THE HAT SQUAD 2025 - HYPHENATES & OTHERS

 

THE HAT SQUAD 2025 -
HYPHENATES & OTHERS

HYPHENATES
Wayne Osmond (ACTOR - 'The Travels of Jamie McPheeters', "It Nearly Wasn't Christmas", SELF - 'The Osmond Family Show', 'The Andy Williams Show',  'Donny and Marie', PRODUCER - "The Gift of Love")
Peter Yarrow (COMPOSER - "Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody", COMPOSER & ACTOR - "Puff the Magic Dragon", "Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of Living Lies", ACTOR - "Matthew and Ophelia's Wonderful World of Fun")
Barbara Clegg (ACTRESS - 'Emergency Ward 10', 'Strange Concealments', WRITER - 'Doctor Who', 'Coronation 'Street')
David Lynch (DIRECTOR/WRITER/ACTOR - 'Twin Peaks', 'The Weather Report', WRITER - 'On The Air', ACTOR - 'The Cleveland Show', 'Louie')
Barry Michael Cooper (PRODUCER/WRITER - 'She's Gotta Have It', WRITER - "Private Times", PRODUCER - 'American Gangster')
Marianne Faithfull (ACTRESS - 'Absolutely Fabulous', SELF - 'FM', 'Top of The Pops', 'Saturday Night Live',  EITHER/OR - 'Screen Two')
Dick Button (SELF - Figure Skater [2 Gold medals], 'Animaniacs', Sports Commentator [1 Emmy],  'The Ed Sullivan Show', ACTOR - 'Beverly Hills 90210', SPOOFED - Played by Phil Hartman, 'Saturday Night Live')
Joseph Wambaugh (CREATOR/WRITER/ACTOR - 'Police Story', 'The Blue Knight', WRITER - "The Glitter Dome", "Echoes In The Darkness",  REFERENCED - "Columbo')
Athol Fugard (WRITER - "Master Harold... and the Boys", "Oya", ACTOR - 'One Life To Live')
Wink Martindale ('High Rollers', 'What's This Song?', 'Gambit', 'Tic Tac Dough', 'Headline Chasers' ACTOR - 'Mars Patrol', 'Hilton Head Island', 'Bold & Beautiful')
Don Mischer (13 Primetime Emmy Awards, DIRECTOR - Oscars, Super Bowl half-time shows, the Obama Inauguration celebration, Kennedy Center honors, 'Murder, She Wrote', 'It's Garry Shandling's Show' PRODUCER - Emmy Award shows, White House Correspondents' Dinner, Tony Awards, Super Bowls, music specials
Jill Sobule (SELF - 'The West Wing', 'Treme', 'The Simpsons' [TVXOHOF] MUSIC - 'In-Laws',  'Unfabulous')
Terry Louise Fischer (PRODUCER/WRITER - 'LA Law', 'Cagney & Lacey')
Bobby Sherman (ACTOR - 'Here Come The Brides', 'Getting Together'/'The Partridge Family', 'Sanchez of Bel-Air', SELF - 'Shindig', 'Frasier', "Old Faithful")
Gailard Sartain (ACTOR - 'Hey, Vern! It's Ernest!', 'Arli$$', 'The Simpsons', SELF - 'Hee Haw', 'The Sonny & Cher Show', 'Hee Haw Honeys', 'Keep On Truckin'')
Jane Stanton Hitchcock (WRITER - "Trick of the Eye", SELF - 'The Name's The Same')
Jimmy Swaggart (SELF - Televangelist, PLAYED BY - Jonah Lees, 'Sun Records', Phil Hartman, 'Saturday Night Live')
Connie Francis (ACTRESS - "The Sister and the Savage" PLAYED BY - LeAnn Rimes, 'American Dreams')
Charles Augin (ACTOR - 'Blake's 7', 'Alas Smith and Jones', 'Capital City', "Treasure Island" CHOREOGRAPHER - "Porgy & Bess", "Billy's Christmas Angels", 'The Hot Shoe Show' BOTH - 'Red Dwarf', 'In Exile') 
Chuck Mangione (SELF - 'King of the Hill', ACTOR - 'Magnum, P.I.')
Hulk Hogan (SELF - 'The Love Boat', 'The A-Team', 'The Goldbergs', 'Search For Tomorrow', 'Suddenly, Susan', 'American Dad!', TVXOHOF, ACTOR - "Goldie And The Bears", 'Baywatch', 'Thunder In Paradise', 'China, Il.', 'Walker, Texas Ranger')
Cleo Laine (ACTRESS - "The Last of the Blonde Bombshells", "The Three Princes" SELF - 'The Muppet Show', 'Tonight with Johnny Carson', 'Mike Douglas Show')
Gary Smith (PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER - Many AFI TV specials)
Jane Morgan (ACTRESS - 'Peter Gunn', 'It Takes A Thief', SELF - 'The Ed Sullivan Show', 'Tonight with Johnny Carson', 'The Merv Griffin Show', 'Password', 'American Bandstand', 'Person To Person', 'What's My Line', 'Kraft Music Hall')
Joel DeMott (DIRECTOR - "Seventeen", CINEMATOGRAPHER - "Energy War")
Ronnie Rondell, Jr. (ACTOR - 'Laramie', 'The Virginian', 'Fantasy Island' STUNTMAN - 'Hart To Hart', 'Dynasty', ''Charlie's Angels', 'SWAT')
Jerry Adler (ACTOR - 'The Sopranos', 'Rescue Me', 'The Good Wife/Fight', 'Mad About You', 'Raising Dad', 'Alright Already', 'Hudson Street', STAGE MANAGER -  'Santa Barbara', 'Search For Tomorrow', "Night of 100 Stars II', "39th Annual Tony Awards")
Frank Price (WRITER - 'Westinghouse Studio One', 'The Web', 'Suspense', STUDIO HEAD - Universal TV, developed the made for TV movie concept and the 90 minute TV series format)
Bobby Hart (COMPOSER - 'The Days Of Our Lives' theme, music for 'The Monkees' SELF - 'Bewitched', 'I Dream Of Jeannie', 'The Flying Nun')
Robert Redford (ACTOR - 'The Twilight Zone', 'Perry Mason', 'Maverick', 'Tanner on Tanner', PRODUCER - 'Dark Winds', 'Death Row Stories', 'Iconoclasts', 'The American West', 'Chicagoland', 'Ocean Warriors')
Henry Jaglom (movie director who started as an actor 'Gidget', 'The Flying Nun')
Joan Kennedy (SELF - 'The $64,000.00 Question', Maxwell House coffee commercial, PORTRAYED BY - Former wife of Senator Edward Kennedy, portrayed by Leslie Stefanson in "Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot")
Rob Reiner (ACTOR - 'All In The Family', 'New Girl', 'The Bear', 'Gomer Pyle', 'The Partridge Family', 'That Girl' WRITER - 'The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour', 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', 'The Super' , "Million Dollar Infield", "More Than Friends"  DIRECTOR -  "8", "Everyday Life", "Sonny Boy"  COMBOS - 'Morton & Hayes', 'Free Country') 
Kevin Arkadie (WRITER/PRODUCER - 'New York Undercover', 'Chicago Hope', 'NYPD Blue', 'The Shield', 'Ambitions', 'Sacrifice')
John Mulrooney (SELF - 'Comic Strip Live', 'The New Hollywood Squares', 'The Late Show' ACTOR - 'Ellen', 'Hardball', '1st & Ten')
Bob Broder (ACTOR - 'Cheers', HEALTH & SAFETY DEPT. - 'Madoff')

OTHERS
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Memoir "Farewell to Manzanar," about life in WWII internment  camp, became the basis for a TV movie by the same name)
Ron Nessen, Ford's press secretary ('Saturday Night Live', 'Bicentennial Minute')
Gene Winfield (Vehicle Fabricator - Built the Galileo shuttlecraft 'Star Trek', the Piranha for 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', the Reactor was used in 'Bewitched', 'Mission Impossible', 'Batman', & Star Trek')
Pope Francis (Played by Jonathan Pryce and Juan Minujin [as young Jorge Mario Bergoglio] in "The Two Popes", and by Kyle Mooney on 'Saturday Night Live' 2x)
David Lazer (Former IBM exec who hired Jim Henson's Muppets to appear in corporate films and then later was hired by Henson to run the Muppet empire.)
Dame Jillian Sackler (Philanthropist and defender of the evil pharmaceutical empire.  Portrayed by Catherine Tait in "Painkiller".)
Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs (Was sentenced to death but commuted to life in prison for her participation in police murders in Florida.  Reversed on appeal. Played by Susan Sarandon in "Exonerated".)
"Papa Jake" Larson (TikTok star, 102, survivor of D-Day, Emmy winner for Amanpour talk)
Leonard Tow (SVP TelePrompTer, founded Century Communications, CableVision)
Robert Barnett (High-powered Washington lawyer, husband of CBS' Rita Braver
Leo Hindery, Jr. (Ran the Yankees YES network)
Paul Ekman ("Face Reader", inspired the main character of the series 'Lie To Me')

FANFICCER'S FRIEND - "ACE & THE CURATOR"

I consider publicity pictures and promotional photos to be valid sources of inspiration for fan fiction and can be used to illustrate the stories which they inspired.

Screencaps, on the other hand, wouldn’t be acceptable on Toobworld terms.  Those are moments which have already happened in the Toobworld timeline, frozen in Time.

This is the screencap which I always use as an example of why they should never be used to represent other characters.  Seen here are Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo and Gene Barry as Dr. Flemming in the first pilot movie for the TV series, “Prescription: Murder”.

That is all that it could be.  It can’t be re-used as an example of Daniel J. O’Brien (‘Trials of O’Brien’) with Captain Amos Burke (‘Burke’s Law’); we can’t even claim that it could be Lt. Columbo with his boss, Captain Burke, when they met to talk about a case at the LAPD’s Homicide Division.

So with that in mind, I present to you this publicity photo from 1990 which shows Tom Baker and Sophie Aldred on a museum exhibit celebrating ‘Doctor Who’.

Their characters – the Fourth Incarnation of the Doctor and Dorothy “Ace” McShane, respectively – never met in the course of the series.  In fact, she didn’t enter the Doctor’s life until several regenerations later.  (Ace was the last Companion to the Doctor – in his Seventh Incarnation – during the original run of the series.)  

The main O’Bstacle would be that the Fourth Incarnation should be time-locked to look as he did when he was on the show from 1974-1981.  As he appeared here from nine years later, Tom Baker looks more like the character he played in an episode of ‘Miss Marple’.

But!  This photo could be the inspiration for a fanfic adventure for the Curator teaming up with Ace, one year after we last saw her in Toobworld (“Survival”), and 23 years before we officially met the Curator at the end of the 50th anniversary special “The Day of the Doctor''.

What that adventure could be is not for my conjectures.  The point of the Fanficcer's Friend feature during the "Who's On First?" blogAthon is to provide my readers (hopefully, there are a few) with inspiration to create those adventures themselves.

I will point out as a suggestion that the Curator's TARDIS chose as "her" holographic decor the console as it was best remembered from the series original run.  Might be good for an O'Bservation by Ace?

I just ask that if you do come up with a story based on this photo, you might send me a copy to read.  (I always ask with each "Fanficcer's Friend", no matter the show, but so far I have yet to see any returns....)

It’s sort of comforting to see that some future incarnation of the Doctor took on the task of being the curator for the Under-Gallery at a younger age than we first met him, before he supposedly gave up gallivanting across the galaxies.  (At least, that’s according to sources outside the Toobworld canon, which is anything telecast in any of the TV dimensions.)

WHOBITUARIES 2024

 

EVE PEARCE - Estelle, ‘Torchwood’ - “Small Worlds”
TIM BARLOW - Tyssan, “Destiny of the Daleks” Parts 1-4
PAUL O’GRADY - Himself, “The Stolen Earth”
JIM McMANUS - Ophthalmologist, “The Invisible Enemy”
MURRAY MELVIN - Bilis Manger, ‘Torchwood’ - “Captain Jack Harkness”
TERENCE HARDIMAN - Hawthorne, “The Beast Below”
JOHN NETTLETON - Reverend Matthews, “Ghost Ship” Parts 1&2
PETER DAY (Special Effects) - ‘The Evil of the Daleks’, ‘Fury From the Deep’, ‘Tomb of the Cybermen’, ‘The Ambassadors of Death’, ‘The Daemons’, ‘The Sea Devils’, ‘The Monster of Peladon’, ‘Genesis of the Daleks’, ‘The Deadly Assassin’, ‘The Sun Makers’
MICHAEL GAMBON - “A Christmas Carol”
BRIGIT FORSYTH - Ruth Maxtible, “The Evil of the Daleks” Parts 1-4 O'Bservation - I'm fairly certain this is far from complete. I'll keep checking the sources....

TVXOHOF, APRIL 2020 - WOKKA WOKKA WOKKA!

With the April showcase for the Television Crossover Hall of Fame, we celebrate the Fool.  Now, this could be the wise fool on the level of Feste, or of Lear’s Fool.  Or it could be someone like Gilligan.

The TVXOHOF Committee always wants to get at least one puppet character into the Hall each year and while they are usually consigned to June, it was felt that April was the better choice for our candidate this year….

FOZZIE BEAR

From Wikipedia:
Fozzie Bear is a Muppet character known for his lack of innate and effective comedy skills. Fozzie is an orange bear who often wears a brown pork pie hat and a red and white polka dot necktie.

The character debuted on ‘The Muppet Show’, as the show's stand-up comic, a role where he constantly employed his catchphrase, "Wocka Wocka!" Shortly after telling the joke, he was usually the target of ridicule, particularly from balcony hecklers Statler and Waldorf. Fozzie was performed by Frank Oz until 2001; Eric Jacobson has since become the character's principal performer.  

Fozzie also appeared alongside his fellow Muppets in the Halloween 2011 episode of ‘WWE Raw’, where he and Gonzo encountered Jack Swagger, Dolph Ziggler, and Vickie Guerrero backstage.

I’m only counting on the TV appearances for his tally which fall into Earth Prime-Time.  (This will include any serlinguistic work done in commercials and interstitials.  Fozzie is a performer and would be expected to toil for the Empire.)

The movie roles were not technically of Fozzie but of characters he played, including the fictionalized versions of himself.  But I stipulate that it was Fozzie who played those roles in the movies.

(The difference for ‘Big City Greens’ is that we have behind-the-scenes footage of him working on the cartoon.  The same holds true for the Muppets' version of "The Wizard of Oz".)

Maybe one day the Tooniverse version of Fozzie will gain entry into the Hall.  But as to including the ‘Family Guy’ appearances into the official tally?

Here are the TV shows I am including in his qualifications for Hall membership.

• The Muppet Show (1976–1981)
• Muppets Tonight (1996-1998)
• It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005)(Appearance as Himself and the Cowardly Lion)
• A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008)
• Studio DC: Almost Live (2008)
• Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular (2013)
• The Muppets (2015-2016)
• Big City Greens (2019)(Appearance as the voice of Dr. Enamel)

In one episode of ‘Sesame Street’, another Jim Henson production, Baby Bear says that "Fozzie" is a terrible name for a bear. (So they probably knew about Fozzie Bear.)

Fozzie was a contestant on the May 24, 2016, episode of "@midnight" and beat Kristen Schaal and John Hodgman.

Here is a list of appearances compiled by the fine folks at the Muppet Wiki:

TV Shows

• The Muppet Show (1976-1981)
• Little Muppet Monsters (1985)[But only as a puppet, not animated]
• The Jim Henson Hour (1989)
• Episode 103: Power
• Episode 108: Videotape
• Miss Piggy's Hollywood
• Muppets Tonight (1996-1997)
• Episode 103: Billy Crystal
• Episode 104: John Goodman
• Episode 108: Jason Alexander
• Episode 109: Whoopi Goldberg
• Episode 110: Martin Short
• Episode 204: Pierce Brosnan
• Episode 208: The Cameo Show
• Muppets TV
• The Muppets
• The Muppet Babies (2018)
• Carpool Karaoke: The Series (2018)

TV Specials

• Kagayake! Gorō Mapetto Geba Geba 90-pun! (1976)
• The Bob Hope All Star Christmas Comedy Special (1977)
• Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring (1978)
• The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979)
• A Christmas Together (1979)
• The Muppets Go to the Movies (1981)
• I Love Liberty (1982)
• The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show (1982)
• Rocky Mountain Holiday (1983)
• The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986)
• A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
• The Muppets at Walt Disney World (1990)
• The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (1990)
• Studio DC Hosted by Selena Gomez (2008)
• A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008)
• Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular (2013)

TV Appearances

• Kagayake! Gorō Mapetto Geba Geba 90-pun! (1976)
• The Orson Welles Show (1979)
• Good Morning America (1992, 2004, 2005)
• Saturday Night Live (2004, 2011)
• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2005, 2010)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live (2005)
• America's Funniest Home Videos (2005)
• Chuck the Movie Guy (2008)
• The View (2008)
• Hollywood 411 (2008)
• D23 Expo (2009)
• Andrea Bocelli & David Foster: My Christmas (2009)
• The Early Show (2010)
• WWE (2011)
• Good Luck Charlie (2013)
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2009, 2014)
• The Arsenio Hall Show (2014)

Commercials

• Polaroid (1981)
• National Wildlife Federation (1985-1990)
• MasterCard Commercials (2002-2003)
• Pizza Hut Commercials (2004-2005)
• Disney Channel Bumpers (2005)
• Will Rogers Institute (2006)
• The ESPYs (2008)
• Give a Day, Get a Disney Day (2009)
• Lipton (2014)
• Warburtons (2015)
• Facebook Portal (2019)

From Facebook:
Though his main job was to be the show's comedian, he has had a number of other roles on ‘The Muppet Show’. He sang and danced in many musical numbers, and frequently acted in sketches (most famously his recurring sketch “Bear On Patrol” where he plays an unlucky police officer). He also often helps backstage and even attempts to plan out the show in one episode, and write the script in another.

Welcome to the Hall, Fozzie!

My thanks to the Muppets Wiki for the list of shows.  And I'm sure in my search for pictures of Fozzie via Google Image Search, I probably grabbed quite a few of their pictures.

I hope they forgive me....

Wokka wokka!

FRIDAY HALL OF FAMERS 10/11/19 - TONY VINCENZO

Beginning with the TV movie “The Night Stalker” and its follow-up, “The Night Strangler,” leading into the TV series ‘Kolchak: The Night Stalker’, Carl Kolchak rightfully took his place in the TVXOHOF last year. 

But while Darren McGavin did all of the heavy lifting as Kolchak, he wasn’t alone in the endeavor - Tony Vincenzo as played by Simon Oakland was right there with him through both TV movies and the one season of the series. 

From Wikipedia:

Tony Vincenzo - Kolchak's bellicose editor, and one of the only people willing to tolerate Kolchak's antics, despite their frequent arguments. Vincenzo has a grudging respect for Kolchak's reporting skills, but often finds himself caught between Kolchak's zeal and his own management responsibilities. Vincenzo's hot temper often affects his blood pressure and digestion and he sometimes laments that he did not go into his family's Venetian blinds business.

And so with this week’s Friday Hall of Famer in the Halloween-capped month of October, we’re inducting Tony Vincenzo into the Television Hall Of Fame.

Welcome aboard, Mr. Vincenzo!

DID THE DOCTOR VISIT A "STAR WARS" PLANET?

From the TARDIS Data Core:
Aridius was a planet originally covered by oceans. Due to a stellar incident, its orbit around its suns turned the planet into a desert over a thousand years. The only remaining species were the amphibious Aridians and the octopus-like Mire Beasts. To control the Mire Beasts the Aridians blew up sections of the city that had been overrun.

From the Doctor Who Chronology:

2900
The planet Aridius begins to get closer to its two suns, which will cause their planet to become desert-like over the next millennium.

(One thousand years before "The Chase" [3900].)

From the Wookiepedia Wikia:
Tatoo system was a binary star system located at the crossroads of the Triellus Trade Route and the Old Corellian Run in the Arkanis sector of the Slice's Outer Rim segment. The system formed around the G-type stars Tatoo I and Tatoo II, and contained Tatooine, its moons Ghomrassen, Guermessa and Chenini, the gas giants Ohann and Adriana, and their seven moons.

Ohann had three moons while Adriana had four.  According to the sources I found online, the four Adriana moons were lifeless.  But I couldn't find any information... information... information... on the three moons of Ohann.

As everybody should know by now, most of the 'Star Wars' saga took place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.  The Doctor's visit to Aridius apparently took place in the year 3900, many centuries from now.  And thanks to a couple of Ewoks adventures, if not the dreaded Holiday Special, that universe is absorbed into the greater TV Universe.

So it's pozz'ble, just pozz'ble, that Aridius might be one of those moons in the twin sun system of Tatoo.  And that includes those four supposedly lifeless moons.  In the days of the Rebellion vs. the Empire, one of Adriana's moons could have been a water planet which no one bothered to explore.  Had they done so, perhaps they would have found that the moon wasn't so lifeless after all; that it sustained the Aridians and the Mire Creatures.

But by the time of the Doctor's sojourn on that now-desert planet, the twin suns of Tatoo and Tatoo II had been drawing their orbiting satellites in to be eventually destroyed.   So Tattooine was long gone by Earth Time 3900 AD, and Aridius was now... well, arid.

I think a story could be done someday, perhaps even fanfic, where the Doctor goes back to Aridius, to a point not long after his First Incarnation left, and she could rescue the surviving Aridians......

And - based on this meme - the Doctor might have met up with some established characters from 'Star Wars' in the past....

BCnU!