The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.

* Played by Alan David in the final episode of the BBC sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart,

On 17 September 2010 Coronation Street entered the Guinness World Records book as the world's longest-running television soap opera after the American soap opera As the World Turns had its final episode.

Hilda Ogden's final episode on Christmas Day 1987, remains the highest-rated episode of Coronation Street ever, with nearly 27 million viewers.

At the time, the final episode of The Fugitive held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale, at 72 % in August 1967.

* 1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.

The new episode features several new enemies ( including three new types of Pig Cops ) and a new final boss, robot CyberKeef.

He played " Faceman " from 1982 to 1986 ( although the series didn't air until January 1983, and the final episode wasn't shown until 1987 re-runs ).

The final episode of season 1 of Charmed, called " Déjà Vu All Over Again " sees Phoebe Halliwell reliving the same day over and over again at the hands of a demon named Tempus.

Vertov clearly intended an active relationship with his audience in the series — in the final segment he includes contact information — but by the 14th episode the series had become so experimental that some critics dismissed Vertov's efforts as " insane ".

Plato actually returned for several appearances during the show's final 1986 season, which appeared on ABC, including an episode ( Plato's final appearance in the series ) in which Kimberly suffers the effects of bulimia.

By this time, Davros has been physically transplanted into a customised Dalek casing and is only revealed as the Emperor in the final episode.

The final single, " Road to Love ," was poorly received. Jones and Maureen McCormick in 1971 during The Brady Bunch episode in which he was a guest star Jones also continued acting after the Monkees, either as himself or another character.

After the final episode, Friedman sat down for an interview with Lawrence Spivak.

Niles becomes infatuated with, and eventually loves Daphne — feelings he does not confess to her openly until the final episode of the seventh season.

He never follows through with his plans, though, as he is called to a dying Xavier's side in the series ' final episode.

Sarris demands the Omega 13, a device used at the very end of Galaxy Quests final episode.

Brooks surprised Lovullo by showing up last minute, ready to don his overalls and perform for the final episode.

The final episode aired on May 25, 1999 with a 90-minute finale, which was the fourth highest rated comedy series finale of the 1990s, behind Cheers, The Cosby Show and Seinfeld.

In an interview about his last episode (" Justice Denied ") in the 13th season of Law & Order: SVU, he discussed his character's final case and his time with the show.

Lovecraft, his influence is apparent in the Lovecraftian feel of the monsters for Quake, and he created the fourth and final " episode " of the game.

Spader was one of a number of prominent guest stars in " Search Committee ," the final episode of season 7 of The Office.

In a final twist, Bradley later went on to discover the existence of the nutation of the Earth's axis – the effect that he had originally considered to be the cause of aberration.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

* A final twist in the plot

At the end, it is revealed that the whole book actually takes place in a single moment, with a final twist that is an example of " cosmic irony ".

In a final twist, McCabe is mortally wounded, but also kills the third gunman with a derringer.

In a final twist to the story, 52 years later, Leo returns to Brandham.

The Scary Door, a show-within-a-show on Futurama parodying The Twilight Zone, pokes fun at the final twist in " Time Enough at Last ".

Green writes that Jesus ' final question ( which, in something of a " twist ," reverses the question originally asked ):

* A final twist in the plot

In the final twist, the narrator reveals that he has taken Skeeter's advice to commit suicide and is now himself a ghost.

Unlike the others, he was forcibly turned into a Dark Judge by Death and made to kill people against his will, while being allowed his normal feeling and remorse as " a final twist of the knife ".

Common twisted rope generally consists of three strands and is normally right-laid, or given a final right-handed twist.

Now out the £ 5 million from Big Tobacco, Alan experiences the final twist of the knife when he discovers that the goons who threatened him are not really drug kingpins, but were hired by Sarah to help her get revenge on him.

For that reason, in a final twist, Margaret Beckett had to be appointed formally as the last ever Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as well as becoming the first Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

The first half of the final line employs a “ twist ”: a surprise of meaning, sound, or other device.

In an ironic twist, Albion had overtaken another local rival-Wolves-who had been out of the top flight even longer, in the race for the run for second place by winning seven of their final nine league games.

There is an almost complete lack of levity, but the long, stern descriptions are given a final twist in an appended sentence.

Chelsea won 2 – 1 and, in a final twist, it was Webb who scored the winner.

His intervention drives the final twist in the plot, when he has enough authority to force a competing British intelligence agency to abandon a mission and the agent conducting it.

As a final twist, the evil Hyperion has broken free of his prison and has taken over Panoptichron.

Only in the final act, in which Nick meets with his vicious and perverse Joseph P. Kennedy-like ' father-figure ', is the truth revealed with a twist ending.

However the final page of the first issue of their comic book revealed that the Thunderbolts were the Masters of Evil in disguise, a surprise twist carefully guarded by Marvel.

Unlike chronological storylines, which progress through causes before reaching a final effect, reverse chronological storylines reveal the final effect before tracing the causes leading up to it ; therefore, the initial cause represents a " twist ending.