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Angular Turnip (What does this name mean, by the way?),
I've always liked "The Last Flight" because I really like Kenneth Haigh (but then, I'm a life-long Anglophile, so this is no surprise).
I don't know that I'm a fan of immortality in particular, but I do believe in reincarnation--not sure if that's relevant.
I've never read or heard the original "Long Distance Call"--ironic that it's the same title as the Billy Mumy/grandmother episode.
Here's a list in alphabetical order. (Did you want it in preference order?)
After Hours, The
Death Ship
Hundred Yards Over the Rim, A
Hunt, The
Last Flight, The
Long Live Walter Jameson
Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
Night Call
Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
Odyssey of Flight 33
Queen of the Nile
Ring-a-ding Girl
7th is Made Up of Phantoms, The
Silence, The
Stop at Willoughby, A
To Serve Man
Valley of the Shadow
Walking Distance
When the Sky Was Opened, And
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up
1) The Dick Van Dyke Show
2) As Time Goes By [British--Judi Dench]
3) The Andy Griffith Show
4) The Bob Newhart Show
5) Father Knows Best
6) My Three Sons
7) Bewitched
8) The Mary Tyler Moore Show
9) Brothers [Showtime, 1980s]
10) Fawlty Towers [British--John Cleese]
This is a list of sitcoms in particular (rather than comedies of any type), so it doesn't include sketch comedies such as Monty Python's Flying Circus, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, The Carol Burnett Show, etc.
In terms of being consistently good all the way through, I would say The Dick Van Dyke Show.
1. Ring-a-ding Girl
2. Number 12 Looks Just Like You
3. The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
1. The Odyssey of Flight 33
2. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up
3. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
1. To Serve Man
2. The Hunt
3. I Sing the Body Electric
"Ninety Years Without Slumbering"
Here's a related question. What's the best episode with a poor title?
I've always loved "Ring-a-ding Girl," but I hate the title.
He took a big risk in the first place, it seems to me, because he couldn't have known that the opposing attorney wouldn't be able to produce witnesses who would testify that they saw a woman driving.
:) Well, not surprisingly, I don't like the woman in "Twenty Two" either. I tend to skip over that one when it airs.
I like the scenes in the office, but it's not a favorite of mine because of that creepy woman in the dream sequence.
Oh, I don't know. The folks from Venus intercepted the invasion force from Mars. I guess a third eye is more valuable than a third arm.
Jennie_Portrait:
I was raised in a farmhouse that was over 100 years old (and that's when I was born, so it's over 155 years old now). My mother and I moved away in 1975 when I was 13, but I went back there in 2004. The current owners, who had never heard of me nor laid eyes on me before, let me come in and see how all the rooms looked. (My old large bedroom was now two bedrooms and a bathroom!) I had a camera with me, so I was able to take a few photos.
You can't go back to the exact "home" you remember, but sometimes you can get a glimpse.
It's now 8 years after the initial post, but I watch "WML" and "I've Got A Secret" on BUZZR. It's also coming out, four episodes at a time, on inexpensive DVDs. I've just ordered Volume 4.
"LOL-- I am sure you could spend a lot of time comforting Ellie May."
Personally, I'd be happy to comfort Mr. Smith.
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"Oddly, I think I would like to go into "Walking Distance." I could be happy just spending a day or so back in the old neighborhood and then return to the present."
This appeals to me as well. I would love to get another look at how my world looked back then. In fact, I'd like to spend about a week there
"As long as they could get satellite i'd be set."
You would be on a different planet. It would have to be a pretty good dish to get Earth television.
"I thought 'The Lateness of the Hour' was depressing for Jana (Inger Stevens) when she realized that she was not really the couple's "daughter". She was just another robot programmed by the man she thought was her father."
I thought of that one, but of course she's not an actual person. Interesting that he was able to give her emotion. This was many years before Data got his emotion chip in Star Trek.
Most depressing episode as a whole, or most depressing ending?
I don't see the ending of Willoughby as depressing because Gart is happier than he's ever been.
For the audience, #12 is depressing because, even though the brainwashed Marilyn is happy, we know that the real Marilyn is gone.
Death Ship could be depressing, except that there's hope that Capt. Ross will eventually accept reality. Same with Odyssey of Flight 33--There's still hope.
I always find the endings of Elegy and Queen of the Nile depressing because of what happens to innocent people.
The ending of Night Call is definitely depressing.
"Do you think the parents in "Pool" eventually gave up looking for their kids? What would they consider their kids anyway? Dead? Missing?"
I don't know what conclusion the parents, themselves, will come to, but I do know that if they publicly proclaim that their kids dove into the pool and never came out, they will be eyed with great suspicion by law enforcement.
Sports (especially boxing), but that's not a critique of the series so much as a lack of interest on my part. I pretty much never watch those.