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1. Nightfall (1988)

PG-13 | 83 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi

On a planet with perpetual daylight, nightfall's arrival brings destruction. A dramatic depiction of Asimov's award-winning story, exploring the clash between science and superstition as darkness looms.

Director: Paul Mayersberg | Stars: David Birney, Sarah Douglas, Alexis Kanner, Andra Millian

Votes: 773

2. Bret Maverick (1981–1982)

60 min | Western

Set in Sweetwater, Arizona in the 1880s with solid citizen Bret owning a ranch and part of the Red Ox Saloon. Stable cast with varying stories, often centered on conflict between the ambitious sheriff and everyone else.

Stars: James Garner, Ed Bruce, Ramon Bieri, Richard Hamilton

Votes: 684

3. Walking Tall (1981– )

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Sheriff Buford Pusser maintains law and order in McNeal County, Tennessee, with the help of his loving family, loyal staff, and a large club he calls his "pacifier".

Stars: Bo Svenson, Walter Barnes, Harold Sylvester, Courtney Pledger

Votes: 297

4. Bret Maverick (1981–1982)
Episode: Anything for a Friend (1981)

49 min | Western

Tom Guthrie's plan to hide his wounded friend, Billy the Kid, from a vengeful U.S. Marshal at Bret's ranch threaten to spoil the ex-gambler's barn-raising.

Director: Ivan Dixon | Stars: James Garner, Ed Bruce, Ramon Bieri, Richard Hamilton

Votes: 37

5. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: The Golden Man (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

While traveling through an asteroid field, Buck Rogers and crew come across a life pod. Inside is a young golden-skinned boy, Vellus, who displays the unusual ability to alter the nature of... See full summary »

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 186

6. Walking Tall (1981– )
Episode: Company Town (1981)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Sheriff Pusser investigates the disappearance of a miner who has inflamed his bosses with vocal complaints about low wages and unsafe working conditions.

Director: Harvey S. Laidman | Stars: Bo Svenson, Walter Barnes, Harold Sylvester, Courtney Pledger

Votes: 15

7. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A 20th-century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time to become Earth's greatest hero.

Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc

Votes: 10,395

8. How the West Was Won (1976–1979)
Episode: Luke (1979)

16+ | 99 min | Drama, Western

Luke is forced to kill a bounty hunter who learns the reward on Luke is still in effect and increased. He soon learns the bounty was advertised by the government in order to force Luke to work undercover for them.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb

Votes: 66

9. Project U.F.O. (1978–1979)
Episode: Sighting 4024: The Scoutmaster Incident (1979)

60 min | Sci-Fi

A scoutmaster witnesses a UFO while out camping with his troop in the wilderness of Mississippi. Captain Ryan and S Sgt. Fritz fly south to the Magnolia State to investigate for Project Blue Book and discover another witness.

Director: Robert M. Leeds | Stars: Edward Winter, Caskey Swaim, Russell Wiggins, Lou Frizzell

Votes: 10

10. Project U.F.O. (1978–1979)

60 min | Sci-Fi

Two agents of the U.S. Government's Project Blue Book project investigate sightings of extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects.

Stars: Caskey Swaim, Edward Winter, William Jordan, Aldine King

Votes: 460

11. Pearl (1978)

278 min | Drama, Romance, War

The lives of several personnel and residents at and around the Pearl Harbor naval base are changed forever on December 7, 1941.

Stars: Angie Dickinson, Dennis Weaver, Robert Wagner, Lesley Ann Warren

Votes: 232

12. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: River of Promises (1978)

92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Policeman Miguel Rataza works in area where illegal Hispanics encounter difficulties. Going undercover regarding green card scams and protesting unsafe conditions he finds himself falling in love with Rosalie, an undocumented worker.

Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Richard Yniguez, Gregory Sierra, Julio Medina, René Enríquez

Votes: 39

13. Pearl (1978)
Episode: Part 1 (1978)

120 min | Drama, Romance, War

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Directors: Hy Averback, Alexander Singer | Stars: Angie Dickinson, Dennis Weaver, Robert Wagner, Lesley Ann Warren

Votes: 13

14. Pearl (1978)
Episode: Part 2 (1978)

120 min | Drama, Romance, War

Another close game against Southampton as ChummySeals team isn't able to make the most of all their opportunities.

Directors: Hy Averback, Alexander Singer | Stars: Angie Dickinson, Dennis Weaver, Robert Wagner, Lesley Ann Warren

Votes: 11

15. Pearl (1978)
Episode: Part 3 (1978)

120 min | Drama, Romance, War

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Directors: Hy Averback, Alexander Singer | Stars: Angie Dickinson, Dennis Weaver, Robert Wagner, Lesley Ann Warren

Votes: 12

16. How the West Was Won (1976–1979)

16+ | Drama, Western

The Macahans, a family from Virginia, headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West.

Stars: James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb, William Kirby Cullen

Votes: 2,572

17. Harry O (1973–1976)
Episode: Book of Changes (1976)

Action, Crime, Drama

A woman who runs a gambling club is murdered and a book of hers that's filled with incriminating photos of influential people is stolen. Harry is hired to find and destroy that book and to protect a young woman who witnessed the murder.

Director: Russ Mayberry | Stars: David Janssen, Anthony Zerbe, Joanne Nail, Russell Wiggins

Votes: 39

18. Adam-12 (1968–1975)
Episode: Ladies' Night (1975)

TV-PG | 25 min | Crime, Drama

Reed and Malloy agree to double date for dinner, but on the way to the restaurant Jim and Jean see a robbery in progress. Once again Mrs. Reed gets stood up but Jean, Pete, and Judy are good sports and citizens once they know Reed is safe.

Director: David Nelson | Stars: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, William Boyett, Aneta Corsaut

Votes: 115

19. Petrocelli (1974–1976)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Harvard-educated lawyer from Boston sets up shop in a small Arizona town.

Stars: Barry Newman, Susan Howard, Albert Salmi, Arnold Jeffers

Votes: 1,048

20. Get Christie Love! (1974–1975)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama

Adventures of sexy & sassy black undercover cop Christie Love.

Stars: Teresa Graves, Dennis Rucker, Charles Cioffi, Scott Peters

Votes: 336

21. Get Christie Love! (1974–1975)
Episode: Emperor of Death Street (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama

In order to take down the city's biggest and most powerful narcotics boss, Christie goes undercover as a heroin dealer.

Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Teresa Graves, Charles Cioffi, June Christopher, Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Votes: 11

22. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Town in Chains (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Five ex-Confederate soldiers have robbed the bank in Dodge City and are on the run through Indian territory, followed by Matt Dillon. The outlaws find abandoned Union military uniforms and ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Ken Curtis, Buck Taylor

Votes: 136

23. Hec Ramsey (1972–1974)
Episode: Dead Heat (1974)

75 min | Drama, Mystery, Western

Hec suspects foul play when a young man dies of heart failure.

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Richard Boone, Rick Lenz, Harry Morgan, Jackie Cooper

Votes: 24

24. Kojak (1973–1978)
Episode: Mojo (1974)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Kojak investigates the theft of powdered morphine from a pharmaceutical company.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Telly Savalas, Ed Lauter, Dennis Patrick, Russell Wiggins

Votes: 186

25. Petrocelli (1974–1976)
Episode: A Very Lonely Lady (1974)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a woman is found dead in the desert, a young drifter who was the last seen with her is arrested cause his things were found with her. Petrocelli is assigned to defend him and the guy ... See full summary »

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Barry Newman, Susan Howard, Albert Salmi, Louis Gossett Jr.

Votes: 37

26. Kojak (1973–1978)

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

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in his city.

Stars: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas

Votes: 8,883

27. Police Story (1973–1980)

120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the "Empire of Chaiba", a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia, he initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.

Stars: Scott Brady, Mel Scott, Don Meredith, Joe Santos

Votes: 1,183

28. Harry O (1973–1976)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house.

Stars: David Janssen, Anthony Zerbe, Paul Tulley, Henry Darrow

Votes: 928

29. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Deadly Innocent (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

When a mentally challenged young man comes to Dodge, Festus takes the man under his arm. But it will not be long until Festus knows the young man needs more help than he can give.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis

Votes: 153

30. Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode: House of Terror (1973)

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

A couple vanishes after spending the night in a haunted house. Then Ironside suddenly disappears. Can the rest of the gang figure out what happened and who did it?

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

Votes: 57

31. Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971–1974)
Episode: Final Semester (1973)

60 min | Drama

A basketball star is accused of murdering a professor that he threatened after discovering a secret relationship his girlfriend was having with the teacher.

Stars: Arthur Hill, Lee Majors, Joan Darling, Fred Beir

32. Emergency! (1972–1979)

TV-G | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their operating area.

Stars: Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Julie London, Bobby Troup

Votes: 6,057

33. Banacek (1972–1974)

TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The adventures of proud Polish-American freelance insurance investigator Thomas Banacek.

Stars: George Peppard, Ralph Manza, Murray Matheson, Christine Belford

Votes: 2,224

34. The Screaming Woman (1972 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 73 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground who has ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Ed Nelson, Laraine Stephens, Joseph Cotten

Votes: 922

35. Hec Ramsey (1972–1974)

90 min | Drama, Mystery, Western

The adventures of Hec Ramsey, a turn-of-the-20th-century detective who prefers to use his brains instead of his guns.

Stars: Richard Boone, Rick Lenz, Harry Morgan, Dennis Rucker

Votes: 431

36. Limbo (1972)

PG | 112 min | Drama

Deals with the problems facing a group of women married to men who are missing in Vietnam action.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Kate Jackson, Katherine Justice, Stuart Margolin, Hazel Medina

Votes: 69

37. Banacek (1972–1974)
Episode: Detour to Nowhere (1972)

TV-PG | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An insurance investigator tries to find an armored car carrying gold bullion that disappeared in the middle of a deserted Texas highway.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: George Peppard, Christine Belford, Don Dubbins, Murray Matheson

Votes: 339

38. Adam-12 (1968–1975)
Episode: Hot Spell (1972)

TV-PG | 25 min | Crime, Drama

A bicycle pump may be more than a bicycle pump, if it's hiding something illegal. And yard sale may be more than a yard sale, if the items sold are stolen property.

Director: Lawrence Doheny | Stars: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, Joel Fluellen, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.

Votes: 88

39. Adam-12 (1968–1975)
Episode: The Parole Violator (1972)

TV-PG | 25 min | Crime, Drama

Malloy is given a tip that a young man he coaches is using heroin again. Malloy and the boy's parole officer work together to track down what is going on. Reed and Malloy respond to a hit ... See full summary »

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, John Roper, Carmen Zapata

Votes: 89

40. The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969–1973)
Episode: Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown: Part II (1972)

60 min | Drama

Sgt. Ed Brown decides to go through with the surgical procedure that will hopefully restore mobility to his legs. The procedure involves the a process where his nerves will be reconnected ... See full summary »

Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: E.G. Marshall, Raymond Burr, David Hartman, Don Galloway

Votes: 18

41. Emergency! (1972–1979)
Episode: Musical Mania (1972)

Not Rated | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

John takes up bagpipes after Chet jokes with him about playing the squad's horn. John and Roy treat a gardener suffering from tetanus, a driver of an ice cream truck trapped after a wreck, ... See full summary »

Director: Christian I. Nyby II | Stars: Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup, Randolph Mantooth

Votes: 115

42. Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode: Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown (1972)

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

While in Los Angeles to testify for a trial against gangster Frank Harmon, Ed is shot and falls off the balcony of his hotel room. He is then taken to the Craig Institute where he undergoes... See full summary »

Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Raymond Burr, E.G. Marshall, David Hartman, Don Galloway

Votes: 62

43. Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969–1976)
Episode: The Wednesday Game (1972)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama

Welby's neighbors, an orphaned sister and brother, befriend a promising young baseball player whose career is cut short by melanoma.

Stars: Robert Young, James Brolin, Elena Verdugo, Russell Wiggins

44. Medical Center (1969–1976)
Episode: Gladiator (1972)

60 min | Drama

To protect the health of a football star, Gannon challenges the "win at any cost" mentality that condones the use of drugs by athletes.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Chad Everett, James Daly, Barbara Baldavin, Leslie Charleson

45. Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, two of the most wanted outlaws in the history of the West, are popular "with everyone except the railroads and the banks".

Stars: Ben Murphy, Roger Davis, Pete Duel, Walt Davis

Votes: 2,391

46. Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971–1974)

60 min | Drama

In a small California town, attorney Owen Marshall, assisted by several different younger lawyers, defends clients with great compassion for the accused.

Stars: Arthur Hill, Joan Darling, Lee Majors, Christine Matchett

Votes: 295

47. O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971–1972)

60 min | Drama

James O'Hara of the United States Treasury works in several branches to stop illegal activities such as smuggling contraband, tax evasion, and the like.

Stars: David Janssen, Paul Picerni, Stacy Harris, Joe E. Tata

Votes: 178

48. Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1973)
Episode: The Posse That Wouldn't Quit (1971)

Not Rated | 60 min | Western

Unable to shake a trailing posse the guys shelter in the remote Jordan family cabin. Their teenage daughters are so taken with them, that when the posse takes them away, they spring them. But then the mother faces prison for what they did.

Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Pete Duel, Ben Murphy, Vera Miles, Richard X. Slattery

Votes: 101

49. The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969–1973)
Episode: The Convicts (1971)

60 min | Drama

Four convicts enter the institute as volunteers in an experiment to test immune suppression therapy for transplant patients. Due to their lowered immunity to infection, the men must be in ... See full summary »

Director: John Newland | Stars: E.G. Marshall, David Hartman, John Saxon, Don Stroud

Votes: 9

50. O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971–1972)
Episode: Operation: Moonshine (1971)

60 min | Drama

O'Hara goes after a bootlegger whose bad whiskey--poisoned with lead salts--has already caused the deaths of a half-dozen of his customers.

Director: Paul Landres | Stars: David Janssen, Will Geer, Russell Wiggins, Alan Hale Jr.

Votes: 15