Those in Team
Toobworld who have been following me for awhile know that I'm O'Bsessive over
the tiniest trivial details to be found in TV shows.
But I'm just one guy;
I'm not Argus Panoptes - I am not all-seeing. And so a lot of stuff will
slip by me - even in episodes which I watch over and over again.
Thankfully, I'm not
alone in actually paying attention to the details.
And that's why
Toobworld Central is tipping the Topper today to Stuart Robertson.
I'll let Stuart share
his discovery:
Check out the autograph on the photo on the wall in "Exercise In Fatality". Hospital waiting room scene.
Sam Franklin.
Possibly the same artist Sam Franklin from "Suitable For Framing".
What do you think?
I think it's a
fantastic find! Sure, I'm usually looking for the connections which can
be made between TV series, but just as important are the links forged between
the episodes of a show which strengthen its sense of its own history.
I've had my eye on Sam
Franklin in the past (although that striped tank top makes me want to look away.)
He shares the same name as a certain butcher also in Los Angeles....
I'm thinking that both
men were related; that they shared a common ancestor, a grand-father perhaps,
with the same name. And that Sam Franklin must have done something in
Toobworld's past which would warrant his family in honoring him, not just once
but twice over.
And it could even be
that it was such an extraordinary thing which the elder Sam Franklin did, that
other, unrelated Franklin families thought his name would be an honor in their
family ranks. (One such Sam Franklin was a former multi-millionaire who
spent the last of his fortune to buy the London-based Hotel Babylon located
somewhere near Piccadilly Circus.)
Not that I'm actually going to search Toobworld for pictures that look like THAT!
So here’s to you,
Stuart Robinson. (Sorry. I felt a song
going off….) Thank you for finding Sam’s signature on that painting.
My thanks again to Stuart Robertson for sparking this post!
BCnU!
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