What episode have you seen the most times?
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I too had a notebook that I filled with episode titles in the late 80s when watching TOS in repeat syndictation and the then-new TNG episodes every Saturday night.
Have to say I have seen Encounter at Farpoint or The Best of Both Worlds more than any other episode. But memory is not what it once was.
Watching "C & E" once felt like watching it more often than any other episode.
I've probably watched "The Inner Light" the most. I've seen most of the TNG episodes three times or more and TOS, about half of Enterprise and most of DS9 once or twice.
Doomsday machine..It was one of the few episodes I recorded onto audiotape back in the early 70s..played that tape until I got a video player in the mid 80s..and bootlegged me a VHS copy..played that until the DVD came out and played that until I got my Blu-Ray complete series...
I still play the hell outta that disk...
I still play the hell outta that disk...
How I just long for the days when series videos were sold everywhere and one did not need a DVD box set.
Surprisingly it's probably Where No One Has Gone Before from TNG. It's not like an episode that I love or anything, it just always happened to be on. The network that showed reruns of TNG would always start from Season 1, do a couple of seasons, and then inexplicably go back to the beginning. Whenever I'd catch it, that episode would usually be on. Stupid Traveler.
Another shout for Where No One Has Gone Before coupled with The Last Outpost. Seen neither for years, but it was the first VHS I was gifted by my parents way back in my eighties childhood!
My second VHS gifted to myself was Peak Performance/Shades Of Grey, so I've probably watched these just as heavily. Always liked Shades Of Grey as it showed some good scenes from previous seasons that I didn't own!
*I realise I am very alone in having liked this episode!
That's a tough call, but I'd say I've seen "Best of Both Worlds" (both parts) twelve or fifteen times over the course of my life. I think that's at least partially because it's something I like to show to someone who's never seen TNG before.
I've seen every single episode of every series the exact same number of times. I watch a series front start to finish every time.
And how many times is that?
Probably those in most fans Top 10 or Top 20 lists. Gazillions of times. Uncounted times. Something befitting of Shatner's line about "needing to get a life".
It's eased off somewhat since my VHS days... when I seriously did have a problem. I wouldn't ever stop the tape, in case it got caught up in the machine or left a drop-out, flashy line on the picture!
Having said that, I did fall asleep watching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan on Blu ray last night.
Classic relapse behaviour.
It's eased off somewhat since my VHS days... when I seriously did have a problem. I wouldn't ever stop the tape, in case it got caught up in the machine or left a drop-out, flashy line on the picture!
Having said that, I did fall asleep watching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan on Blu ray last night.
Classic relapse behaviour.
OH VHS tapes.. I used to just about murder anyone who actually wanted to fast forward through the credits. Besides not wanting to miss the music (who cares if I've heard it 100 times?!) there could be damage !! To the precious tape !! Which I had probably bought used from the video store already so it was this fragile perfect thing.. and if I had bought it new it was even more perfect so PLEASE do not rewind, fast forward or breath upon it. Thank you.
This probably doesn't apply, because in the US, I understand episodes were on individual tapes. But here in the UK, they came in twos or threes. So I'd be sitting through "Charlie X" just to get to "Balance of Terror". Or "Transfigurations" for "Best of Both Worlds". "The Assignment" for "Trials and Tribble-ations".
"The Offspring" with "Yesterday's Enterprise" was a great pairing coincidence though. You know it's a great season you're watching, when there are two classic episodes in a row. Neither felt like an A and B side... Although I'm sure one or the other were probably the bottle-show, with nobody going down to a planet or the ship involved in some expensive, non-stock shot FX.
"The Offspring" with "Yesterday's Enterprise" was a great pairing coincidence though. You know it's a great season you're watching, when there are two classic episodes in a row. Neither felt like an A and B side... Although I'm sure one or the other were probably the bottle-show, with nobody going down to a planet or the ship involved in some expensive, non-stock shot FX.
Yes in Australia there were 2 or 3 episodes to each tape. So there would be a lot of having to enforce no one skipping an episode.
Oh and the things already took up so much room, thank goodness they were not one tape per episode!
Also I remember when the first season of ENT came out on VHS and then getting told no more ENT would be available in that format.
Oh and the things already took up so much room, thank goodness they were not one tape per episode!
Also I remember when the first season of ENT came out on VHS and then getting told no more ENT would be available in that format.
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