M*A*S*H, did a two part episode that was shot in black and white, as if it was a newsreel and there was no laugh track.
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Top ten TV episodes that broke their established conventions.
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"Family Ties", did an episode where Alex was dealing with the death of a friend and toward the end it broke into a onstage play with Michael J. Fox performing on a black-box stage.
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"The Drew Carey Show", a great live show.
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"The Simpsons", behind the laughter episode.
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"All in the Family", the episode where Archie gets locked in the basement by himself and drinks a bottle of scotch and breaks down and cries. Basically Carroll O'Conner doing a 22 minute one man play
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M*A*S*H again. They did an episode shot from the POV of a wounded soldier.
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M*A*S*H, yet again. The episode where they had a ticking clock in the corner of the screen showing how long their patient had to live.
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"WKRP", the Christmas episode that followed the Dickensian 'A Christmas Carlol'.
