Television Crossover Universe

What's a quickie?   See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Friends  is an American  sitcom  created by  David Crane  and  Marta Kauffman , which originally aired for ten seasons on  NBC  from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. It revolves around a circle of friends living in  Manhattan , a borough of  New York City . The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions , in association with  Warner Bros. Television . The original executive producers were  Kevin S. Bright ,  Marta Kauffman , and  David Crane , with numerous others being promoted in later seasons. Kauffman and Crane began developing  Friends  under the title  Insomnia Cafe  between November and December 1993. They presented the idea to Bright, with whom they had previously worked, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the series to NBC. After several script rewrites and changes, incl...

You might be wondering what a show about a quirky small town and a hospital drama have in common, and why they would be in the same blog, but the two shows are indeed interconnected, and it just makes good sense to cover them both together. 1972--PICKET FENCES--Sheriff Jimmy Brock and Dr. Jill Langston are wed by the Reverend Henry Novotny.  He has previously officiated the wedding of Mike and Carol Brady and before that been an Army Chaplain at  Camp Crowder, Missouri and married Rob Petrie and Laura Meehan. 1994 to 2000--CHICAGO HOPE--Dr. Kathryn Austin is shown to have won the Cushing Left Anterior Descending Artery Award.  Dr. Mark Craig of St. Elegius is a previous recipient.  Also, Dr. Austin mentions that her mentor is Dr. David Domedion, who had previously appeared on ST. ELSEWHERE. 1994 to 2000--CHICAGO HOPE--On this series, a reporter talks to Doctor Austin about being accepted into the space program, and mentions that another doc...

This was  the 10 th blog pos t I wro te for  the  Television Crossover Universe, and i t was a  tribu te  to  the Wes tphalians, a group who have been  tracking  television crossovers for years under  the assump tion  tha t a shared reali ty of  television shows exis ts wi thin  the mind of  Tommy Wes tphall.   This was pos ted originally on February 7, 2011, less  than a mon th in to  the crea tion of  this blog, and was  the 10 th pos t, which means I was producing pos ts pre t ty quickly early on.  Of course,  tha t was before I was working on wri ting books and had o ther pos ts  to cons tan tly upda te.  Bu t i t's s till impressive considering a t  the  time I was in  the final semes ter of college, I was on an academic compe ti tive  team, I was a  teaching assis tan t, an in tern, and a ghos t hun ter.   ----------------------------...