80's on the 18th......final episode

No I'm talking Star Wars....I'm talking final episode of your favorite TV show. Being that all the networks announced their fall lineups this past week it made me think back to some of the final episodes of TV shows I watched as a kid. Sometimes they have the benefit of knowing it's the last season going into so they actually have an ending and other times they meet their untimely doom by no being renewed in the off season and you are left hanging or worse yet cancelled mid season.

Growing up in the 80's the biggest final episode (still to this day) was that for M*A*S*H*
I loved watching this show. Now most of what I remember watching were the reruns but I still watched Klinger, Hawkeye, Hot Lips, Radar, Frank and the rest of the 4077th like clockwork. This show probably led me to watching China Beach years later too....well that and Platoon & Good Morning Vietnam came out the prior years which led to an interest in the Vietnam war.

What boy in the 80's didn' watch Knight Rider & A-Team too; though I can't remember how they finished.

A show that started in the 80's that I really enjoyed too was Quantum Leap and the way they finished the show was tricky to say the least. But I won't give it away.

Where this is leading to is that I never watched the final episode of my favorite TV show of all time that is LOST. I mentioned to my wife a while back that I have purposefully avoided watching it and actually refuse to. It was such an ingenious show with intertwined well thought out make you think plot lines for every character that I never wanted it to end. And I would rather have my own conclusions and beliefs to all the "whys" & "what ifs". It was crazy the amount of time every day people put into trying to decipher stills of every single scene to find clues and inferences that would give credence to their theory. Granted the internet age has helped accommodate all these LOSTIES with websites, blogs and communities dedicated to unraveling the show's symbolism and connecting all the flash backs & forwards.

I could go on and on about LOST but I won't but I am glad to see a lot of the actors from that show are venturing back into the acting world with new various new series. This fall there appears to be some interesting new shows that aren't just mindless reality junk coming to a TV set near you.