Discover the Truth in the Spoiler- Filled Doctor Who Discussion Thread. Tonight’s Doctor Who dropped some pretty ominous warnings on the Doctor, Bill, and Nardole—portents of an imminent invasion, a perplexing ancient text killing its readers, and yes, even an answer to the season- long mystery of just who is inside the mysterious vault. Let us know what you thought of it all in our weekly thread!“Extremis” gave us at least one major advancement in the ongoing mystery of this season: to the surprise of very few at this point, Missy was the one hidden in the vault all this time. But even with that revelation, we still have tons of questions about just what the hell she did to deserve a thousand years’ worth of confinement.

Why it was meant to cost her her life, and why did the Doctor choose to let her live? We know there are more Master shenanigans on the way later this season with John Simm’s return, so presumably we’ll be finding out more about Missy’s latest predicament at a later date.

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Unfortunately, it really didn’t give us much else other than a cliffhanger of an alien invasion for the team to deal with in next week’s episode. The mysterious priests searching for the Veritas will be back, and maybe we’ll get some actual answers next week, but otherwise “Extremis” didn’t really give us much beyond Steven Moffat’s beloved twist reveal (it’s all a simulation, gasp!) and some very fun moments between Bill and Nardole, who make a great team together.

We’ll have more to say in our recap on Monday, but for now, share your thoughts in the comments below.

Greatest Television Episodes. The 1. 00 Greatest Television Episodes of All Time. An Ongoing List. by Stephen Bowie. Lists, lists, lists. So why am I risking my own credibility? Kelley’s exit, and “The Zanti Misfits,” a plodding Outer Limits that reflects little of Joseph Stefano’s mad brilliance.

Also out: Non- U. S. To make the reading experience a bit more unpredictable, and to help conceal a few chronological gaps in my experience, I am presenting the list in absolutely no order whatsoever. However, it seems appropriate to begin with . Philco Television Playhouse “Marty” (May 2. Paddy Chayefsky’s empathetic but never sugar- coated chronicle of the tentative connection between two lonely souls at the Stardust Ballroom is still as poignant today as it was in 1. Rod Steiger’s unforgettable performance in the title role. The Defenders “Blood County” (September 2.

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This unusual episode of the landmark legal drama took its protagonists, Manhattan defense attorneys Ken and Larry Preston (E. The rousing finale in which Preston smuggles in a federal marshal to finally restore some law and order parallels the equally cathartic faceoffs between blatantly corrupt, segregationist southern law officers and the Kennedy Administration’s Justice Department that viewers were then watching on the news.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour “The Jar” (February 1. Everyone who’s seen this one- of- a- kind, atypical faux- fantasy Hitchcock Hour – the one in which a bunch of backwoods types sit mesmerized around a mysterious canning jar fetched back from the county fair, one which may or may not contain a human head or something worse – remembers it, even decades later. The Wonder Years “Goodbye” (April 2. This was the deeply affecting climax to a story arc (spread out across the series’ third season) in which Kevin Arnold’s formidable, unsmiling new math teacher and his lack of aptitude for the subject combine to create considerable pre- teen anxiety.

Collins’ austere tutelage, and comes to fancy that they have a budding friendship – when suddenly Mr. Collins tells Kevin he’ll have to succeed or fail on his own, and disappears. Collins was terminally ill – only later, when a vice principal who can barely be bothered tells him in passing that the teacher has died. Collins’ secret. Rawhide “Corporal Dasovik” (December 4, 1.

Brought in fresh to executive produce the seventh season of this flagging cattle drive western, young upstarts Bruce Geller and Bernard Kowalski (only a year away from launching Mission: Impossible) blew everything up. Siegel’s Western Heritage Award- winning script was nothing less than to toss all of television’s accepted notions of militarism and heroism onto the scrapheap. Boomtown “Blackout” (April 1.

This ambitious, inconsistent mosaic of municipal Los Angeles peaked with the mesmerizing flameout of David Mc. Norris (Neal Mc. Donough), the masochistic, hard- drinking deputy prosecutor. Adventures in Paradise “Walk Through the Night” (January 2. A lean, fatalistic exemplar of pure action, in which directorial imagination triumphs over the budgetary limitations that typically compromise adventure fare in episodic television. Lewis or Sam Fuller or Budd Boetticher.

WKRP in Cincinnati “Turkeys Away” (October 3. WKRP’s twisted Thanksgiving episode was an instant classic and makes all the “best- of” lists now, but I’d never heard of it the first time I came across a rerun and was floored by the audacity of its gore- drenched punchline. The Dick Van Dyke Show “Never Bathe on Saturday” (March 3. Never was this series’ frank, hip attitude toward sex more evident than in this episode that sent the Petries on a second honeymoon. Breaking Point “The Bull Roarer” (October 2. Am I a man or . Veronica Mars “Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves” (January 3. Veronica Mars was so much better than any other network show on the air during its entire three- year run: a cathartic, postmodern- Marxist- feminist revenge- of- the- oppressed fantasy in which the jaded neo- Nancy Drew heroine (the wondrous Kristen Bell) uses the tools of modern law enforcement to exact a little payback against callow preppies, principals, rich kids, and dumb cops every week.

The Name of the Game “LA 2. January 1. 5, 1. 97. As this loosely- structured reporter drama wore on it passed into a fascinating experimental phase – one episode, “All the Old Familiar Faces,” used a pop quintet as a kind of Greek chorus – but the one that went way, way far out is “LA 2.

Steven Spielberg. Dick- type moment when one of the last surviving aquarium fish dies. Outlaws “Beat the Drum Slowly” (October 2. Borrowing from The Untouchables, this nearly anthological western marginalized its law enforcement heroes to focus on a colorful villain every week. The Paper Chase “Not Prince Hamlet” (April 1. A rare superlative outing from late in the series’ run, and one that featured mainly the second- tier cast at that, “Not Prince Hamlet” follows a grieving father as he interviews friends and acquaintances to try to find out why his law student son committed suicide. The Young Lawyers “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” (March 1.

Unfairly derided as The Mod Squad with law books, The Young Lawyers was an attempt at a sixties- style social drama with a radical Jewish law student, Aaron Silverman (Zalman King), as its hero. Cobb) warn him that she’s a hopeless case, but Aaron is still in love and won’t listen (at first, he can’t even admit that she’s using). Cimarron Strip “Knife in the Darkness” (January 2.

The renowned science fiction writer and essayist Harlan Ellison was also one of the best freelancers toiling in television for much of the sixties, and at least a half a dozen of his scripts are contenders for this list. Kildare “One Clear, Bright Thursday Morning” (November 7, 1. Dr. Kildare was less tough- minded than the other doctor shows of the early sixties, but this atypical episode confronted a topic that most viewers were probably loathe to acknowledge. The X- Files “The Post- Modern Prometheus” (November 3. Shot in black and white, this deranged, semi- farcical outing sends Scully and Mulder to a small midwestern town to track down the Great Mutato, a hideously deformed, peanut- butter sandwich- loving mutant who may or may not be a hoax perpetrated by some teenaged fanboys.

True “Nitro” (April 2. Watch Klute IMDB. You wouldn’t think twenty- five minutes of nail- biting suspense could begin with Jack Webb narrating, “On July 2.

Ed Gleason was mixing an electrolyte solution of sulfuric acid and glycerine. The White Shadow “The Death of Me Yet” (March 1. TV shows had killed off regular characters before, but likely never one so beloved as Curtis Jackson, the Carver High basketball player who takes a bullet during a liquor store holdup in this episode.

The FBI “Collision Course” (November 1. Wait, The FBI? Kraft Television Theatre “Patterns” (January 1. The comparisons to Arthur Miller and Death of a Salesman weren’t merely superlatives; Rod Serling understood that the surest way to probe the American character in the fifties was through the world of business. Night Court “Yet Another Day in the Life” (May 3, 1.

The breezy, episodic, by- the- seat- of- their- pants storylines in this airy ensemble comedy offered some of the most underappreciated laughs of the eighties. Thriller “Pigeons From Hell” (June 6, 1. This adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s pulp story deserves its reputation as one of television’s scariest hours.

The Sopranos “The Happy Wanderer” (February 2. The character actor Robert Patrick does a revelatory guest turn in this jaded entry of The Sopranos which, like many of the best episodes, navigates the surreal borderline between the civilian world and the cracked- mirror realm of the mob. Saints and Sinners “A Night of Horns and Bells” (December 2. It’s New Year’s Eve and cub reporter Nick Alexander (Nick Adams) is drafted into emergency service as the night city editor of a New York paper.

Zane Grey Theatre “Miss Jenny” (January 7, 1.