MEMORIAL INDUCTION CEREMONY - GILBERT GOTTFRIED

From Variety
By Jordan Moreau:
Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian, “Aladdin” star, and owner of the most recognizable voice in Hollywood, has died after battling a long illness, his family announced Tuesday. He was 67.

His publicist told the Washington Post that he died due to complications from muscular dystrophy.

“We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved Gilbert Gottfried after a long illness. In addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful husband, brother, friend and father to his two young children. Although today is a sad day for all of us, please keep laughing as loud as possible in Gilbert’s honor,” his family wrote on Twitter.

Many people in Hollywood, including comedians Jason Alexander, Dane Cook and more, paid tribute to Gottfried after the shocking news of his death. “Gilbert Gottfried was never not funny,” wrote Cook. “He was a lovely guy, always friendly and made many people happy.”

I wish this never happened; I always liked Gilbert.  But I wonder if he would have found the humor in dying in April, the month when the Television Crossover Hall of Fame celebrates April Fools.  That is, if he had ever heard of the TVXOHOF, which is highly doubtful.

At any rate, as a member of the League of Themselves, Gottfried appeared in plenty of TV series as himself.  And like our showcase inductee for this month – Jerry Seinfeld – he will be inducted into the Hall as a member of the League of Themselves.

GILBERT GOTTFRIED

From Wikipedia:
Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried (February 28, 1955 – April 12, 2022) was an American actor and stand-up comedian. His persona as a comedian featured an exaggerated shrill voice and emphasis on crude humor. His numerous roles in film and television include voicing the parrot Iago in Disney's ‘Aladdin’ animated films and series, Digit LeBoid on PBS Kids's long-running ‘Cyberchase’, and Kraang Subprime in ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’. Gottfried was the voice of the Aflac Duck until 2011. He appeared in the critically-panned but commercially-successful ‘Problem Child’ in 1990.

From 2014 until his death in 2022, Gottfried hosted a podcast, Gilbert Gottfried's “Amazing Colossal Podcast”, which featured discussions of classic movies and celebrity interviews, most often with veteran actors, comedians, musicians, and comedy writers. “Gilbert”, a documentary film on Gottfried's life and career, was released in 2017.

Here are the credits which qualified Gilbert for membership in the TVXOHOF as a member of the League of Themselves.  This would also count his appearances on talk shows as himself, but as they’re not needed to meet his qualifications minimum, those are just considered as flavoring.

The Original Max Talking Headroom Show
- Episode #1.6 (1987)
- Episode dated 1 October 1987 (1987)

O’Bservation: The other Max Headroom series, set “twenty minutes in the Future”, is in a different Toobworld.  Earth Prime-Time should have their own Max.

The Muppets: She Drives Me Crazy

Music Video short   (1994)

Married... with Children

- Ship Happens (1995)

Hope & Gloria
- Falling in Bed Again (1995)

Muppets Tonight

- Dennis Quaid (1997)

O’Bservation: Gilbert Gottfried was the winner of the "spend an evening with Kermit contest".

The Weird Al Show

- Al Gets Robbed (1997)
... Al's "Imaginary" Friend Gilbert

O’Bservation: As it turned out, Gilbert wasn't imaginary; he was actually there.  TV's Al wasn't just weird; he was crazy.

Cosby
- Fifteen Minutes of Fame (1998)

V.I.P.
- Raging Val (1999)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

- Last Laugh (2003)
... Stand-Up Comedian

O’Bservation: Gottfried’s style was so distinctive and it is the rule that you don’t steal from your fellow comics.  So I’m counting this as an appearance by Gilbert himself.

Greg the Bunny

- Sleazy Rider (2005)
- Wacky Wednesday (2006)
- Wumpus the Monster (2006)

O’Bservation: His last name wasn’t used in the IMDb list of credits, but the guest stars were always playing themselves.

Z Rock

- Episode #1.4 (2008)

From the IMDb: John Popper shows the guys how sweet life could be as a full-time kids' band when he lands them a party for Gilbert Gottfried's son for $10,000.

30 Rock

- Audition Day (2009)

O’Bservation: This was a vocal appearance only, but he was name-checked as well.  There were also two other episodes where he was name-checked by characters.

The Jim Gaffigan Show

- Wonderful (2015)
- The Trial (2016)

Episodes

- Episode One (2017)

O'Bservation: Gottfried is the celebrity contestant dressed as a priest.

Crashing

- The Atheist (2018)

Danny's House

- Dreams (2019)

The Masked Singer
- Masking for a Duel - Round 2 (2022)

O'Bservation: As Penn & Teller were unmasked this episode, one of their clues was that Gilbert Gottfried was a friend.

Regarding the next two entries, usually I avoid talk shows and game shows, but both of these series are members of the TVXOHOF….

Hollywood Squares 

334 episodes (1998-2004)

2014

Remembering Gilbert Gottfried
April 12 or 13, 2022

The View

7 episodes (2005-2016)

I would also include his involvement with Celebrity Apprentice because he was working with another Hall of Famer, former President "HindenBlerg", who was inducted on April Fool’s Day, 2009.

O'Bservation: Two shows in which I’m surprised Gilbert Gottfried didn’t appear as himself – The Larry Sanders Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm.  I would have added Seinfeld as well, but many of the comics who appeared on the show played fictional characters.

ALTERNATE TOOBWORLDS

SpongeBob SquarePants

- SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout (2019)

O’Bservation: I need to do more research on this one.  This could be an interface Borderland between a live-action Toobworld and the Tooniverse, similar to Space Ghost Coast To Coast.

EVIL TOOBWORLD

Star-ving

- Gilbert's Kid (2009)

O’Bservations:
1] As with Greg The Bunny, ditto on the last names.
2] I’m not sure I would want this episode included in the main Toobworld as part of Gottfried’s legacy.  I’m sure he found it’s tastelessness funny and the basics probably aren’t true – about him having a disabled son – but I think I may just relegate this to the Evil Toobworld.

THE TOONIVERSE

The Adventures of Nick

- Love Just Got Fried (2019)

O’Bservation: I’m not exactly sure which of these anthropomorphic dots would be Gottfried.  The one in the middle?  The one in red?  I know it can’t be the one with the big hairdo… or is it?

Gottfried also has a presence in the stop-motion Toobworld dimension which I dubbed “Claymatia”.

CLAYMATIA

Celebrity Deathmatch
- Gottfried in the Arena (2002)

I don’t know if reincarnation is a thing, but if Gottfried did return, would it be as a duck or a parrot?

Good night and may God bless, Gilbert.  I’m sorry you entered the TVXOHOF under these circumstances.

TVXOHOF, APRIL 2022 - JERRY SEINFELD

What better tradition to follow for the April inductee into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame than the April Fool? Over the years, April has been the showcase month for silly TV characters, and the dopey or just plain humorous characters. Years before he became the “commander and chief” (as one of his sycophantic acolytes would say), a certain gasbag was inducted as a member of the League of Themselves in April rather than in November, a more fitting month for newsmakers.

We’re going with another League of Themselves member for this April’s ceremony, one who was already featured here in a great special guest appearance by Jeremy Kreuzer….

JERRY SEINFELD

One good thing about getting the honor to host that story by Jeremy was that I will just share the link here and you can read his case for Jerry’s membership in the TVXOHOF.

SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE

JEREMY KREUZER

Here is a list of the shows which qualified him, in no particular order.  Some of these are because the shows are in the Hall or because the people hosting them are Hall members.

• SEINFELD
• COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE
• SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
• LARRY KING LIVE
• HEAD CASE
• PRIMETIME GLICK
• THE VIEW
• HOLLYWOOD SQUARES
• CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
• MAD ABOUT YOU
• THE NEW WKRP IN CINCINNATI
• THE JIM GAFFIGAN SHOW
• LOUIE
• 30 ROCK
• NEWSRADIO
• THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW
• LOVE & WAR

One possibility – Seinfeld played “Bat Mitzvah Guest” in an episode of ‘Square Pegs’.  (According to IMDb: Jerry Seinfeld is not credited in this episode but can be seen walking through the crowd at the bat mitzvah.) Could it be that he was there as himself?

Welcome to the Hall, Jerry!

And thanks again, Jeremy!

TVXOHOF TRIBUTE - SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

From CNBC:

Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state, died Wednesday, her family said in a statement. She was 84.

She died of cancer, her family said, adding that she was “surrounded by family and friends” at the time.

“We have lost a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend,” the statement said, as well as a “tireless champion of democracy and human rights.”

Then-President Bill Clinton named Albright U.S. ambassador to the United Nations shortly after he was inaugurated in 1993, and nominated her as secretary of state three years later. She was confirmed in 1997 by a vote of 99-0. At the time, she was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government.

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The televersion of Secretary Albright was a multidimensional member of the League of Themselves, logging  appearances in four different series located on Earth Prime-Time, as well as getting name-checked in several other series.  She also appeared on the alt-Toobworld on which 'Madam Secretary' was situated.  The cartoon version of her head will show up in the Tooniverse's future in an episode of 'Futurama' as well.

Murphy Brown
- Murphy Redux (1997)

From the IMDb:
Murphy decides not to work for the White House and goes back to her old job at FYI.  (O'Bservation: She only lasted an hour at the White House.)

Frank:
"So what happened, Murph? Was it something you stole, something you spilled or something you said?"
::SILENCE::
Frank:
"Wow, the trifecta!"
Murphy:
"If you must know, I parked in Al Gore's spot; ticked off Madeleine Albright; and apparently committed some sort of treason when I reached over and ate some of Clinton's curly fries."

Tanner on Tanner
- Alex in Wonderland (2004)

O'Bservation: This always proves to be the hardest series from which to find political members of the League of Themselves.

Gilmore Girls

- Twenty-One Is the Loneliest Number (2005)
Albright appeared to Rory in a dream at 4:00 AM, as a substitute for her Mom.  Her existence in a dream qualifies her existence in Toobworld, as Rory had to know who she was in order to dream about her.

How I Met Your Mother

All episode summaries come from the 'How I Met Your Mother' wiki....

- The Yips (2007)

Barney tells Rhonda that he once met Madeleine Albright and did not "intend to hit that." His hook-up with Albright is referenced again in ‘The Bracket’, ‘Benefits’, and ‘Unpause’.

As seen in HIMYM

- The Bracket (2008)
Madeleine Albright appears in the montage of Barney's past hook-ups, is listed on the bracket, and Lily notices there being a "government official" in his scrapbook.

- Benefits (2009)
Barney claims that he met her at a state dinner and, after a discussion on world peace had sex with her.

Ted recalls Barney mentioning that he discussed his theory on world peace with "Madeleine", referring to Madeleine Albright.

Barney:
So I explained to her, I said, "Madeline, every single international conflict essentially boils down to sexual tension."
Ted:
Every international conflict?
Barney:
Every single one, dude.
Ted:
So the crisis in the Middle East could be solved by...?
Barney:
Gaza strippers. Next.
Ted:
Uh-huh.  Apartheid?
Barney:
Apart thighs. What else you got?
Ted:
Cold War?
Barney:
"Mrs. Gorbachev, take down those pants."

- Unpause (2014)
When Barney says "Not while she was Secretary of State" while he was truth-serum drunk, it may be implying his time with Madeleine Albright, mentioned before in 'The Yips' and 'The Bracket'. Barney also said this twice, which suggests that besides Albright, he also had an encounter with either Condoleezza Rice or Hillary Clinton, the only two female Secretaries of State other than Albright.

Parks and Recreation

- Ms. Ludgate-Dwyer Goes to Washington (2015)
Leslie talked with Albright in a D.C. diner.  Albright gave her some hard truth advice.

The View

- Madeleine Albright (2018)
Since the televersion of the show is now in the TVXOHOF, her appearance on this talk show has more weight than the others.  She used her time on the show to warn about the rise of fascism in our country.

ALT-TOOBWORLD

Madam Secretary

- The Doability Doctrine (2015)

From the IMDb:

Elizabeth takes advice from former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and ignores President Dalton's recommendation on how to negotiate the safe return of a State Department employee who was kidnapped in Afghanistan.

- E Pluribus Unum (2018)

She appeared with two other former Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton.  The three of them advised Elizabeth McCord, the current Secretary of State (for that TV dimension.)

Futurama

- I Dated A Robot

The robot containing the downloaded memories of Lucy Liu used the jar containing Albright's head to deactivate an alarm. 

Welcome to the Hall, Madam Secretary.
Good night and may God bless….

TVXOHOF, MARCH 2022 MEMORIAL - LOUIE ANDERSON

With March, we celebrate members of the League of Themselves, those real life people who have played fictional versions of themselves – “televersions” - in at least 3 different series, TV movies, or sometimes even commercials.

Sadly, this March will be a memorial induction.

LOUIE ANDERSON

From Wikipedia:
Louis Perry Anderson (March 24, 1953 – January 21, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and game show host. Anderson created the cartoon series ‘Life with Louie’ and the television sitcom ‘The Louie Show’, and wrote four books, including “Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too”, which was published in 2018. He was the fourth host of the game show ‘Family Feud’, from 1999 to 2002, in its third run and second revival.

For his performance on the FX comedy television series Baskets, Anderson received three consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series” nominations and won once in 2016.

Anderson performed a stand-up show called “Louie: Larger Than Life” in Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2003 through 2012. The show originated at the Union Plaza hotel downtown, before moving to Excalibur, South Point, and Palace Station hotels.

On January 18, 2022, it was announced that Anderson had been hospitalized in Las Vegas for large B-cell lymphoma; he had first been diagnosed with cancer a decade earlier, but kept the information private. He died of complications from the cancer three days later, on January 21, at the age of 68.

These are the series which got him into the Hall:

Scrubs

-My Two Dads (2001)

From IMDb:
In a fantasy sequence, J.D. appears as a contestant on "Family Feud." (Anderson was hosting at the time.)

Joey

- Joey and the Poker (2005)

From the IMDb:
Alex teaches Joey fake poker rules to keep him away from a girl. When Joey threatens to leave because he is losing, she invents new rules to Texas Hold'Em to make him win. Bobby convinces Joey to go on to "Celebrity Poker Showdown", competing for a charity Zach recently got him involved in, a center for young destitute boys. Joey then plays along those rules at "Celebrity Poker Showdown", and gets into trouble. Ignoring the real rules to poker, Joey makes a fool of himself.

Half & Half

- The Big Credit Check Episode (2005)

From the IMDb:
Mona gets upset when she feels she is not getting the credit she deserves for her talent search idea. Big Dee Dee meets with her old talent agent hoping that he will represent her again.

O’Bservation:
I don’t know if Anderson was playing himself; the IMDb only lists him as “Louie”.   But if he was Big Dee Dee’s former agent, then Louie of Toobworld had a different life path than the Louie of the Real World.

Louie Anderson also had a presence in the Tooniverse, beginning with his childhood….

Life with Louie

39 episodes

Tom Goes to the Mayor

- White Collarless (2006)
... Mining Team of Louie Andersons (voice)

American Dad

Old Stan In The Mountain (2012)

From the 'American Dad' Wiki:
Steve misinterprets Stan's intentions and thinks he was out to whittle some wood and carves him a totem of five of the hosts of Family Feud including Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Richard Karn and Steve Harvey but omitting John O'Hurley.

Several TV series are now part of the Hall; these appearances, even though they be game shows or talk shows, form the second tier of Anderson’s qualifications.  Of them all, ‘Family Feud’ tops the list since he hosted the series’ first revival and the celebrity version as well.

Family Feud

1999-2002

Hollywood Squares

12 episodes
2002

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 

13 episodes

I’ve included this because of his interactions with the Muppets, who are living beings in Toobworld.

The Jim Henson Hour

From the IMDb:
In the "MuppeTelevision" segment, Digit overloads his circuits while trying to show programming from outer space. Louie Anderson appears in sketches.

Ryan Roe: “Tonight’s theme is science fiction, and while Kermit and new Muppet Digit discover TV signals transmitted from other planets, Louie Anderson patiently waits inside a monitor for his sketch to begin. “

Good night and may God bless, Louie Anderson.  Welcome to the Hall….

TVXOHOF, FEBRUARY 2022 - HOLBROOK'S LINCOLN

 
If an historical figure appears as a guest character in several TV series, but has been recast with every appearance, the priority is to keep as many of those shows together in the same universe, preferably in Earth Prime-Time, the main Toobworld.

The easiest way to do this is to accept the physical differences as being due to perspective.  What we see as the Trueniverse audience would be the point of view of a particular character within that show.  Take for example, President/General Ulysses S. Grant.  He has been a member of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame since November, 2020, but that is not based on just one actor playing Grant.  His membership for Earth Prime-Time was based on appearances in such series as ‘Cheyenne’, ‘The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin’, and ‘The Wild, Wild West.’  Each of them had a different actor playing Grant, but to keep them together in the same dimension, we have to accept that that’s how he looked to Cheyenne Bodie, Corporal Rusty, and Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon, respectively.  That holds true for the other shows – ‘Grizzly Adams’, ‘Black Saddle’, ‘Wagon Train’, ‘Branded’, ‘Hell on Wheels’, and ‘Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman’.

But when the historical character appears in stand-alone mini-series and TV movies, each of those get shunted off to their own TV dimension.  The only time those TV movies can share the same Toobworld is if that historical character is played by the same actor.

When it then comes to the other historical figures in those connected TV movies and/or mini-series being played by different actors, that’s when we call on the P.O.V. option. That way we are seeing those characters from somebody else’s perspective, not from the perspective of that one common historical figure.  After all, he or she should have been seeing them all from the same point of view.

I bring that all up because of our “newest” member into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.  I used quotation marks around “newest” because the historical figure involved is already a member of the TVXOHOF, but for Earth Prime-Time.  This time we’re inducting his doppelganger from another TV dimension, one shared by four mini-series....

PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN

This incarnation of Lincoln, who is the linchpin for this dimension, was played by the late Hal Holbrook.  The actor died just over a year ago and so we’re honoring his memory with this memorial induction ceremony for his portrayal of our sixteenth President.

Holbrook played Honest Abe in three TV mini-series:

LINCOLN

(aka SANDBURG’S LINCOLN)
6 episodes
1974-1976

From Wikipedia:
Sandburg's Lincoln scholarship, primarily in these volumes, had an enormous impact on the popular view of Lincoln. The books were adapted by Robert Sherwood for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938) and David Wolper's six-part dramatization for television, Sandburg's Lincoln (1974).

From the IMDb:

NBC aired the six-hour mini-series on a staggered basis. The first three segments aired during the 1974-75 television season. The final three segments aired during the 1975-76 television season.

Also from the IMDb:

This is not a typical mini-series, in that its 6 episodes were made and shown over a period of some 20 months between 1974 and 1976, are not sequential, and cover Lincoln only from around the time he met Mary Todd until his assassination. Indeed, the 5th episode covers his activities on the day of his shooting, while the 6th one covers his trip to, and early days in, Washington in 1861. It makes little difference, however, in that each episode is totally self-contained and each is a viewing delight in itself.

Hal Holbrook also played President Abraham Lincoln in ‘North & South: Books 1 and 2.

NORTH & SOUTH: BOOK 1

- Episode #1.6 (1985)

O’Bservation – For the first five episodes in this mini-series, Holbrook received credit, but did not appear.

NORTH & SOUTH: BOOK 2

[‘North & South: Book 2, Love & War’]
5 episodes

O’Bservation – Holbrook was credited with six episodes, but did not appear in the fifth one.

The events in the first two ‘North & South’ mini-series dealing with Abraham Lincoln include:

(From Wikipedia)

• Abraham Lincoln is elected president; several Southern states make plans to secede from the U.S. and establish themselves as a separate nation.
• Billy joins the U.S. Sharpshooters regiment, while George becomes a military aide to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
• President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation frees the slaves in the rebel Southern states.
• George learns that Orry is wounded and searches for him, finally finding him in a Union hospital. Their reunion is spoiled when both learn that President Lincoln has been shot.

O’Bservation - I did say this Toobworld was home to four mini-series.  The fourth wasn’t dependent on Holbrook’s participation:

NORTH & SOUTH: BOOK 3
[‘North & South, Book 3: Heaven & Hell’]
O’Bviously it belongs with the first two mini-series in the franchise, even though Lincoln, and thus Hal Holbrook, was no longer involved in the adaptation of John Jakes’ books.  (This TV dimension may end up including three other mini-series – ‘The Bastard’, ‘The Rebels’, and ‘The Seekers’.  All of those were part of the grand design in books by John Jakes.)

Lincoln is not the only historical, real-world figure who is in the TVXOHOF more than once.  Santa Claus is the other.  Charles Durning is the main physical form of Santa in the main Toobworld, while in the Evil Toobworld, the jolly old elf looks like Art Carney.

If you’ve got a problem with what I just said, you keep your nog-hole shut!

This may not be the only time Lincoln shows up in the TVXOHOF.  Eventually there could be another actor who plays Abe in several TV movies and mini-series, enough to lock down an alternate Toobworld for himself.

Here’s to President Abraham Lincoln and to Hal Holbrook.  Welcome back, both of you, to the Television Crossover Hall of Fame!

TVXOHOF, FEBRUARY 2022 - ROSEY GRIER

I think the Television Crossover Hall of Fame entry in February has always reflected Black History Month.  In the very first class of inductees – 1999 – Abraham Lincoln was the honoree, so while he was white, he O’Bviously played a major role in Black History.

I see no reason to stop the trend now….

ROSEY GRIER

From Wikipedia:
Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier (born July 14, 1932) is an American actor, singer, Protestant minister, and former professional football player. He was a notable college football player for Pennsylvania State University who earned a retrospective place in the National Collegiate Athletic Association 100th anniversary list of 100 most influential student athletes. As a professional player, Grier was a member of the New York Giants and the original Fearsome Foursome of the Los Angeles Rams. He played in the Pro Bowl twice.

After Grier's professional sports career, he worked as a bodyguard for Senator Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign. Grier was guarding Ethel Kennedy when Senator Kennedy was shot. Although unable to prevent the assassination, Grier took control of the gun and subdued the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan.

Grier hosted his own Los Angeles television show and made approximately 70 guest appearances on various shows during the 1960s and 1970s.

As a singer, Grier first released singles on the A label in 1960, and over the following twenty-five years he continued to record on various labels including Liberty, Ric, MGM, and A&M. His recording of a tribute to Robert Kennedy, "People Make the World" (written by Bobby Womack), was his only chart single, peaking at No. 128 in 1968.

Grier is known for his serious pursuit of hobbies not traditionally associated with men. He has authored several books, including "Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men" in 1973. Grier became an ordained Protestant minister in 1983 and travels as an inspirational speaker. He founded American Neighborhood Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that serves inner city youth. He was also a featured speaker at the 1984 Republican National Convention; during its evening session on August 20, 1984, he endorsed President Ronald Reagan for re-election.

Okay, so nobody’s perfect.

Rosey Grier will be inducted as a member of the League of Themselves, which means he is entering as the Televersion of himself.  Fictional roles like frontiersman Gabe Cooper and bounty hunter Salathiel Harms (one of the coolest names ever in Toobworld!) do not come into play here.

These are the appearances which qualify him for TVXOHOF membership:

1962-1973
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [This series was inducted in 2020, which is why it is included]
- Sheila MacRae, Roosevelt Grier, Carl Ballantine (1962)
- Episode dated 27 August 1971 
- Episode dated 11 June 1973

1968-1970
The Rosey Grier Show
105 episodes  

1974-75

Captain Kangaroo
- Episode dated 20 September 1974
- Episode dated 3 September 1975

1977
Chico and the Man
- Black Tie Blues 

1978

Quincy M.E.
- Accomplice to Murder 

1979

Sesame Street
- We are shooting a Movie 

1980

The White Shadow
- Georgia on My Mind 
- If Your Number's Up, Get It Down 

1981-2014
Praise
6 episodes

1998
The Larry Sanders Show 
- I Buried Sid 

And over in the Tooniverse….

1999

The Simpsons
- Sunday, Cruddy Sunday (voice)

Welcome to the Hall, Mr. Grier.
You’ll find the Activities Room has everything you’ll need for needlepoint.