So what are your favorite episode titles? I'd go with "Kobol's Last Gleaming" (although I'm still not entirely sure what it means but it sure sounds cool!) from BSG, "Family Meeting" from The Shield and "Made in America" from The Sopranos.
Great Episode Titles
- Thread starter sidious618
- Start date
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
I Like The City on the Edge of Forever among other great TOS titles.
I also like 3:00PM - 4:00PM on 24...just seems like such a pleasant time.
I also like 3:00PM - 4:00PM on 24...just seems like such a pleasant time.
Maybe I am biased because it is one of my favorite episodes of TOS but "A Taste of Armageddon" is a great episode title.
DS9 had a lot of great, long, poetic-sounding titles, especially in the later seasons:
Ties of Blood and Water
Not the Battle to the Strong (Biblical reference)
In the Pale Moonlight *
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Far Beyond the Stars
Wrongs Darker than Death or Night (comes from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound)
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges (Latin proverb "In times of war, laws fall silent" - very fitting title!).
*ITPM certainly sounds cool, but I've wondered where the title comes from. A Google search came up with a song by British punk band Leatheface, "Pale Moonlight". I don't know if this is where they took it from, but I hope it is, because the lyrics are fitting:
BSG also had a lot of these long, poetic titles, particularly in season 4 (Sometimes A Great Notion, A Disquiet That Follows My Soul, Islanded in a Stream of Stars). My favorites are:
Lay Down Your Burdens
You Can't Go Home Again (another literary reference)
Kobol's Last Gleaming
Valley of Darkness
A Measure of Salvation
Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down (I'm not crazy about the ep, but the title is a good pun on the title of Almodovar's movie)
Maybe this kind of title is a RDM thing, since it was so frequent in later seasons of DS9 and then in BSG...
But then again, TOS was full of those, too:
This Side of Paradise (Rupert Brooke/F. Scott Fitzgerlald reference)
City on the Edge of Forever
The Devil In The Dark
Is There In Truth No Beauty? (another literary reference - I think it's Keats)
The Conscience of the King
By Any Other Name (Shakespeare - not sure it suits the episode, though...)
For the World Is Hollow And I Have Touched the Sky (this one sounds as if it comes from some poem, though it actually comes from the episode itself)
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
and finally, The Wrath of Khan sounds quite poetic in an archaic way.
On the other hand, I'm not sure about TNG titles - especially since someone pointed out that they sound very similar to titles of Christian Metal songs.
Homicide:LOTS had many great titles as well, at least in the early seasons:
Night of the Dead Living
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
A Many Splendored Thing
Nearer My God To Thee
Every Mother's Son
The City That Bleeds
Ties of Blood and Water
Not the Battle to the Strong (Biblical reference)
In the Pale Moonlight *
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Far Beyond the Stars
Wrongs Darker than Death or Night (comes from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound)
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges (Latin proverb "In times of war, laws fall silent" - very fitting title!).
*ITPM certainly sounds cool, but I've wondered where the title comes from. A Google search came up with a song by British punk band Leatheface, "Pale Moonlight". I don't know if this is where they took it from, but I hope it is, because the lyrics are fitting:
And although not poetic, Trials and Tribble-ations is a very good title
BSG also had a lot of these long, poetic titles, particularly in season 4 (Sometimes A Great Notion, A Disquiet That Follows My Soul, Islanded in a Stream of Stars). My favorites are:
Lay Down Your Burdens
You Can't Go Home Again (another literary reference)
Kobol's Last Gleaming
Valley of Darkness
A Measure of Salvation
Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down (I'm not crazy about the ep, but the title is a good pun on the title of Almodovar's movie)
Maybe this kind of title is a RDM thing, since it was so frequent in later seasons of DS9 and then in BSG...
But then again, TOS was full of those, too:
This Side of Paradise (Rupert Brooke/F. Scott Fitzgerlald reference)
City on the Edge of Forever
The Devil In The Dark
Is There In Truth No Beauty? (another literary reference - I think it's Keats)
The Conscience of the King
By Any Other Name (Shakespeare - not sure it suits the episode, though...)
For the World Is Hollow And I Have Touched the Sky (this one sounds as if it comes from some poem, though it actually comes from the episode itself)
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
and finally, The Wrath of Khan sounds quite poetic in an archaic way.
On the other hand, I'm not sure about TNG titles - especially since someone pointed out that they sound very similar to titles of Christian Metal songs.
Homicide:LOTS had many great titles as well, at least in the early seasons:
Night of the Dead Living
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
A Many Splendored Thing
Nearer My God To Thee
Every Mother's Son
The City That Bleeds
It's no doubt a play on "the twilight's last gleaming" from "The Star-Spangled Banner." It would mean the last glimmer of a dying light, or in this case a dying planet/civilization, Kobol.
Andromeda (mediocre show even early on, but they could name episodes) - "Angel Dark, Demon Bright", "Tunnel at the End of the Light", "Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath", "Shadows Cast By A Final Salute"
"The Curse of Frank Black" (MillenniuM)
"Midnight of the Century" (MillenniuM)
"Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me" (MillenniuM)
"The Sound of Snow" (MillenniuM)
"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" (MillenniuM)
"The Seventh is Made Up of Phantoms" (The Twilight Zone)
"Number Twelve Looks Just Like You" (The Twilight Zone)
"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" (The Twilight Zone)
"The Howling Man" (The Twilight Zone)
"And When the Sky Was Opened" (The Twilight Zone)
"Bad Timing" (Farscape)
"Criss Angel is a Douchebag" (Supernatural)
"The Monster At the End of This Book" (Supernatural)
"The Sabbath Queen" (Kings)
"Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today" (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
"The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco" (Angel)
"A Hole in the World" (Angel)
"Demon with a Glass Hand" (The Outer Limits)
"In Which We Meet Mr. Jones" (Fringe)
"There's More Than One of Everything" (Fringe)
"The Unnatural" (The X-Files)
"Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man" (The X-Files)
"Objects in Space" (Firefly)
"The New and Improved Carl Morrissey" (The 4400)
"Audrey Parker's Come and Gone" (The 4400)
"Question Authority" (Justice League Unlimited)
"The Great Brain Robbery" (Justice League Unlimited)
"Midnight of the Century" (MillenniuM)
"Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me" (MillenniuM)
"The Sound of Snow" (MillenniuM)
"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" (MillenniuM)
"The Seventh is Made Up of Phantoms" (The Twilight Zone)
"Number Twelve Looks Just Like You" (The Twilight Zone)
"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" (The Twilight Zone)
"The Howling Man" (The Twilight Zone)
"And When the Sky Was Opened" (The Twilight Zone)
"Bad Timing" (Farscape)
"Criss Angel is a Douchebag" (Supernatural)
"The Monster At the End of This Book" (Supernatural)
"The Sabbath Queen" (Kings)
"Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today" (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
"The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco" (Angel)
"A Hole in the World" (Angel)
"Demon with a Glass Hand" (The Outer Limits)
"In Which We Meet Mr. Jones" (Fringe)
"There's More Than One of Everything" (Fringe)
"The Unnatural" (The X-Files)
"Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man" (The X-Files)
"Objects in Space" (Firefly)
"The New and Improved Carl Morrissey" (The 4400)
"Audrey Parker's Come and Gone" (The 4400)
"Question Authority" (Justice League Unlimited)
"The Great Brain Robbery" (Justice League Unlimited)
This Friday's episode of Law & Order has a creepy title:
"Human Flesh Search Engine".
"Human Flesh Search Engine".
"When the Levee Breaks,"
"Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester"
"Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things"
"Sympathy for the Devil"
"The Monster at the End of This Book"
"It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester"
and my personal favorite....
"Criss Angel is a Douchebag"--all from Supernatural
"Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester"
"Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things"
"Sympathy for the Devil"
"The Monster at the End of This Book"
"It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester"
and my personal favorite....
"Criss Angel is a Douchebag"--all from Supernatural
Blink (Doctor Who)
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling (The Prisoner)
Fall Out (The Prisoner)
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (Star Trek TOS)
Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers... (The Avengers)
Kill Oscar (The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman - crossover 3-parter)
The Not So Jolly Roger (Danger Man)
The Masterpiece Society (Star Trek TNG)
In a Mirror, Darkly (Enterprise)
Alex
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling (The Prisoner)
Fall Out (The Prisoner)
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (Star Trek TOS)
Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers... (The Avengers)
Kill Oscar (The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman - crossover 3-parter)
The Not So Jolly Roger (Danger Man)
The Masterpiece Society (Star Trek TNG)
In a Mirror, Darkly (Enterprise)
Alex
I was about to say... Anything from Andromeda.
Andromeda Episode Titles
My favorite one from Supernatural.
J
Jetfire
Guest
"I, Robot...You Jane" BtVS
"Buffy Vs Dracula" BtVS
"Justice" Smallville
"Bizarro" Smallville
"My Damn Stalker" Two and A Half Men
"Your Dismissive Attitude Toward Boobs" Two and A Half Men
"Buffy Vs Dracula" BtVS
"Justice" Smallville
"Bizarro" Smallville
"My Damn Stalker" Two and A Half Men
"Your Dismissive Attitude Toward Boobs" Two and A Half Men
Deadwood had some good titles:
"Here was a man"
"Jewel's boot is made for walking"
"A lie agreed upon"
"Advances, none miraculous"
"The whores can come"
"Tell your God to ready for blood"
"I am not the fine man you take me for"
"Leviathan smiles"
"Tell him something pretty"
"Here was a man"
"Jewel's boot is made for walking"
"A lie agreed upon"
"Advances, none miraculous"
"The whores can come"
"Tell your God to ready for blood"
"I am not the fine man you take me for"
"Leviathan smiles"
"Tell him something pretty"
I appreciated many of DS9's titles, but these were always my favorites.
The West Wing had great titles as well:
The Crackpots and These Women
He Shall, from Time to Time...
And It's Surely to Their Credit
Dead Irish Writers
Evidence of Things Not Seen
The Warfare of Genghis Khan
Eppur Si Muove
A Change Is Gonna Come
And of course "Take Out the Trash Day".
Space: 1999 "Matter of Life and Death" - just drop an indefinite article and the double meaning becomes brilliantly clever.
I would say it almost certainly comes from the first Tim Burton Batman film, where Jack Nicholson's Joker character uses this line like a catchphrase: "You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?" The song you mention is probably quoting that...
Funny-y'all missed one of the best sources. Babylon 5 had great titles.
Midnight On the Firing Line
Parliament Of Dreams
The Geometry of Shadows
A Race Through Dark Places
Passing Through Gethsemane
A Late Delivery From Avalon
And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
Falling Towards Apotheosis
Intersections In Real Time
The Deconstruction Of Falling Stars
And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
Sleeping In Light
I also like some of the DS9 and nuBSG ones mentioned earlier.
And the original Twilight Zone had a few:
Mr. Denton On Doomsday(love the alliteration)
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
The Big Tall Wish
King Nine Will Not Return
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
To Serve Man(so classic its a cliche)
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
I Am the Night-Color Me Black
The Self-Improvement Of Salvadore Ross
A lot of shows have clever titles-Heroes, for example. The best are ones that stick with you.
For the World Is Hollow... for example. I love a clever title, myself. Good thread, OP!
Midnight On the Firing Line
Parliament Of Dreams
The Geometry of Shadows
A Race Through Dark Places
Passing Through Gethsemane
A Late Delivery From Avalon
And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
Falling Towards Apotheosis
Intersections In Real Time
The Deconstruction Of Falling Stars
And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
Sleeping In Light
I also like some of the DS9 and nuBSG ones mentioned earlier.
And the original Twilight Zone had a few:
Mr. Denton On Doomsday(love the alliteration)
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
The Big Tall Wish
King Nine Will Not Return
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
To Serve Man(so classic its a cliche)
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
I Am the Night-Color Me Black
The Self-Improvement Of Salvadore Ross
A lot of shows have clever titles-Heroes, for example. The best are ones that stick with you.
For the World Is Hollow... for example. I love a clever title, myself. Good thread, OP!
And here I was thinking they got it from Alan Jackson's song "Chattahoochee".
(contains the line '...a pyramid of cans in the pale moonlight')That was a joke, BTW.
Similar threads
