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1. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The trials of a master criminal defense attorney handling the most difficult cases in support of the innocent.
Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, Ray Collins
Votes: 11,881
2. 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: 8,778
3. Bonanza (1959–1973)
TV-PG | 49 min | Western
The Wild West adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their Nevada ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Stars: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 11,039
4. My Three Sons (1960–1972)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Widower Steve Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and is later aided by the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
Stars: Fred MacMurray, Stanley Livingston, Don Grady, Barry Livingston
Votes: 4,501
5. The Virginian (1962–1971)
TV-PG | 75 min | Western
Personable Western series based in Wyoming from the 1890s onward.
Stars: Doug McClure, James Drury, Lee J. Cobb, Sara Lane
Votes: 3,172
6. Ironside (1967–1975)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Wheelchair-using, crime-fighting detective Robert T. Ironside battles the bad guys on the streets of San Francisco.
Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Barbara Anderson
Votes: 4,103
7. The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family
A loving mother and wife deals with situations and problems of a middle-class family in the late 1950s and the early 1960s.
Stars: Donna Reed, Paul Petersen, Carl Betz, Shelley Fabares
Votes: 1,896
8. The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, History
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton
Votes: 2,708 | Gross: $5.97M
9. Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969–1976)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama
Dr. Marcus Welby, a general practitioner, and Steven Kiley, Welby's young assistant. The two try to treat people as individuals in an age of specialized medicine and indifferent physicians.
Stars: Robert Young, James Brolin, Elena Verdugo, Pamela Hensley
Votes: 1,794
10. Dan August (1970–1971)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Detective August works the crime beat in his home town, Santa Luisa CA, working with (and against) people with whom he grew up.
Stars: Burt Reynolds, Norman Fell, Richard Anderson, Ned Romero
Votes: 351
11. Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
Two peanut vendors at a traveling rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne
Votes: 1,737
12. Arabian Nights (1942)
Approved | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The caliph of Baghdad must go into hiding with a group of traveling performers when his brother usurps the throne. Both brothers desire a beautiful dancing girl, who is torn between power and true love.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu, Leif Erickson
Votes: 1,667 | Gross: $3.71M
13. Pardon My Sarong (1942)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce, Robert Paige
Votes: 2,408
14. Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy
When a barnstorming stunt pilot joins the Air Corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him.
Directors: Arthur Lubin, Ralph Ceder | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye, Carol Bruce
Votes: 1,753
15. Hit the Ice (1943)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
Two newspaper photographers get mixed up with gangsters at a ski resort.
Directors: Charles Lamont, Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Ginny Simms, Patric Knowles
Votes: 1,718
16. Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
An orphan discovers that she has an anonymous benefactor who is willing to pay her college tuition, unaware he's the same man who has been romantically pursuing her.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Mary Pickford, Milla Davenport, Percy Haswell, Fay Lemport
Votes: 1,475
17. The Painted Hills (1951)
G | 68 min | Drama, Family, Western
An intrepid dog comes to the rescue when a boy's life is put at risk by the greed inflamed by a gold strike.
Director: Harold F. Kress | Stars: Pal, Paul Kelly, Bruce Cowling, Gary Gray
Votes: 1,257
18. Gunslinger (1961– )
60 min | Western
Cord, a gunfighter, works undercover for the local Army garrison Commander, trying to help keep peace in the territory.
Stars: Tony Young, Preston Foster, Midge Ware, Dee Pollock
Votes: 65
19. The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964–1965)
30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Animated series featuring Jim Backus's Mr. Magoo character in half-hour adaptations of classic stories for children. Praised by both critics and educators, and well-remembered by fans, the ... See full summary »
Stars: Jim Backus, Joan Gardner, Marvin Miller, Paul Frees
Votes: 667
20. Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd
Votes: 545
21. A Day's Pleasure (1919)
TV-G | 20 min | Short, Comedy
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, C. Allen, Naomi Bailey
Votes: 3,647
22. Deliverance (1919)
85 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Helen Keller and how she overcame her disabilities.
Director: George Foster Platt | Stars: Etna Ross, Edith Lyle, Roy Stewart, Betty Schade
Votes: 128
23. Between Us Girls (1942)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A young actress tries to help her mother's romance by deception, and winds up in some hilarious escapades before learning her lesson.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Diana Barrymore, Robert Cummings, Kay Francis, John Boles
Votes: 110
24. The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour (1973– )
60 min | Comedy, Music
Summer variety series hosted by comedy team Burns & Schreiber.
Stars: Loretta Swit, George Carlin, Tina Turner, Teresa Graves
Votes: 36
25. Son of the Navy (1940)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama
Actually, the sailor wants nothing to do with the boy, who we eventually find out is an orphan who ran away from the orphanage, trying to find a new Mom and Dad. The sailor, not knowing ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Jean Parker, James Dunn, Martin Spellman, Selmer Jackson
Votes: 129
26. The Hazards of Helen (1914)
1,428 min | Action
Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same track is running wild, mounts a motorcycle and speeds down the track to warn the passengers of their imminent peril.
Directors: J. Gunnis Davis, J.P. McGowan, Robert G. Vignola, Helen Holmes, Paul Hurst, Leo D. Maloney | Stars: Helen Holmes, Helen Gibson, J.P. McGowan, Ethel Clisbee
Votes: 122
27. Supply and Demand (1922)
Short, Comedy
A boy and girl take over a consignment of mouse traps to sell for two other children whose efforts have not met with success.
Director: Mason N. Litson | Stars: Edward Peil Jr., Gertrude Messinger, True Boardman, Kenneth Green
28. The Bigelow Theatre (1950–1951)
30 min | Drama, Family
A live CBS half-hour dramatic anthology series, but on two networks in its second season (as "Bigelow-Sanford Theater"); Sunday evenings over CBS and Thursday evenings over DuMont.
Stars: Don DeFore, William Frawley, Jeffrey Silver, Ann Dvorak
Votes: 59
29. The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948–1950)
30 min | Drama
This was an anthology series which aired live. It often featured adaptations of one-act stage plays.
Stars: Guy Kibbee, Faye Emerson, John Conte, Vicki Cummings
Votes: 53
30. Meet Mrs. Swenson (1956)
29 min | Short
A GE-sponsored short film about a housewife hoping to move with her family to a newly electrified house, but instead winds up with a house so old, even the maid her husband hires won't help.
Director: True Boardman | Stars: Frances Robinson, Myron Healey, Sheila James Kuehl, Michael Winkelman
31. For Rent: Haunted (1922)
Comedy, Short
The children put through an ingenious scheme to rent a haunted house to save an old woman from eviction.
Director: Mason N. Litson | Stars: Edward Peil Jr., Gertrude Messinger, True Boardman, Kenneth Green
32. Makin' Movies (1922)
Short, Comedy
A group of children attempt to make a film of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and by accident make a real comedy of it - giving it a ludicrous touch that makes it a far more agreeable subject than it is in the way it is usually portrayed.
Director: Mason N. Litson | Stars: Edward Peil Jr., True Boardman, Kenneth Green, Newton Hall
33. The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953)
30 min | Drama
Also known as 'Mirror Theater', this was an American anthology drama television series.
Stars: Robin Chandler, Ellen Corby, Glenn Langan, Ralph Meeker
Votes: 159
34. Below the Deadline (1936)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Cecilia Parker, Russell Hopton, Theodore von Eltz, Thomas E. Jackson
Votes: 161
35. Starlight Theatre (1950–1951)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Mary Sinclair, Durward Kirby, Alfred Ryder, Virginia Gilmore
Votes: 28
36. A Is for Atom (1953)
14 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Animated classic presenting what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peacetime uses of atomic energy and the byproducts of nuclear fission.
Director: Carl Urbano | Star: John Hiestand
Votes: 107
37. The Silver Theatre (1949–1950)
30 min | Drama, Romance
The teleplays normally concerned the various aspects of romance.
Stars: Conrad Nagel, George Reeves, Don DeFore, Diana Lynn
Votes: 32
38. The Flirt (1922)
80 min | Comedy, Crime
Cora, a flirt, and the pampered pet of the entire Madison family who sacrifice to humor her whims, becomes engaged to Richard Lindley who does not know that Laura Madison silently loves him... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: George Nichols, Lydia Knott, Eileen Percy, Helen Jerome Eddy
39. Colgate Theatre (1949–1950)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Neva Patterson, Mary K. Wells, Norma Jane Marlow, William Post Jr.
Votes: 13
40. The Owl Who Gave a Hoot (1967)
13 min | Animation, Short
A musical cartoon detailing the woes of a new family in a neighborhood beset by credit wolves. A wise owl comes to the rescue by organizing a Community Action Program to boycott the unfair merchants in the neighborhood.
Director: George Gordon | Star: Eli Wallach
Votes: 6
41. When Macbeth Came to Snakeville (1914)
Comedy, Short
Sophie is so impressed by the actor who plays Macbeth in a performance on the local Snakeville stage, that she dreams she is Lady Macbeth while she is sleepwalking.
Director: Roy Clements | Stars: Harry Todd, Evelyn Selbie, Ernest Van Pelt, Victor Potel
42. Why Play Leap Frog? (1950)
10 min | Animation, Short
Joe, who works at a doll factory, gets an economics lesson explaining why a doll that has only ten cents worth of materials costs two dollars at the toy shop.
Director: George Gordon | Stars: John Hiestand, Frank Nelson
Votes: 45
43. Man-Made Miracles (1954)
11 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Directors: True Boardman, Carl Urbano | Stars: Ron Randell, Tom Powers
44. Snakeville's Fire Brigade (1914)
Comedy, Short
The plot centers about a Village Board, which finds itself in need of a fire department. They receive a chemical engine from the city, with instructions to keep in a cool place and to ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Clements | Stars: Margaret Joslin, Victor Potel, Harry Todd, Emory Johnson
45. Broncho Billy's Christmas Spirit (1914)
Short, Western
It is Christmas Eve, and a humble prospector has spent his last cent for food. He is heartbroken to think that he cannot even buy anything for his two small children. When his wife finds a ... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Lee Willard, Evelyn Selbie, Eugenia Clinchard
46. Broncho Billy Reforms (1913)
11 min | Short, Western
Broncho Billy and his pals plot to rob the general store. Broncho Billy is elected to go into the store and engage the proprietor in conversation while the others enter the rear door and ... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Marguerite Clayton, Lloyd Ingraham, Victor Potel
47. The Conquest of Man (1914)
11 min | Drama, Short, Western
Tom Frazier loses his position on account of his craving for liquor. Nora, his wife, pleads with Tex Eaton, the foreman of the ranch, to take her husband back. Frazier sees his wife leaving... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: True Boardman, Reina Valdez, Lee Willard, True Boardman
48. Broncho Billy and the Rattler (1914)
11 min | Short, Western
Carl Stockdale, the sheriff of Boise County, is given a case of valuable jewels to deliver, but determines to keep them for himself. To make sure that his deputy, Broncho Billy, will not ... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Marguerite Clayton, Carl Stockdale, True Boardman
49. Sophie's Birthday Party (1914)
Comedy, Short
Slim plans to surprise his wife, Sophie, on her birthday with a new piano, but has trouble getting it home.
Director: Roy Clements | Stars: Margaret Joslin, Victor Potel, Harry Todd, Carl Stockdale
50. The Atom Goes to Sea (1954)
12 min | Documentary, Short
This documentary explains the history of submarines and how an atomic powered submarine operates.
Director: True Boardman