Tommy Westphall Universe Revised

One flaw I've always found in the world of crossovers is the Tommy Westphall universe, while true it's most likely the most expansive universe in fiction, I do think it's size is exaggerated as people count cigarettes, shared brands and such as clear connections.

The thing about the Tommy Westphall universe is that due to everything connecting to St. Elsewhere which was SPOILERS!!!!!!! all a dream in the mind of Tommy Westphall, some of the logical inconsistencies can be overlooked such as Friends characters watching Cheers despite Cheers being in the same universe. Dreams often don't have consistent logic.

Now let's start this endevour with St.Elsewhere.

• A character from St.Elsewhere, Dr.Turner was investigated for murder by Pembleton and Bayliss from Homicide: Life on the Streets
• Characters from Westphall visited the bar from Cheers
• The characters Norm, Cliff and Frasier visited the bar from Wings
• Frasier (1993) was a spin-off of Cheers
• The show eventually got a continuation in the form of Frasier (2023)
  
• So was The Tortellinis
• John Hemingway from The John Larroquette Show called into Frasier's show 

Here's where the Tommy Westphall sort of starts to bug me. The Tommy Westphall theory states that because the John Larroquette Show references Yoyodyne that means Aliens and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are connected because a reference to that company. Personally I think its merely an easter egg or just an industry joke at this point so unless something is backed up further, I can't make that connection in good faith.

• Frasier's  Niles and Daphne read Caroline in the City's comic strip in the paper.
• Caroline met Johnathan from the Single Guy
• Annie from Caroline in the City was hit on by Chandler from FRIENDS 
• Joey was a spinoff of FRIENDS
• the titular Hope & Gloria visit Central Perk from FRIENDS
• Phoebe from FRIENDS is the sister of Mad About You's Ursula
• Paul from Mad About You leased his old apartment to Kramer from Seinfeld
• Paul also did a documentary narrated by The Dick Van Dyke Show's Alan Brady
• Buddy from the Dick van Dyke Show appeared in the Danny Thomas show
• The Bill Dana Show was a spinoff of the Danny Thomas show
• Sam from Richard Diamond, Private Eye appeared on the Dick van Dyke show
• The Danny Thomas Show was revived as Make Room for Granddaddy
• Lucy Carter from Here's Lucy was a houseguest on MRFG
• Lucy and Mannix (from Mannix) were held hostage once in an episode of Here's Lucy
• Mannix appeared on an episode of Diagnosis: Murder
• Diagnosis: Murder would later get a spinoff called Jake and the Fatman
• One of the suspects in a Diagnosis: Murder episode is Cinnamon Carter from 1966's Mission: Impossible
• The 80's revival of Mission Impossible was in fact a sequel due to cameos from the original cast of characters
• Diagnosis: Murder's Doctor Sloan was defended once by Matlock 

 Matlock is connected to all sorts of things like All My Children via the fictional Trans Global Airlines. Not only is that a very generic name but it proves really little. It's too vague of a connection to go off and a bit of a stretch. This also goes for the Oceanic Airlines which would connect everything from JAG to LOST which doesn't make sense, like we'd be playing way too fast and loose with the term crossover or canon-verse, even if it is the dream of a ten year old.

•  Here's Lucy crossed over with the Honeymooners
• Here's Lucy's Mary Jane Lewis was originally a character on The Lucy Show
• Lucy from The Lucy Show (not the same as the one from Here's Lucy despite being played by the same actress) once accidentally went into Gomer Pyle, USMC's company
• The Joey Bishop Show was a spinoff of the Danny Thomas show
• So was the Andy Griffith Show
• that show then got a spinoff called Mayberry, R.F.D
• Goober and Trucker's Paradise was a failed spinoff of that.
• Howard from Mayberry was Garry's Neighbour on It's Garry Shandling's Show
• The New Andy Griffith Show was a revival of the old one.

Hi Honey I'm Home is mentioned as a link between various shows but as far as I can tell that show starred the actual actors or rather fictionalized versions of the actors of those shows, so wouldn't be an in-universe crossover.

• Billy Deegan's mother from Boston Public gets her pension from St.Elgius from St.Elsewhere
• Steven Harper from that show appeared on Boston Legal
• Isabel from Miss Match appeared in Boston Legal
• Boston Legal had a spinoff in The Practice
• Ellenor from the Practice visited Dr.Gideon from Gideon's Crossing 
• Benjamin Harris, a recurring character from Boston Public appeared on Ally McBeal
• Ally was the name of a show that spunoff from that.
• John Munch from Homicide: Life on the Street questioned the Lone Gunman from X-Files
• The mugshot of Malcolm T. Wiggins, who was on one x-files episode, appears at the police station in Veronica Mars.
• Hearst College the place where Veronica Mars takes place also appears in iZombie and Moonlight.
• iZombie mentions the fictional countries of Equatorial Kundu & Qumar from West Wing are mentioned as real places.
• Equatorial Kundu is also mentioned in The Newsroom
  
• Mulder and Scully meet Millenium's Frank Black

Morley Cigarettes are not a way to connect shows and such, they are barely an easter egg at this point, just shared props. Far too many connections in the Tommy Westphall theory rely on that.

•  Mulder and Scully visit a graveyard where Party of Five's Diana and Nicholas Salinger are buried.
• Time of Your Life was a Party of Five spinoff
• Mulder is referenced by an FBI agent on Strange Luck
• Chance Harper from Strange Luck reads the Eerie, Indiana Newspaper
• Charles Furnell, the inventor character from Eerie, Indiana appeared in the episode "BMX" of The Secret World of Alex Mack.

Eerie, Indiana did have a spinoff called Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension but I'm not counting that as it takes place...in another dimension as the name implies.

Also Fringe does make reference to "the X-files" as in the actual files but its unclear if thats really a connection.

•  Jeffrey Geiger on Chicago Hope got an organ transplant from a victim from Homicide: Life on the Street.
• Jeffrey Geiger treated Douglas from Picket Fence
• Harry's Law featured Carter Peck from Picket Fence
• Gary and Melissa from Early Edition went to the hospital from Chicago Hope for treatment
• Gary was also asked to find someone for Martial Law's Sammo Law (great name)
• Sammo was once helped by Walker, Texas Ranger
• Sons of Thunder was a Walker,  Texas Ranger spinoff

ER and Chicago Hope make a reference to each other but its vague and doesn't mention Greene by name or anything so I'm dismissing that.

• Warren Coolidge from St.Elsewhere appeared on an episode of Method & Red
• Mark Craig from St. Elsewhere mentioned BJ Hunnicut from M*A*S*H
• M*A*S*H spunoff into AfterM*A*S*H
• it also spunoff Trapper John, M.D
• St.Elgius from St.Elsewhere was mentioned on Providence
• Elliot Carlin from The Bob Newhart Show visited the psychward of St.Elgius

In Bob Newhart reunion special Howard Borden says he dreamt up the events of I dream of Jeannie. The end of Newhart make it to be a dream of Bob Newhart. Any connection to Newhart would therefore be a dream within a dreamverse and merits a separate post

• Elliot also visited the Tanner family from ALF
• Jerry Robinson from the bob newhart show appeared on the show Bob
• Carol from The Bob Newhart show was Murphy Brown's secretary for one episode
• Murphy Brown visited the newsroom from Ink
• Kate from Ink dated Love and War's Jack Stein
• A character from Love and War appeared in Double Rush
• Corky from Murphy Brown was The Famous Teddy Z's Al Floss' agent
• A crossover theme night crossed over Can't Hurry Love, The Nanny, High Society and Murphy Brown
• Sylvia from The Nanny appeared on the Simple Life
• Fran from The Nanny and Raymond from Everybody Loves Raymond went to high school together.
• Raymond and Doug from King of Queens are friends.
• Another crossover night tied together King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, Cosby and Becker
• The White Shadow's  Warren Coolidge worked at St.Elsewhere's hospital
• Dr. Elliot Axelrod from St.Elsewhere appears in Tattingers
• The prison in Oz was taken over by the company Weigert who owned the hospital from St.Elsewhere. The fictional tv show Miss Sally's Schoolyard also appears in the Beat and Homicide: Life on the Streets.

 Speaking of John Munch, who appears in the Beat and Homicide and others is often said to be the glue that holds a lot of the Westphallverse together. John Munch appears in Homicide, the Beat, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order, The X-Files, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Arrested Development and The Wire. He's also mentioned by name in Luther

• Law & Order spun off several spinoffs that are all connected to it Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, L&O: Trial by Jury, Conviction, L&O: LA and L&O: UK 
• Ed Green from Law & Order appears in Andy Barker, P.I.
• The New York Ledger from Deadline is often featured in Law & Order
• New York Undercover featured Emil Skonda who appeared in many episodes throughout the Law & Order series
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit crossed over with Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D
• Hailey Upton from Chicago P.D. appears in an episode of CBS' FBI series
• FBI spins off FBI: Most Wanted & FBI: International
  
• Chicago Fire exists within the same setting as Chicago P.D, Chicago Med and Chicago Justice

 The key thats often said to link some shows is Hudson University attended by people from Arrow, Murder, She Wrote and many more, however due to that university not being consistent from show to show i do think its not warranted to include these connections as anything more than mere nod or easter egg

As well is the claim that Crossing Jordan is connected, it's set in Boston and theres a preast from St.Eligius chapel its not explicitly connected to the hospital of the same name so is at best circumstantial

Degrassi mentions a Dr Westphall over the intercom but this  is a completely different hospital and no first name is given i'm also not counting that

I'm not counting Mr.Bluth's cameo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as that does not make any sense and seems to be merely an easter egg and not a substantial link.

The final count is 107 shows once you go a layer down into the Newhartverse then it becomes bigger but I choose to view them as seperate universes.

Sources:
https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/
https://tommywestphall.fandom.com/wiki/Tommy_Westphall_Universe
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ptmduwn92g2as8/cross_key_2016.pdf?dl=0

https://www.imdb.com/