The WB Frog has one more major hop-dance in it before it croaks forever. The WB will call it quits forever on Sunday, Sept. 17, by remembering its heydays and will show the episodes of several of its major headlining program’s pilots which will include genre favs “Angel” and “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.”

The final farewell celebration will last a full 5-hours on that Sunday from 5:00 to 10:00 PM EST.

The night will start off with the J.J. Abrams – Matt Reeves created “Felicity,” followed at 6 by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt’s “Angel,” followed by the two-hour pilot to Whedon’s “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.” “Dawson’s Creek” will close out the channel’s fond farewell.

Another of its genre shows, “Smallville” will not be showcased because it continues to have life on the new CW Network. The CW Channel came about with the merger of The WB and UPN late last year. “7th Heaven” also moves to CW so will not be featured in this last fling tribute to the Frog Network.

The UPN Network has yet to announce if it will mark its own demise, which takes place the previous Friday, Sept. 15. One rumor flying around is the network may simply shut off the lights after its usual weekly airing of “Friday Night Smackdown.

In my humble opinion, UPN ought to review a whole night of STAR TREK: Enterprise just to show the whole world how badly they messed up by cancelling the show that was their main tentpole.

I said it at the time the Paramount network made such a blunder and it bears repeating now – “One day UPN will be gone forever and STAR TREK will still be alive, well and pushing the boundries of classic scifi entertainment.” Am I a prophet, or what?