More than 50 American fans of the hit BBC sitcom As Time Goes By - who met via the internet - have made a pilgrimage to see the show recorded in London.
The group of 58 aficionados have flown in from all over the US to fulfil a long-held ambition - to see the show's stars, Dame Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, in action at Television Centre.
They come from all over the US, are aged between 30 and 70 and communicate almost entirely via email about the show.
News, views and plot updates are all exchanged in cyberspace. Otherwise they just while away the time eulogising over the talent of the programme's actors.
Dame appeal
It was in one of these many emails that 34-year-old Diane McElhany of Seattle first suggested, and then ended up organising, the London trip.
"Everyone was so excited about coming to London to see, not just the programme, but Dame Judi in particular - most of us are huge fans," she told BBC News Online.
Last year the group's "incurable interest" in the award-winning actress led to a jaunt to see her in Amy's View on Broadway.
That trip gave Diane the impetus to be more ambitious and contact the As Time Goes By production office in London for tickets.
The gentle and quintessentially British show is hugely popular in the US where the programmes are transmitted on 158 PBS stations, representing 87% of the country.
Classy comedy "There is nothing to compare to it in the US where I rarely see a comedy that does not make me think 'I could easily have written that myself'," explained Diane.
The current series, the eighth, continues the story of Jean (Dench) and Lionel (Palmer) who enjoyed a brief affair in the early 1950s before circumstances separated them.
Four decades later, they meet again by chance and their romance is rekindled, leading eventually to marriage and domesticity - but not without its trials and tribulations.
"The writing is fantastic and the acting is top-notch - clever, witty and unpredictable," enthused Diane.
Sadly, perhaps one of the show's biggest fans, Bonnie Rottstin who started, and runs, the 120-member website, is missing out on the London trip.
"Bonnie is afraid of flying," commiserates Diane. "She says the only way to get her here is to build a bridge."
Thanks to Christie for finding this article on the BBC UK Website on February 25, 2000 and pointing me to it, to Diane and the BBC for giving my web site some publicity.