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I listened to the interview where he talks about it again, to be transparent London worked on more series than probably most people in the biz do so he doesn't remember everything, but he said they got the rights from one of Avery's descendants who was living in France, and makes no mention of the "college funds" story. He did say he liked working on it and Eddie Fitzgerald was very funny during production, it does not feel like it was a cheap cashgrab from how he talks about it. It was just the nature of how it was produced, 65 episodes with very short turnaround time on broadcast television in the late 90s
Andy or Eddie might know more but they've never been asked about it, honestly I wish I could interview either one of them
