Foreign Affairs (1964 TV series) Foreign Affairs (1964 TV series) Foreign Affairs is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1964. It is a spin-off of "Bootsie and Snudge", itself a spin-off of "The Army Game" and starred Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser as the main characters. The entire series was wiped and is no longer thought to exist. Seven months after the end of the third series of "Bootsie and Snudge", where the title characters worked in a gentleman's club in central London, Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser reprised the roles they first played in "The Army Game". "Bootsie and Snudge" went on
Spin-off (media) Spin-off (media) In media, a spin-off (or spinoff) is a radio program, television program, video game, film, or any narrative work, derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g. particular topics, characters or events). A spin-off may be called a sidequel when it exists in the same chronological frame of time as its predecessor work. One of the earliest spin-offs of the modern media era, if not the first, happened in 1941 when the supporting character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve from the old time radio comedy show "Fibber McGee and Molly"