that was SO sad!! (Lost, tv show, shows, happened)

[Capt. Dan]

Are there any scenes from TV shows that you thought were SO sad? Maybe even made you feel like crying? 3 come to my memory-
1-MASH. Radar walks back in the OR and tells of Henry Blakes plane crash. Radar begins to cry as he says "there were no survivors." This scene caught me totally off guard!
2-Saturday Night Live Steve Martin tries thru tears to introduce a dance scene he did with Gilda Radner shortly before she died. Turns out it was the last scene they did together. You could tell he was really struggling to keep it together.
3-The Tonight Show Bette Midler singing "One More for My Baby and One More For The Road" to Johnny Carson as his last guest. Johnny trying his best to be stoic. But it didnt work.

[BlueWillowPlate]

Lt Dan, you got me choked up just with your post!
I remember all three of those.

One that got to me, I was just a kid: Walter Cronkite announcing the death of JFK. It wasn't a TV show, obviously, but a memorable televised moment.

Another I remember: the Doogie Howser that was a fictionalized portrayal of the illness and finally the death (AIDs) of the artist Keith Haring.

[domergurl]

Watching the towers fall. Cried like a baby. All those people ... poof.

Yes, watching Steve Martin try to maintain his composure was deeply sad. I also remember watching the Steve Farley tribute when they showed him interviewing Paul McCartney, Mike Meyers had a really hard time keeping it together. And I get choked up whenever I see the Belushi Schiller's reel where he's dancing on the graves of all the other cast members.

The episode of All in the Family when Edith dies .. ugh!!! I even remember seeing my DAD cry during that one.

[Capt. Dan]

Originally Posted by domergurl

Watching the towers fall. Cried like a baby. All those people ... poof.

Yes, watching Steve Martin try to maintain his composure was deeply sad. I also remember watching the Steve Farley tribute when they showed him interviewing Paul McCartney, Mike Meyers had a really hard time keeping it together. And I get choked up whenever I see the Belushi Schiller's reel where he's dancing on the graves of all the other cast members.

The episode of All in the Family when Edith dies .. ugh!!! I even remember seeing my DAD cry during that one.

Now that I think about it--I've never seen the episode where Edith dies! How could i have missed that? That must have been HORRIBLE! Was it cancer? And dont I recall an episode where she was raped that was real sad?

[LaoTzuMindFu]

Wasnt so much a TV show, but I just about lost it when I saw Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic flame. That was really touching.

Magic Johnson's news conference announcing he had HIV and was retiring from the Lakers. I remember everyone at work crowded around the TV in the boardroom and there were lots of tears.

Hank Stram and Walter Payton's Hall Of Fame induction ceremonies. This event chokes me up every year.

The last episode of Hill Street Blues where the "Lets be careful out there" seargant appeared in. I was a little kid at the time and new he died but still got choked up over that one.

Cheers when Coach died.

[domergurl]

Originally Posted by DaBeez

Cheers when Coach died.

YES!!!!

The All in the Family episode, Edith, I believe, died of a stroke. It was sudden. Archie was in full on denial throughout the entire episode, then he goes upstairs and finds one of Edith's slippers under the bed. He grabs it and says "I was supposed to be the first one to go" and bawls like a baby.... WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need a drink.

[lovemaine]

I cried like a newborn when Bobby Simone died his long and painful death on NYPD Blue.

[regarese]

Originally Posted by lovemaine

I cried like a newborn when Bobby Simone died his long and painful death on NYPD Blue.

That and when Andy's wife was shot at the courthouse. I must have been the ONLY one who didn't read anything ahead of time and didn't know that was going to happen. When she tells him to take care of the baby...OMG!! I was sobbing.

The changing of the guard in front of Buckingham Palace with them playing our national anthem after the towers fell.

The ER episode when Anthony Edwards died and when George Clooney returned and was waiting at the dock for Carol.

When they pulled Baby Jessica out of the well. I was in 6th grade when that happened, but I still cried.

[Capt. Dan]

Originally Posted by domergurl

YES!!!!

The All in the Family episode, Edith, I believe, died of a stroke. It was sudden. Archie was in full on denial throughout the entire episode, then he goes upstairs and finds one of Edith's slippers under the bed. He grabs it and says "I was supposed to be the first one to go" and bawls like a baby.... WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need a drink.

Hoosier crybaby? DOMERGURL!!!

[Mooseketeer]

MASH would definitely up there.

My partner and I cried a lot when the last episode of Northern Exposure was broadcasted and it faded away to "our Town". I still can't listen to that song without crying.
I felt I had lost a family when NX finished.

A lot of the episodes in Law and Order SVU are quite harrowing and some have me all choked up.

I also remember one episode of Ally Mc Beal when the young transvestite prostitute in her care is murdered in her line of work. It was incredibly poignant and about the best episode in the whole series.