Television cross-overs

[low-key]

When do you think the Chicago shows are going to appear on Netflix or some other streaming service? I'm going to have alot to watch when that happens.

Im not sure, but it will have to be soon, I think everyone of them have well over 100 episodes, you will love it, worth the wait

 

[chickapin parterre]

Are those the last TV shows you watched?

yes....waiting for Dick Wolf to have his own channel or network....now those were fun crossovers....CSI had one, maybe more, it was good

 

[barkley]

i liked the old school ones where it didn't matter if you watched one show or not-the crossover episodes were limited (for the story line) to just one of the shows. like superman on i love lucy and all the dragnet/adam 12/emergency, green hornet/batman ones.

was anyone a fan of 'st elsewhere'?-THE BEST crossover EVER was when they had the character mr. carlin from 'the bob newhart show' end up in the psych ward.

 

[bcla]

was anyone a fan of 'st elsewhere'?-THE BEST crossover EVER was when they had the character mr. carlin from 'the bob newhart show' end up in the psych ward.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

What are your thoughts about television cross-over shows? Normally they don't bother me too much or I don't even notice. But the Grey's Anatomy/Station 11 crossovers drive me bonkers. I feel like I miss a big part of the story line (like the conclusion of the story). I don't watch Station 11 and I have no desire too.

What are "cross-overs"?

Is is just when characters from one series show up on another? Or when a story line on one series continues/ends on a different series?

I don't particularly mind the former, but really hate the latter. I don't even like 2 (or 3) part shows on the same series.

 

[bcla]

What are "cross-overs"?

Is is just when characters from one series show up on another? Or when a story line on one series continues/ends on a different series?

I don't particularly mind the former, but really hate the latter. I don't even like 2 (or 3) part shows on the same series.

Both are crossovers. I think the latter is what many refer to a "crossover event" which is kind of like a miniseries. Comic books have gone crossover for years, including things as strange as DC vs Marvel.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I did watch the last Station 19/Grey’s but only because they switched the times. I was surprised by how much I would have missed. That said, Station 19 is TERRIBLE. I really struggled to get through it and onto Grey’s.

I am not a fan. I can not stand Station 19 and feel like the network is tricking people into watching both shows.

This! Sometimes I like crossovers, but I just can't get into Station 19. Except for Ben, and maybe the chief, I simply don't like the characters, and I'm not invested in their story lines. I DVR'd the last crossover and suffered through Station 19 to get to Grey's.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I love the old 70’s tv ones when Laverne and Shirley would be on Happy Days

Did you know Laverne & Shirley was a spin-off of Happy Days in the first place?

http://www.poobala.com/happydaysandlas.html

 

[auntfrannie]

I don't care for them. They always seem to be a last ditch effort to improve the ratings for a flailing show. NCIS comes to mind as they did several when NCIS:NO came out.

 

[dclpluto]

Hawaii Five 0 and Magnum P.I. the reboot shows just had one a month ago!

yep that was a great cross over. They need to have more

 

[Disney_Alli]

I don't care for them. They always seem to be a last ditch effort to improve the ratings for a flailing show. NCIS comes to mind as they did several when NCIS:NO came out.

If you’re talking about when a series debuts as part of another show that’s usually called an “embedded pilot”. NCIS itself was actually an embedded pilot in JAG with a two or three part episode. But yes they do seem to be trying to keep NO going with crossovers.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I am not a fan. I can not stand Station 19 and feel like the network is tricking people into watching both shows.

Well, they did advertise the latest crossover extensively, but I suppose not everyone watches commercials . But while the network agrees to air the shows, it's the producers and writers tricking viewers.

Place blame where it's due.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Did you know Laverne & Shirley was a spin-off of Happy Days in the first place?

http://www.poobala.com/happydaysandlas.html

Ditto Mork and Mindy.

I don't care for them. They always seem to be a last ditch effort to improve the ratings for a flailing show. NCIS comes to mind as they did several when NCIS:NO came out.

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Not arguing, but which of Dick Wolf's current series is/are flailing?

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

When do you think the Chicago shows are going to appear on Netflix or some other streaming service? I'm going to have alot to watch when that happens.

The current seasons were on Hulu. Not sure about the past ones, though.

 

[L&Lfan]

I always thought the Brady Bunch should have met the Partridge Family. Keith could have dated Marcia and Greg dated Laurie.

 

[Flowers12]

Not a fan.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I always thought the Brady Bunch should have met the Partridge Family. Keith could have dated Marcia and Greg dated Laurie.

That would have been fun!

The Brady Bunch actually was supposed to have a spin-off:

from this episode (imdb)

but it never got picked up.

 

[tvguy]

Did you know Laverne & Shirley was a spin-off of Happy Days in the first place?

http://www.poobala.com/happydaysandlas.html

And HAPPY DAYS was spun off from a segment of LOVE AMERICAN STYLE

 

[bcla]

yep that was a great cross over. They need to have more

The original Magnum had a Murder, She Wrote crossover.

I remember a professor who was a real character. He was a part timer teaching supposedly grad-level probability classes part time even though he was a full-time electrical engineering professor at another school. However, he was Irish and pretty much stereotypically so. I don't know how it came up, but his opinion on Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote was that it was such a travesty that such a lovely and talented actress was making what he thought of as garbage.

 

[cluvsdisney]

Well, they did advertise the latest crossover extensively, but I suppose not everyone watches commercials . But while the network agrees to air the shows, it's the producers and writers tricking viewers.

Place blame where it's due.

Who's blaming who for anything? I KNEW there was a crossover. I feel the trick is that I would have not watched Station 19 if it wasn't a crossover so the network/producers are artificially increasing the ratings for a show some people would have not watched otherwise and I suppose hopefully get new fans.