Combine three favorite TV characters from different shows into a new show

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Not sure how this thread will work out. This may be one of those that get NO response at all. I seem to be good at generating that kind.

**Loose guidelines: **pick three characters from different shows across all TV years (i.e., Lucy Ricardo, Lt. Uhura, and Lord Grantham from Downton Abbey can all be together) and put them together in a new show. Lots of wiggle room-- go wild.

I’ve just started binge-watching The Good Wife from the very beginning. I’d never watched it before, but everyone at work has talked about it for years.

I am dazzled by the character Kalinda Sharma, the investigator for Lockhart & Gardner. She’s the love child of Emma Peel and Mike Hammer. In this episode I’m watching now, she’s pissed at a colleague, so she just went after the guy’s car with a baseball bat and then left a lip print on his rearview mirror. Brilliant, beautiful, fearless, sensitive–zowie.

Then I started thinking about another female character that I loved, Parkerfrom Leverage. From her IMDB bio: “Parker’s idea of fun would scare the living daylights out of most people. She has neither modesty nor fear of heights.” She’s the acrobat who slithers down ropes to retrieve the diamond on display or jumps from one building to another and lands in a somersault. Yet she has almost a pre-adolescent ingenuousness about her.

They would be fabulous in some kind of investigative show together… but I need a third character, a man probably, and who better than Odafin Tutuola from Law & Order: SVU? Cool, tough, tender-- a man of principle.

Talk about three-way chemistry. I think Fin should be an inner-city priest (but he’s not really a priest-- he’s on the run and hiding out due to some vague past transgression) and Parker is a drop-out nun (dropped out before her final vows). She runs a social services program with a center for teens and a soup kitchen and works as a clown in her off hours. Kalinda’s background is vague–her parents escaped political persecution somewhere and brought her to the USA when she was a toddler. Kalinda teaches martial arts at the nearby community college and helps out in the soup kitchen and with the local teens.

Situations in the neighborhood, at the college, local businesses, etc. generate drama and problems for the trio to meddle in and solve.

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Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is…

…well, he can’t receive communications from the future; time travel doesn’t work like that. And so Doctor Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong – by reaching out to the top operative of his predecessor government agency, and so Jaime Sommers invariably shows up to act charming and innocuous before slipping away to provide a deus ex machina when nobody’s looking.

But, you say, while Lindsay Wagner is inarguably delightful, Scott Bakula’s affable schtick wears thin without someone providing the amused cynicism of a Dean Stockwell. And you’d be absolutely correct. But that’s why our powerless hero and powerful heroine spend each episode trying to clear the name of an innocent wrongfully accused of murder, and so just need to help Lieutenant Columbo solve otherwise impossible cases.

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Okay…it’s one of those.

Thanks, Waldo.

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Moe, Mork, and Reverend Jim. I don’t know what the story lines would be but it would be funny.

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Frank Costanza and Arthur Spooner in My Two Families. A travelling salesmen has to balance his two families, keeping each separate.

Switched at Birth. Fran Drescher and Jenna Elfman think they are sisters. Jeri Ryan and Maggie Wheeler ditto. But they find out that Jenna and Maggie were switched at birth. The former are very very poor, the latter extremely wealthy. They all decide to live together, and hilarity ensues.

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That…that might actually work!