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1. 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: 3,163

2. 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: 4,100

3. The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1972–1975)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

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Stars: Rosemary Prinz, Diana Muldaur, Juliet Mills, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 48

4. The Greatest Gift (1974 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

Reverend Holvak, a poor rural preacher in the 1940s, fights against stiff- necked church deacons and a violent, bullying sheriff while struggling to support his family.

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Glenn Ford, Julie Harris, Lance Kerwin, Harris Yulin

Votes: 92

5. Jigsaw (1972–1973)

60 min | Drama, Crime

Lt. Frank Dain worked for the California State Police as a dogged investigator of missing persons cases. No one was better at piecing together clues and solving mysteries, as Dain's cases took him all over the Golden State.

Stars: James Wainwright, Skye Aubrey, Sheree North, Mike Farrell

Votes: 31

6. The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1972–1975)
Episode: A Special Act of Love (1973)

Not Rated | 66 min | Comedy, Drama

A novitiate nun's newfound happiness as a surgeon's wife is shattered when her husband becomes terminally ill.

Director: Burt Brinckerhoff | Stars: Diana Muldaur, Laurence Luckinbill, Martin E. Brooks, Barbara Baxley

Votes: 7

7. Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode: In the Forests of the Night (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An old love of Ironside comes back to town after a number of years. Ironside is sure he knows why she's back and it may involve the theft of a valuable piece of art.

Director: Russ Mayberry | Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Elizabeth Baur

Votes: 51

8. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: A Flash of Darkness (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

The Virginian straying off on a horse drive after a couple of horses is hurt when his horse stumbles in a creek bed. Blinded by the accident, The Virginian stumbles his way into the home of three men he fired who are horse thieves.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 82

9. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: A King's Ransom (1970)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Clay is kidnapped by three gang members for a $20,000 ransom or the threat of his death and the burning of Medicine Bow. Adding to the situation is the wife of the gang leader staying at Shiloh in order to escape him but he wants her back.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 56

10. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: A Love to Remember (1969)

TV-PG | 73 min | Western

Reporter/artist Julie Oakes arrives in Medicine Bow from Boston to do a story on the west. She falls in love with The Virginian but her interest in another man upsets him and results in problems due to her complicated past in Boston.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 59

11. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: A Time of Terror (1970)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

The Graingers are taken hostage by two brothers and their sister to get access to a friend of Clay who is a Judge running for the legislature. They blame him for killing their father and stealing their family farm for a railroad.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 65

12. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: A Touch of Hands (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

A pig tailed brat returns home from finishing school for a two week vacation as a beautiful woman catching Trampas' eyes again. They fall in love as she remembers the good times but her father wants her to return to school in the east.

Director: Anton Leader | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 54

13. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: A Woman of Stone (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

A white woman and her son are forced to leave the Shoshone reservation when her Shoshone husband dies. She is found sick on Shiloh. Unknown to everyone her white husband and now engaged daughter live in Medicine Bow thinking she is dead.

Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 72

14. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Black Jade (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Trampas decides to track down where Cobey Jade obtained a silver watch that belonged to a friend. While with Jade who lives in an abandoned mining town, they are taken captive by a band of roving outlaws who believes Jade found gold there.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 71

15. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Family Man (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

When the husband of a couple younger than Jim goes on the lam, Jim decides to take over as the breadwinner for the young wife and her new baby he delivers. However, the toil of doing two jobs leads to Jim deciding to quit as emotions grow.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 70

16. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Halfway Back from Hell (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

In Arizona Trampas is forced to work as foreman on a ranch staffed by men on probation from prison. The locals want them removed and the US Marshal in charge of the area is less than enthusiastic about them being there as well.

Director: Michael Caffey | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 63

17. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Home to Methuselah (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

An old lawman friend of The Virginian comes to Shiloh to see him and ask him to go on a hunting trip. However, he doesn't say the prey is two outlaws. Once The Virginian learns the truth, he decides to help but is surprised by the target.

Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 48

18. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Journey to Scathelock (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

An emergency recalls The Virginian so he allows Jim Horn to go alone with $4000 to complete a purchase of horses. Everyone takes Jim for a wet behind the ears youngster including the woman and her partner who steal the money he carries.

Director: Seymour Robbie | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 54

19. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Nightmare (1970)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

The Virginian helps the widow of a local businessman prove her innocence when first her husband is killed in a fire followed by his right hand man who names her as he dies. She has a history of mental illness after her first husband died.

Director: Robert Gist | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 241

20. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: No War for the Warrior (1970)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

The Virginian picks up a hand John on the trail who becomes friends with Jim but is half Kiowa running from the Army for killing four soldiers. He wants to go to Canada to live free but Jim faces a lynching for a man John killed.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 58

21. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Rich Man, Poor Man (1970)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Poor Harve Yost turns into rich Harve when he finds a dying man with a saddle bag full of money and gets a $10000 reward. Never a man to manage money or time The Virginian advises him to buy a ranch but Harve tries to rival Shiloh.

Director: Anton Leader | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 53

22. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Tate: Ramrod (1971)

TV-G | 75 min | Western

Tate helps ramrod a small ranch when the owner leaves to buy new breeding stock. However, the owner's plan to fence his pasture is met with strong resistance by a neighbor stopping Tate plus a surprise arrivals adds to the problems.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Stewart Granger, Doug McClure, Lee Majors, James Drury

Votes: 49

23. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: The Angus Killer (1971)

TV-G | 75 min | Western

The Virginian is sent to look at buying an Angus herd from a widow. He arrives to find that someone is causing problems for her on the ranch ever since her husband died months earlier. Her son believes it is a neighbor but she disagrees.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Stewart Granger, Doug McClure, Lee Majors, James Drury

Votes: 55

24. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: The Animal (1971)

TV-G | 75 min | Western

On the way home Tate finds himself in the middle of hunting party where the prey is a young Shawnee boy. Tate discovering the boy is deaf-mute takes him to jail after learning he is wanted for murder but finds he becomes the boy's lawyer.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Stewart Granger, Doug McClure, Lee Majors, James Drury

Votes: 51

25. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: The Bugler (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

An Army deserter is found and injured on Shiloh after he was whipped by the commanding officer - his father. Being a bugler he gives Elizabeth lessons on a coronet she has found until the Graingers learn the truth about him from the Army.

Director: Anton Leader | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 60

26. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: The Gift (1970)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Jim Horn becomes involved with a roving saloon singer who had a similar involvement with Trampas three years earlier. A train payroll robber dying in her room complicates their lives when she is assumed to hold the missing money.

Director: Seymour Robbie | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 67

27. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: The Girl in the Shadows (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Claire Garson and Nathaniel E. 'Doc' Watson have an act in which Claire appears to read minds. They receive an offer which involves them in going to Medicine Bow. Claire is to "meet" the Graingers and reveal she might be Clay's niece.

Director: James Sheldon | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, David Hartman, Sara Lane

Votes: 60

28. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Long Ride Home (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Holly finds two cowboys who are looking for work. The younger hand Jim looks up to Ben as the only father he has ever known as the two roam around looking for a place to settle. Ben isn't ready to settle down but Jim may have found a home.

Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 70

29. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: The Power Seekers (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

After the territorial representative resigns, Clay is drafted to run against a local man. Clay soon learns the dirty side of politics, including being lied to about who drafted him. He runs an honest contest, but will the other side?

Director: Seymour Robbie | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 61

30. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: The Runaway (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

A runaway boy is found on Shiloh who won't talk. They wonder about his parents becoming gravely concerned when they discover he has been severely beaten. No one realizes how close his dad is as the orphanage manager wants him back.

Director: Anton Leader | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 62

31. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Holocaust (1970)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

An eastern combine wants to take over the Wyoming cattle market with Shiloh in the middle of their sights. A burned Shiloh and delayed cattle drive leads to a loss on the sale of cattle resulting in all the Shiloh hands being laid off.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 62

32. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: The Sins of the Fathers (1970)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

The Virginian and Shiloh money are rescued by a lone man who he rewards with a job at Shiloh. He rubs the other men the wrong way, works hard, but is obviously a gunman. Clay Grainger soon realizes who he is but won't let him be fired.

Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 68

33. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: The Substitute (1969)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Trampas leaves on vacation but his plans go astray when he is picked up by a bounty hunter for murdering a popular doctor. He has to contend with a hostile town, planted evidence, and a saloon girl who swears she saw him commit the murder.

Director: Anton Leader | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 62

34. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Train of Darkness (1970)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Clay, Elizabeth, and Jim along with a small number of other passengers ride the train from Cheyenne to Medicine Bow. During the trip they get to know each other only to learn one is hiding a past that causes the train to be stopped.

Director: James Sheldon | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 64

35. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: You Can Lead a Horse to Water (1970)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Trampas asked to deliver a friendly prisoner to Clearwater by stage finds himself with a stuffy southern belle. When the stage is held up, she forces Trampas and his prisoner to go after the robbers which becomes a lesson in life to her.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson, Sara Lane

Votes: 52

36. Jigsaw (1972–1973)
Episode: To Stalk the Night (1972)

60 min | Drama, Crime

Lt. Dain is called to look for a priest who has disappeared. But before he finds the cleric the sheriff he is working with also goes missing.

Stars: James Wainwright, Ramon Bieri, Kathleen Dabney, Gregory Enton

37. Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode: Confessions: From a Lady of the Night (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ironside becomes embroiled in a scandal, both personal and professional, when a scandal rag prints a story by a lady of the evening claiming he had slept with her and that he failed to properly work a case.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Elizabeth Baur

Votes: 50

38. Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode: A Death in Academe (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A college coed kills herself and many people blame her philosophy professor and his existential teachings.

Director: Russ Mayberry | Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Elizabeth Baur

Votes: 37

39. Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode: Murder by One (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A friend of Fran's finds her only son dead in his locked room. The death is initially presumed a suicide, but assorted clues make his death look more like murder.

Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Elizabeth Baur

Votes: 49

40. Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode: Terror on Grant Avenue (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ironside investigates when the son of an old friend is accused of murdering a Chinatown businessman.

Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Elizabeth Baur

Votes: 37