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100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 1. "Chuckles Bites the Dust," ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
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harpuah
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 84) Mad About You "The Alan Brady Show"
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I hate Dick Van Dyke 
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yankee8255
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 84) Mad About You "The Alan Brady Show"
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Mad About You was a great show for about two seasons, then it nosed dived at an incredbly firghtening rate.
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harpuah
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HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL
"Hey Boy's Revenge"
April 12, 1958
Cultured, dapper, and literate, Paladin (Richard Boone) was a professional gunslinger with a sense of honor. The series was not afraid to use controversial issues as plots, even painful chapters from America's past, such as the exploitation of Chinese immigrants. In "Hey Boy's Revenge," Paladin's Chinese friend Hey Boy gets into trouble for trying to solve the murder of his brother, a new immigrant who protested the deplorable working conditions of his railroad gang -- and was killed for it. Always using his might for right, Paladin not only frees Hey Boy, he brings the killer to justice.
I've never seen this... or heard of the TV show... anybody?
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Zaz
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Some of the seasons are now out on DVD.
Haven't seen it in a long time, but Boone was very good, with a dry laconic style. I remember seeing reruns of his other show: "Hec Ramsay"...also decent.
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Zaz
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82. THE LOVEBOAT
October 12, 1985
"Andy Warhol is on board the Pacific Princess, and he wants to paint a portrait of Kansas housewife Mary Hammond (Marion Ross). But Mary will be sunk if her conservative husband, George (Tom Bosley), finds out she once had 15 minutes of fame as a green-haired bohemian named Marina Del Rey who appeared in a Warhol art movie, "White Giraffe." Perhaps the campiest of all Love Boats, "The 200th Episode" not only reunites Happy Days stars Ross and Bosley, it features a then-unknown Teri Hatcher as one of the ship's singing-and-dancing Love Boat Mermaids.
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"I told Andy, 'You know, you're a really terrible actor, but I will help you!'" says Ross about working with the king of pop art. "He was very scared to be an actor. He was very sour-looking and damaged-looking, but he turned out to be the sweetest guy in the world. I feel so privileged; he wrote in his [now published] diary, 'I really love [Marion] so much. She's a wonderful person, and she helps me.'"
My...God. This sounds like a camp classic.
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darthdrago
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: Andy Warhol on "The Love Boat"
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When I first saw the updated title for this thread, my initial reaction was that it was a joke. Apparently not. 
Man, I can't believe Warhol's head didn't explode from the sheer irony of what he was doing.
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Zaz
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MAVERICK
November 23, 1958
"No episode better exemplified the mellow maneuvering of Bret and Bart Maverick -- the Brothers Grin -- than "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres." Swindled out of $15,000 by a banker, Bret (James Garner) pulls up a rocking chair and starts whittling, assuring everyone who comes by to make fun of him that he'll get his money back. Bart (Jack Kelly) lures the banker into a stock swindle, then rides into the sunset -- after giving Bret the money. "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time," concludes Bret, "and those are very good odds."
I've seen a few reruns of this show, though not this one.
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres." Maverick
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M*A*S*H
February 24, 1976
"The heart of this superlative series was Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Alan Alda), an insubordinate surgeon whose tongue was as sharp as his scalpel. While his surgical tools were used to put young soldiers' bodies back together, his rapier wit was usually employed to skewer military pretension and hypocrisy. Hawkeye puts both his cutting instruments to optimal use in "The Interview," in which a television correspondent visits the 4077th to shoot a documentary. The episode, filmed in black and white, records staff members giving their alternately amusing, moving, and painful takes on everything from the madness of war to what they miss most about home. The "film" ends with the inevitable arrival of a new batch of casualties and the unit mobilizing to do the work it does best, but which it would rather not be doing at all, in a place it would rather not be.
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"We had a roundtable where everyone contributed suggestions," says Gary Burghoff, who played Radar. "Very few television shows have been created with that kind of mutual respect. It was Camelot."
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Zaz
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LAW & ORDER
April 13, 1994
"In Harlem, a 12-year-old African-American boy is fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver. The boy's friend (Omar Sharif Scroggins) tells the police, "It was a Jew." "What, was he wearing a little hat?" asks Detective Briscoe. "You don't think I know a Jew when I see one?" says the boy. That's the provocative opening of "Sanctuary," a powerhouse episode. The incident escalates into a race riot, and an innocent man (Italian, as it happens) is killed by an African-American youth. When the prosecution of the youth ends in a mistrial, the DA, in a controversial decision, elects not to retry the case in order to let the city heal. Fittingly, this all-too-real dramatization of society's deep racial rifts has a conclusion in which no one wins."
Haven't seen this one, I think, but I have seen a similar one recently.
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Zaz
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THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY
January 29, 1971
"In "Soul Club," a plucky, ambitious road trip, the singing family finds itself mistakenly booked into a black nightclub in Detroit. Complication: The club's broke owners (Richard Pryor and Louis Gossett Jr.) will lose their business if the night's turnout isn't huge. When only one customer shows up, Mrs. Partridge decides to throw a block party the next day and charge admission. Keith (David Cassidy) even writes a song for the occasion, declaring, "It's sort of an Afro thing." Everyone from local merchants to a Pantheresque group in black berets attends the event, and the club is saved. This may be the most outlandish episode on our list; it's certainly one of the best-intentioned."
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: "The Patridge Family" feat. Richard Pryor & Louis Gossett
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BARNEY MILLER
December 16, 1976
"Wojo's hippie girlfriend bakes a batch of brownies, which the amiable detective (Max Gail) shares with his fellow cops in the 12th Precinct. What he doesn't know: The sweets are laced with hashish. Before long, dour Detective Yemana (Jack Soo) wobbles by, saying with a giggle, "Anybody seen my legs?" The reserved Harris (Ron Glass) greets a jailed suspect with "What's happening, baby?" Stooped, stone-faced Phil Fish (Abe Vigoda) even chases a robber across a rooftop. This humane series always treated its working-class detectives as real people, not stereotypes. That's why "Hash" remains so raucously relevant.
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"There was a lot of talk about whether the, uh, props we used were going to be authentic," says Glass. "Some of us were hoping for a little boost."
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quiller
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I watched ever Barney Miller episode faithfully and this one was one of my favorites... I still think of it when I eat brownies given to me by others...
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Zaz
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LOST IN SPACE
February 28, 1966
"Hey, plants have feelings, too! This is the theme of "The Great Vegetable Rebellion." The Jupiter II module is orbiting a planet that appears to consist only of flora when Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) jumps ship. Down on the planet's surface, the scheming stowaway is captured by an overgrown talking carrot. It may look like it stepped out of a bad commercial, but on this planet, veggies rule! The Space Family Robinson saves the mewling doctor just before he is turned vegetative himself. Lettuce be thankful."
Lettuce not. I always hoped something would eat him.
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Zaz
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3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN
September 29, 1996
"While High Commander Dick (John Lithgow) and his beloved Mary (Jane Curtin) are at a sci-fi convention in Cleveland where Star Trek's George Takei (Mr. Sulu) is plugging his new book, Warp Speed, Dammit! The Complete Rants of William Shatner, the rest of the crew is back at the hotel discovering the ineffable joys of room service -- massages, robes, bubbly, chocolates, lobster, and more lobster. And what's this -- a Cleveland phone book? No, that's the bill. Welcome to "Hotel Dick."
This show could be very funny, but lasted well beyond its writers' imaginations.
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LOST IN SPACE, that show could be uh, sort of good, but lasted beyond Irwin Allen's quality control...when I was a kid I liked it, as an adult I saw some episodes and wanted to throw up, the carrot man episode made it clear to anyone, if it was not already clear, that the show had DEFINITELY jumped the shark, to use the current term
THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN, in effect the reverse of LOST IN SPACE, with an alien family stranded HERE, only for comic effect...but it ran out of propulsion, as you say
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