Television Crossover Universe

Next Saturday, April 30, the TVCU Crew  will be recording episodes 21 and 22 of the Television Crossover Universe podcast from Castle Wolfenstein on the Grand Guignol Network.  In Episode 21, Robert , Ivan , Chris and James will be talking with author Hannah Lackoff . Hannah's work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the storySouth Million Writers Award and has been published or upcoming in Spark, Pinball, Kaleidotrope, New Myths, 10,00 Tons of Black Ink and“Best Of” Volume II, and others, and has been performed at Wheaton College. Her short story collection "After the World Ended" will be published in Spring 2016 by 18thWall Productions . In Episode 22, Robert , Ivan , Chris and James will be talking with author Sam Gafford , arguably the foremost expert of William Hope Hodgson. New episodes of the show are released every Tuesday.  You can check out the latest episode at the link provided in the upper right hand corner of this page. A...

“I cannot pontificate about it, but by the time I'm done, I will have done one movie, and it's all the movies I want…They're [all] tonally different, and yes, of course you can like one more than the other—the other one may seem banal or whatever it is that you don't like. But it really is part of the same movie. You make one movie.” ~Guillermo del Toro, Twitch Film , January 15, 2013   Guillermo del Toro has been very open about this. All of his stories are not only connected, but are scenes in a single, long movie. Characters, plot-lines, and props run between these scenes, establishing the outline of the story. This article is only a guide for you to see the connective tissue. Movies del Toro produced, but did not direct, are virtually excluded from this list. Only one connects into del Toro’s universe. The rest are irrelevant, and evidently not considered part of his overall story.   We will not be discussing sequels, spin-offs, or tie-in media pr...

Continuing the spy crossover series.  I have previously covered the  the Prisoner, the Man from UNCLE, the Avengers, and I Spy.   After this, I'll still have a few more classic spy shows to do, including Get Smart.  at some point around 1955-- Barney Collier met Rob Petrie, creating a theoretical link between 'Mission: Impossible' and 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'.  (ACCORDING TO TOBY O'BRIEN) December 1939--THE RUBY FILES VOL. 1--"Wounds"--A murder mystery that crosses WATCHMEN, STAR TREK, AND MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE with Rick Ruby.  On the Watchmen crossovers:  Police officer Hollis Mason is mentioned.  He is also secretly Nite-Owl.  The Gunga Diner and Rumrunner Bar appear, which are also from WATCHMEN.  Finally, the parents of the future Rorschach appear.  Watchmen can't be in the TVCU, but this story seems to imply that the "golden age" portions of Watchmen, prior to the debut of Doctor Manhattan, could appear.  Using my theo...