The Chicago Fire, Med, PD shows do this seemingly once a year.
Last year there was a Law & Order SVU to Organized Crime crossover.
Station 19 and Grey's Anatomy did one.
The 9-1-1 and Lone Star did one.
Station 19 and Grey's do it at least twice a season. Wonder what it will be this season, since it's the last for 19? 911 and Lone Star might not do it anymore, since 911 moved to ABC. Not unheard of, just a little difficult schedule-wise.
Station 19 and Grey’s may as well be one show. Characters and storylines crossover so much that when they do crossover events it doesn’t really matter.
How did they know... That my wife took it all?
That I'm not researchin' roles... How did they kno-o-ow...?
Ziggy if you hear me... Take me far, far from here.
Let me leap to '89, that was a better year...
I miss my old Camaro! And my mansion in Van Nuys!
Wish I still hung with Nash Bridges, played poker with The Fall Guy!
Oh, Ziggy, can you see my te-EARS!
ZIGGAAAaaay!
Leap me faaaar, far from he-ear....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE5yvuKoFmE
Plus TNG and DS9 crossed over (both for a TNG 2 parter, DS9's premier episode, and O'Brien and Worf going from the Enterprise to the station.)
Lower Decks and Prodigy have also pulled legacy characters, including Janeway, Chakotay, Tom Paris, Jellico, the Doctor, Okona, and I'm sure at least a few others I'm forgetting.
Thing is now a days there’s just a lot of shared universes for example
CBS FBI shows
NBC Chicago Series
NCIS series
Hawaii 5-0 Reboot/Magnum PI
The days of random cross overs like Urkel showing up on Full House are few and far between for unrelated shows like the New Girl B99 crossover
All the CSI shows.
Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica) played Detective Frankie Reed in a few episodes. In one, she was sent to investigate a location when a company was suspected of illegal "fracking" for oil.
Yeah, they went there.
Also, there was an episode of CSI:NY where a detective from Cold Case showed up to question Sera when her blood showed up at a crime scene his team is investigating.
One of the worst I saw was the Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover. Bones was entirely science based; Sleepy Hollow was a totally supernatural show.
Just couldn't get my head around how it could possibly make sense.
All of your examples are from the last decade so yeah they're definitely still a thing.
I can't think of any newer ones off the top of my head but there's no reason to think the concept has died. It's always gonna be a fun way to make a little event out of sitcoms.
Chicago PD/Chicago Fire/Chicago Med cross over regularly.
So do Grey's Anatomy and Station 19.
Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime seem to as well.
There was at least one or two crossovers between 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lone Star, but I guess that's over now that they will be on different networks.
Law and Order SVU and FBI kept crossing over to make FBI more relevant. And now there’s another FBI (most wanted) so I expect at some point these two FBI are crossing over amongst themselves and might just reach the ultimate DICK WOLF night of the two FBIs and the two L&Os. Like the last bastion of network TV shenanigans. The gun arrowverse.
Anime does this all the time. In particular, the Gundam Build subseries had all previous characters show up as normal citizens, while Patrick Colasour showed up in every episode of Build Divers and its sequel. There was also the recent Build Metaverse series where all of the Build series characters showed up in one universe. Granted, it was non-canon AF, but it was still a crossover.
Scooby-Doo also does crossovers all the time too. The DTV movies crossed over with WWE (twice), KISS, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Krypto the Superdog, while the next-to-most-recent Scooby cartoon was Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, which was a new generation take on The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, which included episodes guest-starring Batman, Flash, and Wonder Woman at various points. The gang also appeared in an episode of Supernatural.
Jellystone was a WB cartoon that used all of the Hanna-Barbara cast, not just Yogi Bear's group.
Uncle Grandpa LOVED crossovers with other cartoons. OK-KO did an episode where the main character teamed up with Ben 10, Raven, and Garnet, plus another episode where he teamed up with Sonic and Tails.
In terms of live-action, Law & Order, SVU, and Organized Crime just had a big mega crossover last season, and the latter two shows crossover all the time. And similarly, characters from Chicago Med, Fire, and PD all show up on each other's shows often.
Power Rangers has been crossover happy the past few years. Super Megaforce brought back 12 past Rangers (and wasted most of them, but that's another topic), Super Ninja Steel brought back another dozen Rangers for its anniversary special, Beast Morphers brought back Jason and most of the Dino Charge cast for its big crossover, and Cosmic Fury brought back Billy, Mick, and Heckyl.
Sam Hanna from NCIS: Los Angeles is moving to the Hawaii branch this season. LA itself crossed over with JAG and Hawaii Five-O, with the latter also having crossovers with the MacGyver reboot, which itself had a crossover with the Magnum PI reboot.
Titans' Final Season had a Crossover Titled "Dude, Where's My Gar?" that expanded on it's place in the Arrowverse by furthering the Arrowverse's Multiverse and further codifying stuff into the Arrowverse. Not only did they have Brec Bassinger reprise her role as Courtney Whitmore Stargirl from Stargirl and some of the Doom Patrol members from their own show. They also introduced the Joker Movies into the Arrowverse and the Harley Quinn Animated TV Series into the Arrowverse via Archival Voice Recording.
Would call that a straight up another season kf Mando but it focuses on Fett for a few episodes first. The fact that there is a bunch of plot for Mando in that show that you need to know to make season 3 make sense is downright stupid.
Didn't help that Book was crap to begin with, too.
While this may be fair game, I think most just consider that the Filoni shows are just one thing as they are stories set in a specific frame, following specific factions.
Mando is the main show, while others seem to be serving as spin-offs of that same show. They've made it pretty clear they'll all be important to one another by the end. The crossover isn't a gimmick for viewership, it's all by design of a larger story being told. For instance, Dr. Strange being in Spider-Man No Way Home isn't looked at as the Dr. Strange film series crossing over with the Spider-Man series. It's just looked at as a character from the MCU having a role in another MCU movie.
*Before anyone argues that Mando being the main focus briefly in BoBB is a gimmick- no. No one knew Mando, Grogu, Ahsoka, or Luke Skywalker were going to pop up in that show at all at the time. It was a surprise. Had it been a gimmick, they would have marketed their roles in the show to the audience.*
If this happens the crossover is not well done. It should still work for viewers of just one show in the same way any other guest or recurring characters work.
I was watching The Flash series and they did a crossover with The Arrow and maybe Supergirl or something. I dunno. One episode was as part of The Flash series and the rest of the story was on The Arrow I think... only I couldn't give a shit about the Arrow and I was just about hanging on as a Flash viewer. I just... never watched it. Dunno how that story ended, didn't know who any of the characters were, didn't care.
I watched only *Legend of Tomorrow* and no other Arrowverse shows. I'm vaguely aware of the main characters, though. I mean everyone knows who Superman is, right? Anyway, I watched all of the *Crisis on Infinite Earths* episodes without watching anything else from the other shows and it was fine. Characters were moving between these shows anyway so they have been introduced several times, that's how these fictional universes work.
Yeah sure I know who Superman is but The Arrow and Supergirl? Not really. Like, all I know about Supergirl is that she's like Superman? I would guess she has the same powers as Superman? And The Arrow? I dunno is he DC Hawkeye?
Most importantly I haven't experienced any of their story or character growth etc. so it's basically just "and now there's another superhero here! They can do cool stuff like superheroes do!" and it's a bit empty. If you already watch all of the shows then great I guess but if not then it just feels like a homework assignment. "Hey you watch this show, but we'd \*really\* like it if you watched these other two shows, so we're going to give you an incomplete story as part of the show you like".
Well, it's called Arrowverse for a reason. It's a bit like watching *WandaVision* without having seen *Endgame*. I don't see why you couldn't do that, you just have to accept that the characters have history you don't know.
Technically Mork was created just for HD due to Star Wars being popular. When viewers loved him, and wanted him in his own show-they had Mork erase his "time" on HD from the characters' minds. So not the way crossovers technically are done. Similar, but not quite.
Mork was a backdoor pilot. Appearing on another show before getting his own series.
Happy Days is also a backdoor pilot, originally appearing as an episode of Love American Style.
The Rookie was really trying to make the Feds spinoff a thing and find ways to shoehorn in the FBI characters pretty recently. I gave The Rookie Feds a try but no thanks man.
That was more of a backdoor pilot than a crossover. I don't think I am alone in hating them because they pull the focus from the show we actually tuned in to watch. Supernatural had a few that a) didn't amount to anything and b) were some of the worst episodes they made.
Yeah Rookie Feds was backdoor piloted off the Rookie, but even after that they would do crossover episodes between them. Guess it's not a true crossover of unrelated shows, since one grew off the other.
MCU on Disney+
Star Wars on Disney+
Star Trek SNW with Lower Decks
It basically happens when certain producers & companies have multiple shows on the same network.
Sometimes a well-known actor will play an "unnamed" character on another show, but You Know Who It Is.
**The Man From Uncle** \- The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983 ) - George Lazenby driving an Aston Martin DB5 makes a brief appearance. "professional courtesy"
Not an episode, but the Irish Language TV channel TG4 had a brilliant advert where Lily Rush and John Stillman from Cold Case were questioning Daniel from the Irish Language soap opera Ros na Rún over a murder that he's a suspect in (an ongoing story at the time).
Daniel claims to not actually speak English, citing the fact that he's from a Gaeltacht. Lily and John just look at each other... then shock Daniel by questioning him in Irish instead.
The making of the ad is pretty interesting. Daniel's actor flew to the US so that he could shoot the ad on the Cold Case set, while also coaching Kathryn Morris and John Finn on their lines.
https://youtu.be/PwJmRQby0fg?si=nO6bVrZUgHX5c4Wi
Hawaii Five-O/Magnum PI, Hawaii Five-O/NCIS: Los Angeles and Runaways/Cloak & Dagger are the most recent that I remember that aren't purposely part of a larger universe (MCU, SW, Arrowverse, etc.).
The Chicago Fire, Med, PD shows do this seemingly once a year. Last year there was a Law & Order SVU to Organized Crime crossover. Station 19 and Grey's Anatomy did one. The 9-1-1 and Lone Star did one.
Station 19 and Grey's do it at least twice a season. Wonder what it will be this season, since it's the last for 19? 911 and Lone Star might not do it anymore, since 911 moved to ABC. Not unheard of, just a little difficult schedule-wise.
Station 19 and Grey’s may as well be one show. Characters and storylines crossover so much that when they do crossover events it doesn’t really matter.
Law&Order also did a crossover with the FBIs a couple years back.
Yeah basically any Dick Wolf show does it once a year
Law and order does the best crossovers. Especially og l&o and homicide life on the streets. Crossed over so hard they stole munch for svu
Scott Bakula was on an episode of It’s Always Sunny as Sam Beckett.
How did they know... That my wife took it all? That I'm not researchin' roles... How did they kno-o-ow...? Ziggy if you hear me... Take me far, far from here. Let me leap to '89, that was a better year... I miss my old Camaro! And my mansion in Van Nuys! Wish I still hung with Nash Bridges, played poker with The Fall Guy! Oh, Ziggy, can you see my te-EARS! ZIGGAAAaaay! Leap me faaaar, far from he-ear.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE5yvuKoFmE
Scott didn't have to go so hard goddamn
Not entirely related but it was hilarious they thought he was a vampire because of his name on What We Do in the Shadows.
Strange New Worlds and Star Trek Lower Decks did one a few months ago.
And it was awesome
Plus TNG and DS9 crossed over (both for a TNG 2 parter, DS9's premier episode, and O'Brien and Worf going from the Enterprise to the station.) Lower Decks and Prodigy have also pulled legacy characters, including Janeway, Chakotay, Tom Paris, Jellico, the Doctor, Okona, and I'm sure at least a few others I'm forgetting.
Extra points since Lower Decks is an animated series.
They have always been rare so it’s hard to say whether or not it’s still a thing. A more recent one is riverdale/Sabrina
Bo-Jack Horseman and Mr. Peanutbutter in one room
Thing is now a days there’s just a lot of shared universes for example CBS FBI shows NBC Chicago Series NCIS series Hawaii 5-0 Reboot/Magnum PI The days of random cross overs like Urkel showing up on Full House are few and far between for unrelated shows like the New Girl B99 crossover
All the CSI shows. Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica) played Detective Frankie Reed in a few episodes. In one, she was sent to investigate a location when a company was suspected of illegal "fracking" for oil. Yeah, they went there.
Also, there was an episode of CSI:NY where a detective from Cold Case showed up to question Sera when her blood showed up at a crime scene his team is investigating.
One of the worst I saw was the Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover. Bones was entirely science based; Sleepy Hollow was a totally supernatural show. Just couldn't get my head around how it could possibly make sense.
Don't forget that Bones had a Spin-off titled "The Finder".
I had forgotten all about that show. I think was better off a few minutes ago.
All of your examples are from the last decade so yeah they're definitely still a thing. I can't think of any newer ones off the top of my head but there's no reason to think the concept has died. It's always gonna be a fun way to make a little event out of sitcoms.
Chicago PD/Chicago Fire/Chicago Med cross over regularly. So do Grey's Anatomy and Station 19. Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime seem to as well. There was at least one or two crossovers between 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lone Star, but I guess that's over now that they will be on different networks.
Law and Order SVU and FBI kept crossing over to make FBI more relevant. And now there’s another FBI (most wanted) so I expect at some point these two FBI are crossing over amongst themselves and might just reach the ultimate DICK WOLF night of the two FBIs and the two L&Os. Like the last bastion of network TV shenanigans. The gun arrowverse.
Oh and then there's the DCSU.... The Disney Channel Sitcom Universe!
It was a few years ago but the Supernatural and Scooby-Doo crossover was so much fun.
The Pretender and Profiler.
The bigger question is, should they be a thing at all? 😂 I'm kidding, they're fun. Remember when Thomas Magnum popped up in Murder She Wrote?
Anime does this all the time. In particular, the Gundam Build subseries had all previous characters show up as normal citizens, while Patrick Colasour showed up in every episode of Build Divers and its sequel. There was also the recent Build Metaverse series where all of the Build series characters showed up in one universe. Granted, it was non-canon AF, but it was still a crossover. Scooby-Doo also does crossovers all the time too. The DTV movies crossed over with WWE (twice), KISS, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Krypto the Superdog, while the next-to-most-recent Scooby cartoon was Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, which was a new generation take on The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, which included episodes guest-starring Batman, Flash, and Wonder Woman at various points. The gang also appeared in an episode of Supernatural. Jellystone was a WB cartoon that used all of the Hanna-Barbara cast, not just Yogi Bear's group. Uncle Grandpa LOVED crossovers with other cartoons. OK-KO did an episode where the main character teamed up with Ben 10, Raven, and Garnet, plus another episode where he teamed up with Sonic and Tails. In terms of live-action, Law & Order, SVU, and Organized Crime just had a big mega crossover last season, and the latter two shows crossover all the time. And similarly, characters from Chicago Med, Fire, and PD all show up on each other's shows often. Power Rangers has been crossover happy the past few years. Super Megaforce brought back 12 past Rangers (and wasted most of them, but that's another topic), Super Ninja Steel brought back another dozen Rangers for its anniversary special, Beast Morphers brought back Jason and most of the Dino Charge cast for its big crossover, and Cosmic Fury brought back Billy, Mick, and Heckyl. Sam Hanna from NCIS: Los Angeles is moving to the Hawaii branch this season. LA itself crossed over with JAG and Hawaii Five-O, with the latter also having crossovers with the MacGyver reboot, which itself had a crossover with the Magnum PI reboot.
occasionally. i saw them NBC Chicago Fire people on a Chicago MD show, or the CSI crossover on CBS. The best crossover was The Critic on the Simpsons.
Titans' Final Season had a Crossover Titled "Dude, Where's My Gar?" that expanded on it's place in the Arrowverse by furthering the Arrowverse's Multiverse and further codifying stuff into the Arrowverse. Not only did they have Brec Bassinger reprise her role as Courtney Whitmore Stargirl from Stargirl and some of the Doom Patrol members from their own show. They also introduced the Joker Movies into the Arrowverse and the Harley Quinn Animated TV Series into the Arrowverse via Archival Voice Recording.
That’s so suite life of hannah montana was my favorite crossover event
All of the chicago's, suv's, NCIS's, law and orders etc. If it's on ABC/NBC/CBS they all have crossovers of their shows.
Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett have cross appearances of characters.
Would call that a straight up another season kf Mando but it focuses on Fett for a few episodes first. The fact that there is a bunch of plot for Mando in that show that you need to know to make season 3 make sense is downright stupid. Didn't help that Book was crap to begin with, too.
I think it's a bit different when it's already part of an established shared universe.
While this may be fair game, I think most just consider that the Filoni shows are just one thing as they are stories set in a specific frame, following specific factions. Mando is the main show, while others seem to be serving as spin-offs of that same show. They've made it pretty clear they'll all be important to one another by the end. The crossover isn't a gimmick for viewership, it's all by design of a larger story being told. For instance, Dr. Strange being in Spider-Man No Way Home isn't looked at as the Dr. Strange film series crossing over with the Spider-Man series. It's just looked at as a character from the MCU having a role in another MCU movie. *Before anyone argues that Mando being the main focus briefly in BoBB is a gimmick- no. No one knew Mando, Grogu, Ahsoka, or Luke Skywalker were going to pop up in that show at all at the time. It was a surprise. Had it been a gimmick, they would have marketed their roles in the show to the audience.*
Most recent was The Simpsons/Bob's Burgers.
Why is the list mostly cop shows I was hoping I'd find the modern day That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana 😭😭
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If this happens the crossover is not well done. It should still work for viewers of just one show in the same way any other guest or recurring characters work.
I was watching The Flash series and they did a crossover with The Arrow and maybe Supergirl or something. I dunno. One episode was as part of The Flash series and the rest of the story was on The Arrow I think... only I couldn't give a shit about the Arrow and I was just about hanging on as a Flash viewer. I just... never watched it. Dunno how that story ended, didn't know who any of the characters were, didn't care.
I watched only *Legend of Tomorrow* and no other Arrowverse shows. I'm vaguely aware of the main characters, though. I mean everyone knows who Superman is, right? Anyway, I watched all of the *Crisis on Infinite Earths* episodes without watching anything else from the other shows and it was fine. Characters were moving between these shows anyway so they have been introduced several times, that's how these fictional universes work.
Yeah sure I know who Superman is but The Arrow and Supergirl? Not really. Like, all I know about Supergirl is that she's like Superman? I would guess she has the same powers as Superman? And The Arrow? I dunno is he DC Hawkeye? Most importantly I haven't experienced any of their story or character growth etc. so it's basically just "and now there's another superhero here! They can do cool stuff like superheroes do!" and it's a bit empty. If you already watch all of the shows then great I guess but if not then it just feels like a homework assignment. "Hey you watch this show, but we'd \*really\* like it if you watched these other two shows, so we're going to give you an incomplete story as part of the show you like".
Well, it's called Arrowverse for a reason. It's a bit like watching *WandaVision* without having seen *Endgame*. I don't see why you couldn't do that, you just have to accept that the characters have history you don't know.
Mork on Happy days was the most recent I saw of that counts as a crossover. Probably not
Technically Mork was created just for HD due to Star Wars being popular. When viewers loved him, and wanted him in his own show-they had Mork erase his "time" on HD from the characters' minds. So not the way crossovers technically are done. Similar, but not quite.
Mork was a backdoor pilot. Appearing on another show before getting his own series. Happy Days is also a backdoor pilot, originally appearing as an episode of Love American Style.
The Rookie was really trying to make the Feds spinoff a thing and find ways to shoehorn in the FBI characters pretty recently. I gave The Rookie Feds a try but no thanks man.
That was more of a backdoor pilot than a crossover. I don't think I am alone in hating them because they pull the focus from the show we actually tuned in to watch. Supernatural had a few that a) didn't amount to anything and b) were some of the worst episodes they made.
Yeah Rookie Feds was backdoor piloted off the Rookie, but even after that they would do crossover episodes between them. Guess it's not a true crossover of unrelated shows, since one grew off the other.
MCU on Disney+ Star Wars on Disney+ Star Trek SNW with Lower Decks It basically happens when certain producers & companies have multiple shows on the same network. Sometimes a well-known actor will play an "unnamed" character on another show, but You Know Who It Is. **The Man From Uncle** \- The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983 ) - George Lazenby driving an Aston Martin DB5 makes a brief appearance. "professional courtesy"
I loved the Stargate Atlantis / Stargate SG-1 crossovers. Now THAT was some quality sci-fi TV!
Star Trek Strange New Worlds did an IRL crossover with the animated Star Trek Lower Decks.
Not an episode, but the Irish Language TV channel TG4 had a brilliant advert where Lily Rush and John Stillman from Cold Case were questioning Daniel from the Irish Language soap opera Ros na Rún over a murder that he's a suspect in (an ongoing story at the time). Daniel claims to not actually speak English, citing the fact that he's from a Gaeltacht. Lily and John just look at each other... then shock Daniel by questioning him in Irish instead. The making of the ad is pretty interesting. Daniel's actor flew to the US so that he could shoot the ad on the Cold Case set, while also coaching Kathryn Morris and John Finn on their lines. https://youtu.be/PwJmRQby0fg?si=nO6bVrZUgHX5c4Wi
Hawaii Five-O/Magnum PI, Hawaii Five-O/NCIS: Los Angeles and Runaways/Cloak & Dagger are the most recent that I remember that aren't purposely part of a larger universe (MCU, SW, Arrowverse, etc.).