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Star Trek Voyager - "The Void"
(placed on november 1 2002)
by Carin Klabbers
I recently taped a Star Trek Voyager episode and when I watched it it turned out to contain a Phantom reference. The voyager was trapped in a kind of black hole were trapped ships attacked each other in order to survive. Voyagers Deuterim was stolen and when they try to get it back the thieves themselves have already been attacked by others. Their ship does not have an atmosphere anymore and there are no life signs of the crew. The voyager crew beams over a kind of engine cover which they think they can use. Captain Janeway keeps to regulations and does not attack any shipt. For those who want to join Voyager and share their resorces in a peacefullway she offers hospitallity. It turns out that in the engine cover a creature was hidden. In sickbay the doctor finds out that it is able to mask its lifesigns and life in an environment without an atmosphere. It is not able to speak but is quickly to learn a language bases on notes. The doctor tells seven who gives up her share of her rations for the creature that he has named the being Fantomé. He said, I qoute: “I named him after the Phantom of the Opera, a tormented caracter who was soothed by music” The Fantomé character is as the doctor describes it: “Highly intelligent and he has a sophisticated fysioligy”. When fanotme feels better the docter takes him to the mess, which is crowded with new allies. One of them, a captain calls fantome and his species ‘parasites’. He said that they crwal on board, steal food, and spread deseases. Captain Janeway is able to scan for the creatures and offers to find them and beam them aboard, as a gesture of good will and to prevent the creatures from getting killed. Later this captain is offended and turns against voyager and their allies with some other ships. Voyager thanks to combined resroces is able to pull the other ships out but they need time and are under attack. Fantome and his people are beamed on board enemyships and sabotage their engines. Thus giving Voyager and allies time to break free. It is suspeccted that Fantome’s people were indiginous to the black hole.
"Big wolf on campus"
(placed on november 1 2002)
On September 21 Elektra wrote to me by email:
hi, my name is elektra and i found a phantom inspired episode of a show. It is called Big Wolf on Campus. This girl named Lori is dating this guy and Tommy (the main character) is also in love with Lori. and Lori and the guy go out on a date and then Lori goes home and when the guy is walking home this guy with the Phantom's costume (and a mini me of him) come up to the guy and telles him to stay away from Lori, then vanishes. then the mini me tries to vanish but he cant (this happens several times). The Phantom guy is called the Phantom of the Factory (the factory is a club where Tommy lives) the next day the guy tells Lori that a guy and his little friend told him to stay away from her. Lori suspects that it is Tommy and his friend Mertin. Meanwhile Mertin is making a rippoff of Cats which he calls Felines. some other stuff happens, then the Phantom steals Lori and takes her to the basement of the Factory and tells her that she is like a woman he loved and then the Facotry had burned down and he wuz scarred. and lori tells him to take off his mask and she wouldnt be scared. so he does *it is eriky!* she sez she would run away cause he is a jerk, she kicks him and runs. then there is a part where the Phantom, Lori, Mertin, and Tommy to this singing thing on the stage. thats all i remember.
"Histeria"
(placed on november 1 2002)
On september 15 Elektra wrote to me by email:
in an episode of a show called Histeria they were talkin bout the National Anthem and people were "trying out" their songs and one of those people wuz supposed to be Erik. and on another episode they were doing this dating game thing and there were a lot of guys from history and one of the guys wuz supposed to be Andrew Lloyd Webber dressed as Erik and he said something about writing the music to The Phantom of the Opera and the girl said "oh i love Oprah!" and the backround of Andrew's set wuz the Phantom's lair.
i just wanted to share that with u
Night Gallery #7 (9-15-71)
(placed on March 25 1999)
Information and photo sent to me by: Allison
PHANTOM OF WHAT OPERA?* - The Phantom menaces his surprised--and surprising--victim. Cast - Leslie Nielsen. (* = this segment was severely altered in syndication.)
Wonder Woman
(placed on February 8 1999)
On the POTO mailinglist Allison wrote:
I'm surfing Alta Vista with "Roddy McDowall" stuck in the search engine, and lo and behold I come across this Wonder Woman episode guide page. I was scrolling along, already past my point of interest, and at the bottom of the page I found two episodes entitled "Phantom of the Roller Coaster Part One" and "Phantom of the Roller Coaster Part Two". They aired in September 1979, and the basic premise is Wonder Woman is looking for some foreign spy ring leader, goes to an amusement park (?) and discovers a disfigured war veteran living under the roller coaster who 'haunts' the park as its 'phantom'. Besides Lynda Carter, Joseph Sirola, Jared Martin and Ike Eisemann also
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Highlander
(placed on February 8 1999)
On the POTO maililnglist Katherine wrote;
I thought this might be of interest to some: I was up rather late last night (1am) and saw a sort-of Phantom themed episode that I hadn't heard of before. I was flipping stations when I recognized the interior of the Paris Opera House. So, of course, I stopped to check it out and found I had landed on the SciFi Channel and watching an episode of Highlander (of which I've seen only once). Because of the setting I stuck on it to see if it would carry a Phantom theme, which it did, well sort-of. The basic premise was the same: mysterious man lives below the Opera House and is infatuated with a singer (who is actually a pop-R&B style singer). But the singer's character likens herself more to an evil Carlotta and the Phantom reminded me more of, say, Quasimodo of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" fame. For starters, no mask and he didn't talk (but was an accoplished singer, go figure). He's also an immortal. Anyway, he starts off by killing the singer's manager because she had an arguement with him and when the singer realizes that "Quasi" had killed for her she starts manipulating him to kill off whoever she wanted (including her back-up singer who was probably the most similar to Christine - btw, he doesn't kill her because he can tell she is not
evil and lets her go). The best thing about it all was that it was filmed at the Paris Opera House and near the end there was this sword fight (and yet it was modern day) on the roof of the opera house, very cool shots!! To make a long story short, thinking that "Quasi" was dead (he had fallen off the roof, but remember, he's immortal), "Evil Carlotta" admits her manipulations and he overhears. She runs from him (not that he was going to hurt her, he was just really upset) and right into a passing car and dies. Duncan, the Highlander guy, places "Quasi" in a monestary for his best interest. The End.
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Coach
(placed on Februari 8 1999)
On the POTO mailinglist Jenn wrote:
Coach: Mon, Oct 19 11:00pm KFTY - 10 A jealous Hayden is no phantom when he dons a disguise to follow Christine and an old boyfriend (Mike Farrell) to the opera. Claude: Gilles Savard. Male Patron: Joe Dorsey. Hayden: Craig T. Nelson. Kelly: Clare Carey.>>
In living color
Kelly wrote me:
This one is very vague, so bear with me! On an episode of "In Living Color", a person who was imitating a singer like Little Richard or Jackie Jackson or something (I couldn't tell) and he attended a private opera party. Well, guess who showed up. The Phantom himself! And with a date, too!!!!!! Anyway, they were looking at some paintings and that Little Richard guy came up and insulted him. With that, the poor Phantom started to cry and his date held him in her arms and escorted him out of the room. Poor guy.......
The Drew Carey show
On the POTO mailinglist Stephanie wrote:
I think just about every show has done a Phantom spoof. Remember on the Drew Carey show when everyone was telling whats-her-face that she was too ugly to be the receptionist at the door, so she went to live in the basement and played a pipe organ? .
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Beverly Hills 90210
On the POTO mailinglist Jenn wrote:
On 90210 the Halloween episode where Kelly dresses like a whore and almost gets raped, some guy at that party was wearing a Phantom costume.
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Home improvement
On the POTO mailinglist Jenn wrote:
I saw the Home Improvement where Wilson wore the Phantom costume.
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South Park
On the POTO mailinglist Judy Gale wrote:
Anyone else catch South Park on Wednesday the 19th? Mr. Hankey was living in the sewers below South Park and was playing a pipe organ at one point. I was not exactly amused....
On the POTO mailinglist Jenn Wrote:
Another thing I saw recently was South Park this past Wednesday. They scene where Mr. Hanky is playing the organ in the sewers surrounded by candles.Though he isn't wearing a mask, but it did remind me of Phantom
The new adventures of Batman
Jennifer wrote:
I have found YET another POTO inspired show. I saw 'the new adventures of batman' This time it was very good. The penguin (a criminal who likes the fine arts) decides to reform. A wealthy woman, Veronica Vreland (or something) decides to take him out to dinner and invites him to a party to win his trust and get him embarrassed on the papers. Unfortuneatly, the penguin over hears Veronica and her boyfriend talking about how crude they think he is. He gets mad, and abducts Veronica. Later, he is yelling at veronica that all he wanted was friendship with her tied to a giant chandeleir with herr boyfriend chained to the spot under it. ANd you can guess who saves the day.
On the POTO mailinglist Virginia wrote:
Then there is the Batman cartoon where the Penguin turns from crime and falls in love with a beautiful but corrupted soprano at the local theatre and he drops a chandelier and kidnapps her to the sewer for betraying him.
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Married with Children
While zapping I cought an episode of Married with Children and when I heard someone say Phanton I immediately put a tape in my VCR. The part I cought was about Kelly getting lessons from a famous actor. He had written a Phantom of the Opera play with lines in the style of the old south and he and Kelly had the premiere in a small theatre. But Al Bundy takes the place of the actor who has had an accident because of Al. The play Kelly and Al put on stage is pure parody and when Kelly wants to unmask al he flees, she accidentally pulls down his pants and a part of another costume (wolf or some thing) shows. Al flees though the emergency exit and everybody else gets arrested. Kelly later thanks him for trying to help out but the rest is very angry because they had to spend some time in jail.
On the POTO mailinglist Jenn wrote:
I saw the Married with Children spoof. It was about Kelly wanting to become a big actress and she was with this theatre company and they gave her the role of Christine in Phantom of the Opera. It was pretty funny, the only thing Al could play on the organ was some baseball theme. I haven't seen that episode since 4 years ago.
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Bay Watch
Karin Willison wrote on the POTO mailing list that she actually had seen a Phantom Baywatch episode on. The gueststar was Jekyll and Hyde leading actor Robert Cuccioli.
Teresa who also has seen it writes: I did see this episode, mainly to see Cuccioli, whom I saw in J&H both on tour & Broadway. He played a man who had been severely burned & wore bandages around his face most of the time. He lived in the cellars of a power plant (I think that was what it was). He developed an obsession with one of the female characters because she resembled his wife, who died in the fire which injured him. He rescued the lifeguard after she was injured, and took her back to his home to care for her. He ended up being pursued by some guys who had videotaped his rescue of the lifeguard & hoped to capture him and put him on display (sounds pretty lame in this day & age).
On the POTO mailinglist Stephanie wrote:
Did anyone ever see the episode of Baywatch where the story followed Phantom? One of the baywatch girls almost drowned, and this guy with a deformed face, black cape, and mask rescued her and took her to his "lair", which was an abandoned factory, or something, by the beach. He helped her recover, and told her that she reminded him of his dead wife. Then some dumb guys came to rescue her, and they scared the "phantom" of the roof and killed him. It was really depressing. I just remember that he was obsessed with Edgar Allen Poe and had a black raven.
Oh yeah; his name was Erik. Coincidence, or not?
On the POTO mailinglist Viginia wrote:
There was a spoof on Baywatch where the guys family dies in a fire and he is scarred from the accident. They he saved Pammy from something and some bad guys chase him around this abandoned oil rig wich is his make-shift lair.
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Night Court
AlyssaI saw a Night Court episode where Dan ws the Phantom of the court and the lady's name on there is Chistine so her name fit the story perfectly.
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F/X
There is a tv series called F/X that features a POTO logo in the beginning of each episode.
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Lois and Clark
I also stumbled on a Lois and Clark episode in which Superman opponent, Lex Luthor junior. was very much like the Phantom because there are a lot of similarities.: Lex lives in the cellars, his face is deformed, he listens to opera, is very intelligent (invents a lot), sits on a throne, manipulates people with force, falls in love with Lois gives her a red rose and wants to force her to live with him by some kind of mind control device. Even some lines the actors use are a little POTO for example:
Lois:"What has your father done to you to change you into something like this?"
Lex: "I was a big disappointment for my father and grew up alone and in shadows, but now I am not alone anymore"
Lois: "You will always be alone!"
Lex: "Don't waste your time with hating me"
Lois: "I don't hate you, I pity you. You want everything but can give nothing, that's what being alone is"
Lex: "You could teach me how to love you"
Lois: "I can't teach you that, I don't love you.You have wasted all this time, thinking it was your deformity that ruined your life, but is not your appearance but your soul, you don't have one.You are a monster, the only thing I could ever feel for you is pity!"
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