# Shows inhabiting a common TV universe **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2000, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648 "2000-08-01T02:38:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/21 "2000-08-01T07:42:02Z")
Really John ? I don’t remember that. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/22 "2000-08-01T07:43:48Z")
the last series… I think the guy they were running all those missions was supposed to be the guy that was in UNCLE… not Napoleon Solo. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/23 "2000-08-01T07:47:28Z")
Must have missed a whole series of A-team (the shame) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/24 "2000-08-01T08:02:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lok \* > \*\*There was a blackout night on an NBC Thursday night that hit all four of the sitcoms that were on that night. I know it included Friends, Mad About You and Seinfeld, but I don’t know the fourth show at that time. > \*\* Actually, Seinfeld was not included in the blackouts. Apparently, ABC decided that Seinfeld lived in a different area on a different power grid…It did include the 4th show, but like you, I can’t think what it was now…??? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/25 "2000-08-01T08:18:07Z")
Here’s one I’ll be impressed if you remember: Diff’rent Strokes and Night Rider! Also, Diff’rent strokes and Facts of Life, via Ms. Garret ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/26 "2000-08-01T08:50:17Z")
I remember a special of _The Incredible Hulk_ where there was a blatant attempt to start a new series off by tagging it in to an established one. David Banner hooked up with this guy who could summon IIRC the Norse God _Thor_. I don’t think this worked as I never saw anything of _Thor_ and his buddy after that. Maybe it was made and just didn’t make it to this side of the Atlantic ? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/27 "2000-08-01T09:15:47Z")
Didn’t Xena and Hercules once hook up? Oh, hell. I’m nominating that as the most worthless sentence ever. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/28 "2000-08-01T11:01:22Z")
I thought one of the strangest cross-overs ever was the re-appearance of J. L. “Tenspeed” Turner, who’d been on the 1980 TV show _Tenspeed and Brown Shoe_, in 1988 on the show _J. J. Starbuck_. Apparently Stephen J. Cannell, who wrote both shows, decided he liked the character he’d created eight years before and brought him back (still played by Ben Vereen). ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/29 "2000-08-01T11:08:51Z")
I saw that Incredible hulk!!! It was too bad to get its own mini-series… really. as for IH cross overs, did anyone see the episode with Daredevil? It might have been in one of the movies though… ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/30 "2000-08-01T11:11:12Z")
I remember the Adam-12 guys showing up on Emergency a few times. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/31 "2000-08-01T13:03:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mustapha \* > \*\*_Chicago Hope_ and _ER_ > > On the face of it, this seems blindingly obvious. But remember the episode of CH where they had the PR guys in to make an ad for the hospital, and the results were very similar to the opening credits for “the other show”. > > Acknowledging the competition must count for something in this thread. \*\* I don’t know, there was one episode where they were talking about sending someone to another hospital or something, and one of the characters said “You know, that OTHER Chicago Hospital,” and another character stopped him and said “We never mention that OTHER hospital.” So maybe they do live in the same universe. I think ALL David E. Kelley shows are incestous. He hires the same actors over and over again. I saw a preview for his new show, Boston Public, and it has Fyvish (sp?) Finkle, who was Douglas Wambaugh on Picket Fences. You remember him, he had CHARACTER. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/32 "2000-08-01T15:18:12Z")
Don’t forget a couple of years ago ABC had a whole crossover evening, set in Las Vegas. All the sitcoms Ellen, Drew Carey and a couple of others participated. Every show had someone make a cameo appearance in another show. Keith ---
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/33 "2000-08-01T15:27:38Z")
If anyone dares remember the suckass TGIF of yesteryear, Steve Urkel from _Family Matters_ appeared on _Step by Step_ and _Full House._ Also, Cory Matthews on _Boy Meets World_ obliviously watched his own show once. That was screwed up. –John ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/34 "2000-08-01T15:50:40Z")
Wings and Cheers had a couple cross-over episodes, with various Cheers’ characters showing up at the airport in Nantucket. Didn’t Chicago Hope and Early Edition have a cross-over once? ---
**Author:** ![JoeBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JoeBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeBlank)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/35 "2000-08-01T16:03:11Z")
A bit off topic, as it is not a cross-over to my knowledge, but Thor from Marvel Comics will finally get his own show: [http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2000-07/31/10.05.tv](http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2000-07/31/10.05.tv) ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/36 "2000-08-01T16:09:42Z")
Aren’t there shows in which the fictional characters appeared on RL game or talk shows? I remember Fran Fine going to watch the Rosie O’Donnell show, and I think I remember a couple of shows with people on Jeopardy. StG ---
**Author:** ![MetallicAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@MetallicAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MetallicAsh)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/37 "2000-08-01T17:27:30Z")
Don’t forget… …the A-Team and Battlestar Galactica!!! In one episode, Dirk Benedict, who starred in both shows, is on the back lot of a movie Hannibal is shooting. A “Cylon” walks by and Benedict turns, as if “there’s something familiar about that guy”, and then dismisses it. Not a true crossover, but worth a mention. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/38 "2000-08-01T17:29:27Z")
“The Prisoner” is thought to be a continuation of “Danger Man”, but it was never made explicitly clear. Of course with “The Prisoner” nothing was ever made explicitly clear. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/39 "2000-08-01T17:43:10Z")
Didn’t the girls from “Sister Sister” show up on “Full House” once? I think it was the same show with Urkel… ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648/40 "2000-08-01T17:44:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by StGermain \* > \*\*Aren’t there shows in which the fictional characters appeared on RL game or talk shows? I remember Fran Fine going to watch the Rosie O’Donnell show, and I think I remember a couple of shows with people on Jeopardy. > > StG \*\* Of course!! Cliff Claven from Cheers went on Jeopardy and all of the categories were perfect for him…Mothers, The US Postal Service, Beer… He had so much money and in the end he got Final Jeopardy wrong and lost. His questions was, “Who are 3 people who have never been in my kitchen?” Classic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-inhabiting-a-common-tv-universe/27648.md?page=3)