THE PANDORICA SPEECH - BY SEVERAL DOCTORS

I've read that it's not really David Tennant as the Tenth Incarnation reading the speech.  If it's not, then the voice actor is doing a fantastic job!

SUNFLOWERS IN TOOBWORLD

"SUNFLOWERS"

(As it is now seen in Toobworld)

In the summer of 2009, the danger of flooding at the National Gallery in London prompted the museum to pack up all of their priceless treasures and store them in an old slate mine in Wales, just as Churchill had ordered the Blitz in WWII.

These two nippers, Dylan and Minnie Hughes, decided to steal one of the paintings by switching a similar yellow container (They are pictured here sitting on it.) with one of the authentic ones.  Their plan worked and the painting they scarpered off with was "Sunflowers" by Vincent Van Gogh.  (That was in the "original" timeline of Earth Prime-Time.  And by original, I mean the latest timeline since the last temporal reboot.)

By the following summer, Toobworld History had been changed once again by the meddling of the Doctor - and more significantly by his companion, Amy Pond.  They went back to visit Van Gogh just before he painted "The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise, View from the Chevet"  and vanquished an invisible alien that only Van Gogh could see.

Amy made such an impression on the artist, even putting the idea of painting sunflowers into his head, that he finally painted "Sunflowers" and added a little tribute to her.  

So from that point on, "Sunflowers" - at least in Toobworld - should have "For Amy" signed on the vase.....

We'll have to see if it should ever crop up again in a fictional setting.

SHOWS & TV MOVIES CITED:

"Framed" (August, 2009)

'Doctor Who' - "Vincent And The Doctor" (June, 2010)

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SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE - JIM BELFIORE

Jim posted this in Facebook back in February.....

It's a small world sometimes.

I was watching "The Vicar of Dibley" tonight for the first time in years (long enough to have forgetten most of the story and minor characters). Turns out one of those minor characters was played by...Peter Capaldi (yes, the next Doctor).

Even more strange, in one of his entrances, he comes in after a very prophetic knock-knock joke:

"Knock-knock"
"Who's there?"
"Doctor."
"Doctor Who?"
"Yes!"

(Then Capaldi enters)

Eerie.

WHO VIEW - THAT VICIOUS ZONK!

I've splained away this Zonk in plenty of other posts - In conjunction with UNIT, UNReel created two theatrical movies and a TV series based on the life of the Doctor to provide a cover story which could debunk any claims that the Time Lord was real.

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ECHOES: COURAGE

"Being brave is being afraid of something but doing it anyway." 

Steve Wagner

'Monk'

"Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. 

It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway."

Third Doctor

'Doctor Who'

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A CAN OF WHO MASH 1: 'DOCTOR WHO' & 'STAR TREK'

STARRING:

The Doctor

The Romulan Commander

(from "The Enterprise Incident")

Her name could be Thea Dion-Charvon aka Charvanek, if non-Toobworld sources are accepted.  (Each name is from a different source....)

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THE HAT SQUAD 2014

ACTORS
Larry D. Mann ('Police Surgeon')
Carmen Zapata ('Santa Barbara', 'Viva Valdez', 'The New Dick Van Dyke Show')
Sheila Guyse ("The Green Pastures")
Roger Lloyd Pack ('Only Fools And Horses', 'The Vicar Of Dibley')
Russell Johnson ('Gilligan's Island', 'Black Saddle', 'Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law')
Pierre Jalbert ('Combat!')
Sarah Marshall ('Miss Winslow And Son', 'Scruples')
Luis Avalos ('Electric Company', 'ER', 'Condo')
Maximilian Schell ('Wiseguy','Peter The Great', 'Der Fürst und das Mädchen', 'The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years', 'Der seidene Schuh')
Philip Seymour Hoffman ('Liberty! The American Revolution', "Empire Falls", 'Happyish', guest turns in 'Arthur', first role in 'Law & Order')
Richard Bull ('Little House On The Prairie', 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea')
Christopher Jones ('The Legend Of Jesse James')
Ralph Waite ('The Waltons', 'Roots', 'Days Of Our Lives')
Ken Jones ('Porridge', 'The Liver Birds')
Mary Grace Canfield ('Green Acres' - Ralph)
Christopher Malcolm ('Absolutely Fabulous')
Cynthia Lynn ('Hogan's Heroes')
Wendy Hughes ('Homicide: Life On The Street', 'A Woman Named Jackie')
Med Flory ('Maverick')
James Rebhorn ('White Collar', 'Homeland')
Patrice Wymore Flynn (''Never Too Young', 'F Troop', 'The Monkees')
Kate O'Mara ('Doctor Who', 'Dynasty')
Marc Pratt (dancer in "Oklahoma" & "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers", 'The Life And Legend Of Wyatt Earp', 'Hotel de Paree', 'Sky King', 'Matlock')
Mickey Rooney ('Hey, Mulligan', show biz legend)
Mary Anderson ('Peyton Place', one of last 'Gone With The Wind' cast)
Phyllis Frelich (deaf actress - 'Santa Barbara', 'Barney Miller', 'ER', 'CSI')
Bob Hoskins ('Pennies From Heaven', 'Thieves Like Us')
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ('77 Sunset Strip', 'The F.B.I.', 'Maverick')
Assi Dayan (Israeli actor)
Lee Marshal (second voice for Tony the Tiger)
Matthew Cowles ('All My Children', 'Oz', 'Lonesome Dove', 'The Bold And The Beautiful')
Herb Jeffries (the Bronze Buckaroo - 'The Name Of The Game', 'I Dream Of Jeannie', 'Where's Huddles?', 'Hawaii Five-O')
Leslie Carlson ('Custard Pie', 'The X-Files', 'Highlander', 'The New Avengers')
Doug Hale ('The West Wing', 'Mad Men', 'The Rockford Files', 'Night Court')
Barbara Murray ('Doctor Who')
Ann B. Davis ('The Brady Bunch', 'Love That Bob!')
Lee Chamberlin ('The Electric Company')
Anna Berger ('Ryan's Hope', 'Singer & Sons', 'Seventh Avenue', 'Civil Wars')
Mona Freeman ('Maverick', 'Perry Mason', 'The Millionaire')
Martha Hyer (Oscar nominee, six roles on 'Burke's Law')
Rik Mayall ('The Young Ones', 'The New Statesman', 'Bottom')
Ruby Dee (Stephen King's 'The Stand')
Sam Kelly ('Allo, Allo', 'Porridge')
Francis Mathews ('Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons')
Meshach Taylor ('Designing Women')
Bob Hastings ('McHale's Navy', 'All In The Family')
Dick Jones ('Buffalo Bill, Jr', voice of Pinocchio)
Don Matheson ('Land Of The Giants')
Rosemary Murphy ('Columbo', played mothers of Washington, FDR, and JFK in 3 different miniseries, Emmy winner for "Eleanor and Franklin")
Zohra Sehgal ('The Jewel In The Crown')
Elaine Stritch ('Two's Company', 'Trials Of O'Brien', '30 Rock', original Trixie in 'The Honeymooners'}
Skye McCole Bartusiak ('24', 'Storm Of The Century', 'Lost' - only 21)
Steve London ('The Untouchables', 'The Lucy Show')
James Garner ('Maverick', 'Bret Maverick', 'The Rockford Files', 'Nichols', 'Chicago Hope', '8 Simple Rules', 'Man Of The People'.  One of my biggest TV idols)
Alex Argulo ('Periodistas', 'Hermanos & Detectivos')
Dietmar Schönherr ("Space Patrol - the Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion")
Robert Cawley ('Walker, Texas Ranger', 'Dallas')
James Shigeta (best known for "Die Hard" and "Flower Drum Song" but many TV guest roles)
Kenny Ireland ('Benidorm', 'Drop The Dead Donkey', 'House Of Cards')
Ron Castro ('Search', 'Columbo', 'Adam-12', 'Mission: Impossible', 'Lou Grant', 'Ironside', 'Monty Nash')
Bea Silvern ('The Secret Of Midland Heights', 'Dallas', 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman')
Norm Skaggs ("Decoration Day", "Shadow of a Doubt", "Chrome Soldiers", "the Flood" and "Getting Out"
Charles Keating ('Another World', 'Brideshead Revisited', 'Crown Court', 'Going To Extremes')
JJ Murphy ('Game of Thrones')
Robin Williams ('Mork & Mindy', 'The Crazy Ones')
Lauren Bacall ('The Rockford Files', 'The Sopranos')
Ed Nelson ('Peyton Place', 'The Silent Force', "The Return Of Frank Cannon", MANY guest spots!)
Marjorie Stapp ('Cheyenne', 'The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show', 'The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet', 'The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp', 'Dragnet', 'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis', '77 Sunset Strip', 'The Brady Bunch', 'Quantum Leap' and 'Columbo'.)
Stephen Lee ('Nash Bridges', 'Dark Angel', 'City', 'To Have & To Hold', 'Gung Ho')
Bill Kerr ('Hancock's Half Hour', 'Anzacs')
Molly Glynn ('Chicago Fire')
Richard Kiel ('Barbary Coast', 'The Twilight Zone' - "To Serve Man", 'The Wild Wild West')
Donald Sinden ('Two's Company', 'Never The Twain', 'Our Man At St. Mark's')
Denny Miller ('Wagon Train', 'Mona McCluskey')
John Bardon ('EastEnders', 'Rumpole of the Bailey', 'Up The Elephant and Round The Castle')
Angus Lennie ('Crossroads', 'HMS Paradise', 'Monarch Of The Glen', 'All Night Long')
Edward L. Jones ('The Real Ghostbusters')
Yoshiko "Shirley" Yamaguchi (Japanese film star - 'Robert Montgomery Presents', 'The Red Skelton Hour', 'The U.S. Steel Hour')
Polly Bergen ('The Polly Bergen Show', 'Desperate Housewives', 'Commander In Chief', 'Baby Talk', 'The Winds Of War', 'War And Remembrance')
Eric Lynch (Howard Stern sidekick, 'Fringe', 'In Plain Sight')
Don Keefer ('The Twilight Zone')
Stefan Gierasch
Maggie Stables ('Doctor Who: Real Time')
Marian Seldes ('One Life To Live', 'Good and Evil', 'Studio One', 'Playhouse 90')
Geoffrey Holder (The Un-Cola Man!, "Cole Porter's Aladdin", 'It Takes A Thief')
Sarah Goldberg aka Sarah Danielle Madison ('Seventh Heaven')
Iva Withers ('Musical Comedy Time')
Jan Hooks ('Saturday Night Live', 'Designing Women', '30 Rock')
Elizabeth Pena ('I Married Dora', 'Matador', 'Shannon's Deal', 'Resurrection Blvd.')
Elizabeth Norment ('House Of Cards')
Richard Schaal ('Phyllis', 'Rhoda', first Chuckles the Clown on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show')
Carol Ann Susi ('The Big Bang Theory')
Warren Clarke ('Dalziel and Pascoe')
Rebekah Gibbs ('Casualty', 'Holby City')
Steve Dodd (Australian actor)
Ken Takakura (Japanese Clint Eastwood, 'Chiroru no banka')
Ken Weatherwax ('The Addams Family')
Stephanie Moseley ('Hellcats', 'Hit The Floor', "Girl vs. Monster")
Mary Ann Mobley (TVXOHOF member, first April Dancer in 'The Girl From UNCLE' pilot)
Virna Lisi (Italian actress, 'Beauty Centre', 'My Daughters', 'Christopher Columbus')
Billie Whitelaw ('Time Out For Peggy', 'Napoleon And Love', 'Born To Run', 'Dixon Of Dock Green')
Luise Rainer (first back to back Oscar winner, lived to 104, appeared in episodes of 'Combat!' and 'The Love Boat' and several anthology series)
Edward Hermann ('Gilmore Girls', 'Franklin & Eleanor', 'St. Elsewhere')
Christine Cavanaugh ('Rugrats', 'Dexter's Laboratory', "Babe")
PERSONALITIES
Phil Everly ('The Ed Sullivan Show', '60 Minutes')
Samantha Juste Dolenz ("Disc Girl" on 'Top Of The Pops', ex-wife of Mickey Dolenz)
Ralph Kiner (Mets baseball player, broadcaster)
Shirley Temple Black ('Shirley Temple's Storybook')
Maggie Estep (poetry slams on HBO, PBS, MTV)
Sid Caesar ('Your Show Of Shows')
Charlotte Dawson (Australian TV personality 'Australia's Next Top Model', anti-bullying crusader)
Jim Lange ('The Dating Game')
Tim Wilson (comedian, 'Tonight Show', 'WDRB In The Morning')
Geoff Edwards ('Jackpot', 'Treasure Hunt', 'The Big Spin', 'The Love Experts', 'Starcade')
David Brenner (most appearances on 'Tonight' show)
Clarissa Dickson Wright ('Two Fat Ladies')
Eddie Lawrence ("The Old Philosopher", Bunky)
Peaches Geldof ('OMG! with Peaches')
Eric Hill ('The Bachelorette')
Frank Giudice ("Real Housewives of New Jersey")
Ken Schram (KOMO radio and TV personality)
Steve Rossi (Half of comedy team Allen & Rossi, appeared on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' with Beatles)
Caleb Blankston ('Survivor' constestant)
James Harness ('Gold Rush')
Mike Smith ('Late, Late, Breakfast Show', 'That's Showbusiness', 'Friday's People')
Michael Johns ('American Idol' Season 7)
Edith Flagg ('Million Dollar Listing')
Don Pardo (announcer - 'Jeopardy!', 'The Price Is Right', 'Saturday Night Live')
Skip E. Lowe (public access host in L.A. and NYC)
Joanne Borgella ('American Idol 7', 'Mo'nique's Fat Chance')
Diem Brown ('Real World/Road Rules Challenge')
Ryan Knight ('Real World', 'Challenge')
Roberto Gómez Bolaños, (Mexican comic aka "Chespirito")
Damien Gurganious ('The Biggest Loser')

NEWS & SPORTS
Chet Curtis, WCVB anchorman
Marty Plissner (CBS political beat)
Garrick Utley (NBC news)
Bill McLaughlin (CBS news)
Knowlton Nash (CBC news)
Steven H. Scheuer ("TV Key" columnist, “TV Movie Almanac & Ratings”)
John A. Hamilton ('Watch On Washington', 'With John Hamilton', 'The 51st State')
Jess Marlow (anchorman for KCBS & KNBC, hosted public affairs show on KCET)
Bruce Morton (reporter for CBS then CNN)
John Slattery (WCBS-2 reporter)
Terry Keenan (Financial analyst, CNN then FOX)
Brian Farrell (Irish presenter, 'Today Tonight' and 'Prime Time')
Richard C. Hottelet (last of the CBS "Murrow Boys")
Emerson Stone (CBS news)

WRITERS
Ben Starr (In a lengthy television career, Starr co-created the 1980s sitcom "Silver Spoons," helped develop "The Facts of Life" and was a regular screenwriter for the popular series "Mister Ed," "All in the Family" and "Diff'rent Strokes." He also wrote for such comedy favorites as "The Brady Bunch," "Chico and the Man," "Maude," "The Andy Griffith Show," "Petticoat Junction" and "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis")
Juanita Bartlet ('The Rockford Files', 'Nichols', 'Young Maverick', 'The Greatest American Hero', 'Scarecrow and Mrs. King', 'Tenspeed and Brown Shoe', 'Alias Smith and Jones', and 'The Magician'. Produced 'In The Heat Of The Night')
Eric Bercovicci ("Shogun")
Bob Larbey ('The Good Life', 'As Time Goes By', 'Mulberry', 'Ever Decreasing Circles')
Allan Folsom ('Desperate Intruder', 'Hart To Hart')
Stanford Whitmore ('The Fugitive', 'Johnny Staccato', 'Night Gallery', 'The Wild, Wild West')
Jerry McNeely ('Trauma Center', 'Owen Marshall', 'Lucas Tanner', 'Dr. Kildare', 'Marcus Welby')
Rick Mittleman ('The Dick Van Dyke Show', 'The Odd Couple', 'Get Smart', 'M*A*S*H', 'The Red Skelton Show', 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'That Girl', 'The Flintstones') 
Wilton Schiller (produced the series ending episode of 'The Fugitive' and wrote episodes of 'The Adventures of Superman', 'Leave It To Beaver', 'Have Gun Will Travel')
Theodore J. Flicker (co-created 'Barney Miller')
Lee Maddux ('Night Court')
Ernest Kinoy ('Roots', 'Naked City', 'The Defenders')
P.D. James ('Dalgliesh', 'Death Comes To Pemberly')
Ann Marcus ('Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, 'Knot's Landing, 'General Hospital')
Norman Bridwell (creator of "Clifford The Big Red Dog")

DIRECTORS
Christopher Barry ('Doctor Who')
Vera Chytilova (Czech documentaries)
Sandy Grossman (directed 10 Super Bowl broadcasts)
Hal Cooper ('Maude', 'The Dick Van Dyke Show')
Noel Black ('McCloud', 'Kojak', 'Hawaii Five-O', 'Quincy, M.E.', and the 1980s revival of 'The Twilight Zone')
John Fasano ('Woke Up Dead', "Jesse Stone", "Saving Jessica Lynch")
Andrew McLaglen ('Gunsmoke', 'Have Gun Will Travel', 'Rawhide', 'Perry Mason')
Larry Auerbach ('One Life To Live', 'All My Children', 'Another World', 'As The World Turns')
Joseph Sargent ("Miss Evers' Boys", "The Marcus Nelson Murders", "Love Is Never Silent", "Miss Rose White", "Caroline?"

PRODUCERS
John Filerman ('Dallas', 'Knots Landing', 'Falcon Crest' )
Lorenzo Semple, Jr. (created the TV version of 'Batman')
Madeline Amgott ('Not For Women Only', '30 Minutes', 'In Search Of The Constitution')
Martin Tahse ('ABC AfterSchool Special')
Robert Halmi Sr. ('Lonesome Dove', 'Gulliver's Travels', 'Noah', 'The Odyssey', 'Merlin')
Alan Landsburg (Emmy winner, 'The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau', "The Ryan White Story")
Stanley Chase ('Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre', 'An American Christmas Carol', "Fear On Trial")
Susan Sollins (creator and producer of PBS' 'Art21')
Arthur Gardner ('The Rifleman', 'The Big Valley')

MUSIC
John Cacavas ('Kojak', “Hawaii Five-O,” “Matlock,” “Columbo,” “Lady Blue,” “The Equalizer”)
Bob Casale (member of Devo, music videos)
Mitch Leigh (composer of "Man of La Mancha", jingles for American Airlines and Polaroid, wrote "Nobody doesn't like Sarah Lee.")
Ken Thorne (composer, "The Return of Sherlock Holmes," "Diana: Her True Story" and "Liz:The Elizabeth Taylor Story.")
Ian Fraser (composer/conductor for Julie Andrews specials, Bing Crosby & David Bowie duet, award shows)

ANIMATION
Hal Sutherland ('Star Trek: The Animated Series', 'Tarzan', 'Superman', 'Fat Albert', 'The Archies', 'Gilligan's Planet', 'The Lone Ranger')
Michael Sporn (Emmy nominated for "Abel's Island")
Arthur Rankin, Jr. ('Frosty The Snowman', "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer", many more)
Treadwell Covington ('Go Go Gophers', partner in Total Television Productions)

PUPPETEERS
Brian Henson (played Sweetums, among others.  Son of Jim and Jane Henson)

HYPHENATES
Harold Ramis ('SCTV' performer, movie director and screenwriter and actor)
Stanley Rubin (writer/producer, one of the first Emmy awards for "The Necklace")
Nancy Malone (actress: 'Naked City' and 'Guiding Light', director: 'Dynasty', 'Voyager', Emmy for the Bob Hope 90th birthday special)
Maya Angelou (author, poet, actress, singer - 'Roots', 'Moesha', 'Sesame Street')
Karlheinz Bohm (actor, humanitarian - 'Burke's Law')
Johnny Mann (composer, musical director - 'The Danny Kaye Show', orchestra leader - 'The Joey Bishop Show', host - 'Stand Up And Cheer')
Robin Williams (actor/comedian - 'Mork & Mindy', 'The Crazy Ones', "Live At The Met")
Lord Richard Attenborough (actor - 'Oliver Twist', director - "Ghandi")
William Greaves (documentarian, host of 'Black Journal')
Leigh Chapman (actress - 'The Man From UNCLE', 'The Monkees', 'Ripcord', writer - 'Burke's Law', 'The Wild, Wild West', 'My Favorite Martian', 'Walker, Texas Ranger')
Jeremy Lloyd (actor - 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In', writer - 'Are You Being Served?', 'Allo, Allo')

OTHERS
Dennis Johnson (Showtime executive)
Ed Hookstratten (agent for Carson, Brokaw, Vin Scully)
Jack Stephan (owned 2 plumbing companies in LA with memorable TV commercials in the 1960s)
Abby Singer (Production manager - 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'Hill Street Blues', 'St. Elsewhere', inspiration for the "Abby Singer Shot")
Richard Brick (NYC commissioner for broadcasting in early 1990s)
Lucy Hood (TV Academy president)
Lacey Holsworth (seen on 'CBS Sunday Morning' - the 8-year-old who became close friends with Michigan State basketball star Adreian Payne and who became a fixture at Spartans games)
Michael Travis (costume designer for Liberace and 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In')
George H. Heilmeier (inventor of the LCDs which led to flat-screen TVs)
Kenneth Tomlinson (chairman of the Public Broadcasting System)
Marilyn Beck (Hollywood columnist)
Pat McDonagh (designed the outfits for Mrs. Peel on 'The Avengers')
Senator Howard Baker (the televised Watergate hearings)
Barry Moss (casting director, 'The Cosby Show')
Tom Rolf (editor, 'The Big Valley')
Dick Smith (make-up artist - "The Godfather", "The Exorcist" TV: "Mark Twain Tonight!", 'Monsters', "Alice In Wonderland", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Victoria Regina", 'Golden Years')
Edward M. Joyce (CBS News President)
James Brady (Reagan press secretary seriously wounded by John Hinckley.  Portrayed by Beau Bridges in "Without Warning: The James Brady Story")
Szabolcs Imre Cseh (Romanian stunt coordinator - 'The Seawolf', "Les Adventures de Tom Sawyer", 'Polizeiruf 110')
Mary MacCracken (author who was portrayed by Jane Alexander in "A Circle Of Children" & "Lovey")
Bryce Dion ('Cops' sound operator - shot and killed by the cops he was working with during a standoff)
David Garth (political advertising guru for most of the winning NYC Mayor contests of the last forty years)
Dick Rich (advertising leader in the 1970s - among them the Alka Seltzer spots)
Brandon Stoddard (ABC chief who shepherded 'Roots', 'Rich Man, Poor Man', 'The Winds Of War')
Timothy Dowd (NYPD detective who caught Son of Sam.  Dowd was portrayed by Stephen Lang in the mini-series "The Bronx Is Burning")

TUESDAY NEWS DAY - FROM BOOKWORLD TO TOOBWORLD

Another invasion from BookWorld will arrive in the Toobworld Dynamic, but not into the dimension of Earth Prime-Time: "Childhood's End", a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, is being adapted into a six hour mini-series by the Syfy channel.

The novel tells about the arrival of a race of aliens known as "The Overlords" who provide a Utopia on Earth - and all the Terrans have to do is surrender their identity and cultures.

The only major casting news at this point is that Charles Dance will be playing the Overlord ambassador, named Karellen.  He is a master in the use of comforting words (something Dance was a master at in 'Game Of Thrones'), and he wins the approval of the human population at first.  But after a few decades, the people grow restless and the fact that Karellen won't reveal his true appearance eventually inspires a rebellious backlash against the Overlords.

(There have been many depictions of the Overlords through the years, but I think the best interpretation is from "Barlow's Guide To Extraterrestrials".  If you can find this book, pick it up!  It serves as an excellent introduction to some of the best science fiction stories of the past sixty years.)

The main Toobworld has always found room for adaptations from BookWorld - "The Winds Of War", "Pride & Prejudice", the Sherlock Holmes novels, "Little Women", "Huckleberry Finn", "War And Peace", the aforementioned "Game Of Thrones" books (collectively known as "A Song Of Ice And Fire") even if that series takes place on Earth's twin planet of Mondas.  But "Childhood's End" would seriously jeopardize the basic timeline for Earth Prime-Time and so, like the TV series "Defiance" just recently, it must be relegated to its own dimension.

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THEORY OF RELATEEVEETY - QUIGLEY DONE OVER

'THE GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN SHOW'

"GEORGE AND GRACIE GOING TO THE OPERA 'CARMEN'"

Gracie Allen: 

Mr. Vanderlip said you were a music critic. Now just what do you do?

Mrs. Quigley: 

Well, the newspaper usually gets me two seats for all the musical events 

and I go and cover them.

Gracie Allen: 

Oh? Oh, you're just being sensitive. 

You may be a little larger than most women, 

but you couldn't cover more than one seat.

Mrs. Quigley wrote a newspaper column about opera for one of the Los Angeles publications.  I'd like to think it was either the L.A. Tribune, the L.A. Sun, or the L.A. Chronicle.

At the end of this episode, everybody returned to the Burns' home after the for coffee and sandwiches.  In this screencap, we have Harry Morton, Mr. Vanderlip and his wife Lucille behind the couch with George Burns off to the side.  Seated on the couch are Gracie Allen and Mrs. Quigley.  (Blanche Morton is just off-screen to the left.)

But Mr. Quigley wasn't there and there was no indication that he even went to the opera.  

We can't splain this away by saying that Mr. Quigley was dead or that they were divorced.  Mrs. Quigley mentions to George that she and Mr. Quigley enjoy watching the Burns and Allen TV show.

But after the episode, the only one in which Mrs. Quigley appears?

I believe that if we had seen Mr. Quigley in that Burns and Allen episode, he would have been named Justin and he would have been played by Burt Mustin.  I think it was Mrs. Quigley who passed away and after she died, her husband moved back East where he was from - to New York City.

Eventually, Justin Quigley moved into the Sunshine Home for retirees in Queens, where he met Edith Bunker who volunteered there.  Quigley ran away from the home and he was taken in by the Bunkers - over Archie's objections of course.  But Quigley reassured him that his friend Joe Nelson was coming to get him and they would move in together.  

That made Archie happy... until he found out that Joe Nelson was actually Jo Nelson - Josephine Nelson.

After the birth of their son Joey, Mike and Gloria Stivic adopted Justin and Jo to be their honorary grandparents so that Joey could have more family than before.

Sadly, Jo Nelson died just over two years later.  Mr. Quigley surrendered to the inevitable and returned to the Sunshine Home where he remained until he finally passed away in 1983.

(Burt Mustin died in 1977.  But he was playing Mr. Quigley as being six years younger than he actually was.  So Justin Quigley deserved to have as much time living on Earth Prime-Time as Mustin did on Earth.)

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TELE-FOLKS DIRECTORY - THE PRINCESS CRUISES

'RUN FOR YOUR LIFE'

"THE INHUMAN PREDICAMENT"

When Paul Bryan introduced his table companion to his old friend Ramon de Vega, he stumbled hesitantly over her name: "Ingrid... Svenska."

Ramon recognized her, however.  And Paul's use of a code name to serve as an alias probably couldn't fool anybody.  Svenska is the native language of Sweden and parts of Finland.  And as we learned that Ingrid was a princess in one of Europe's last ruling monarchies, I think it's safe to say that she was a member of Sweden's Royal Family... if only in Toobworld.

Princess Ingrid was probably a cousin, a member of the "kungliga familjen" - part of the extended family not recognized as royal by the government and who does not carry any official duties for the monarchy.  Nevertheless, Princess Ingrid had to observe the state rules of protocol which dictated her life.

Princess Ingrid is not the first fictional character in Toobworld related to actual people from the Real World.  Megan Russert (Tim Russert), Vera Gorman (Art Carney), and Sherlock Holmes (Horace and Claude Joseph Vernet) are some of the others who hold that distinction.  

But she may be the first to have a modern royal connection and not be from an alternate TV dimension.....

SHOWS CITED:

• 'Homicide: Life On The Street'
• 'Alice'
• 'The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes'

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