What rarely seen episode of any series would you like to see again?

[bpatrick]

I got to thinking about this on the way home today.
There are some classic episodes rarely, if ever, seen
nowadays. I've got three I'd like to see again and
welcome your picks.

First is an episode of "The Lucy Show" from 1967-68.
Lucy, working in a bank with Gale Gordon as her boss,
is assigned to find a celebrity depositor to increase the
bank's business. Her choice? The toughest of them all:
Jack Benny. Milt Josefsberg, who wrote for both Lucy
and Jack, contrived a vault with crocodiles and quicksand,
and as the payoff, as Lucy and Jack are sinking up to their
necks in quicksand, he decides to put his money in the new
bank vault.

Two episodes of "The Odd Couple." The classic "Password"
episode would be one choice; the other is when Felix and Oscar
went to the Caribbean on vacation. Who should show up but
Oscar's girlfriend Nancy Cunningham, and naturally he wants to
spend his vacation with her. Felix acts like a spoiled child, but
he's hilarious. Honorable mention to the one where the boys
went to a monastery.

Your picks?

 

[LasVegasRadioJunky]

How about a marathon where the network runs just the first and last episodes of popular sitcoms back-to-back?

 

[Braves2005]

I want to see The Lucy Show episode where Lucy and Viv try to put up a TV antenna but everything goes wrong, Lucy and Viv nearly slide down the roof and nearly fall, they punch holes in the roof too as they are trying to put up the antenna.

More Lucy Show episodes I want to see: Lucy and Viv drive the car through the house, Lucy becomes a disc jockey for a day, Lucy's first encounter with Mr. Mooney.

Dennis The Menace: the episode where Dennis finds a party line telephone, Mr. Wilson's stock certificate is hidden in the phone book that Dennis has given to the telephone man and Henry and George and eventually Dennis go to the telephone where they see a whole bunch of phone books and they look at every one and then Dennis finds their phone book with his drawings on it and then the whole bundle of phone books fall down to the floor but eventually Mrs. Wilson finds in on the patio where it was dropped. Dennis attempts to get a basketball by going to the dentist with Mr. Wilson, the Spring Byington episode, and many others from the Joseph Kearns years.

 

[mleach]

Dennis The Menace: the episode where Dennis finds a party line telephone, Mr. Wilson's stock certificate is hidden in the phone book that Dennis has given to the telephone man and Henry and George and eventually Dennis go to the telephone where they see a whole bunch of phone books and they look at every one and then Dennis finds their phone book with his drawings on it and then the whole bundle of phone books fall down to the floor but eventually Mrs. Wilson finds in on the patio where it was dropped. Dennis attempts to get a basketball by going to the dentist with Mr. Wilson, the Spring Byington episode, and many others from the Joseph Kearns years.

How about the one where Dennis rents a remote control unit from some neighborhood kid and he and Tommy runs Mr. Wilson's TV set from Dennis' bedroom? The best part was when Mr. Wilson calls up the local TV station to report that their transmitter has gone wild.

One episode I wouldn't mind seeing again was when Bing Crosby made a guest appearance on Joan Davis' I Married Joan. Bing's appeaerance there was quite interesting considering that him and Lucille Ball were friends but he chose to star on Joan Davis' show instead and from what I have heard over the years Lucy and Joan ( and Joan Davis & Jim Backus for that matter ) were NOT the best of friends.

Also the Mr. ED episode that featured...the one and only Dear Abby !!!

 

[Braves2005]

I remember the Dennis The Menace episode where Dennis and Tommy use that remote to turn on Mr. Wilson's TV and Mr. Wilson goes into a panic.

Another episode is where Dennis and Tommy find a whole bunch of greeting cards and they try to sell them but they are various cards for different days (Valentine's Day, Christmas, etc.) and then Mr. Wilson gets arrested for selling greeting cards out of season.

 

[anotherguyTN]

How about a marathon where the network runs just the first and last episodes of popular sitcoms back-to-back?

Back when they were actually good, TV Land did this at times for the year end where they would show the final episodes of different shows on New Year's Eve and the first episodes on New Year's Day.

 

[KyDXIn]

Also the Mr. ED episode that featured...the one and only Dear Abby !!!

I haven't seen many episodes of "Mr. Ed." but I think I saw a TV Land commerical where Irene Ryan appeared in an episode. Also, didn't a Gabor also appear in a "Mr. Ed" episode. I believe, to quote Eva Gabor, "this is a Filmways production, dahling." Seems like there are too many classic TV shows that aren't being shown on TV anymore. Thank goodness for DVDs and internet sites like Hulu.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

There is an episode of Leave It To Beaver titled "The Party Spoiler" from the last season (1962-63) that is still shown, but a portion has been cut. The story involves Wally giving a party for his friends and Ward & June agreeing that they will remain upstairs while it is going on. The cut portion shows Ward & June in their bedroom (one of the few times they are shown there during the series) watching TV. At one point, June askes, "Did I hear a scream?" to which Ward responds, "I thought it was Dorothy Lamour when she saw those crocodiles" (in reference to the movie they are supposedly watching on TV). At June's urging, the two of them go out of the bedroom and onto the upstairs landing to check further on the goings-on downstairs. Apparently feeling as though they are spying, Ward remarks, "I feel like a U-2 pilot". Many who would watch this today may not know the U-2 was a U.S. spy plane used for reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union and Cuba. Interestingly, this was first shown some 2 1/2 years after the Francis Gary Powers incident, but would have been made before a U-2 detected Soviet missles in Cuba. This episode aired some two months after the resulting Cuban Misslie Crisis.

 

[milwaukee_dave]

How about a marathon where the network runs just the first and last episodes of popular sitcoms back-to-back?

Back when they were actually good, TV Land did this at times for the year end where they would show the final episodes of different shows on New Year's Eve and the first episodes on New Year's Day.

I remember that stunt. It was great! In fact, that's how I caught an episode of the late 80s sitcom "I Married Dora." The show would be completely forgotten at this point, had it not been for the fact one of the characters said the show had been canceled within the storyline at the very end of the final episode. It's a pity TV Land doesn't do stuff like this anymore. Like many on this board, I sure do miss the channel's free-spirited days.

 

[milwaukee_dave]

First is an episode of "The Lucy Show" from 1967-68.
Lucy, working in a bank with Gale Gordon as her boss,
is assigned to find a celebrity depositor to increase the
bank's business. Her choice? The toughest of them all:
Jack Benny. Milt Josefsberg, who wrote for both Lucy
and Jack, contrived a vault with crocodiles and quicksand,
and as the payoff, as Lucy and Jack are sinking up to their
necks in quicksand, he decides to put his money in the new
bank vault.


I have this episode on tape. I bought a cheapo one-episode video of "The Lucy Show" at a dollar store years ago, and this was the particular episode featured. Oddly enough, it's the only "Lucy Show" episode I've ever seen. It was quite funny!

 

[KyDXIn]

I got to thinking about this on the way home today.
There are some classic episodes rarely, if ever, seen
nowadays. I've got three I'd like to see again and
welcome your picks.

First is an episode of "The Lucy Show" from 1967-68. Lucy, working in a bank with Gale Gordon as her boss, is assigned to find a celebrity depositor to increase the bank's business. Her choice? The toughest of them all: Jack Benny. Milt Josefsberg, who wrote for both Lucy
and Jack, contrived a vault with crocodiles and quicksand, and as the payoff, as Lucy and Jack are sinking up to their necks in quicksand, he decides to put his money in the new bank vault.

I actually have a copy of this on VHS that I purchased from Wal-mart probably in the late 1990s. I think it was a Goodtimes Home Video copy, probably made from a public domain copy of the show.

 

[landtuna]

How about all episodes of "The Defenders"?

Excellent series and not available AFAIK today.

 

[bpatrick]

How about all episodes of "Trials Of O'Brien,"
the 1965-66 series with a pre-Columbo Peter
Falk as a lawyer who's great at his job but a
mess in his personal life: he's sloppy, he gambles,
he's even divorced (a radical concept on television
at the time)!

 

[therealjm12]

I would like to see the Wagon Train episodes with Ward Bond and Robert Horton, and Peter Gunn.

 

[Andy Coleman]

Shows that we never see anymore that I would like to see again Sidekicks, Ohara, We Got It Made, It's Your Move, Nurses, Empty Nest, Cover up, Mike Hammer, Ensign, walking tall the series, The Master, there is so many what do you all want to see again.

 

[NoWayNoCC]

I personally would like to see the 'Seinfeld' episode in which the TV Guide collection got ruined. I've seen almost every episode, but not that one.

I'm not a big 'Hawaii Five-O' guy (in fact I barely remember this series), but I'm furious at the fact that one episode is suppressed completely. There was an episode in which someone hanged themselves in some bizarre manner, but it was pulled from syndication because someone was dumb enough to imitate this stunt and ended up killing themselves. Not only was it pulled from syndication, but the "complete" DVD set doesn't include it either.

 

[nightfly61]

Any WKRP episodes with the REAL music tracks.
The Brady's Xmas episode.
The controversial episode of "The Facts Of Life" where they actually tell the girls the "facts of life.
Any ABC After School Special...especially the one where Jan Brady is the strung out runaway! ;D

 

[KyDXIn]

The controversial episode of "The Facts Of Life" where they actually tell the girls the "facts of life.

When you think "Facts of Life" do you think Charlotte Rae or Cloris Leachman? I think Charlotte Rae, or the original.

 

[tlyle]

WGN just showed these episodes recently for WKRP. The turkey episode and the one where there is a bomb at the transmitter. Johnny thinks there are phone police after him.

 

[jwk1979]

I got to thinking about this on the way home today.
There are some classic episodes rarely, if ever, seen
nowadays. I've got three I'd like to see again and
welcome your picks.

First is an episode of "The Lucy Show" from 1967-68. Lucy, working in a bank with Gale Gordon as her boss, is assigned to find a celebrity depositor to increase the bank's business. Her choice? The toughest of them all: Jack Benny. Milt Josefsberg, who wrote for both Lucy
and Jack, contrived a vault with crocodiles and quicksand, and as the payoff, as Lucy and Jack are sinking up to their necks in quicksand, he decides to put his money in the new bank vault.

I actually have a copy of this on VHS that I purchased from Wal-mart probably in the late 1990s. I think it was a Goodtimes Home Video copy, probably made from a public domain copy of the show.

It is the same one. I bought it on DVD about a year or so ago at Target for a Dollar, along with a Dick Van Dyke Show DVD and Beverly Hillbillies DVD, also. They are now released by PC Treasures, INC., which use to be Goodtimes Home Videos and all the episodes are Public Domain. In fact, three of the episodes from the Dick Van Dyke DVD, "The Night the Roof Fell In'', "A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own" and "Give Me Your Walls", I can't recall ever seeing before I got this DVD.