Television Crossover Universe

1978--ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES!-- A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes. RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES (FILM) Release Date: April 22, 1988 (Contemporary Setting) Series: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Non-Horror Crosses: Superman ; Mary Tyler Moore Show; Marx Brothers The Story: Set in a divergent timeline, it’s ten years after the events of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, known as the Great Tomato War. Tomatoes are now outlawed. But a mad scientist plans on unleashing a new tomato menace. Notes: Superman makes a cameo appearance, but doesn’t really affect the plot. This would likely be the second Superman, Clark Kent Junior. This film follows Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and is followed by Killer Tomatoes Strike Back. Matt Hickman adds: In Return of the Killer Tomatoes Igor has a diploma from The Ted Baxter School of Journalism.  T he Marx brothers are also in the crowd scene at the end ATTACK OF T...

I feel as if I've already covered this one, but a search of my past blog posts shows I have not.  I guess I've just covered the character and series so much in other posts and the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia over the years that it just seemed so familiar.  So, now, long overdue, here is Carl Kolchak, and the series that inspired the X-Files. ARMY OF DARKNESS (FILM) Release Date: 1992 (Setting follows the events of Evil Dead 2, but due to time travel, the main story takes place in the year 1300) Series: Evil Dead The Story: At the end of his battle with the Deadites in the cabin in the woods, Ash is pulled back in time to the year 1300 where he must face a Deadite army and retrieve the Necronomicon ex Mortis if he wants to return to his own time period. Notes: Pardon my lack of objectiveness, but this is a great movie. It is the third film in the Evil Dead series. In the Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles, it’s revealed that the Necronomicon ex Mortis is th...