for another picture but it’s always there.

I’m glad all these comments were here to tell me this was an adaptation of Fawlty Towers. I hope more people will just relay facts from the video I’m watching as though the information isn’t contained therein.

Well done. Marty ( her son) looks like Eric Forman meets Tucker Carlson.

yields a gun? surely you mean wields

Fun video - thanks for trying something different by delving into something more obscure.

It was a ghastly, ham fisted disaster. Writing Basil out was almost wilfully stupid. Even Bea Arthur couldn't save this turkey.

Do you have any thoughts on Madams Place?

His wife left with Dutch? He was Dutch--on Soap! I liked this actor and a lot of others on this show. Too bad I missed it. Thanks for digging in up!

Adaptations... does anybody else recall an English adaptation of 'The Golden Girls' in the early 1990s? It was called 'Brighton Belles' and used loads of GG dialogue and the character set-up. And it didn't work. Vanished after one series. The original was the best.

I remember vaguely watching ‘Amanda’s’ when it first aired for a few episodes before giving up on it because I had loved her so much in ‘Maude.’ A year or so ago, I watched all the episodes and like you noticed the inconsistency of not having Kevin McCarthy around for Episodes 11 and 12 before his eventual return in Episode 13, the last produced one. An actor I know through Facebook guested in that last episode as the young minister. I asked him afterwards what he remembered about Bea from his short time on the set. He said she was not in a good mood for the week he was there. Considering what she was sold on when she signed on and what it ended up being, I could understand why she wasn’t a happy camper. Plus, she’d likely heard the show was being cancelled by that point so being unemployed again probably erased any joy from her soul as well. Thankfully Susan Harris came along with her Golden Girls’ pilot script and thankfully Rue McClanahan was able to talk Bea into giving another go at a TV series. After ‘Amanda’s,’ I can appreciate why she was hesitant to give it another go. But millions are happy she did! Thanks, Dustin, for this look back at the deep valley in Bea Arthur’s career.

KZfaq knows me very well. I love the author and I just subscribed to your channel

Great video. The actor playing the cook is the same actor who played clitoris on the dukes of hazard

Ya I ran across this show once on KZfaq, I had no idea it existed

It was supposed to be an American version of the British show Faulty Towers. It was cancelled after a few episodes.Then,again,the early 1980s were not kind to sitcoms. Bea was also way too keen on leaving her hit shows(Maude,The Golden Girls)when she got bored with it. She only did season 7 of GG when they brought in Debbie Reynolds as a potential replacement.

I've always wondered if Whoopi's sitcom was somewhat based on Faulty Towers.

I remember really liking this show, then it was just gone 💥

24:34 Hey that's the working class hottie that got away from Blanche! She really dropped the ball on that one.

Bea is great, but her brand of humor needs really talented people surrounding her. Here, she just did not have that.

So.. Golden Palace? 😅

It's interesting that The Golden Palace has a very similar premise.

Gleneagles Hotel😂. I wonder if the other Gleneagles Hotel knows about its namesake.

I stayed at a place once and often wondered if it was amandas.

1:39, are there 13 epsidoes of a legend if Zelda cartoon a person can see on KZfaq?

I loved this show !

I missed this show maybe thankfully because I had just joined the USAF when it came out and wasn't watching much tv then. I think it's interesting that many of these actors later appeared on the golden girls thanks

Maude only made one appearance before the spinoff show

His name was Keene Curtis; not Curtis Keene.

I do remember watching “Amanda’s By the Sea” on ABC. I enjoyed it and have always loved Bea Arthur. But the show wasn’t meant to be, and thankfully we got “The Golden Girls.” But again, Arthur almost didn’t do the role of Dorothy Zhorbnak had Betty White and Rue McClanahan not switched their roles which intrigued Bea.

The same premise was used for Whoppie Goldberg's short-lived "Whoppie" except the hotel was in Manhattan

There was a so briefly lived show decades ago, I think 1990ish, called KEY WEST. I enjoyed it and wonder if anyone else remembers it?

deep dive into Oh Madeline or New York News?

They have tried a few American version of faulty towers including one with Betty White

Amanda’s is Fawlty Towers

Never heard of this....looks fun

54:00. The episodes were filmed and paid for, so out of order or not, they aired them.

CBS was the most Liberal AND Conservative of the three networks. Well, then there was PBS, which was conservatively liberal.

Seems a lot like Fawlty Towers.

"find-lay"??? It is pronounced "Findly."

You mean like there good people on both sides?

It was the second attempt to do Faulty Towers and failed. How thee we hell can you get rid of basil. John Cleese said it was dumb and really bad.

I'm only a few mins in but I'm wondering if you know that Amanda's by the sea was supposed to be an Americanised Fawlty Towers. I've never seen a whole episode but it's come up often on "Failed Americanised Shows" things. it's one of many trys, I had no idea there are a full 13

Among several things, they shouldn't have combined the hotel inspector with the insufferable and deaf Mrs. Richards.

I thought it was called Amanda's Place. Hey! Im wondering if thats why Bea refused to join her Golden Girls Co stars on the Golden Palace? She had "been there, done that".

Dude, it's the American version of Britain's Faulty Towers. And if you don't know Faulty Towers...shame on you!

Eye ball aerobic. I liked Amanda's.

I watched the series in the summer of 1987 on Turkish TV. I loved it very much and last year I watched all episodes on KZfaq. Yes there were some boring parts but Bea Arthur was grear.