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In the weeks to come, we'll see the finale of Frasier, not to mention The Chris Isaak Show and Angel. As we prepare for one goodbye party after the next, let's look back at some of TV's biggest farewells.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1977): When a new management team takes over WJM-TV, bombastic anchorman Ted Baxter is convinced he'll be fired. Instead, it's everyone but Ted who gets the ax.

The episode famously closes with Mary, Lou, Murray, Ted, Sue Ann and Georgette embracing in TV's most famous group hug.

"We'll all need some Kleenex," says Ed Asner as the curmudgeonly newsman Lou Grant.

"There's some on Mary's desk," says Georgia Engel as Georgette, prompting the cluster of flesh to migrate en masse.

The news team walks out the door while singing, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary," with Mary pausing at the newsroom door before flicking off the lights.

Newhart (1990): In one of the most surreal moments in TV history, Bob Newhart ends his show by waking up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette — who played his wife on the old Bob Newhart Show.

"Honey," Newhart says, "you won't believe the dream I just had. I dreamt was an innkeeper a crazy little town" — implying that Newhart, a TV show about a Vermont Innkeeper, was just a dream in the mind of his former character, psychologist Bob Hartley.