# Greatest Final Episode of a Television Series... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-final-episode-of-a-television-series/143128 "2002-12-16T18:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-final-episode-of-a-television-series/143128/41 "2002-12-18T00:37:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuperNelson \* > \*\*Jay Leno, wasn’t it? Seems to me NBC went straight from Cheers to the Tonight Show, live from Boston. \*\* That’s right! I should have remembered that. I actually felt a little sorry for Leno for having to try to get any meaningful responses from the drunk cast ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-final-episode-of-a-television-series/143128/42 "2002-12-18T01:33:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mahaloth \* > **Babylon 5 has the single greatest ending(with Kudos even being given to their alternate last episode, "Deconstruction of Falling Stars, which aired when they didn’t think they’d be back for Season 5).** \ “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars” aired because they knew they **were** going to be back for Season 5. J. Michael Straczynski’s plans were that if there was **no** 5th season, “Sleeping in Light” would be the last episode of Season 4 and the last episode of the series. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-final-episode-of-a-television-series/143128/43 "2002-12-18T01:39:04Z")
\ _whew_ There. Had to balance my opening and closing tags. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-final-episode-of-a-television-series/143128/44 "2002-12-18T02:31:54Z")
But I think we should all wait to see how the final episode of “Providence” is. … 😉 And it seemed that _everyone_ watched the final episode of **The Fugitive (first one)**. It was one of the few episodes where Dr. Richard Kimble doesn’t try to get an odd job to make ends meet. ---
**Author:** ![Medievalist2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Medievalist2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medievalist2)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-final-episode-of-a-television-series/143128/45 "2002-12-18T04:04:56Z")
Hawaii Five-O, when Steve McGarrett finally captured Wo Fat. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-final-episode-of-a-television-series/143128/46 "2002-12-18T04:15:50Z")
I enjoyed the last episode of Roseanne, where almost everything that happened turned out to be part of her book. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-final-episode-of-a-television-series/143128/47 "2002-12-18T12:55:09Z")
Chalk up another one for **Blackadder goes forth**. Absolute brilliance. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-final-episode-of-a-television-series/143128/48 "2002-12-18T15:07:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tangent \* > \*\*That’s right! I should have remembered that. I actually felt a little sorry for Leno for having to try to get any meaningful responses from the drunk cast \*\* Heh. Yeah. They were smashed. I think the Tonight Show aired at its regular time that evening, so the cast was REALLY smashed. I thought it ironic that after the show was over, Cheers showed us all what REAL drunks look like! All in all, though, it was one of the highest rated Tonight Shows of all time. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-final-episode-of-a-television-series/143128/49 "2002-12-18T15:23:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crusoe \* > \*\*The final episode of the comedy series **Blackadder Goes Forth**. > > As the characters line up to go over the top into the face of the German guns, Baldrick has yet another cunning plan. Only … nothing comes of it, and the characters are mown down in a hail of bullets. The final scene fades away in slow-motion to a shot of a modern-day Belgian poppy field, with no final credits.Absolute genius. I wanted to cry. \*\* Additionally, wasn’t the point that … Over the four series of Blackadder Baldrick continually had some trully appalling “cunning plans”. Right at the end he came up with a plan involving a big splinter on the ladder that would be used to go over the top. The plan would have worked but Blackadder, forever putting Baldrick down, chose to ignore him and was instead mown down in nomansland. It has been a wee while since I have seen it though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-final-episode-of-a-television-series/143128.md?page=2)