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100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 47. "Divided He Falls" ("Bewitched")
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Zaz
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9/19/07 2:14pm
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: #92: "The City on the Edge of Forever" (Star Trek-1967)
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This list is okay.
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harpuah
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9/20/07 6:50pm
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: #92: "The City on the Edge of Forever" (Star Trek-1967)
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L.A.LAW
her body's not even cold
March 21, 1991
Leland McKenzie (Richard Dysart) has just rejected a marriage proposal from steely Rosalind Shays (Diana Muldaur). She rings for the elevator, steps in…and plummets down the open shaft. As the firm's partners fret over being sued while "her body's not even cold," Shays' attorney jokes, "If anything, death probably warmed her up a few degrees." Black humor and a tender love scene between Susan Dey and Jimmy Smits -- that's what viewers get in "Good to the Last Drop."
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Zaz
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9/20/07 8:59pm
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: #91: "Good to the Last Drop" (L. A. Law)
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This is a show that doesn't seem to be in reruns, because I've never seen it.
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9/20/07 10:47pm
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: #91: "Her Body's Not Even Cold" (L. A. Law)
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91
L.A.LAW
her body's not even cold
March 21, 1991
Leland McKenzie (Richard Dysart) has just rejected a marriage proposal from steely Rosalind Shays (Diana Muldaur). She rings for the elevator, steps in…and plummets down the open shaft. As the firm's partners fret over being sued while "her body's not even cold," Shays' attorney jokes, "If anything, death probably warmed her up a few degrees." Black humor and a tender love scene between Susan Dey and Jimmy Smits -- that's what viewers get in "Good to the Last Drop."
I say this in all seriousness: when people typically start a thread about "What have you learned from television," this episode always makes my list. TO THIS DAY, I always make sure the elevator is there when the doors open and it is SOLELY because of this episode.
It was the perfect non-sequitur of Chekhov's playwriting rules as well, because it was SO unexpected as well as being easily foreshadowed by the elevator repairman being in the entire episode as a punchline for the first 40-ish minutes.
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yankee8255
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9/21/07 5:47am
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: #91: "Her Body's Not Even Cold" (L. A. Law)
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This was a show that was great in its first few seasons, but was very close to jumping the shark already at the time of this episode.
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Dal--Intrepid
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9/21/07 1:42pm
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: #91: "Her Body's Not Even Cold" (L. A. Law)
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While I do remember this episode, it's the "Venus Butterfly" episode that I recall most vividly - mainly because of all the news coverage revolving around NBC being deluged by people wanting to know how to do it.
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10/4/07 7:51pm
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: #91: "Her Body's Not Even Cold" (L. A. Law)
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MIAMI VICE
Out Where the Buses Don't Run
October 18, 1985
Boasting Hugo Boss suits, two-day beard growth, and a sleek Ferrari convertible, Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Rico Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) were the first TV cops to have as much flash as the bad guys they chased. In "Out Where the Buses Don't Run," series creator Michael Mann updates Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" with glitzy visuals and a throbbing rock-music soundtrack (The Who, Dire Straits). Former vice cop Hank Weldon (Bruce McGill, center, with Johnson and Thomas) tags along with the squad to catch a cocaine kingpin who disappeared long ago, Hoffa-style. Is Weldon nuts? Says Crockett: "My head tells me he's stone-cold insane, but my gut says let's go with him on this." The chilling finale proves Crockett's gut wrong: A guilt-wracked Weldon rips down a wall to expose the corpse of the drug king he actually murdered six years earlier.
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Zaz
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10/5/07 6:59am
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: #90 "Out Where The Busses Don't Run" Miami Vice.
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I have seen some episodes of this show, but don't remember this one, unfortunately. Shows good, and "The Tell-Tale Heart" is scary scource material.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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11/5/07 12:31pm
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: #90 "Out Where The Busses Don't Run" Miami Vice.
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Miami Vice was ahead of its time in many ways; it was often quite dark and demented. Haven't seen this episode though, but it sounds good. I think my favorite, of the ones I've seen, is the one about the hijacked minatiature cow semen. Yes, believe it or not, a comedy episode. Again, ahead of its time.
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11/18/07 10:14am
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SPEED RACER
Who Is Racer X?
FALL 1967 (U.S.)
OK, maybe it isn't quite up there with "Who shot J.R.?" But for aficionados of Speed Racer, the irresistibly cheesy Japanese-import cartoon of the '60s, "Who is Racer X?" (the mysterious Masked Racer, who always seemed to cause disaster) was just as tantalizing a mystery. In this pivotal, two-part episode, we learn of the existence of Speed Racer's older brother, Rex -- and see in flashback how he cracked up in a race he had entered (against his father's wishes) and left the family after a bitter quarrel. This is a Speed Racer of unusual emotional nuance and narrative complexity. But there's more: a midnight duel between Speed and Racer X and the climactic Trans-Country Race, in which every rule of international racing and physics is shattered in one unforgettable sequence.
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: #89 "Who is Racer X?" Speed Racer
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Alas, I've never even *heard* of this show... 
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12/2/07 8:35pm
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: #89 "Who is Racer X?" Speed Racer
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HAPPY DAYS
October 14, 1975
"Richie Fights Back"
A top 20 series for eight of its 11 seasons, Happy Days often focused on the brotherly relationship between two '50s stereotypes: Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard, right, with Pat Morita), the clean-cut boy next door, and his idol, Fonzie (Henry Winkler), the coolest motorcycle-riding high school dropout in all of Milwaukee. "Richie Fights Back" finds straight- arrow Richie being tyrannized by a pair of bullies. "I'm going to teach you the secret of being tough," Fonzie assures Richie, who has already tried studying jujitsu with Arnold (Morita). "Of course, with that Howdy Doody face, you can only be so tough." The secret is nothing earthshaking: Act tough, sound tough, and maybe people will think you are tough. But in the end, it works. Richie stands up to the bullies all by himself. Howdy Doody gets his self-respect back -- with a little help from his leather-clad friend.
I remember this episode... hilarious.
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12/2/07 9:22pm
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 88. "Richie Fights Back" (Happy Days)
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Zaz posted:
Alas, I've never even *heard* of this show...
Zaz, I swear you must live either in a hidden, dark dimension or inside a snowflake. 
Cheesy early japanese tv animation (sing along-"go speed racer, gooo!"), soon to be a major motion picture by the Wachowski Brothers.
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12/3/07 6:04am
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 88. "Richie Fights Back" (Happy Days)
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MTV aired it for a while in the early-mid 90s.
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My favorite episode of Happy Days is the one where Richie befriends a black kid who plays the drums. Hilarious.
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