Crossover of the Week

May 1-October 1957 

FIRST FRONTIER 

The Doctor helped the U.S. government with an affair in Santa Mira in 1956. The Master uses the phrase “Klaatu barada nikto.” Dr. von Scott examines UFO wreckage. Benny Summerfield excavated a series of 500-foot towers on Metaluna. Ace uses the obscenities “qu’vatlh” and “smeg.” A character says, “That’s like something out of Future Boy.” The Darklings, the fungoid inhabitants of Yuggoth, were driven back to 61 Cygni after their war with the Tzun. 

Doctor Who: The New Adventures novel by David A. McIntee, Virgin Books, 1994. The affair in Santa Mira in 1956 is a reference to the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The phrase “Klaatu barada nikto” comes from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. Dr. von Scott is the real name of Dr. Everett Scott in the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The planet Metaluna is from the movie This Island Earth. “Qu’vatlh” is a Klingon swear word in Star Trek. The word “smeg” comes from the TV series Red Dwarf. Future Boy is a reference to the Quantum Leap episode “Future Boy – October 6, 1957.” In that episode, Future Boy is the sidekick of 1950s TV superhero Captain Galaxy on the television series Time Patrol, so the reference to Future Boy as the title of the show is a mistake. The Darklings and 61 Cygni are from the Blake’s 7 episode “Killer.” McIntee identifies them with the Mi-Go (aka the Fungi from Yuggoth) from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Although most Doctor Who novels take place in the Doctor Who Universe rather than the Crossover Universe, the battle between the Mi-Go and the Tzun is referenced in Stephen Baxter’s “The Ninth Planet,” a chapter of the Cthulhu Mythos “mosaic novel” The Lovecraft Squad: Rising. The Lovecraft Squad series has several crossovers linking it to the CU. This novel also establishes Red Dwarf and Blake’s 7 as possible futures for the CU.

This crossover write-up is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! Like its predecessors, this volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2! 

Crossover of the Week

Summer 1946
HANNAH AND HER MOTHER TAKE A VERY LONG LUNCH 
Hannah Peaslee Beckett is pulled from the path of an oncoming car through space (but not time) by her mother Alice Keezar, a time traveler, for lunch at Monk’s café in New York. Hannah says she preferred the coffee at the Nite Owl in L.A. in the '30s, but Alice replies they can’t go there anymore since the cook and waitress were killed in 1950. Alice tells Hannah her grandson will be called the next Einstein and will be raised by his parents on a dairy farm in Indiana. If Hannah goes back to her husband Sam and son John Samuel, they won’t go to the family farm in Indiana and John won’t meet Thelma Louise and have the children they need to have. 
Short story by Peter Rawlik in The Peaslee Papers: A Lovecraftian Chronicle, Lovecraft eZine Press, 2017. Hannah Peaslee and her mother Alice Keezar are from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Out of Time.” Monk’s Café is from the TV series Seinfeld. The Nite Owl Café is from James Ellroy’s novel L.A. Confidential. By extension, the other novels in Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz), the Second L.A. Quartet (so far consisting of Perfidia and This Storm), the Underworld USA Trilogy (American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover), and the standalone novel Clandestine also take place in the CU. John Samuel Beckett and Thelma Louise Beckett are the parents of Sam Beckett, the protagonist of the TV series Quantum Leap. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two volumes, this one is an official and AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 and will be published by Meteor House!