Sir Clement Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud who wrote about food, appeared in dog food commercials, became a broadcast personality and launched a career in politics in Great Britain, has died at the age of 84. In some of the tributes I've found on the web, the word "lugubrious" kept popping up: "excessively mournful". Listening to him in some of the recordings from BBC Radio 4's "Just A Minute", I was reminded of Marvin the Android from 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy'.....When all is said and done, he'll probably be remembered for those Chunky Meats blipverts with Henry the dog.......
I found this clip interesting - from 1973 on Jack Paar's talk show (back when talk shows offered more than just people promoting their latest production), Sir Clement got into a verbal back-and-forth with Rona Barrett.......
Good night and may God bless.....
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As for the female puppets, I only know that one of them was something of a beauty named Marilyn Monrovia.
'Small Wonder' may fall into the same category as 'Bewitched', 'Doctor Who', 'Battlestar Galactica', and 'Star Trek': the TV characters who reference them shouldn't have any knowledge of their existence. And yet they get mentioned, which is bad enough in itself, but then they get mentioned as TV shows. (Oftentimes quite specifically because the writers don't trust the audience to get their jokes.)
This doesn't just apply to historical figures; in the real world, people like 'Toma' and 'Serpico' were contemporary to the shows about them. This would serve as the splainin for 'Murphy Brown', and that's why we saw Kramer get a job on the show based on her life in an episode of 'Seinfeld'.
Best example: 'Gilligan's Island'. The return of those seven stranded castaways must have captured the world's attention. (And that's without the benefit of the Internet, Susan Boyle!) There would have been documentaries and TV specials and maybe even a theatrical film or two....... No wonder 'ALF' and 'Roseanne' dreamt about them!
'The Office' - no matter which country you're in - is the best example of this. O'Bviously by this point in time, it must be a running documentary TV series, like 'Airline' was in the real world. Those film-makers have shot too much footage otherwise. 
The US government would have such a production company in place; they probably funded the movie about 'The X-Files' which starred Tea Leoni and Garry Shandling. And they probably produced the 1980's sitcom called 'Small Wonder' about the little girl robot Vickie. Because wor
For today's "As Seen On TV" feature, here's Lenin as he looked in Skitlandia, the sketch comedy TV dimension where Python rules!
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That's right, we're inducting the town of Hooterville into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame. It was the main location for two series - 'Petticoat Junction' and 'Green Acres' and 'The Beverly Hillbillies' made frequent trips there. On top of that (which was enough by the rules of the Hall), it also showed up in the reunion movie "Return To Green Acres".
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The Bookworm!
Now, THIS should have been the 200th episode! Last week, 'CSI' attended a sci-fi/comic book convention in Las Vegas, the Whatifitcon, and of course, somebody was killed. Jonathan Danson was the driving force behind 'AQR', otherwise known as 'Astro-Quest Redux'. 'AQR' was going to be a major "re-imagining" of the original 'Astro-Quest' series, to be grittier, more political, and it would abandon all the trappings that fans held dear about the original version of the show. 
It sounds like what happened here in the real world with Ron Moore's version of 'Battlestar Galactica', which just recently concluded to much acclaim. Danson wasn't as lucky with his version of 'Astro-Quest', however: somebody caused his nose bones to get shoved back into his brain....... 
The 'Astro-Quest Redux' situation may have been similar to the early stages of 'Battlestar Galactica' here in the real world, but the original 'Astro-Quest' series was pure homage to 'Star Trek'. The costumes were similar to those worn by the Enterprise crew; the aliens could almost be mistaken for the races guest-starring in 'Trek' episodes; and women were seen in the same light as those who acted on the original show (either as exotic alien playthings or as dead-end job yeomen who would never break the glass ceiling in space).
Three of the characters on the show were:
There was a special alien fighting technique called the "Cephalon Submission Claw" (similar in effect to the Vulcan Neck-Pinch).
In fact, within Toobworld's reality, 'Astro-Quest' appears to be a complete rip-off of 'Star Trek', which (unfortunately for Toobworld) does exist as a 20th Century TV show as well as a 24th Century reality.
Agillian concubines (feral, carnal, voracious) - Orion slave girls
In the episode, we see Ron Moore, who is the real world equivalent to the murder victim Jonathan Danson, lead the protest against 'AQR'. As it was just a nameless cameo, we can assume he was appearing as himself, which he's now done in two different TV dimensions in as many months. 
Also in the crowd was Grace Park, who played both Boomer and Athena in the newer version of 'Battlestar Galactica'. I suppose it could be that she was playing herself, but I'd rather think there must be some other TV character she has created in Toobworld who could be an ardent sci-fi fan and who would have gone to the fourth annual Whatifitcon in Vegas.
When 'The Farmer's Daughter' ended its four season run, Katy and the Congressman (whose family may have made its money from Toobworld's own brand of cigarettes) were now married, and she adopted his two sons. But perhaps, five years down the road from when the series left the air, Katy gave birth to a daughter.
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Usually when it comes to recastaways, the Toobworld standard rule is that the first actor to assay the role is the real character, and then we have to come up with some sort of splainin for the change in appearance - plastic surgery, quantum leaping, alien substitution, magical glamours, etc. But in this case, that wouldn't have been fair to Potts, who did the bulk of the work during the six episode run of the series.
The series picks up a year later; by that time, Adam had abandoned his guise and the real Toby was back working with Strange. I'm thinking for the sake of wondering where the real Toby was the whole time, Adam had replaced him a short time before the events of the pilot kicked into gear. He probably kidnapped the real Toby who wasn't discovered until after the events of the pilot concluded. And that's why Adam had to flee and take up another identity in other shows, from one guest appearance to another, until finally meeting his fate in that episode of 'Torchwood'.
Renner is seen here with Googy Gress in the movie "Love Comes To The Executioner".
The real-life story of these two women who were kin to Jackie Kennedy, and of the decaying old mansion in which they lived with nearly feral cats and even raccoons, was first chronicled in a documentary by the Maysles brothers. Much later, it became a Broadway musical with Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson.
Wow.
Still, I'm not sure they've adequately filled the void left by the death of Nick Cutter; nobody has the skill or knowledge he had about those prehistoric time periods. That type of information is being left in the hands of a couple of kids, basically - with Connor and Abby.
In fact, it could lead to several shows being brought back into the main TV Universe!
Let's say Helen was right. If so, then her actions have wiped out that potential timeline and hopefully set the Toobworld Future on the path that leads to 'Star Trek', 'Babylon Five', perhaps even 'Firefly'.
But we can place on this destroyed timeline other shows that owe their apocalypse to more than just genetically engineered monsters. 
Most of the post-apocalyptic scenarios that can be dealt with in this fashion will come from single episodes in anthology series. However, if I understand the mechanics of the Many Worlds theory correctly, even if this timeline is wiped out from the main Toobworld, they would still exist as an alternate timeline. But at least this way, they would have their moment in the sun as part of Earth Prime-Time.
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Shirley Temple was portrayed on television several times, but this is a picture of "her" (played by Emily Hart) in "Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story". That TV movie was broadcast in 2001, a year in which America once again would need its spirits lifted....
