TVXOHOF, CHRISTMAS 2017 - WE'RE HAVING FISH FOR CHRISTMAS!

Just like the Queen (a member of the TVXOHOF), the Television Crossover Hall of Fame has its own Christmas Honors List.  Usually the honor goes to a Multiversal character - one who exists in at least three different metafictional universes, with a TV dimension being at least one of them.  Bilbo and Frodo Baggins are examples of Multiversals in the Hall - BookWorld, the Cineverse, the Tooniverse, and Skitlandia.

But the "honorific" at Christmastime, as with the Birthday Honors list, can also be a chance to ease up on the restrictions for membership.  It should be that a member has three credits to his name that are independent from each other.  For instance, a TV series, a TV movie, a commercial; crossovers into other TV shows as well as spin-offs and sequels.  Theatrical movies with the original cast can be absorbed into the TV Universe and thus count for membership.  Allowances are also made for other TV dimensions besides Earth Prime-Time, like the Tooniverse and Skitlandia, which would establish the inductee as a multi-dimensional.

And that caveat can be stretched just a bit further as well....

But first, let's take a look at our "honoree" for this year,
Phil Fish......

From Wikipedia: 

Detective Phil Fish is a fictional NYPD detective in the TV series 'Barney Miller' and later in the spin off series 'Fish'. He was played by Abe Vigoda.

Fish was an odd character for a television detective: aged, grumpy, and suffering from a variety of maladies for which he constantly needed medication. The most recurring malady was inflamed hemorrhoids where he would bring a donut cushion to his desk chair. The detectives' bathroom was as important to him as his desk.

Fish's wife was Bernice, played by Florence Stanley, who made occasional visits to the squad room and whose name the aging Fish once forgot during breakfast.

After retiring from the 12th precinct, the character of Fish became the center of his own series, 'Fish', in which he and his wife served as foster parents for a number of troubled children, referred to euphemistically as PINS, or "persons in need of supervision".

His successor at the precinct was Det. Arthur P. Dietrich. Fish visited the 12th precinct once more after his retirement from the force and the end of the series Fish (in the episode "Lady and the Bomb"), but it proved to be a bit of a let-down for him.

Here are his credits on the show:

"Barney Miller" 

61 episodes

"Fish"

35 episodes

Here we have a publicity photo for two of ABC's most popular sitcoms in the 1970s - the 'Welcome Back, Kotter' "Sweathogs", jailed by two detectives of the 12th Precinct, Phil Fish and the Precinct Captain, 'Barney Miller'.

This was never seen on either of the two sitcoms; it was just a publiicity stunt.  But just as I sometimes absorb a theatrical movie into the greater Toobworld Dynamic, I think I can make allowances so that we can consider this a potograph from within Toobworld.  Probably taken by Officer Levitt?

Hey, it's Christmas......  I'm ruling the picture can stay in.  Especially if we can then claim that it establishes a precedent.  Because that way, these other pictures can be used in evidence as well.

Detective Phil Fish, center,

With Marshal Sam McCloud and Lt. Frank Columbo

Detective Fish and Captain Miller again,

with detectives from 'The Rookies', 'Felony Squad'
'SWAT', 'Naked City', & 'The Mod Squad'

And therefore, thanks to a Christmas miracle, Detective Phil Fish is now a member of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.

BCnU!

O'BSERVATION

And besides... we've got such a nice picture of him in a Santa suit.  It would be a shame to waste it......