History Literature / ThatWackyRedhead

** The date ElvisPresley and Desilu reached a licensing agreement that allowed him to be featured prominently in a couple episodes of ''[[Series/HappyDays Rock Around the Clock]]'' was August 16, 1977. You know. The day he ''died on the toilet'' IOTL?

* CallBack: Response-wise: [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=5818526&postcount=700 The last post]] to cover ITTL's Franchise/StarTrek franchise brings up [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=5301702&postcount=7 a post]] from ''waaay'' back:

* AprilFoolsDay: "[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7479564&postcount=2712 Appendix E: A Taste of Pi, Part I: Fostering an Obsession]]"[[note]][[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7483007&postcount=2723 Confirmation.]][[/note]]

* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: WordOfGod confirms that this is intact ITTL.[[note]][[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall I love]] [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal alliteration.]][[/note]]

* ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilizedAge: Stays.

* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Stays.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: [[{{InUniverse}} Actually,]] compared with the OTL version, ''[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Monty Python and Camelot]]'' is more historically accurate in regards to medieval times.

** InUniverse: In 1978, the President of Desilu, [[TitleDrop That Wacky Redhead]] herself, plays the role of the President [[spoiler:[[Franchise/StarTrek of the United Federation of Planets]]]] in [[spoiler:"Star Trek: The Next Voyage"]]. It's also a [[AllohistoricalAllusion cross-timeline gag]]: IOTL, Lucille Ball called President [[UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter Carter]] in... "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Lucy Calls The President]]". ITTL, [[spoiler:[[NamesTheSame she]] ''[[NamesTheSame is]]'' [[NamesTheSame President Carter]]]]!

* Any of the tropes from Modern Who[[note]]AliensOfLondon, BowtiesAreCool, EverybodyLives, TheMissusAndTheEx, PerceptionFilter, TheSlowPath, TimeyWimeyBall[[/note]]: Although the timeline ended in 1986 (with Lucy's interview), it's a given that ''if'' the show gets uncancelled ITTL, it will be a different creature from the OTL version. [[spoiler:Especially since the show originally ended ITTL with the Doctor [[KilledOffForReal running out of regenerations]].]]

* WorldHalfEmpty: Thanks to Desilu not merging with Paramount changes occur both positively '''and''' negatively to the world (in the sense of pop culture), to keep things brief.
-->'''[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7229983&postcount=2428 Brainbin:]]''' I ''told'' you I wasn’t writing a utopia!
** As a point of reference, [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=5602657&postcount=496 "The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same"]] points out how "race relations are ''generally'' better" in 1971-2 ITTL, just ''generally''.
** Also, the economy is in "better absolute shape" in TTL's 1975.
** Despite NASA going through difficulties, it's still a LOT better than OTL's NASA. [[spoiler:And, given that John Glenn, who promised to revitalize the space program, won the 1980 election...]]

* WorldHalfEmpty: Thanks to Desilu not merging with Paramount changes occur both positively '''and''' negatively to the world (in the sense of pop culture), to keep things brief.
-->'''[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7229983&postcount=2428 Brainbin:]]''' I ''told'' you I wasn’t writing a utopia!
** As a point of reference, [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=5602657&postcount=496 "The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same"]] points out how "race relations are ''generally'' better" in 1971-2 ITTL, just ''generally''.
** Also, the economy is in "better absolute shape" in TTL's 1975.
** Despite NASA going through difficulties, it's still a LOT better than OTL's NASA. [[spoiler:And, given that John Glenn, who promised to revitalize the space program, won the 1980 election...]]

** The timeline ''itself'' is set to end this way, with the final post going to take us back to the 1986 interview where Lucy announces she's retiring.

* ForegoneConclusion: Like it or not, the timeline ''is'' going to end at September 20, 1986, with Lucy's interview with [[InsistentTerminology Baba Wawa]] and the announcement of her retirement.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: ''Maybe'', but: "[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=5634707&postcount=520 As far as]] ''[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=5634707&postcount=520 you]]'' [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=5634707&postcount=520 know]], [[spoiler:'Leningrad' may never become an obsolete term ITTL]]".[[note]]Though ''within the context of the TL proper'', that is less of a spoiler/foreshadowing than it might seem. [[spoiler: WordOfGod is the the TL will end in 1986 -- even if the USSR falls [[InSpiteOfANail roughly on schedule]]]], it wouldn't have the slightest effect on ''That Wacky Redhead''.[[/note]]
** More in-line with the boundaries of the timeline itself, we have this bit from the end of "Appendix C, Part IV: [[spoiler:The Trial of the Century]]":

* {{Futureshadowing}}: The 1986 interview ''in spades''.

* Any of the tropes from Modern Who[[note]]AliensOfLondon, BowtiesAreCool, EverybodyLives, TheMissusAndTheEx, PerceptionFilter, TheSlowPath, TimeyWimeyBall[[/note]]: Although the timeline is going to end in 1986 (with Lucy's interview), it's a given that ''if'' the show gets uncancelled ITTL, it will be a different creature from the OTL version.

** "[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=11628750&postcount=4451 The Doctor is Out]]". ''Series/DoctorWho'' being cancelled was unavoidable, even if it's being done four years earlier than OTL. But, where the wham ''truly'' lies is in the ''In-Universe'' Wham Episode / Series Finale "Requiem for a Time Lord". Long story short, [[spoiler:it turns out that TTL's regeneration limit... is '''four''']].

* MissingEpisode: The "Feast of Steven" episode of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Dalek's Master Plan]]". Due to Desilu stepping in to buy the syndication rights to ''Doctor Who'' '''after''' this episode got wiped, this is TTL's only missing episode.

* [=SelectaVision=] does ''better'' than in IOTL: a projected 200,000 figure in the beginning of 1978, with over ''250,000'' being shipped New Years Day with over 100 launch titles.[[note]]IOTL, only 100,000 were sold in 1981, with only 50 launch titles.[[/note]]

* Thanks to [=ABC=] being in such dire straits ITTL, they were convinced to pick up ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' for syndication (after agreeing to air "The Muppets Valentine Show") in 197''4'', two years before the show's OTL premiere.[[note]]Plus, OTL's ''Muppet Show'' was produced under [=ATV=], a UK television company, due to no American television companies being interested.[[/note]]

* Jumping back to 1968 for a minute, [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=5351938&postcount=53 this]] coverage of the 1968 presidential election reveals that one of the factors in [[spoiler:Humphrey's lead]] was "[[spoiler:the announcement of a bombing halt in their quagmire of [[TheVietnamWar an overseas conflict]], and a resulting peace conference.]]"[[note]][[spoiler:Nixon's people, seeing that he was going to lose, weren't able to pull out of those talks as opposed to IOTL.]][[/note]]

* TWordEuphemism: The author never refers to "[[TheVietnamWar the V-word]]" explicitly, only referring to it as an "overseas quagmire", as part of an InJoke about how that topic tends to dominate American-penned AlternateHistory timelines set in this period. [[spoiler:It helps that it apparently ended in 1969 through peace talks.]]

** Creator/GeorgeLucas finds a use for the phrase "NeverTellMeTheOdds", [[spoiler:just not in [[TheEmpireStrikesBack a movie]].]]

* TheTroubles: As discussed in [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7645631&postcount=2833 this post]][[note]]It's the last response.[[/note]] and in [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=6128942&postcount=1084 this post]], [[spoiler:this has been butterflied away ITTL]].

* Aside from (obviously) no ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', "[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=5853675&postcount=768 Day and Night]]" reveals that Bob Barker ultimately does '''not''' become the host of ''ThePriceIsRight''; consequently, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_James Dennis James]] becomes the host of both daytime and nighttime versions.

* Creator/CarlSagan still gets to make ''Series/CosmosAPersonalVoyage'', [[spoiler:albeit with help from [[MisterRogersNeighborhood Fred Rogers]]]].

* AllThereInTheManual: Sometimes, info regarding the timeline can only be found in the footnotes.
** Other times, it's in the comment responses [=Brainbin=] gives.
* [[spoiler: AprilFoolsDay]]: "[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7479564&postcount=2712 Appendix E: A Taste of Pi, Part I: Fostering an Obsession]]"[[note]][[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7483007&postcount=2723 Confirmation.]][[/note]]

* AWorldHalfFull / [[WorldHalfEmpty Empty]]: Thanks to Desilu not merging with Paramount changes occur both positively '''and''' negatively to the world (in the sense of pop culture), to keep things brief.
-->'''[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7229983&postcount=2428 Brainbin:]]''' I ''told'' you I wasn’t writing a utopia!
** As a point of reference, [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=5602657&postcount=496 "The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same"]] points out how "race relations are ''generally'' better" in 1971-2 ITTL, just ''generally''.
** Also, the economy is in "better absolute shape" in TTL's 1975.
** Despite NASA going through difficulties, it's still a LOT better than OTL's NASA. [[spoiler:And, given that John Glenn, who promised to revitalize the space program, won the 1980 election...]]

* ButterflyOfDoom: What seem like minor changes can have big effects down the line.
** Played with: the world is surprisingly altered for what might at first seem to be a relatively minor pop-cultural change -- but the resulting history is no worse than ours (in some ways, it is even a ''[[InvertedTrope better]]'' world), just different.

* [[spoiler:Film/CannibalHolocaust]]: Interestingly, although [[spoiler:this film]] isn't made ITTL, several ones ''like'' it are.

* HarsherInHindsight: In-Universe, the "[[spoiler:Who Shot [[Creator/RobinWilliams Robin]]]]" sketch on "The Creator/RichardPryor Show".

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sulu]] preforms one in ''[[spoiler:Star Trek: The Next Voyage]]''.
** Same goes for [[spoiler:the (Fifth) Doctor]] in the SeriesFinale for ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Requiem for a Time Lord".

* LostForever / MissingEpisode: The "Feast of Steven" episode of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Dalek's Master Plan]]". Due to Desilu stepping in to buy the syndication rights to ''Doctor Who'' '''after''' this episode got wiped, this is TTL's only missing episode.

* NamesTheSame: [[{{In-universe}} As pointed out]] in the narrative, [[spoiler:Creator/GeorgeLucas' lawyer]] [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Andy Taylor]] and [[spoiler:Hon. [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Warren J. Ferguson]]]].

* SeasonalRot: Naturally, this comes up a lot. This timeline's version of ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' suffers it in its fifth and final season, as opposed to our timeline's version, which suffered it (as well as underfunding) in its third and final one. [[invoked]]
** Same applies to "Those Were The Days".
* '''ShownTheirWork''': The amount of research [=Brainbin=] puts into this is ''staggering''. It helps that, among other credentials, [[OneOfUs he's a troper]].

* OneEpisodeWonder: Just like its counterpart in our timeline, ''Turn-On'' does not have a lengthy run. [[spoiler: And it ruins producer George Schlatter's career to boot.]]

** GeorgeLucas finds a use for the phrase "NeverTellMeTheOdds", [[spoiler:just not in [[TheEmpireStrikesBack a movie]].]]

Read it [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?p=5297075#post5297075 here]]. An indexed version can be found [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/timelines/that_wacky_redhead here]].

Creator/LucilleBall, beloved comedienne, star of the classic 1950s sitcom ''Series/ILoveLucy'', and entrepreneur as the head of her television studio, [[Creator/DesiluStudios Desilu]], is visited in a dream by her late friend Carole Lombard. Once before, Lombard had persuaded Ball to "give [television] a whirl" and star in what would become ''I Love Lucy''; Lombard's second visit, in late 1966, marks the PointOfDivergence. Ball is on the verge of selling Desilu to media conglomerate [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Gulf+Western]], but Lombard warns her away from it, assuring Ball that her destiny is to remain a studio chief.

* BookEnds: It has yet to happen, but Brainbin has said the last post will bring us back to the 1986 interview that opened the timeline.

* TheSixties, TheSeventies, and (currently) TheEighties: The current time-span of the timeline (specifically 1966 to 1984).

* ToughActToFollow: [[InUniverse Ratings wise]], it took some time until something was able to pass the "47 rating" set by "These Were the Voyages": ''Series/{{Roots}}''.