Best series finales

Anyone think, based on the expectations, it'll be impossible for Sopranos to make this list in a few weeks?

 

Newhart and nothing else is even close...

Cheers was OK. The Cosby Show was ruined when Bill came on at the beginning and pleaded for people not to riot in the wake of the Rodney King verdict.

 

Good ones:
1. Newhart
2. Six Feet Under
3. Freaks and Geeks

I'm indifferent on The Cosby Show and Friends.

Bad ones:
1. Seinfeld
2. MASH
3. St. Elsewhere

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

 

No love for Mary Tyler Moore or Barney Miller final episodes?

 

M*A*S*H and Northern Exposure were pretty similar finales -- pretty good episodes, nowhere near as good as the show had been in its prime, but also exhibiting all the reasons the series had gone downhill.

 

Am very anxious for the Scrubs series finale........the Will and Grace finale was too sketchy.

 

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "The Fugitive" (a QM Production), the first-ever series to have a specific final episode. When it aired, it blew the Beatles and Ed Sullivan out of the water and became the highest-rated broadcast in American TV history to that time.

"Tuesday, August 29 - the day the running stopped." (narration by William Conrad)

 

"Cheers" was the best.

"Seinfeld" was one of the worst.

 

Double J, congrats for mentioning "The Fugitive." Wasn't it a two-parter on a Monday and Tuesday? Couldn't have been more dramatic. In 1967, this just wasn't done. Plus running it in August, after a summer's worth of reruns, and as the last network telecast before it went into syndication.

 

Wonder Years was fantastic, if not a bit unexpected. Kevin saying his dad died two years later and he and Winnie didn't become a couple after all was a surprising ending.

As far as sheer entertainment, though, Newhart wins hands down.

"Uh, honey... you really oughta wear more sweaters." I was just roaring with laughter.

 

Well done.