Saddest moment on TV

the bridges of Madison county , when she doesn't get out of the truck . he wants her to go to him, he puts the chain she gave him on his mirror where she can see it, the lights are green , he is waiting . her hand is on the door to go , still she doesn't go to him. he waits , she cries , he goes, out of her life forever, she is heartbroken . i cry every time

The Anime: Wolf's Rain...

A lot of the ones I'd have listed have already been mention but +1 to this one...

Adamantium wrote: »

Battlestar Galactica.

Laura's last few minutes on the grass plains of Africa watching the wildlife, Adama burying her, and the last shot of him sitting next to her grave talking to her on the hillside as the music soars.

"I laid out the cabin today. It's gonna have an easterly view. You should see the light that we get here, when the sun comes from behind those mountains. It's almost heavenly. It reminds me of you."

That scene made my wife - who only 2 months earlier I had convince to sit down and watch the BSG mini-series - cry her eyes out... at which point I did a little dance and said "told you you'd cry at the end, boom!" Sci-fi can be wonderful.

Only Fools and Horses had some fantastic moments too...
- Del with his new born son looking out the window talking to his dead Mum. Another baby related one is Cassandra losing the baby.
- Del taking the beating from the money-leaders rather than let Rodney down.
- When Granddad died

So many moments in Gevais's show, Derek too
- Putting the dog down
- The scene where he at first ignores his Dad who abandoned him and then chases after him

im amazed nobody threw this in yet

Venus In Furs wrote: »

That's a really good scene: the way Carlton hasn't a clue about racism and thinks the cops were just having a bad day.

I only saw it for the first time recently. It's a very powerful scene. Carlton's dad is a lawyer, they have a butler and they're obviously solidly upper middle class. But then the cops can cut them right down to size. It really struck me how relevant that still is today, given the racial tension still ongoing in America. Its not something I expected to be hit with in a show like that. Its a scene that really stayed with me.

lazygal wrote: »

I only saw it for the first time recently. It's a very powerful scene. Carlton's dad is a lawyer, they have a butler and they're obviously solidly upper middle class. But then the cops can cut them right down to size. It really struck me how relevant that still is today, given the racial tension still ongoing in America. Its not something I expected to be hit with in a show like that. Its a scene that really stayed with me.

Also the episode where Will's Dad walks out on him and Will cockily brushing it off to Uncle Phil, then breaking down.

Powerful stuff for a light hearted show.

The ending of Pilgrim Hill, film about rural isolation and a lonely farmer, it just ruined me.

The Mission
The death of Ayrton Senna, taking into consideration how uneasy he was about getting into the car with the death of Roland Ratzenberger the previous day.

Band of Brothers ending has gotten a few mentions but the penultimate (I think?) episode where

Might be an idea for everyone to spoiler tag from here on in. Already got quite a bit more ruined on me than i'd planned.

JaseBelleVie wrote: »

Also, the 1963 episode of Reeling In The Years. It was on not so long ago and it showed JFK arriving in Dallas. The music being played over the scenes of that fateful day was "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Gerry and the Pacemakers. Heart-wrenching.

Made all the worse by the fact that my mother and her family basically worshipped the Kennedy family, and part of it rubbed off on me. It was such a sad and awful time in history and probably altered the course of mankind for the worse when Kennedy was assassinated.

When those scenes came up on the screen, I'm not going to lie, I got all teary and upset at it.

You should read Stephen King's 22./11/1963!

Twink pleading for the return of her beloved dog Teddy.

I found One Million Dubliners really really sad. (I wont spoil it on folk).

Left me in tears

:-(

AJ's in The Sopranos still leaves me teary-eyed.

It was so stark, realistic, pathetic and heartbreaking. The bit where Tony goes from yelling at him to stroking his hair and calling him his baby just destroys me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdq_EfSfhrg

I watched this show once with Danny Dyer, where he was in this football stadium to witness (in his words) a ridiculously dangerous goal celebration (I think it was gremio in brazil).
Celebration took place - Danny, being the well ard geeza that he is, escaped unscathed - it was heart breaking.
I'd foolishly let my imagination run wild and had already mentally moved into a post dyer world only to be yanked back to reality.
Jesus, I hate Danny Dyer.