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1.
Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952–1953)
Episode:
Christmas Is Magic
(1953)
Drama
On Christmas Eve, a war veteran with amnesia gets off a train and meets a young war widow and her son.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Robert Hutton, Frances Rafferty, Harvey Grant, David Alpert
Votes: 15
2. Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952–1953)
30 min | Drama
American television anthology drama series. At least 21 episodes aired on CBS from November 11, 1952 to August 30, 1953. From January 6, 1953 to May 26, 1953 it alternated weekly with Demi-Tasse Tales.
Stars: Sheldon Leonard, Barbara Whiting, Bob Sweeney, Ford Rainey
Votes: 23
3. Cavalcade of America (1952–1957)
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama
"Cavalcade of America" documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds.
Stars: James Seay, Robert Foulk, Richard Gaines, Raymond Greenleaf
Votes: 98
4.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Transition
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
With Gramps death, Jeff and Ellen are faced with moving to Capitol City and Timmy with going with his aunt and uncle but the Martins agree to take over the farm and adopt Timmy.
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Jon Provost
Votes: 31
5.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Brat
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Ellen must go to a forgotten church meeting so she leaves a little boy for whom she is babysitting with Jeff and Porky, the two of whom suffer from the mean deeds and tricks of the boy.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 28
6.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Twister
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Millers, Lassie, and Jeff's friend Porky hunker down in the storm cellar, while a tornado wreaks havoc, above.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 30
7.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Visitor
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The boy the Millers receive in a 4H youth exchange program is unexpectedly Japanese which stirs post WWII prejudices for some in the area to the extent the Miller farm is threatened.
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 31
8.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Journey
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff' skips schools and hitches a ride to Capitol City to seek a specialist to operate on Lassie when it appears Lassie is going blind.
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 32
9. King Kong (1933)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Horror
A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher
Votes: 91,062 | Gross: $10.00M
10. Man Without a Gun (1957–1959)
30 min | Western
The adventures of Adam MacLean, publisher and chief reporter for the "Yellowstone Sentinel" of Yellowstone, Wyoming in the late 19th century.
Stars: Rex Reason, Mort Mills, Harry Harvey, Forrest Taylor
Votes: 41
11.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Crop Duster
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Stubborn, traditionalistic Gramps falsely blames the poisoning of Laddie on Matt Brockway's crop duster on whom he has called a Grange meeting to prevent further dusting in the area.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 25
12.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Frog
(1956)
TV-G | 26 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When Jeff and Porky discover their competition jumping frog is female and about to lay eggs, they drive Gramps and Ellen to exhaustion in their quest to see the eggs are fertilized and produce offspring.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 20
13.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Snob
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff is embarrassed by his humble circumstances when the son of a wealthy banker and family take residence nearby while the rich boy is envious of Jeff's country lifestyle.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 24
14.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The School
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When the new school teacher prohibit pets in the classroom one student sneaks in a snake.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, George Cleveland, Phyllis Coates, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 24
15.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Trial
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After Jeff bests another boy in a fight, the other youth decides to exact revenge by claiming that Lassie bit him while his attorney argues that the dog should be killed for being a vicious nuisance.
Director: Leonard Freeman | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 38
16.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Runaways
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When Lassie is to be quarantined because she is mistakenly thought rabid, Jeff and Lassie hop a freight train and meet a hobo who takes them home after some trouble in a hobo camp.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Richard Garland
Votes: 26
17.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Diane
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Diane the new girl in town comes between Jeff and Porky.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Marjorie Bennett, Jan Clayton, George Cleveland, Gay Goodwin
Votes: 23
18.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Calf
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Porky and Jeff win a calf in a 4H calf scramble to raise and enter at the county fair to sell in order to buy an outboard motor but have second thought after the sale when they learn the heifer is to be slaughtered.
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 25
19.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Haircut
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When Jeff and Gramps are finessed by Ellen into going to Gramp's cousin's daughter's wedding, they hatch multiple plots to avoid the haircuts that Ellen wants them to have for the wedding.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 22
20.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Harvesters
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
While Jeff helps the boy with his education and Gramps tries to arrange a lease for the father, belligerent Jud Perkins wants the 'foreigner' squatters on an area farm removed by any means necessary.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 22
21.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Rabbits
(1958)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie is annoyed and jealous when Timmy devotes too much time with his rabbits.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: George Chandler, Lassie the Dog, Cloris Leachman, Jon Provost
Votes: 16
22.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Fighter
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A man who, unknown to the Millers, has been a prizefighter who killed a man in the ring signs on to be a Miller farmhand and is perceived by formerly admiring Jeff as coward for not standing up against another farmhand bully.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Christian Drake
Votes: 30
23.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Lassie's Vanity
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After Lassie is professionally groomed for a family photo that Ellen won through a radio program, Lassie resists messy tasks and the surrender of her adornments.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 19
24.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Search
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
While having a bad day, Gramps leaves the farm thinking Lassie is more valued than he but later needs Lassie's help when pinned against his pickup by a tree that falls during a storm.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, House Peters Jr.
Votes: 21
25.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Newspaper
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When Porky finds his uncle's old mimeograph, Jeff and Porky decide to print a newspaper and, while looking for news stories, uncover a plot to swindle the town of Calverton.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 29
26.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
War Dog
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff must prove that a former military dog who has unexplainably attacked the man who Jeff arranged to have the dog is not vicious but responding to some stimulus from army canine training.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 23
27.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Domino
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
An unscrupulous horse tamer steals a quarter horse that Jeff has been slowly training to ride after the tamer cannot trick the Millers into giving him the colt.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 19
28.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Poverty
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When a peddler relates to Jeff and Porky a lie told to him by Gramps about going broke, Jeff starts taking drastic action such giving Lassie to Porky to feed, selling his things and readying to leave school to get a job.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 24
29.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Boy's Day
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Ellen's and Gramps' talk diminishes Jeff's passion that Jeff and Porky will be Calverton constable and deputy constable on boys' day so Gramps arranges a fake bank robbery with his friends.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 19
30.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Tractor
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Gramps is both too habituated to his old ways and too fearful to use the new tractor he has won in a raffle until he must use it to rescue Jeff when the pickup with a load of timber is about to go over a cliff.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 23
31.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Friendship
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie comes to the rescue of a cantankerous neighbor who falls seriously ill.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 26
32.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Injury
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie sustains a severe injury after being hit by a car.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 31
33.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Sunday School
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff is more motivated by competition with a dismissive schoolmate than by charity when the Sunday School class starts a collection for flood victims within their state.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 21
34.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Apple Tree
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie finds a wild Gravenstein apple tree that Jeff and Gramps can use to graft the trees in the orchard after rabbits have girdled them so the orchard and farm can be saved.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 21
35.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Mother
(1958)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie befriends a litter of newborn puppies but does it secretly.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: George Chandler, Lassie the Dog, Cloris Leachman, Jon Provost
Votes: 19
36.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Blind Soldier
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After a couple whose son was blinded in the war and had a collie named Lassie try to buy Lassie for their son's adjustment, Jeff agrees to let the couple borrow Lassie for two weeks but Lassie's return goes awry.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 26
37.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Rival
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff and Gramps become jealous, after Clay asks Ellen to go out dancing with him.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 25
38.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Dog Show
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff and Porky train Lassie and take her to an obedience trial encountering both mishap and achievement during the process.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 27
39.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Rock
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff and Porky fight because Jeff is more interested in the geode Lassie has found than finding Porky's lost new baseball and Jeff thinks Porky has said he is not interested in the geode that was to be entered in a class exhibit together.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 19
40.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Gramps' Birthday
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
While Ellen prepares for Gramps' surprise birthday party, Jeff's and Porky's attempts to help ease his day continually go awry and irritate Gramps who does not remember it's his birthday.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 27
41.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Raft
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
During a storm Porky allows a raft the boys have built to drift into the lake so the boys must try to swim the lake during which Porky develops a cramp that endangers his life and requires rescue and help from Jeff and family.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 24
42.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Marauder
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A dog killing livestock in the area surrounding the Miller farm is discovered to be a son of Lassie who has turned killer as a result of abuse by a hired man of the former owners.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 25
43.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Challenge
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Woody's dares putting Jeff in danger causes Ellen to get from Jeff a promise not to take dares which causes Jeff ridicule and diminished self esteem that forces Jeff into a near disaster causing Jeff to realize the foolishness of dares.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 23
44.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Happy
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When Gramps, Jeff, Porky and Timmy go to the Capitol City Zoo to visit the chimp once delivered to the Miller farm, the chimp stows away in the Miller car and is hidden on the farm by Timmy who fears imprisonment for theft.
Director: John English | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Jon Provost
Votes: 23
45.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Clown
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A man who collapses by the Miller barn is found to be a clown on whom the circus owner has fled with the circus money so Jeff and Porky plan a circus at the church carnival but Jeff must prove first the man is not a thief.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 24
46.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Pokey
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After Pokey disrupts Gramps' and Matt Brockway's checker game, Brockway gives Porky an ultimatum to train Pokey or else Pokey will be given away and the training does not go well.
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: Jan Clayton, George Cleveland, Paul Maxey, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 30
47.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Haunted House
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When Jeff accepts a dare to enter a rumored haunted house, Jeff and Porky become trapped in a cellar by the actions of a secret society initiation, the members of which the boys believe to be ghost because of their colonial dress.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 25
48.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Runaway
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
An orphan runaway named Timmy is befriended by the Miller family when he is found by Lassie hiding in their barn.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Tommy Rettig, Jan Clayton, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 34
49.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Spartan
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff's and Porky's selfish promotion of the Spartan way of extreme self reliance to Timmy so a fishing outing can continue causes Timmy to avoid telling Ellen he is ill and results in Timmy contracting pneumonia.
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Jon Provost
Votes: 19
50.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Timmy's Family
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Timmy has trouble accepting Ruth as his mother and Ruth compounds the problem by wanting Lassie kept out of house to the extent that Timmy attempts to send Lassie to Jeff and Ellen Miller.
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: Jon Provost, Cloris Leachman, Jon Shepodd, Jan Clayton
Votes: 23