History Literature / ThatWackyRedhead

** "That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” - '''Neil Armstrong''', on the surface of the Moon, July 21, 1969. [[spoiler: [[NotHisSled No, this wasn't written wrong.]]]]

* WhamLine: "" both opens and ends with one:

* AllohistoricalAllusion: IOTL, there ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen would've]]'' been a televised StarTrek / DoctorWho crossover (albiet with StarTrekEnterprise and the 10th Doctor), but plans for it fell apart.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: IOTL, there ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen would've]]'' been a StarTrek / DoctorWho crossover (albiet with StarTrekEnterprise and the 10th Doctor), but plans for it fell apart.

-->Well, he was right… so much so, that one might say he was a little too on-the-nose. “Turn-On” premiered on ABC on February 5, 1969, a Wednesday, at 8:30. [[ForegoneConclusion It was cancelled]] [[OneEpisodeWonder fifteen minutes later.]]

* TemptingFate: Thanks to ''Laugh-In'' being screwed by the network, when promoting ''Turn-On", Schlatter boasted that "''Turn-On'' is going to make ''Laugh-In'' look like Lawrence Welk". And... well...:

---> Schlatter was enraged; he decided to teach the network a lesson and abandoned "Laugh-In" to its fate, quitting as showrunner to focus on a show he was developing for ABC called "Turn-On", '''which would have a strong counter-cultural bent that, he was sure, would attract audiences in even greater numbers than "Laugh-In" had'''.

* TemptingFate: Thanks to ''Laugh-In'' being screwed by the network, when promoting ''Turn-On", Schlatter boasted that "''Turn-On'' is going to make ''Laugh-In'' look like LawrenceWelk". And... well...:

-->Well, he was right… so much so, that one might say he was a little too on-the-nose. “Turn-On” premiered on ABC on February 5, 1969, a Wednesday, at 8:30. [[ForgoneConclusion It was cancelled]] [[OneEpisodeWonder fifteen minutes later.]]

** ''So many'' changes occur to [[ANewHope Star Wars]] (the most obvious being the ITTL title being "The Journey of the Force", that it would be better to just [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7229983&postcount=2428 link to the chapter]].

** ''So many'' changes occur to [[ANewHope Star Wars]] (the most obvious being the ITTL tile being "The Journey of the Force", that it would be better to just [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7229983&postcount=2428 link to the chapter]].

* InTheStyleOf: Funnily enough, [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7062682&postcount=2250 Love in the Afternoon]] (which covers daytime programing, like {{Soap}}), begins and ends like {{Soap}}.

** It goes without saying, but because ''StarTrek'' is handled with more care in this timeline, the show goes through some changes as well: "The City On The Edge of Forever" becomes the season 1 finale, bad episodes like "Spock's Brain", "Assignment: Earth" and "The Omega Glory" aren't produced, going to a season 5, "[[StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries Yesteryear]]" being made an episode proper...

** It goes without saying, but because ''StarTrek'' is handled with more care in this timeline, the show goes through some changes as well: "The City On The Edge of Forever" becomes the season 1 finale, bad episodes like "Spock's Brain", "Assignment: Earth", "The Omega Glory" aren't produced, going to a season 5, "[[StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries Yesteryear]]" being made an episode proper...

** As part of the deal that would bring DoctorWho to the states, Desliu also buys the US syndication rights to the back catalog--along with copies of all the tapes. Since Desliu is well aware of the money to be made in syndication, they carefully preserve these tapes for reairing as [[InSpiteOfANail the era of junking old tapes at the BBC comes and goes]]. When the BBC figures out what a mistake they've made, Desilu can just send copies over to the BBC. That's right. ''The lost episode fiasco is'' '''''averted'''''.

* ForWantOfANail: In our timeline, ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' was ScrewedByTheNetwork in favour of ''RowanAndMartinsLaughIn''. In this timeline, it's the other way around, and the creator of ''Laugh-In'' quits...butterflies from which means no ''Laugh-In'' appearance by [[spoiler:RichardNixon, and because the 1968 presidential election was so close, the lack of his television appearance is enough to change enough voters' minds relative to our timeline that Hubert H. Humphrey wins instead]].

** As part of being a studio-head full time, Lucille dropped out of YoursMineAndOurs, and unable to find a replacment actor to fill her role, scrapped it all together. But, there's more. Without this film, ''TheBradyBunch never gets made''. (SherwoodSchwartz created it to capitalize on the success of the film IOTL.)

** As part of the deal that would bring DoctorWho to the states, the BBC had to sell Desilu the rights to "''all old episodes''" of the show, and then proceded to take ''extra'' care of them to that, [[InSpiteOfANail when the era of junking comes and goes]], Desilu can just send copies over to the BBC. That's right. ''The lost episode fiasco is'' '''''averted'''''.

* OpinionChangingDream: The change in timeline's happens because Lucille has dream wherein the ghost of Carole Lombard tells her to stay a producer, similar to the actual dream she had that encouraged her to do ''I Love Lucy''.

*** That isn't the only show to be butterflied away due to changes with a movie: due to Film/Mash being a box-office failure ITTL, Series/Mash the ''show'' is never made.

** As part of being a studio-head full time, Lucille dropped out of YoursMineAndOurs, and unable to find a replacment actor to fill her role, scrapped it all together. But, there's more. Without this film, ''TheBradyBunch never gets made''. (SherwoodSchwartz created it to capitalize on the success of the film in OTL.)

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: A crossover between ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' and ''Series/DoctorWho'' (Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor), complete with a female American companion played by [[FawltyTowers Connie Booth]], intended to relaunch ''Doctor Who'' in a new format and introduce it to the American overseas market.

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