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Best and worst episodes of your favourite series.

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Soubriquet · 22/05/2023 20:38

One of my favourites (I have many) has to be Supernatural.

The Worst episode of supernatural has to be series 1, episode 8 Bugs where people are eaten by bugs.

One of the best…it’s a hard one actually. They have so many good ones. I’ll go with… series 3 episode 11 Mystery Spot where Dean dies many times due to the hands of the trickster

Heeeeeat of the moment

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Soubriquet · 22/05/2023 20:44

Hmmm best episode of Buffy The Vampire slayer has to be Hush.

Worst…now I don’t know

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SnappyDragony · 22/05/2023 21:05

Agree with bugs, even the writers hate it.
Really liked the episodes with the trickster/gabriel, they were quite funny.
One of the best for me would be in season 5 where they met lots of different gods from different pantheons. Tbf season 5 was my favorite anyway.

Also love jensen ankles in the boys 😍😍

SnappyDragony · 22/05/2023 21:06

A goos buffy one is in season 7 where she asks spike to tell her about how he killed 2 slayers.
Band candy is my all time fave

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TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 22/05/2023 21:12

Best episode of Buffy is hard to choose but I’d probably go with Once More With Feeling. The worst - a couple of contenders: Beer Bad, Doublemeat Palace, Bad Eggs, anyone?

hopefulsquirrel · 22/05/2023 21:14

Can we include radio shows too?

My favourite episodes of Cabin Pressure are Qikiqtarjuaq, Ottery St Mary and Gdańsk.

My least favourite are Kuala Lumpur and Timbuktu.

FoodFestfFork · 22/05/2023 21:20

Best. The Detectorists Christmas Special (2015). Wonderful, heart warming tv. All the strands fit together beautifully.

No worst episode but my least favourite is one in second season with the dogging action while searching for the Mayor's chain of office.

CuteCillian · 22/05/2023 21:21

The worst in Breaking Bad is The Fly

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Soubriquet · 22/05/2023 21:22

hopefulsquirrel · 22/05/2023 21:14

Can we include radio shows too?

My favourite episodes of Cabin Pressure are Qikiqtarjuaq, Ottery St Mary and Gdańsk.

My least favourite are Kuala Lumpur and Timbuktu.

Sure. Anything is possible

and Once More With Feeling. I love that episode

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SchmeltzHerring · 22/05/2023 21:23

Only Fools And Horses:

Best episode - It has to be Jolly Boys Outing, it's a classic

Worst episode - I'd probably say A Royal Flush. Del is really horrible in this one and I don't like the episodes which weren't filmed in front of a studio audience, it feels weird without the laughter.

SuddenArborealStop · 22/05/2023 21:25

West wing , best two cathedrals or the supremes worst Isaac and Ishmael or the long goodbye, I skip both

WhoWants2Know · 23/05/2023 18:21

Soubriquet · 22/05/2023 20:38

One of my favourites (I have many) has to be Supernatural.

The Worst episode of supernatural has to be series 1, episode 8 Bugs where people are eaten by bugs.

One of the best…it’s a hard one actually. They have so many good ones. I’ll go with… series 3 episode 11 Mystery Spot where Dean dies many times due to the hands of the trickster

Heeeeeat of the moment

I agree with you on Bugs, but there are so many contenders for the best episode. Yellow Fever and the Rabbits Foot one are so funny 😆

Marsyas · 23/05/2023 18:27

Doctor Who - best could be lots of episodes but I am going with The Doctor's Wife. Worst without a shadow of a doubt is Love and Monsters. I loathe that episode.

DramaticBananas · 23/05/2023 18:41

Marsyas · 23/05/2023 18:27

Doctor Who - best could be lots of episodes but I am going with The Doctor's Wife. Worst without a shadow of a doubt is Love and Monsters. I loathe that episode.

The Doctor's Wife is great, but I'm not sure anything can beat the Weeping Angels episode!

SeaPink · 23/05/2023 18:46

Friday Night Dinner
Best - The Return of Mr Morris
Worst- The one with the little girl who blackmailed Simon Bird
Or the one with their childhood au pair

LBOCS2 · 23/05/2023 19:58

My best Friday Night Dinner episode is either the one with the plastic bag in the tree or the one with the frozen fox.

I agree with your two worst.

inthekitchensink · 23/05/2023 20:02

The Fly is the best episode of Breaking Bad in my opinion!
Buffy’s best was Hush or Graduation, and worst was the weird praying mantis teacher one probably

Lotsofpots · 23/05/2023 20:04

SuddenArborealStop · 22/05/2023 21:25

West wing , best two cathedrals or the supremes worst Isaac and Ishmael or the long goodbye, I skip both

I clicked on this thread to say exactly that.

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 23/05/2023 21:09

hopefulsquirrel · 22/05/2023 21:14

Can we include radio shows too?

My favourite episodes of Cabin Pressure are Qikiqtarjuaq, Ottery St Mary and Gdańsk.

My least favourite are Kuala Lumpur and Timbuktu.

Ooooh the best episodes of Cabin Pressure are Limerick, Xinzhou and Ipswich. ‘Hey, Chief…’

ZenNudist · 23/05/2023 21:17

Worst buffy: the body. I always skip it. I also don't like the xander episodes particularly the gecko where he goes around getting in everyone else's way and shags Faith. I also don't like the one where the swim team turn into sea monsters and where xander and his mates become possessed by spirits of jackals. Also the one where "his penis gets diseases from the shumush tribe"

ZenNudist · 23/05/2023 21:18

Best buffy is clearly OMWF

Now singing the xander anya song...

Catsmere · 24/05/2023 03:48

Worst New Tricks (series 1-7, I never rewatch the later ones) - either Old Dogs or Nine Lives. Cruelty to animals doesn’t belong in a comedy series.

Best - hmm, so many I like in the earlier series. Family Business for Pushkar’s “It’s Hindi for Skoda” line that always breaks me up and the swearbox. Old and Cold for them getting Kitty Campbell for murder even though they couldn’t take it to the CPS.

In the later ones, Last Laugh for nailing Ricky Hanson at long last, and The Fourth Man, especially for the scene where Strickland and Pullman arrest Felsham.

inverness123 · 24/05/2023 04:05

Supernatural: worst is the one where the woman is actually a dog and also a sort of slave to her master. Wtf?! Way worse than Bugs, although that’s pretty bad. I didn’t really like the one with all the gods - can’t believe they introduced them all just to have them offed by an angel

Best - maybe the French Mistake? Also love Baby and Mystery Spot and loads of others. Lazarus Rising?

Orangelover · 24/05/2023 05:32

Great thread, I love telly Blush

West wing
Best - Celestial navigation. "I had root canaw!!" Or Two Cathedrals.
Worst - 90 miles away. Hard to believe it's the same show Confused

The X files
Best - bad blood or Irresistable (Donnie pfaster Shock)
Worst - 3. If there's no Scully I don't want it Wink
Or and of the revival they're pretty bad.

JuneOsborne · 24/05/2023 05:37

Not so much an episode but the riot season of OITNB was brilliant. The next 2 seasons just didn't compare.

Jewelanemone · 24/05/2023 05:42

Frasier - best episode 'Out With Dad'.

No worst episode, they're all brilliant.