TVXOHOF (AUGUST, 2025) - QUICK DRAW McGRAW

 
For over a year I had this year’s TV Western Crossover candidate, the traditional category for August, lined up.  I had all the information and pictures – PLENTY of pictures.  And if it had not been for a deadline to write a book for a charity auction, I would have had it ready to go by now.

But then I actually read that collected data and quickly realized this was not the year for it.  So I shelved it for another time.

Needing a new candidate, I decided to go off the trail just to make it interesting for me, and to reduce any possible stress from a last-minute change in plans.

And so….

QUICK DRAW McGRAW
[Seen here with Baba Looey]

From Wikipedia:
Quick Draw McGraw is the protagonist and title character of ‘The Quick Draw McGraw Show’. He is an anthropomorphic white horse wearing a red Stetson cowboy hat, a red holster belt, a light blue bandana, and occasionally spurs.  He was originally voiced mainly by Daws Butler from 1959 until Butler's death in 1988.

All 45 of his cartoons that originally aired between 1959 and 1961 were written by Michael Maltese, known best for his work at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. The cartoon was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1960.

‘The Quick Draw McGraw Show’ is an American animated cartoon television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and their third television series overall after ‘The Ruff and Reddy Show’ and ‘The Huckleberry Hound Show’.

The show debuted in syndication on September 28, 1959, ending its run on October 20, 1961, and was sponsored by Kellogg's. The series featured three cartoons per episode, with Quick Draw and his sidekick Baba Looey appearing in the first segment, father and son dog duo Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy in the second, and cat and mouse detectives Snooper and Blabber in the third. There were also "bumpers," mini-cartoons between the main cartoons that featured Quick Draw and other main characters on the show.

Michael Maltese wrote the stories of all the episodes. Screen Gems, the television division at the time of Columbia Pictures, originally syndicated the series. It ran on Saturday mornings on CBS for three seasons, 1963-66.

Quick Draw was usually depicted as a sheriff in a series of short films set in the Old West. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro called Baba Looey (also voiced by Daws Butler), who spoke with a Mexican accent and called his partner "Queeks Draw.”

Quick Draw satirized the westerns that were popular among the American public at the time. His character was well-intentioned, but somewhat dim. His main catchphrases were "Now hold on there!" and "I'll do the thin'in' around here and don't you forget it!" Also if he got hurt he would often say "Ooooh that smarts!" One of the main running gags in the shorts was him accidentally shooting himself with his own six-shooter.

In the Spanish American version, Quick Draw is named Tiro Loco McGraw, while Baba Looey is named Pepe Trueno. In the Brazilian version, Quick Draw speaks in a Portuguese accent, which along with his Hispanized name (Pepe Legal) would suggest he was either a Texan-American or Mexican cowboy.

O’Bservation:
All of those dubbed versions would go into those alternate Tooniverses where a different language was dominant.  With these examples, it would be the Spanish Toobworld and the Portuguese Toobworld respectively.

Here are the shows from the Tooniverse which qualified him for membership:

THE QUICK DRAW McGRAW SHOW (1959-1961)
Quick Draw (voiced by Daws Butler) was usually depicted as a sheriff in these short films set in the American Old West. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro called Baba Looey (also voiced by Butler). Although technically the sidekick, or deputy, to the main character of Sheriff Quick Draw, Baba Looey is often portrayed as the more thoughtful half of the duo; at times realizing some detail about a given situation and trying desperately without success to caution Quick Draw of a trap or other danger.

The exchange would always go as follows: Baba Looey would see a fatal flaw in Quick Draw's plan, and begin voicing a warning such as "I don' thin' we should be doing...", to which Quick Draw would angrily interrupt with his frequent catchphrase, "I'll do the 'thin'in' around here and don't you forget it!" His plans would then go disastrously wrong, and Quick Draw would be forced to realize he should have listened to Baba Looey.

Quick Draw spent a number of cartoons as his alter ego, the masked El Kabong, who used a guitar (a "Kabonger") to bash bad guys into submission. Writer Michael Maltese said the character was inspired by actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. as Zorro.

SUGAR SMACKS (1960s)
Quick Draw was the mascot.

THE RUFF AND REDDY SHOW
A SLIGHT FRIGHT ON A MOONLIGHT NIGHT
Quick Draw McGraw's name appears in ‘The Ruff and Reddy Show’ episode "A Slight Fright on a Moonlight Night".

O'Bservation:
According to this posted notice, Sheriff Quick Draw McGraw was killed in a shootout.  I don't know if his father showed up in any of those 45 cartoons in his series, but it would fit the classic Western trope where the sheriff is murdered and his son takes over for him.

But the fact that Ruff and Reddy have a car and a trailer probably puts the kibosh to that theory.  However, it is noted elsewhere that the timeline is amazingly fluidic in the Tooniverse.

YOGI'S ARK LARK (1972)
“Yogi's Ark Lark” served as the two-part pilot for ‘Yogi's Gang’.  Aside from its environmental message, the film marked a milestone in Hanna-Barbera's history: a wide range of the studio’s characters were united in one story for the first time. This set the tone for future series and specials, such as ‘Laff-A-Lympics’ and “Yogi's First Christmas”.

YOGI'S GANG (1973)
Yogi, Quick Draw, Huck and the rest of the gang encounter a variety of villains such as Captain Swashbuckle Swipe, Smokestack Smog, Lotta Litter, the Envy Brothers, Mr. Hothead, Dr. Bigot, the Gossipy Witch of the West, J. Wantum Vandal, the Sheik of Selfishness, Commodore Phineas P. Fibber, I.M. Sloppy, Peter D. Cheater, Mr. Waste, Hilarious P. Prankster, and the Greedy Genie, who act as their friends, hosts and/or guests, but embody some of the most common human faults and vices. Yogi and crew would often put up with them which ends with the villains either being repelled or outdone by their actions.

HANNA-BARBERA'S ALL-STAR COMEDY ICE REVUE (1978)
The show was a celebrity roast honoring Fred Flintstone on his 48th birthday, and included the following costumed Hanna-Barbera characters: Yogi Bear, Jabberjaw, Huckleberry Hound, Scooby-Doo, The Banana Splits, Hong Kong Phooey, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Wally Gator and The Hair Bear Bunch.

O'Bservation:
This was Quick Draw's foray into "live-action", appearing on Earth Prime-Time basically as a Hanna-Barbera version of a full-size Muppet.

CASPER'S FIRST CHRISTMAS (1979)
The special features guest stars Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, and Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.

YOGI'S SPACE RACE

Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Jabberjaw and several new characters participating in intergalactic racing competitions.  Cameo guests included Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Quick Draw McGraw, Grape Ape, Frankenstein Jr. and Jana of the Jungle.

RACE THROUGH WET GALOSHES (1978)
Winners: Nugget Nose, Wendy and Rita.
Prize: Vacation time at a dude ranch. Trouble: It's Fuddy's Dude Ranch.
(Guest star: Quick Draw McGraw)

O'Bservation:
Another timeline discrepancy.  There's a little voice in my head which keeps telling me, "Forget it, Jake.  It's the Tooniverse."

It doesn't seem to matter to him that my name's not Jake. 

YOGI BEAR'S ALL-STAR COMEDY CHRISTMAS CAPER (1982)
Along with Yogi's traditional cast, the characters also met up with many other Hanna-Barbera characters, including Magilla Gorilla and Fred Flintstone.

Huckleberry Hound brings his friends Hokey Wolf, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber with him to visit Jellystone Park for Christmas and they discover Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo have escaped from Jellystone and hidden out in a department store, where Yogi is posing as a Santa Claus. Along the way, he helps a little girl named Judy Jones rediscover her faith in Christmas when her father, a billionaire named J. Wellington Jones, is too busy for her. Yogi says that many parents have to work hard to support their kids, and since her father is not home, Yogi and Boo-Boo propose escorting Judy through the city to bring her to her dad.

YOGI'S TREASURE HUNT (1985-1988)
This is the last series to feature Daws Butler as the voice of Yogi Bear and his other characters before his death in 1988. While all 27 episodes were made in digital ink and paint across three seasons, its opening credits were produced in traditional cel animation.

Yogi and his friends Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber are assigned by Top Cat to go on treasure hunts around the world with Ranger Smith serving as their field commander who also makes sure that Yogi does his part in the treasure hunts. They travel aboard their ship the S.S. Jelly Roger and solve different riddles that would lead them to the treasure in question.

FENDER BENDER 500 (1990)
This is a spin-off of ‘Wacky Races’ for the 1990s, in which classic Hanna-Barbera characters drive monster trucks made for racing. Each vehicle has a different theme, specific to its drivers; e.g., Yogi and Boo Boo's monster truck is a motorized giant picnic basket, while Winsome Witch's monster truck is a wheeled cauldron with a sentient skeleton named Axel on it. Game show announcer from ‘The New Hollywood Squares’ and disc jockey Shadoe Stevens provided the voice of the race announcer.

Since they were in the aforementioned series, Dick Dastardly and Muttley reappear in this segment, reprising their roles as cheaters with their own monster truck called the Dirty Truckster, which is basically their Mean Machine on a monster truck chassis. On a few occasions, they actually win a race, though there is always a catch that renders the win meaningless.

Although technically not a series of its own, this is the fourth all-star sports show from Hanna-Barbera. This show also features Paul Winchell's final performance as Hanna-Barbera's long running antagonist, Dick Dastardly.

The competitors, listed by numeral order, as in their race numbers:

• Yogi and Boo-Boo Bear in the Jellystone Jammer (#1)
• Huckleberry Hound and Snagglepuss in the Half-Dog Half-Cat Half-Track (#2)
• Wally Gator and Magilla Gorilla in the Swamp Stoner (#3)
• Top Cat and Choo-Choo in the Alley Cat (#4)
• Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey in the Texas Twister (#5)
• Pixie and Dixie in the Cheddar Shredder (#6)
• Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy in the Lucky Trucky (#7)
• Winsome Witch and her cat Lucky in the Sonic Broom (#13)
• Dick Dastardly and Muttley in the Dirty Truckster (#00)

YO YOGI! (1991)

Synopsis: Taking place in Jellystone Town, the show features Yogi Bear and other popular Hanna-Barbera characters, depicted as teenage crime fighters. The team includes Yogi's friends Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, and Yogi's girlfriend Cindy Bear.

YIPPEE YO,YOGI! (1991)
Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Louie are doing a show at Jellystone Mall when Dick Dastardly releases Quick Draw's pet bull Bully in the mall. It is up to the L.A.F. Squad to find him and calm down the bull for the Wild West Show.

O'Bservation:
Yet another temporal glitch!  Usually Yogi and Quick Draw were seen as being the same age.  But now Quick Draw seems to be an adult and Yogi's a teenager.

I AM WEASEL (1997-2000)
The series centers on I.M. Weasel (voiced by Michael Dorn), a smart, noble and successful weasel, I.R. Baboon (voiced by Charlie Adler), an idiotic and arrogant baboon who is envious of Weasel and acts as both his rival and friend, and the mischievous, flamboyant Red Guy (also voiced by Adler), who returns from ‘Cow and Chicken’ to antagonize the duo.

I AM MY LIFETIME (1998)
Weasel and I.R. (now both senior citizens) look back upon their memories.

SAMURAI JACK
COUPLE ON A TRAIN (2002)
Quick Draw McGraw makes a cameo appearance, voiced again by Greg Burson.

HARVEY BIRDMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW
GUITAR CONTROL (2004)
When Quick Draw McGraw pulls out his trusty six-string in an attempt to put the El Kabong kibosh on the Dalton Gang, he gets hauled off to the hoosegow. So he turns to noted constitutional law expert Harvey Birdman to defend his right to keep and bear guitars. Meanwhile, Harvey's boss, Phil Ken Sebben, takes $12 billion from the powerful guitar lobby to fund his presidential campaign. Not that that would make him beholden to them. And Peanut and Baba Looey get into trouble when they get their hands on Quick Draw's private guitar arsenal. (From the IMDb)

"It's a repeating gitbox made in 1870,
used in the American West.
Out there, guitars like this didn't enforce the law,
they were the law!
I didn't write that, it was on some asshole's website.
I wish I'd written it. It's a good line."
Quick Draw McGraw

O'Bservation:
He is voiced by Maurice LaMarche, to sound like Jack Palance.

CLASS OF 3000 (2006-2008)
Class of 3000 follows superstar and music teacher Sunny Bridges (voiced by André), who teaches a group of students at Atlanta, Georgia's Westley School of the Performing Arts.

HOME (2006)
Quick Draw McGraw in the cartoon "Two Too Much" makes an appearance in an invention by Philly Phil.

O'Bservation:
There are timeline anomalies with regards to the life of Quick Draw McGraw.  But this time it might have been a Zonk in which a TV series was made about El Kabong, and that is what is being transmitted on the big screen.  (It has to be a dramatization, as Quick Draw's voice is nowhere near to his "actual" voice.  (You are missed, Mr. Butler.)

THE SIMPSONS
MILLION DOLLAR ABIE (2006)
Quick Draw McGraw - in his guise as El Kabong - appears in the "Springfield Blows" music video.

ROBOT CHICKEN
BAN ON THE FUN (2007)
The Laff-A-Lympics gang faces their darkest games ever: Munich, 1972.

O'Bservation:
Another appearance which shows that Quick Draw McGraw is a multidimensional.  This time his televersion is from the Toobworld known as Claymatia.  (Yeah, I'm not happy with it either.)

SOUTH PARK
IMAGINATIONLAND III (2007)
It is the third and final episode in a three-part story arc that won the 2008 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More). The three episodes were later reissued together, along with previously unreleased footage, as the uncensored “Imaginationland: The Movie”.

O'Bservation:
I suppose this is one Honking Big Zonk, but it's a lot of fun.  Just go with it.

WACKY RACES
MUCH ADO ABOUT WACKY (2018)
Quick Draw makes a cameo in the Wacky Races episode "Much Ado About Wacky," during the fight scene in the Macbeth play, Penelope Pitstop calls for a horse. Quick Draw appears and charges into battle shouting his famous line, "Hold on there, Baba Louis." This angers Snagglepuss, who is also cameoing in this episode, as Quick Draw is not even an actor. (From the Hanna-Barbera Wiki)

O'Bservation:
He is voiced by Billy West.

JELLYSTONE! (2021-2025)
The series is a reimagined take on the legendary Hanna-Barbera brand, focusing on a modernized ensemble of its characters as they live, work, and play together but have to solve the problems they have.

All of them have specific roles in the community. Huckleberry Hound is the Mayor of Jellystone, Yogi Bear is a surgeon, Cindy Bear is a genius inventor, Doggie Daddy is a lighthouse keeper who is overprotective towards his daughter Augie Doggie, Jabberjaw and Loopy De Loop work in Magilla Gorilla's haberdashery called "Magilla's", Top Cat and the Hoagy's Alley cats continue with their scam activities, El Kabong doubles as a teacher and superhero, Shazzan is a ticket seller at Jellystone Theatre and does various vendor jobs, and The Banana Splits are cartoonish criminals.

TEEN TITANS GO!
WARNER BROS. 100TH ANNIVERSARY (2023)
In "Teen Titans Go!", Quick Draw McGraw makes a guest appearance in the episode "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary", alongside other classic Hanna-Barbera characters. The episode celebrates the studio's milestone and features various characters from their library of cartoons. (From Google's AI)

METLIFE SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL (2012)
Quick Draw made a cameo appearance, teamed up with Yosemite Sam.

Here's one last O’Bservation:
1] Wikipedia has this informistake:
Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey make cameo appearances in the ‘Animaniacs’ episode "Suffragette City".

No they do not!

So here’s to you, Queeks Draw, a welcome addition to the Tooniverse wing of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.

And having posted that mangling of his name a la Baba Looey, I realize there are those who might think I’m dismissing the sidekick’s role.  I’m not.  One day Baba Looey will make it into the Hall on his own merits.  

But there were several qualifications for Quick Draw which did not involve Baba Looey.  And once I look into his qualifications for membership, I might even find appearances in which Quick Draw never showed up  Maybe….

Welcome to the Hall, Sheriff!

TVXOHOF MEMORIAL TRIBUTE - THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS

From The Guardian:
Ozzy Osbourne, whose gleeful “Prince of Darkness” image made him one of the most iconic rock frontmen of all time, has died aged 76.

A statement from the Osbourne family reads: “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.” No cause of death was given, though Osbourne had experienced various forms of ill health in recent years.

Osbourne was one of the most notorious figures in rock: an innovator whose eerie wail helped usher in heavy metal, a showman who once bit the head off a bat on stage, an addict whose substance abuse led him to attempt to murder his wife, and latterly, a reality TV star much loved for his bemusement at family life on ‘The Osbournes’.

Even without “Reality” Television and appearances on talk shows and televised music performances, Ozzy Osbourne qualified for entry into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame as a member of the League of Themselves.  In fact, even with just barely exceeding the minimum requirements to be eligible, Ozzy also gained the status as a Multi-dimensional.

OZZY OSBOURNE

From Wikipedia:
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (3 December 1948 – 22 July 2025) was an English singer, songwriter, and media personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which period he adopted the nickname "Prince of Darkness".

Osbourne became a founding member of Black Sabbath in 1968, providing lead vocals from their eponymous debut studio album in 1970 to Never Say Die! in 1978.

The band was highly influential in the development of heavy metal music, in particular their critically acclaimed releases Paranoid (1970), Master of Reality (1971), and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973). Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 due to his problems with alcohol and other drugs. He then began a successful solo career with Blizzard of Ozz in 1980 and released 13 studio albums, the first seven of which received multi-platinum certifications in the United States. He reunited with Black Sabbath on several occasions.

He rejoined in 1997 and helped record the band's final studio album, 13 (2013), before they embarked on a farewell tour that ended with a 2017 performance in their native Birmingham. On 5 July 2025, Osbourne performed his final show at the Back to the Beginning concert event amid ongoing health issues, having announced earlier in the year that it would be his last live performance. Though he intended to continue recording music, he died 17 days later on 22 July 2025.

Osbourne sold over 100 million albums, including his solo work and Black Sabbath releases. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Black Sabbath in 2006 and as a solo artist in 2024. He was also inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame both solo and with Black Sabbath in 2005. He was honoured with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Birmingham Walk of Stars. At the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards, he received the Global Icon Award. In 2015, he received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.

In the early 2000s, Osbourne became a reality television star when he appeared in the MTV reality show 'The Osbournes' alongside his wife and manager Sharon and two of their children, Kelly and Jack. He co-starred with Jack and Kelly in the television series 'Ozzy & Jack's World Detour' as well as 'The Osbournes Want to Believe' with his wife Sharon and son Jack.

Again, ignoring the reality programming because his fictional televersion is all that was needed, here are the shows which got him into the TVXOHOF:

PARKER LEWIS CAN'T LOSE
RENT-A-KUBE (1990)

Ozzy is seen in a quick cameo insert, not really part of the plot.  He gets dissed by one of the cast regulars and then breaks the Fourth Wall to exclaim, "Well, you don't have to bite my head off!"

O'Bservation: That makes Ozzy a serlinguist, able to talk to the audience back in the Trueniverse.

CSI
SKIN IN THE GAME (2013)

Russell and Ecklie attend a Black Sabbath show to meet the reporter John Merchiston. He wants to see how the CSIs work and Ecklie wants a positive view of the department in the press.

THE CONNERS
BEARDS, THRUPPLES, AND ROBOTS (2020)

Ozzy and Sharon are customers at the Lunch Box restaurant. Jackie, Darlene, and Becky discuss what’s been keeping them, as they want to talk to a manager, and they haven’t ordered anything. When it’s discovered that they’ve been staring at Jackie, Becky thinks they might want a throuple.

(Most of those plot summaries are from the IMDb.)

Here’s the reason why Ozzy is a Multi-dimensional….

THE TOONIVERSE

SOUTH PARK

CHEF AID (1998)

When Cartman comes into school singing the new hit song, "Stinky Britches," Chef realizes that the song he wrote 20 years earlier has been stolen. When he goes to the record company to show the song is his and ask for attribution, the record executive instead hires Johnny Cochrane to sue Chef for millions of dollars. Facing prison if he can't pay the fine, the kids look up all Chef's old music buddies to raise the money.

They all arrive in South Park to hold a huge charity concert, allowing Chef to hire Cochrane for himself and counter-sue the record executive.

Ozzy Osbourne kills Kenny by biting his head off. This is a parody of two separate real-life incidents where Osbourne killed a dove and a bat by biting their heads off.

Good night and may God bless Ozzy Osbourne.  If that's what he wanted....

 

TVXOHOF: JULY, 2025 - MATT SYKES

 
With this July entry into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame (which usually showcases detectives), we’re honoring the memory of Gary Graham, who passed away over a year ago.

January 22, 2024
Gary Graham, who starred as the human detective who partners with an extraterrestrial newcomer to solve crimes on the Fox sci-fi television franchise ‘Alien Nation’, has died. He was 73.

Graham died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Spokane, Washington, his wife of nearly 25 years, Becky Graham, told The Hollywood Reporter.

In the ‘Star Trek’ universe, Graham played the Ocampan community leader Tanis on ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ in 1995; recurred as Ambassador Soval, a Vulcan ambassador to Earth, on ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’, from 2001-05; and portrayed the first officer Ragnar in ‘Star Trek: Of Gods and Men’ (2007) and ‘Star Trek: Renegades’ from 2015-17.

Graham starred as the L.A. detective Matthew Sikes alongside Eric Pierpoint as George Francisco, an “immigrant” and newcomer from another planet, on ‘Alien Nation’, which aired for a season (1989-90) on Fox.

The pair then returned for the telefilms “Alien Nation: Dark Horizon” (1994), “Alien Nation: Body and Soul” (1995), “Alien Nation: Millennium” (1996), “Alien Nation: The Enemy Within” (1996) and “Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy” (1997).

The series was an offshoot of a 1988 “Alien Nation” movie that starred James Caan as Matthew and Mandy Patinkin as the newcomer.
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

MATT SYKES

From Wikipedia:
Detective Matthew Sikes is a Los Angeles police officer reluctantly working with "Newcomer" alien Sam "George" Francisco. Sikes also has an on again-off again flirtation with a female Newcomer, Cathy Frankel.

[O’Bservation – Using his full name was not a concern when dealing with George and other Tenctonese.  But when his given name of “Matthew” was shortened to “Matt”, it proved to be a source of amusement to the Tenctonese.  In their language, “Sykes’ translated to “cranium”, while “Matt” meant “fecal matter”.]

From the ‘Alien Nation’ wiki:
Matthew Sikes is a human police officer and partner of George Francisco. He is divorced and has a daughter.

Both he and George are close friends, even if he sometimes acts quite bemused about Tenctonese customs.

When Matthew and George met for the first time, he refused to be the Partner of a "Slag", since his former partner, Sgt. William Tuggles, was killed during a gunfight with a Tenctonese criminal. Later however, after he worked a while with George, he came to the conclusion that he was wrong about his prejudice towards Tenctonese and the two became very close friends.

He has an on-off relationship with Dr. Cathy Frankel, a newcomer bio-chemist which remains sketchy during the TV series. During the TV movies, their relationship blossoms and ends up with them taking 'sex' classes.

ALIEN NATION
TV Movie

A bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his alien partner learn to live with each other's differences while attempting to solve a drug conspiracy hidden in the subculture of Los Angeles' newest immigrant population: extraterrestrials.
Five years after their spaceship crashed on Earth, the Tenctonese "Newcomers" deal with prejudice and discrimination as they try to adjust to life in Los Angeles. Detective Matt Sikes and his Newcomer partner, George Francisco, investigate a series of odd occurrences, including the death of Sikes's former partner. Meanwhile, the Francisco family tries to deal with being the first Tenctonese in a formerly all-human neighborhood.

O’Bservation:
The “Future” is now in the Past in the Toobworld timeline.

ALIEN NATION
22 episodes

In the near future, a human cop and his alien partner fight crime and discrimination in Los Angeles.
A flying saucer crashed in the Mojave Desert and its inhabitants turned out to be alien slaves, bred to be super intelligent and strong, and controllable by their Overseers. These Tenctonese, or "Newcomers", have been assimilated (sort of) into the population of Los Angeles. One of them, George Francisco, is a police detective with a human partner, Matthew Sikes. George and Matt fight crime together, while learning to respect the other's culture, and question his own. They also fight prejudice, as personified by the Purists, and fear, in the form of the unseen Overseers, who seek to regain control over their slaves.

ALIEN NATION: DARK HORIZON
TV Movie

An Overseer named Ahpossno comes to Earth to take the slaves, and all humans, back to the mothership.

Follow-up movie to the TV series about 250,000 aliens, or "Newcomers" as they are known, who have settled alongside the humans in California. Most of the Newcomers were slaves, and the Overseers are now looking for them. They send Ahpossno to earth to locate the slaves to take them back to the ship.

Picking up where the "season finale" left off, Emily and Susan are on life support after being contaminated with a virus, which is found to be from a Purist group. The Purists have created a mass of it to spray over LA to kill all Newcomers. At the same time, an elite Overseer arrives to organize the return of the Tenctonese to slavery, and decides to take the human population as well.

ALIEN NATION: BODY AND SOUL
TV Movie
Sikes and Francisco are called in to a case when a mysterious young girl, who looks part Newcomer, part human, appears. Her huge, brutish counterpart tries to free her from the precinct, and their bizarre relationship turns out to be the result of a slaveship medical experiment. Meanwhile, Cathy and Matt are going to sex school, in preparation of becoming intimate, while Buck distresses his parents by his anti-human opinions.

ALIEN NATION: MILLENNIUM
TV Movie
It's December 1999 and as the end of the millennium approaches, people are attempting to find spiritual enlightenment. However, a few people want to skip all the work that entails. A holy Tenctonese relic in the hands of a heretic is giving them a shortcut but it's not quite as easily controlled as she says.

ALIEN NATION: THE ENEMY WITHIN
TV Movie
When Detectives Sikes and Francisco are presented with the mysterious death of an Eeno, Matt is stupefied to discover that George had rudely snubbed the case. He, like most Newcomers, reviles the outcast Eenos. As the case unfolds, George has to reassess his prejudices, and George's family help save the city from an alien threat originating in an Eeno waste disposal facility.

ALIEN NATION: THE UDARA LEGACY
TV Movie

Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurrences involving Newcomers, who are found to be programmed to carry out someone's dirty work. The method by which they are brainwashed dates back to the slave ship's resistance movement, the Udara, of which Susan was a part. Susan and George's lives are further disrupted when Buck enrolls in the police academy.

Eventually, George Francisco and his family will be inducted into the Hall as well.  And good news for Matt Sykes – Dr. Cathy Frankel will be joining as well.

It has always been Toobworld Central policy that TV movies are independent of TV series, even if they serve as the pilot or as reunion shows.  This makes it easier for a character to be inducted.  (This wasn’t made up for Graham’s benefit.  It was used for Lt. Columbo as well.)

SPLAININ TO DO:
It’s now been a quarter century since the Tenctonese have been seen in Toobworld.  A few of them might still remain here, but as for the others?

I believe they have left Earth.  I think the Gallifreyan Time Lord known as “The Doctor” took them to another planet, an uninhabited world which they could make their own.  (With the TARDIS being bigger on the inside, I would think the Old Girl could easily have taken them all in one trip.

Remembering Gary Graham as we welcome Detective Matt Sykes into the Hall.  

"Good night and may God bless."


 

TVXOHOF TRIBUTE - BRIAN WILSON

From the AP:

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at 82.

Wilson's family posted news of his death to his website and social media accounts Wednesday. Further details weren't immediately available. Since May 2024, Wilson had been under a court conservatorship to oversee his personal and medical affairs, with Wilson’s longtime representatives, publicist Jean Sievers and manager LeeAnn Hard, in charge.

The eldest and last surviving of three musical brothers — Brian played bass, Carl lead guitar and Dennis drums — he and his fellow Beach Boys rose in the 1960s from local California band to national hit-makers to international ambassadors of surf and sun. Wilson himself was celebrated for his gifts and pitied for his demons. He was one of rock’s great Romantics, a tormented man who in his peak years embarked on an ever-steeper path to aural perfection, the one true sound.

From Wikipedia:
Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 – c. June 11, 2025) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. Often called a genius for his novel approaches to pop composition and mastery of recording techniques, he is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the 20th century. His best-known work is distinguished for its high production values, complex harmonies and orchestrations, vocal layering, and introspective or ingenuous themes. Wilson was also known for his versatile vocal range and lifelong struggles with mental illness.

Wilson's formative influences included George Gershwin, the Four Freshmen, Phil Spector, and Burt Bacharach. In 1961, he began his professional career as a member of the Beach Boys, serving as the band's songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, he became the first pop musician credited for writing, arranging, producing, and performing his own material. He also produced acts such as the Honeys and American Spring. By the mid-1960s he had written or co-written more than two dozen U.S. Top 40 hits, including the number-ones "Surf City" (1963), "I Get Around" (1964), "Help Me, Rhonda" (1965), and "Good Vibrations" (1966). He is considered among the first music producer auteurs and the first rock producers to apply the studio as an instrument.

In 1964, Wilson had a nervous breakdown and resigned from regular concert touring to focus on songwriting and production. This led to works such as the Beach Boys' “Pet Sounds” and his first credited solo release, "Caroline, No" (both 1966), as well as the unfinished album “Smile”. By the late 1960s, his productivity and mental health had significantly declined, leading to periods marked by reclusion, overeating, and substance abuse. His first professional comeback yielded the almost solo effort “The Beach Boys Love You” (1977). In the 1980s, he formed a controversial creative and business partnership with his psychologist, Eugene Landy, and relaunched his solo career with the self-titled album “Brian Wilson” (1988). Wilson disassociated from Landy in 1991 and toured regularly as a solo artist from 1999 to 2022.

Heralding popular music's recognition as an art form, Wilson's accomplishments as a producer helped initiate an era of unprecedented creative autonomy for label-signed acts. He is regarded as an important figure to many music genres and movements, including the California sound, art pop, psychedelia, chamber pop, progressive music, punk, outsider, and sunshine pop. Since the 1980s, his influence has extended to styles such as post-punk, indie rock, emo, dream pop, Shibuya-kei, and chillwave. He received numerous industry awards including two Grammy Awards and Kennedy Center Honors as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. His life and career were dramatized in the 2014 biopic “Love and Mercy”.

These are the credits which qualified Brian Wilson to be a member of the TV Crossover Hall of Fame:

THE RETURN OF BRUNO (1987 TV Movie)

A "documentary" about the major influence that a '60s rock singer named Bruno has had on rock music, as attested to by such rock legends as Ringo Starr, Brian Wilson and the Bee Gees, among others.

FULL HOUSE
BEACH BLANKET BINGO (1988)

The Beach Boys are in town and D.J. wins a radio contest where she and a guest can see the Beach Boys in concert. Problem is, Danny, Jesse and Joey want to go and D.J. has to decide who will go with her. When she makes her decision, Danny has hurt feelings because he isn't chosen. Now D.J. is upset because of that and she doesn't know what to do.

The Beach Boys sing Kokomo in the family living room. Even though Brian Wilson is singing Kokomo with the rest of the Beach Boys he was not on the original recording of the song.  However, the group later recorded a Spanish-language version of "Kokomo" with participation from Wilson.

BAYWATCH
SURF'S UP (1995)

After a number of unusual circumstances occur around the beaches, including Cody and Neely rescuing two surfer boys that come down with a fever, an environmentalist group comes to Baywatch to protest the dumping of chemicals from the storm drains, and Mitch enlists the Beach Boys for a benefit concert to help out raise money for repairing the storm drains.

THE TOONIVERSE

This appearance marked Wilson as a Multidimensional.

DUCK DODGERS
SURF THE STARS (2005)

When his Surf King status is wiped out by The Crusher, Dodgers must prevail in an impossible surfing contest.

“Believe In Yourself”
Written by Brian Wilson
Performed by Brian Wilson

O'Bservation:
All plot summaries are from the IMDb.

Along with the other Beach Boys, Wilson appeared on 'The Ed Sullivan Show', hosted by another League of Themselves member who is in the Hall.  And with his wife Melinda, he was a guest on 'The View'.  (The TV show itself is in the TV on TV wing of the TVXOHOF.)

Welcome to the Hall, Mr. Wilson.

As Red Skelton would say, “Good night and may God Bless.”

Love and Mercy on your cosmic journey, Sir....