TV Episode Titles

It's too bad they don't show episode titles on tv shows anymore, since they're usually interesting. Anybody have any that come to mind?

Law & Order

Everybody's Favorite Bagman (unofficial pilot; Steven Hill wasn't in it)
Mushrooms
Subterranean Homeboy Blues
The Violence Of Summer
Ciero
Night And Fog (w/Nehemiah Persoff)
Out Of The Half-Light
Sonata For A Solo Organ
Black Tie
Conduct Unbecoming
Showdown In LA
Teenage Wasteland
Aftershock
Access Nation
Mayhem
Darwinian
Whose Monkey Is It Anyway? (aka Curious George)

CSI:NY

Trapped
Scars
Zoo York
Corporate Warriors
Grand Murder At Central Station
Summer In The City
Bad Beat
Jamalot
Stuck On You
Sleeping With The Fishes
Cool Hunter
Fare Game
Oedipus Hex
And Here's To You, Mrs. Azrael
People With Money
Not What It Looks Like
Love Run Cold


M*A*S*H

Sometimes You Hear The Bullet
Abyssinia, Henry
Movie Tonight
Smilin' Jack
Five O'Clock Charlie
Comrades In Arms
Sons And Bowlers
Alcoholics Unanimous
Follies Of The Living--Concerns Of The Dead
The General Flipped At Dawn
Dreams
My Name Is Nobody
Snap Judgment
Hot Lips And Empty Arms
Goodbye, Farewell And Amen

From that timeless classic Sledge Hammer...

Hammer Gets Nailed
Haven't Gun, Will Travel
Hammeroid
Suppose They Gave A War & Sledge Came?

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Deadwood:

Reconnoitering The Rim
Jewel's Boot Is Made For Walking
Sold Under Sin
Requiem For A Gleet
E.B. Was Left Out
Amalgamation And Capital
Boy The Earth Talks To
Tell Your God To Ready For Blood
A Two-Headed Beast
Unauthorized Cinnamon
Leviathan Smiles

Carnivale(only Season 1, since Season 2 titles were cities):

After The Ball Is Over
Black Blizzard
Pick A Number
The Day Of The Dead

Every episode of The Prisoner had a kick ass title to it.

The Avengers

The Hour That Never Was

Dead Man's Treasure

The Quick, Quick, Slow Death

Something Nasty in the Nursery

Death At Bargain Prices

Too Many Christmas Trees

The House That Jack Built

A Touch of Brimstone

A Surfeit of H2O

Don't Look Behind You

The Correct WayTo Kill

What the Butler Saw

and many, many others.

I also enjoy naming conventions such as was done with Friends where all of the episodes were were named "The One About....". Two of my favorite 60s shows did this. All of the four seasons of The Wild, Wild West had episode titles which began "The Night of..." (one exception only where the title began "Night of..." omitting the article) and Man From U.N.C.L.E. episodes were all named "The (something) (something) Affair". Just a little something to set them apart from other shows.

Sort of like how every episode of Seinfeld (save for season one's Male Unbonding) started with "The..." as the title.

Ellery Queen was the same way. They all started with "The Adventure Of".

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Blood Drops
Fur And Loathing

The X-Files

2shy
Tenchos Dos Bisos
Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'

Very close to Perry Mason, for which every episode title began "The Case of the ..."

Good titles from The Wild Wild West:

The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth
The Night of the Glowing Corpse
The Night of the Howling Light
The Night of the Bubbling Death
The Night of the Gruesome Games

The Rat Patrol always had the word "Raid" in the title, for example:

The Hickory, Dickory Dock Raid

Double feature: "The Hickory, Dickory Dock Raid" and "The Rip Van Winkle Caper."

The Munsters--

A Walk On The Mild Side
Pike's Pique
Tin Can Man
Knock Wood, Here Comes Charlie
Autumn Croakus
If A Martian Answers, Hang Up
Bats Of A Feather
Come Back, Little Googie
Hot Rod Herman
Yes, Galen, There Is A Herman

Kojak--

Deliver Us Some Evil
The Queen Of Hearts Is Wild Tonight

Star Trek: The Next Generation--

Booby Trap
Measure Of A Man

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine--

Trials And Tribble-ations

Battlestar Galactica:

33
Litmus
The Hand of God
Kobol's Last Gleaming
Valley of Darkness
Fragged
Flight of the Phoenix
Pegasus
Resurrection Ship
Epiphanies
Black Market
Lay Down Your Burdens
Precipice
Exodus
The Eye of Jupiter

Of these, 2 of my favorite titles were..........

Kobol's Last Gleaming, and Lay Down your Burdens.

But I always liked alot of BGs titles.





Thank you and good night.
TZ DZ Fan

Lazyboy, do you mean the original BG, or the new one?

Ellery Queen--

The Adventure Of Veronica's Veils
The Adventure Of The Eccentric Engineer
The Adventure Of The Judas Tree
The Adventure Of The Chinese Dog (featuring Murray Hamilton and Orson Bean)
The Adventure Of The Mad Tea Party

I've noticed Gunsmoke titles tend to be very short, one or two words--

Waco
Lobo
Lost
Hawk
The Bullet
The River
The Hidecutters

The new series.

CSI:NY

Manhattan Manhunt
A Daze Of Wine And Roaches
Cold Reveal
Some Buried Bones
...Comes Around
Snow Day
Charge Of This Post

Kojak:

Die Before They Wake

M*A*S*H

Trick Or Treatment
Mulcahy's War
Dear Dad
Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde
Yessir That's Our Baby
Hot Lips Is Back In Town
Rally 'Round The Flagg, Boys

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?

What A Night For A Knight
Mine Your Own Business
Which Witch Is Which?
The Ghostly Creep From The Deep
To Switch A Witch
Kooky Space Ghost

What's New, Scooby-Doo?

Lights! Camera! Mayhem!
E-Scream

CSI:NY

Consequences
Sweet 16
Super Men

M*A*S*H

The Yalu Brick Road

The Munsters

Love Locked Out

Star Trek

Balance Of Terror
The Conscience Of The King
Journey To Babel
The Corbomite Maneuver
Requiem For Methuselah
Arena
Operation: Annihilate!
Amok Time
Who Mourns For Adonais?
Wolf In The Fold
The Devil In The Dark
For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky
This Side Of Paradise
Patterns Of Force
Bread And Circuses
The Gamesters Of Triskelion
Day Of The Dove
That Which Survives
The City On The Edge Of Forever
The Apple
Charlie X
The Trouble With Tribbles
The Way To Eden
Catspaw
The Squire Of Gothos

M*A*S*H

The Ringbanger
Dear Sigmund
Lieutenant O'Riley
The Smell Of Music
Pressure Points

Murder, She Wrote

The Corpse Flew First Class
My Johnny Lies Over The Ocean
The Grand Old Lady

CSI:NY

The Lying Game

Murder, She Wrote

Wearing Of The Green
Alma Murder
Smooth Operators
From Russia...With Blood
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall

Banacek

Let's Hear It For A Living Legend
Ten Thousand Dollars A Page
If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where To Find Him?
Horse Of A Slightly Different Color
Fly Me--If You Can Find Me
No Sign Of The Cross

You forgot Magnum Farce and Witless.

Murder, She Wrote--

Sugar And Spice, Malice And Vice

Star Trek--

A Piece Of The Action
The Galileo Seven
By Any Other Name
Assignment: Earth
And The Children Shall Lead
The Mark Of Gideon
Turnabout Intruder

Here are a few more BSG titles...........

The Son Also Rises
Maelstrom
Take a Break From All Your Worries
A Day in the Life
Dirty Hands
Collaborators


"The Son Also Rises" is a good one, especially how it ties in to the episode and how it unfolds.



Thank you and good night.
TZ DZ Fan

'It's About Time ... It's About Space...it's about two men in the strangest place...'

Two astronauts go through a time warp and end up in prehistoric times. Imogene Coca was a regular. Sherwood Schwartz wrote some of the episodes. Of course.

'Mark Your Ballets'
'Love Me, Love My Gnook'
'Which Doctor's Witch?'

Murder, She Wrote--

If The Shoe Fits
The Szechuan Dragon

M*A*S*H--

C*A*V*E
The Late Dr. Piece
When There's A Will, There's A War
Sticky Wicket
Who Knew?
Are You Now, Margaret?
Welcome To Korea
The Life You Save

Murder, She Wrote

The Family Jewels
A Body To Die For
Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?
Murder In F Sharp

M*A*S*H

To Market, To Market

CSI:NY

Can You Hear Me Now?

while Smallville doesn't actually show the title of its ep, every one of them is a one word title. i think thats very clever, as the writers have to constantly come up with one word to sum up what each ep is ultimatly about. i like when they use words that aren't often heard in casual speak like Insurgence or Dichotic.

On the lighter side:

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Charlie Gets Cancer
Charlie wants an Abortion
The Gang goes Jihad
Dennis and Deandra go on Welfare
100 Dollar Baby
The Gang gets Racist
Mac bangs Dennis and Deandras Mom
The Gang finds a Dead Guy
Charlie gets Molested

The episode titles don't really tell the story so don't be offended.

Heroes: Season 1

(Volume One: Genesis) In His Own Image
Seven Minutes To Midnight
The Fix
.07%
How To Stop An Exploding Man

M*A*S*H

Goodbye Radar
Period Of Adjustment

CSI:NY

The Deep
Time's Up
Down The Rabbit Hole
Boo

During the period of the "Batman" series when most of the episodes were two-parters, the title of the second part usually rhymed (or at least came close) with the title of the first. Here are some of my favorite pairings:

"Hi Diddle Riddle/"Smack in the Middle"
"Fine Feathered Finks"/"The Penguin's a Jinx"
"The Joker is Wild"/"Batman is Riled"
"The Thirteenth Hat"/"Batman Stands Pat"
"The Purr-fect Crime"/"Better Luck Next Time"
"The Curse of Tut"/"The Pharaoh's in a Rut"
"Hot Off the Griddle"/"The Cat and the Fiddle"
"The Puzzles Are Coming"/"The Duo is Slumming"
"That Darn Catwoman"/"Scat! Darn Catwoman"
"Catwoman Goes to College"/"Batman Displays His Knowledge"

Here are some combinations I liked less well:

"The Joker Goes to School"/"He Meets His Match, The Grisly Ghoul"
"An Egg Grows in Gotham"/"The Yegg Foes in Gotham"
"Hizzoner the Penguin"/"Dizzoner the Penguin"
"The Cat's Meow"/"The Bat's Kow Tow"
"The Zodiac Crimes"/"The Joker's Hard Times"/"The Penguin Declines" (three-parter)
"Batman's Anniversary"/"A Riddling Controversy"

Very close to Perry Mason, for which every episode title began "The Case of the ..."

And Rawhide episode titles began with "Incident of the..., or at ..." except for one season. These were always shown at the beginning.

What a great thread topic, Jayo. Somehow I missed it along the way.

I'm impressed with everybody's knowledge who've posted here. I have to say the only ones I know by heart are TZ's

Anybody notice that the TV show the L word always have titles that started with the letter L? Wonder why?!

Dexter

Season 1:
The Popping Cherry
Shrink Wrap

Season 2:
It's Alive!
An Inconvenient Lie
The Dark Defender
Dex, Lies, and Videotape
That Night, A Forest Grew

M*A*S*H

Der Tag
The Novacaine Mutiny
For Want Of A Boot
An Eye For A Tooth
The Tooth Shall Set You Free
Mad Dogs And Servicemen

CSI:NY

Sleight Out Of Hand

M*A*S*H

Images
A War For All Seasons
The Billfold Syndrome
The Merchant Of Korea
Run For The Money
They Call The Wind Korea
What's Up Doc
Chief Surgeon Who?

CSI:NY

All In The Family

Law and Order

Kiss the Girls And Make them Die

Law and Order:SVU

...Or just look like one
Russian Love Poem

Star Trek

What are Little Girls Made Of?
The Corbomite Maneuver
Turnabout Intruder
All Our Yesterdays
The Conscience of the King

Lost

Season 1:

Tabula Rasa
White Rabbit
All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
Deus Ex Machina
Exodus

Season 2:

Man of Science, Man of Faith
The Long Con
?
Live Together, Die Alone

Season 3:

Enter 77
The Man Behind the Curtain
Through The Looking Glass

Don't know how I forgot this one.

M*A*S*H

Requiem For A Lightweight