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Why are there no crossover episodes in the UK?
g-bhxu
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Apart from Holby City, Holby Blue and Casualty; and Dr Who and Torchwood, I've never seen any crossover episodes of drama series in the UK.
Surely, they could do some sort of crossover episodes with Coronation Street and Emmerdale?
Surely, they could do some sort of crossover episodes with Coronation Street and Emmerdale?
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Also, Tanya Turner from Footballers Wives was banged up on drugs charges and appeared for a few episodes of Bad Girls (both shows run by Shed media).
In terms of soaps then it is true that a lot of cast members have featured in different shows as other characters making cross-overs a bit awkward.
I think the East Street Comic Relief sketch would have been great done this year with Stella involved and going to Walford (imagine Ian's face)
Are there many shows from the US, that are or were big in the UK, that have crossover episodes?
Also, it's useful to distiguish between crossover episodes between shows that are, and are not, already linked. Holby City, Holby Blue and Casualty were created as linked shows in the same fictional universe to begin with. Ditto Dr Who and Torchwood. Coronation Street and Emmerdale were not.
My favourite (soz it's Merikan) was when the doctors from St Elsewhere went and had a drink in the Cheers bar
But, yep, guess we'll never see them over here because the series seem to be run independently... but I'm sure the stressed ones from Corrie or Albert Sq would love to have a holiday in the 'carefree' Emmerdale :rolleyes:
Magnum / Murder, She Wrote.
Mission Impossible / Diagnosis Murder
Depending on where you look in the UK, NCIS / NCIS: LA / Hawaii 5-0 have all crossed over.
- Law & Order
- Law & Order:SVU
- Law & Order:Trial by Jury
- The X Files
- The WIre
- Jimmy Kimmel live
- The Beat
- Arrested Development
And at a stretchSo having crossed ABC, NBC, FOX, HBO, UPN and the BBC. Though only HLOTS & the L&O franchise actually had cross over episodes rather than cameos
David E Kelly shows were also prone to it with cross overs between
CSI of course has crossed over within the three cities and had a trilogy of episodes spanning all three shows as well as crossing with Without a Trace and Cold Case
More recently Grey's Anatomy & Private Practice seem to do it every season
And why not... There were a couple of Star Trek NextGen-Sherlock eps as it was one of the scenarios Data used to frequent... damned useful those holodeck thingies
I realise you said "at a stretch",but would point out that the Munch character in the Special Letters Unit sketch in Sesame Street was not voiced by Richard Belzer.
Another crossover I remember is Crossing Jordan and Las Vegas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGTYY3qONHM
I had not heard this, do you know anymore?
Corrie and Emmedale has kind of been done in an Emmerdale VHS special, which at least establishes they both exist in the same bubble (Reg Holdsworth crossed over). I'd like to see a small crossover
Persuambly because in Dr Who's universe Sherlock Holmes is a ficticious character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Maybe a story where the Doctor becomes Sir Arthur's inspiration for Holmes.:D
But not with many... unless they have shared backstory.
I think the German actor didn't speak any English, and just learnt his lines and knew when to speak them, without understanding what he was saying!
The Bill and SOKO Leipzig is a pretty unique crossover, when you think about it.