THE HAT SQUAD 2024 - ACTORS & PERSONALITIES

ACTORS & PERSONALITIES

ACTORS
Mickey Cottrell ('Star Trek: The Next Generation', 'Star Trek: Voyager', 'The Practice')
Lillian Crombie ('Double Trouble', 'Faraway Downs', 'Heartland', 'Ring of Scorpio')
Glynis Johns ('Glynis', 'Coming of Age', 'The Crime of Ovide Plouffe', 'Batman')
Christian Oliver ('Alarm fur Cobra 11 - Die Autobahpolizei', 'Saved By The Bell')
David Soul ('Starsky & Hutch', 'Here Come The Brides',  'Salem's Lot', 'The Yellow Rose', 'Casablanca', 'Owen Marshall, Counsellor at Law')
Alec Musser ('All My Children', 'Desperate Housewives')
Adan Canto ('Designated Survivor', 'Cleaning Lady', 'Blood & Oil', 'Narcos')
Maria Pavan ('Ryan's Hope', 'The Money-Changers', 'Combat!', 'Naked City', 'The Rockford Files', 'Hawaii Five-0', 'Switch', 'Wonder Woman', '77 Sunset Strip'. Twin sister of Pier Angeli, Oscar nominee for "The Rose Tattoo")
Bill Hayes ('Days Of Our Lives', 'Matlock', 'Frasier', 'Cop Rock', 'Hooperman')
Amanda Davies ('One Life To Live' She played Young Vicki in flashbacks.  Victoria Lord was played by Erica Slezak... her mother.)
Joyce Randolph ('The Honeymooners', 'The Jackie Gleason Show' )
Peter Crombie ('Seinfeld', 'L.A. Firefighters', 'House of Frankenstein')
David Gail ('Port Charles', 'Savannah', 'Robin's Hoods', 'Beverly Hills 90210')
Dexter Scott King (Son of Martin Luther & Coretta Scott King, "The Rosa Parks Story", 'King', "Our Friend Martin", '1-800-MISSING')
Gary Graham ('Alien Nation', 'Star Trek: Enterprise', 'JAG', 'Star Trek: Renegades' TVXOHOF)
Chita Rivera ('The New Dick Van Dyke Show', 'Will & Grace', 'Dora the Explorer')
Sandra Milo ('Gigolo per Caso', 'Sabato sera dalle nove alle dieci') 
Don Murray ('Knots Landing', 'Twin Peaks', 'The Outcasts', 'Sons & Daughters') 
Carl Weathers ('The Mandalorian', 'Chicago' - 'Justice'/'Fire'/P.D.'&'L&O: SVU' TVXOHOF)
Hinton Battle ('Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Quantum Leap', 'Smash', 'Early Edition')
Ewen MacIntosh ('The Office' [UK], 'Navelgazng Presents', 'Lockdown Lifeline')
Pamela Salem ('Doctor Who', 'EastEnders', 'French Fields', 'The West Wing', 'Buccaneer', 'Into The Labyrinth') 
John Savident ('Coronation Street', '1990', 'Yes, Minister', 'Jane', 'Tightrope')
Micheline Presle ('Le Saintes Cherie', 'The Count of Monte Christo', 'Lulu')
Chris Gauthier ('Eureka', 'Once Upon A Time', 'Health Nutz', 'Harper's Island')
Richard Lewis ('Anything But Love', 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', 'Hiller and Diller', 'Rude Awakening', 'Daddy Dearest', '7th Heaven', 'Blunt Talk', ''Til Death')
Anne Whitfield ('Emergency!', 'Adam-12', 'Ironside', 'Perry Mason', 'Hawaiian Eye')
Kenneth Mitchell ('Jericho', 'Switched at Birth', 'Ghost Whisperer', 'Star Trek Discovery', 'Odyssey 5', 'The Astronaut Wives Club', 'Frequency', 'Nancy Drew')
Jean Allison ('Emergency!', 'The Whirlybirds', '77 Sunset Strip', 'Adam-12')
Malachy McCourt ('Search For Tomorrow', 'Ryan's Hope', 'The Dain Curse', 'Oz')
Michael Culver ('Cadfael', 'Game, Set, and Match', 'Squadron', 'Secret Army', 'The Adventures of Black Beauty', 'Befriender', "The Empire Strikes Back")
Mark Dodson ('Darkwing Duck', "Ewoks: The Battle For Endor", "Return of the Jedi")
Marcia Richwine ('a.k.a. Pablo'', 'Sin Verguenza', 'Three's Company')
Robyn Bernard ('General Hospital', 'Simon&Simon', 'Whiz Kids', 'The Facts of Life')
Ron Harper ('Generations', 'Planet of the Apes', 'Land of the Lost', 'Wendy and Me', 'Garrison's Guerillas', '87th Precinct', 'Another World', 'Capitol')
M. Emmett Walsh ('Pound Puppies','The Sandy Duncan Show', 'Sneaky Pete', 'The Civil War', 'Unsub', 'Nichols', 'Damages', 'East of Eden',  'Julia', 'The Flash(1)', 'Baretta', 'Mary Hartman2x', 'Starsky and Hutch' 'Rockford Files', 'Bob Newhart Show', 'Amazing Stories', 'AfterMASH', 'Tales From The Crypt')
Lou Gossett, Jr. ('Roots'+ "Roots: The Gift", 'Gideon Oliver', 'The Powers of Matthew Star', 'The Young Rebels', 'Watchmen', 'Hap & Leonard', 'Stargate SG-!', 'Return To Lonesome Dove', 'Sadat', 'The Lazarus Syndrome', 'Backstairs At The White House', "Don't Look Back" (Satchel Paige), 'Extant', 'The Rockford Files', 'Petrocelli', 'Cowboy In Africa', 'The Good Fight', 'Madam Secretary', 'Psych', 'ER', 'Family Guy', 'Picket Fences', 'Bonanza', 'Daktari', 'Longstreet', 'McCoud', 'Psych')
Christian Rodska ('Follyfoot', 'The Stars Look Down', 'This Year Next Year', 'Eagle Of The Ninth', '55 Degrees North', 'The Nesbitts Are Coming', 'Z Cars', 'Oliver Twist')
Daniel Balaji  ('Chithhi', 'Alaigal')
Chance Perdomo ('Gen V', 'The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina', 'The Cipher')
Barbara Rush ('Peyton Place', 'The New Dick Van Dyke Show', 'All My Children', 'Flamingo Road', '7th Heaven', 'Saints & Sinners', 'Fantasy Island', 'Batman')
Joe Flaherty ('SCTV, 'Freaks and Geeks', 'Maniac Mansion', 'Police Academy: The Series', 'The King of Queens', 'The Legend of Tarzan', 'Go Fish', 'Dinosaurs')
Cole Brings Plenty ('Yellowstone: 1923', 'Into The Wild Frontier')
OJ Simpson ('1st & Ten', 'Here's Lucy', 'Roots', 'Ironside', 'Dragnet' TVXOHOF)
Adrian Schiller ('The Last Kingdom', 'Victoria', 'Being Human', 'Silk', 'Genius')
Samantha Burroughs Davis ('Through The Dragon's Eye', Warwick Davis' wife)
Terry Carter ('McCloud', 'Battlestar Galactica', 'The Phil Silvers Show')
Marla Adams ('The Young & The Restless', 'Days Of Our Lives', 'Generations')
Brian McCardie ('Waterfront Beat', 'Lilies', 'M.I. High', 'Taggart', 'Moscow Noir')
Barbarao [Barbara O. Jones] ('Wonder Woman', 'Lou Grant', 'Laverne & Shirley')
Bernard Hill ('I, Claudius', 'Wolf Hall', 'Boys From The Blackstuff', "Titanic" & LOTR)
Susan Buckner ('When The Whistle Blows', 'The Brady Bunch Variety Hour')
Ian Gelder ('Game of Thrones', 'Torchwood', 'Snatch', 'I Thought You'd Gone')
Brian Wenzel ('A Country Practice', 'Certain Women', 'Division 4', 'Cop Shop')
Rochelle Oliver ('Law & Order', 'All My Children', 'Ryan's Hope')
Ron Thompson ('Baretta', 'Armstrong Circle Theatre', 'Ironside'/'Amy Prentiss') 
Jacques Lussier ('Cormoran', 'Le Negociateur', 'Toute la Verite', 'Monsieur le Ministre')
Mary Law ('Deadline Midnight', 'The Lost Planet', 'Emergency Ward-10')
Alex Hassilev ('Run For Your Life', 'Get Smart', member of the Limeliters)
Margaret Lee ('The Protectors')
Zack Norman ('The Nanny', 'The A-Team', 'Baywatch', 'The Flash')
Jeannie Epper (ACTRESS - 'Charmed', 'Monk', 'Medical Center', 'Tales From 
The Crypt', STUNTS - 'Big Valley', 'Dynasty', 'Charlie's Angels', 'Bionic Woman') 
Mark Damon ('Zorro', 'Hawaiian Eye', 'The Protectors', 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents')
David Sanborn ('Magnum P.I.', 'The Advocate', 'Saturday Night Live', 'The Sanborn Sessions', 'Late Night'/'Late Show with David Letterman', 'Wheel of Fortune')
Gloria Stroock ('McMillan & Wife', 'Studio One', 'Operation Petticoat', 'Baretta')
Dabney Coleman ('Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'/'Forever Fernwood'/'Fernwood 2Nite', 'Buffalo Bill', 'The Slap Maxwell Story', 'The Guardian', 'Drexell's Class', 'Madman Of The People', 'Boardwalk Empire', 'Recess', 'Fresno', 'Apple Pie', 'That Girl', 'Yellowstone', 'Columbo' TVXOHOF)
Richard Foronjy ('Under Suspicion', 'The Gangster Chronicles', 'Amen', 'Serpico')
Johnny Wactor ('It's Always Jan', 'General Hospital', 'Barbee Rehab', 'Siberia', 'Hollywood Girl')
Janis Paige ('Santa Barbara', 'General Hospital', 'Trapper John MD', 'Gun Shy', 'Baby Makes Five',  'Lanigan's Rabbi', 'Eight Is Enough', 'Bret Maverick', 'All In The Family', 'All's Fair', 'Columbo')
William Russell ('Doctor Who', 'The Adventures of Sir Lancelot', 'Harriet's Back In Town', 'Coronation Street', 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'St. Ives',  'Mackenzie', 'Breaking Point', 'Hamlet', 'Triton', 'This Man Craig', 'The Doll', 'Jane Eyre', 'Poirot', 'Blackadder' TVXOHOF)
Jeannette Charles (Professional Queen Elizabeth II impersonator)
Erich Anderson ('Felicity', 'NYPD Blue', 'THIRTYsomething', 'Bay City Blues', 'Bosch', 'Close To Home', 'Boomtown', 'Major Crimes') 
Seven ('The Walking Dead' a Belgian Malinois)
Tom Bower ('The Waltons', 'The Dain Curse', 'The Rockford Files', 'Lucky Hank')
Tony Lo Bianco ('Hidden Faces', 'Love of Life', 'Palace Guard', 'Jessie', 'Police Story', 'Jesus of Nazareth', 'Marco Polo', 'Murder, She Wrote', 'Law & Order')
Anouk Aimee ('Solomon', 'Cuckoo', 'Festival', 'Piazza Navona')
Donald Sutherland ('Crossing Lines', 'Dirty Sexy Money', 'Commander-in-Chief', 'Trust', 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves', 'The Pillars of the Earth', 'The Undoing', 'Swimming with Sharks', 'Ice', 'Moby Dick', 'Treasure Island', 'Frankenstein', 'Salem's Lot', 'The Simpsons', 'Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All', 'The Champions', 'The Saint', 'The Avengers', 'Man In A Suitcase', 'The Name of the Game')
Taylor Wiley ('Hawaii Five-0', 'Magnum P.I.' [BOTH], 'MacGyver', 'Marker' TVXOHOF)
Hiram Kasten ('Seinfeld', 'It's Like, You Know', '7th Heaven')
Spencer Milligan ('Land of the Lost', 'General Hospital', 'Quincy M.E., 'Gunsmoke')
Bill Cobb ('The Slap Maxwell Story', 'I'll Fly Away', 'Homeroom', 'The Gregory Hines Show', 'The Others', 'Go On', 'The Drew Carey Show', 'The Michael Richards Show', 'Dino Dana', 'Greenleaf', 'Rake', 'JAG')
Martin Mull ('Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'/'Fernwood Tonight'/'America 2-Night' [TVXOHOF], 'Sabrina The Teenage Witch', 'Roseanne', 'The Cool Kids', 'The Jackie Thomas Show', 'Dads', 'The Ranch', 'The Ellen Show', 'Til Death', 'American Dad!', 'Two and a Half Men', 'I'm Sorry', 'Arrested Development', 'Teamo Supremo', 'Veep', 'Life In Pieces', 'Family Dog', 'Danny Phantom', 'Domestic Life', 'The Simpsons', and for a second TVXOHOF induction: 'It's Garry Shandling's Show'/'The Nanny'/'The Drew Carey Show'/'The Larry Sanders Show'/'D.C. Follies' as Himself.)
Renauld White ('Guiding Light', "Gun Hill", 'Fashion')
Mike Heslin ('The Influencers', 'Lioness', "The Holiday Proposal Plan")
Doug Sheehan ('Knots Landing', 'Day By Day', 'General Hospital', 'Clueless')
Pat Colbert ('Dallas', 'Benson', 'The Fall Guy')

Benji Gregory ('Alf', 'Back To The Future', 'Fantastic Max', 'Punky Brewster')
Shannen Doherty ('Beverly Hills 90210'/'90210', 'Charmed', 'Our House', 'Little House On The Prairie', 'North Shore')
James B. Sikking ('Hill Street Blues', 'Doogie Howser, M.D.')
Bob Newhart ('The Bob Newhart Show', 'The Bob Newhart Show'/'Newhart', 'Bob!', TVXOHOF member)
Este TerBlanche ('All My Children', 'Spin City')
Whitney Rydbeck (Larry Crash-Test Dummy, 'Simon & Simon', 'Murder, She Wrote')
Pei-Pei Cheng ('The Sleeping Beauty', 'Far Away Love', 'Ice Fantasy')
Noriko Ohara('Doraemon', 'Yattaman', 'Time Bokan', 'Space Emperor God Sigma') 
Sally Bliss ('The Mickey Rooney Show', 'The Adventures of Fu Manchu', 'Lassie')
Yvonne Furneaux ('Hereward The Wake', Secret Agent', 'The Baron')
Ysanne Churchman ('Doctor Who', 'Planet Patrol', 'Sara and Hoppity')
Charles Cyphers ('Nick reno: Licensed Teacher', 'The Betty White Show', 'Six Million Dollar Man', 'The George Carlin Show', 'Murder One', 'Roc')
Patty Yasutake ('Star Trek: The Next Generation', 'Gung Ho', 'Beef', 'The Closer')
Connie Chiume ('Rhythm City', 'Housekeepers', 'Home Affairs', 'Yizo Yizo')
Erica Ash ('Survivor's Remorse', 'Mad TV', 'In Contempt', 'Legacies')
Angel Salazar ('On Our Own', 'The New $treetz Seriez', 'Heart Of The City')
Gena Rowlands ('Peyton Place', '87th Precinct', 'Columbo', "An Early Frost", "The Betty Ford Story", 'The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.', 'Burke's Law', 'Bonanza', 'The Virginian', 'Johnny Staccato', 'Studio One', 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents/Hour', '77 Sunset Strip', 'Dr. Kildare')
Alain Delon ('Frank Riva', 'Fabio Montale', 'Cinema')
Perry Kurtz ('Partners In Crime', 'Wait Crimes', 'Sketchers Comedy Special')
Mitzi McCall ('Alright Already', 'Silk Stalkings', 'Chuck', 'Port Charles', '7th Heaven')
James Earl Jones ('Gabriel's Fire', 'Paris', 'Jesus of Nazareth', 'Me and Mom', 'Under One Roof', 'Mathnet', 'Everwood', 'Signs and Wonders', 'Dr. Kildare', 'Faerie Tale Theatre', 'Roots: The Next Generation', 'Guiding Light', 'As The World Turns', 'Pros & Cons', 'The Simpsons', 'Square One Television', 'The Atlanta Child Murders', 'L.A. Law', 'Agent X', 'Homicide: Life On The Street', 'Law & Order', 'Picket Fences', 'Lois & Clark', 'The Defenders', 'Tarzan', N.Y.P.D.', 'East Side/West Side', 'Channing', 'Highway To Heaven', 'House' - Yeah, he deserved this.)
Chad McQueen ('Jesse Hawkes', 'V'. Son of Steve McQueen)
Kathryn Crosby ("The Initiation of Sarah", 'Ben Casey', 'The Bing Crosby Show')
Maggie Smith ('Downton Abbey', 'David Copperfield', 'Aggie', 'ITV Play of the Week', 'The Carol Burnett Show')
John Ashton ('Hardball', 'Dallas', 'Brookside', 'Columbo', 'EastEnders', 'Kojak')
Ken Page ('Adventures In Wonderland', 'South Central', 'Sable', 'Charmed')
Gavin Creel ('Rapunzel's Tangled Adventures', 'American Horror Show')
John Amos ('Roots', 'Good Times', 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'The West Wing', 'Men In Trees', 'All About The Andersons', 'The District', 'In The House', '704 Hauser', 'Hunter', 'Future Cop', 'The Tim Conway Comedy Hour', 'Maude')
Jay J. Armes ('Hawaii Five-0' - Private eye who lost both his hands at age 13.)
Michel Blanc (Merci, Bernard', 'The Dominici Case', 'Palace', 'Piazza Navona')
Nicholas Pryor ('Port Charles', 'Beverly Hills 90210', 'The Bronx Zoo', 'Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing', 'The Nurses', 'Another World', 'The Secret Storm', 'Young Doctor Malone', 'The Brighter Day', 'Washington: Behind Closed Doors', 'Dallas')
Nobuyo Oyama ('Doraemon', 'Hustle Punch', 'Danganronpa: The Animation')
Bob Yerkes (Stunts - 'The Stand', 'Twin Peaks', 'Little House', 'Dukes of Hazzard')
Christine Boisson ('Reporters', 'A Swedish Woman In Paris', 'Black Sequence')
Ron Ely ('Tarzan', 'The Aquanauts', 'Sea Hunt', 'Face The Music', 'Fantasy Island')
Mimi Hines ('Frasier', 'Love, American Style', 'The Bobby Darin Show')
David Harris ('NYPD Blue', 'North & South: Book 1", 'Law & Order', 'Kojak')
Teri Garr ('Batman Beyond', 'Women of the House', 'Good Advice', 'Good & Evil', 'Fresno', 'Adventures In Wonderland', 'The Sonny & Cher Show', 'The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour', 'The Burns & Schreiber Show', 'The Ken Berry Wow Show', 'McCloud', 'Friends', 'The Girl With Something Extra', 'The Bob Newhart Show', 'It Takes A Thief', 'That Girl', 'M*A*S*H', 'Sesame Street', 'Star Trek', "Prime Suspect" - TV movie, not the series)
Alan Rachins ('L.A. Law', 'Dharma & Greg')
Jonathan Haze ('Dragnet', '77 Sunset Strip', 'Highway Patrol', 'Navy Log')
Elwood Edwards ('Arli$$', 'The Simpsons', THE Voice of AOL!)
Tony Todd ('The Young & The Restless', 'Chuck', 'Splatter', '24', 'ST: TNG')
Timothy West ('Edward the King', 'EastEnders', 'Brass', 'Gentleman Jack', 'Bedtime',  'The Big Knights', 'Bleak House', 'Coronation Street', 'Mop and Smiff')
Polly March ('Sinbad', 'Caesar', "Mystery of Britannic", 'Dispatches')
Jon Kenny ('The Fitz', 'Father Ted', "A Song For Europe", "Mrs. Brown's Boys: D'movie")
Earl Holliman ('Police Woman', 'Hotel de Paree', 'NightMan', 'Delta', 'P.S. I Luv U', 'Wide Country', 'Alias Smith and Jones', 'The Twilight Zone', "The Tribe") 
Miho Nakayama ('Love Story', 'Home & Away', 'Love 2000', 'Nemureru Mori')
Sylvia Pinal ('Mi Marida Tiene Familia', 'Soy Tu Duena', 'Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real')
Michael Cole ('The Mod Squad', 'General Hospital', 'It', 'Evening In Byzantium')
Wayne Northrup ('Days Of Our Lives', 'Port Charles', 'Dynasty', 'L.A, Law')
Maria Socas ('Mujere de Nadie', 'Grecia', 'El Precio del Poder', 'Husband To Go')
Jill Jacobson ('Falcon Crest', 'The New Gidget', 'Newhart', 'Days of Our Lives')
Marisa Paredes ('Novela', 'Estudio 1', 'El Olivar de Atocha', 'Cervantes')
Diane Delano ('Popular', 'Northern Exposure', 'Days Of Our Lives', 'L.A. Law')
Waymond Lee ('Workaholics', 'Pair of Kings', 'Kali Karate', 'Parks & Recreation') 
Geoffrey Deuel ('The FBI', 'Mannix', 'Streets of San Francisco', 'Insight', 'Ironside')
Dayle Haddon ('Max Headroom, 'The Hitchhiker', 'Coup de Foudre')
Olivia Hussey ('Jesus of Nazareth', 'It', 'The Bastard', 'Lonesome Dove: The Series')
Linda Lavin ('Alice', 'B Positive', '9JKL', 'Yvette Slosch, Agent', 'Sean Saves The World', 'Conrad Bloom', 'Courage The Cowardly Dog', 'Room For Two', 'Barney Miller')

PERSONALITIES

Brian Barczyk ('Venom Hunters')
Peter Schickele ('Evening at Pops', 'The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson', 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Show', 'Captain & Tenille', 'ABC Comedy News')

Roni Stoneman ('Hee Haw', 'Tony Orlando and Dawn', "Johnny Cash and The Country Girls")
Robin Windsor ('Strictly Come Dancing')
Charlie Griffin ('Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks')
Larry H. Parker (LA injury lawyer known for his commercials.  "I'll fight for you!")
Jerry Grote ('Everybody Loves Raymond')
Lori & George Schappell, cojoined twins (Povich, Springer & other talk shows, plus fictional characters in an episode of 'Nip/Tuck')
Sean Garinger ('16 and Pregnant')
Garrison Brown ('Sister Wives')
Mandisa [Hundley] ('American Idol', 'GMA')
Roman Gabriel ('Perry Mason', 'Wonder Woman', 'Ironside', 'Laugh-In')
Sonja Christopher ('Survivor', 'Diagnosis Murder')
Bernard Pivot (French TV host 'Apostrophes', 'Boullion de culture', 'Double je')
Alf McCarthy (Irish presenter 'PM Live', 'Live at 3')
Stephanie Sparks ('The Big Break', 'Golf with Style', 'Playing Lessons from the Pros')
James Laurenson ('Boney', 'Jackanory', 'The Crown', 'Sharpe', 'Space: 1999')
Dolores "Roxanne" Rosedale ('Beat The Clock', 'Winner Take All', also 'Crime Photographer')
Dr. Ric Gordon ('Today')
Dr. Michael Moseley ('Just One Thing', 'The One Show',  'Trust Me, I'm A Doctor',  'Horizon', 'This Morning')
Nick Mavar ('The Deadliest Catch', 'The Deadliest Catch: The Bait')
Johnny Canales ('The Johnny Canales
Willie Mays ('Bewitched', 'The Donna Reed Show', 'Ironside', 'My Two Dads', 'What's My Line?')
Sarah Becker ('The Real World')
Shifty Shellshock [Seth Binzer] ('Celebrity Rehab', 'Sober House')
Lizzy Musi ('Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings') 
Keke Jabbar ('Love & Marriage: Huntsville')
Dawn Hollyoak ('Great British Baking Show')
Dr. Ruth Westheimer ('Quantum Leap', 'Ally McBeal', 'Love Boat: The Next Wave', TVXOHOF)
Richard Simmons ('General Hospital', 'Arrested Development', 'Fame' TVXOHOF)
Harry Savage ('Hunted')
Naomi Pomeroy ('Top Chef', 'Top Chef Masters', 'Iron Chef America')
Autumn Crittendon ('16 And Pregnant')
Kim Johnson ('Survivor', 'Hollywood Squares', 'Late Show with David Letterman')
Lorenza de' Medici ('The de' Medici Kitchen')
Hailey Merkt ('The Bachelor')
Silvio Santos ('Programa Silvio Santos' 2X, 'Carmem', 'Pigmaliao 70', 'Teleton')
Rudy Franchi ('Antiques Roadshow' appraiser)
Caterina Valente ('Bon Soir, Kathrin', 'The Entertainers', 'Die Katerina Valente Show', 'Music Hall', 'The Dean Martin Show', 'Hollywood Palace')
Frank Fritz ('American Pickers', 'American Dad!', 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire')
Pete Rose ('Good Sports', 'Arli$$', 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air', 'Veronica's Closet')
Mitzi Gaynor ('Mitzi'... 'Zings Into Spring', '& 100 Guys', 'The First Time')
Chuck Woolery ('Love Connection', 'Wheel of Fortune', 'Chuck Woolery Show') 
Emily Gold ('America's Got Talent' dance contestant)
Nikki Giovanni ('Soul!', 'Muhammed Ali', 'Love Life', 'American Masters')
"The Amazing Kreskn" (George Kresge, Jr. mentalist 'The Mike Douglas Show', 'Tonight with Johnny Carson', 'The Merv Griffin Show', 'The Joey Bishop Show')
Dick Capri ('The Merv Griffin Show', 'The Ed Sullivan Show', 'The Mike Douglas Show', 'Talent Scouts', "Now That's Funny!", "Friars Club Roast of Drew Carey")
Anita Bryant (Singer, Florida Orange Juice Spokesperson, Anti-Gay firebrand)

NEWS & SPORTS

Ruth Ashton Taylor (First female TV newscaster on the West Coast, lifetime achievement Emmy winner, star on the Walk of Fame)

Charles Osgood ('CBS Sunday Morning', "Horton Hears A Who", 'CBS This Morning', 'A Science Odyssey', 'Universe')
David Culhane (CBS reporter, 'CBS Sunday Morning')
Chris Mortensen (ESPN, 'SportsCenter'. 'Sunday N.F.L. Countdown')
Bill Jorgenson (WNEW, WPIX)
Robert MacNeil ('The MacNeil-Lehrer Report' on PBS)
Peter Oosterhuis ('International Pro-Celebrity Golf', 'The Rolf Harris Show')
Rick Sallinger (CBS reporter, mostly in Colorado - Columbine, Aurora, JonBenet)
Sam Rubin (KTLA entertainment reporter)
Alice Stewart (CNN right wing political commentator)
Bill Walton (ESPN College Basketball, 'Less Than Perfect', 'The Sentinel', 'Inside Schwartz', 'One On One', 'Less Than Perfect', 'Pacific Blue', 'American Dad!') 
Ben White (CNBC financial reporter)
Howard Fineman ('Hardball with Chris Matthews', 'The Chris Matthews Show', 'The Beat with Ari Melber')
Lou Dobbs ('Lou Dobbs Tonight', 'Managing with Lou Dobbs', 'The Good Wife')
Tom Fenton (CBS News)
Peter Dykstra (CNN climate journalist)
Phil Jones (CBS reporter)
Warren Wilson (KTLA reporter, KNBC, NBC News, 'Arrest and Trial')
Tom Jarriel (ABC News - '20/20' correspondent, weekend anchor, 19 Emmys)
Ana Orsini (KOLD-13 anchor)
Greg Gumbel (CBS & NBC Sports, TVXOHOF - League of Themselves)
Aaron Brown (CNN)

TVXOHOF'S FRIDAY FAREWELL - VIOLET CRAWLEY, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

From CNN….

Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain’s best-known actresses whose long career ranged from starring opposite Laurence Olivier in “Othello” on stage and screen, to roles in “Harry Potter” and “Downton Abbey,” has died, her sons announced in a statement shared by their publicist Clair Dobbs.

She was 89.

“It is with great sadness we have to announce the death of Dame Maggie Smith. She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning, Friday 27th September. An intensely private person, she was with friends and family at the end,” the statement reads. “She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful staff at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for their care and unstinting kindness during her final days.”

O’Bservation:

Before 'Downton Abbey', Dame Maggie was better known for her work in the theatre and in the movies.  She had very few credits on the small screen, mostly “Plays of the Week”, an adaptation of “David Copperfield”, a few TV movies, and only one other fictional character in a TV series, and that was a one-off episode.  (But she also appeared in three episodes of ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ as herself, so that’s saying something.)

So for her to be eligible for membership in the Television Crossover Hall of Fame, one might think it had be due to her playing herself, making it a League of Themselves technicality.

And one would be wrong.

VIOLET CRAWLEY

From the ‘Downton Abbey’ wiki:
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (b. 1842 - 1928), was the matriarch of the Crawley Family by her marriage to the late Earl of Grantham and a relative of the MacClare Family via her niece and goddaughter, Susan MacClare, Marchioness of Flintshire. She is the mother of Robert Crawley, the 7th Earl of Grantham, and of Lady Rosamund Painswick, and the grandmother of Robert and his wife Cora's three daughters: Mary, Edith, and Sybil. Through her granddaughters she has five great-grandchildren: Mary's children, son George, and daughter Caroline, Sybil's daughter Sybbie, Edith's children, daughter Marigold and son Peter.

Born in 1842, Violet was the daughter of a Baronet and had at least one sister, the mother of her niece and goddaughter, Susan MacClare, Marchioness of Flintshire, and one aunt. While she was born into the aristocracy, her family was relatively impoverished and she brought almost no money with her upon marriage. When she married the Earl of Grantham sometime before 1860, she brought her upper class blood but little money into her marriage. After her wedding, she was "pursued" by Lord Hepworth's father.

At some point as a young girl in the 1850s and 1860s Violet wore "the bustle, the crinoline, and the leg of mutton sleeve."

Violet gave birth to two children, a son and heir, Robert and a daughter, Rosamund. Not following in their mother's footsteps, her children married into money rather than nobility. The Countess was against Robert's engagement and marriage to the American heiress Cora Levinson, in 1889, but did reap the benefits of her fortune.

Violet visited Russia, where she met Prince Igor Kuragin, at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in 1874. Violet later reveals to Isobel they fell madly in love and attempted to elope. They planned to leave on his yacht, but were intercepted by Kuragin's wife, who had discovered their romance. She pulled Violet out and sent her back to her own husband.

Born
1842
Died
1928 (aged 86)
Downton Abbey, Yorkshire

Marital status
Widow of Patrick Crawley, 6th Earl of Grantham

Residence
Dower House, Downton, Yorkshire

Title
Dowager Countess of Grantham

It was special circumstances which gained her entry into the Hall: the Dowager Countess was so powerful a character, that it took two forms of the media to contain her and gain her the three separate titles to qualify....

DOWNTON ABBEY
52 episodes
2010 – 2015

That was followed by two theatrically released movies which I have removed from the Cineverse and placed on Earth Prime-Time….

DOWNTON ABBEY (2019)

DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA (2022)

This was not a special dispensation just because I liked the character so much.  There has been precedent for this situation, with various movies absorbed into the TV Universe.

Welcome to the TVXOHOF, Countess.

Good night and may God bless, Dame Maggie.

 

THE HAT SQUAD 2021 - IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA

ACTORS
Mark Eden ('Coronation Street', 'The Newcomers', 'Crime Buster", 'Doctor Who')
Tanya Roberts ('Charlie's Angels', 'That 70s Show', 'Hot Line')
Barbara Shelley ('Oil Strike North', 'People Like Us', 'The Borgias', 'Doctor Who')
Gregory Sierra ('Barney Miller', 'A.E.S. Hudson Street', 'Sanford and Son', 'The Flying Nun', 'Soap', 'Something is Out There', 'Murder She Wrote', 'Miami Vice')
Marion Ramsey ('Cos', 'The Addams Family', 'MacGyver', 'Johnny Bago') 
Alan Igbon ('Coronation Street', 'G.B.H.', 'The Front Line')
James Greene ('William & Mary', 'Mapp & Lucia', 'The Moon Stallion', 'Downton Abbey', 'Doctor Who')
Ronald Pickup ('Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill', 'The Jury', 'Holby City', 
Deezer D ('ER', 'Hope & Gloria')
Ed Bruce ('Bret Maverick')
John Reilly ('General Hospital', 'Passions', 'Sunset Beach')
George Gerdes ('Bosch', 'Nowhere Man', 'ER')
Peter Mark Richman ("Cain's Hundred', 'Santa Barbara', 'Dynasty')
Mira Furlan ('Babylon 5', 'Lost'. 'Najbolje Godine')
Charlotte Cornwell ('Rock Follies', 'Rock Follies of  '77', 'No Excuses', 'Bognor')
Bruce Kirby ('Columbo', 'Holmes & Yoyo', 'Car 54, Where Are You', 'The Sopranos')
Jessica Campbell ('Freaks and Greeks', 
Gunnar Lindblom ('Kaspar i Nudadalen', 'Trapatronerna')
Cloris Leachman ('The Mary Tyler Moore Show'. 'Phyllis', 'Lassie', 'Raising Hope', 'Thanks', 'Mad About You', 'Walter & Emily', 'The Facts of Life', 'Charlie Wild, Private Eye', 'Doctor Kildare', 'Malcolm In The Middle')
Cicely Tyson ('East Side/West Side', "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman", 'Roots')
Dustin Diamond ('Saved By The Bell')
Hal Holbrook ('Evening Shade', 'Designing Women', 'Brighter Day', "That Certain Summer", "Attack On The Pueblo", "Mark Twain Tonight")
Christopher Plummer ('The Thorn Birds', 'Departure', 'Madeline', 'The Moneychangers')
Zito Kazann ('Hell Town', 'Days Of Our Lives', 'Melrose Place')
Mike Henry ('General Hospital', 'Six Million Dollar Man', '77 Sunset Strip')
Trisha Noble ('Executive Suite', 'Testimony Of  Two Men', 'How The West Was Won')
Yaphet Kotto ('Homicide: Life On The Street', 'For Love And Honor')
Christopher Pennock ('Dark Shadows', 'Days Of Our Lives', 'General Hospital')
Kim Tyler ('Please Don't Eat The Daisies', 'The Adventures Of Ozzie and Harriet')
Johnny Briggs ('Coronation Street', 'Thick As Thieves',  'Crossroads', 'No Hiding Place')
Jahmil French ('DeGrassi: The Next Generation')
Trevor Peacock ('The Vicar of Dibley')
Nicola Pagett ('Upstairs, Downstairs')
Cliff Simon ('Stargate SG-1)
Henry Darrow ('High Chaparral', 'Harry O', 'Zorro')
George Segal ('The Goldbergs', 'Just Shoot Me', 'Murphy's Law', 'Retired At 35', 'The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest')
Jessica Walter ('Arrested Development', 'Amy Prentiss' 'Dinosaurs!', 'Archer', 'For The People', 'Retired At 35', 'Three's A Crowd')
Isela Vega ('Italian Bride', 'Nina de mi corazon', 'Gente bien')
David Baillie ('Ransom For A Pretty Girl', 'Doctor Who', 'Attila', 'Adam Smith')
Paul Ritter ('Sunday Night Dinner', 'Chernobyl')
James Hampton ('F Troop',
Joseph Siravo ('The Sopranos', 'The People vs. O.J. Simpson: The American Crime Story')
Myra Frances ("Girl", 'Survivors', 'Doctor Who')
Helen McCrory ('Peaky Blinders', 'Life', 'Penny Dreadful', 'To Appomattox', 'Fearless')
Felix Silla ('The Addams Family', 'Buck Rogers', 'Liddsville')
Frank McRae ('ER', 'Columbo', 'The Rockford Files', 'Magnum P.I.')
Lee Aakers ('Rin Tin Tin', 'Loretta Young Show', 'The Lucy Show')
Johnny Crawford ('The Rifleman', 'The Gambler IV')
Lois De Banzie ('Generations', 'Newhart', 'Streets of San Francisco')
Olympia Dukakis ('Tales Of The City' - 4 series, 'Search For Tomorrow', 'Center Of The Universe', 'Bored To Death', "The Librarian: Quest For The Spear")
Tawny Kitaen (Videos for Ratt & White Snake, 'Moms Anonymous', 'Eek! The Cat', 'The New WKRP In Cincinatti', 'Santa Barbara', 'Capitol')
Paulo Gustavo ('Vai que Cola', 'A Vila', '220 Volts', 'Pirlimpimpim')
Charles Grodin ('The Young Marrieds', 'Louis', 'Madoff', 'Fresno', 'Tonight Show', 'The Late Show') 
Martha Stewart (the first one - 'My Three Sons', 'Our Man Higgins')
Rahul Vohra (Indian actor & vlogger)
Paul Soles (voice actor)
Damaris Hayman ('Ours Is A Nice House', 'The Small World Of Samuel Tweet', 'Doctor Who')
Robert Hogan ('Peyton Place', 'The Young Marrieds', 'Secrets of Midland Heights', 'As The World Turns', 'Richie Brockelman, Private Eye') 
Marcus A. York ('The Office', '8 Simple Rules', 'CSI: NY')
Gavin MacLeod ('The Love Boat', 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'McHale's Navy')
Samuel E. Wright ('The Little Mermaid', 'Enos', 'Ball Four', Marsupilami')
Shane Briant ('Serangoon Road', 'All Saints', 'Search For Treasure Island')
Joe Lara ('Tarzan: The Epic Adventures', "Gunsmoke: The Last Apache")
Arlene Golonka ('Mayberry RFD', 'The Andy Griffith Show', 'The Doctors', 'Joe & Valerie')
Romy Walthall ('Man Of The People', 'Civil Wars', 'Murder One', 'Hotel Malibu')
Clarence Williams III ('The Mod Squad', 'Mystery Woman' 'Twin Peaks')
Larry Gelman ('The Bob Newhart Show', 'The Odd Couple', 'Eight Is Enough', 'Maude')
Joyce McKenzie ('Perry Mason', 'Topper', 'City Detective', 'Cavalcade of 'America')
Lisa Banes ('The Trials Of Rosie O'Neill', 'Sons Of The Beach', 'One Life To Live')
Ben Roberts ('The Bill', 'Angels', 'Tales Of Sherwood Forest')
Ned Beatty ('Homicide: Life On The Street', 'Szysznyk', 'Roseanne', 'The Boys')
Frank Bonner ('WKRP In Cincinnati', 'Saved By The Bell')
Jackie Lane ('Doctor Who' - played Dodo Chaplet, companion to the First Incarnation)
Stuart Damon ('General Hospital', 'Port Charles', 'The Champions', 'Cinderella')
Suzanne Douglas ('The Parent 'Hood', 'Against The Law', 'When They See Us')
William Smith ('Laredo', 'Rich Man Poor Man', 'Hawaii Five-0', 'Wildside', 'Zero One', 'The Asphalt Jungle')
Chick Vennera ('Vega$', 'The Golden Girls', 'Animaniacs')
Charlie Robinson ('Night Court', 'Love & War', 'Ink', 'Buffalo Bill', 'Buddy Faro', 'Hart of Dixie', 'Home Improvement', 'Mom')
Daniel Mickelson ('Mani')
Jackie Mason (Comic - 'Chicken Soup', 'The Ed Sullivan Show', 'The Simpsons')
Rick Aiello ('Dellaventura', 'The Sopranos', 'Clueless', son of Danny)
Jay Pickett ('Port Charles', 'General Hospital', 'Matlock')
Markie Post ('Night Court', 'The Fall Guy', 'Hearts Afire')
Jane Withers (child actress, Comet Cleanser's Josephine, 'The Munsters', 'Murder, She Wrote')
Francis Mossman ('Spartacus', 'The Horizon')
Una Stubbs ('Sherlock', 'Til Death Us Do Part', 'Worzel Gummidge', 'The Worst Witch')
Sonny Chiba ('The Trusted Confidante', 'Dekichatta Kekkon')
Ed Asner ('The Mary Tyler Moore', 'Lou Grant', 'Thunder Alley', 'The Closer', 'Hearts Afire', 'The Trials Of Rosie O'Neill', 'The Bronx Zoo', 'Off The Rack', 'Fish Police', 'Captain Planet and The Planeteers', 'Gargoyles', 'Freakazois!', 'Spiderman: The Animated Series', 'Zorro', 'Center of the Universe', 'Studio Sixty on the Sunset Strip', 'The Line', 'Working Class', 'Michael: Every Day')
Matthew Mindler ('As The World Turns', 'Chad: An American Boy', ''Last Week Tonight')
Sarah Harding ('Coronation Street', 'Popstars: The Rivals', "Freefall")
Michael K. Williams ('The Wire', 'Boardwalk Empire', 'Lovecraft Country', 'Hap & Leonard', 'Alias', 'Community', 'The Night Of...', 'F Is For Family')
Jean Paul Belmondo ("The Three Musketeers", "Kean", "Cyrano de Bergerac")
Dilys Watling ('Coronation Street', 'Compact', 'The Two Ronnies', 'Twice A Fortnight')
Michael Constantine ('Room 222', 'My Big Fat Greek Life', 'Sirota's Court', 'Hey, Landlord!')
Nino Castelnuovo ('Tuscan Passion', 'Incantesimo', 'Vida Privada')
Tony Selby ('Get Some In!', 'Love Hurts, 'Ace Of Wands', 'Mulberry', 'Doctor Who') 
Don Collier ('The High Chaparral', 'Outlaws', 'The Young Riders') 
Norm MacDonald ('Saturday Night Live', 'Norm', 'The Orville')
Art Metrano ('The Chicago Teddy Bears', 'Joanie Loves Chachi', 'LA Law', 'The Tim Conway Comedy Hour', 'Amy Prentiss' & 'Ironside', 'Movin' On', 'Tough Cookies')
Jane Powell ('Growing Pain', 'Red Skelton Hour', 'As The World Turns', 'Loving')
Jimmy Garrett ('The Lucy Show', 'Mister Ed', 'Burke's Law', 'The Twilight Zone')
John Challis ('Only Fools And Horses' & 'The Green, Green Grass', 'Z Cars', 'Coronation Street', 'Benidorm', 'Doctor Who')
Willie Garson ('White Collar', 'Sex And The City', 'Hawaii Five-0', 'John From Cincinnati', 'Whole Day Down', 'NYPD Blue', 'Ask Harriet', 'Mr. Belvedere')
Melvin Van Peebles ('Sonny Spoon', 'The Sophisticated Gents', 'The Shining')
Al Harrington ('Hawaii Five-0', 'Hawaii Five-0' remake, 'The Jeffersons')
Robert Fyle ('Last of the Summer Wine', 'Coronation Street', 'No Strings')
Jean Hale ('The Survivors', 'Batman', 'Perry Mason', 'The Virginian')
Tommy Kirk ('The Hardy Boys', 'Magical World of Disney', 'Mr. Novak')
Michael Tylo ('Zorro', 'Y&R', 'Guiding Light', 'B&B', 'Gabriel's Fire') 
Cynthia Harris ('Mad About You', 'Edward & Mrs. Simpson', 'Sirota's Court', 'Ann Jillian', 'LA Law', 'Husbands, Wives, and Lovers', Bradlee's commercials)
Ricardo Flanagan ('Shameless', 'Walk The Prank', 'The Neighborhood')
Betty Lynn ('The Andy Griffith Show', 'My Three Sons', 'Matlock', 'Family Affair')
Peter Scolari ('Newhart', 'Bosom Buddies', 'Girls', 'Dweebs', 'Gotham', 'Goodtime Girls', 'Honey, I Shrunk The Kids')
Marilyn Eastman ('Perry Mason')
James Michael Tyler ('Friends', 'Modern Music', 'Episodes')
Tim Donnelly ('Emergency!', 'Dragnet 1967', 'Adam-12', 'Project UFO')
Val Bisoglio ('Quincy, M.E.', 'Roll Out', 'Working Stiffs', 'The Sopranos')
Joanna Cameron ('The Secret of Isis', 'Shazam!', 'Marcus Welby MD')
Camille Saviola ('Deep Space Nine', 'The Heights', 'First Monday', 'Entourage')
Clifford Rose ('Secret Army', 'Callan', 'Buccaneer', 'Kessler', 'The Pallisers')
Jerry Douglas ('The Young & The Restless', 'Barnaby Jones', 'Police Story')
Gavan O'Herlihy ('Happy Days', 'We'll Meet Again', 'A Killing On The Exchange', 'Lonesome Dove', son of Dan O'Herlihy)
Ira Hawkins ('Santa Barbara', 'White Collar', 'Law & Order', L&O:SVU'
Mario Rocuzzo ('Barney Miller', 'Luck', 'Mr. Belvedere')
Art LaFleur ('Hyperion Bay', 'The Practice', 'CPA Holes')
Bernard Holley ('Z Cars', 'Hollyoaks', 'Eureka', 'Jackanory', 'Doctor Who')
Lou Cutell ('Betty White's Off Their Rockers', 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', 'Mad About You')
Yvonne Wilder ('Operation Petticoat', 'Condo', 'Full House', 'the Equalizer', 'Archie Bunker's Place')
Cara Williams ('Pete and Gladys', 'The Cara Williams Show', 'Rhoda')
Arlene Dahl ('One Life To Live', 'The Love Boat', 'Burke's Law', 'Renegade', former wife of Fernando Lamas, mother of Lorenzo Lamas)
David Gulpili ('The Timeless Land', 'Boney', 'The Leftovers')
Tania Mendoza ('Mujer, casos de la vida real', 'El precio de tu amor', 'For Your Love')
Carmen Salinas ('Mi marido tiene familia', 'Sueno de amor', 'Mi corazon es tuyo')
&
Betty White ('Life With Elizabeth', 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'The Golden Girls' & 'The Golden Palace' & 'Empty Nest' & 'Nurses', 'Hot In Cleveland', 'Date With The Angels', 'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', 'Ladies' Man', 'Bold & The Beautiful', 'Mama's Family', 'The Betty White Show', 'Maybe This Time', 'Boston Legal' & 'The Practice', 'Bob!', 'That 70s Show', 'Pound Puppies', 'Community', 'Saturday Night Live', 'Snickers')

PERSONALITIES

Kerry Vincent ('Food Network Challenge' judge)
Tommy Lasorda ('CHiPs', 'Fantasy Island', 'Police Squad')
Pat Loud ('An American Family')
Joanne Rogers ('Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood', Fred Rogers' widow)
Angie Jakusz ('Survivor: Palau')
Hank Aaron ('Mr. Belvedere', 'Arli$$'. MacGyver')
Mick Norcross ('The Only Way Is Essex')
Larry King ('30 Rock', 'Frasier', 'Murphy Brown')
Sonny Fox ('Wonderama')
Rush Limbaugh (talk show host & actor - 'Family Guy')
Mary Wells of The Supremes, actor - 'Tarzan' & League of Themselves - '227', "Tiger Town')
Nelson Robinette Webb (Voice of '60 Minutes', and  'CBS Evening News')
Billy Brown ('Alaskan Bush People')
Brayden Smith ('Jeopardy!')
Vernon Jordan ('The Good Fight')
Nikki Grahame ('Big Brother')
Erica Faye Watson (Chicago morning comic)
Mark Wilson ('The Magic Land Of Allakazam')
Sabine Schmitz ('Top Gear', 'Extra Gear')
Deshayla Harris ('Bad Girls Club')
Gerron Taylor ('Baldwin Hills')
Adam Perkins (Tik-Tok & Vine celebrity)
Jill Corey ('Music On Ice', 'Your Hit  Parade', 'The Johnny Carson Show', 'The Ed Sullivan Show', 
Martin Bookspan (Voice of 'Live From Lincoln Center')
Freddy Marks ('Rainbow', 'Roddy, Jane, and Freddy')
Raffaella Carra ('!Hola Raffaella!', 'En Casa Con Raffaella', 'Raffaella Venerdi, Sabato e Domenica... E Saranno Famosi') 
Tom O'Connor ('Countdown', 'Name That Tune', 'Crosswits', 'The Doctors')
Ron Poleil (Infomercial King)
Dusty Hill (ZZ Top videos, 'Two and a Half Men', 'King Of The Hill', 'The Drew Carey Show')
Mal Z. Lawrence ('Law & Order', 'The Merv Griffin Show', comedy specials)
Alan Kalter (The voice of 'Late Show with David Letterman', Michelin Man, 'Commander USA's Groovie Movies', 'USA Saturday Nightmares')
Fuller Goldsmith ('Chopped Junior', 'Top Chef Junior')
Mort Sahl (Comedian with political commentary edge)
Rose Lee Maphis ('Ranch Party', 'This Is Your Life', 'Hee Haw')
Skilyr Hicks ('America's Got Talent')
Elfrida Von Nardroff ('Twenty-One' - won more than anyone else, but she got caught up in the fixed game scandal.)
Mike Nesmith ('The Monkees', 'Television Parts', 'Elephant Parts')
Jason Hitch ('90 Days Fiance')
Tiffini Hale ('The Mickey Mouse Club', 'Blossom')
Robert Bruce ('Comic Book Men')

NEWS & SPORTS
Patricia Lynch (NBC investigative journalist specializing in cults)
Katherine Creag (WNBC, NY1 reporter)
Irv Cross ('NFL Today')
Murray Walker (Formula 1 commentator)
Bob Abernethy (Journalist for NBC & PBS, 'Religion and Ethics News Weekly)
Bill McCreary (Pioneering black journalist, WNEW in NYC)
Tony Esposito
Trevor Moore ('The Whitest Kids U Know')
Lloyd Dobyns ('NBC New Overnight', 'Weekend', 'NBC White Paper')
Willard Scott ('Today', 'Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade')
Jovita Moore (WSB-TV anchorwoman)
Brad Davis (WTIC )
John Madden (CBS football, Super Bowls, Miller's Lite commercials)

FRIDAY HALL OF FAMER 10/16/2020 - MARGARET H. WITCH

 

Last year I had considered Margaret Hamilton’s portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in “The Wizard Of Oz” as a candidate for membership in the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.  I don’t remember what my reasoning was to bypass her – it could be that I was already inducting a more tele-worthy witch and wanted to spread the witchy wealth out.

But she does have her advocates….

Hugh Davis:

Don't forget her part in The Paul Lynde Halloween Special. She shares scenes with The Wicked Witch of the West, played once again by Margaret Hamilton. This connects, of course, to the film The Wizard of Oz, but, thanks to Hamilton's guest appearance, also connects to Sesame Street, tying together the worlds of Sid & Marty Krofft and the Worlds of Jim Henson.

Thus….

MARGARET H. WITCH

Welcome to the TVXOHOF!

From Wikipedia:
The [Wicked Witch of the West’] most popular depiction was in the classic 1939 film based on Baum's novel, where she was portrayed by Margaret Hamilton. Hamilton's characterization introduced green skin and this has been continued in later literary and dramatic representations, including Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” (1995) and its musical stage adaptation “Wicked” (2003), the 2013 film “Oz the Great and Powerful”, and the television series ‘Once Upon A Time’ and ‘Emerald City’.

On a 1976 episode of the American television program ‘Sesame Street’, the Witch, once again played by Hamilton herself, drops her broom and falls onto the street. Big Bird and a Sesame Street resident, David, have the broom and refuses to give it back to her because he remembers who she is and what she did to Dorothy and Toto. In retaliation, she tells them she would turn them into a basketball and feather duster if they do not give it back and adds rain to Mr. Hooper’s store. In order to get the broom back, she must prove that she can be nice and she turns into an old lady. The Muppets, Susan, Gordon, Bob, Luis, and Hooper express fears of her, except for Oscar the Grouch, who develops a romantic relationship with her, and Big Bird.

After she proves that she is nice and she turns back into the Wicked Witch, Big Bird is upset when the time comes for her to leave. She reassures him that one day she will return (only to drop her broom yet again). The episode was not immune to negative reception.

Following the episode’s airing, the show’s production company The Children’s Television Workshop and series creators Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett received numerous complaints from parents, who claimed that the episode was frightening to young children, and was never aired again.

The Museum of the Moving Image in New York City screened part of the Wicked Witch episode on November 24, 2019, as part of a "Lost and Found" event celebrating ‘Sesame Street’'s 50th anniversary. It was accompanied by many other clips, including the unaired episode "Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce", along with a discussion panel with Jim Henson Legacy president Craig Shemin, former ‘Sesame Street’ head writer Norman Stiles, and Sesame Workshop's Rosemarie Truglio.

Hamilton also played the Wicked Witch of the West in “The Paul Lynde Halloween Special” (1976), and reprised her role several times on stage, most notably at the St. Louis Municipal Opera.

Hamilton also appeared as herself on ‘Mister Rogers' Neighborhood’ three times between 1975 and 1976. In these appearances, she demonstrated how her costume and acting skills made her appear to be the Witch, and assured her young viewers that there was nothing about her to be feared, because her portrayal in the film was only make-believe.

With all the appearances on TV plus in the Cineverse and the World-Stage, Margaret H. Witch is a multiversal, not just a multidimensional.  Within the realm of Earth Prime-Time, the 1939 movie has to be considered a movie since, unlike the original books and other adaptations, the adventure is treated as a concussion dream of Dorothy Gale’s.

So the televersion of Margaret Hamilton could be looked upon as a witch who became an actress.  It’s not so much of a stretch when you remember that in Toobworld, Emma Thompson was born in Akron, Ohio; Billy Martin burned down Studio 8-H, the ‘Saturday Night Live’ soundstage; Jack Benny was a robot; Dennis Rodman is an extraterrestrial; Dick Van Patten died of a heart attack while making a sitcom pilot; and Jean-Claude Van Damme was killed in a movie stunt and replaced by a robot.  (Probably made by the same company which made the “Jackbot”.)

So for Toobworld, Margaret H. Witch adopted the stage name of “Margaret Hamilton” and appeared as the Baum character, even though her portrayal maligned her people.

And by appearing in those other shows, she showed that she was also a serlinguist and apparently had the ability to change the color of her skin.

Here are the shows (and the ) which qualified Margaret H. Witch for the TVXOHOF as a multidimensional:

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Miss Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West

Mister Rogers Neighborhood 
Margaret H. Witch
- 1454 (1975)
- 1459 (1976)
O'Bservation - Margaret H. Witch in both

Sesame Street

- Episode #7.52 (1976)
Wicked Witch of the West

The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)
Housekeeper / The Wicked Witch of the West

So we’ve adapted Margaret Hamilton’s televersion to link all of her appearances together.  Not the weirdest thing I’ve done to get a favorite into the Hall.  Heck, I created a whole character from third-party mentions to forge a connection between ‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘Torchwood’!  What can I say?  It’s my sandbox even if these aren’t my action figures.

At any rate….

Welcome to the Hall, Ms. Witch!

THE 2019 TOOBITS AWARDS

2019 TOOBITS AWARDS
It's that time of year again, when we all make lists and think back over the past year, in whatever field of interest concerns us, and chronicle the high points and the lows.  For the past few years I've been presenting this compilation as an awards show, the Toobits, which of course celebrates my two bits about Toobworld.

As it is with any such list you'll find in TV columns across the country these last few weeks, these are my opinions.  You're welcome to your own and I hope you'll share them, but I'm sticking to my weapons of choice.  (It could be you won't see something that was a favorite of yours because I just never got around to seeing it.  There's only so much time in the world - even for a do-nothing-else-anyway sort like me! - and I've only got the two eyes, even if they do operate independently of each other at times.)

Unlike the Emmy Awards which will just keep handing out trophies to some shows forever, only shows, characters and what-not that debuted in 2019 can be considered.  (And by "debuted", I mean that which I first came in contact with in 2019. It could be a few years old, but if it's my first time seeing it, it's new.)  

This one-time-only rule includes characters who have been recast; those are still the same characters who already exist in Toobworld.  (But there were a few notable appearances that deserved honorable mention, and they get it.)

So without further ado, let's have at it:

BEST NEW TV SHOW
‘The Watchmen’
I was a big fan of the comic books/graphic novel.  Really enjoyed the movie.  (Never checked out the follow-up comics which apparently blended Moore & Gibbons’ vision into the greater DC Universe.  (Diluted it, actually, I would think.)  Since  Moore wasn’t involved (but with Gibbons on board as a consulting producer), I wasn’t sure if they could carry on the vision of the Wathmen’s world and its original feel.  But with Damon Lindelof in charge, who put ‘Lost’ into my top ten favorite TV series, I figured I should at least check it out.

Proved to be the fastest nine weeks to pass in a long time, and luckily without the agony in between episodes.  They threw a lot of balls into the air and successfully juggled them all to a satisfying conclusion.

Lindelof has been hedging if the show will be coming back; that this might have been a one-off; and that he might not be back if it does.  I probably should have listed this as the Best Limited Series, but I’d rather hold out hope.

BEST TV MOVIE
“The Aeronauts”
It doesn’t matter that it aired for maybe two weeks first in theatres; this was made for Netflix.  And I’m glad it was.  I don’t think I could have taken some of those scenes on the big screen!

WORST TV MOVIE
 A puzzler.  I could have sworn that there would have been a 2019  sequel to “Sharknado” by now.  Oh well.

BEST MINI-SERIES
‘Good Omens’
This was everything I hoped it would be, knowing the writings of Neil Gaiman and having heard so many good things about Terry Pratchett.  A great multi-national cast, witty bon mots and clever plot tricks, all fronted by the fantastic pairing of Tennant and Sheen.

BEST COMMERCIAL
Bud Light -> ‘Game Of Thrones’

 

WORST COMMERCIAL
Mint Mobile – “Chunky Milk”

As I posted to Facebook when it ran during the Super Bowl, “Mint Mobile just made me lactose intolerant.”

BEST IMPORT COMMERCIAL
Tine  
I usually don’t see commercials from other countries until Christmastime.  That’s when the world ups their A games.  It took me two years to see this one so it’s new to me.

 

BEST EPISODE, ANY GENRE
‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’
“Season Six/Episode 107”
The fifth year anniversary show played out in the style of the late Garry Shandling’s great ‘The Larry Sanders Show’.  It was a knowing, loving tribute to Shandling’s masterpiece, right down to the warm-up speech to the studio audience about the “Applause” sign.  Few commercials so that we could see more of the backstage antics mostly involving Ben Stiller.

And we've got a runner-up:
“The Intransigence of Love” – ‘You’re The Worst’
This sitcom has won this category once before, when it did something similar: kicking off the episode in such a way to make you think you must have recorded the wrong show.  Being off-balance while watching it leads to a pleasurable experience as it all pulls together.

BEST SERIES RETURN
‘The Twilight Zone’
This marks the fourth incarnation of the series.  Being an anthology series, it could afford to take some liberties with what came before and Peele pulled it off.

BEST SERIES FINALE
‘Game of Thrones’
The final season had its flaws, which I blame on HBO for rushing the last three years.  But even so, I think as far as the televersion of the George R.R. Martin opus goes, showrunners Benioff and Weiss stuck the landing.  (We probably won’t see the culmination of Martin’s vision for a couple more years.)

BEST CLIFF-HANGER
‘Watchmen’
“See How They Fly”
To watch Angela swallow the egg and start to step on the water was low-key.  But if the show never comes back, I know I won’t be the only one wondering what happened next.

BEST SPIN-OFF
‘Schooled’ from ‘The Goldbergs’

BEST SEQUEL
“Deadwood: The Movie”

BEST PROMO
‘The Twilight Zone’

 

BEST PILOT
‘Stumptown’
“Forget It, Dex.  It’s Stumptown”
That first four minutes was like a mini-Tarantino movie.  It’s been a fun ride since.

 

BEST EPISODE TITLE
'Watchmen'
“If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own”
It practically stands as a declaration by Damon Lindelof and luckily his challenge stood up to any possible criticism.  (That title could be a reference for Alan Moore as well, I suppose.)

BEST HISTORICAL RECREATION
‘The Watchmen’
The Tulsa, Oklahoma, massacre of 1921
Before this episode, I had never even heard of this horrific event.

BEST SERIES REVIVAL/REVAMPING
‘Murphy Brown’
It may not have been successful, but the revisit to Murphy’s world acknowledged the passage of time for the characters, the medium, and current history of our world.

WORST SERIES REVIVAL/REVAMPING
‘Jeopardy!’
Champion Teams Week
Maybe it was a minor adjustment, but the show should be like kabuki theater.  Everything has to be just so.  This format threw that out and I think it suffered for it.

BEST CLASSIC TV EXPERIENCE
‘Perry Mason’ & ‘Maverick’
Now that I’m retired, I have the time to give over to classic comfort series.  That helps when Perry Mason airs four times a day!

BEST CATCH-UP
‘The Outlander’
In January I first saw this show, beginning with the last few episodes of the fourth season.  It was off to the library and I sped through the first three seasons.  Then Starz reran the fourth in a marathon.  Wow.

BEST CROSSOVER
“Crisis On Infinite Earths”
Can there be any doubt?  And we’ve only seen three/fifths of the crossover so far.  A lot of potential inductees into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame will come out of this.

BEST CROSSOVER PLOTLINE
“Crisis On Multiple Earths”
Hands down.

BEST MULTIVERSAL CROSSOVER
EARTH PRIME-TIME & THE CINEVERSE
It’s a ‘Goldbergs’ tie!

‘The Goldbergs’ (“The Wedding Singer”)
“The Wedding Singer”
The sitcom blended their cast members into the Adam Sandler movie from 20 years ago or so.  Instead a simple mesh of scenes took place.  They didn’t actually interact with the characters played by Sandler, Drew Barrymore, and Billy Idol, but Barry and Lainie were on the plane, watching the romantic final scene from across the aisle.  And all Sandberg had to do to make this crossover possible was to okay it – he produces ‘The Goldbergs’.

‘The Goldbergs’ ("Animal House")
“National Lampoon’s Animal House”
With this we get a look at two characters from the movie as to how they looked twenty years after the events of the film – Hoover and Otter. Played by James Widdoes and Tim Matheson.

FIRST CROSSOVER OF THE YEAR
‘Young Sheldon’ with ‘ALF’
Missy Cooper wrote a fan letter to Alf, the main character of the eponymous sitcom.  But as we saw in “A Race Of Superhumans And A Letter To Alf”, Alf was not just a puppet in a sitcom as he appeared here in the Real World.  He is a living being of Toobworld. This links ‘Young Sheldon’ not just with ‘ALF’ but also with ‘Matlock’.

Sorry, ‘Schooled’.  And Coach Mellor and Beverly Goldberg as well.  You were six days too late.  And being a spin-off is kind of a cheat. But crossing over with a show that has no previous connection and one with a puppet alien?  You never stood a chance.

LAST CROSSOVER OF THE YEAR
As far as I can tell, “Crisis On Multiple Earths” is the last crossover for 2019.  Who would want to follow that?

BEST COMMERCIAL CROSSOVER
Walmart Grocery Pick-up – “Famous Cars”

BEST COMMERCIAL CROSSOVER WITH A DIFFERENT MEDIUM
THE CINEVERSE AND TOOBWORLD
Stella Artois
Crossing over with “The Big Lebowski” & ‘Sex And The  City’
Again, in the same commercial, Jeff Bridges showed up as The Dude.  He even got to deliver the most famous line from the movie.

As for Carrie Bradshaw, this puts her in contention for membership in the TV Crossover Hal of Fame.

 

BEST TOONIVERSE CROSSOVER
‘Milo Murphy’s Law’ – “The Phineas & Ferb Effect”
Basically kicked off the competition for this award right out of the gate for 2019 (Jan. 5.)  It was also a great example of a basic principle for the Tooniverse – despite the difference in animation styles, the characters didn’t notice it.  From their perspective, everybody is the same.  (Phineas and Ferb have now had their own series, appeared in another and interacted with the tooniversions of Marvel’s Avengers from their cartoon series.  I think you’ll see them in the Television Crossover Hall of Fame soon enow.

BEST MULTIVERSAL SPOOF
“Hamilton” as seen on ‘Tonight’

 

BEST RECASTAWAY
OVERALL
‘Worzel Gummidge’
Although they didn’t fully utilize the concept for recastaways, the adaptation which starred Jon Pertwee (1979-81) introduced the concept of switching heads for the living scarecrow.  While all those different heads back then were still Pertwee, we can use that splainin as to why Worzel Gummidge looks so different in this new incarnation.

FEMALE
Laurie Blake, ‘Watchmen’
It's the passage of time which helps the belief that Malin Akerman became Jean Smart after thirty plus years.  (The same could be said for Dr. Manhattan as well, but it’s his powers that make that more believable.)

MALE
Lord William Ransom, ‘Outlander’
When we first met Jamie’s illegitimate son, Willie was a newborn baby. And then  (played by Clark Butler). That was in the third season.  In the fourth season he returned with his step-father, Lord John Grey, as a twelve year old, now played by Oliver Finnegan.  It’s a long-standing tradition for Toobworld Central to accept recastaways due to aging of characters.  O’Bviously, the show couldn’t wait for Clark Butler to grow up.

WORST RECASTAWAY
Colonel George Washington, ‘Outlander’
It’s just that he was colorless.  Whether he was written that way or it was the fault of the actor, I don’t know.

BEST NEW MALE CHARACTER
Tie!
Crowley & Aziraphale, ‘Good Omens’
Really.  How could I split up the set?

BEST NEW FEMALE CHARACTER
Tie!
Dex Parios, ‘Stumptown’
Angela Abar, ‘Watchmen’

BEST NEW MALE SUPPORTING CHARACTER
Looking Glass, ‘Watchmen’
A great concept for a “superpower”, an intriguing backstory and a cool actor to play the role.  (Tim Blake Nelson)

BEST NEW SUPPORTING FEMALE CHARACTER
Dottie, ‘Bob Hearts Abishola’
Christine Ebersole was funny enough when she was first introduced.  She’s got the comedy acting chops to call on.  But once her character had the stroke, she could not be fenced in!

BEST CHARACTER ADAPTED FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM
Doctor Manhattan, ‘Watchmen’
Thanks to his powers, recasting wasn’t going to be a problem.  And the writing kept his secret well through the run of the series.  And we mustn’t forget his origins in the four color fictional universe either.

BEST CROSSOVER CHARACTERS
The Flash of Earth-90, “Crisis On Infinite Earths”

BEST GUEST FEMALE
Beverly Goldberg, ‘Schooled’
"Bevzilla" appeared in the pilot episode launching Lainie into her own series.  (I had to give it to her.  She’s a force of nature; I had to submit.)

BEST NEW CAST ENSEMBLE
Drama
‘Watchmen’ They had talent to spare - look at the contribution from Don Johnson!
Comedy
The NFL 100th Anniversary Commercial

 

BEST INTRODUCTION OF A CHARACTER
Will Davenport, ‘Grantchester’
When it comes to replacing characters, no major reasoning is needed for vicars; such a generic event happens all the time.  Yet they were still able to work in compelling drama on both sides of the replacement.

BEST HISTORICAL CHARACTER
Governor William Tryon, ‘Outlander’
The best part about this is that Tryon is not exactly the historical figure that could show up anywhere in Toobworld.  That only happens to the historicals who are easily recognized – like George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Julius Caesar in ‘Bewitched’.  And even in historical settings as found in ‘Outlander’, Tryon might have been depicted, but in a generic sense so that he’d be just listed as “Governor” in the credits.  

BEST NEW ALIEN CHARACTER
The Worry Monsters for POM  
Here's one of them:

BEST NEW PUPPET CHARACTERS
Grandma & Otis, Dean’s Stoves & Spa

What gave them the edge?  They are puppets living in Connecticut.  It’s the Connecticut of Toobworld, but they were seen out in it.  And they were seen interacting with a human.  Everything needed to show that in Toobworld puppets are alive, and all in 30 seconds.

BEST LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES APPEARANCE
Robert Picardo, ‘Schooled’
In the Real World, Picardo graduated from the William Penn Charter School in 1971, but in Toobworld, he graduated from William Penn Academy.  He came back to help drum up support for the school’s drama department but when he heard that a few alumni were also coming back to support the athletic department, he took off.  Picardo didn’t want to endure their hazing again.

BEST LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES APPEARANCE IN ALT-TOOBWORLD
Peter Frampton, ‘Madam Secretary’
Unfortunately, it’s not the main Toobworld, but hey!  We got to hear him play a house concert.

BEST LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES APPEARANCE IN A COMMERCIAL
Harrison Ford and his Boston Terrier, Amazon/Alexa

   

BEST CHARACTER RETURN
Zachariah, ‘Supernatural’
He was able to make it back for the 300th episode, even though an angel blade was driven right through his skull.  Now, that’s dedication!

BEST CHARACTER RETURN IN SKITLANDIA:
It’s a tie!
Gumby
Mr. Robinson
Velvet Jones
Buckwheat
“Saturday Night Live”
With the final episode of 2019 for ‘Saturday Night Live’, host Eddie Murphy brought back four of the characters he embodied during his time as a regular on the series back in the early 1980s.  (Here’s hoping he’ll come back for a Christmas show again, so that we can see more of Kiddle Diddles the Elf.)

BEST NEW MALE VILLAIN
Captain Stephen Bonnet, ‘Outlander’
And because of his inherently evil tendencies to get all rapey, we can depend on him for plenty of theories of relateeveety for Ed Speleers characters.

BEST NEW FEMALE VILLAIN
Dr. Trieu, ‘Watchmen’

BEST EXIT FOR A CHARACTER
TOOBWORLD
Lainie, ‘The Goldbergs’
She and Barry broke up in 1980-something and she moved to California to find herself.  This helped to set her up for her own show, ‘Schooled’, which debuted after her exit episode.

Young Ian Fraser, ‘Outlander’
The door was left open that we might see him again in the future.

SADDEST DEATH SCENE
WORST (GRISLIEST) DEATH SCENE
Father Alexandre Fernigault & Johiehon, ‘Outlander’
This is a double-header as the Mohawks put the priest to the stake and were slowly torturing him with fire.  Roger threw a barrel of fire-water on the flames to put him out of his misery.  The Mohawk woman who loved the priest and bore his child left her baby behind and willingly climbed into the flames to join him.

MOST SURPRISING DEATH SCENE
Dick Grayson, “Crisis On Infinite Earths”
I didn’t think they’d have the guts to do it.

FIRST MAJOR TV CHARACTER TO DIE
Lewis Archer, ‘Coronation Street’
It seems to be a tradition for this show to kill off a major character on New Year’s Day.  This year it was the rogue Lewis Archer who supposedly turned over a new leaf.  He died from stress about proposing to the woman whose family he wronged.  She found him with the engagement ring in his hand.

BEST NEW CHARACTER NAME

WORST NEW CHARACTER NAME
Dex Parios, ‘Stumptown’
As it stands, fine.  But her first name is Dexedrine? Blerg.

BEST NEW ALIAS
It's a tie!"Looking Glass" AKA Wade Tillman – ‘Watchmen’ 
“Otter Tooth” AKA Robert Singer, ‘Outlander’

BEST LINE
“The wealthiest camel has the biggest hump.” – NerdWallet commercial.

It reminds me of those signs found in the Village in ‘The Prisoner’

BEST NEW TOOBWORLD LOCATION
Hindafing in Bavaria, ‘Hindafing’
The show is two years old, and apparently only six episodes deep.  I suppose I should count it as a miniseries.  But at the least, Hindafing is here to stay on the Toobworld map.

BEST FIGHT SCENE
‘Stumptown’
And that was within the first four minutes of the series!

BEST ADAPTATIONS TO ANOTHER MEDIUM
TV TO MOVIE
‘Downton Abbey’
COMIC BOOK to TV
‘Stumptown’
COMIC BOOK TO MOVIE TO TV
‘Watchmen’

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT IN A SHOW
The powers that be (lower case) moving ‘The Orville’ to HULU.  Greedy bleeps.

 

TOOBWOLD DAY

From Wikipedia:

On 13 December 1795 a meteorite crashed on the outskirts of the village, landing within metres of ploughman John Shipley.  As a monument to this event there is a brick column bearing the inscription.  [See below.]

The meteorite is now housed in the Natural History Museum and the occurrence inspired the development of the body of science fiction literature known as the Wold Newton family by American author Philip José Farmer.

Today is Wold Newton Day, the day when the meteorite crashed near Wold Newton and its radioactive aura imbued over a dozen travelers who stopped by to examine the site.

From those people, whose DNA was affected by the radiation, came some of the greatest heroes and villains the world just outside the window has ever known. This was all chronicled initially by Philip Jose Farmer and later carried on by ardent archivists of connected material.

Earth Prime-Time is NOT Wold Newton, but several members of the WNU Family and other affiliated characters are part of Toobworld.  However, Toobworld only deals with their “televersions”, not their characterizations from the original sources or other adaptations… with some exceptions.

In “The Night Of The Dancing Death” from the first season of ‘The Wild Wild West’, Secret Service agent Artemus Gordon needed to create a diversion so that fellow agent James West could leave the ballroom in the Albanian embassy without notice.  In disguise as the Grand Elector of Saxony, Artemus instigated a fight with an elderly representative for Pomerania.

“Grand Elector”:
If I were the American Secretary, I should censure you for violating the Carpathian border.  After all, you had your gunboats fire on their coastlines, their ports.
Landgrave:
You presume to condemn?  For people in- in need of money, in need of friends?  Still much greater than Carpathia!
“Grand Elector”:
My father always said over and over and over again, you can never trust a land-hungry Pomeranian.

While there are the Carpathian Mountains and a small historic region in Central Europe known as Carpathian Ruthenia, this reference is to a fictional kingdom which served as the homeland for King Nicholas VIII.  The King, who inherited the crown on his mother's side, visited London in 1911 for the coronation of George V on June 22.  He was accompanied by his father Charles, the Prince Regent (as Nicholas is only sixteen years old), and by his maternal grandmother, the Dowager Queen of Carpathia.

Carpathia is the fictional Balkan kingdom in the 1957 film “The Prince and the Showgirl”, based on a play by Terence Rattigan.

As I mentioned earlier, Earth Prime-Time is not part of the Wold Newton Universe.  We do share the characters of Artemus Gordon and James West, but there are differences.

In the CU of Wold Newton, the archivists can draw upon other sources to enhance the biographies of the agents.  Toobworld only uses the TV series episodes and the two TV movies.  From that we also extrapolate “theories of relateeveety” to make the claims that both men are related to TV characters from other shows at different points in the Toobworld Timeline.

But we do stipulate certain details from the WNU to be in effect for Toobworld as well – their dates of birth for instance.

As for the theatrical film with Will Smith and Kevin Kline?  That’s right out!  That belongs in the meta-fictional universe of the movies, for which Craig Shaw Gardner coined the term “the Cineverse”.

But speaking of movies, there are times we absorb a film wholly into the TV Universe, knowing that it won’t affect the integrity of Toobworld.  Of course all of those movies spun off from TV shows and using the original casts – ‘Maverick’, ‘Batman 1966’, ‘Downton Abbey’, the first several ‘McHale’s Navy’ flicks and the ‘Star Trek’ franchise from “The Motion Picture” to the first fifteen minutes of the ‘Star Trek’ reboot from 2009 – only up until Spock entered the black hole.  For Toobworld, that marked the death of Spock.  (Everything after becomes a movie of 2009, fantasizing the rest of that future.)

So with “The Prince And The Showgirl”, having read through a synopsis of the plotline, I see no reason why it would upset the dynamics of Toobworld to bring it into the TV Universe.  And so it’s a crossover which at least works for the Toobworld Dynamic.

Happy Wold Newton Day, Toobworld-style!