Title: Addendum to the Tommy Westphall Universe
Author: Dave Dyment
Date: 2010
Format: Softcover book
Size: 8 x 5 inches, 93 pages
Self-published
Description:
The Tommy Westphall Universe is an internet meme that takes it's premise from the final moments of the series finale of St Elsewhere, which reveals that the entire show had taken place in the mind of an autistic boy. Television fans hypothesized that, because of the television crossovers and spinoffs, a large fictional universe takes place inside this boy's imagination.
Intrepid fans cross-referenced television databases and determined that 290 television shows were intertwined with St. Elsewhere, connected by fictional characters, places and corporations.
This addendum redraws the parameters of their research to include children’s programming and and animated series. These shows, and the subsequent live – action series to which they create links, amount to another several hundred programs, almost doubling the original list.
Each copy includes a small photo that illustrates one of these links, for example, the kids from the Cosby Show appearing on Sesame Street.