The John Larroquette Show once mentioned Yoyodyne, a manufacturing client of law firm Wolfram and Hart John Hemingway of The John Larroquette Show once called into Frasier’s talk show Elsewhere links to Doctor Who, hypothetically rendering the TARDIS a figment of Tommy’s imagination:ĭonald Westphall and two other doctors visited Sam Malone’s bar from Cheers Ĭheers introduced Frasier Crane, of Frasier Over time, it began to look something like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game.
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Elsewhere into Homicide."Īlong with U.S.-based fan Ash Crowe, Gow began to develop a chart linking the series to other shows on television. " was fond of putting in references to previous shows he worked on, including bringing characters from St. "The discussion began on alt.tv.homicide, a newsgroup that discussed Homicide: Life on the Street," Gow tells Mental Floss. Gow, a resident of Melbourne, Australia, spent time in pubs and online wondering what Tommy’s scene meant for every show connected to St. Elsewhere to a trivial mention in Fontana’s biography, if not for the curiosity of a playwright named Keith Gow.
Those two impressive achievements would have likely relegated the bizarre ending of St. (Quizzed by IndieWire in 2012 as to who exactly came up with the idea, neither Fontana nor co-writers Channing Gibson or John Tinker could remember.)įontana did, however, recall that half of the viewer mail retrieved after the finale was positive, while the other half made loose reference to a desire to “burn to the ground."įontana went on to create Homicide: Life on the Street and HBO’s groundbreaking prison drama Oz. When NBC refused to finance their ambitious plan, the idea for the snow globe was hatched. Eligius would be standing by in the year 2013 while a toxic gas cloud passed over, the result of a corporate war between foreign factions. Elsewhere, he was openly hostile toward any idea of a reunion special down the line and insisted that the series finale should be definitive.įontana’s favored conclusion was a literal apocalypse, where the staff of St. If the theory holds, then a large chunk of television is the direct result of one child’s formidable imagination.Įrasing the fiction of an entire medium is not what Tom Fontana had planned. Elsewhere with varying degrees of separation, ranging from I Love Lucy to The Flash. Eligius crew, and he has appeared on shows ranging from The X-Files to The Wire, effectively making him the Patient Zero of what's become known as The Tommy Westphall Universe theory.Īs of this writing, 441 shows can be tied to St. Elsewhere episode Cheers spawned Frasier, a character who appeared on Wings John Munch, the detective from Homicide, had mingled with the St. Elsewhere was a figment of Tommy Westphall’s elaborate imagination, then wouldn’t other television characters who appeared in the show’s continuity exist only within Tommy's mind, as well? The doctors had visited the bar on Cheers in one St. More than puzzling, some people found it to be an actual puzzle. I think other people will find it puzzling, odd, maybe unfulfilling in some way.” “I think some people will think it's extraordinary and existential and quintessential St.
“I expect a very mixed reaction,” Bruce Paltrow, one of the show's executive producers, told the Chicago Tribune in 1988. (On that series, Bobby Ewing was brought back to life after his "death" turned out to be just a bad dream.) The implication was that Tommy-a character on the autism spectrum-had imagined the entire show, a fiction-within-the-fiction conceit that had angered viewers during the infamous “dream season” arc on Dallas five years earlier. Behind him stood his father, who was sporting a construction worker’s wardrobe. Eligius, the medical center that was featured in the series. Inside the globe was a tiny mock-up of St. Donald Westphall, was seen peering into a snow globe. In the closing moments of the episode, a boy named Tommy Westphall (Chad Allen), the son of medical director Dr. Not necessarily because the series-which had earned 13 Emmy Awards during its run-was ending, but because producers opted for a highly unconventional finale. Elsewhere signed off after six seasons on May 25, 1988, more than a few viewers were saddened.
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