What tv shows could exist in the same universe?
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One show I remember loving was called Hi Honey, I'm Home. It only lasted something like a dozen episodes, and in every one, there was a cameo by a character from a classic sitcom (well, usually sitcom). They're played by the same actor/actress, and it's absolutely the same character, so it counts as a crossover.
Just that I can remember off the top of my head, HHIH crossed over with: The Lucy Show, Leave It to Beaver, The Honeymooners, the Andy Griffith Show, The Munsters, Brady Bunch, and Mary Tyler Moore Show.
And apparently, there was a show called Team Knight Rider which did a crossover with the original Star Trek series. Who knew?
Just that I can remember off the top of my head, HHIH crossed over with: The Lucy Show, Leave It to Beaver, The Honeymooners, the Andy Griffith Show, The Munsters, Brady Bunch, and Mary Tyler Moore Show.
And apparently, there was a show called Team Knight Rider which did a crossover with the original Star Trek series. Who knew?
Magnum, PI, Simon & Simon and Murder She Wrote existed in the same universe--had crossover episodes.
ER and Friends crossed over, and then Friends crossed over with Mad About you. So, all three could exist in the same universe.
The White Shadow and St. Elsewhere were in the same universe, as St. Elsewhere characters referenced White Shadow many times. However, if you follow the St. Elsewhere/Homicide connection, you'll see that a startling amount of shows connect. Does that mean they all existed solely in Tommy Westphall's mind?
Check out this handy CHART.
According to it, over 280 series are connected to Homicide and the St. Elsewhere "universe." Crikey!
ER and Friends crossed over, and then Friends crossed over with Mad About you. So, all three could exist in the same universe.
The White Shadow and St. Elsewhere were in the same universe, as St. Elsewhere characters referenced White Shadow many times. However, if you follow the St. Elsewhere/Homicide connection, you'll see that a startling amount of shows connect. Does that mean they all existed solely in Tommy Westphall's mind?
Check out this handy CHART.
According to it, over 280 series are connected to Homicide and the St. Elsewhere "universe." Crikey!
Fringe once mentioned the "Old X Division" in Season 2. However, the X-Files was seen on TV in Fringe.
It's not necessarily the same universe. It could just be that two universes, the Law & Order one and the X-Files one, each have a version of John Munch. Lots of parallel universe stories have counterparts of the same characters existing in multiple universes, e.g. The Mirror Universe in Star Trek, and the regular Trek universe, both have a Kirk, a Spock, a Sisko, an Archer, etc.
don't forget the show about the casino in Vegas and every other show to use that set for a casino in Vegas, despite the fact it could just be parallel versions...
ER and Friends never crossed over. (Unless there's an episode of ER I missed.) Noah While and George Clooney did appear on Friends but not as Doctors Carter and Ross for at the very least the fact that ER was set in Chicago and Friends in NYC and that the doctors on Friends had different names.
I perfer to think it's the same universe because I find it so humorous to think that all the paranormal stuff from The X-Files could happen on Law & Order.
Any of CBS's crime procedural dramas could cross over since they're all sort of the same and follow the same format anyway.
Well for the four of you who watch The CW, apparently One Tree Hill and Life Unexpected will be crossing over.
Supernatural should crossover with Smallville where they kill Clark.
Picket Fences and Chicago Hope crossed over once. And the doctors at Chicago Hope didn't like to talk about the other hospital in Chicago.
Well for the four of you who watch The CW, apparently One Tree Hill and Life Unexpected will be crossing over.
Supernatural should crossover with Smallville where they kill Clark.
Picket Fences and Chicago Hope crossed over once. And the doctors at Chicago Hope didn't like to talk about the other hospital in Chicago.
Just like Quantum Leap and Magnum P.I. I heard that there was supposed to be a crossover there. I also heard that Magnum P.I. was established as a TV show on Quantum Leap, so that would have been a problem.
That means Kight Rider and Las Vegas take place in the same universe.
The Forgotten would also fit in the CSI universe as well. They both have a FedEx type delivery service called World Send, same logo and everything.
Monk and Psych could be in the same universe. Burn Notice, White Collar, Covert Affairs, and maybe Royal Pains could coexist. In fact, most USA shows could probably be considered part of the same universe.
Even though I've seen very little of it, Primeval could maybe fit in with Doctor Who and Torchwood.
We all know that all the different Law & Order series exist in the same universe, but did you know that The X-Files also exists in that same fictional universe?
It's because the character of John Munch, played by Richard Belzer and a main character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, appeared in one episode of The X-Files.
In fact, the character of John Munch has appeared on multiple shows, always played by Belzer. So, the following shows all exist in the same universe....
Law & Order
Law & Order: Special Vicitms Unit
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Trial By Jury
Law & Order: Los Angeles
Homicide: Life On the Street
The X-Files
The Beat
Arrested Development
The Wire
So, whenever you watch a Law & Order episode, always remember that things like ghosts and aliens exist in the same universe as Jack McCoy and Elliot Stabler.
Chicago Hope also crossed over with Homicide: LOTS (Mandy Patinkin's character Jeffrey Geiger was briefly seen in a Chicago hospital transplanting heart to the patient). Homicide: LOTS also crossed over with St. Elsewhere. Two more shows for the Munchverse...Any of CBS's crime procedural dramas could cross over since they're all sort of the same and follow the same format anyway.
Well for the four of you who watch The CW, apparently One Tree Hill and Life Unexpected will be crossing over.
Supernatural should crossover with Smallville where they kill Clark.
Picket Fences and Chicago Hope crossed over once. And the doctors at Chicago Hope didn't like to talk about the other hospital in Chicago.
And of course, The X-Files crossed over with Millennium...
Munchverse, so far:
Law & Order
Law & Order: Special Vicitms Unit
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Trial By Jury
Law & Order: Los Angeles
Homicide: Life On the Street
The X-Files
Millennium
The Lone Gunmen (X-Files spinoff)
The Beat
Arrested Development
The Wire
Chicago Hope
St. Elsewhere
Picket Fences
We all know that all the different Law & Order series exist in the same universe, but did you know that The X-Files also exists in that same fictional universe?
It's because the character of John Munch, played by Richard Belzer and a main character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, appeared in one episode of The X-Files.
In fact, the character of John Munch has appeared on multiple shows, always played by Belzer. So, the following shows all exist in the same universe....
Law & Order
Law & Order: Special Vicitms Unit
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Trial By Jury
Law & Order: Los Angeles
Homicide: Life On the Street
The X-Files
The Beat
Arrested Development
The Wire
So, whenever you watch a Law & Order episode, always remember that things like ghosts and aliens exist in the same universe as Jack McCoy and Elliot Stabler.
Not to rain on your parade, but I'm pretty sure X-Files was mentioned as a fictional show in Homicide, so that confuses things quite a bit.
Still, it's cool that he's played the same character in so many different things. Was he on the Simpsons as Munch at any point?
Maybe The X-Files is a documentary in that universe.We all know that all the different Law & Order series exist in the same universe, but did you know that The X-Files also exists in that same fictional universe?
It's because the character of John Munch, played by Richard Belzer and a main character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, appeared in one episode of The X-Files.
In fact, the character of John Munch has appeared on multiple shows, always played by Belzer. So, the following shows all exist in the same universe....
Law & Order
Law & Order: Special Vicitms Unit
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Trial By Jury
Law & Order: Los Angeles
Homicide: Life On the Street
The X-Files
The Beat
Arrested Development
The Wire
So, whenever you watch a Law & Order episode, always remember that things like ghosts and aliens exist in the same universe as Jack McCoy and Elliot Stabler.
Not to rain on your parade, but I'm pretty sure X-Files was mentioned as a fictional show in Homicide, so that confuses things quite a bit.
Still, it's cool that he's played the same character in so many different things. Was he on the Simpsons as Munch at any point?
Kinda like Cops...
Which, incidentally, crossed over with The X-Files, so Cops can be added to the Munchverse list, too!
USA did a few commercials where Sam Axe from Burn Notice called one of the characters from Royal Pains, so that show probably does exist in that same universe.
In Plain Sight, USA's show about US Marshals working with people in witness protection, had one of the stars cameo in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, so it's part of the smorgasbord of shows in the L&O universe.
Answering the question literally, I've long felt that The X Files could fit quite comfortably in the Buffy/ANGEL-verse, despite the fact that the X-Files did present a slightly different variation on vampires than either BtVs or ANGEL.
Chiming in on the other aspect of the on-going discussion, NBC's Las Vegas shares a universe with Knight Rider (as previously mentioned), Heroes, Passions, Medium, The Office, and Crossing Jordan.
Chiming in on the other aspect of the on-going discussion, NBC's Las Vegas shares a universe with Knight Rider (as previously mentioned), Heroes, Passions, Medium, The Office, and Crossing Jordan.
I've always wanted to see a crossover between Monk and Columbo. Adrian Monk's OCD dealing with Lt. Columbo's sloppiness would be hilarious.
Even though it would involve parallel universes, I always thought a crossover between Babylon 5 and TOS would be fun.
There was an episode of Spin City that directly segued into Sports Night when the shows were back-to-back on ABC. Michael J. Fox & his girlfriend settled down to watch Sports Night (the show within the show) at the end of the episode.
Even though it would involve parallel universes, I always thought a crossover between Babylon 5 and TOS would be fun.
There was an episode of Spin City that directly segued into Sports Night when the shows were back-to-back on ABC. Michael J. Fox & his girlfriend settled down to watch Sports Night (the show within the show) at the end of the episode.
As Cap'n Crunch said; The temporal anomalies of "Primeval" could easily be explained as "tributaries" of the Cardiff rift of "Dr. Who" and "Torchwood".
Moreover, "Torchwood" has already established that said rift isn't strictly temporal, but also is a focus for paranormal/occult phenomenon as well, so the Hellmouths of the "Buffy/Angel" verse could easily be variants of the very same phenomena as well, which means that those shows, (plus the as-of-yet-still-unproduced BBC entry to the Buffy-verse, "Ripper"), could tie in as well.
And Torchwood's Russel T Davies gas already hinted that there will be a blatant "X-Files" tie-in in the next series of "Torchwood". (I'd love to see Ripper/Giles called into Torchwood as an occult consultant, and for Dr. Dana Scully to come in to replace the late Owen Harper. Not remotely likely, and admittedly fanboi-ish as all Hell, but I think it'd be awesome.)
Moreover, "Torchwood" has already established that said rift isn't strictly temporal, but also is a focus for paranormal/occult phenomenon as well, so the Hellmouths of the "Buffy/Angel" verse could easily be variants of the very same phenomena as well, which means that those shows, (plus the as-of-yet-still-unproduced BBC entry to the Buffy-verse, "Ripper"), could tie in as well.
And Torchwood's Russel T Davies gas already hinted that there will be a blatant "X-Files" tie-in in the next series of "Torchwood". (I'd love to see Ripper/Giles called into Torchwood as an occult consultant, and for Dr. Dana Scully to come in to replace the late Owen Harper. Not remotely likely, and admittedly fanboi-ish as all Hell, but I think it'd be awesome.)
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