Top 5 TV crossovers that need to happen

Having been a comic book fan for a long time, I’ve become accustomed to the concept of the crossover. It became commonplace to see characters appear in other characters’ books, even cross-company. When I watch certain TV shows, they almost seem constrained by the lack of characters showing up from a competing show resulting in an initial knock-down drag-out fight before the parties mutually agree to band together to defeat two common enemies, one from each universe.

If I were Tsar of TV, here are the Top 5 crossovers I’d like to see:

5. Grey’s Anatomy and Medicine Ball

Both are set in Seattle, the latter one of a million ER clones from 1995 and that neither I nor anyone else watched, but I would be curious to see how much ass Dr. Donal Logue would kick when confronted with the flighty, always-having-sex (including, apparently, -with-ghosts?) crew of doctors at Grey’s Seattle Grace.

(A link to Medicine Ball's opening theme.)

4. Heroes and Misfits of Science

There’s no way this one would happen, and neither show, truthfully, is really that interesting. But I can’t help but harbor love for the awful Misfits, which had a short run on NBC Friday nights getting clobbered by Dallas on a weekly basis. Plus, this one seems somewhat plausible because the shows actually share the same creator, Tim Kring.
On the other hand, I cancelled Heroes (from my DVR) after it got bogged down in a boring Season 2, and its pretentiousness got to be a little too much. Maybe a guest shot from telekinetic Courteney Cox (who is possibly the only surviving cast member, unless ALF’s dad is still with us) would provide a shot in the arm.

3. Pushing Daisies and Dead Like Me
This is another one where the two shows share a creator, and in fact Bryan Fuller said in an interview that the idea of a character who can revive the dead was originally meant for a subplot on quickly cancelled Dead Like Me, where he could wreak havoc with the reapers’ job of collecting souls. Instead, Pushing Daisies became a great, quickly cancelled show of its own.

To be fair, Daisies did feature a crossover with Bryan Fuller's quickly cancelled Wonderfalls, but the character featured on that episode was so obscure that I didn't realize it was a crossover until I looked it up, despite having watched Wonderfalls in its entirety. (Was the Wax Lion booked that day?)

2. Lost and Land of the Lost
I really have been disappointed that the answer to what happened to the survivors of Oceanic Air flight #whatever was not that they actually crash landed in the same mysterious, nebulous island as the folks from Land of the Lost did when they took that fateful boat trip in somebody’s bathtub.

It makes perfect sense. The giant scary invisible monster chasing them is Bill Laimbeer as a Sleestack. Why haven’t Jack, the hot chick, and Sawyer run into Will and Holly (now in their 40s) yet? Instead, the producers are apparently keeping on with whatever plot twists they can pull out of a hat and call it a story. I think my idea wraps it all up with a nice bow.

Make it happen, J.J.