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Q: Trivia question: What was the first western TV series to be shown in mainland China?
Hint: One of the actors had the letter "e" in his/her name.
13 years 5 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - China
Gilligan's island
ironman510:
Really? I really never knew, but was that the right answer?
Traveler:
Not the right answer. But it is now called Gi Li Gan Island.
The Man from Atlantis....1980.
Traveler:
It was the first western entertainment show on mainland Chinese television (movie pilot), but another show was the first series shown (so I am told).
Traveler:
It was a telemovie first, then three more telemovies, then the TV series.
The first TV movie was the first western show screened on Chinese mainland TV.
Then China remembered that Atlantis belongs to China.
Fantasy Island (Changed to Diaoyu Island and switched sovereignty for effect)
Kung Fu the Legend Continues...starring David Carradine written by Bruce Lee..
China would enjoy ''The Twilight Zone''.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
Dukes of Hazzard. They probably subtitled or dubbed the moonshine as baijiu 
The very first television imports were Man from Atlantis and Garrison's Gorrilas
