Television Crossover Universe

 I've previously covered the works of Stephen King and their adaptations, and then covered Children of the Corn in a separate post. I recently watched the early adaptations of Stephen King for my October watch and was thinking about how two different versions of the Dead Zone are in the TVCU.  Both the original novel and the television series are connected to the TVCU.  This kind of weird coincidence where similar versions of the same character exist in the same universe are not uncommon in the TVCU.  Different versions of Superman exist in the same universe.  The American and British Office have crossed.  Baywatch the movie exists in the same universe as the tv series.  They are even working on a way for Ghosts UK and Ghosts USA to crossover.   So here is my post on the Dead Zone.   THE DEAD ZONE (NOVEL BY STEPHEN KING) Release Date: August 1979 (Contemporary Setting) Series: Stephen King Universe (works of Stephen King) The Story:...

I knew of "Crazy" Ivan Ronald Schablotski years before he knew me.  Way back in the year 2000, I discovered the world wide web, and as I began uncovering sites related to my interests, his timelines kept showing up.  I don't remember if it was his excellent lycanthropy timeline connected to the Wold Newton Universe website or his multiple timelines on Mikel Midnight's Cosmic Compendium that I came across first, but I enjoyed them so much so that I wrote a blog post on my MySpace blog about his timelines.   Years later, as I mentioned in the last post, I joined the Wold Newton Family discussion group, where I met the legendary Ivan Schablotski.   When I created my own forum on Facebook dedicated to crossovers, Ivan was one of the initial members of that group, and when I began the Television Crossover Universe website, Ivan was one of the major contributors of ideas which I began to rely on.  I've often referred to James and Ivan as my Spock and McCoy, bu...