According to this site, an amazing amount of the TV universe -- including everything from Firefly to the Dick Van Dyke Show to Lost to I Love Lucy to Buffy to The Office to Law and Order to Doctor Who -- all exist in the mind of autistic child Tommy Westphall, who (in the show's final episode) was revealed to have imagined the entire (excellent) series St Elsewhere.
Based on documented character (and other element) cross-overs, any fictional show that touched St Elsewhere is considered also part of Tommy's amazingly complex dreams. The count of shows comes to 280 -- which is a remarkable tribute to how TV writers / producers like to do cross-overs or sly cross-references to other works they admire or have worked on.
Fun stuff.
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Loved St. Elsewhere.
Wow, that is just a TON of degrees of seperation work there.
**boggles**
It's hard to think of _Joanie Loves Chachi_ and _Torchwood_ as being in the same 'verse, but ...
Jim Salicrup, the former Marvel editor, did something similar with comic books, based on the Spider-Man team-up with the original Saturday Night Live cast and another cross-over with David Letterman.
Who watches the Watchmen indeed...
Well the thing I loved reading was how they got to the points that they did, particularly the Star Trek ---> Red Dwarf ---> Space 1999 ---> Dr. Who ----> Torchwood path.
And yes, I dod remember seeing the TARDIS sitting in the Hangerbay behind the Starbug, it made me laugh at the thought of the stage hands digging around in the BBC prop room for things to put on the set and seeing the TARDIS and making happy inner-child sounds as they wheeled it on to the Red Dwarf stage.
That series was a weekly date for Diane and I. We were just overcome with emotion at that last episode, revealing the mind of the autistic child. "Sometimes I wonder what he sees in there"
Variation on a theme: our universe all takes place inside the mind of an autistic deity, and autistic children are the only ones who understand Him/Her/It.
I watched St E regularly the first 2-3 seasons (Mark Harmon was, thus, never a sex symbol for me, but I began a deep and abiding fandom for Marc Daniels), but stayed more or less caught up over the remaining seasons. I never actually cared for the conclusion, but that it produced a site like this makes it all worthwhile.
Hmmmm ... by the very nature of being an omniscient/omnipotent/omnipresent deity, God would seem to be autistic per se.