A Quinn Martin production. As were many other fine shows from that era including The Invaders, Cannon, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, Twelve O’Clock High, and many others.
he was innocent
harrison ford proved that
Great endings:
* Marty Tyler Moore
* Frasier
* MASH
* Star Trek: TNG
terrible endings:
* Quantum Leap
* Star Trek: Discovery
* Gilligan’s Island
* Warehouse 13
* Eureka
Toss up
* Big Bang Theory
Toss U
I remember well watching that last episode on a TV set in a motel in Utah. Came in from a camping trip and checked into a motel just to watch the show. I was 17 and had been watching The Fugitive since it first aired in 1963. One of the best TV shows ever with great theme music.
And in doing so, it opened the door for every other show that wanted to end by giving fans what they deserved.
“I guess I got what I deserved...”
The soundtrack of the greatest final episode in TV history.
Breaking Bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPfZE6DPW0E
A favorite of mine. It was shot on location and did a fair job of showing what America looked like in the early 1960s - particularly rural and suburban areas. An era long gone.
To quote somebody, “it’s all fake, man.”
I was living in a rural part of southern Maryland the night the final Fugitive episode aired. The town had a volunteer fire department and the local supermarket store caught fire during the episode. The response from the volunteers was so slow that night the store burned to ashes. There was literally nothing to see but burnt rubble the next morning.
What a great show - and David Janssen was awesome:
Back in da’ day...when TV held the public enthralled with its’ productions...
Curious timing.
Sunday night was the final episode of Animal Kingdom on TNT.
The program was literally about a family of criminals - the mother is a crime boss who has psychologically entrapped and warped her children into a life of crime.
Animal Kingdom ran for six seasons, which was probably three seasons too long.
Regardless, I enjoyed a lot of the characters, and they did pull off some really creative and believable crimes.
The final episodes of Animal Kingdom were rather lame and predictable, but I watched them just so I could see how everything was sorted out at the end.
I also watched The Fugitive when I was growing up, so it was fun to read through this post and revisit a pleasant memory.
Thanks for posting this. Watching the final episode of The Fugitive is one of my fondest memories. I was 9 years old, and watching with my grandmother, who was a HUGE fan of that show. And many shows, but that was her ultimate fave.
She had 8 grandchildren, but by pure happenstance I was the only one who watched the final episode with her. Which was very fair, because it was from her that I got my love of mystery stories which has stood me in very good stead throughout my life.
Greatest TV show ending of all time is of course the final of “Newhart”, never to be topped and all was then forgiven by me.
If only the GOT troop knew that!
“I realized we were going to leave viewers empty handed.”
Bada bing!
BTW, the very best series finale-—nothing close-—was “The Shield.”
The absolute worst endings were The X-Files and Lost, although both were drifting terribly as they reached the end. They both suckered me in to stay to the bitter end.
Firefly had the best solution for a series that was cancelled before it got resolved. They made the movie Serenity that tied up all the loose ends.
No spoiler alert?