Original sentence: The program was based (very loosely) on the characters created by Peter O'Donnell for his comic strip, Modesty Blaise, and the plot was based (even more loosely) on the first Modesty Blaise book (which in turn had been a novelization of a practically unused screenplay that Peter O'Donnell had written for the first Modesty Blaise film)
Edited sentence: It was an action-comedy instead of being a real action story.Modesty and Willie live in the Los Angeles area, and the story takes place in California and Mexico instead of London and Southern Europe.Most Modesty Blaise fans were disappointed by this program for various reasons.The casting of Ann Turkel, with long curly hair, as Modesty seemed unfortunate too; there wasn't much of the exotic beauty from the book and comic strip presentations of Modesty.The plot was silly and it was obviously a very low-budget effort.The program was based (very loosely) on the characters created by Peter O'Donnell, and the plot was based (even more loosely) on the first Modesty Blaise book (which in turn had been a novelization of a practically unused screenplay that Peter O'Donnell had written for the first Modesty Blaise film).The whole environment and almost all of the characters had become American