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1. Mayor of the Town (1954–1955)
30 min | Comedy
Thomas Russell is the gregarious mayor of Springdale whose attention to his electorate extends to their personal lives. He also has his own affairs to attend to, with his housekeeper Marilly certain to offer her opinion.
Stars: Kathleen Freeman, Thomas Mitchell, Jean Byron, Tudor Owen
Votes: 26
2. The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957– )
30 min | Mystery
Thirty minute mystery drama series hosted by George Sanders.
Stars: George Sanders, Don Haggerty, Paul Harber, Toni Gerry
Votes: 28
3. I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The wife of a band leader constantly tries to become a star - in spite of her having no talent, and gets herself (along with her best friend) into the funniest predicaments.
Stars: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley
Votes: 28,945
4. Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Approved | 25 min | Western
The adventures of a gentlemanly gunfighter-for-hire.
Stars: Richard Boone, Kam Tong, Hal Needham, Stewart East
Votes: 3,335
5. 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: 11,859
6. The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Two Secret Service agents, equipped with a wide array of gizmos, work for the government in the Old West.
Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Dick Cangey, Whitey Hughes
Votes: 6,507
7. Medic (1954–1956)
30 min | Drama
Highlights the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors and surgeons headed by Dr. Konrad Styner. One of the first medical shows on TV that paid strict attention to detail, and... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Boone, Mary Stewart, Robert Stevenson, Robert Bray
Votes: 181
8. I Led 3 Lives (1953–1956)
30 min | Drama
Herbert Philbrick's covert life as an FBI spy within the Communist underground, his dual existence fraught with constant peril and the challenge of keeping his espionage activities hidden from family and friends.
Stars: Richard Carlson, John Zaremba, Virginia Stefan, Ed Hinton
Votes: 166
9.
I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
Episode:
Nursery School
(1955)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Little Ricky's first day at nursery school and he gets tonsillitis.
Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley
Votes: 301
10.
Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode:
The Case of the Startled Stallion
(1959)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Clara Hammon marries disabled "John Brant," but the bridegroom is really actor Earl Mauldin. Through a series of crafty moves, the real John Brant has gained control of everything that Jo Ann Blanchard and her brother Terry have inherited.
Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman
Votes: 314
11. The Book of Acts Series (1957)
150 min | Drama, History
The Book of Acts is a 10-part series of short Bible films dramatizing the 28 chapters that comprise the Acts of the Apostles. The series was produced in 1957 by Family Films on behalf of Broadman Films, based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Director: Eddie Dew | Stars: Robert Brubaker, Robert Christopher, Steve Conte, Dean Cromer
Votes: 20
12.
The Bob Hope Show (1950– )
Episode:
The Awful Truth
(1956)
Comedy, Family, Talk-Show
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Bob Hope, Eleanor Audley, Vivian Blaine, Les Brown
Votes: 7
13.
Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Episode:
Marshal of Sweetwater
(1962)
Approved | 30 min | Western
Paladin's old army scout buddy is now the town marshal with his own rules. He has become an overbearing tyrant. The new lady saloon owner challenges his authority and Paladin notices the marshal's one weakness- women.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Richard Boone, Kathie Browne, David White, Gordon Jones
Votes: 92
14. It's a Man's World (1962–1963)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wes and Tom-Tom are friends going to college and with musician Vern share a houseboat. Wes also watches out for his younger brother Howie and the four of them deal with girls, jobs, and school.
Stars: Glenn Corbett, Ted Bessell, Michael Burns, Randy Boone
Votes: 142
15.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
Head of the House
(1958)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
When crossing the country in a wagon train on the way to Oregon disaster strikes the Segar family. The parents die, leaving their orphaned children to carry on under the protection of the wagon master.
Director: Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Roy Barcroft, Morgan Jones, Harold Daye, Rickie Sorensen
Votes: 31
16.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
Mercer Girl
(1957)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
Asa Mercer heads East right after the Civil War to recruit brides for the many bachelors in the Northwest. He meets his match in Annie who wants to teach and is tired of Mercer's Puritan ways. The long ship journey bring complications.
Director: Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Bradford Jackson, Norma Ward, Peggy O'Connor, Richard Vath
Votes: 32
17.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
The Great Amulet
(1958)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
A struggling man meets Fanny Osbourne and pursues a life with her although he's battling consumption and she's still married. He creates classic stories for her children and burns an entire first draft before an amulet works its charm.
Director: Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Don Reardon, Aline Towne, Booth Colman, Donald Gamble
Votes: 22
18. Big Town (1950–1956)
TV-MA | 30 min | Drama
"Big Town" was a long-running, highly-successful network radio series (1937- 1952) and film series ("I Cover the Underworld," "Underworld After Dark," and "Underworld Scandal") before ... See full summary »
Stars: Patrick McVey, Mark Stevens, Jane Nigh, Mary K. Wells
Votes: 58
19. Run for Your Life (1965–1968)
60 min | Drama
The doctor tells a successful lawyer that he is terminally ill and will die in less than two years.
Stars: Ben Gazzara, Nicholas Colasanto, Jack Krupnick, Fernando Lamas
Votes: 430
20. Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars, adaptations of motion pictures, and a host accompanying. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.
Stars: Ken Carpenter, Jay Jackson, Otto Kruger, Gordon MacRae
Votes: 154
21. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
Western stories and legends based, and filmed, in and around Death Valley, California. One of the longest-running Western series, originating on radio in the 1930s. The continuing sponsor was "20 Mule Team" Borax, a product formerly mined in Death Valley.
Stars: Stanley Andrews, Robert Taylor, Ronald Reagan, Dale Robertson
Votes: 1,048
22. Manhunt (1959–1961)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Finucane is a hard-nosed policeman with the San Diego, California Police Department while Ben Andrews is a reporter with the Chronicle newspaper. Both men worked well together while ... See full summary »
Stars: Victor Jory, Patrick McVey, Chuck Henderson, Charles Bateman
Votes: 51
23. The Bob Hope Show (1950– )
60 min | Comedy, Family, Talk-Show
The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope.
Stars: Bob Hope, Les Brown, Les Brown and His Band of Renown, Peter Leeds
Votes: 263
24.
Run for Your Life (1965–1968)
Episode:
The Face of the Antagonist
(1967)
60 min | Drama
A brutal ex-policeman solicits Paul's legal aid after being charged with his wife's murder.
Director: Nicholas Colasanto | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Aldo Ray, Henry Beckman, Richard Anderson
Votes: 9
25.
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode:
The Night of the Raven
(1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Agents West and Gordon are engaged to rescue an Indian Chief's abducted daughter before the Indians retaliate. The agents learn that the miniature Dr. Miguelito Loveless, responsible for ... See full summary »
Director: Irving J. Moore | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Michael Dunn, Phyllis Newman
Votes: 246
26. The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1957)
60 min | Drama
An anthology of mini-features, new productions largely consisting of hasty retreads of successful 20th Century Fox movies.
Stars: Joseph Cotten, Jesse White, Carl Benton Reid, Grandon Rhodes
Votes: 235
27. A Summer Place (1959)
Approved | 130 min | Drama, Romance
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 3,859
28. Strait-Jacket (1964)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John
Votes: 6,662
29. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal
Votes: 30,859
30. The Man Called X (1956–1957)
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
The Man Called X was Agent Ken Thurston who took on dangerous cases in a variety of exotic locations. He was sent all around the world by the Intelligence Bureau to gather information and protect U.S interests. His code name is simply X.
Stars: Barry Sullivan, Byron Keith, Don C. Harvey, Lynn Cartwright
Votes: 38
31. The Littlest Hobo (1958)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure
A German Shepherd dog helps a lamb to escape the slaughter house.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau | Stars: Buddy Joe Hooker, London, Wendy Stuart, Carlyle Mitchell
Votes: 148
32. I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
Passed | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring - by robbing a resort hotel.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin
Votes: 1,623
33. Strange Lady in Town (1955)
Approved | 112 min | Western
Greer Garson plays a female doctor who plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Greer Garson, Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smith
Votes: 599
34. The Human Jungle (1954)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police procedural film about a police captain assigned to take over a demoralized police precinct and turn it around by solving all the unsolved cases as well as some new tough ones.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Regis Toomey, Lamont Johnson
Votes: 240
35. Macabre (1958)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.
Director: William Castle | Stars: William Prince, Jim Backus, Christine White, Jacqueline Scott
Votes: 1,404
36. Headline Hunters (1955)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
City Editor Ned Powers assigns student reporter David Flynn to veteran newsman Hugh Woodruff, primarily to get on Woodruff's nerves. David has long admired Woodruff, but is saddened to see ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Rod Cameron, Julie Bishop, Ben Cooper, Raymond Greenleaf
Votes: 192
37. Marriage Proposal (1945 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
Director: Beulah Zachary | Stars: Marji Doctoroff, Howard Hoffman, Joe Wilson
38.
The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1957)
Episode:
The Last Patriarch
(1956)
60 min | Drama
A man employs the same ruthless authority in running the bank he founded that he imposes on his own family. His sons hate him enough to want to destroy him.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Walter Slezak, John Cassavetes, Virginia Leith, Vince Edwards
39.
The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957– )
Episode:
Love Has No Alibi
(1957)
30 min | Mystery
Director: John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: Kathryn Grant, Don Haggerty, Paul Harber, Jack Harris
40.
It's a Man's World (1962–1963)
Episode:
Chicago Gains a Number
(1962)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tom-Tom is expelled from college for failing to take makeup exams. Frustrated by the bureaucracy, during which we're given a prescient tech babble about flowcharts and computers, somebody ... See full summary »
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Ted Bessell, Michael Burns, Randy Boone
41.
Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Gay Sisters
(1956)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles... See full summary »
Director: Norman Morgan | Stars: Robert Anderson, Herb Butterfield, Ken Carpenter, Lina Cole
42.
Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Last Confession
(1955)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Edward Binns, Ken Carpenter, Billy Chapin, Stephen Coit
43.
Manhunt (1959–1961)
Episode:
The Hearing Aid
(1960)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Victor Jory, Patrick McVey, Rian Garrick, Doug DeCosta
44.
Medic (1954–1956)
Episode:
Day 10
(1954)
Drama
A dramatization of the outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles in 1924. The title refers to the 10-day period with no new cases, which must be waited out before the quarantine can be lifted.
Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Richard Boone, Lee Van Cleef, House Peters Jr., Maureen Stapleton
45.
I Led 3 Lives (1953–1956)
Episode:
Moving
(1954)
30 min | Drama
Comrade Norma Baker orders Philbrick and his family to move house to Rexford, a suburb where the party hope he can recruit new members from young, middle-class couples.
Directors: Leon Benson, Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Richard Carlson, Virginia Stefan, John Zaremba, George Berkeley
46.
Big Town (1950–1956)
Episode:
Hot Car Murder
(1954)
TV-MA | Drama
Director: George Waggner | Stars: Mark Stevens, Trudy Wroe, Beverly Garland, Jerry Hausner
47.
Mayor of the Town (1954–1955)
Episode:
The Poet
(1954)
Comedy
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Jean Byron, Kathleen Freeman, Howard Hoffman, DeForest Kelley
48.
The Man Called X (1956–1957)
Episode:
Code 'W'
(1956)
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Lois Hall, Paula Hill, K.L. Smith