Television Crossover Universe

THE TELEVISION CROSSOVER CROSSOVER UNIVERSE  LAUNCHED JANUARY 10, 2011 CELEBRATING FOUR YEARS Previously, in the TVCU... In our celebration of the TVCU's fourth anniversary, I have been sharing my thoughts on some of my favorite posts of the past four years.  So far I have talked about my Law & Order post, James Bojaciuk's Wonderland post, and Brad Mengel's Knight Rider post, and now, it's time to discuss Gordon Long's Rankin-Bass Timeline. This is one of my favorites.  I feel this to be one of the best posts on this website.  Sadly, it only seems to spike up in viewership in December.  (I wonder why.)  This post is planned to be reprinted in the upcoming TELEVISION CROSSOVER UNIVERSE:  WORLDS AND MYTHOLOGY VOLUME II, which will likely be published in late 2015. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Rankin-Bass Universe Interconne...

After having spent some time talking about comics and cartoons, it's time to return to some core TV blogs, and Toby's recent blog has once again inspired my own blog topic, in the classic television series, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER. 1956 to 1957--THE BEAVER PAPERS--A book comprised of 23 "episodes" from a "lost season" of the series, written in the original style of the series.  Since there is no season gaps during the run of the series, and the series ends with Wally heading to college, this must occur the year before the series started. 1957--LEAVE IT TO BEAVER--The feature film, which though debuting in 1997, follows the classic formula and doesn't contradict the series, so as with other film remakes, I'm placing this before the series as an "untold pilot". 1957 to 1963--LEAVE IT TO BEAVER--The story of Ward and June Cleaver, and their children, Wally and Theodore (aka the Beaver, or just the Beav.)   Click here for a good description of...

A while back I did a blog on JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS, which led to a flood of comments on THE CROSSOVERS FORUM, especially from James and Ivan, my Spock and Bones, on theories regarding Archie.  Not all the theories presented worked together, but I spent a long time taking everything into account and have hopefully come up with something that has taken the best elements of everyone's ideas. Perhaps once I write this blog, I'll have the cartoon/comic writing out of my system for a while, and I can tackle another sitcom or cop drama. NOTE THAT THE INFORMATION IN THIS BLOG WILL SUPERSEDE THE JOSIE BLOG.  I PLAN ON UPDATING THE JOSIE BLOG, AND WILL BE DOING A SEPARATE SABRINA BLOG AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 52,000 B.C.--ARCHIE 1-- Thousands of years before recorded history, the ancestors Archie and the gang live as  cavemen , interacting with  dinosaurs ...

*THE FOLLOWING BLOG IS NOT SUITABLE FOR ALL AUDIENCES.  READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!!!* NOT A CRISIS CROSSOVER!!! From WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?, we learned that most of the cartoons of the 1940s coexisted.  In the series DRAWN TOGETHER, we once again see that indeed cartoons of all sorts exist in that same reality, which DC COMICS dubbed the Looniverse, a name I've adopted for this blog. By covering this completely not serious animated series, I will take a very serious look at the cartoon reality.  But first, let's take a look at the characters. Captain Hero--Captain Leslie Hero was from the planet Zebulon. As a fetus, he was aborted, and blasted to Earth.  He was found by Popeye and Olive Oyle, who named him Popeye Junior, but usually called him Swee'Pea.  As a teen, he moved from Sweet Haven to Small Town.  As an adult, his power developed, and he changed his name to Captain Leslie Hero (and a secret identity of Tim Tommerson).  He was ...