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On the BBC Radio 4 show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, one of the rounds includes suggestions for low-budget remakes of Films or Books. Here are some of the teams' suggestions, along with some of my suggestions. If you have any ideas you would like included, please e-mail me here, and I will add the best ones (with full credit to you of course)

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The Madness of Thora Hird Cambridge
07 Dec 1996
Nanook of the North Circular Cambridge
07 Dec 1996
The Island of Dr. Mawhinney Cambridge
07 Dec 1996
1 Dalmation Cambridge
07 Dec 1996
Good Morning West Ham Cambridge
07 Dec 1996
A Tale of Two Citrus Fruits...It was the best of limes, it was the worst of limes Cambridge
07 Dec 1996
Bring Me The Headscarf of Alfredo Garcia Cambridge
07 Dec 1996
Bonnie & Clive Anderson Cambridge
07 Dec 1996
Charlotte's Website Cambridge
07 Dec 1996
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Store Cambridge
07 Dec 1996
Tadpole Dundee Best of ISIHAC
03 Aug 1992
Tadpole Dundee ISIHAC 1, Side 1
The Chihuahua of the Baskervilles Best of ISIHAC
03 Aug 1992
The Chihuahua of the Baskervilles ISIHAC 1, Side 1
Gibbons'  Decline & Fall of the Hackney Empire Best of ISIHAC
03 Aug 1992
Gibbons'  Decline & Fall of the Hackney Empire ISIHAC 1, Side 1
E.M.Forster's  A Passage to Islington ISIHAC 1, Side 1
Casino Royale has become  Bingo with Princess Michael ISIHAC 1, Side 1
Thunderball has become  Drizzle Pillock ISIHAC 1, Side 1
Dr. No has become  First aid kit in the boot, possibly ISIHAC 1, Side 1
Octopussy has become  Unipart ISIHAC 1, Side 1
The Condom of the Opera ISIHAC 1, Side 1
Moby Doris ISIHAC 1, Side 1
Balshazzar's Sandwich ISIHAC 1, Side 1
Mr Brooke-Taylor's modest little volume  A Brief History Of Tim Brighton
06 Jun 1992
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocolypse is to be renamed  The Captain Mark Phillips Story Brighton
06 Jun 1992
Watch Out, Beadle's At Home Brighton
06 Jun 1992
Sex, Lies & Pop-Up Books Brighton
06 Jun 1992
Clint Eastwood's cutting back, he's just made a new film called  The Outlaw Josey Llandudno Brighton
06 Jun 1992
Set in Oxford - Inspector Less Brighton
06 Jun 1992
The Camomile Tea-Bag Brighton
06 Jun 1992
They've redone Porridge called  Oat - it's a cereal actually Brighton
06 Jun 1992
This Week In Parliament will become  An Evening With Gyles Brandreth Brighton
06 Jun 1992
My Left Six Inches with Daniel Half-An-Hour-Lewis Brighton
06 Jun 1992
Annie, Get Your Stick Brighton
06 Jun 1992
Bob's Full House becomes  Bob's Got Vacancies Brighton
06 Jun 1992
Charlie & The Chocolate Biscuit Brighton
06 Jun 1992
Cosi Fan Oneti Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Haircut Of Figaro Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Starlight Second Post Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Kittens Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Joseph & His Amazing Technicolour Y-Fronts Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Phantom of the Jingle Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
They're redoing Buddy as  Casual Aquaintence Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Miss Saigon is going to be  Avoid Dagenham Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Bruce Willis in  Stub Your Toe Hard Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Le Miserables Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
The Peak Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Pre-pubescent Mutant Ninja Turtles Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Robotraffic-warden Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
See Pauline Collins in  Shirley Postcard Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Milli-Vanilli - The Live Album Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Around Miss World in Eighty Days Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Due to inflation The Moon & Sixpence is now  The Moon & One Hundred and Forty Eight Pounds 83p Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Memphis Clapper Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Ski Tuesday Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Indiana Jones & The Last Chocolate Biscuit Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
Ninja Terrapins Westminster Theatre
15 Dec 1990
They're redoing The Cruel Sea as  The Tetchy Sink
24 Feb 1990
A Roe Called Wanda
24 Feb 1990
Cervantes' classic Don Quixote is now  Shetland Ponixote
24 Feb 1990
Homes & Gardens magazine is to become  Homes & Cartons
24 Feb 1990
Death In The Time Of Cauliflower
24 Feb 1990
Sex, Lies & Semaphore Flags
24 Feb 1990
J.M. Barry's classic is now  Peter Brillo-Pad
24 Feb 1990
They're doing a cheap version of Geoffrey Bernard Is Unwell called  Geoffrey Bernard Is Still Unwell
24 Feb 1990
They're redoing the complete works of Charles Dickens -Bleak Bedsitter, David Tinfield, Nicholas Dimeby, The Old Curiosity Barrow & Martin Chuzzlenotfunnyatallreally
24 Feb 1990
Anything Goes is being revamped as  One Or Two Things Worked Vaguely
24 Feb 1990
King Solomon's Mine is being spiced up a bit, and is now  King Solomon's Anybody's
24 Feb 1990
Michael Palin's  Around The Block In Five Minutes
24 Feb 1990
Thomas Hardy's  Far From That Rather Annoying Couple
24 Feb 1990
Paul Daniels's It's Magic! is coming back as  It's A Cheap Trick!
24 Feb 1990
Prince Charles's personal view of architecture  A Vision Of Britt Eckland
24 Feb 1990
Lewis Carroll's  Alice In Milton Keynes
24 Feb 1990
They're redoing the James Bond books, including  Rhinestones Are Forever, From Rochdale With Love, and Tinfinger
24 Feb 1990
Shakespeare's Hamlet is now  Cutlet
24 Feb 1990
Silence Of The Chops
26 Oct 1991
The French film L'Agedors is now  Littledors
26 Oct 1991
Monsieur Hulot's Mini-Break
26 Oct 1991
Beckett is now  Runcie
26 Oct 1991
The Terminator...meets Abbot & Costello
26 Oct 1991
Joseph and his Amazing Beige Cardigan
26 Oct 1991
Kevin Kostner's  Dances With Aston Villa
26 Oct 1991
Nabokov's  Lo-Halflitre
26 Oct 1991
Around The Block In Eighty Days
26 Oct 1991
Carmen Jones is now  Griff Rhys-Jones
26 Oct 1991
In Bed With Maradonna
26 Oct 1991
Under Milk Stout
26 Oct 1991
London Transport's low budget version of the musical - Seven Brides For Seven Sisters
26 Oct 1991
The Sound Of Muesli
26 Oct 1991
A Tribute To The Blues Brothers is now  Piss Off Blues Brothers
26 Oct 1991
Humphrey Bogart cheap remakes:  The Little Nap and The Short Ta-ta
26 Oct 1991
Tchaikovsky's lesser known ballet  Budgie Lake
26 Oct 1991
A remake of The African Queen:  The African Fergie
26 Oct 1991
A Streetcar Named Vaguely Interested
26 Oct 1991
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Peeping-Tom
26 Oct 1991
Satanic Limericks Bury St Edmunds
20 Nov 1993
One Inch In The Grave Bury St Edmunds
20 Nov 1993
Five Guys Called Half-A-Mo Bury St Edmunds
20 Nov 1993
Starlight Express becomes  Network South East Bury St Edmunds
20 Nov 1993
Lady Chatterley's Pen Pal Bury St Edmunds
20 Nov 1993
Have I Got Newts For You Bury St Edmunds
20 Nov 1993
Accidental Death Of A Liberal-Democrat Bury St Edmunds
20 Nov 1993
To save money, the Open University are taking over making some of the popular TV programmes, such as  Crime & Punishmentwatch UK, Richard Madeley & Judy Finnegan's Wake, and  Challenge Annekarenina Bury St Edmunds
20 Nov 1993
Andrew Lloyd-Webber's  Kittens, Jesus Christ Super Bingo, and  Joseph & His Amazing Brown Trousers Bury St Edmunds
20 Nov 1993
Raging Bullock Bury St Edmunds
20 Nov 1993
One Flew Over The Sparrow's Nest Kevin Hale
632 Squadron Kevin Hale
Catch 21 Kevin Hale
The Star Spangled Hanky Kevin Hale
The Last Temptation Of The Reverend Roger Royle
04 Feb 1989
The Small Bore Rifles Of Navarone
04 Feb 1989
A.A.Milne's classic Winnie The Number Ones
04 Feb 1989
The Guinness Book Of Writing Paper
04 Feb 1989
Hotel Du Lac has become Bed & Breakfast With Bath
04 Feb 1989
John Buchan's The Step
04 Feb 1989
EastEnder
04 Feb 1989
Neighbour
04 Feb 1989
Coronation Bedsit
04 Feb 1989
Emmerdale Allotment
04 Feb 1989
Chekhov's The Sister & The Cherry Bowl
04 Feb 1989
The Deerhunter becomes The Mousetrap
04 Feb 1989
Evelyn Waugh's A Pinch Of Dust
04 Feb 1989
The Concise Oxford Word
28 Sep 1987
Jerome K. Jerome's One Man In A Rubber Ring
28 Sep 1987
Dickens' Old Curiosity Car Boot Sale
28 Sep 1987
Dickens' Pickwick Tissue
28 Sep 1987
A Tale Of Two Suburbs
28 Sep 1987
One Thing To Do With A Dead Rat
28 Sep 1987
Dog End, Prince Of Denmark
28 Sep 1987
Bleak Shed
28 Sep 1987
Parking Offence At The Vicarage
28 Sep 1987
Catcher In The Meusli
28 Sep 1987
Tadpole Dundee
28 Sep 1987
Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Kittens, Starlight All Stops To Crewe, Phantom Of The Sing-A-Long-A-Max, Joseph & His Amazing Beige Duffelcoat and Jesus Christ Runner Up In Opportunity Knocks
28 Sep 1987
Another Dickens classic - Dombie
28 Sep 1987
Tadpole Dundee
14 Jan 1989
The Chihuahua of the Baskervilles
14 Jan 1989
Gibbons'  Decline & Fall of the Hackney Empire
14 Jan 1989
E.M.Forster's  A Passage to Islington
14 Jan 1989
Casino Royale has become  Bingo with Princess Michael
14 Jan 1989
Thunderball has become  Drizzle Pillock
14 Jan 1989
Dr. No has become  First aid kit in the boot, possibly
14 Jan 1989
Octopussy has become  Unipart
14 Jan 1989
The Condom of the Opera
14 Jan 1989
Moby Doris
14 Jan 1989
Balshazzar's Sandwich
14 Jan 1989
Tadpole Dundee
02 May 1989
The Chihuahua of the Baskervilles
02 May 1989
Gibbons'  Decline & Fall of the Hackney Empire
02 May 1989
E.M.Forster's  A Passage to Islington
02 May 1989
Casino Royale has become  Bingo with Princess Michael
02 May 1989
Thunderball has become  Drizzle Pillock
02 May 1989
Dr. No has become  First aid kit in the boot, possibly
02 May 1989
Octopussy has become  Unipart
02 May 1989
The Condom of the Opera
02 May 1989
Moby Doris
02 May 1989
Balshazzar's Sandwich
02 May 1989
The Concise Oxford Word
26 Dec 1989
Jerome K. Jerome's One Man In A Rubber Ring
26 Dec 1989
Dickens' Old Curiosity Car Boot Sale
26 Dec 1989
Dickens' Pickwick Tissue
26 Dec 1989
A Tale Of Two Suburbs
26 Dec 1989
One Thing To Do With A Dead Rat
26 Dec 1989
Dog End, Prince Of Denmark
26 Dec 1989
Bleak Shed
26 Dec 1989
Parking Offence At The Vicarage
26 Dec 1989
Catcher In The Meusli
26 Dec 1989
Tadpole Dundee
26 Dec 1989
Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Kittens, Starlight All Stops To Crewe, Phantom Of The Sing-A-Long-A-Max, Joseph & His Amazing Beige Duffelcoat and Jesus Christ Runner Up In Opportunity Knocks
26 Dec 1989
Another Dickens classic - Dombie
26 Dec 1989
Tadpole Dundee
15 Jan 1990
The Chihuahua of the Baskervilles
15 Jan 1990
Gibbons'  Decline & Fall of the Hackney Empire
15 Jan 1990
E.M.Forster's  A Passage to Islington
15 Jan 1990
Casino Royale has become  Bingo with Princess Michael
15 Jan 1990
Thunderball has become  Drizzle Pillock
15 Jan 1990
Dr. No has become  First aid kit in the boot, possibly
15 Jan 1990
Octopussy has become  Unipart
15 Jan 1990
The Condom of the Opera
15 Jan 1990
Moby Doris
15 Jan 1990
Balshazzar's Sandwich
15 Jan 1990
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