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1. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in rough-and-tumble Dodge City.

Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis

Votes: 8,808

2. Hazel (1961–1966)

30 min | Comedy

The misadventures of the Baxter family and their live-in maid, Hazel Burke.

Stars: Shirley Booth, Bobby Buntrock, Don DeFore, Whitney Blake

Votes: 2,129

3. Dennis the Menace (1959–1963)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Television episodes built around the same sorts of incidents found in Hank Ketcham's long-running comic strip.

Stars: Herbert Anderson, Jay North, Gloria Henry, Billy Booth

Votes: 2,564

4. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)

30 min | Comedy

Stories mostly centered on The Kingfish's schemes to get rich, often by duping his brothers in the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge. Andy was particularly dupable. Amos mostly narrated.

Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Johnny Lee

Votes: 837

5. You Are There (1953–1972)

30 min | Drama, History

Walter Cronkite hosted the reenactments of historical events. Shows included "The Landing of the Hindenburg", "The Salem Witchcraft Trials", "The Gettysburg Address", "The Fall of Troy", and "The Scuttling of the Graf Spee".

Stars: Walter Cronkite, Todd Hunter, Paul Birch, Harlow Wilcox

Votes: 206

6. Alcoa Theatre (1957–1960)

30 min | Drama

When The Alcoa Hour dramatic anthology series moved from Sunday night to Monday, both the name and the format were changed. Instead of having a completely different cast for each episode, ... See full summary »

Stars: Jack Lemmon, David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell

Votes: 91

7. Goodyear Theatre (1957–1960)

30 min | Drama

Goodyear Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC.

Stars: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Peter Leeds

Votes: 69

8. Dick Tracy (1967 TV Movie)

28 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Supervillain Mr. Memory has three ambassadors set to attend a secret NATO conference about the Western European Defense System kidnapped in order to derail NATO and benefit an unnamed group... See full summary »

Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Ray MacDonnell, Davey Davison, Jan Shutan, Monroe Arnold

Votes: 64

9. The Sergeant and the Lady (1958 TV Movie)

Comedy

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Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Peggie Castle, Jack Lord, Barbara Whiting, Vaughn Taylor

10. Adventure Showcase (1959– )

30 min

Intended just to fill an empty slot in CBS's summer lineup, this Tuesday evening program consisted of pilot episodes from various other hopeful adventure and action dramas that had not been... See full summary »

Stars: Joe De Santis, Keith Andes, Ken Clark, Randy Stuart

Votes: 11

11. Adventure Showcase (1959– )
Episode: Brock Callahan (1959)

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Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Ken Clark, Randy Stuart, Richard Shannon, Brett Halsey

12. Alcoa Theatre (1957–1960)
Episode: 30 Pieces of Silver (1959)

30 min | Drama

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Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Robert Ellenstein, Michael Fox, Miriam Goldina, Lee Kinsolving

13. Alcoa Theatre (1957–1960)
Episode: Coast to Coast (1958)

30 min | Drama

Up and coming Hollywood star Damon Phillips is about to be married to another star, and big offers are on the way, yet he has one nagging worry- that his first wife that he ran out on will ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Kay Stewart, Whitney Blake, Francis De Sales

14. Alcoa Theatre (1957–1960)
Episode: Corporal Hardy (1959)

30 min | Drama

Old man recollects on his Civil War service during the Battle of Chancellorsville and his heroic efforts, crossing rebel lines, to ensure his captain received a decent burial.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Lew Ayres, Tyler MacDuff, Walter Coy, James Anderson

15. Alcoa Theatre (1957–1960)
Episode: Strange Occurrence at Rokesay (1958)

30 min | Drama

At a fog-bound RAF airport, a quiet night is broken by the sound of a sputtering aeroplane motor , but only the flight lieutenant hears it. Soon a strange message in a canister is found, ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: John Kerr, Tom Helmore, Patrick Macnee, Richard Peel

16. Alcoa Theatre (1957–1960)
Episode: The Silent Kill (1960)

30 min | Drama

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Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Ken Clark, Randy Stuart, Richard Shannon, Brett Halsey

Votes: 9

17. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Amos Helps Out (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Feeling that he's unappreciated by his wife, Kingfish concocts a scheme to cause Sapphire to believe they were never legally married.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 18

18. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Andy Buys a House (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Kingfish goes to work for a real estate company. He sells a house to Andy, without informing him that it must be moved because the underlying lot has been condemned to make room for a new highway.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 25

19. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Andy Falls in Love with an Actress (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Andy meets a pretty girl who is an actress. He, with Kingfish's help, manages to get cast in a play with her-with predictably disastrous results.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Johnny Lee

Votes: 14

20. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Andy Gets a Telegram (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Andy gets a job opportunity in Brazil. Kingfish seeks to steal the opportunity from Andy, but is foiled when it is discovered that that opportunity was fake, designed by Sapphire to keep Kingfish away from Andy's "bad influence."

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 19

21. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Antique Shop (1952)

30 min | Comedy

The Kingfish tries to sell a friend's antique shop so he can earn $250 commission. Naturally this involves his usual schemes and this episode has some classic malapropisms.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Johnny Lee

Votes: 21

22. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Arabia (1952)

30 min | Comedy

Kingfish concocts a plot to collect a $200 fee by getting Andy to become a welder in Arabia. His plan is to convince him that he is going on an elaborate vacation.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 21

23. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Call Lehigh 4-9900 (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Sapphire tells Kingfish to burn some old clothes; rather, he tries to pawn them off on Andy. An old telephone number in a pocket reads, "The Best in Town." This leads to a few predicaments beyond Kingfish's control.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 26

24. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Classified Ad (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Andy advertises for a wife. The girl he chooses needs expensive dental work. After the work is done she tells him she is going to marry her old sweetheart.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Johnny Lee

Votes: 13

25. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Cousin Effie's Will (1952)

30 min | Comedy

In order to receive his $2,000 share of the will the Kingfish must have a male child so he decides to adopt Andy and try to pull that off.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 16

26. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Income Tax Show (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Andy and the Kingfish run afoul of the tax man when Andy forgets to mail their returns.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Johnny Lee

Votes: 20

27. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Jewelry Store Robbery (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Andy inadvertently shoots a photograph of a jewelry store robber, and the Kingfish tries to gyp him out of half the $1,000 reward.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 24

28. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Kingfish Buys a Chair (1953)

30 min | Comedy

The Kingfish and Andy strike it rich when a chair they accidentally buy at auction turns out to be stuffed with $100,000.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 17

29. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Kingfish Finds His Future (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Feeling he's a failure at life, the Kingfish decides to take a series of aptitude tests to determine what his career should be.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 16

30. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Kingfish Gets Drafted (1951)

30 min | Comedy

The local draft board mixes up the Kingfish with another George Stevens.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 47

31. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Kingfish Goes to Work (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Kingfish gets a job at a college. When he finds the work too hard he hires Andy with the understanding he is working towards a degree.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 18

32. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Kingfish Has a Baby (1951)

30 min | Comedy

The Kingfish decides to reform because he thinks he is about to become a father.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 24

33. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Kingfish at the Ball Game (1953)

30 min | Comedy

A $3,000 ring falls into the box of the Kingfish's Crispy Jacks and leads to no end of trouble.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Johnny Lee

Votes: 24

34. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Kingfish's Secretary (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Sapphire becomes jealous over Kingfish's new lodge hall secretary.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 34

35. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Leroy Lends a Hand (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Sapphire's brother, LeRoy comes to live with them. He goes to work for Kingfish and Andy at their parking lot. Thinking it is a used car lot, he inadvertently sells one of the cars.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 20

36. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Leroy's Suits (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Kingfish and Andy agree to hold a clearance sale on some suits that one of Kingfish's relatives wants to get rid of. Lighnin' writes down the wrong address, though, and the boys get in hot ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 19

37. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Mr. Jackson Comes to Town (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Sapphire hires a man to portray her old flame in order to make Kingfish jealous. Kingfish tries everything he can to keep his marriage intact.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 15

38. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Quo Vadis (1951)

30 min | Comedy

When an old school chum visits New York, the Kingfish poses as a millionaire in order to perpetuate a hometown myth that he's an extremely successful New York businessman.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 19

39. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Ready-Made Family (1951)

30 min | Comedy

The Kingfish must put together a phony family quickly to convince his visiting Uncle Clarence to keep him in his will after he lied to him in a letter that he had a baby to scam him out of a $500 baby gift.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 17

40. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Relatives (1951)

30 min | Comedy

After Sapphire's mama moves in with the Kingfish and Sapphire a domestic court judge orders Mama to remain nuetral and to stay out of all arguments between man and wife. Naturally the Kingfish uses this order to his advantage

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 17

41. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Seeing Is Believing (1953)

30 min | Comedy

When circumstantial evidence indicates that George is seeing another woman, Sapphire takes Mama's advice by faking an affair with Andy, in hopes of making George jealous.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 19

42. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Society Party (1953)

30 min | Comedy

The Stevens are invited to a fancy party. In order to be able to buy Sapphire a new dress, Kingfish sells her fur coat to Andy not knowing she wants to wear it that night.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 20

43. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Adoption (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Sapphire and the Kingfish want to adopt a child. Kingfish tries to scam the adoption agency into believing he is a man of means.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 17

44. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Ballet Tickets (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Kingfish finds a wallet. The owner tells the police his pocket was picked and that the wallet contained $245 and ballet tickets. The police show up at the ballet and arrest Sapphire and Mama whom Kingfish had given the tickets.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 16

45. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Birthday Card (1953)

30 min | Comedy

It's Kingfish's birthday and when Sapphire discovers that her husband has received a birthday card from a secret feminine admirer she goes into a jealous rage. Desperate to keep his wife ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 15

46. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Boarder (1952)

30 min | Comedy

Sapphire rents a room to an obnoxious boarder. In an attempt to get him to leave Kingfish rents the same room to Andy and Calhoun such that they have to share the room.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 17

47. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Broken Clock (1952)

30 min | Comedy

The lodge gives the Kingfish a clock as a present. Unfortunately the clock doesn't work so he and Andy decide to return it to the factory but things don't go as smoothly as planned.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 23

48. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Christmas Story (1952)

30 min | Comedy

Andy, broke as usual, is desperate to earn money so he can give his god-daughter a talking doll for Christmas. He convinces a manager to hire him as a department store Santa Claus on ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Nick Stewart

Votes: 33

49. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Convention (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Kingfish, his lodge brothers and Sapphire's auxiliary attend a convention. When they arrive Kingfish gives his money to a man claiming to be from the Protection Committee. Later, when he ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 16

50. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Diner (1951)

30 min | Comedy

While out for a Sunday drive with Sapphire and Mama the Kingfish sees a diner for sale so he and Andy go in together to buy it. Of course things don't work out as planned thanks to a new ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 22