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appearing to walk off into heaven. However, following outcry from fans, who demanded a more satisfactory conclusion, an eighth, final season was produced, to bring Magnum "back to life", and to round the series off. The mystery of whether Higgins was Robin Masters, or not, was a highly anticipated series finale reveal. The mystery still has yet to be revealed. A number of other episodes also make reference to supernatural occurrences and the seeming existence of ghosts.
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would be renewed by The CW for an additional season as one of the holdover WB series.) The sixth (and final) season's finale episode was written to serve as a series finale, in which Brock and Barbara-Jean come to a reconciliation and Van and Cheyenne move back in with Reba, bringing the show to a
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had a premature series finale, as well. At the end of the seventh season, protagonist Thomas Magnum was to be killed off, which was intended to end the series. The final episode of the season, "Limbo", after seeing Magnum wander around as a ghost for nearly the entire run-time, closes with him
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No matter how critically lauded during their respective runs, relatively few popular television series finales end up pleasing critics and audiences universally, or escaping controversy. Prominent examples of controversial series finales include the final episodes of the comedies
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to name but a few. Some shows that have constantly been in danger of cancellation wrote every season finale with the idea that the episode would serve as a quality series finale if the network decided not to bring it back; in recent years from NBC's Thursday night comedy lineup,
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aired its two-part finale episode billed simply as a "My Finale" in May 2009 as the show's renewal or cancellation had not been decided as of its airing, and so it was not known whether the episode would conclude just the season or the entire series;
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Most early television series consisted of stand-alone episodes rather than continuing story arcs, so there was little reason to provide closure at the end of their runs. Early comedy series that had special finale episodes include
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wrote its fifth-season finale with the notion that whether the show found new life elsewhere or not, it would definitely not be returning to the network (while NBC did indeed cancel the show, it was renewed for a sixth season by
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Some series endings have proved divisive among viewers immediately on airing, leading to extensive discussions online, but ended up being generally lauded by critics. Notable examples of this trend are the finales of
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s final episode remains the all-time most-watched U.S. television episode (and so far, the only single television episode in U.S. history to be watched by at least 100 million viewers for a single telecast).
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Several television series have, however, managed to produce final episodes that lived up to both critics' and audiences' expectations. Examples include the twist endings that concluded both the
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was designed from start to make any season finale work as a series finale, in case of early cancelling the show. It is seen most primarily at the end of the first and fourth season.
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Several more series finales have received unanimous critical and popular acclaim, and are often considered as benchmarks for great TV endings. Recent examples include the finales of
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as a backdoor pilot for a potential spin-off series based on the characters Mia Smoak, Laurel Lance and Dinah Drake, however, the series was ultimately not picked up.
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used this formula for the season finales for Seasons 3–6, before getting a renewal for a seventh and final season where the series finale was planned in advance, and
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With the shift away from network television viewing toward cable television viewing (and later, internet use) that occurred during the decade between the finales of
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Television series finales frequently feature fundamental deviations from the central plot line, such as the resolution of a central mystery or problem, (e.g.
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finales, and the fourth and fifth most watched series finales in television history – respectively, those of the comedy
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in September 2006, and the resulting uncertainty over which WB series (as well as which series from CW co-predecessor
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Some planned spin-offs that influenced series finales, however, never materialized, as in the case of the proposed
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Considered to be "the series finale that invented the modern-day series finale," the August 1967 final episode of
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were about to divorce and end the show, a fact that the show's guest star for what would be the final program,
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the same night that the original ended, after star Kyra Sedgwick chose, as producer, to end the series.
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would eventually be renewed for one additional season, which became a de facto spin-off series titled
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Examples of universally acclaimed finales from earlier in the millennium include those of Britain's
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has had four designated series finales, due to the recurringly uncertain future of the series. "
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in June 1966. One of the few dramatic series to have a planned finale during this period was
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The second-most-watched series finale in U.S. television history was the 1993 finale of the
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The most watched series finale in U.S. television history remains the 1983 finale of the
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edged it out with 106 million viewers, which coincidentally also aired on CBS. However,
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was also intended as a series finale, as revealed by showrunner and executive producer
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Series finales will sometimes include clips or characters from the series' past (e.g.
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series finale was set up to lead into a new series with most of the remaining cast,
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held the record for most watched telecast of all-time for decades until 2010's
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s series finale, and much of its final season was used as a launching pad for
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that, instead of getting its own show, aired as an interstitial segment on
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is the final installment of an episodic entertainment series, most often a
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ranked at No. 22 on their list of "TV's Top 100 Episodes of All Time".
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A series finale may not be the last aired episode of a show, such as
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was in danger of being cancelled as a result of its original home,
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Ball of fire: the tumultuous life and comic art of Lucille Ball
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series finale acted as an introduction to its spin-off series
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finales, the mixture of comedy and resonance that wrapped up
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put it, "grazing Super Bowl country" in terms of viewership.
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in the final scene where Ricky unveils what he thinks is a
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With only slightly fewer viewers than the series finale of
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spin-off for Carmine that never came into fruition, or
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Final installment of an episodic entertainment series
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used its penultimate episode of its final season, "
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was the finale of its one-time follow-up on NBC's "
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