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Specific extra special television moments that will stay with you forever

Shardovan

...by which I mean not the whole show or even an episode, but a scene or exchange or fragment of the thing where you got chills because it was so perfectly done:

One I just thought of:

The moment in Northern Exposure Season 6 when Joel has this sudden epiphany while visiting a patient in a remote Native American village to treat a patient, and spontaneously decides - even to his own surprise - to stay. There and then. Instantly off grid. He's about to head off down river, and is talking to a villager on his way back to the boat. The exchange goes something like:

Joel: 'So, you ever gonna get running water put in here?'
Villager: 'No'
Joel: 'What about having a line put in?'
Villager: 'No'
Joel: 'Huh. What about cable?'
Villager: 'No'
[beat of total silence, camera subtly zooms in]
Joel: 'Can I live here?'

I got goosebumps the first time, and I still do. Peak television that show, and that was one of those touchstone moments that tilted the world.

Parents

  • Mine goes back a long way - to the late 1980s with a program called Ghostwatch.

    I just saw the title in the TV guide and with no idea what it was about I decided to give it a watch - it started out about a TV documentary with a live audience where they were investigating the haunting and possession of a family with young childred.

    The first half was all about the typical intro and general level of what you would expect with some stuff being easily debunked, but then it got a bit more difficult to explain with the daughter in the family speaking in a deep, very loud voice that seemed convincing, and they then found more stuff from their researchers about a prevous occupant of the house.

    Nothing was clear cut and you could laugh off most of the stuff as it was just the kids making it up, just about and they decided to go switch back to the studio as a lot of the on-site equipment was going faulty.

    On going back to the studio they were sitting around chatting about how it could all just be made up when the lights started blowing in the overhead rigs and they started swaying about and the loud voice from the little girl was coming from overhead - then it suddenly cut off - it felt creepy as hell and sa it was all pre-internet there was no way to know what had happened.

    It turned out it was all just a drama (like the original War of The Worlds radio program) and caught loads of viewers like me unawares as missed the intro saying it was a dramatisation.

    It left me shaken at the time.

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  • Mine goes back a long way - to the late 1980s with a program called Ghostwatch.

    I just saw the title in the TV guide and with no idea what it was about I decided to give it a watch - it started out about a TV documentary with a live audience where they were investigating the haunting and possession of a family with young childred.

    The first half was all about the typical intro and general level of what you would expect with some stuff being easily debunked, but then it got a bit more difficult to explain with the daughter in the family speaking in a deep, very loud voice that seemed convincing, and they then found more stuff from their researchers about a prevous occupant of the house.

    Nothing was clear cut and you could laugh off most of the stuff as it was just the kids making it up, just about and they decided to go switch back to the studio as a lot of the on-site equipment was going faulty.

    On going back to the studio they were sitting around chatting about how it could all just be made up when the lights started blowing in the overhead rigs and they started swaying about and the loud voice from the little girl was coming from overhead - then it suddenly cut off - it felt creepy as hell and sa it was all pre-internet there was no way to know what had happened.

    It turned out it was all just a drama (like the original War of The Worlds radio program) and caught loads of viewers like me unawares as missed the intro saying it was a dramatisation.

    It left me shaken at the time.

Children