Will you marry me? 
Exactly
It’s truly one episode of TV that defies explaination.
Yes.
Where?
When?
I also think the episode is great, but the small roles for The Doctor and Martha were a necessity of the cramped production schedule, not the result of any brainstorm on the producers’ part. But one could certainly admire the way the producers turned a potential weakness into a strength.
I agree with so many that have already been mentioned. Here are a few that haven’t been.
Twilight Zone: Eye of the Beholder.
Star Trek TNG: Measure of a Man.
Everybody Loves Raymond: Marie’s sculpture.
Everybody Loves Raymond: The one with the suitcase on the steps.
Frazier: The one where Niles fathers a bag of flour.
Frazier: Niles’ Valentine, when he sets fire to his pants, etc., etc., etc.
Thanks for the explanation and the link, very informative! There are many TV producers / networks who seem to take the view that ‘this star is costing us a lot of money, so we have to use him as much as we can’, regardless of whether this is creatively or aesthetically appropriate. What I was admiring was that the ‘Who’ producers were willing to go with a story in which there was actually very little for the Doctor to do, and where the unknown Sally Sparrow was the star, on screen in almost every shot. The background information you’ve linked to makes it clear that the relative lack of Tennant / Agyeman in ‘Blink’ was more a budgetary necessity than a choice, but I think this just re-aims my praise rather than nullifying it. Kudos to the producers for having enough faith in the material, the series and the viewers to have one or two adventures that don’t feature the Doctor all that much.
Did so!
See post #52.
I think most of these have been mentioned, but here’s my list:
- Arrested Development - Pier Pressure
- The X-Files - Home
- The Shield - Post Partum
- The Sopranos - Long Term Parking
- The Simpsons - Homer At The Bat (and I hate sports!)
- Twin Peaks - Pilot
- Arrested Development - Afternoon Delight
- News Radio - Super Karate Monkey Death Car
- Taxi - Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey
- Seinfeld - The Betrayal
You know, this makes me really happy. We’re watching through Buffy, and we’re at episode 8, season 4. 
So we’re almost at [h]Hush*.
In no particular order:
MAS*H - Fade out, Fade in, the first Charles episode. Great character, great intro, great punch line at the end.
Simpsons - $pringfield - The Bogey Man! Aaaaah!
Futurama - Luck of the Fryrish
Lost - Numbers - The greatness of Hurley’s character, combined with the spookiness of the numbers mystery, make me love this episode.
South Park - Casa Bonita - Cartman and Butters at their best
South Park - The Death of Eric Cartman. Someone really needs to remind Matt and Trey how funny they are when they’re not actively being political or spoofing pop culture.
Night Court - The one where a Japanese businessman dies in the courtroom
Seinfeld - The one where Kramer adopts a stretch of highway, and Elaine tries to order a new dish from a Chinese restaurant
Seinfeld - The one where everyone refuses to eat a piece of pie and they can’t/won’t reveal the reason to the people they’re eating with
Cheers - Frasier’s and Lilith’s first meeting
The scene at the end where Newman’s singing “Three Times A Lady” and then screams as his mail truck catches fire is one of the funniest things ever on TV, IMO.
I didn’t see Batman: The Animated Series mentioned and there were some good episodes in that show. One that I liked was “Almost Got 'Im”, where The Joker, Penguin, Two-Face, Killer Croc and Poison Ivy were playing poker together and talking about how close each of them were to killing Batman. The “Feat of Clay” and the Grey Ghost ones were quite good too.
Apparently I’ve watched TV all wrong for a lot of years. I don’t even have ten favorites. But my best (or at least, most memorable) moments have to include the moon landing, NOVA’s Bermuda Triangle episode, the Cheers’ pilot, Bugs Bunny in Rabbit of Seville, Jim Henson’s experimental project “The Cube,”, and I’m probably getting a little far afield of what constitutes a “TV episode,” so I’ll quit now.
I came here to say that. OP, your list is hwaaaay too modern. No Twilight Zone? No I Love Lucy? Bob Newhart? Dick Van Dyke?
Here’s TV Guides list.
Their take on WKRP:’ **40
WKRP IN CINCINNATI
October 30, 1978
TV shows traditionally greet holidays with a hug, but not WKRP. In “Turkeys Away,” which was based on a true story, station manager Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump) announces plans to unveil a secret promotional event, and newsman Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) shows up at the local mall to cover it live. A helicopter comes into view. Mr. Carlson is aboard. So are 20 live turkeys – which, to Les’s horror, are hurled to their deaths. “Oh, the humanity,” Les wails, evoking the Hindenberg while fowl balls plummet to the parking lot. Mr. Carlson is shocked. “As God is my witness,” he says, “I thought turkeys could fly.”
REWIND
“Richard had tapes of the Hindenberg disaster,” says Loni Anderson, who played Mr. Carlson’s secretary, “and practiced his broadcast to sound real. He was a perfectionist.” *
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Everybody Loves Raymond–Marie backs the car into Raymond’s house and Robert is the responding officer. The look on his face when he realizes what happened.
Already mentioned:
Fawlty Towers “The Germans”
Doctor Who “Blink”
As for my own contributions, it’s really incredibly difficult for me to narrow it down to ten, so here’s a few that I thought of after much agonizing and debating
Neon Genesis Evangelion “Angel Attack” Not my favorite episode, but I feel it’s the best simply because it was the first. It’s got a good blend of action and humor, and right from the get-go you can see that this isn’t just another mech anime.
Fraggle Rock “Gone but not Forgotten” The one where Wembley meets Mudbunny the Mudwell.
Sesame Street “Farewell, Mr. Hooper” 'Nuff said.
The Jeffersons — “Sorry, Wrong Meeting”
The famous KKK/CPR episode. I saw it when I was a kid and the killer ending still resonates with me.
Most of mine have been mentioned but I do want to pop in to mention “Rocky & Bullwinkle” - the shows with upsy-dasium. They were hilarious.
Meerkat Manor, “Journey’s End”
Where Flower joins the short list of history’s greatest heroic and tragic tales, the telling of which makes the ghosts of 300 Spartans collectively salute in admiration.