OUR WEEKLY "ENDEAVOUR" - "QUARTET"

Here we are with the penultimate episode for the fifth season....

'ENDEAVOUR'
"QUARTET"

From the IMDb:

An assassination attempt at an international sporting event opens a new case for Endeavour and Thursday, but their investigation is quickly brought to an unexpected end.

Karl Fucher is shot dead during a televised games tournament and Max believes he is an East and not West German. Special Branch relieve the local police, removing the body, before two mysterious men approach Morse and point him towards perfumier Sebastian Fenix, who employed the dead man as a translator. Despite warnings Morse investigates alone, discovering a safe spy house in Oxford and a link between Fenix and the sale of secrets to the Russians, also involving a respected academic. Thursday meanwhile deals with a turf war and a domestic abuse case which ties in with Morse's sleuthing. 

I think it's going to be that the third episode this season, "Passenger", will have the most items of interest for Toobworld study, but this didn't disappoint in that regard....

Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright:

Good God! 

It's a machete-wielding West Indian 

with a distinctive facial scar we're trying to find. 

In Oxford! 

It's not the Scarlet Pimpernel!

As there was no indication that the Scarlet Pimpernel was mentioned in connection to movies, TV mini-series, or the play and novel written by Baroness Orczy, then our standard practice here at Toobworld Central is to accept that such name-dropping is about an actual person.

And the official version of the decepticely fey Sir Percy Blakeney in Earth Prime-Time was portrayed by Marius Goring in a TV series which ran from 1955 to the following year.

DCI Fred Thursday:

Chasing down Communist spies? 

We're meat-and-two-veg coppers. 

Not Danger Man. 

Leave the "do or die" to Special Branch.

This reference is a bit trickier.  Thursday, even if he knew who secret agent John Drake was, he wouldn't be bandying that nickname about like that where they might be overheard.

I think he was referring to the TV series 'Danger Man', which starred Patrick McGoohan as Drake.  But I think he was real in the TV Universe and that the show was depicting fictional adventures from his career as a spy.

This was the work of the shadow organization known as UNReel, which would fictionalize the lives of people who should have been kept secret from the prying eyes of the public - spies, superheroes, Gallifreyan Time Lords, and the like.  These media portrayals - books, films, TV shows, comic books, etc. - provide them with plausible deniability should their secret adventures get noticed by the masses.

So there was a TV show about John Drake, two in fact - 'Danger Man' and 'Secret Agent'.  From the minimal research which I usually do on pop culture Zonks like this, I don't see any TV show which mentions John Drake by name.  So the 'Danger Man' of Toobworld could be so fictionalized, Drake was never mentioned as a character, that he had a roman a clef televersion.  It looks like only the name of the show was cited by characters in other TV shows, just like this example.

But thanks to the 'Rock & Chips' episode "Five Gold Rings", we at least know Patrick McGoohan was hired to play the role because of his resemblance to John Drake.

The TV show which was covering that international contest of carnival jousting, 'Jeus Sans Frontieres', was meant as an echo of a real show 'It's A Knockout'.  And that in turn was based on the French series "Interville".  All three shows co-exist in Toobworld.

28 Sebastopol Terrace
East Acton

A Russian hit man almost killed Morse in a (hardly) safe house on Sebastapol Terrace.  In the TV show 'Sykes', Eric and his twin sister Hattie also lived in a house on Sebastapol Terrace.  But that was in East Acton in the London area.  So this is just a trivial note in which the streets have common if distinctive names but which don't serve as links.

Similarly, one of the characters, the news agent named Dozier, called his wife a "silly old moo".  This was a phrase used by Alf Garnett of 'Til Death Us Do Part' in describing his wife.  (His American counterpart, Archie Bunker, called Edith "dingbat".)  It's just a phrase which probably had widespread use among the abusive husbands of the time.  So I'm dismissing its relevance for crossover potential.

I'm going to need to do more research into Ellie Haddington playing Hilda Pierce in the last few seasons of 'Foyle's War'.  I loved that character and now it looks like I never did get to finish that series because there were seismic events in Hilda's life in that last episode.  This would affect my hopes to conflate her with Millie Bagshot.  So there will be a sequel to this post.

From the wonderful site "Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour": 

We find out that Dorothea Frazil wrote a book called My Time in Korea. (Korean War, 1950, began when North Korea, supported by the Soviet Union and China, invaded South Korea, which was supported by the United States. War ended in 1953). The Korean War was the backdrop to the film and wonderful series 'M.A.S.H.'

It would only be wish-craft on my part to claim that Dorothea visited the 4077th, but I'd like to think she did so.  If so, I think she would have developed a friendship, perhaps even more, with Corporal Walter O'Reilly.

Okay, this is Lt. Linda Nugent.
But you get the idea...

From the IMDb:
On the wall outside the Doziers' shop is an advertisement for "Grimsby Pilchards", a non-existent product for which Tony Hancock made a series of disastrous commercials in the famous 'Hancock: The Bowmans' (1961) episode of his final BBC series in 1961. 

This is a legitimate, if trivial, connection between both series.

From the IMDb:

It is possible that the two mysterious characters whom Morse encounters during his inquiries, "Singleton" and "Louis", are inspired by the characters played by Richard Vernon and Michael Aldridge (and later by Vernon and Denholm Elliott) in the 1960s series, "The Man In Room 17", although the gimmick of that show was that the two characters were never seen outside the eponymous room.

I've also seen comparisons to Charters and Caldicott of "The Lady Vanishes" for Louis and Singleton, but I have to reject them both as being of any use for Toobworld.  All six characters exist in Toobworld and no believable reason exists as to why they were using aliases if they were conflated.  And they don't resemble each other enough to ignore the recastaway discrepancies.

We do have one last O'Bservation - one of "The Numbers" from the Valenzetti sequence in 'Lost' showed up in the episode.  The numeral "4" was on a pillar in the Phenix labs.

So, there are a couple of connections to be found in this episode.  Not many on its own, but the series overall is quite the hub for crossovers.

Remember to check my blogroll to the left for the site "Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour" where you'll find a detailed look at this episode and all of the other episodes in all three shows of the Morse universe,

See you next week for the season finale!

TWO FOR TUESDAY - KHRZ-TV

We finally have a way to link ‘Ironside’ and ‘McMillan and Wife’ with more than just the fact that both shows take place in San Francisco.

‘IRONSIDE’
“FIND A VICTIM”

Chief Robert T. Ironside and “former” second-story thief Lou Karns appeared on a public affairs program hosted by John Barbour who would later host NBC’s ‘Real People’.

‘McMILLAN AND WIFE’
“DEATH IS A SEVEN POINT FAVORITE”

Sandy King was a sportscaster who covered the Hawks’ football games and got caught up in a betting scandal involving quarterback Billy Benton.

As you can see in the pictures, what connects both of these episodes is KHRZ-TV, Channel 16.

One more O’Bservation – “16” is one of the Numbers in the Valenzetti Equation from ‘Lost’.

BCnU!

NUMBERS RUNNING - FROM "THE WHISPERS"

Here we have two of "the Numbers" from 'Lost', combined to be the hospital room number for "John Doe" in the pilot episode of 'The Whispers'......

Coincidentally, if you didn't already know, today is 4/15/16 - which is three of "the Numbers".

BCnU!

NUMBERS RUNNING - HERE LIES BART MAVERICK.....

'MAVERICK'

"THE JEWELED GUN"

Here's another example of one of "The Numbers" at work over a century before the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 found themselves on the Island.

This is a picture of the Sheriff of La Mesa about to enter the hotel room in which Bart Maverick was "gunned down" by the wily femme fatale who was posing as his wife.

See you in another life, Bruthah!

TV ON TV - "SATURDAY NIGHT TONIGHT"

'CASTLE'

"DEAD FROM NEW YORK"

There were plenty of new TV shows presented in this episode, but mostly it was centered on an alt-Toobworld version of 'Saturday Night Live' called 'Saturday Night Tonight'.  The murder investigation revolved around that week's SNT episode which was to be hosted by fading action star Danny Valentine with musical guest Carly Rae Jepsen (who played herself.)  The crime was actually solved during the live broadcast of SNT and the murderer was brought down on set during a sketch which was spoofing the team of Detective Kate Beckett and author Richard Castle.

'Saturday Night Tonight' was created by Sid Ross in 1980 and had popular recurring sketch characters like Dr. Finger and Fluffy the Space Puppy.  But it also had duds like the Mexican Wrestlers in the "Luche Libre Brunch Buffet" sketches from a few years back.  (That probably was the same season that had the worst cast in the show's history*.)

The murder victim could be seen as Lorne Michaels, the head writer as Tina Fey, and one of the show's performers, a loose cannon of a comic, could have been based on Tracey Morgan.

But it was through Danny Valentine we got the mentions of the other TV shows in "Castle World":

• 'Starfleet'
• 'Hot Suspect'
• 'Family Practice'

and a series of rental car commercials.

(Based on those first two shows listed, I'm leaning toward Valentine being "inspired" by William Shatner, of 'Star Trek' and 'TJ Hooker' fame.)

The rental car commercials?  I think it could be - should be! - for Gannon Car Rentals, best known in 'Lost', but also seen in:

• 'Heroes'
• 'Glee'
• 'nip/tuck'

Both 'Glee' and 'nip/tuck', like 'Lost', took place in Earth Prime-Time, unlike 'Castle'.  ('Heroes' began in the main Toobworld, but Hiro created a divergent timeline which the show then followed, leaving the original iterations of the characters behind.)

But if Richard Castle and his daughter Alexis could be seen flying to London on an Oceanic Airways jet, then why couldn't Gannon Car Rentals be found in that dimension as well?

BCnU!

* I would not be surprised if all the people seen in the show's framed cast photos were crew members on 'Castle', getting in front of the camera for once.  In a way....

OCEANIC AIRWAYS - THE ONLY WAY TO FLY!

'CASTLE'

"IN PLANE SIGHT"

How many Lostaways gasped when they saw that opening shot in this 'Castle' episode?

Oceanic Airways is already a member of the Television Crossover Hall Of Fame thanks to its many appearances on TV even before 'Lost' first aired.  But the airline is earning its keep still, it seems.  

 

However this is just another example of Oceanic's existence, but not an actual connection to 'Lost' or most of those other appearances.  'Lost' took place in Earth Prime-Time while the dimension for 'Castle' (currently dubbed "Castleworld") is different because it has a different Mayor in New York City than Toobworld or the real world.  (Bill DeBlasio is acknowledged as the Mayor in at least two TV series set in Toobworld so far.)

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THEORY OF RELATEEVEETY - PEERS OF ROEBUCK

The greatest contribution made by 'Grimm' to the Toobworld Dynamic is of course, the race of beings known as the Wesen, whose members can morph from humans to their base forms as different humanoid animal types.
 

From the "Grimm" Wiki:
Wesen (pronunciation: VAY-zin, Grimm: VES-sin; Germ. "a being", here "creature"; Spanish: espiritu bestia "spirit beast") is a collective term used to describe the creatures visible to the Grimms. They are the basis not only of the fairy tales that the Brothers Grimm have compiled, but also of the many legends and folklore from many cultures (i.e. Anubis, Aswang, Blutbad, Dämonfeuer, and Wendigo).

When a Wesen is woged, they are able to recognize a Grimm by looking into their eyes. According to Monroe, Wesen can see an "infinite darkness" in a Grimm's eyes that allows a Wesen to see their reflection, where they can see their true Wesen nature.

Unless we're sharing a POV with a Grimm, we don't get to see the Wesen in other TV shows.  And yet they're there.  Since 'Grimm' takes place in Portland, Oregon, I think it's a safe bet that several of the characters who showed up during Lt. Backstrom's murder investigations were Wesen.  In fact, I made the claim recently that there was a band of musicians who were all Wesen in an episode of 'Backstrom'.

I think we may have seen a Wesen in Toobworld a few years before 'Grimm' even hit the airwaves.  And that's thanks to the old Toobworld standby, identical cousins, we can make a theory of relateeveety that connects 'Grimm' to 'Lost'.

Meet Dr. Leslie Arzt....

Dr. Leslie Arzt was a middle section survivor of Oceanic Flight 815. He was a high school science teacher who managed to discover many new species of insects and arachnids, including the Medusa spider, but was killed on the Island while handling dynamite near the Black Rock on Day 44.

(From Lostpedia)

And this is Peter Orson.  I think he's got a little Arzt in him.....

Lieutenant Peter Orson is a former arson investigator (and a Bauerschwein) who first appeared in "The Three Bad Wolves".

After Orson's two brothers were killed, probably by Angelina, he targeted and killed Rolf and Hap, Angelina's brothers with home explosions designed to look like accidents. He successfully killed Rolf but failed to kill Hap. He later killed Hap with a pistol. Orson survived an attack by Angelina because Nick Burkhardt intervened. He was charged with the murders of Hap and Rolf.

After being in jail for over 3 years, he was temporarily released from jail to help aid Nick and Hank in finding and identifying an Excandesco arsonist named Damien Barso that he had been tracking for awhile before he was arrested. He also ended up re-encountering Monroe, bringing up the tensions between the two. They put their differences aside to help with the case.

(From the 'Grimm' wiki)

Because there is a definite end to Arzt's story, it makes it easier to make this claim of relateeveety.  Even if the shows are no longer on the air, I don't think it would be wise to stretch this familly tree to include other characters played by Daniel Roebuck on such shows as 'CSI', 'Glee', 'Monk', 'NCIS: Los Angeles', 'Franklin & Bash', and especially 'Matlock', 'Nash Bridges', and 'A Minute With Stan Hooper' because they were long-running characters with too much back-story.  

I do like the idea that Zookeeper Randy in an episode of 'Malcolm In The Middle' might have been a Bauerschwein and his uncredited, unnamed character in an episode of 'Boston Public' could have been one as well.  Being unnamed could count towards being either another Arzt or Orson, but I'd have to see that episode to be sure.  (Shows like 'Castle' and 'The West Wing' can be eliminated mostly because they take place in alternate TV dimensions.)

Arzt is gone now, but Orson may yet return.  His assistance in his second 'Grimm' appearance may lead to his early release from prison which could even lead to becoming a recurring character.

If Arzt really was a Bauerschwein, I wonder if there was the smell of pulled pork in the air when he blowed up real good....?

BCnU!

IT'S "LOST DAY"!

It is 4:23:42 p.m. on April 8, 2015.  

That means it is 4 (month), 8 (date), 15 (year), 16 (hour), 23 (minute), 42 (seconds).

This is "Lost Day".

We won't see that exact configuration happen again in our lifetime.  Next year at least we will be getting a mix 'n' match.

 

 

 

 

 

BCnU!

THE GAME OF THE NAME - GERONIMO JACKSON

'THE NAME OF THE GAME'
"A HARD CASE OF THE BLUES"

After waiting three hours for rock-blues singer Jessie Boone to show up for her recording session, producer Lester Mavelson couldn't take it anymore.....

"I have produced, personally, at least 774 records!"  

Then he leaned in to the sound engineer who was Zenned/zoned out in his reading.  "Did you hear that, Geronimo? 774 records!"

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the real Geronimo Jackson.

'LOST'

"THE HUNTING PARTY"

"THE WHOLE TRUTH"

"FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS"

"CABIN FEVER"

"THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME"

"THIS PLACE IS DEATH"

"316"

"LaFLEUR"

"NAMASTE"

"HE'S OUR YOU"

"Geronimo Jackson" was a litttle-known  rock/folk/country band that had its heyday back at the waning of the Flower Power era.  The group was founded by a Kentucky musician named Keith Strutter once he found his way to San Francisco.  They put out only one album, "Magna Carta", from which came the single "Dharma Lady".  Geronimo Jackson toured Europe in 1969, playing a German club in August of that year, but they were drawn to Woodstock after the festival and because of the presence of Dylan and The Band - which is where they finally broke up and faded into obscurity.

So I'm thinking this sound engineer whom Lester addressed as "Geronimo", was the real Geronimo Jackson and that he not only was the sound engineer for "Magna Carta", but that he produced the album as well.  Keith Strutter may have been an old friend of his from back in his days living in Kentucky, and either out of that friendship or as thanks for working on the album, Strutter may have suggested to the others in the band that they should take Geronimo's name for their band name.  

Geronimo Jackson was a fascination for me when 'Lost' was on the air because of a theory I came up with.  (I may not have been the only one, but I've yet to find anybody else who touts it.)  

Take a look at the album cover for "Magna Carta".  I believe the dirty blonde musician standing in front of the stage, dressed in denim was the elder Ford, father to James "Sawyer" Ford.  His earnings from the band's recording and tours earned him the money which the original Sawyer conned out of Ford's wife - which led to the murder and suicide of James' parents back in Alabama.

Just sayin', is all......

TWO FOR TUESDAY - ROD SERVINGS

Here are a couple more TV memories for the late Rod Taylor....

 

 

 

Episodes from 'Hong Kong' and 'Bearcats!' can be found online at YouTube and I'll recommend them, if only for their Classic Television History contributions.  But 'Bearcats!' was a favorite of mine when it came out because I was into that time period of 1914, just prior to World War I.  This was probably due to my infatuation with the TV show 'Nichols' which starred James Garner.  It was also set in the American Southwest of 1914. 

 

I wasn't into the concept of the Toobworld Dynamic at that point in my life, but if I had been, I'm sure I would have cobbled together some fanfic in which the characters from both of these shows teamed up.

 

And I'd probably throw some incarnation of the Doctor and one of his companions into the mix as well if I decided to try writing one today.  Yeah, I'm just that O'Bsessed......

 

BCnU!

 

 



TELE-FOLKS DIRECTORY - MOUSE TRACTS

Ralph and Seamus Coltrane were twin brothers who may have followed different paths in Life, but who still found their lives touched by the bizarre.  

Ralph was a corporal in the Army who worked at the San Pedro Overflow Camp in 2011.  This was one of many such concentration camps set up around the world after "the Miracle" to eliminate the excess population caused by the elimination of Death. 

Against his will, Ralph was dragged into the mad, murderous schemes by the camp's manager to cover up its true purpose.  When the manager was attempting to strangle a member of the Torchwood team, Ralph finally showed backbone and shot the manager to stop him. 

Seamus on the other hand became a scientist and worked for the Widmore Corporation.  He was a member of the team who traveled to the Island with Charles Widmore where he worked on the generator in the solenoid coils room. 

After the Man in Black declared war on Charles Widmore, Seamus was in charge of the "Candidates".  But he was no soldier like his brother Ralph - Sawyer was able to easily disarm him. 

However, Widmore threatened Kate and so Sawyer capitulated.  Charles Widmore didn't hold the upper hand for long, however: the Man in Black soon attacked and killed Seamus by smashing him into the cages. 

It didn't come up while we saw the Coltrane Brothers in action, but they might have been destined to encounter such phenomena as miracle days and The Island.  And that could be due to them being Wesen.  (Wesen are creatures with two simultaneous natures - human and the beasts they resemble.)

The Coltranes were Mauzhertz, usually a shy people with mouse-like traits and appearance.  Ralph and Seamus, identical brothers themselves, had an identical cousin named Martin Burgess.  Martin lived in Portland, Oregon, where he killed those who bullied him because he had a psychological need to lash out against his own father.

As the audience from the Trueniverse, we never saw Ralph and Seamus in their Wesen state, probably because there was no Grimm to serve as our P.O.V. guide.

SHOWS CITED:

'Torchwood: Miracle Day'

'Lost'

'Grimm'

[Fred Koehler played all three roles.]

BCnU!

TELE-FOLKS DIRECTORY - EINSTEIN AND THE CAHILLS

Dr. Marshall Cahill: 

"Neil, be as humble as you like. 

Einstein was the most modest man I ever met."

Neil Cahill: 

"Sure, he could afford to be. He was a genius."

'Columbo'

"Murder Over Mayhem"

In the Trueniverse, German-born Albert Einstein was the world's most famous theoretical physicist who developed the foundation for modern physics with his general theory of relativity.  He was a Nobel prize winner for his work in establishing quantum theory and is perhaps best known for his mass-energy equivalence formula of "E = mc^2".

In Toobworld?  Einstein convinced President Harry Truman that a secret scientific community should be established where the country's geniuses could work on their experiments, free from international threat and with access to the funds necessary to complete the research.  Such a town was established in Oregon and named Eureka, centered around the company of Global Dynamics.

While in Eureka, Einstein helped develop the Bridge Device with his associate Dr. Trevor Grant.  It was meant to induce time travel but they were never able to get it to work.  (Dr. Grant had it stolen with the hopes that he could use it to prevent the invention of the atomic bomb.)  Over half a century later, the Bridge Device was snagged, bagged, and tagged by Warehouse 13 agent Claudia Donovan to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands again.  (Also in the Warehouse was Einstein's comb, which was believed to have the ability to fry people.)

It was in Eureka that Dr. Cahill first met Einstein, as one of the original citizens of the town.  His specialty was in cybernetics and he was instrumental in the development of the positronic brain necessary for robots and androids - one of which would eventually become a law enforcement officer in Eureka known as Deputy Andy.  

(One of Cahill's first true accomplishments was the assembly of an android known as "Hymie".  The android did have its glitches so the government palmed it off on one of their least successful networks in the intelligence-gathering community, CONTROL.)

Cahill moved to Eureka with his wife and their ten year old son Neil to work on cybernetic principles, after a threat on his life by rogue agents who allegedly worked for another secret community.  (Whispers only identified the place as "The Village".)  

Over the next decade, Marshall Cahill and his wife Amelia (a research scientist delving into the disciplines of utopian social dynamics) grew distant from each other, although Cahill still loved her fiercely.  Mrs. Cahill finally left Eureka in the mid-1960s to work for a rival scientific community that called itself "The Dharma Initiative".  

Around 1970, it was reported that she had died on some remote uncharted island where the Dharma Initiative had established a commune.  (However, it appears that Amelia Cahill survived "the Purge" and joined the Others.)  

The report of her death drove Cahill to be more protective of his son.  Neil didn't share the IQ capacity of his parents but he at least struggled to measure up to his father's reputation in memory of his mother.

Eventually Cahill left Eureka for Los Angeles, to accept the directorship of a government-funded think tank known as the Cybernetic Research Institute.  There he was able to continue his work on the development of robots and androids while master-minding war games for the Defense Department to prepare for a fully computerized future war.

In order to prove himself, Neil Cahill worked for a time as the research assistant to Dr. Carl Finch in London.  But when Finch died before revealing the nature of his research to the world (save for the notes he sent to an old colleague, Professor Howard Nicholson), Neil stole the research and then reworked it to claim that he had come up with this scientific breakthrough.

But Professor Nicholson, who also worked at the Cybernetic Research Institute, went to Dr. Cahill and threatened to go to the authorities with what he knew unless Neil confessed to being a fraud.  As Neil was Cahill's last link to the memory of his wife (Neil probably resembled her - he certainly didn't look like his father!), the scientist murdered the elderly research chemist and made it look like a break-in by some gang in order to steal drugs.  

Unfortunately for Dr. Cahill, a Los Angeles homicide detective named Lt. Columbo was able to see through that ploy.  As he told Cahill later:  "That first day I couldn't give a hoot in hell about a thief. I was looking for a cigar smoker and there you were."

Marshall Cahill was convicted and sentenced to twenty years with a chance for parole in five.  However, there were forces in the world who recognized that Cahill's mind was too brilliant to be kept shut away in prison for such a long time.  It may have been the work of a revived "Village" or some other rogue organization, but Cahill's death was faked in prison and the body stolen during transport to the morgue.  He was later revived to continue his research, perhaps under duress, and perhaps by his own government, until the day he actually did die in the early 1990s.

As for Neil, he eventually rebuilt his reputation with the help of Dr. Margaret Nicholson, his therapist and the widow of Professor Nicholson.  He entered the teaching profession and landed the position of principal at a Los Angeles high school.  There he avoided any further encounters with the police until one of his students killed another.  

Although it was considered something of a scandal for a short time [considering she had been his therapist and his father had murdered her husband], Neil and Margaret eventually married.

TOOBNOTES:

• Since Einstein didn't appear in the 'Columbo' episode, we can choose any other incarnation of the scientific genius from another TV series.  I think Ed Metzger's multiple appearances on TV as Einstein, especially in an episode of 'Touched By An Angel' (which also featured Harold Gould as an even older Einstein), should be the official portrait of the Professor.  

• As for being seen on TV in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' and 'Mentors', those were computer-simulated holograms and subject to interpretation by the programmers of the data input.
• To prevent any recastaway Zonks, many of the appearances of Einstein's televersions in TV movies and mini-series should be relegated to alternate TV dimensions.  It also helps to spread the love.

•  As for the appearance of Albert Einstein in an episode of 'Voyagers!', that was the incarnation of the scientific genius from an alternate TV dimension affected by changes to the time stream (caused by the Meddling Monk, no doubt!)
• The Fourth Incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor claimed to have known Einstein.  Since he was only mentioned and not seen, we can accept him as being the Einstein of Earth Prime-Time.

• The Einstein who met the Eleventh Doctor, however, was from another dimension, during one of those trips made by a vessel that could travel through Time And The Relative Dimensions In Space.

• As for his encounter with the Seventh Doctor, I think we can give that a pass and accept him as the Einstein of the main Toobworld.  Any physical discrepancies can be chalked up to fluctuations from travel inside the TARDIS and/or the Doctor's faulty memory on the trip.
• The screencap of the episode's title in German plays no part in the activities which played out within the story, except to indicate that particular version took place in the alternate TV dimension of German Toobworld.
• I was tempted to use a picture of Robert Walker, Jr.'s mother - actress Jennifer Jones - to represent Mrs. Cahill.  But I decided it was better to forge yet another missing link to a TV show by using Julie Adams from 'Lost' as Amelia.
• Dr. Cahill's prison sentence was suggesed by Nathan Sikes for "The Ultimate Lieutenant Columbo Site".
• This has been a combination of two biographical profiles from "The Tele-Folks Directory" - one for Einstein and the other for the Cahills.

SHOWS CITED:

• 'Columbo'
• 'Eureka'
• 'Warehouse 13'
• 'Touched By An Angel'
• 'The Prisoner'
• 'Lost'
• 'The New Adam-12'
• 'Get Smart'
• 'Doctor Who'
• 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
• 'Mentors'

DR. MARSHALL CAHILL:

"All you have at the moment is a theory. 

And right now you are in an institution where any staff member, 

Including your little friend Steve, 

Will tell you that a theory isn't worth a damn unless it can be proved."

BCnU!

This is dedicated to my friend, Mark Thompson, who turned away from the study of theoretical physics for something more lucrative... and FUN!  

Happy birthday, Mark!