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S03E26 The TV Theory that Connects Everything
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What if Cheers, Frasier, MASH*, Law & Order, The X-Files and hundreds of other television shows were all part of the same universe?
And what if that entire universe existed inside the imagination of one little boy?
It all goes back to the bizarre 1988 finale of St. Elsewhere, when Tommy Westphall stared into a snow globe containing St. Eligius Hospital—and accidentally inspired one of the craziest fan theories in television history.
Tonight on Carpe Noctem, Adie and Phil are pulling the strings.
We'll start with St. Elsewhere and follow the crossovers, spin-offs, shared characters and increasingly ridiculous connections wherever they take us—from Cheers and Homicide: Life on the Street to MASH*, Law & Order, The X-Files...and eventually into places that make absolutely no sense.
How much of television can we connect to Tommy Westphall?
And more importantly...
how far does Tommy's imagination actually go?
Grab some red string. We're going down the rabbit hole.
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