Episode Titles: Some of the Good Ones

Some instructors at my college like to emphasize essay titles--the cleverer the better--and they have a point! 

I rarely remember to cover titles in classes. Consequently, when students ask, I usually shrug and tell them to use the title of the assignment. 

In my own writing, when drafting, I tend towards nineteenth-century titles, such as "The book about the wolf boy from the prior book who turns out to have roots in medieval times, which discovery will entail an investigation" or "The Jane Austen off-shoot book of the world I created that tackles Miltonesque ideas at an Agatha Christie commonsense level." 

So, I always appreciate those who can create a good pithy title! 

The Finger in the Nest--Literally!

Bones, of course, did the titles with prepositions, which I get a kick out of: "Two Bodies in the Lab" and "The Girl with the Curl" and "Judas on a Pole."

Murdoch Mysteries uses this approach quite often, playing off of "Murdoch" as in "Dial M for Murdoch" or "Murdoch at the Opera."

However, although I think the show itself is all over the place writing- and everything-else-wise--and I rarely watch the two-parters--I really love Murdoch Mysteries two-parter titles. I think they are so evocative:

"Everything is Broken" 

"Sometimes They Come Back"