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* AcclaimedFlop: The miniseries adaptation of ''War and Remembrance'' was critically acclaimed and won the Emmy Award for best miniseries, but its release was bungled due to [[UsefulNotes/TVStrikes the 1988 WGA strike]], and so it wound up an expensive flop for Creator/{{ABC}} and a...
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* AcclaimedFlop: The miniseries adaptation of ''War and Remembrance'' was critically acclaimed and won the Emmy Award for best miniseries, but its release was bungled due to [[UsefulNotes/TVStrikes the 1988 WGA strike]], and so it wound up an expensive flop for Creator/{{ABC}} [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] and a...
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* TheOtherDarrin: Several roles were recast between the two miniseries, often with bigger names like Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/JaneSeymour, and Creator/RobertMorley.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Several roles were recast between the two miniseries, often with bigger names like Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/JaneSeymour, [[Creator/JaneSeymourActress Jane Seymour]], and Creator/RobertMorley.
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** Herman Wouk originally planned to write only a novel about the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He ended up adding on more and more material as background until he ended up having to write the entire history of the war.
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** Herman Wouk originally planned to write only a novel about the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He ended up In trying to provide background for that battle, he kept adding on more and more material as background until he ended up having to write the entire history of the war.
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** Herman Wouk originally planned to write only a novel about the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He ended up adding on more and more material as background until he ended up having to write the entire history of the war.
** Von Roon's original last name was "Goethe," which Wouk abandoned when a German pointed out it would be the equivalent of calling an English General "Shakespeare."
** Herman Wouk originally planned to write only a novel about the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He ended up adding on more and more material as background until he ended up having to write the entire history of the war.
** Von Roon's original last name was "Goethe," which Wouk abandoned when a German pointed out it would be the equivalent of calling an English General "Shakespeare."
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* AcclaimedFlop: The miniseries adaptation of ''War and Remembrance'' was critically acclaimed, acclaimed and won the Emmy Award for best miniseries, but its release was bungled due to [[UsefulNotes/TVStrikes the 1988 WGA strike]], and so it wound up an expensive flop for Creator/{{ABC}} and a...
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: In ''War and Remembrance'', Hitler is played by Steven Berkoff, a British Jew.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: In ''War and Remembrance'', Hitler is played by Steven Berkoff, a British Jew.[[note]]In ''Winds of War'', Hitler is played by the non-Jewish German actor Günter Meisner, who portrayed Hitler several times during his career. Oddly, though, of the two actors it is Berkoff who has the closer physical resemblance to Hitler.[[/note]]
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* TheOtherDarrin: Several roles were recast between the two miniseries, often with bigger names like Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/Jane Seymour, and Creator/RobertMorley.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Several roles were recast between the two miniseries, often with bigger names like Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/Jane Seymour, Creator/JaneSeymour, and Creator/RobertMorley.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Several roles were recast between the two miniseries, often with bigger names like John Gielgud, Jane Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/Jane Seymour, and Robert Morley.
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* AcclaimedFlop: The miniseries adaptation of ''War and Remembrance'' was critically acclaimed, but its release was bungled due to [[UsefulNotes/TVStrikes the 1988 WGA strike]], and so it wound up an expensive flop for Creator/{{ABC}} and a...
* GenreKiller: For the "prestige" MiniSeries of TheSeventies and TheEighties. The genre was already reeling with the failure of ''Series/{{Amerika}}'' the prior year, but ''War and Remembrance'' finished the job, and for many years after miniseries were associated with cheap {{ratings stunt}}s.
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* GenreKiller: For the "prestige" MiniSeries of TheSeventies and TheEighties. The genre was already reeling with the failure of ''Series/{{Amerika}}'' the prior year, but ''War and Remembrance'' finished the job, and for many years after miniseries were associated with cheap {{ratings stunt}}s.
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