Television Crossover Universe

Another chronology following the crossover connections to a play.  This is the first one unrelated to Shakespeare. From the source material: FIRST MARQUIS : Who is this Cyrano? CUIGY : A fellow well skilled in all tricks of fence. SECOND MARQUIS : Is he of noble birth? CUIGY : Ay, noble enough. He is a cadet in the Guards. But 'tis his friend Le Bret, yonder, who can best tell you. Le Bret! Seek you for De Bergerac? LE BRET : Ay, I am uneasy. . . CUIGY : Is it not true that he is the strangest of men? LE BRET : True, that he is the choicest of earthly beings! RAGUENEAU : Poet! CUIGY : Soldier! BRISSAILLE : Philosopher! LE BRET : Musician! LIGNIERE : And of how fantastic a presence! RAGENEAU : Marry, 'twould puzzle even our grim painter Philippe de Champaigne to portray him! Methinks, whimsical, wild, comical as he is, only Jacques Callot, now dead and gone, had succeeded better, and had made of him the maddest fighter of all his visored crew--with his triple-pl...

'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio' I covered William Shakespeare's Macbeth a little while ago, so on to Hamlet. 16th Century--HAMLET--The Mel Gibson version, yes, is the official version in the TVCU because Mel Gibson played the same role again on Sesame Street.   16th Century--HAMLET 2--Hamlet and Jesus have time travel adventures.  (Okay, this was a fake play within a comedy film, but I just had to include it.) 1897--THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT--This story features many characters in the afterlife including SHERLOCK HOLMES, HAMLET, SHYLOCK, LECOQ, HANKSHAW, MAN FRIDAY, PORTIA, JIM HAWKINS, OPHELIA, TRILBY, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, THE OLD SLEUTH, THE THREE MUSKETEERS and numerous other biblical and historical characters.   1947--A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE-- Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.  IMDB, ever conflating minor characte...

“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...