"All time favorite TV episodes" Topic

This is inspired by a local radio talk show. He has "Fun Friday" discussions, where the nutjob conspiracy theories are drowned out.
"The Office" was of course set in Scranton, and even had some scenes filled there.
A survey company the station works with wanted Frank to ask about favorite Office episode. I confess I never watched it.
But Frsnk threw it open to All Time Favorite tv episode, no limitations.
This seems like a jolly good poll where the "winner" might get 4 votes total.

Anyway, I have three.

1. Game of Thrones. Jon Snow beheads Janos Slynt. This is one of the few "feel good happy" episodes of the whole show.

2. WKRP Cincinnati. Throwing the turkeys from the helicopter. "Oh, the humanity!"

3. Hogan's Heroes. For some reason, both Klink and Hogan are in Paris. Klink is unaware.
Hogan is a concierge in a beret and throws a bucket of dirty on Klink's spotless boots. Hogan mutters "C'est domage!" It cracks me up because I had just learned that day in French class that it's an apology you don't really mean.

1. "The Untouchables" The Rusty Heller Story with Elizabeth Montgomery.

2. 'The Blacklist': When Huey Lewis was the guest star.

2 1/2 men when the witches tried to take over Charlie and his mom "saved" him".
Justified episode when Boyd's father was killed.
Justified first episode when Raylan kills a criminal in Miami and gets exiled to Harlan county
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Last of the Summer Wine Christmas special, "CRUMS", followed closely by the LOTSW Christmas Special, "Whoops."

Are You Being Served episode, "Camping In."

I thoroughly enjoy Britcoms.

The last episode of Breaking Bad. Great ending to the best television show ever.

I got it agree John about WKRP and throwing the turkeys out of the helicopter.

X-Files, "Home", the "banned" episode with the mom inbreeding with her kids. Straight up creepy.

Last episode of Babylon 5. Thousands of years of Earth's future history, summed up in an hour.

Final episode of MASH. I would still watch that show.

Newhart, Halloween episode.

Stargate SG1: Heroes, The Lost City
Stargate Atlantis: The Siege
MASH: To Market To Market
The West Wing: All the season premieres and finales
Vikings: all of seasons 1&2…couldn't pick

Community: The paintball episodes…

Fawlty Towers – "The Germans"
Deep Space Nine – "In The Pale Moonlight'

perhaps Porridge "Poetic Justice"
or Turtle's Progress "Episode #2.1" with the list of race course winners for next season.

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Star Trek TOS episode 'This side of Paradise' always gets me.
as does the episode 'Balance of Terror'

Stargate SG-1 'Window of Opportunity' as well!

Anyone else remember Sgt Bilko, "The Court-martial of Harry Speakup" in which the US Army has enlisted a monkey and is now trying to bring him up on charges?
But of course Classic Trek "Balance of Terror" and "A Piece of the Action" and DS9's "House of Quark."
From X-Files, the lake monster episode, and the "Headless Horseman" episode of Kolchak: the Night Stalker.

Blackadder Goes Fourth – Private Plane
Red Dwarf X – Trojan (These Swedes; They expect too much)
Person of Interest – The Devils' Share
The Big Bang Theory – The Barbarian Sublimation
Archer – The Man From Jupiter
The Avengers – The Girl From Auntie
Two and a Half Men – Is There a Mrs. Waffles?
and of course the WKRP Thanksgiving episode (As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly).

Another agreement on the WKRP Thanksgiving episode. It's almost all just audio with reaction shots, but it's stinkin' hilarious. "As God is my witness, I swear I thought turkeys could fly!"

The Community paintball episodes were indeed great, as is their Pillow Fort vs. Blanket Fort episode (narrated by Ken Burns).

Star Trek: TOS— Balance of Terror, City on the Edge of Forever, Amok Time… too many good ones.

Star Trek DS9: The Trouble with Tribbles Crossover with TOS. Brilliantly done, and doubles the humor. "We do not discuss it with outsiders." "Do they still sing tales of the Great Tribble Hunt?" "That's Kirk?" (The ultimate inside joke, as the character pointed at is played by Shatner's frequent stunt double.) Also, both of the "wheel and deal" episodes with Jake and Nog.

Star Trek TNG: Can't recall the title, but an alien probe makes Picard live an entire lifetime on an alien world in his mind. (It's the one where he acquires an alien flute.) Powerful, and hard to watch more than once.

Stargate SG-1: The one with the black hole, the one where O'Neill and T'ealc are trapped in a time loop (hilarious), the one where O'Neill is replaced by his teenage clone, the ones with Marty the alien… again, too many good ones to mention.

Space: Above and Beyond: Chiggie Von Richthofen. (Later gets stolen and remade by BSG reboot, though less well.)

Stargate Atlantis: The one in Las Vegas. Man, that's a tough one, but fantastic. The episode that introduces Michael— this is SG:A's version of DS9's "By the Pale Moonlight" and it's one that makes you think.

M.A.S.H.— Five O'Clock Charlie.

Babylon 5: Molari and Lennier's night on the town, No Hiding Place,— again, too many good ones.

Batman: The Animated Series— The one that introduces Mr. Freeze, Almost Got ‘im— again, too many good ones.

The West Wing: The one on the campaign trail where Toby, Josh and Donna get left behind. Hilarious and biting. Also "The Supremes", Ainsley's first day at the White House, the Chicken Suit episode, Senator Vinnick returns to his life post-election day… the policy stance is almost universally dumb, but the show is entertaining, and sometimes brilliant.

Doctor Who: "Blink"— You'll never walk by a statue the same way again…

Dr Who -Van Gogh episode

Babylon 5 -Holy Grail Episode

The Office -Threat Level Midnight

The Twilight Zone's Deaths-Head Revisited.

The "Chalice of Truth" episode of Relic Hunter.

And--though I hated the program--The M.A.S.H. episode in which they're trying to get ribs from Chicago.

Here's a couple:

The Enterprise Incident, Star Trek OS
TKO, Babylon 5

I may come back with more. Many of the episodes mentioned in earlier posts are on my list, too.

The original Outer Limits
Demon with a Glass Hand
The Inheritors

TBBT
The Robotic Manipulation

Dr Who
Blink
The Beast Below
Everything Moffat

Dragnet
The Christmas Story

There are countless classic episodes with comedy and drama. For me this was the most powerful. The West Wing.
Broadcast 1999, In Excelsis Deo [ series 1 episode 10 ].

Give it a quick view, the best part is only 4:45, but it packs a wallop.

YouTube link

It was starting to look like a tie, everyone with one vote each. Lots of good television listed above.

Space: 1999 "Dragon's Domain"
Blake's 7 "Blake" (the "Everybody Dies" episode)
Stargate "Menace"
Doctor Who "Vincent and the Doctor" and "The Doctor's Wife"
Ultraviolet "Terra Incognita" (really good, little known UK vampire show)

The dream episode of St. Elsewhere that ends with a ZZ Top dream.
YouTube link

The Jeff Foxworthy Show where the company owner makes all the employees reenact a local battle of the Civil War where all the locals that had fought died. There is also the episode that involves Krispy Kreme Donuts, a bug and mischievous kids trying to get the donut with the bug eaten by a certain person.
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Sanford and Son episode with Lena Horne and "little lame Lamont".

+1 kcabai

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Blackadder goes forth – final episode
Red Dwarf – That episode where the "tarantula" crawls up Lister's trousers.
Big bang theory – the one with Summer Glau on the train.
Buffy the Vampire slayer – Hush.

Ditto HMS Exeter on Dragnet: The christmas Story

Murdoch Mysteries: Sir. Sir? Sir! – the alien invasion episode. Actually, most Murdoch episodes are pretty good.

A good number of Zorro episodes.

Amazing Stories, "Mummy Daddy" (only M&M Ep.1 rivals it for my funniest episode ever)

Mork & Mindy, Episode 1 (Robin Williams!)

Dr. Who, "Blink" (both a great story and masterful use of low budget special effects)

Miami Vice, "Smuggler's Blues" (and an underrated song of the same name)

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the series finale of Newhart. I'm not listing it as one of my own because I haven't seen it yet – but everybody tells me it was one of the best finales ever.

"I do, Adieu" Final episode of season 5 of Cheers.

The Honeymooners—"Better Living Through TV"
The Honeymooners—"The $99,000 USD Answer"
I Love Lucy—"Lucy Does a TV Commercial"
The Dick Van Dyke Show—"Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth"
The Dick Van Dyke Show –"The Curious Thing about Women"
Combat – "The Good Samaritan"
Combat – "Hills Are For Heroes"
Star Trek – "The Balance of Terror"
All in the Family—"Cousin Maude's Visit"
All in the Family – "The Bunkers and the Swingers"
All in the Family – "Sammy's Visit"
The Odd Couple —"Password"
Hawaii Five-0 (TOS) – "The Payoff"
Hawaii Five-0 (TOS) – "Woe to Wo Fat"
Happy Days – "Mork Returns"
The Mary Tyler Moore Show – "Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite"
The Mary Tyler Moore Show—"Chuckles Bites the Dust"
The Bob Newhart Show – "Breaking Up is Hard to Do"
The Bob Newhart Show—"Over the River and Through the Woods"
WKRP in Cincinnati – "Turkeys Away"
WKRP in Cincinnati – "The Airplane Show"
Rockford Files – "The House on Willis Avenue"
Hill Street Blues – "Freedom's Last Stand"
Hill Street Blues – "Fruits of the Poisonous Tree"
MASH – "Life Time."
MASH – "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"
MASH – "Adam's Ribs"
MASH – "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen"
St. Elsewhere – "Dog Day Hospital"
China Beach – "Tet '68"
Cheers—"Thanksgiving Orphans"
The West Wing – "Take This Sabbath Day"
The West Wing – "Celestial Navigation"
Seinfeld—"The Contest"
Seinfeld—"The Boyfriend"
Seinfeld – "The Soup Nazi"
Seinfeld – "The Bubble Boy"
Seinfeld – "Making it as an Actor in Hollywood"
Newhart – "The Last Newhart"
ER—"Love's Labor Lost"
Frasier – "Sleeping with the Enemy"
Star Trek the Next Generation – "The Best of Both Worlds" Parts 1 & 2
Star Trek Deep Space Nine – "What You Leave Behind"
Star Trek Deep Space Nine – "Sacrifice of Angels"
Star Trek Deep Space Nine – "Paradise Lost"
Star Trek Enterprise – "In a Mirror Darkly" parts 1 & 2
Band of Brothers – "Points"
Band of Brothers – "Day of Days"
The Sopranos—"College"
Mad Men—"Nixon vs. Kennedy"
Mad Men – "A Night to Remember"

WKRP – Thanksgiving episode
Black Adder Goes fourth – final episode
Car 54 where are you? Christmas episode

WKRP Turkey episode

The X-Files episode where the crew from "COPS" is following them around. Scully really hates these guys. I think she locks them in a closet.

The Hill Street Blues episode where Joe Coffee goes into a shop to buy cigars for poker night and is killed by an armed robber.

The MASH episode where Henry's plane is shot down. None of the cast knew his death had been scripted and their reactions were real and poignant.

Hard not to pick the final episode of Breaking Bad.

Turkeys Away – WKRP in Cincinnati (season 1, episode 7)

The Doomsday Machine – Star Trek: The Original Series (season 2, episode 6)

Big bang theory – the one with Summer Glau on the train.

The Terminator Decoupling – The Big Bang Theory (season 2, episode 17)

Agree with so many on this thread but did not see this one mentioned.

Taxi – the episode that Rev. Jim takes his test for his hack license. "What does the yellow light mean?"