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Today marks the anniversary of 'Doctor Who', which premiered on this date in 1963. (It's amazing that anybody in the world was watching anything but the news on that day!) So here's Toobworld Central's salute to the Doctor. All of them. And to Benny Hill, while we're at it...... BCnU!
Television
Doctor Who
Somebody has taken scenes from 'True Blood' and transformed them into a sitcom, thanks to a laugh track to sweeten the deal...... BCnU!
True Blood
True Blood
In the 'Daniel Boone' episode "Take The Southland Stage", President John Adams was kidnapped in Philadelphia and held for ransom. First Lady Abigail Adams asked Boone to handle the ransom demands, but he was able to rescue the President, subdue the kidnappers, and keep hold of the money. This ...
Celebrities
Amy Adams
Prime Time
Recently, Joseph Wiseman, best known for playing "Dr. No", passed away. One of his major roles in Toobworld was that of Manny Weisbrod on 'Crime Story'. The character of Manny was based on Meyer Lansky..... MEYER LANSKY AS SEEN IN: "Lansky" AS PLAYED BY: Richard Dreyfuss Meyer ...
Movies
Richard Dreyfuss
In Toobworld, everybody has a story not seen on screen - and that includes the extras. I thought of this while watching "Take The Southland Stage", an episode of 'Daniel Boone'. The clerk at the Hotel Adelphia in Philadelphia had a Germanic accent, which could be heard distinctly as he asked ...
Television
Prime Time
SouthLand
There's no time limit on the use of "The Numbers" from 'Lost'; in Toobworld, they existed as portentous integers long before the series started and they are to be found outside of the series as well. In "Child's Play", one of 'The Murdoch Mysteries', Detective William Murdoch and Constable ...
Celebrities
Numbers
Child's Play
LEE HARVEY OSWALD AS SEEN IN: 'Red Dwarf' AS PLAYED BY: Toby Aspin We're not celebrating nor honoring him here. Just marking his involvement in one of the most polarizing events of the 20th Century...... BCnU!
Television
When I inducted 'Rocky & Bullwinkle' into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame on the 16th, I had no clue that they would be celebrating their 50th anniversary three days later. And on Thursday, my copy of the book about June Foray arrived. All in a day's serendipiteevee! BCnU!
Movies
Rocky
ALICE LIDDELL HARGREAVES AS SEEN IN: " Riverworld " AS PLAYED BY: Emily Lloyd Alice Pleasance Liddell (4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), known for most of her adult life by her married name, Alice Hargreaves, inspired the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis ...
Celebrities
Riverworld
Alice in Wonderland
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE AS SEEN IN: 'The Murdoch Mysteries' AS PLAYED BY: Geraint Wyn Davies I set up this morning's post about Conan Doyle several days ago as I was going on a trip until today. I took with me another disk of episodes from 'The Murdoch Mysteries' and discovered that ...
Celebrities
Conan O'Brien
1906
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE AS SEEN IN: ' The Murdoch Mysteries' AS PLAYED BY: Geraint Wyn Davies My life is gliding downwards; it speeds swifter to the day When it shoots the last dark Canyon to the Plains of Far-away, But while its stream is running through the years that are to be, ...
Television
Conan O'Brien
ULI DERICKSON AS SEEN IN: " The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story " AS PLAYED BY: Lindsay Wagner Here is Hal Erickson's capsule synopsis of the historical event and the TV movie inspired by it: In June of 1985, TWA Athens-to-Rome flight 847 was seized by two fanatical, ...
Television
Lindsay Wagner
For those of you enjoying the new version of 'The Prisoner', or who are longing for the good old days set in the original Village, here are two music videos from XTC. Over twenty years old and twenty years older than the original series..... The Meeting Place The Man Who Sailed Around ...
Television
Prime Time
PAT ALLANSON AS SEEN IN: " Everything She Ever Wanted " AS PLAYED BY: Gina Gershon Here's a description of Pat Allanson's story by Linda Stasi of the New York Post: The story begins right after divorcee Pat hooks up with and marries a younger man, Tom Allanson (Ryan McPartlin), who'd ...
Movies
Gina Gershon
Sunday night's episode of 'Brothers & Sisters' took place at "The Wine Festival" - the Golden State Wine Festival, to be exact. As can be seen in the second screen capture, there were pavillions about the grounds; these served as promotional booths for the various vintners. Ojai Foods was ...
Television
For today's "Two For Tuesday" ASOTV, we have two different looks at inventor Nikola Tesla, neither of which belong in Earth Prime-Time. First up, here's Nikola Tesla as he looks today, still "alive" thanks to his conversion as an electricity-wielding vampire: NIKOLA TESLA AS SEEN IN: ' ...
Television
Sanctuary
Prime Time
Sherlock Holmes
Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose have been chosen for the Tooniverse entries into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame for November, the month in which we traditionally have a political theme. And if any cartoon characters in the Tooniverse showed "subversive" political leanings, it ...
Celebrities
Rocky
A couple of months ago, 'Psych' was playing around with their theme song - for example, because of a storyline in which Gus re-teamed with his old singing group, Boys 2 Men delivered the song in their own style for that episode. There was also another episode called "Bollywood Homicide" which ...
Television
Psych
WILLIE ESTERHUYSE AS SEEN IN: " Endgame " AS PLAYED BY: William Hurt Willem Petrus "Willie" Esterhuyse was a university professor active in enlisting other Afrikaners to the anti-apartheid cause when he assumed a role in opening the dialogue between the exiled African National Congress ...
Movies
William Hurt
" Cadwallader's my name. At least it's the name I'm using this month. Has a nice feeling on the tongue. Cad-wallader !" Mr. Cadwallader 'The Twilight Zone' I've been gone so long from regular blogging that a few new shows from the Fall season of 2009 have already been cast ...
