“Where No Man Has Gone Before” - Star Trek. The essential introduction to James T. Kirk. So very different from everything that follows, and yet the very essence of Roddenberry’s Trek; thoughtful, exciting, out there. 

“Many Happy Returns” - The Prisoner. Not the first or last mind-fuck of this series, but the best. 

“Pilot” - Twin Peaks. A moment in my life, preserved in amber, with that dreamy theme carrying me back to the night I watched the most perfect episode of the most promising series ever on network television. If only…

“The Stake-Out” - Seinfeld. It’s rough, but it makes me laugh every time. “All right, he’s an importer/exporter!”

“Flip” - The Larry Sanders Show. The ideal ending for the highest-quality sitcom ever created. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you want more, but there is no more. I cherish every one of these episodes, but this one? This one I would take a bullet for.