What tv shows could exist in the same universe?

[chardman]

Another tie in to Det Munch that I don't think has been mentioned (If I missed it, sorry for the repeat): In the BBC series "Luther", the title character had a fellow DI contact "Det Munch at SVU in New York" in regard to a crime with American connection. No actual appearance occured; not even a voiceover. Just the mention connecting Munch (and all of his many other connections) to the "Luther"-verse.

 

[DigificWriter]

I just found out that The Montecito appeared in Monk and the Stargate Atlantis episode "Vegas", and that Las Vegas (the show) also has connections to Magnum P.I. via cast members Lary Manetti and Roger E. Mosley appearing as characters who were implied to be older, billionaire versions of the characters they portrayed on Magnum P.I.

 

[UssGlenn]

Still, it's cool that he's played the same character in so many different things. Was he on the Simpsons as Munch at any point?

I don't know, but he did appear as a puppet version of himself on Sesame Street.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5121VjLwqZM

 

[Admiral Shran]

Some more to add to the Munchverse, either from crossovers or spinoffs....

Conviction (spin-off of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
Cheers (crossover with St. Elsewhere)
The White Shadow (crossover with St. Elsewhere)
The Bob Newhart Show (crossover with St. Elsewhere)
M*A*S*H (crossover with St. Elsewhere)
Oz (crossover with St. Elsewhere)
Frasier (spin-off from Cheers)
The Tortellis (spin-off from Cheers)
Wings (crossover with Cheers)
Newhart (spin-off from The Bob Newhart Show)
Murphy Brown (crossover with The Bob Newhart Show)
AfterMASH (spin-off from M*A*S*H)
W*A*L*T*E*R (spin-off from M*A*S*H)
Trapper John, MD (spin-off from M*A*S*H)

So, the Munchverse now includes....


Law & Order
Law & Order: Special Vicitms Unit
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Trial By Jury
Law & Order: Los Angeles
Homicide: Life On the Street
The X-Files
Millennium
The Lone Gunmen
The Beat
Arrested Development
The Wire
Chicago Hope
St. Elsewhere
Picket Fences
Cops
In Plain Sight
Luther
Conviction
Cheers
The White Shadow
The Bob Newhart Show
M*A*S*H
Oz
Frasier
The Tortellis
Wings
Newhart
Murphy Brown
AfterMASH
W*A*L*T*E*R
Trapper John, MD

Freakin' Munch, he's everywhere.

 

[RandyS]

Has anybody mentioned Dallas and Knot's Landing yet?

 

[Marc]

Fringe once mentioned the "Old X Division" in Season 2. However, the X-Files was seen on TV in Fringe.

Just like Quantum Leap and Magnum P.I. I heard that there was supposed to be a crossover there. I also heard that Magnum P.I. was established as a TV show on Quantum Leap, so that would have been a problem.

And Quantum Leap was established as a tv show in the JAG universe.

The wonders of having Donald P. Belisario as creator/producer on all three

 

[Solarbaby]

Munsters /Addams Family

Enterprise/ Sunset Beach

 

[darkwing_duck1]

I've got one a lot of people don't know about: Star Trek (Roddenberry universe) and seaQuest.

Points of linkage: in one seaQuest episode, there is a plaque on the grounds of an institution (IIRC a university) commemorating the launch of the Nomad probe, and in one episode of TNG, a computer file showing the record of a Starfleet officer lists the USS Seaquest as a ship he had served on.

Furthermore, the depiction of early 21st century US, as shown in the parts of "Past Tense" (the 2-parter about the Bell Riots) set OUTSIDE the Sanctuary District portray a world stylistically and functionally much like that of seaQuest's US. The conflicts mentioned in the SQ back story could easily have been the Eugenics Wars. The Dagger/GELF crisis in SQ could easily be the "final straw" that led to the banning of genetic engineering. And the UEO fits nicely in the gap between the end of the old UN, and could be the seed of the "New United Nations" mentioned in "Encounter at Farpoint".

The UEO/Macronesia confrontation in the later part of SQ S3 could have been a precursor to a period of global unrest that culminated in WW III.

 

[Sephiroth]

Any of the David E Kelley shows could probably co-exist. Ally McBeal had a crossover with The Practice, which in turn begat Boston Legal. Chi McBride, who played the principal from Boston Public, turned up in Legal as his BP character, though other actors appeared in both as different characters.

You could definitely imagine the oddball lawyers from Ally as opposing counsel in a case with the oddball lawyers from Boston Legal.

With Douglas Wombaugh appearing for the stick figure

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Still, it's cool that he's played the same character in so many different things. Was he on the Simpsons as Munch at any point?

I don't know, but he did appear as a puppet version of himself on Sesame Street.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5121VjLwqZM

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of.

OK, Law and Order and X-Files I can handle. I'm not sure about Sesame Street, though.

 

[Nardpuncher]

"All in the Family" and "Maude" and "The Jeffersons" and Ithink "Rhoda" but I'm not sure.
Then there was some show in the early 90s that had a black family move into Archie Bunkers old house.

 

[WeAreTheBorg]

Seinfeld and Battlestar Galactica

 

[Owain Taggart]

Corner Gas & Little Mosque on the Prairie. Two sitcoms set in Canada's Saskatchewan running at the same time is pretty rare. I've always imagined the people on LM stopping for gas at Corner Gas. Only thing stopping it from happening when Corner Gas was still running is the fact that they're on different networks.

 

[captcalhoun]

jetsons and flintstones crossed over.

 

[Orac Zen]

There was an ER / Third Watch crossover, as I recall (same producers).

"All in the Family" and "Maude" and "The Jeffersons" and Ithink "Rhoda" but I'm not sure.

Rhoda was in the same universe as the Mary Tyler Moore Show. The others are right, though.

 

[Australis]

Shows I'd LIKE to see in one universe, with big crossover eps:
Dexter
Burn Notice
Bad Boys
Miami Vice (old & new)

Because they're all set in one place.

Imagine:
MICHAEL WESTIN: I think you should drop the gun and hand me my yoghurt

MIKE LOWREY: Oh, I don't think so!

(cue mayhem)

 

[Sephiroth]

I can totally see Babylon 5 being the future of the X-files, it was the Shadows manipulating things on Earth

 

[Nardpuncher]

Seinfeld and Battlestar Galactica

Whoa! Tell me about that one!

 

[Shazam!]

CSI and Two And A Half Men had a crossover.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ It's not that they COULD exist in the same universe, they DO exist in the same universe. Gary was supposed to be the brother of Bobby & JR. Of course, having said that, in KL they used to routinely ignore major events that happened in Dallas (like Bobby coming back from the dead), so maybe they don't and can't exist in the same universe!