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Regarding Tanya going to prison in Footballers Wifeys and appearing in Bad Girls, has anything like this happened where the shows aren't spin-off related?

All I can think of are all the american sit com cross overs, but that's always spin off related. Even Mork appeared in Happy Days first, so Mork and Mindy is kind of a spin off of Happy Days, and Laverne and Shirley likewise.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

No, 'Bad Girls' has once again shown itself to be alone, ahead and a genius.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Detective John Munch, played by Richard Belzer, has appeared on many TV shows:
Homicide: Life on the Street
Law & Order
X-Files
Law & Order: SVU

(last I heard, he was ahead of Frasier Crane)

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

nice one. tho obv the Law & Orders count as 1 show spin-off style

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-1964

he's currently working on a project with Larry David!

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Interesting, if not necessarily flattering, piece of Belzerania from above link: Robert De Niro studied him for his role in The
King of Comedy.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Carl Reiner played Alan Brady on both The Dick Van Dyke Show and Mad About You, some 30 years apart -- but I think it was only one episode of Mad About You, probably during sweeps. (It was pretty cool, though.)

And this is not what you mean at all, but there was a brilliant bit in St Elsewhere where a character who thought he (if I remember right) was Mary Richards (from Mary Tyler Moore) kept addressing Betty White's character as "Sue Ann" (the character she'd played on MTM).

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Kramer was on Mad About You too.
I didn't watch that show, but it seems to have interacted with other NBC properties. I think Phoebe from Friends (as well as her twin sister) were on it as well.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, Phoebe's sister Ursula was a Mad About You character first (because Lisa Kudrow had a recurring bit part on MAY before Friends debuted, so they gimmicked it up with an episode where each was mistaken for the other).

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://epguides.com/StElsewhere/season6.shtml

season 6, ep 22:
" The jaw-dropping climax culminates in a blue-collared dad placing his young autistic son Tommy Westphall's miniature St. Eligius snow globe on the living room TV set, having summoned him to dinner. "St. Elsewhere's" entire six-year saga had all been a figment of little Tommy's imagination! Finally, the poor MTM kitten lay wavering on a respirator during the final slew of end credits; after which, he flat lines and expires."

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

#75 here, I think (and apparently "John Doe #6" is one of the patients from The Bob Newhart Show, as well).

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post, Final St. Elsewhere

That's also how Newsradio ended their final season, with Jimmy James as Tommy, and Dave & Lisa as his parents.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I somehow missed seeing the finale for either of those shows -- weird.

(There's the Newhart finale where Bob wakes up as his character from the earlier Bob Newhart Show, having dreamed the entire run of Newhart.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

man, this thread beat my TV crossovers thread already, but it wasn't the same question, so that's okay.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

There was also nearly a Picket Fences/X-Files crossover, until one of the networks (I forget which now) nixed it, so instead of Mulder investigating things on Picket Fences, some other FBI agent did.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It pains me to mention Empty Nest twice within a week, but ... at one point, the entire NBC Saturday night sitcom lineup was set in Miami. One week, all of the plots (Empty Nest, Golden Girls, Nurses, was there something else?) revolved around a hurricane that had struck southern Florida. So it was the same story, but from several POVs! And I'm fairly sure there was some crossover, like Betty White dropped by to see how Richard Mulligan was doing, or Bea Arthur borrowed Park Overall's umbrella or some shit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ohhhh, I kind of remember something like that. There've been a couple things like that, haven't there? Something with ABC around the Drew Carey/Grace Under Fire/Coach era going to Vegas, and the NBC Blackout night (although I don't think that actually had crossovers).

Best thing about the Mad About You Kramer episode that the ineffable Huckleberry has reminded me of -- that's the episode where we find out that Kramer lives in what used to be Paul's apartment, right? -- is that a later episode of Mad About You has Paul and Jamie wandering around a New York City which is nearly abandoned since everyone is inside watching the Seinfeld finale.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, wasn't that Dharma & Greg who wandered about NYC during the "Seinfeld" finale?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, then nevermind :) Damn! (I watched Mad About You more, if that explains the misremembering any.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I just can't believe we're having this conversation in public, Tep.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

We did it for our girlfriends, right?

(I actually did watch Mad About You because Paul and Jamie's chemistry was pretty much identical to that of my relationship at the time I was watching.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The Simpsons had Jay Sherman and Peter Griffin cameo.

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

They also had Hank Hill on a couple of times. Bender too.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I've mentioned the Brookside character (Mick Johnson, I think) reading a newspaper story relating to the Emmerdale plane crash before, haven't I?

Also Brookside characters going out clubbing to the Loft in Hollyoaks.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

And also wasn't the character Matt the janitor who nearly married Chloe in Hollyoaks previously a resident of Brookside close as well?

― silver girl, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

there must have been some interchange 'tween grange hill and eastenders, back in the early days

― pete s, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

parodies and obvious digs don't really count so that rules out the animated shows really i would've thought

i was gonna mention the X-Files/Picket Fences thing

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally McBeal/The Practice x-over. Both leads appeared on the other's show. I know this because I's was a big Ally McBeal fan.

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, Gina Gershon and I think some of the other characters from her short-lived, also DEK-produced show (Snoops?), were on The Practice, too.

And someone from Picket Fences -- Fyvush Finkel? -- was sent to Chicago Hope.

(Kathy Baker has played like nineteen different people in the extended DEKverse, I think.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

In a ratings stunt on "Family Matters" Urkel took off in a flying contraption he had invented and landed in the next episode of "Step by Step". He also appeared on Full House once. TGIF was the shit back then.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

And also wasn't the character Matt the janitor who nearly married Chloe in Hollyoaks previously a resident of Brookside close as well?

Is Matt off Hollyoaks Matt Musgrove? I saw the actor in one of the rare episodes of Hollyoaks I saw once, but I figured it was just the same actor, not the same character. Though when the family left Brookside, they all went to Ireland but him, he was going to stay and get a job locally. If they wrote his character into Hollyoaks especially, that is deeply sad. Or cool. Or something.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

This isn't exactly what this thread was about, but I thought that it was interesting that "Trapper John, M.D." was a spin-off from the M*A*S*H movie, and not the television show.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Murdock from the A-team was on an episode of Chips.
Chips has crossovers withing its own show!! some of the earlier seasons non-villian characters went on to be villians in the later episodes.

― kephm, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheers: The Final Frontier

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

not quite the same thing but Eric Estrada of Chips fame appeared in several episodes of Popular, AS Eric Estrada (lots of Chips references ensued)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it would be a brilliant TV crossover if there'd be an episode of Coronation Street where some of them went on a trip to London, and ended up going for a drink in The Vic, and vice versa with the EastEnders crowd hanging out in the Rovers one weekend.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Father Ted meeting Victor Meldrew (well. not exactly)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost) I love the eastenders/corrie idea.

And yes, i think Matt in Hollyoaks is the same Matt Musgrove character as in Brookside, Ailsa.

― silver girl, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Let us all pause in appreciation of that 1970s cultural high-water mark, the telefilm "Love Boat Angels", wherein the second cast of Charlie's Angels (where Cheryl Ladd replaced Farrah) pursue smugglers aboard the Love Boat!!!! (Special Guest Appearances by all your favorite Love Boat characters, plus Bert Convy, Dick Sargent, and Bo Hopkins!!!)

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

not quite the same thing but Eric Estrada of Chips fame appeared in several episodes of Popular, AS Eric Estrada (lots of Chips references ensued)

There was also It's, Like, You Know (I still can't believe that was the name of a TV show), which featured (Dirty Dancing star) Jennifer Grey as washed-up but nose-job-enhanced actress Jennifer Grey.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Uhoh, should I break out my immense Trekiness and impress you all with my vast knowledge of inter-series cameos?

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Remember what I said on my thread about wanting to meet you, Leee?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Trek comes with the Head.

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, fuck. What did I unleash?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah for interweb mentalism and it's mad telly knowledge skillz.

Leee, star trek characters appearing in other star trek universe shows in no way count. Ppl playing themselves don't count either. I love the sitcom supercrossover thing mentioned above - shame they were all rubbish shows. I wonder if comics (where this happens all the bleedin' time) had any influence on the ppl behind those ideas?

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Coronation Street have reportedly been trying to poach Shane Richie off Eastenders for ages. I'm sure if they actually did then said character would essentially be Alfie Moon in every way but name.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

In a ratings stunt on "Family Matters" Urkel took off in a flying contraption he had invented and landed in the next episode of "Step by Step". He also
appeared on Full House once. TGIF was the shit back then.

Some of you may not remember, but Family Matters was actually a spin-off from Perfect Strangers.

And Murder, She Wrote spun off from Magnum, which is weird.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

What about when Harry Shearer played Derek Smalls on "The Simpsons"? Or does that belong in the same category as Elizabeth Montgomery playing Serena on "Bewitched"?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

When Kramer went to Los Angeles on 'Seinfeld', he got a part on 'Murphy Brown'

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, wasn't Murphy Brown on CBS though? odd.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The most upfront sexual proposition you have ever made/received to/from someone you've just met (116 new answers, last at 10:23 pm, 22 unread)
. . . and then Momus arrives (77 new answers, last at 10:22 pm, 77+ unread)

(the latter thread title is a gift for this thread)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

This is very strange, I had been meaning to start this very thread yesterday, including the Father Ted example. I was going to mention that the US sitcoms do it quite a bit, but not so much the UK. The potential of Arthur Daley on Only Fools and Horses is where the idea came from, I think.

Early Friends had an episode where Rachel and Monica went to ER and went on a date with Noah Wyle and George Clooney (or rather their chatacters).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Only they weren't their ER characters.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Or rather two other characters who happened to be played by Noah Wyle and George Clooney, they weren't their ER characters. Nipping down to Chicago to visit the hospital may have been a bit far...

(I had discounted posting that for this reason)

x post

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i just realised where my thread connections post went that never got posted where it was meant to. Bollocks. Moderators, please delete me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It's perfect here! It makes Momus sound like a sweeps-week guest star on some racy sitcom.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, Momus really should start making cross over appearances on TV show. The BBC could have Momus night wherein he vists the night's shows looking for his stolen eyepatch or something.
(x-post)

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah. My ER-non-watching has let me down.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesnt quite count, I guess, but in that programme where DB Sweeney played a character called Chance who could see the future (what was its name again?), towards the end of the series he was advised to go and seek out an FBI agent named Fox Mulder. He never did, but then Mulder was on a different network I think and DB's series got cancelled (long before the X-Files did).

― silver girl, Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

No that was on Fox. In fact,that show "Strange Luck" was the lead=in for The X-Files for about half a season.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah THAT's what it was called.

― silver girl, Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally McBeal/The Practice x-over. Both leads appeared on the other's show. I know this because I's was a big Ally McBeal fan.

Ah yes, that was the one where Cage/Fish had to consult with Donnell and Associates over a case where a woman was accused of murdering her husband and her defense was that she was blacked out and apparently, um, regressed to her "past life" of Lizzie Borden or something. I don't remember. I THINK that's who she claims she was in her past life.... I also remember Ally hooking up with Bobby Donnell in that original ep and I seem to remember him sticking around for a second ep.

*looks around* Wha-- ? I too enjoyed "Ally McBeal". I enjoyed it so much that I stole my whole "cute little enigma" thing from them. That and "dumb stick".

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 6 March 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah! Also can't forget that Fish fingered Ellenor's wattle!

(Okquicklygoingnowdepartingleavingthisthread....)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 6 March 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I just remembered once seeing an episode of, er, some American show and they went to LA and the LA Law theme tune was playing and I think Corbin Bernsen was in it. I wish I could remember what the show was. I think it might have been Chicago Hope, but very probably not. There were definitely links to LA Law, and it was after LA Law finished.

This is possibly the crappiest contribution to this thread ever.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

There was also a Third Watch/ER crossover when Susan Lewis' neice went missing and the cop types from TW had to find her. The story started in an ER ep and i think was wound up in the corresponding Third Watch ep but I never got to see the conclusion. Gutted.

― silver girl, Saturday, 6 March 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I revived this thread because I just watched the Mad About You episode with Kramer being the tenant in Paul's apartment ("what about your neighbour Jerry?" "oh, he's writing a sitcom for NBC"), and damn, it's been mentioned already.

A google investigation would seem to suggest that the LA Law crossover I mentioned a couple of posts up was Cop Rock! I'm sure I would have remembered watching a musical! (it wasn't Corbin Bernsen, it was Jimmy Smits and Michele Greene).

Another LA Law one, the character of Eli Levinson had been in Civil Wars, but when that show was cancelled his character was written into LA Law.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

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