# When TV shows "guest star" on other TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600 "2007-05-18T15:00:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/21 "2007-05-18T17:26:26Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] And Paul sublet his apartment to Kramer. [/QUOTE] But, George ans Susan used to watch _Mad About You_ together. That kind of messes up the continuity. As for Kramer being Murphy Brown’s secretary, it was an acting gig, and no one ever made the statement that Murphy Brown was a real person like in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/22 "2007-05-18T17:28:20Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] They’re missing Kramer’s turn as Murphy Brown’s secretary. [/QUOTE] Ah, but Kramer was an actor on the Murphy Brown set playing her secretary. The character Kramer was not Murphy’s secretary. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/23 "2007-05-18T17:37:38Z")
_Laverne and Shirley_ spun off from _Happy Days_, with one or two visits from the Fonz. (And the short lived _Joany loves Chachi_… heh.) _Three’s Company_ had a spin off, _The Ropers_. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/24 "2007-05-18T17:38:05Z")
[QUOTE=Delly] Also more recently, spolier in case people dont want to know/may not have been shown yet Theres a crossover between CSI and Cold Case where one of the CSI’s DNA turns up on an old Case [/QUOTE] I missed that one completely, a quick google says it was aired at the start of May (on the second) which is a night I don’t even watch TV anymore, besides Cold Case is on Sundays here. But then, when I think of crossovers the first that comes to mind is the Pretender/Profiler crossover that was 2 hours long (on Pretender, then Profiler). I don’t watch CSI: NY (never got into it, and I haven’t watched the original in awhile), but if it had been advertised I might have just for that. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/25 "2007-05-18T17:39:45Z")
There are some dimly-remembered Hanna Barbera crossovers, like Scooby Doo meeting Batman and the Addams Family. Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble shared a show with Ben Grimm, the Thing, but I forget if they actually met or not ---
**Author:** ![Asgardking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Asgardking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asgardking)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/26 "2007-05-18T17:43:45Z")
ABC once had a Las Vegas night. Characters from the 4 sitcoms airing on Wednesday night (Coach, Drew Carey, Grace Under Fire and Ellen) went to Las Vegas and would run into each other during the course of the shows. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/27 "2007-05-18T17:55:06Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Missed by 4 minutes. [/quote] [Maxwell Smart] Missed it by _that_ much. [/Smart] On SCTV, Bobby Bittman would guest on the Sammy Maudlin show. The next week Sammy Maudlin would guest on the Bobby Bittman Show. Never a shortage of guests with that kind of arrangement. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/28 "2007-05-18T18:06:04Z")
On the 1960s, live action **Batman** series, a recurring gag had Batman & Robin scaling a wall to sneak into the villain-of-the-week’s lair. As they were working their way up there, a window would open, a minor celebrity of the day would stick his head out the window and briefly chat with the dynamic duo. On one occasion, Lurch from **the Addams Family** was the minor celebrity who stuck his head out the window. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/29 "2007-05-18T18:20:32Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] On the 1960s, live action **Batman** series, a recurring gag had Batman & Robin scaling a wall to sneak into the villain-of-the-week’s lair. As they were working their way up there, a window would open, a minor celebrity of the day would stick his head out the window and briefly chat with the dynamic duo. On one occasion, Lurch from **the Addams Family** was the minor celebrity who stuck his head out the window. [/QUOTE] And once they ran into the Green Hornet and Kato. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/30 "2007-05-18T18:41:26Z")
On NBC Thursday night years back there were several shows all set in NYC (Friends, Sienfeld, Mad About You?) and they had a power outage that happened in all three show. I’m guessing that Kramer caused it. ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/31 "2007-05-18T18:48:54Z")
Frank Black from _Millennium_ on _The X-Files_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/32 "2007-05-18T18:54:59Z")
[QUOTE=Rhiannon8404] The character of John Munch from _Homicide: Life on the Streets_ not only guested on the original _Law and Order_, but crossed over completely to the _Law and Order: SVU_ series. [/QUOTE] It was revealed that John Munch and Lenny Briscoe had an ex-wife in common. ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/33 "2007-05-18T18:55:17Z")
In the episode where \*\*Roseanne \*\*had breast reduction surgery, she had a dream while coming out of anaesthesia that **Doogie Howser** was the doctor who performed the operation. That was pretty darn funny. ---
**Author:** ![Agonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@Agonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agonist)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/34 "2007-05-18T18:57:04Z")
I’ve been seeing too many of these lately. The most annoying one was a recent Medium which spent far too long in a dream sequence where the main character is a contestant on Deal or No Deal. It’s such blatant “product placement” with no upside for the audience. You can tell the writers were ordered to put it in and had to strain to come up with any reason at all for that sequence to be there. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/35 "2007-05-18T18:58:20Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] Ah, but Kramer was an actor on the Murphy Brown set playing her secretary. The character Kramer was not Murphy’s secretary. [/QUOTE] Funny, I hardly ever watched “Seinfeld” and could have sworn he was on the actual show. Either way, it’s not listed. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/36 "2007-05-18T19:44:58Z")
There was an episode where several characters from _Las Vegas_ showed up in _Crossing Jordon_. I think they did a reverse episode (with the _Crossing Jordon_ folks on _Las Vegas_ later in the season too. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/37 "2007-05-18T22:26:03Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] Don’t forget [the Tommyverse](http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers.html). [/QUOTE] “The last five minutes of _St. Elsewhere_ is the only television show, ever. Everything else is a daydream.”- [Dwayne McDuffie](http://www.slushfactory.com/columns/content/EpEyykukyZloMBeEdd.php) ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/38 "2007-05-18T23:32:01Z")
[QUOTE=Telemark] On NBC Thursday night years back there were several shows all set in NYC (Friends, Sienfeld, Mad About You?) and they had a power outage that happened in all three show. I’m guessing that Kramer caused it. [/QUOTE] Actually IIRC Jamie caused it while trying to disconnect an illegal cable hookup. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/39 "2007-05-18T23:34:34Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Mr. Carlin (From the Bob Newhart Show) played a screwed up psychology patient on Newhart. (“I had to undo years of damage done to him by some quack in Chicago.”) [/QUOTE] I knew you really meant to say Elliot Carlin appeared in **St. Elsewhere** , right? Hank, Peggy, and Bobby Hill made a cameo appearance in **The Simpsons**. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600/40 "2007-05-18T23:40:39Z")
The episode of South Park, “Summer Sucks,” features Dr. Katz as Mr. Garrison’s therapist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-tv-shows-guest-star-on-other-tv-shows/404600.md?page=3)