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The One Game (1988)
It WAS TOO aired in the United States . . .
I've seen several commentaries in various places stating flatly that this series was never aired in the US, so the creators of the Michael Douglas movie couldn't possibly have seen it. That's not true, though. The whole mini-series of "The One Game" was aired on a San Francisco public television channel, in approximately 1990 or 1991. I know this because I watched 3 of the 4 episodes myself. It was quite a good show, but unfortunately I was abruptly called into work the evening the fourth episode aired, and my VCR being broken at the time, I was never able to watch the final episode. Ever since seeing "The Game" a few years ago, I recalled "The One Game" being very similar and have been trying to obtain the DVD, but I can't find any USA-region-encoded version for sale on line. But in any event, if the argument for the originality of the Michael Douglas version rests on the notion that the writers couldn't have seen the original "One Game" in the USA, that argument simply fails. I'd bet money that at least one of the writers watched the series when I did, in Ess Eff, and ripped it off on the gamble that the US broadcast was so obscure it would be forever forgotten. It'll never be proved, of course. And I for one will never forget the broadcast because I never got to see the ending. :-(