Bringing a television show to its end is no easy task. Sometimes fan favorites are canceled by networks and streaming services before they get the chance to run their natural course. Other times they overstay their welcome, and there’s no one around anymore to see how it all ends. But even when a series is allowed to wrap things up on its terms, there’s no guarantee that the writers will get it right. Remember ? Yeah, . Still, every now and then, there are shows that discover the recipe for the perfect finale and are able to execute it without flaw.
From to, yes, , here are the 15 greatest series finales of all time.
Way back in 1983, about 105 million Americans stopped everything they were doing to watch the final episode of the wartime dramedy . No other show has come close to this number since. Directed by himself, “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen” has the medical camp crew coming to terms with the fact that the Korean War is coming to an end, which means that they’re finally returning home.
It’s an emotional goodbye to a show that lasted 11 seasons -- much longer than the three-year conflict that inspired it. The episode also features one of the most traumatic revelations in TV history, with Hawkeye (Alda) realizing that his memory of a woman suffocating a chicken to keep it quiet during an enemy attack is actually that of a mother accidentally killing her child.
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