That was, if course, supposed to be “miss.”
One of the very best was the old Boris Karloff show, Thriiler, and its adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s story “Pigeons from Hell”.
Read the story, too young for the show (which I’ve never seen syndicated, or on video).
Did they really do a good job with it? Howard is one of those authors who gets consistently trampeled when they “adapt” his work. I haven’t yet seen an example that captured the feel of his writing. If this one did, it’d be worth ferreting out.
There’s also Alfred Hitchcock’s adaption of Roald Dahl’s short story Lamb to the Slaughter. And I just found out that the star of that episode was Barbara Bel Geddes, Miss Ellie Ewing herself. Maybe she changed her name, and the baby she was carrying turned out to be JR himself?
This is a very difficult question to answer because as a TV show fades from the public consciousness, it’s power and the viewers’ opinions of that show likewise fades. So an episode that you may think is fabulous at the time that you saw it, will no longer seem as fabulous a year or two later.
I don’t know how to rate one episode of Game of Thrones, except to say it was most certainly my favorite at the time I first saw it.
I’m so sorry that I do not know the title. It was in a later season - perhaps S5 or S6 and it involved Tyrion telling his brother (Jamie) about some cousin who enjoyed killing beetles and Tyrion imitated the sound he made when he crushed beetles with a rock.
It went something like, “Koo Koo! Koo Koo!” I think it may have been closer to “Kill Kill!”.
In any case. I really cannot explain why. But whenever I see this epi (I’ve seen it a few times now), it strikes me as one of the best episodes and one of the most powerful scenes I have ever scene.
Now … it really is none of those things and I cannot explain why it grabs me as hard as it does. But, Damn! I just love that scene. It breaks me up every time and it lays me right out on the floor.
What a great scene! I just wish I knew why it grabs me in the way that it does.
Breaking Bad: season 5 episode 7
“Do you really want to live in a world with no Coca Cola?”
“Say my name”
I can’t believe I didn’t comment in this thread during its first life.
I nominate Futurama’s “Luck of the Fryrish”, in which Fry thinks his brother had stolen his identity back in the 20th/21st century. In the end it turns out that what he was actually seeing was his brother’s son, who was named in his memory.
In addition to the emotional gut-punch at the end, the episode contains one of my favorite lines in the series, where the main cast is watching a centaur race with a very close ending, and the announcer declares “Number 3 has won in a quantum finish!” and the Professor yells back, “No fair, you altered the outcome by observing it!”
“Blink” from Doctor Who, for the intensity of the horror and the intricacy of the story.
“City on the Edge of Forever” from Star Trek
Starsky and Hutch - Kristy Macnichol guest star, Christmas epidode
The night stalker - The Trevi Collection
Star Trek TOS - Apollo episode
Baa Baa Black Sheep - Devil of the Slot
Love Boat - Kissing Bandit featuring Billy Cristal
Angie - Family Feud game on tv
Perfect Strangers - island near myphos for sale
Macgyver - barricade competition at Mac’s alma mater
Highlander series - song of the executioner (in four parts)
The Professionals - Mixed Doubles
UFO - first episode
The Thin Blue Line - Rag Week
The Simpsons - Burns falls for Marge, Tom Jones guest star
Cold Case - disco fire
A-team - car racing, Murdoch poses as a rich Italian owner of an F-1 racing team
That’s the first one I thought of. I also love the Friday Night Lights episode “The Son,” in which Matt deals with the death of his father in Iraq. So so good.
Oh, yeah. I read the story afterwards, it was very true to it. I decided I wanted to watch it again, and lo and behold, it’s out on YouTube. Enjoy!
Frasier-“The Ski Lodge”. It’s like a Three’s Company episode for smart people.
Combat two part episode “Hills are for Heroes” Hanley and the squad (Saunders is wounded early) have to destroy two German bunkers covering a road without artillery, although halfway thru they get a tank. Directed by Vic Morrow, he used 21 days to film instead of the normal 12 (“film 60 pages in 6 days” was their schedule) and doubled the budget ABC gave them. ABC sent notes complaining about the overruns; Morrow lit cigarettes with them. A memorable end.
Dick van Dyke “It’s a Boy?” remembering a possible mixup at the hospital. Also the walnut episode
with the planet Twylo.
Maverick “Shady Deal at Sunny Acres” Bret (James Garner) is swindled by a crooked banker and calls in brother Bart (Jack Kelly) and the recurring characters : Diamond Jim Brady, Samantha Crawford, Big Mike McComb, Gentleman Jack Darby and Cindy Lou Brown to get his money back. Interesting, like Combat’s Hills are for Heroes, the less popular lead is the main actor. Garner elected to take the role where he primarily sat and whittle as he had knee problems
The pilot episode Seinfeld
The chocolate factory episode I Love Lucy
One For The Road Cheers
Lost “Walkabout” with surprise ending
Breaking Bad pilot
I remember this one. Now looking back, can’t believe I still remember microfiche
Breaking Bad?, The Sopranos?, The Wire? Mash?
…meh!
The best scene of the best episode of any TV series since the beginning of time? Pure, unadulterated drama mixed with horror, sports and romance? There is only one contender.
No matter how many times I watch it, I cry.
That video must be some hard core stuff.
I came in here to say the same thing. I love how everyone has their own version of the story, and I love Jose Chung’s speech at the end:
“then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials - searching for meaning in other human beings… Rare or lucky are those who find it - for although we may not be alone in the Universe - in our own separate ways - on This Planet… we are all… alone.”
what about on General Hospital when Tania Jones(Tony’s wife) dies after being hit by a car that made me really sad too!
Forgive me for posting prior to reading this thread, but the Bambi episode of The Young Ones was pretty sweet.
Link is not the entire episode