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A Tale of a Fateful Trip

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 I'm running out of crossovers.  I used to have a rule.  Only series that had three crossovers get covered.  But I'm running out of ideas.  So now I'm also going to cover series that had a franchise, meaning they spun off movies or such from the original concept.  (In doing my due dilligence, I found that this series actually does have the crossovers to make it following my three crossover rule.) So today we're going to talk about Gilligan's Island.  With Gilligan, the skipper too.  The Millionaire and his wife.  The movie star, and the rest... okay, fine, the professor and Mary Ann.   William Gilligan was a mighty sailor man, or so the story goes.  However, he seemed on the island to be dimwitted at best. CPT Jonahs Grumy was the skipper.  He was brave and sure.  If not for the courage of the fearless two, the S.S. Minnow would be lost.   Thurston Howell III is a former multi-billionaire until after the sto...

What’s a crossover?

Something that always surprises me when I try to discuss what I write about is that a lot of people do not understand what a fictional crossover is. I felt that before reading the Television Crossover Universe, I had best explain what it is. The term crossover can be used in a very general way, or in a more specific way. In a broader sense, a crossover can be any combination of two separate series. This can include mashups. An example of this would be a story or even a picture with Dirty Harry Potter, combining the character of Dirty Harry played by Clint Eastwood with the boy wizard from the J.K. Rowling books. It can also be a story that couldn’t possibly exist within the canon of the series involved. One example was the Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue animated special. This combined many famous cartoon characters, but presented them all as toys brought to life. For my purposes, what I consider to be a valid crossover is one where two series are combined in a way that demons...

The Truth is in Here: The X-Files in the Television Crossover Universe

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Why do I sometimes write very short blogs?  So then I can write really long ones like this one. Most people who read this blog know my format by now, so I really don't need to do much of an intro. Fourteen billion years ago to February 1992--For all the relevant information that occurred prior to the show, you should check out this website I found. 1908--X-FILES-- Read here.  Note that I consider Doctor Who to exist in another reality, but that the Doctor visits the TVCU often.  Considering the surviving Dalek in the episode mentioned was thrown away from the Time War, it's perfectly acceptable that this Dalek ended up in the TVCU.  Another such Dalek ended up in the hands of another billionaire collector named Bruce Wayne, after all. July 1947--INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL--Indy is called in to consult when an alien craft and it's inhabitants is captured.  These are likely the grey aliens from X-FILES and other series and...