The Single Greatest Episode of Television Ever

[Speedball]

ER: Hell and High Water.
The one where Doug(George Clooney) saves the kid from the flooding sewer pipe. One of the most suspenseful, well acted hours of television ever.

 

[Captain_Death]

The episode of Fresh Prince when Will's Dad comes home and then leaves him again.

That episode made me cry.

 

[Prognosticator]

S4 Episode of Buffy: Hush

 

[Speedball]

S4 Episode of Buffy: Hush

That is the only episode of Buffy I have never seen.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Hush is an awesome episode.
2 hour pilot of Lost.
First season finale of Rescue Me, the end with him just standing in the empty house and just going nuts is incredible.

 

[Prognosticator]

If 2 hours counts, then Pilot of Lost for sure! The Sopranos pilot is pretty flawless.

 

[U.S War Machine]

I'm going to say the first appearence of Angel

 

[amazingfantasy15]

If 2 hours counts, then Pilot of Lost for sure! The Sopranos pilot is pretty flawless.

Well both hours of the Lost pilot are considered the same episode

 

[Prognosticator]

I'm going to say the first appearence of Angel

Really? B/c the first season of Buffy was good but not great??

 

[Tangled Web]

That episode made me cry.

Me too. Especially when he hugs Uncle Phil and says "Why don't he love me man?"

 

[Harlekin]

The Fresh Prince episode (Banks Shot) in which Will thinks he's the greatest pool player in the world, but eventually gets into some big debts (losing his uncle's car) and uncle Phil has to get him out of it.

Uncle Phil walks into the pool bar with his coat hanging over his shoulders, all badass like and proceeds to lose the pool matches. He's basically acting like he doesn't know **** about pool. Last game, he says 'all or nothing' and proceeds to completely and utterly own the guy at pool. I'm pretty sure the other guy doesn't even get to play. He's that good.

Best quote ever:
Philip: Let's play another game. I want another chance. Let's play another game.
Will: Uncle Phil!
Hustler: I don't know. You know, my time is very valuable. I couldn't possibly play another game without uppin' the ante.
Philip: How much?
Hustler: Let's say, a nice round figure, like, $100 a ball.
Philip: $100 a ball?!
Hustler: That's right, Uncle Phil.
Philip: Okay, $100 a ball.
Hustler: (chortles) You got yourself a game!
Philip: (laughs) Geoffrey? Break out Lucille!
(Geoffrey opens his jacket and breaks out Philip's pool cue, Lucille)

 

[Matt]

The Sopranos Season 2 finale.

The ending montage, where it shows Meadow's graduation party, Tony, his friends and friends, living the good life while cutting to people whose lives he destroyed throughout the season...priceless, powerful, great TV.

 

[Matt]

The Fresh Prince episode (Banks Shot) in which Will thinks he's the greatest pool player in the world, but eventually gets into some big debts (losing his uncle's car) and uncle Phil has to get him out of it.

Uncle Phil walks into the pool bar with his coat hanging over his shoulders, all badass like and proceeds to lose the pool matches. He's basically acting like he doesn't know **** about pool. Last game, he says 'all or nothing' and proceeds to completely and utterly own the guy at pool. I'm pretty sure the other guy doesn't even get to play. He's that good.

Best quote ever:
Philip: Let's play another game. I want another chance. Let's play another game.
Will: Uncle Phil!
Hustler: I don't know. You know, my time is very valuable. I couldn't possibly play another game without uppin' the ante.
Philip: How much?
Hustler: Let's say, a nice round figure, like, $100 a ball.
Philip: $100 a ball?!
Hustler: That's right, Uncle Phil.
Philip: Okay, $100 a ball.
Hustler: (chortles) You got yourself a game!
Philip: (laughs) Geoffrey? Break out Lucille!
(Geoffrey opens his jacket and breaks out Philip's pool cue, Lucille)

Uncle Phil is the greatest TV dad in history.

 

[AllThingsComic]

This isn't TV, these are Theatrical Shorts

What? It was an episode on tv, don't ruin my youthful happiness man. It was good tv plain and simple.

 

[Marc]

Babylon 5 - Sleeping In Light

Now and Again - There Are No Words

Space: Above and Beyond - The Angriest Angel

Dead Like Me - Vacation

Battlestar galactica - Pegasus

Prison Break - Brothers Keeper

Futurama - Jurassic Bark

Crime and Punishment BBC

Carnivale - New Canaan, CA

Millenium - Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me

 

[Superfreak]

Seeing SGA already on the list tells me its not thats the worst spin off I have ever seen on tv. And stargate sg1 don't get me started about how bad that so got after Anderson left.

I agree, neither SG1 nor SGA deserve a mention for the singel greatest TV episode ever. I love SG1, like SGA, but both are fun and entertaining and I watch them w/o missing an epi. But I don't feel that either qualifies for the single best ever award.

Series that IMO qualify, BSG2000+, 24, BTAS, Farscape, ST: TNG or DS9 or OST, Buffy and Angel both have a couple of high quality episodes.

Can't think of any epis of the top of my head, but I know for a fact that SG's should not qualify.

 

[Harlekin]

The A-Team season one finale was also a very good one. That one always stuck by me.

 

[Happenstance]

I agree, neither SG1 nor SGA deserve a mention for the singel greatest TV episode ever. I love SG1, like SGA, but both are fun and entertaining and I watch them w/o missing an epi. But I don't feel that either qualifies for the single best ever award.

Series that IMO qualify, BSG2000+, 24, BTAS, Farscape, ST: TNG or DS9 or OST, Buffy and Angel both have a couple of high quality episodes.

Can't think of any epis of the top of my head, but I know for a fact that SG's should not qualify.

I think SG1 does have a few top quality episodes. Window Of Opportunity was the main one that I considered for my choice in this thread because it had great comedy but also the very serious moments at the end with RDA.

 

[Superfreak]

I think SG1 does have a few top quality episodes. Window Of Opportunity was the main one that I considered for my choice in this thread because it had great comedy but also the very serious moments at the end with RDA.

true, but I'd give the award to any and most BSG epis over the 'window'

 

[Warhammer]

The episode of Frsh Prince when Will's Dad comes home and then leaves him again.

I loved that episode.
"To hell with him!"

 

[Prognosticator]

There's an episode of McGiver where the "men's group" goes hunting/camping out in a forest somewhere, and it turns out one of them is a murderer. Well one by one the members of the group are killed or poisoned or disappear and THEN there are even more twists as the story unfolds! VERY suspenseful and VERY entertaining!

....It is my favorite McGiver b/c it had EVERYTHING that the show was about!

 

[Fanticon]

There are so many great shows and great episodes...I'm gonna go with Angel season 3...episode 64 "A New World"...air date May 6th 2002....

Angel's son from the future, Connor is brought back from the Hell dimension as a feral teenage warrior, and is hellbent on vengeance against his father for Angel's bloody past. When he fails, the confused teen escapes to the mean streets of L.A. Determined to set things straight, Angel searches for his son, who in the interim befriends a troubled but kind homeless girl. Meanwhile, the dimensional rift through which the young man traveled continues to cause trouble at the hotel.
This has some of the greatest special effects I had ever seen on a tv show...Angel's son shows up through a portal in the middle of the hotel lobby in a Matrix bullet time moment....he fires 3 wooden stakes off of a wrist rocket contraption...Angle dodges two of them like Neo...while Gru not knowing who this was throws an Axe at Angel's son...Angel tells them not to fight as he (still all in Matrix bullet time slow motion) pulls the stake out of his shoulder and Connor...who has aquired superhuman strength from Angel simply swats the Axe hurling toward his way with out flinching...The brawl between Angel Gru and Gunn against Connor begins...great wire work...awesome fighting...they get Connor finally to calm down as Angel tries to reason with the son that was raised by his enemy to hate him (keep in mind the last time Angel saw him he was a baby and it was a few weeks ago)...Connor runs for it in the sunlight Angel follows right after him but starts burning and can't go any further...Connor is in a busy intersection and cars are dodging him...a city bus drives by and he runs after it and jumps on top of it....HOLY CRAP! one of the best tv moments i'd ever seen...based purely on action i mean...cuz there are moments in sitcoms and dramas that I could list too...but this was tops!

 

[choskins]

One that comes to mind for me is the episode of Andy Griffith where he thinks the convict is coming to kill him, but he is actually coming to thank him for sending him away.

Also, the episode of Taxi where Jim takes his driving test.

 

[huskerwebhead]

One that comes to mind for me is the episode of Andy Griffith where he thinks the convict is coming to kill him, but he is actually coming to thank him for sending him away.

Also, the episode of Taxi where Jim takes his driving test.

Jim: What does a yellow light mean?
Whoever he was talking to: Slow down.
Jim: What......Does......A.....Yellow.....Light.....Mean?

LMAO

 

[AmazinUncleBen]

24 Season 2 Episode 15
The episode where George Mason sacrifices himself, detonates the bomb in the desert. The entire episode was perfect, the music, the buildup, Jack saying goodbye to his daughter etc etc. Everything was just perfect.