KASY'S CREATIVE CLOSET CLIPS FROM "I LOVE LUCY"

Closets have been a staple in comedy for a long time, probably since the early days of Feydeau farce, maybe even earlier.  But definitely since the radio days of "Fibber McGee and Molly."

Kasy Long, a fellow member of the Facebook page "Classic TV Lovers' Haven" has put together this compilation of how the closet in the Ricardos' apartment played a key role in a lot of the 'I Love Lucy' episodes.

Take a look.  I think you'll enjoy the memories...... 

BCnU!

TVXOHOF (06/08/18) - THE LOS ANGELES CHRONICLE

With this new schedule of inducting a new member of the TV Crossover Hall of Fame every week, we've already seen the entries of the New York Chronicle, its managing editor Martin Lane, and - as a special Birthday Honors list induction - newspaper magnate Arthur Kennicut.  So now it's time to turn our attention to another newspaper owned by Kennicut - the Los Angeles Chronicle.

The LA Chronicle is probably most associated with 'Perry Mason'.  Many of the murder cases in which the lawyer was involved ended up blared across the front page of the paper.  But we've also seen it in episodes of 'Quincy, M.E.', 'Police Story', the pilot episode for 'Cool and Lam', among others.

Here are some examples:

'PERRY MASON'

 

'QUINCY, M.E.'

'THE ROCKFORD FILES'

'POLICE STORY'

'77 SUNSET STRIP'

'COOL AND LAM'

'COLUMBO'

(In this picture, Lt. Columbo is on the phone
with the weather desk at the LA Chronicle)

Welcome to the media gallery of the TVXOHOF!

FANFICCER'S FRIEND - THE VILLAGE DOCTOR

Yesterday was birthday which is why today's post is rather late.  I spent the day wallowing in the adventures of my favorite Time Lord, the Second Incarnation of the Doctor.

This month we also saw the 50th anniversary of 'The Prisoner' - at least as far as the American broadcast was concerned.

I always wanted to see those two TV shows combined in Toobworld, but of course it could only happen in fanfic now.  

But such an idea has flourished in the works of those who enjoy photoshop.  So, since I'm feeling particularly lazy today, let me share with you some fine examples of the Doctor and the TARDIS in the Village.....

BCnU!

TVXOHOF (06/08/18) - ARTHUR KENNICUT

‘COLUMBO’
“DEATH LENDS A HAND”

Brimmer:
Mrs. Kennicut, a detective agency runs on information. That's our raw material. Your husband owns three newspapers, two on this coast and one on the East. Whenever anything happens on the inside of business or politics or even in the jet-set....

ARTHUR KENNICUT AT HOME

It may be a flaw in my line of thinking, but I would think that it’s pozz’ble, just pozz’ble, that Arthur Kennicut might want to establish his three newspapers as a brand.  In doing so, he would have made sure that each of them had the same basic name, with only the location for the paper being the difference.

So I’m making the claim that Arthur Kennicut owned two of the best-known newspapers of Toobworld – the New York Chronicle (also known as just The Daily Chronicle) and the Los Angeles Chronicle. 

 

The NY Chronicle has been inducted in the last few weeks (along with Martin Lane, managing editor of the New York Chronicle).  The LA Chronicle will be inducted next week.  But as Brimmer mentioned, Kennicut owned two newspapers on the West Coast.  So what could be that third newspaper?

I can’t tell you how tempting it was to use this picture and claim that it was the Chronicle from Portland, Oregon.  (There was a ‘Murder, She Wrote’ which took place in Eden, Oregon.)  But this was more than likely the Chronicle from Portland, Maine, just up Route 1 from Cabot Cove.

I was ready to give up on the premise that all three papers had to be the Chronicle.  I was thinking that if Kennicut did have a second West Coast newspaper, he’d want one in a really major market, where he could exert his influence over topics like the nomination of a federal judge.  (As happened in “Death Lends A Hand”.)

So I turned to San Francisco, thinking that Kennicut would consider that an important metropolis in which to control a piece of the news media.  And if there was any fictional newspaper that represented the City by the Bay, then it would be the San Francisco Dispatch as often seen in episodes of ‘Ironside’.

I could have gone with that, with the claim that Kennicut wanted to change its name to the Chronicle, but that local pressure regarding tradition overturned that decision.

But then I saw another episode of ‘Ironside’ with Greg Mullavey as the guest star:

So there it was – a copy of the San Francisco Chronicle.  Now I had the three newspapers that could have been owned by Arthur Kennicut – the Kennicut Chronicles.

This is O’Bviously a Birthday Honors List membership, based on my desire to cement connections between shows which never existed before.

Welcome to the Crossover Hall of Fame, Arthur Kennicut!

THAT TWO-FACED TOBY O'BRIEN (A BIRTHDAY SALUTE)

Oh.  You didn’t think I was talking about me, did you?

I can’t tell you what a thrill it was back in January of 1974 when I opened the TV Guide for the week of the 15^th and found that one of the characters in that week’s episode of ‘Police Story’ was named Toby O’Brien!  I even still have the original listing in one of my scrapbooks.

Taylor Lacher played that Toby O’Brien, partner to Vic Morrow’s detective Joe LaFrieda.  However, what I didn’t know then and which I never bothered to research until the week of October 19^th of last year, was that it was not the first time that Detective Toby O’Brien had appeared in the series.  And that when he first showed up, it wasn’t Taylor Lacher who was playing him.

Grrr.  Arrrgh.  I hate recastaways!

TOBY O'BRIEN

TOBY O'BRIEN

 Joe LaFrieda – with Morrow playing the role – was the focus of the very first episode of ‘Police Story’, a TV movie pilot entitled “Slow Boy”.  And in that extra-long episode, Toby O’Brien was played by James Luisi, who would come to fame later in Toobworld as another fictional LAPD detective, Lt. Doug Chapman, in ‘The Rockford Files’.

Taylor Lacher was in that first episode of ‘Police Story’, playing the 2^nd Detective at the first supermarket robbery.  (I watched that scene twice, I couldn’t pick him out.)

So I started thinking about how to splain away this Zonk.  I knew I couldn’t use any of the usual reasons since ‘Police Story’ was pretty much grounded in “reality”; alien impersonations, quantum leapers, and even plastic surgery just didn’t feel right as a reason for the change in appearance.

So I thought – why not find some reason for Doug Chapman to be teamed up with the racist detective “Sally Pickles” but using Toby’s name?  And meanwhile Toby was still working under his own name.  But even that didn’t make sense.

So then I looked through the cast lists for both “Slow Boy” and the two-part return of Joe LaFrieda – “Countdown, Parts I & II”.  And save for Vic Morrow coming back as LaFrieda, none of the characters who returned were played by the original actors.

JENNY DALE LaFRIEDA
“Slow Boy” – Diane Baker played Jenny Dale, a hostage who fell in love with LaFrieda.
“Countdown” - She was now married to Joe, and as Jenny LaFrieda she was played by Laraine Stephens.

LT. DAVE BLODGETT
“Slow Boy” – Joe’s boss was played by Ed Asner, at the height of his popularity with Lou Grant in ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’; a great get for selling the series.
“Countdown” – Tige Andrews was now Blodgett, perhaps more believable as a hard-line detective.

SAL PICKLES
“Slow Boy” – Sgt. Piccolini was played by Harry Guardino who was shown his comeuppance for his racist ways when he was teamed up with an undercover cop played by black actress Kim Hamilton.  (And she was fantastic in the role; she should have been in more of the episode than that sub-plot.)
“Countdown” – Joe Santos, another alumnus of ‘The Rockford Files’ now took over the role.

Mel Scott as the detective known as K.T. returned for this LaFrieda sequel, but it wasn’t enough to gloss over those other recastaways.

So I had to accept defeat in keeping all three episodes in the same TV dimension.  And even though the usual rule is that the first version gets to stay in the main Toobworld, there was a reason I had to ship it off to Prequel Toobworld instead.  It was all due to character actor Scott Brady, who appeared in sixteen episodes of ‘Police Story’ as Vinnie – a retired cop who now operated the bar where the cops would hang out when off-duty.  There was no way I was going to cherry-pick those episodes out of the line-up and team them up with the pilot movie.  It was better in the long run to have the series, beginning with the second episode, remain in Earth Prime-Time while “Slow Boy” was relegated to the TV dimension of pilot episodes, Prequel Toobworld.

And so that’s why there have been three Toby O’Briens in the overall TV Universe.  James Luisi’s version in Prequel Toobworld, and Taylor Lacher for the main Toobworld. 

The third one?  Why, you’re reading him!  My fictional televersion, played by Yours Truly, was inducted into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame on this day back in 2005 as a member of the League of Themselves.  To my credit I have ‘The Hap Richards Show’ and ‘The Ranger Andy Show’, two local kids’ shows in Connecticut, the TV movie “The Deadliest Season”, and I’m spotted in the audience for the 100^th episode of ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ as Dave handed vacation pictures to me and Patrick Scully. 

TOBY O'BRIEN

(YOURS TRULY)

WEARING THE DEEP BLUE SHIRT

Like I said, that happened on this day 13 years ago as the Birthday Honors List inductee.

So that means…. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

BCnU!

TUESDAY NEWS DAY - "DOCTOR FOSTER": ABROAD

From Wikipedia:
Doctor Foster is a BBC One drama television series that was first broadcast on 9 September 2015. The five-part series, written by Mike Bartlett, is about Dr Gemma Foster, who suspects that her husband is having an affair. After she follows several lines of enquiry, far more in her life unravels, including a streak of violence below the surface.  [The storyline was inspired by the ancient myth of Medea, a wronged wife who poisons her husband's new bride and kills their children.] The second series started on 5 September 2017 and concluded on 3 October 2017.

Even though the TV series concluded in October of last year, it is already being remade. But even so, both series will be allowed to remain in the main Toobworld.

From TBIvision:

BBC Studios has sold the 'Doctor Foster' format to TF1 for a French remake, turning it into the first scripted production for BBC Studios in the region.

The BBC’s French production base will co-produce the 6×52 minute series for TF1 with Storia Télévision and will begin filming this month in Biarritz and the Nouvelle Aquitaine region.

Mike Bartlett’s creation, originally produced by Drama Republic, will be renamed 'Infidéle' (Unfaithful) and directed by Didier Le Pêcheur.

The screenplay will be adapted by Hélène Duchâteau, Baptiste Filleul and Pierre Linhart. French actress and singer Claire Keim will take the lead role of Emma Sandrelli.

The deal with TF1 follows on from the news that Russia, licensed to Star Media for broadcast on Russia 1, will also remake the series starring acclaimed actress, Kseniay Rapporport, in the lead role.

BBC Studios’ French production base has launched a number of British shows in the region, notably 'Top Gear' ('Top Gear France'), 'The Great Bake Off' ('Le Meilleur Pâtissier'), 'Dancing with the Stars' ('Danse avec les Stars') and 'The Great Sewing Bee' ('Cousu Main').  But 'Infidéle' may be the first scripted production from the company.  (I have no verification on that.)

'Infidéle' will not cause a Zonk in the main Toobworld because there are enough differences being planned so that it won't be a carbon copy of 'Doctor Foster' - change in the characters' names and MAJOR change in location.  I might even be able to theorize that Emma Sandrelli was inspired by seeing the story about Dr. Gemma Foster on the news.

And when Kseniay Rapporport appears in the Russian version, I feel confidant that it will also be allowed to stay in Earth Prime-Time and that her character will also be inspired by Doctor Foster.....

Big hat tip to Rob Buckley of the blog "The Medium Is Not Enough" for the lead on this story.....

  

WISH-CRAFT - HARVEY WEINSTEIN & COLUMBO

"COLUMBO CRIES WOLF"

LT. COLUMBO:

Now you wanna tell me where you were? 

TINA:

I was with a very famous producer at his place in Malibu.

I can't see how the whole #metoo movement can avoid becoming, at the very least, a Lifetime movie.  And one of the key players who might even have several movies made about him would be mega-producer Harvey Weinstein.

Based on all the reports and allegations about his sickening treatment of women, I can easily imagine that the "very famous producer in Malibu" could be the televersion of Weinstein (but definitely not the real deal).  And the fictional Weinstein more than likely would have tried to take advantage of this favor he was doing for Sean Brantley.

Should there ever be a televersion of Harvey Weinstein who could be considered part of Earth Prime-Time (and not some Skitlandian on a show like 'Saturday Night Live'), then we could add this veiled reference as a theoretical connection to that performance.

(Anybody need a suggestion for casting Harvey Weinstein?  How about Jon Favreau?)

I hope a movie is made to depict his crimes.  There couldn't be a more deserving fellow to be tarred with such a pop culture stain.

BCnU!

TVXOHOF, JUNE 2018 - HELEN KELLER & ANNIE SULLIVAN

Fifty years ago yesterday, Helen Keller passed away at the age of 87.  On June 27 ("Helen Keller Day" nationally since 1980), she would have been 138 years old.  Her teacher and companion, Anne Sullivan, passed away in 1936 at the age of 70.

From Wikipedia:
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum and sponsors an annual "Helen Keller Day". Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth.

A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, anti-militarism, and other similar causes. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971 and was one of twelve inaugural inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame on June 8, 2015. Keller proved to the world that deaf people could all learn to communicate and that they could survive in the hearing world. She also taught that deaf people are capable of doing things that hearing people can do. One of the most famous deaf people in history, she is an idol to many deaf people in the world. 

Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy (April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936), better known as Anne Sullivan, was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.  At the age of five, she contracted trachoma, a highly contagious eye disease, which left her blind and without reading or writing skills.[2] She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind where upon graduation she became a teacher to Keller when she was 20.

The summer following Sullivan's graduation, the director of the Perkins Institution, Michael Anagnos, was contacted by Arthur Keller, who was in search of a teacher for his 7-year-old blind and deaf daughter, Helen. Anagnos immediately recommended Sullivan for this position and she began her work on March 3, 1887, at the Kellers' home in Tuscumbia, Alabama. As soon as she arrived there, she argued with Helen's parents about the Civil War and over the fact that they used to own slaves. However she also quickly connected with Helen. It was the beginning of a 49-year relationship: Sullivan evolved from teacher to governess and finally to companion and friend.
Sullivan's curriculum involved a strict schedule with constant introduction of new vocabulary words; however, Sullivan quickly changed her teachings after seeing they did not suit Keller. Instead, she began to teach her vocabulary based on her own interests, where she spelled each word out into Keller's palm; within six months this method proved to be working when Keller had learned 575 words, some multiplication tables, as well as the Braille system. Sullivan strongly encouraged Helen's parents to send her to the Perkins School where she could have an appropriate education. When they agreed, Sullivan took Keller to Boston in 1888 and stayed with her there. Sullivan continued to teach her bright protégé, who soon became famous for her remarkable progress. With the help of Anagnos, Keller became a public symbol for the school, helping to increase its funding and donations and making it the most famous and sought-after school for the blind in the country. However, an accusation of plagiarism against Keller greatly upset Sullivan: she left and never returned, but did remain influential to the school. Sullivan remained a close companion to Keller and continued to assist in her education, which ultimately included a degree from Radcliffe College.

Ms. Keller and Annie Sullivan are not being inducted as members of the League of Themselves.  As portrayed by others, they are a multidimensional.  Many of those portrayals were set in the alternate TV dimension known as Toobstage, that dimension in which theatrical plays are replayed over and over again.  This is thanks to the William Gibson play "The Miracle Worker" which began as a TV production.

From Wikipedia:

"The Miracle Worker" is a cycle of 20th-century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography "The Story of My Life". Each of the various dramas describes the relationship between Helen, a deaf,blind and initially almost feral child, and Anne Sullivan, the teacher who introduced her to education, activism, and international stardom.

Its first realization was a 1957 'Playhouse 90' broadcast written by William Gibson and starring Teresa Wright as Sullivan and Patricia McCormack as Keller. Gibson adapted his teleplay for a 1959 Broadway production with Anne Bancroft as Sullivan. The first movie, also starring Bancroft, was released in 1962. Subsequent made-for-television movies were released in 1979 and 2000.

TOOBSTAGE

'Playhouse 90'
"The Miracle Worker" (1957 episode) 
Teresa Wright as Annie Sullivan 
Patricia McCormack as Helen Keller

Anna dei Miracoli (1990 TV movie)
Anna Proclemer as Anne Sullivan
Cinzia de Carolis as Helen Keller

'Estudio 1'

"El Milagro de Ana Sullivan" (1978 episode)
Tina Sainz as Ana Sullivan

Nuria Gallardo as Helen Keller

The Miracle Worker (1979 TV movie) 
Patty Duke as Annie Sullivan 
Melissa Gilbert as Helen Keller

Anna dei Miracoli (1990 TV movie)

Mariangela Melato as Annie Sullivan

The Miracle Worker (2000 TV movie) 
Alison Elliott as Annie Sullivan 
Hallie Kate Eisenberg as Helen Keller

(The portrayals by Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan and Patty Duke as Helen Keller, perhaps the best-known versions, are excluded because the Broadway play belongs in some theatrical metaverse and the movie belongs in the Cineverse.)

There are other portrayals of Keller and Sullivan in other TV dimensions.

"Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues" (1984 TV movie)
Blythe Danner as Annie Sullivan
Mare Winningham as Helen Keller

"Monday After The Miracle" (1998 TV movie)
Roma Downey as Annie Sullivan
Moira Kelly as Helen Keller

And then there are her depictions in the Tooniverse, which is a "Borderland" of all forms of animation.

'Wonderful Story'
"Annie Sullivan & Helen Keller"

'American Hero Classics'
"Helen Keller"

'Muffin Stories'
"Helen Keller"

It is in that dimension where animation from the movies as well as TV are blended together.  And the inhabitants don't normally recognize the difference in their animation styles.

But it is her portrayal in an episode of 'Murdoch Mysteries' which is the official portrait for Earth Prime-Time.

TOOBWORLD

'Murdoch Mysteries' (2017 episode)
"8 Footsteps"

From the CBC program description:
A recording device made by Alexander Graham Bell assists in the investigation of a murder at a dinner honoring Helen Keller.

From the "Murdoch Mysteries" Wiki:
A recording device made by Alexander Graham Bell helps Murdoch's investigation into a murder at a dinner honouring Helen Keller.

There is a charity event at the Windsor House Hotel, where William Murdoch and Julia Ogden live. The guest of honour is Helen Keller. The guests dine in total darkness so that they can experience what it’s like being blind, but not everyone makes it through dinner.

Severn Thompson as Annie Sullivan Macy
Amanda Richer as Helen Keller

As herself, she does show up in Docu-Toobworld, thanks to documentaries and appearances in episodes of 'Biography'.

Technically all of these portrayals are considered one-shots, despite most of them being based on the same script.  But the Toobworld portrayal gets preference because both televersions interact with previously established fictional characters.  (For example, Dr. Ogden has been corresponding with Anne Sullivan prior to their meeting.)

Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Ladies.....

TELE-FOLKS DIRECTORY - THE TELEVERSION OF MIKE LALLY

Bartender:
This gentleman is from out of town.
He says he knows you.
Mike Lally:
How are you? 
Glad to see you again.
The Great Santini:
Michael Lally.
The greatest wire act, he and his brother.
You should have seen them.
How is he? 
Mike Lally:
Well, he's still working.
I gave the act up.
I got a little bit too old Mr. Santini. 

'COLUMBO'
"NOW YOU SEE HIM"

Actor Mike Lally was like a lucky charm for the TV show 'Columbo', appearing in 24 episodes of the series.  Usually he played small roles in the background; some of them could be assumed to be the same man, especially his police detective/photographers.

His biggest role on the show was actually as himself, but the televersion.  Lally might have been an actor in the Real World, but in Toobworld, Mike Lally had been a member of a high-wire act in his younger years.

By the time we met his "televersion", Lally was broken-down, living in a shabby SRO in Los Angeles.  And it looked like he spent most of his days on his bed in his bathrobe, drinking.  

(It was probably drink which led to the end of his career on the high-wire.  Some days he would hang out in Skid Row, drinking right out there on the street.  That's how he first met Columbo during the Galesko murder investigation, although neither one remembered the encounter.*) 

One night, he must have scraped together enough for a night on the town and went to the Magic Castle in order to see the magician known as The Great Santini.  Back in his salad days, Lally knew Santini when he was just starting out as a magician.  But Santini went by a different name back then, although Lally couldn't remember if his stage name was Arlington or Kensington.

(As it turned out, Santini was going by the name "Washington" in those days.  In response to Lt. Columbo's follow-up question, Santini sarcastically replied that his first name was "Martha.")

Lally probably told Santini that he was from out of town, because the truth about living in a Skid Row SRO was too depressing to bring up.

Unfortunately for Santini, Columbo was also in the Magic Caste audience that same night as Mike Lally.  The detective tracked down the former trapeze artist in order to get some information on Santini's background, learning enough to realize that his real identity was still shrouded in secrecy - and that it could be the key to the solution of his murder investigation.

Playing himself, and yet not himself, in Toobworld puts Mike Lally in a select group of "televersions"  Others who had different lives in the Television Universe would include:

• DENNIS RODMAN - an extra-terrestrial ('3rd Rock From The Sun')
• WILLY MAYS - a warlock ('Bewitched')
• EMMA THOMPSON - born and raised in Akron, Ohio ('Ellen')
• JULIANNE MOORE - shot in the stomach by an arrow ('Nightcap')
• DICK VAN PATTEN - died years before he actually died ('Cybil')
• BO DEREK - an evil spy ('Chuck')

Whaddya know?  We got ourselves a Super Six List!

At any rate, on the occasion of the 118th anniversary of his birth, I'm tipping my Toob topper to the memory of Mike Lally - not the actor, but the aerialist....

BCnU!

*Remember - this is the televersion of Mike Lally, not the actual man.  It's just a role he was playing.

BOOK 'EM RECASTAWAYS - DORIAN GRAY

When the 'Warehouse 13' agents searched a fashion show in a case that revolved around the fast-acting premature aging of models, Pete Latimer said: "Nobody's got the picture of Dorian Gray hanging up for decoration."  To which Artie replied that the original portrait was hanging in the Warehouse.

From the IMDb:
'WAREHOUSE 13'
The Picture of Dorian Gray in Warehouse
Pete: Nobody's got the picture of Dorian Gray hanging up for decoration.

Referencing Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. (1890). The title character, a young hedonist who makes a wish that a portrait of himself will grow old while he remains young and untouched. His wish is granted and he lives a life of debauchery and vice while the portrait grows ever more aged and disfigured. In the end, Gray stabs his portrait, causing his own death and transferring the disfigurements back to himself. 

Oscar Wilde wrote a non-fictional account about Dorian Gray's picture back in 1890, so we know the "true" events in Toobworld occurred before then.  And in 1961 we saw those events played out in a TV movie.  So it is part of the TV Universe.  (And it can be found in the Wold Newton Universe as well although Dorian Gray is not a member of the Wold Newton Family itself, just part of the overall Wold Newton Universe.)

So 'Warehouse 13' has another link, this time to the TV movie.  By the way, there were two adaptations in 1961, and although I'm partial to John Fraser, I'll stick with my standard rule - First broadcast belongs in Earth Prime-Time.  That means Jeremy Brett is the face of Dorian Gray for the main Toobworld.  What I like about that is a theory of relateeveety could be made in which Dorian Gray might be related to the Sherlock Holmes of Toobworld, also portrayed by Jeremy Brett.

The Dorian Gray of 'Penny Dreadful', in fact the entire series, had to be moved to another TV dimension.  There were just too many Zonks to reconcile.

Here are the TV adaptations of Wilde's story over the years.

Armchair Theatre: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1961)

Starring Jeremy Brett as Dorian Gray
[As mentioned earlier, this is the official televersion of the story for Earth Prime-Time.]

Golden Showcase: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1961)

John Fraser as Dorian Gray

El Retrato de Dorian Gray (1969): 

Starring Enrique Álvarez Félix as Dorian Gray
[This took place in Spanish Toobworld.]

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)

Starring Shane Briant as Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976) 

Starring Peter Firth as Dorian Gray

The Sins of Dorian Gray (1983)

Starring Belinda Bauer as a female Dorian Gray
[This took place in a TV dimension established in 'Sliders'.  In this case it was the world in which women held sway - they had Pope Jane Pauley, for example.]

Penny Dreadful (2014-2016)

Starring Reeve Carney as Dorian Gray
[The TV dimension for this series could be the same as that for the series 'Dickensian'.]

Each of them have been relegated to other TV dimensions.

BCnU!

My thanks to Win Scott Eckert for his help in this post.