The BBC series "The Duchess of Duke Street" is widely seen as the BBC's answer to "Upstairs, Downstairs", not least because some of the same producers and writers worked on it, and it also has a theme tune by Faris. The 1990 BBC sitcom "You Rang, M'Lord?" also featured a similar situation. In the early 1990s, Marsh and Atkins created another successful period drama, "The House of Eliott", for the BBC. In 1975, an American version, entitled "Beacon Hill", debuted but due to low ratings it was soon cancelled, running for just thirteen episodes. Tom Wolfe called the series a plutography, i.e. a "graphic depiction of the lives of the rich".