Best Episode Ever

The Best Episode Ever Podcast, Season 3 starts next week!

My first Fav list podcast for Best Episode Ever. Inspired by a Twitter exchange with frequent listener, critic, and fellow podcaster @scarboroughdude, I present my Top Ten Fav Sitcoms of all-time. This list is strictly personal and not based on any merit other than my personal reflection. That said, I welcome your input through comments, email or twitter.

"Smiles, everyone... smiles!"

Today's episode contains the following themes:

• Hill Street Blues
• CHiPS
• Rockford FIles
• Magnum P.I.
• L.A. Law
• Law and Order
• Hunter
• Stingray
• A-Team
• Baa Baa Black Sheep
• Greatest American Hero

With guest host Mike Vardy @mikevardy.

In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit.

These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.

Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team.

Thanks to Dave Brodbeck for chiming in on the two-part epic that shall be Best Episode Ever's recollection of Star Trek: The Original Series.

Star Trek Theme
(lyrics for those who didn't believe me)

Beyond the rim of the starlight,
my love is wand'ring in star flight.
I know he'll find
In star clustered reaches
Love, strange love
A starwoman teaches.

I know his journey ends never.
His Star Trek will go on forever.
But tell him while
He wanders his starry sea,
Remember,
Remember me.

Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum, 
What might be right for you, may not be right for some. 
A man is born, he's a man of means. 
Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans. 

But they got, Diff'rent Strokes. 
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes. 
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world. 

Everybody's got a special kind of story 
Everybody finds a way to shine, 
It don't matter that you got not alot 
So what, 
They'll have theirs, and you'll have yours, and I'll have mine. 
And together we'll be fine.... 

Because it takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world. 
Yes it does. 
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world. 

This week I am joined by @scarboroughdude for some of his original reminiscences of Leave It To Beaver and the evolution of the 50's family sitcom to where it is today. Such shows endured in syndication to where I eve saw them for years while growing up in the 70s.

Scarborough Dude has his own podcast which can be found at www.dicksnjanes.blogspot.com ever week.

R.I.P. Barabara Billingsley

Teenagers solving mysteries with a talking shark who plays drums or a talk dune buggy? It all goes back to Scooby Doo and the recycled plotlines of Hanna Barbera.

Hey, it was the 70s. I was a kid, and I loved it!

This episode features special guest host: Dave Brodbeck who podcasts at Tangential Convergence and can be found on Twitter @dbrobeck.

Heroes, heroes, husky men of war, sons of all the heroes, of the war before.
We're all heroes up to our ear o's,
You ask the questions, we make suggestions,
That's what we're heroes for.

All good heroes love a nifty fight,
Open up the bomb bays, brighten up the night.
We earn laurels solving your quarrels,
You throw the roses, we punch the noses,
That's what we're heroes for.

What's a hero do? We're never gonna tell ya
Cause we wish we knew.
That's why we heroes are so few.
We've got a slogan, from Colonel Hogan,
And Colonel Hogan's a hero too.

Never flinch, boys, never be afraid,
Heroes are not born, boys, heroes all are made.
Ask not why, boys, never say die, boys,
Answer the call, remember we'll all be heroes forever more.