Television Crossover Universe

What's a quickie?   See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The  Back to the Future  franchise  is an American science-fiction adventure comedy film series written and directed by  Robert Zemeckis , produced by  Bob Gale  and  Neil Canton  for  Amblin Entertainment , and distributed by  Universal Pictures . The main plot follow the adventures of a high school student,  Marty McFly  ( Michael J. Fox ), and an eccentric scientist, Dr.  Emmett L. Brown  ( Christopher Lloyd ), as they use a  DeLorean time machine to time travel to different periods in the history of  Hill Valley, California . The first film was the highest-grossing film of 1985 and became an international phenomenon, leading to the second and third films, which were  back-to-back film productions , released in 1989 and 1990, respectively. Though the sequels did not perform quite as well at the box office as the f...

What's a quickie?   See this blog. Inspired by Matt Hickman's posting of Ross Pearsall's latest Lost Issue in the TVCU forum, today I'm going to do a quick covering of Alien and Predator. You can view the Lost Issues here. The TVCU discussion group is here. A Complete (but not updated) Alien/Predator crossover chronology can be found here. Predator and Alien of course started off as completely unrelated science fiction/horror films.  They didn't even take place in the same time period.  Predator was a contemporary film, involving an alien on Earth.  Alien, on the other hand, took place in a dark future, one where humans hadn't discovered warp drive nor had they much contact with any other alien species.  One commonality was that they were both about very dangerous killing machines that stalked their prey, killing them off one at a time. The first linking of the two came in Predator 2, when the skull of a an Alien (ok, Xenomorph at they are technica...