List Ten or More Shows With Your Favorite Episode (1 Viewer)

[Roy Wall]

I am going to expand from the thread for a SINGLE to MULTIPLE (ten or more) favorite shows....favorite episode:

Star Trek (TOS): Balance Of Terror (will the Romulans unleash their secret weapon that would doom the Federation??? The Enterprise must stop an Invisible Enemy)

Gunsmoke: Mannon (Darkness Is Coming)

The Twilight Zone: Time Enough At Last (The All-Time Great Irony)

The Fugitive: The Judgment (What Else??)

Have Gun Will Travel: El Paso Stage (If Roddenberry ever penned a better episode...I want to see it. Buddy Ebsen is outstanding in this one)

Mission Impossible: Operation Rogosh (Hey...let's give Stephen Hill and Fritz Weaver a nod in this great first season IMF thriller)

Naked City: The Deadly Guinea Pig (Depicts survivors of The Holocaust as the closest thing on Earth to the Living Dead)

Wanted Dead Or Alive: Bounty On Josh (Someone seems invisible and out to kill Josh Randall....slowly)

Bonanza: The Legacy (The character of the Cartwright boys is weighed against the apparent kidnapping and murder of their father)

I Love Lucy: Tennessee Ernie Visits (If there's a funnier Lucy...I've yet to see it and I've seen 'em all)

 

[Regulus]

Twilight Zone - Third from the Sun Two Families Hijack a Spaceship to flee their planet which is facing an imminant nuclear war.

Lassie - The Disappearence While the Martin Family is on vacation Timmy and his Father rent a boat to go fishing, naturally Timmy brings along the dawg. A sudden storm capsizes the boat, Lassie gets separated from the other two and is rescued by a Forest Ranger, who nurses her back to health. She spends a few days with the ranger helping him do his work before being returned to the Martins.

TRIVIA: In this episode we meet Corey Stewart, who will become Lassie's new master in the next season.

EASTER EGG: The airplane from the soon-to-be-released on DVD series Ripcord makes a cameo appearence.

BLOOPER: Timmy and his Dad are on an airplane looking for Lassie. Far away shots show a high-wing Cessina (The aforementioned Ripcord plane) but close ups show Timmy in a low-wing airplane.

Star Trek - Tomorrow is Yesterday The Enterprise is yanked back in time to present-day Earth. An Air Force Pilot almost shoots down the Spacecraft and is beamed aboard. Captain Kirk plans to take this pilot back to their future, but Spock reveals that one of this man's children will be involved in an historical event, and that child hasn't been conceived yet!

Medic - Flash of Darkness Medical Personel deal with the aftermath of a nuclear war. (The following week they go back to "normal" - "That attack last week, blew up the city, wiped out 2,000,000 people, no big loss.") Sorry, I just had to put that in.

21 Jump Street - 16 blown to 35 - The Squad Investigates a Modeling Agency auditioning minors, and reveals they are child pornographers.

Dragnet - The Big Little Jesus (Both the Original and the 1960s Remake) Friday and his companion investigate the theft of a Statue of Jesus from a church's Nativity Scene.

Walker, Texas Ranger - A Matter of Faith Walker investigates a Crime where Gang Members steal Christmas Presents from a Church and injure a Priest.

Kraft Suspense Theatre - The Kamchatka Incident An Airplane wanders off course and enters russian airspace and is forced to make an emergency landing. One of the passengers is a Defecter.

The Name of the Game - Los Angeles 2017 A Man is transported to the year 2017, where he finds out the planet is all but dead from an environmental catastrophe.

The Mod Squad - Put out the welcome mat for Death The Squad investigates the theft of Morphine from a hospital - A man commits a mercy killing of his wife, who was in severe pain because of the morphine shortage caused by the thief.

 

[Roy Wall]

Star Trek - Tomorrow is Yesterday The Enterprise is yanked back in time to present-day Earth. An Air Force Pilot almost shoots down the Spacecraft and is beamed aboard. Captain Kirk plans to take this pilot back to their future, but Spock reveals that one of this man's children will be involved in an historical event, and that child hasn't been conceived yet!

Great choice....

 

[Ejanss]

I am going to expand from the thread for a SINGLE to MULTIPLE (ten or more) favorite shows....favorite episode:

Mission Impossible: Operation Rogosh (Hey...let's give Stephen Hill and Fritz Weaver a nod in this great first season IMF thriller)

Never thought I'd ever see anyone else pick that episode as best. (Especially since it came from the Stephen Hill years.) And here I thought I was going to show off by picking that one.

Throwing out a few random delegates from favorite series:

Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street (If any episode singlehandedly summed up the mix of flying saucers and post-McCarthy social commentary that Rod Serling wanted the entire series to be...)

Star Trek: I, Mudd (Not exactly the most serious episode of the entire Classic series, but a breathlessly what-the-heck bit of tongue-in-cheek that ultimately had to have come out of offstage actor-improv exercises.)

Fantasy Island: Pilot (Had to put one up there for sentimentality, but it's easy to see why the network decided that the series would be better off going Love-Boat fluffy and toning down the slightly darker creepiness of the original concept.)

The Odd Couple: The Odd Monks (I used to be amazed at how this episode felt like its own self-contained Neil Simon comedy, with one silly comic premise delivered after another, and then a surprisingly thoughtful message at the end.)

The Flintstones: The Missing School Bus (Larry Markes wrote six episodes in Season 2 only that were insane genius, but here, the mix of silliness and sarcastically overstated satire go way past normal Simpsons boundaries into a surreal comic nightmare for Fred.)

The Dick Van Dyke Show: It May Look Like A Walnut (Okay, so it's already on the Top Ten of TV Guide's 50 Classic Episodes. But as long s it deserves to be there, that doesn't make it cheating, just Essential Reruns 101.)

The Prisoner: Hammer Into Anvil (No. 6 crafts his latest anti-authoritarian scheme on the level of elaborately practical-joke Punk'ing No. 2 out of his chair, and still gets in his point about the cruel hierarchies of the spy game.)

Maverick: Gun-Shy (The Gunsmoke parody - "Want me to stand a little closer, Marshall?" My dad used to quote that for years, and I had no idea what that was from.)

The Avengers: The Cybernauts (A perfect sampler mix of the show's red-herrings, tongue-in-cheek humor, and an ingeniously simple escape for our heroes at the end. And having Michael Gough as the villain isn't bad either.)

Dragnet: The Big Departure (Yes, the show was a sermon on a rifle, and we're all supposed to giggle in hip superiority at the 60's "Joe Friday vs. the Hippies" episodes, especially when he does the anti-drug episodes, huhuh. But you know you've officially become your parents when you cheer Friday and Gannon to take down a spoiled suburban kid whose friends are stealing rifles and survival supplies because they want to run away and "start their own commune" without having the faintest clue how. Jack Webb was NOT fooled for a moment by the Haight-Ashbury snake-oil in LA at the time; his (numerous) big-speeches in this episode were an eloquent answer from a frustrated law-abiding middle-class, and his deconstructions of the slowly-dying movement's big-talking naivety, saber-rattling and self-indulgence were twenty years ahead of their time.)

 

[Roy Wall]

Never thought I'd ever see anyone else pick that episode as best. (Especially since it came from the Stephen Hill years.) And here I thought I was going to show off by picking that one.

Throwing out a few random delegates from favorite series:

Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street (If any episode singlehandedly summed up the mix of flying saucers and post-McCarthy social commentary that Rod Serling wanted the entire series to be...)
The Avengers: The Cybernauts (A perfect sampler mix of the show's red-herrings, tongue-in-cheek humor, and an ingeniously simple escape for our heroes at the end. And having Michael Gough as the villain isn't bad either.) My personal favorite is Something Nasty In The Nursery


Great Choices....that tranlates to just like with the comment that I made about Regulus' pick...that's about all I feel qualified to make a judgment on...because I'm not familiar with the rest of the shows on the list

I think I might go insane trying to pick the best show from "The Prisoner"....I LOVE that show.

BTW...for Mission Impossible....I also like "The Mind of Stefan Miklos"....because of it's meticulous script. I love Steven Hill as Dan Briggs...but both guys (Peter, too) are excellent as leaders of IMF.

While I'm at it...I'm gonna throw out an honorable mention....

Wild Wild West: The Night of The Puppeteers...Who's controlling the Life size puppet that controlling all the Legions of Life size puppets??? Simply brilliantly scripted and photographed make believe.

 

[moviebuff75]

1. The Brady Bunch- The Kings Island Episode
2. The Twilight Zone- Time Enough at Last
3. I Love Lucy- Lucy Does a Commercial
4. The Flintstones- I can't remember the name, but the one with Madame Yes
5. Wonder Woman- The Feminine Mystique
6. The Honeymooners- TV or No TV
7. All in the Family- The First Episode
8. Designing Women- The episode where their house is on the Atlanta tour
9. The Facts of Life- Studying for Finals
10. The Muppet Show- Loretta Lynn

 

[Frank Soyke]

I Dream Of Jeannie - How To Be A Jeannie In 10 Easy Lessons

Hogan's Heroes - Go Light On The Heavy Water

Get Smart - The Groovy Guru (Larry Storch)

Mod Squad - Kicks Incorporated

Wonder Years - The Clip Show

It's Your Move - The Dregs Of Humanity (Parts 1 and 2)

Run For Your Life - Who's Watching The Fleshpot (w/ Bobby Darin)

Twilight Zone - Walking Distance (Gig Young)

Gilligan's Island - The Producer (Phil Silvers)

Bewitched - Divided He Falls

Fugitive - Girl From Little Egypt

 

[Ejanss]

4. The Flintstones- I can't remember the name, but the one with Madame Yes

("Dr. Sinister", in case you ever have to look it up. Season 5, where the series was starting to lose its subversive edge and more commercial.)

I Dream Of Jeannie - How To Be A Jeannie In 10 Easy Lessons

Gilligan's Island - The Producer (Phil Silvers)

Y'know, I was trying to think of one definitive Jeannie (and Gilligan) episode to put on the list, but, er...those'll do.

 

[Kasey]

MAUDE - The Game Show
CHARLIE'S ANGELS - Angels on Ice
BEWITCHED - Charlie Harper, Winner
MAMA'S FAMILY - Rashomama (The Gooseberry Jam episode)
THE DONNA REED SHOW - The Football Uniform
HAZEL - Hazel's Christmas Shopping
I LOVE LUCY - The Freezer
THE LUCY SHOW - Lucy Is a Soda Jerk
HERE'S LUCY - Lucy and Ann-Margret
I DREAM OF JEANNIE - How to Marry an Astronaut
THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW - All About Eavesdropping
MY THREE SONS - Air Derby
THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES - The Giant Jackrabbit
PETTICOAT JUNCTION - Spurline to the Shady Rest
GREEN ACRES - Oliver Buys a Farm
THE PATTY DUKE SHOW - Let 'Em Eat Cake
GILLIGAN'S ISLAND - Don't Bug the Mosquitos
FAMILY AFFAIR - Fat Fat the Water Rat
THE MOD SQUAD - A Short Course in War
THAT GIRL - This Little Piggy Had a Ball
THE BRADY BUNCH - Fright Night
THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY - This Male Chauvanist Piggy Went to Market
ALL IN THE FAMILY - The Bunkers and the Swingers
MARY TYLER MOORE - The Lars Affair
RHODA - So Long, Lucky
ONE DAY AT A TIME - The Upholstery Ripoff
STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO - Monkey Is Back
THREE'S COMPANY - The Bakeoff
THE FACTS OF LIFE - Take My Finals Please
GIMME A BREAK - Julie's First Love
IT'S A LIVING - Horsing Around
THE GOLDEN GIRLS - Sister of the Bride
DESIGNING WOMEN - The Woman Who Came to Sugarbakers
ALICE - Bet a Million Mel
ROSEANNE - The Test
MURPHY BROWN - Bob and Murphy and Ted and Avery
QUEER AS FOLK - Season 1 Finale (The Prom)
SIX FEET UNDER - Pilot
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES - Bang!
DEXTER - Seeing Red

 

[Richard V]

Mary Tyler Moore - Chuckles Bites the Dust

M*A*S*H - Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen

Star Trek, The Next Generation - Yesterday's Enterprise

Star Trek, Deep Space Nine - The Visitor

Miami Vice - Down for the Count, Part One

The Walking Dead - Judge, Jury, Executioner

Justified - Bloody Harlan

The X Files - Jump the Shark

Twilight Zone - Time Enough at Last

St. Elsewhere - The Last One

 

[JohnMor]

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS - "Specialty of the House"ALL IN THE FAMILY - "The Games Bunkers Play"ANGEL - "Darla"

THE AVENGERS - "The Cybernauts"BEWITCHED - "I Remember You... Sometimes."

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - "Innocence"

THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW - "All About Eavesdropping"

I LOVE LUCY - "Lucy Tells the Truth"

THE LUCY SHOW - "Lucy Dates Dean Martin"

THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW - "My Brother's Keeper"

THAT GIRL - "The Call of the Wild"

THE TWILIGHT ZONE - "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

 

[HenryDuBrow]

Chose these ten random shows for now listed in no particular order here, episode position not carved in stone likings do change.

The Time Tunnel - The Ghost of Nero

Who's the Boss? - Dinner for Two

Have Gun Will Travel - The Prize Fight Story

The Streets of San Francisco - The House on Hyde Street
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - The Village of Guilt

Harry O - Lester

Columbo - Negative Reaction

The F.B.I. - Ordeal

The Texan - The First Notch

Alias Smith and Jones - Wrong Train to Brimstone