Television Crossover Universe

 Well, it's the 12th anniversary of the TVCU. Some years back, I did a TVCU Quickie on Sleepy Hollow.  There I said that the TV series wasn't in the TVCU.  Evidence since then has pointed that it is, but so is the original, very different story.  And so, there must be more than one Ichabod Crane and Katrina.  We already know there's more than one Headless Menace, or Ghost, as we've seen Headless Riders on motorcycles in the modern day.   THE SKETCHBOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON “THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW” (SHORT STORY BY WASHINGTON IRVING) Release Date: 1820 (Setting is 1790) Series: Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Story: Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes with bullyish Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. Abraham constantly plays pranks on Ichabod to make him look bad. Ichabod is very superstitious, and at one particular party, Abraham takes advantage of this to relate many of the local ghost stories, including one of a Hessian soldier whose ...

A while back, I covered ABC soaps, which existed in a pocket reality unconnected to the TVCU.  One ABC soap I didn't cover, because it wasn't connected to the others, but was indeed connected to the TVCU I said I'd get to later on, and now, it's later on.  And that soap was Dark Shadows. Wait, what?  Dark Shadows a daytime soap opera?  Yup, that's right.  People don't really think about it now, but Dark Shadows aired during the ABC daytime soap block, in what was a very unusual type of soap.  But yes, Dark Shadows was aimed at bored housewives.  (Hey, Doctor Who was a children's program.) ANNO DRACULA (SERIES BY KIM NEWMAN) Release Date: 1992 - 2013 (so far) [Setting is 1888 -1991 (so far)] Series: Anno Dracula Horror Crosses: Dracula (novel); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Invisible Man (novel); The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Vampyre; Varney the Vampire; The Soft Whisper of the Dead; They Thirst; Hotel Transylvania; The Black Castle; The Vamp...