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1. Let's start somewhere out there. A sleek, mostly white, shape streaks through space. We get to zoom in and see that it is carrying some humanoid crew and passengers (most of them actually human) in jumpsuits combining black with one of the colors red, yellow or blue. During the course of the show, we get to see another being able to appear and disappear in a flash and the spaceship is even able to separate into two pieces! Oh, yeah: The flashy being assumes the role of judge and picks the crew's bald and bold leader as the defendant in a mock trial happening in some non-reality. What show have I been seeing?
2. It all starts out as innocent high school drama: A class is on a field trip to the zoo and some of its students get heckled by others. A few kids disappear into a locked-down hyena house and reappear somewhat changed - not so much in appearance but in behavior, acting ferally and cruelly, even going so far as eating the school's piglet mascot and then, not satiated, the principal. Ultimately some other students subdue the cannibals and drag them back to the hyenas to reverse whatever caused their behavior. What show's sixth episode was this?
3. I am not even trying to summarize the plot on this one because it obviously takes some knowledge of the whole series to understand what was going on, but what I remember of this episode, set at Christmastime, was the Titanic floating in space, reconstructed as some kind of interstellar cruise ship and a man using, among all things, an old British police call booth (like one of those red phone booths, but blue) as a means of transportation. Which series' 2007 Christmas special has made its way into my viewing afternoon?
4. Even without being a regular consumer of television content, I had heard about the controversial season finale I saw next. The plot, set in Texas and centered around an extremely rich and ruthless businessman running a large family-owned oil company, was not really understandable to me since it represented just one part of a continued narrative, but it did involve the entire office floor of the oil company going up in a major explosion. What I did recognize however was the final scene: One of the female cast members gets out of bed, goes to take a shower and expects to see her husband there - but not the one that had been killed a full year ago! Which series did include this most unusual "resurrection"?
5. I am not going to summarize any of the plot of the next two episodes I saw because scenes from family life in a small town could be any of several dozen daytime soap operas. However, the first episode I saw was a black and white 15 minute segment from 1952 and the second was a 60 minute show from 2009. If I now tell you both episodes belonged to the same series, you have enough information to identify it. Which series is it?
6. The next episode I watched was also a black and white segment. After a rather psychedelic opening sequence, we join in a strange investigation: A commercial DC-3 airplane has landed safely (which would not be a reason to investigate) with no crew or passengers aboard (which would). When the three investigators note mismatches in details of their observation (each sees a different seat color and tail number), the head investigator decides that the plane is an illusion and proves it by holding his arm into the running propeller. The plane promptly disappears, but so do his two colleagues. It is finally revealed that the ghost plane resembles one that disappeared and was presumed crashed years ago. Which series, also immortalized in a successful pinball machine and a Walt Disney World thrill ride, is this episode from?
7. The next episode I saw began just like many other crime stories: A man walks through the dark woods and is clobbered to death. When, next day, coroners examine the body, they uncover a small chip embedded in his wrist, obviously an office security door opener. The victim is identified as a computer nerd and hacker with quite some social problems, including spying on all his colleagues and, as the analysis of the piece of scrap metal used in the killing reveals, a fixation for explosives. The episode's focus on lab and forensics work continues with some body fluid analysis identifying an intimate partner of the victim. We also see the victim's original plans for a quite explosive scheme to rid the company safe of its valuables and, in the final scene, the victim's partner in crime (and killer) executes that plan in a rather unsuccessful and fatal way. Set against the glitzy backdrop of a major vacation resort famous for one specific adults-only activity, this episode was from which series?
8. After so much suffering, I was longing for some healing and indeed found a medical drama - in fact, the 331st and last episode of a long-running series. Set in a hospital, we are seeing a large number of patients admitted, with varying outcomes. The first patient we see is a teenage girl with acute alcohol poisoning, then a terminally ill AIDS patient, an elderly woman with a broken wrist, and a mother delivering premature twins. The string of single patients with ailments ranging from small to fatal continues until the next night when a full disaster protocol is invoked: An industrial explosion has claimed at least eight casualties, but we never get to see the resolution of that event. Which medical drama's thrilling finale have I been watching?
9. It seems that, as the night got later, series finales were a dime a dozen because right after the previous medical drama, I got to see another, this time taken from a legal drama-comedy centered around and named for a quite stunning female lawyer. In this episode, we see her resigning from the firm she worked for (whose name, incidentally, includes an animal and a place to keep an animal, but not the one named) and the reactions of the various people involved. A moving rendition of "My First, My Last, My Everything" brings closure to the plot. Which legal beauty has just announced her move from Boston to New York?
10. I must have fallen asleep during a commercial break because when I next looked at the screen, the sun was rising and I was looking at an animated feature. The episode I was watching was from the original incarnation of the series and the main characters were mostly identified by their colors: black, pink, blue, yellow and red. The episode I watched, however, saw a sixth color being introduced - a green character, every bit a match for the other five and evil. It does not look good for our heroes who have to retreat to a damaged command center. The episode ends as a cliffhanger, but I've seen enough. I finally push the "off" button, cutting short the end credits for which series?
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