TV Shows that Crossed Over with Other Shows

[Retro4Life]

Not sure if there's a thread for this topic already; if there is, I'm sure someone will let me know, but in the mean time here's a few that occurred to me today.

1) Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life - I'm sure there were some crossover episodes since Mrs. Garrett used to work for Mr. Drummond.

2) Diff'rent Strokes and Hello, Larry! - If I remember correctly, there was at least one crossover involving the fact that Mr. Drummond and Larry were friends.

3) Charlies Angels and The Love Boat - I know that the first episode featuring Shelley Hack was on the Love Boat

4) Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres - The Clampetts used to visit Hooterville occasionally.

5) Beverly Hilbillies and Petticoat Junction - Again, I'm sure I saw episodes with characters of both shows appearing.

6) Mad About You and Seinfeld - Wasn't there some connection between Paul and Kramer?

7) The Love Boat and Fantasy Island - I remember one episode where the Love Boat actually sailed to Mr. Roarke's stomping grounds.

8) Batman and The Green Hornet - One of the least popular Batman episodes was this crossover with Van Williams' show; no fault of the performers, just a lousy script!

9) Frasier and Cheers - Several of the Cheers gang visited Frasier at different times.

10) Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley - The girls were from Milwaukee and knew the gang, so several crossovers were pretty much a given.

11) Joey and Friends - Am I getting senile or didn't Rachel or Ross show up on Joey's show?

12) Homicide: Life on the Street and Law and Order - There was a two part crossover in the late 90's between the two crime fighting teams.

13) Homicide: Life on the Street and The X-Files - Richard Belzer's John Munch popped up in an X Files flashback episode.

14) The X-Files and Millenium - The final chapter of Frank Black's story was told on this New Year's Eve X-Files episode, which also featured zombies and Mulder and Scully's first kiss!

15) The X-Files and The Lone Gunman - Mulder showed up in the final episode of this show, while the Gunmen themselves, spun off from the X-Files, died in Season 7 of the "mother" show.

16) Empty Nest and Golden Girls - Lots of crossovers/cameos between these two shows.

17) Dallas and Knots Landing - A few crossovers here and there, which ended after the whole "dream season" thing by Dallas, which kind of rendered the crossover with KL that season a bit problematic for the show's understandably upset writers

18) Dynasty and The Colbys - I never actually watched the latter show, but I'm sure there was at least one crossover episode.

19) Mary Tyler Moore and Rhoda - Rhoda's wedding is the one example that comes immediately to mind, plus the MTM finale where both Rhoda and Phyllis showed up (a great touch, btw).

20) All in the Family and the Jeffersons - I can't recall which episode this was, but I do remember Archie and Edith going to visit the Jeffersons once, and it seems as if Louise at least returned to see them one time, or am I dreaming?

I'm sure there's tons more but that's a decent start. :)

[Dragonflies]

Cheers and Wings-Norm and Cliff from Cheers crossed over to Wings, and Fraisier and Lilith from Cheers crossed over to Wings

11) Joey and Friends - Am I getting senile or didn't Rachel or Ross show up on Joey's show?


No they didn't actually

[megamanj2004]

Simon & Simon/Magnum, P.I. - Both shows and their cast members crossed over one another when they were trying to catch a shrewd lady thief.

Rugrats/Wild Thornberries

Masked Rider/Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers

The live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Power Rangers

Diff'rent Strokes/Silver Spoons - mainly b/c Gary Coleman dropped by SS on two different occasions.

General Hospital/All My Children/One Life to Live - there were crossovers involed with 2 of the 3 or in some cases all 3 shows with some actors.


8) Batman and The Green Hornet - One of the least popular Batman episodes was this crossover with Van Williams' show; no fault of the performers, just a lousy script!

Least popular? If you're referring to the brief battle between Batman/Robin v. GH/Kato, I actually wanted to see what that episode was about.

[phoebe7165]

Kevin James was on Everybody Loves Raymond and Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Doris Roberts & Peter Boyle were on King of Queens.

[comedyfreak]

Disney Channels Suite Life Of Zac and Cody had That's So Raven and Hannah Montana on one show. A few months ago they had Wizards On Deck with Hannah Montana. It was cool.

Frasier had some of the Cheers charaters such as Lilith, Woody, Sam, Diane, appear on his show they were all funny shows too. The Frasier cast took a trip to Boston for Cliff's retirement party and met Cliff, Norm, and Carla.

[Gowza]

mad about you and friends - ursula (phoebe's twin sister) was in both shows.

[biffbronson]

The Warner series 77 Sunset Strip and Surfside 6 had episodes in which characters from both shows were involved in storylines.

Gomer Pyle USMC had a few episodes with guesting Mayberry characters from The Andy Griffith Show (Opie, Aunt Bee, Goober) and Mayberry itself.

[Buffyboy323]

Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess
Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place
Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel
ER and Third Watch

[treky]

the last episode of "STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE" had Jonathan Frakes and Mirina Sirtis as William Ryker and Deanna Troi from "STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION" and Brent Spiner did a voice cameo as Data. And once on "STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE 9" Jonathan Frakkes was on it as Rikers twin. And once he had a cameo on "STAR TREK: VOYAGER" as Ryker.

[JamesG]

I remember that an X-Files episode crossed over with COPS.

I remember that the episode started out like a COPS episode with the police running into Mulder and Scully.


edit - I think I remember Married... with Children had a COPS episode too.

[tv star collector]

Clayton Moore, as the Lone Ranger, guested on Lassie.

George Reeves, as Superman, guested on I Love Lucy.

John Hart, as the Lone Ranger, guested on Happy Days.

Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy Doody and Clarabell appeared on Happy Days.

Boss Hogg, of Dukes of Hazzard, guested on Alice.

Three of The Monkees (Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones and Peter Tork) guested on
Boy Meets World.

Cast members of Gilligan's Island appeared on Baywatch amd ALF.

Darren Stephens (Dick York) and his wife Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery)
of Bewitched made animated appearances on The Flintstones.

Several cast members of the original series Star Trek (including DeForest Kelley and James Doohan) appeared on Star Trek the Next
Generation; and George Takei guested on Star Trek Voyager.

[JamesG]

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Without A Trace had a crossover.

[megamanj2004]

Jaleel White as Steve Urkel made guest appearances on Full House and Step by Step.

Mark Linn-Baker guest satrred on the show (Family Matters) that spun off from his own show (Perfect Strangers), though not as Larry Appleton but as a different character.

Richard Moll appeared on The Facts of Life as having taking a break from his Bull character on Night Court on the episode in question and had the girls baysitting his house while he was away.

[Tubehead]

I know the guy who play steve urkal guesst star in step by step and full house,

[megamanj2004]

Kirk Cameron guest-starred on Full House w/ his sister.

Drew Carey once appeared on one of the final seasons of Coach.

Michelle Tanner made a cameo guest appearance on Hangin' with Mr. Cooper.

Will Smith once guest-cameoed on a S1 episode of Blossom.

Both Malcolm Jamal-Warner and Kadeem Hardison once guest-cameoed on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air., if I'm not mistaken.

Mark Linn-Baker, who was working on Perfect Strangers in 1989 guest-starred on another Miller-Boyett show in The Hogan Family as Mark and Willie's science teacher and Sandy's friend who got divorced.

Bruce Wayne/Batman, and The Joker appeared on Superman: The Animated Series (1996-99)

Batman appeared on Static Shock.

The X-Men appeared on Spiderman and His Amazing Friends and again on the 1990s Spider-Man series

Scooby Doo and the Gang appeared on Johnny Bravo.

Josie and the Pussycats also guest-starred on The New Scooby Doo Movies.

Mike Connors as his Joe Mannix character from Mannix guest-starred on Here's Lucy, I think.

[JamesG]

Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice

[markway895]

This is a little bit different situation, since it was a movie but , The Flintstones Meet The Jetsons.

[markway895]

Disney Channels Suite Life Of Zac and Cody had That's So Raven and Hannah Montana on one show. A few months ago they had Wizards On Deck with Hannah Montana. It was cool.

Frasier had some of the Cheers charaters such as Lilith, Woody, Sam, Diane, appear on his show they were all funny shows too. The Frasier cast took a trip to Boston for Cliff's retirement party and met Cliff, Norm, and Carla.


The interesting thing about the Cheers cast on Frasier, is that Cheers wasn't on anymore.

[treky]

don't forget all those crossovers between "THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES", "GREEN ACRES", & "PETTICOAT JUNCTION".

[vlis]

Nurses/Empty Nest/Golden Girls
Bionic Woman/Six Million Dollar Man
Charlie's Angels/Vegas
Happy Days/Mork and Mindy
Happy Days/Blansky's Beauties

[markway895]

Nurses/Empty Nest/Golden Girls
Bionic Woman/Six Million Dollar Man
Charlie's Angels/Vegas
Happy Days/Mork and Mindy
Happy Days/Blansky's Beauties


also:

Charlie's Angels (w/Shelley Hack) were on The Love Boat
Happy Days/Joanie Loves Chachi

[markway895]

Danny Thomas' Make Room For Daddy cast appeared on The Lucy/Desi Comedy Hour

The Cosby Show/Different World

All in The Family/Maude ( Archie & Edith in pilot of Maude)

Three's Company/The Ropers

[treky]

"CHEERS" and "ST. ELSEWHERE" did one once. Some of the doctors from "ST. ELSEWHERE" once stopped into a neighbor hood bar for a drink after wook, and the bar was, of course, Cheers (since both shows were set in Boston) and Ted Danson, Shelly Long and Rhea Perlman played Sam, Diane, and Carla.

[vlis]

check this out. I never knew so many Happy Days actors were on BB. This comes from wikepedia so can anyone confirm??
[edit] Synopsis
To provide exposition, Nancy Walker had played Howard Cunningham's visiting cousin Nancy Blansky from Las Vegas on a February 4, 1977 Happy Days episode, and Blansky's Beauties premiered the following week, on February 12, 1977.

Nancy Blansky (Walker) was a long-time Las Vegas showbiz vet (since the 1950s) and current den mother to a bevy of beautiful Las Vegas showgirls. In addition to keeping order in the chaotic apartment complex where they all lived, Nancy staged the girls' big numbers at the Oasis Hotel. Although the Happy Days episode on which Nancy first appeared took place in the early '60s, Blansky's Beauties itself was set in (then) present-day 1977.

Emilio (Johnny Desmond), the maître d', was Nancy's boyfriend. To help Nancy defray costs of her apartment, Ethel Akalino (known as Sunshine) (Lynda Goodfriend) and Bambi (Caren Kaye) shared it with her, along with her nephews Joey DeLuca (Eddie Mekka), a choreographer, and leering, 12-year-old ("going on 28"), Anthony DeLuca (Scott Baio). Anthony was forever trying to impress Bambi, who much to his chagrin treated him like a kid brother, as did almost all of Nancy's girls. Also sharing Nancy's apartment was a huge Great Dane named Blackjack who was shown in the opening credits playing blackjack.

[edit] Links to parent show and other spin-offs
Eddie Mekka's character Joey DeLuca was a younger cousin to Carmine Ragusa, Mekka's 1950s-era character on Laverne & Shirley. During production of Blansky's Beauties, Mekka continued in his starring roles on both series, a rare occurrence of one actor assuming two regular scripted roles, in two different primetime series, at the same time.

In episode 1 ("Blansky's Biking Beauty") Joey introduced Nancy Blansky to stunt motorcyclist Pinky Tuscadero (Roz Kelly) who was instantly hired for Nancy's stage show. Pinky wore the same outfit as her Happy Days episodes, though her hair was now in a '70s style shag cut. She looked as though she had not aged in 20 years.

The show also implied a link to then-ongoing show Laverne & Shirley; in the episode "Nancy Remembers Laverne," Nancy recalls working with a clumsy girl named Laverne DeFazio (Penny Marshall's character on Laverne & Shirley) back around 1957. She discovered that, despite her clumsiness, Laverne was a great dancer and Nancy offered her a job on the spot, which Laverne declined.

Pat Morita, after the failure of his series Mr. T and Tina, was added to the cast as Arnold, the character he originated on Happy Days. As with Pinky Tuscadero, he seemed not to have aged in 20 years' time. Here he ran a coffee shop, whereas in Happy Days, he owned the diner. Morita would re-join the cast of Happy Days five years later, while his replacement on that series, Al Molinaro, would repeat Morita's career move at that time by joining another Happy Days spin-off, Joanie Loves Chachi.

After the end of Blansky's Beauties, Lynda Goodfriend and Scott Baio would join the cast of Happy Days at the start of the 1977-78 season. Goodfriend and Baio, along with their Blansky's Beauties co-stars Caren Kaye, Shirley Kirkes and Elaine Bolton, would appear in a similarly-plotted pilot, Legs, for NBC in 1978, using different character names. This project would be revised further and appear on the network as Who's Watching the Kids in the fall of that year, lasting half a season.

[edit] Cast
Nancy Walker as Nancy Blansky
Caren Kaye as Bambi Benton
Lynda Goodfriend as Ethel "Sunshine" Akalino
Johnny Desmond as Emilio
Eddie Mekka as Joey DeLuca
Scott Baio as Anthony DeLuca
George Pentecost as Horace "Stubbs" Wilmington
Taaffe O'Connell as Hillary S. Prentiss
Rhonda Bates as Arkansas
Bond Gideon as Lovely Carson
Gerri Reddick as Jackie Outlaw
Shirley Kirkes as Gladys "Cochise" Littlefeather
Antoinette Yuskis as Sylvia Silver
Jill Owens as Misty Karamazov
Elaine Bolton as Bridget Muldoon
Pat Morita as Arnold
Garry Marshall as "Mr. Big"

[browneyes106]

Criminal Minds/Cold Case
The current ABC soaps All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live have crossed over various times with different characters. Past soaps Loving and The City also had characters cross over.
A few characters from Another World appeared on As The World Turns.

[treky]

Horatio Kane from "C.S.I.: MIAMI" appeared on "C.S.I.: NEW YORK" once.

[markway895]

[QUOTE=vlis]check this out. I never knew so many Happy Days actors were on BB. This comes from wikepedia so can anyone confirm??
[edit] Synopsis
To provide exposition, Nancy Walker had played Howard Cunningham's visiting cousin Nancy Blansky from Las Vegas on a February 4, 1977 Happy Days episode, and Blansky's Beauties premiered the following week, on February 12, 1977.

Nancy Blansky (Walker) was a long-time Las Vegas showbiz vet (since the 1950s) and current den mother to a bevy of beautiful Las Vegas showgirls. In addition to keeping order in the chaotic apartment complex where they all lived, Nancy staged the girls' big numbers at the Oasis Hotel. Although the Happy Days episode on which Nancy first appeared took place in the early '60s, Blansky's Beauties itself was set in (then) present-day 1977.

Emilio (Johnny Desmond), the maître d', was Nancy's boyfriend. To help Nancy defray costs of her apartment, Ethel Akalino (known as Sunshine) (Lynda Goodfriend) and Bambi (Caren Kaye) shared it with her, along with her nephews Joey DeLuca (Eddie Mekka), a choreographer, and leering, 12-year-old ("going on 28"), Anthony DeLuca (Scott Baio). Anthony was forever trying to impress Bambi, who much to his chagrin treated him like a kid brother, as did almost all of Nancy's girls. Also sharing Nancy's apartment was a huge Great Dane named Blackjack who was shown in the opening credits playing blackjack.

[edit] Links to parent show and other spin-offs
Eddie Mekka's character Joey DeLuca was a younger cousin to Carmine Ragusa, Mekka's 1950s-era character on Laverne & Shirley. During production of Blansky's Beauties, Mekka continued in his starring roles on both series, a rare occurrence of one actor assuming two regular scripted roles, in two different primetime series, at the same time.

In episode 1 ("Blansky's Biking Beauty") Joey introduced Nancy Blansky to stunt motorcyclist Pinky Tuscadero (Roz Kelly) who was instantly hired for Nancy's stage show. Pinky wore the same outfit as her Happy Days episodes, though her hair was now in a '70s style shag cut. She looked as though she had not aged in 20 years.

The show also implied a link to then-ongoing show Laverne & Shirley; in the episode "Nancy Remembers Laverne," Nancy recalls working with a clumsy girl named Laverne DeFazio (Penny Marshall's character on Laverne & Shirley) back around 1957. She discovered that, despite her clumsiness, Laverne was a great dancer and Nancy offered her a job on the spot, which Laverne declined.

Pat Morita, after the failure of his series Mr. T and Tina, was added to the cast as Arnold, the character he originated on Happy Days. As with Pinky Tuscadero, he seemed not to have aged in 20 years' time. Here he ran a coffee shop, whereas in Happy Days, he owned the diner. Morita would re-join the cast of Happy Days five years later, while his replacement on that series, Al Molinaro, would repeat Morita's career move at that time by joining another Happy Days spin-off, Joanie Loves Chachi.

After the end of Blansky's Beauties, Lynda Goodfriend and Scott Baio would join the cast of Happy Days at the start of the 1977-78 season. Goodfriend and Baio, along with their Blansky's Beauties co-stars Caren Kaye, Shirley Kirkes and Elaine Bolton, would appear in a similarly-plotted pilot, Legs, for NBC in 1978, using different character names. This project would be revised further and appear on the network as Who's Watching the Kids in the fall of that year, lasting half a season.

[edit] Cast
Nancy Walker as Nancy Blansky
Caren Kaye as Bambi Benton
Lynda Goodfriend as Ethel "Sunshine" Akalino
Johnny Desmond as Emilio
Eddie Mekka as Joey DeLuca
Scott Baio as Anthony DeLuca
George Pentecost as Horace "Stubbs" Wilmington
Taaffe O'Connell as Hillary S. Prentiss
Rhonda Bates as Arkansas
Bond Gideon as Lovely Carson
Gerri Reddick as Jackie Outlaw
Shirley Kirkes as Gladys "Cochise" Littlefeather
Antoinette Yuskis as Sylvia Silver
Jill Owens as Misty Karamazov
Elaine Bolton as Bridget Muldoon
Pat Morita as Arnold
Garry Marshall as "Mr. Big"[/QUOTE

Until now I never understood how Nancy Blansky appeared on Happy Days
as Howard's cousin in the 1960's, and then was the same character on Blansky's Beauties which was set in present day 1977. I never knew there was an explanation.

[JamesG]

An animated Mulder and Scully from The X-Files were on a Simpsons episode.

I don't know if that counts or not.

[Chocoholic]

An animated Mulder and Scully from The X-Files were on a Simpsons episode.

I don't know if that counts or not.
I was no X-Files fan, but I loved that episode! :lol:

[megamanj2004]

The regular panelists on To Tell the Truth appeared as one of the mystery guests on What's My Line? once during the 1960s.

[JamesG]

Star Trek: Enterprise and Roswell

[Zebra 3]

Cast members of Gilligan's Island appeared on Baywatch amd ALF.
In the Roseanne ep Sherwood Schwartz - A Loving Tribute, the Roseanne cast appear as Gilligan's Island characters, and the surprise ending, the Gilligan's Island cast including Tina Louise appear as Roseanne characters.

[JamesG]

What I Like About You and Living With Fran

[factsoflife]

General Hospital/All My Children/One Life to Live - there were crossovers involed with 2 of the 3 or in some cases all 3 shows with some actors.






Well yes, indeed over time the ABC soaps have crossed over.

GH and AMC had a crossover in the late 1990's/early 2000's when the character of Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) was on AMC (she previously was a character on GH in the 80's) and her daughter (GH's Robin) came to visit her and to hash out why Anna faked her death years before.

And OLTL and AMC are "sister shows" and have crossed over several times---once in the 1990's, AMC's Tad Martin who hosted a talk show featured as guests on the show OLTL characters Nora Gannon, Hank Gannon, RJ Gannon and Rachel Gannon.

Also earlier this decade a big crossover storyline featured several AMC and OLTL characters in a big baby switch storyline. AMC's Bianca and Babe were involved in a helicopter crash while they were both pregnant and their babies were switched by OLTL's Paul Cramer. Bianca's baby was believed to have died (but Babe really had it) and Babe's baby was kidnapped and given to OLTL's Kelly who had just miscarried a baby---Paul Cramer was Kelly's brother. During the course of the story several crossovers happened, including a brief one with Dorian Lord (OLTL's, Robin Strasser) and AMC's Adam Chandler (David Canary, AMC).

Even more, in the 1990's, AMC character Angie Hubbard (Debbi Morgan) left the show and was placed on another ABC soap "LOVING". Another AMC character, Ceara Conner (Genie Francis) also left AMC and went to "LOVING". AMC's Jeremy Hunter also went to "LOVING" after his run on that show ended.

GH tends to not do many crossovers, but there is potential for some to happen as several GH characters have ties to AMC characters. I know that one time when GH's Alexis had DID (disassociatve identity disorder) they made mention of Victoria Lord who is a character on OLTL with that same disorder.

[factsoflife]

Chicago Hope and Picket Fences had a crossover once i believe.

I know there were plans for a Picket Fences/X-Files crossover but that never came to be. I guess FOX wouldn't agree to it.

Ally McBeal and The Practice cross over once. I also believe that Boston Public and Ally crossed over, but i'm not 100% sure.

[treky]

the "C.S.I.: MIAMI" team was introduced on an episode of "C.S.I." once. And once "C.S.I.: NEW YORK" & "C.S.I.: MIAMI" did a crossover.

[treky]

this past Tuesday, Abby from "N.C.I.S." appeared on "N.C.I.S.: LOS ANGELES".

[Tubehead]

Steve uralk guesst star on full house and step by step

Harriet wife on Family Matters guesst star on perfect stranges once or twice. that was were she worked at.

[FanofRetroTV]

The Dick Van Dyke Shows Buddy appared on the Danny Thomas Show, Danny Thomas appared on the Dick Van Dyke Show (the 2nd one might not have been a crossover)

[Dragonflies]

General Hospital/All My Children/One Life to Live - there were crossovers involed with 2 of the 3 or in some cases all 3 shows with some actors.


Yep and Port Charles as well. Linda Dano appeared on all 4 as the same character. It was the first crossover of it's kind is what I read.

[factsoflife]

Yep and Port Charles as well. Linda Dano appeared on all 4 as the same character. It was the first crossover of it's kind is what I read.


yes it was the first time a crossover like that happened.

But ABC soaps in particular have done crossovers like this for years.

[JamesG]

Martial Law and Walker, Texas Ranger
Martial Law and Early Edition

also, Walker, Texas Ranger and the short-lived spin-off Sons of Thunder

[factsoflife]

CBS did a whole night of crossovers in the 1995-1996 season for it's Monday night line-up; Elizabeth Taylor was the guest star and she lost her pearls on "The Nanny" and they showed up also on "Murphy Brown", "Can't Hurry Love" and "High Society"...


I remember an early episode of "Friends" featured a crossover from Cynthia Stevenson and Jessica Luntz from "Hope & Gloria".

[robyrob]

Las Vegas and Crossing Jordan crossed over for a couple of episodes.

[megamanj2004]

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air also made many cross-overs on In the House one way or another.

- One was shown on the later version of TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes from the '90s when Will Smith appeared on there and asked LL Cool J's Marion Hill character if he saw Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro).

- Another one was when both Alfonso Ribeiro and Tatyana Ali played their Fresh Prince characters on a Season 2 episode.

- Another was was when Alfonso became a regular cast member by playing the role of Dr. Maxwell Stanton and his parents was played by none other than James Avery and Daphne Maxwell-Reid, who also played his Fresh Prince character Carlton's parents as well! Talk about a double-coincidence! :eek: