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I didn't realize he played the same character in multiple tv series.
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That's how I read his character in The Prisoner, me.
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Major fanon is that Number 6 is John Drake from Danger Man, as evidenced by also being a secret agent played by Patrick McGoohan who doesn't fuck. McGoohan denied this explicitly and repeatedly.
I think that in a way, he is; The Prisoner is an auteur project about, ultimately, the self and the struggle not to be stereotyped and typecast, so since it's about McGoohan it's about the roles he's played, onscreen and off. But this has all been discussed in mimeographed fanzines since the 1960s on.
But I know you're referring to the Westphall Universe, and John Munch's place as a prime mover within, which is definitely more than being a surly Irishman in two consecutive series.
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Even if Law & Order: SVU jumped the shark multiple times throughout its inception, I have to admit that both him and Ice-T were a funny pair playing detectives.Really sad about Belzer/Munch passing. Guy had a very interesting life, at least. RIP.
Richard Belzer, star of Law & Order and acclaimed comedian, dead at 78
Richard Belzer, acclaimed comedian and long-time actor in NBC's long running Law and Order franchise, has died at 78. The news first broke from long-time friencbs2iowa.com
Richard Belzer Dead: The Actor And Comedian Was 78
Belzer retired from acting in 2016 at the age of 71.www.forbes.com
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As @Aunt Carol pointed out, he really didn't.
However, it sort of works if you assume John Drake's career hit a rough patch in the Ice Station Zebra affair, where he is betrayed by a friend he trusted and mishandles his mission. This leads to his incarceration in The Village. He is embittered by his experiences there and hits upon a way to enrich himself: he invents a fictional mastermind and threat to the United States, pocketing the budget for his "investigation." In the course of this he murders Leslie Neilsen and is brought to justice by Lieutenant Columbo. It's a sad story.
A shorter but simpler arc is carried out by Barbara Feldon, a Porteugeuse translator working in New York's UNCLE office who wants to become a field agent. After a practical joke by Napoleon Solo goes awry, she actually carries out a difficult and dangerous mission, and is able to get her dream job by transferring to CONTROL where she becomes Agent 99.
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Leiji Matsumoto died on Feb. 13 of acute heart failure. He was the creator of series such as Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy Express 999, and Captain Harlock.
Huge loss for weebs and sci-fi junkies.
Huge loss for weebs and sci-fi junkies.
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He also worked with Daft Punk during their Discovery run
As someone that loves those titles, especially Galaxy Express 999 and Captain Harlock, this is the most shocking death to come out to me. I’m just shocked that this news came out six days later.
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I'm glad the family had some time to process it before the media got it because literally every Japanese news company is broadcasting it right now.
Seems like it was a collective release because everything dropped within minutes of each other.
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Kelsey Grammar as Frasier Crane?
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This would apply to lots of spinoff shows. Just from Happy Days you have a bunch, like Robin Williams as Mork, Erin Moran and Scott Baio (Joanie and Chachi), Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley), and probably any Happy Days character who showed up in a spinoff.
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Belzer was one of the lynchpins of the propagation of the Tommy Westphal TV universe (the actual universe...he wasn't (as far as I know) a proponent of the theory itself). So I guess everyone living inside the fart of a sick Guatemalan kid just got a little bit less true. Or something. I'm not sure how the connections work this far from St Elsewhere.
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Allegedly Richard Belzer’s last words were “Fuck you, motherfucker”
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I think saying it all exists in Tommy's head might be a step too far. He might just watch a alot of TV even if it seems like he's not watching at all. Then in his imagination everyone ends up living in the same universe. Doesn't mean it's the right theory. But it's another one to think about. Maybe Tommy does know what's going on around him but can't or won't express that he does.
At the end of Cemetery Man when Delamorte and Gnaghi try to escape they end up at the end of a broken road overlooking a huge canyon. And the camera zooms out and they are inside a snow globe. There's also an episode of Friday The 13th: The Series where there's a cursed snow globe that sucks you into it's world. Coast To Coast AM had someone on once that talked about other worlds existing in glints of light reflected off of surfaces. Claimed he had a device that let you see them.
Anyway, I'm veering into other territory now.
