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With "Torchwood" coming up, I've been wondering what TV series are, or have been written to happen concurrently with other series. What have we got?
-Doctor Who -Torchwood -Sarah Jane Investigates (just announced) -K9 Adventures
-Star Trek et. al.
-Babylon 5 et. al.
-CSI et. al.
-Law and Order et. al.
-Highlander: The Series -Highlander: The Raven
-JAG -Navy NCIS
Others? I'm talking about stuff that is DELIERATELY meant to be in the same universe as another series, and not some fan's attempt to squish unrelated shows into the same continuity.
And don't bother with sitcoms and soap operas. We already know it's all the same dreck.
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X-Files The Lone Gunmen Strange Luck (Short lived series starring D.B.Sweeney. At the end of one episode either he or another characher states something like "if I don't come back, I want you to get in touch with a friend of mine at the F.B.I. His name is Fox Mulder..." Law & Order SVU (Richard Belzer's characher, Det. Munch shows up on X-Files)
Law & Order SVU and Homicide: Life on the Streets (Det. Munch. L&O and Homicide had a crossover episode)
Crossing Jordan and Las Vega$
There was a TV Movie of the Week back in th elate 80s that picked up the story of a Western from the 50s/60s ( Ithink it was Gunsmoke) that crossed over characters from several other westerns.
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According to this page, just about ever series that was ever on TV takes place within the mind of some kid from St. Elsewhere . But that's probably the very fanboyish speculation you didn't want to hear about.
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All the shows that spun off from Happy Days.
Or do shows that are intended to milk the last drops of sweet cash from shows that are over count? For instance: Joey.
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There were a couple of spinoffs from Cheers, too, weren't there? I never watched any of them; sitcoms aren't my cup of tea.
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quote:Originally posted by B.J.: What, did nobody remember that Happy Days itself was a spinoff?
From, Homicide: Life in the Crappy Days.
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Sorry to be one of THOSE people who do this but: didn't we already have a thread discussing this and someone linked to a 'diagram' showing the links between a whole lot of shows and some of them were VERY long bows that were drawn - mentioning Yoyodyne propulsion or something to connect Trek to the 'modern day'.
I mentioned these - so I'll mention them again...
David E. Kelly's stuff seems to all connect - but at the same time it doesn't.
Ally McBeal and The Practice crossed over with some characters (I reckon John Cage should have gone over to Donnel, Young, Dole and Frutt after Ally folded but *shrug*)... except there is one episode of Ally with Renee watching TV and the show that is playing is the 'head in the bag' episode of The Practice, totally messing with the whole concept of them being in the 'same universe'.
Boston Legal crossed over from The Practice and I believe there was a cross over with Boston Public.
There was a cross over between The Practice and Gideon's Crossing too - although I don't know if that was a David E. Kelly show.
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I forget where I read it, but I also read this ridiculously crazy theory that "Knight Rider" and the original "Battlestar Galactica" (with its bastard child, "Galactica 1980") took place in the same universe. Someone (not here, of course) suggested that the robot car was powered by a crashed/salvaged Cylon brain, explaining the flashing red light that was similar to the Cylons' infamous red eye.
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