Blind Item #10 - Old Hollywood

An Old Hollywood item that is actually about television rather than a movie. A television show that lifted entire episodes from an iconic show and then ran them as theirs, right down to the physical comedy scene performed by the actress star of the show. The problem is the ripoff show had an actress nobody could stand who cast her daughter as her sister and had writers leave every week and the director saying out loud that he debated each day whether suicide or working with the actress for another day was preferable.