A lot of UM episodes have that one filler segment in between 2 of 3 really good ones. What's your favorite episode where all the segments were great?

I'll go with the last episode of season 7, the alien intruders one. A pure hour of Non stop entertainment. The allagash abductions, area 51 and roswell.

This is somewhat difficult to answer these days since the original episodes are largely lost.

However I consider very few segments truly filler, I enjoyed almost all of them.

I will agree the theme episodes were often a nice touch. UM Christmas might be my favorite episode just by virtue of the fact that I can play UM during holiday specials and feel like it belongs.

This is somewhat difficult to answer these days since the original episodes are largely lost.

Keeping this in mind and going by the episodes as we see them today, the very first episode comes to mind. Shannon Davis, Aileen Conway, Glen and Bessie Hyde and finally Jule Caylor made for a pretty good episode right off the bat.

This is somewhat difficult to answer these days since the original episodes are largely lost.

However I consider very few segments truly filler, I enjoyed almost all of them.

I will agree the theme episodes were often a nice touch. UM Christmas might be my favorite episode just by virtue of the fact that I can play UM during holiday specials and feel like it belongs.

What do you mean? I know there are a few segments not available on streaming but we have so many episodes available

I've also got a bootleg bluray of the entire first season, including the specials

First episode is a favorite now.

I love the Christmas episode with Chucky McGivern (little boy saved by St John Neumann and appearance of kid, presumably John Neumann, that looks like Harry Potter in the hospital) and the anonymous angel who helped Jean and Russell Johnson after they fed a homeless man. Paul Williams is another good one in that episode, and then Anthonette Cayedito.

Episode I love but can never watch again: Season 4, Episode 9. That one has the Beverly McGowan segment in it.

The first Robert Stack special, which is listed as Season 1 Episode 1 on the Film Rise releases. It has the following cases --

Dave Davis
George Marsh Update
Aileen Conway
Glen and Bessie Hyde
Dottie Caylor

Kind of hard to beat that one but I do think all of the specials and most of season 1 is the best UM. Might sound weird but the more they figured out how to do the show the lesser the quality IMO.