Here's my favorites - M*A*S*H
Happy Days
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

These are my least favorite - Quantum Leap
Cheers
Seinfeld

How about everyone else?

My Favorites:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (even though it hasn't aired yet, I am sure it will be the best :D )
Birds of Prey
Golden Girls
The Nanny
Popular
Touched By An Angel
Boy Meets World
Roseanne


My Least Favorites:
The Facts of Life
Designing Women
Three's Company (Chrissy and Cindy and The Ropers shouldhave been in it)
Alice (should have had Flo back along with Belle imo)
Family Matters (should have ended with Steve & Laura getting married)
Ellen (didn't care for the finale)
Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Jesse
Who's The Boss?

Originally posted by *Chris*
My Favorites:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (even though it hasn't aired yet, I am sure it will be the best :D )
Birds of Prey
Golden Girls
The Nanny
Popular
Touched By An Angel
Boy Meets World
Roseanne


My Least Favorites:
The Facts of Life
Designing Women
Three's Company (Chrissy and Cindy and The Ropers shouldhave been in it)
Alice (should have had Flo back along with Belle imo)
Family Matters (should have ended with Steve & Laura getting married)
Ellen (didn't care for the finale)
Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Jesse
Who's The Boss?

Birds of Prey had a finale? I'm suprised, because it was such a short-lived show. What happened?

Originally posted by Rob1


Birds of Prey had a finale? I'm suprised, because it was such a short-lived show. What happened?




They finally learned Harley was the big bad they were looking for. I think it aired Feb. 19th I believe.

From Birds of Prey Online:

Having discovered that Helena is Huntress, Harley uses a machine that gives her metahuman hypnotic powers. She then hypnotizes Helena and persuades her to knock Barbara unconscious and steal an access disk. Barbara recovers and uses her subneural device to enable her to stand and fight Helena, eventually neutralizing the trance. But Harley uses the disk to gain complete control of the clock tower and, after killing Wade, she broadcasts the hypnotic signal to every television set in New Gotham. Working together with Alfred, Dinah and Reese, Helena must infiltrate the clock tower and battle Harley and her cohorts before they gain control of the entire city.

I hate it when a show doesn't get a real finale, just a regular episode and it disappears.

Before MASH had its regular season finale 20 years ago, the only show that I think had a finale was The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Originally posted by dawsongirl
I hate it when a show doesn't get a real finale, just a regular episode and it disappears.

I agree!

Here are my picks:

Best:
The Golden Girls
The Nanny
Roseanne (a very unique finale)

Worst:
Mork & Mindy
The Facts of Life
One Day at a Time (the episode where Ann left for London should have been the finale)
Alice
Designing Women
Diff'rent Strokes (it actually didn't really have a finale)

Originally posted by Rob1
These are my least favorite - Quantum Leap

I liked the episode, however I do think they should have let Sam go home in the finale. Not many fans of QL were satisfied with the ending.

Best:
Happy Days
NewsRadio
Wings
The Odd Couple
Perfect Strangers
Cheers

Worst:
Roseanne Would have been good, except for the last 15 minutes or so, when it turned out to be a book. They changed everything we had known for the entire run of the show.

Three's Company Was just a wedding in the apartment. It was okay, but the last five minutes is just a pilot for the spin-off "Three's a Crowd." I was hoping for something more from this show.

Seinfeld A big hype over a lousy episode.

There are more. Maybe I'll post them later.

my fav finale's:
the wonder years
mary tyler moore
all in the family
mash

and......although i've never seen either of these shows, "Newhart's" finale was classic - for those who don't know - the "Newhart" finale (the very last scene) has him waking up in bed on the previous "Bob Newhart Show" set with the actress who played his wife on said show.....love the fact that "Newhart" was a dream the character from the "Bob Newhart Show" had -- classic!!

least favorite finale's:
who's the boss
family ties

Best finale:

Leave It To Beaver

Worst finale:

The Wonder Years (They should have had the gang graduate high school, possibly go through college!)

Best finale:
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Everything went full circle with the book being sold.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Very sad Saturday night. It was great to have Rhoda and Phyllis back. I love their scene together at Mary's apartment. It seemed that they picked up where they left off at when Mary was in her studio apt.

The Golden Girls - I was glad when Dorothy found love and brought closure of her ex-husband Stan. That was great that they talked.

Three's Company - Even though I wish it was Jack and Janet getting married. It was good how things got wrapped up. Too bad they could had buried the hachet for a moment and brought Suzanne Somers back. It would had been great to have the Roper's there as well.

Worst Finale:
The Cosby Show - Very lame finale.

One Day At A Time - Ann's move to London was good but it would had been better pulled off it was done in the 8th season, that should had been the final season of the show, after marrying Sam and the move. What a finale that would had been.

Alice - That episode looked as though they were ready to go. Alice was a show that stayed on three seasons too long.

Best Finale:
The Wonder Years
Happy Days
Three's Company
Mary Tyler Moore

Fair Finale:
The Lucy Show
The Jeffersons
Here's Lucy
I Dream Of Jeannie

So-So Finale:
I Love Lucy
Bewitched
The Munsters

Worst Finale:
Laverne & Shirley
The Brady Bunch
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour

Originally posted by James
Best finale:

Leave It To Beaver

Worst finale:

The Wonder Years (They should have had the gang graduate high school, possibly go through college!)

I actually think Leave it To Beaver's finale wasn't the coolest. It was a great way to end the show, but those pictures were fakey. I agree with you on Wonder Years. The show should not have ended when it did making the finale just wrong.
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St. Elsewhere's finale was bizarre to say the least. I don't even remember seeing it, but from what I hear, it's pretty shocking. I actually like the Roseanne finale. It was great to learn the last bunch of seasons weren't real. St. Elsewhere just went too far with theirs, saying the entire series wasn't real.

Originally posted by dawsongirl
I hate it when a show doesn't get a real finale, just a regular episode and it disappears.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Even if the show is horrible, it should still get a proper sendoff.

Originally posted by dawsongirl
I hate it when a show doesn't get a real finale, just a regular episode and it disappears.

I hate that too. It seems that happened more with sitcoms from the 1950's to the 70's. Even the long running shows had just ordinary last episodes. I'd say Leave it to Beaver's was the best for not having a last episode. At least they looked back throughout the years, sort of letting us know it was the end.

The same goes for first episodes. A lot of shows from the early decades didn't have "first plot" episodes.

I also agree that every show should have a proper send off. DAG only had 17 episodes, and it had last episode.

Best:

Mad About You-Confusing but fun

Lizzie McGuire-Was pretty good.I'm seeing the movie today.I hope it ties up the loose ends.

Watching Ellie-This was not only one of the best finales I've ever seen but also the best (and funniest) episode of the entire series!

Ally Mcbeal-Richard and Liza get married! Yeah it wasn't THE best but it was good but he should have married Ling.

Suddenly Susan-Great shocker at the end!

The Weber Show-See Suddenly Susan

The Larry Sanders Show-An emotional end to a great show.

Sports Night-The episode before it was funnier but it was still good.

Decent:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer-It was ok.I would have preferred if it was less action-packed and gory and more heartwarming and funny.

Worst:

Seinfeld-Awful!

I'll think of more later.

Originally posted by Sitcomwriter
Good Morning Miami-I would have never expected Penny and Gavin to get together!

Good Morning Miami had a series finale already? I didn't know it failed.

Originally posted by *Chris*
My Favorites:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (even though it hasn't aired yet, I am sure it will be the best :D )
Birds of Prey
Golden Girls
The Nanny
Popular
Touched By An Angel
Boy Meets World
Roseanne


My Least Favorites:
The Facts of Life
Designing Women
Three's Company (Chrissy and Cindy and The Ropers shouldhave been in it)
Alice (should have had Flo back along with Belle imo)
Family Matters (should have ended with Steve & Laura getting married)
Ellen (didn't care for the finale)
Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Jesse
Who's The Boss?


Family Matters didn't have a series finale.

Originally posted by LucyFan
Best Finale:
The Wonder Years
Happy Days
Three's Company
Mary Tyler Moore

Fair Finale:
The Lucy Show
The Jeffersons
Here's Lucy
I Dream Of Jeannie

So-So Finale:
I Love Lucy
Bewitched
The Munsters

Worst Finale:
Laverne & Shirley
The Brady Bunch
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour


The Jeffersons did not have a finale

Best

Sabrina The teenage witch ( I love this show)
Full House


Worst

Rosanna

Originally posted by dawsongirl
I hate it when a show doesn't get a real finale, just a regular episode and it disappears.

Definately ... I would love to have seen a series finale for The Munsters!

Originally posted by Cashodeen


I actually think Leave it To Beaver's finale wasn't the coolest. It was a great way to end the show, but those pictures were fakey.

To be honest, Cashodeen, I struggled to think of a show with a finale I liked best. I would have said The Waltons, but then Michael Learned (Olivia Walton) was not in it.

Originally posted by James
To be honest, Cashodeen, I struggled to think of a show with a finale I liked best. I would have said The Waltons, but then Michael Learned (Olivia Walton) was not in it.

I hear ya. I racked my brain trying to think of good finales, and I couldn't come up with one. I thought of plenty poor ones though. "Leave It To Beaver" was actually the best finale that I could come up with, even though I thought it had problems. You know, the pictures, and I really don't like flash back episodes. But it was decent they had a simplistic way of closing up, and I guess so many shows back then didn't have finales, so LITB was a bit of a novelty.

I WAS able to name an okay one--Roseanne--but really, I only liked that because it revealed many of the seasons before weren't real, and I hate a bunch of them. It pleased me to know from the finale why the last few seasons took a turn for the worst. Still to this day, I can't think of a really great finale! I never have watched the Waltons.

Best;


Definitely Newhart:D

Worst;


Rosanne puke:

Absolute Best(IMO):
M*A*S*H

Absolute Worst:
(tie)
Seinfeld
&
Roseanne

Originally posted by Sitcomwriter
Best:

Good Morning Miami-I would have never expected Penny and Gavin to get together!



I spoke too soon.It's coming back next season.

Best
- Sabrina. Although season seven stank the finale was great.
- Happy Days. Makes me cry.
- The Golden Girls.
- Spin City (although it left the series hanging, I enjoyed it)
- Fresh Prince of Bel Air
- The original Saved By The Bell's graduation episode
- Sister Sister. They wrapped everything up very well, I thought.

Worst
- Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman. HORRIBLE finale. Sloppy writing, awful villain, lots of unanswered questions.
- The Magnificent Seven. Wasn't even given a finale, it was just pulled!
- Birds of Prey. But then the whole show pretty much stank anyway.

Originally posted by Sitcomwriter

I spoke too soon.It's coming back next season.

Oh well. Best season finale then. :wave:

Originally posted by sizzlestar

Worst
- Birds of Prey. But then the whole show pretty much stank anyway.




I thought Birds of Prey had a good series finale. There was no loose ends. Helena and everyone got to know that Harley was the evil lady they were looking for. I thought the show sucked at first, but as it moved along, it got better. I think the WB should have given Birds of Prey a chance for a second season imo.

Best:

Cheers - Ended the way a classic show about a neighbourhood tavern should have- The gang sitting around smoking cigars discussing the meaning of Life -LOVE IT!!

Seinfeld- I know ALOT of people hated it but I thought it was a great way to end it and original.But that was just the type of Show Seinfeld was- ORIGINAL.

M*A*S*H

The Golden Girls

Worst:

All in the Family

Who's The Boss -Although I dont care much for this show.

Originally posted by cheers freak


Seinfeld- I know ALOT of people hated it but I thought it was a great way to end it and original.But that was just the type of Show Seinfeld was- ORIGINAL.



Yes it was original.I'll give you that BUT Seinfeld really shouldn't have tried to tie up all the loose ends because there really weren't many.Seinfeld was a show about nothing so it should have just ended with a better episode.If they did then it could have made my list much like "Watching Ellie".