Dreams of a TV Addict

As extremely pathetic TV-junkies, my sister and I were having a conversation at lunch about how we really wished that TV programs would develop a kind of iTunes strategy – where you could download just specific episodes of a show. I don’t usually want an entire season or seasons of a program – but there are certain episodes I could watch again and again. So, we got to making our wish lists. Here are ten I’d buy (sadly, among many others)….what are yours?

Comedy

(1) Turkey drop – WKRP in Cincinnati (Turkeys Away, 1978)

(2) Laura reveals that Rob’s boss wears a toupee – The Dick Van Dyke Show (I’d Rather Be Bald than have No Head at All, 1964)

(3) Rhoda and Mary go to a party at Mary’s college-aged boyfriend’s house – The Mary Tyler
Moore Show (Angels in the Snow, 1973)

(4) The dad teaches Malcom how to roller skate – Malcom in the Middle (Rollerskates, 2000)

(5) The muffin-top episode – Seinfeld (The Muffin Tops, 1997)

(6) The kids open a bed & breakfast – Family Ties (4 Rms Ocn Vu, 1984)

(7) Gob gets himself put in prison to perform a magic trick – Arrested Development (Key Decisions, 2003)

(8) Frasier challenges his friends/family to do something daring/spontaneous – Frasier (Look Before You Leap, 1996)

(9) Larry and Balki take karate lessons – Perfect Strangers (The Karate Kids, 1987)

(10)Dana gets inside information on the sale of the network – Sports Night (La Forza Del Destino, 2000)

Drama

(1) A mysterious woman from his past returns – Due South (Victoria’s Secret, 1998)

(2) The final episode – La Femme Nikita (A Time for Every Purpose, 2001)

(3) The X-files gets serious and the mythology really kicks in for the first time – The X-files (The Erlenmeyer Flask, 1994)

(4) Michael gets a job at DAA/Michael quits his job at DAA -- thirtysomething (Michael Writes a Story, 1989)

(5) The final episode, season two – Veronica Mars (Not Pictured, 2006)

(6) The Christmas episode – China Beach (X-Mas Chn Bch VN ’67, 1988)

(7) Hour 24, season one, you watch the usual conventions of the hour long drama disappear – 24 (11:00 pm – 12:00 am, 2001)

(8) The first episode, a major WHOA – Heroes (Chapter 1 “Genesis”, 2006)

(9) A flash-forward into the life of Becca (and Jesse) -- Life Goes On (Bec to the Future, 1992)

(10) Dozens of Chinese stow-aways are found in a shipping container in L.A. -- The West Wing (Shibboleth, 2000)

(11) Sydney Bristow is at her spy-girl best when she wonders if she’s found her supposed-dead mother – Alias (Almost Thirty Years, 2001)

(12) We learn what the whole St. Elsewhere story really was, and wow, what a shocker -- St. Elsewhere (The Last One, 1988)