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51. This Man Dawson (1959– )

30 min | Crime, Drama

8.1

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Keith Andes stars as an ex- military man hired on to root out corruption in the police department in an unnamed U.S. city.

Stars: Keith Andes, William Conrad, William Woodson, Tom McDonough

Votes: 33

52. The Cat (1966)

87 min | Adventure, Drama

5.4

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A boy lost in the mountains and fleeing a merciless poacher, befriends a wildcat on the loose.

Director: Ellis Kadison | Stars: Roger Perry, Peggy Ann Garner, Barry Coe, Dwayne Redlin

Votes: 65

53. Fanfare for a Death Scene (1964 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 73 min | Drama

5.7

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An American secret agent on the trail of a vanished scientist must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry.

Directors: Leslie Stevens, Walter Grauman | Stars: Richard Egan, Dee Hartford, J.D. Cannon, Al Hirt

Votes: 107

54. Cimarron Strip (1967–1968)
Episode: The Search (1967)

TV-PG | 90 min | Western

6.7

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Marshal Crown manages to miraculously survive being shot twice -- during a failed attempt by two outlaw brothers to free a third, who had been arrested for murder--and going without treatment until a doctor can be located. Dulcey, some Cimarron townsmen (motivated by fear of the outlaw's family and a $500 reward) launch an intensive search for Crown. A picaresque bipolar scavenger/peddler (with ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Randy Boone, Jill Townsend

Votes: 66

55. The Aquanauts (1960–1961)
Episode: The Tidal Wave Adventure (1961)

60 min | Adventure

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Director: David Orrick McDearmon | Stars: Jeremy Slate, Ron Ely, Charles Thompson, Cecil Parker

56. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: A Lesson in Violence (1961)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.9

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In response to an urgent telegram offering a large salary, Bat rides to a remote Texas ranch where he is to drive a herd of 2000 cattle to Abilene. As he arrives he finds that the Grant family believes he's a hired killer and pays for it.

Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Gene Barry, Richard Eastham, Allen Jaffe, Larry Darr

Votes: 31

57. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Bat Trap (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.6

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Midas Creek hires Bat to run their annual shooting contest. The council believe that the local bully will generally do anything in his power to win the contest. When the local gunsmith wins, it's the thug's rifle vs. Bat's pistol.

Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Gene Barry, Lon Chaney Jr., Maggie Pierce, Frank Ferguson

Votes: 36

58. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Blood on the Money (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.4

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Before Bat's partner in a casino venture is dies, he asks Masterson to deliver his share of the money to his brother on the Mexican border. Bat learns that the man is rumored to lead a gang of rustlers.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Gene Barry, Walter Coy, Kaye Elhardt, Paul Fierro

Votes: 34

59. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Brunette Bombshell (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.8

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Bat buys a boxing club in Denver. When he arrives he sees that the police have posted "Property Condemned" signs on his building. He soon discovers that the town councilors have plans to raze his gym and erect a casino on the spot.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Gene Barry, Gene Nelson, Rebecca Welles, Charles Fredericks

Votes: 57

60. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Cheyenne Club (1958)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.6

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Bat is hired by John Conant to discover if his daughter's fiancée cheats at cards. Bat discovers the crooked card sharp is really a powerful cattle baron who plans to kill Bat before he can tell anyone else.

Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Gene Barry, Karl Swenson, Dean Harens, William Tannen

Votes: 49

61. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Debt of Honor (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.2

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Bat grubstakes Cactus Charlie, an elderly prospector searching for a gold strike. Charlie finds gold, all right, the proceeds from a recent robbery and the crooks who buried the loot will stop at nothing to recover their ill-gotten gains.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Gene Barry, Edgar Buchanan, Paul Langton, Don Haggerty

Votes: 36

62. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Election Day (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.9

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While leading a trail drive, Bat is confronted at a town by a gang who tries to extort money from him before they allow his cattle to pass. Bat refuses to pay and discovers the gang is backed by the mayor he decides to boot from office.

Director: Monroe P. Askins | Stars: Gene Barry, Peter Hansen, Dan Sheridan, Kasey Rogers

Votes: 53

63. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Farmer with a Badge (1961)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

8.3

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Bat is ambushed in the desert by two men, his horse and water stolen. Left to die he is rescued by a farmer who is now the town marshal. Bat is determined to help the young lawman gain confidence in his ability to keep the peace.

Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Gene Barry, John Agar, Gregory Walcott, Jackie Loughery

Votes: 28

64. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: High Card Loses (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.6

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After a bank robbery Bat finds himself broke so he accepts an offer from a friend for a job. When his friend is murdered, Bat agrees to undertake his unfinished business - delivering three mail-order brides to their new husbands.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Gene Barry, Joan O'Brien, Paul Fierro, Jean Blake Fleming

Votes: 40

65. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Law of the Land (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.2

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Working again for his friend Hugh Blaine, Bat is hired to investigate the theft of barbed-wire fencing that prevents cattle from climbing onto a railroad's right-of-way. Question is whether Bat wants to tackle the five to one odds.

Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: Gene Barry, Barbara Lawrence, Leo Gordon, Howard Petrie

Votes: 34

66. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Masterson's Arcadia Club (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.7

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When Bat meets cowboys on a trail drive, he discovers that a gambler has appropriated his name and set up a casino called "Masterson's Arcadia Club" where all the ranch hands passing through town lose all their money playing crooked games.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Gene Barry, X Brands, Kasey Rogers, Larry Hudson

Votes: 32

67. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: One Bullet from Broken Bow (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.8

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Pawnee renegade Stone Calf and his braves have taken two white girls captive in a raid. The Army is leaving to back up Custer so Bat is asked to rescue the sisters. He reluctantly agrees to do it when his female friends pressures him.

Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Gene Barry, H.M. Wynant, Joan O'Brien, Donna Martell

Votes: 50

68. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Pigeon and Hawk (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.7

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When two speculators try to corner the stock market by sending former Pony Express riders racing from the mining towns to Denver with the latest information, Bat helps his friend counter the move with by sending news by carrier pigeon.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Gene Barry, Lisa Montell, Howard Petrie, Hugh Sanders

Votes: 38

69. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Promised Land (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.5

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Bat is kidnapped and asked to become the bank president in a town consisting entirely of former outlaws, because the former crooks don't trust each other. He is to keep the money safe while a blonde beauty handles the books.

Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Gene Barry, Gerald Mohr, Carol Ohmart, Arthur Space

Votes: 45

70. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: The Big Gamble (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.5

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When a man Bat staked to search for the Lost Dutchman's Mine disappears, Bat buys a map from a too agreeable bartender and sets off in pursuit. Bat soon learns that his friend is but one of many miners who have recently vanished.

Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Gene Barry, Arch Johnson, Morgan Woodward, Heather Ames

Votes: 37

71. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: The Black Pearls (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.6

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Bat is hired to join a man in jail to gain his confidence and help him escape. The hope is the man will lead Bat to a string of black pearls he stole a train's express box. Bat's job is complicated when the man's sister shows up.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Gene Barry, James Coburn, Jacqueline Scott, Gerald Milton

Votes: 44

72. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: The Conspiracy: Part 1 (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.7

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Bat is asked by a woman to prevent a false story from being printed in a Cheyenne newspaper supposedly written by John Surratt, one of John Wilkes Booth's confederates for the Lincoln assassination. She says her uncle is dead.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Gene Barry, Diane Brewster, Paul Richards, Arthur Shields

Votes: 46

73. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: The Conspiracy: Part 2 (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.8

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Bat discovers that a bartender serves as John Surratt in order to sell a scandalous story to the local newspaper. After Bat learns the truth, the bartender is found dead and the gambler is blamed for the murder.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Gene Barry, Diane Brewster, Paul Richards, Arthur Shields

Votes: 44

74. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: The Elusive Baguette (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.6

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Bat down and out on his luck is hired as the bodyguard of a beautiful widow. She must wear a fabulously expensive diamond to the Governor's reception that evening but before they can leave the necklace is stolen while Bat is distracted.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Gene Barry, Leslie Parrish, Allison Hayes, Don Kelly

Votes: 43

75. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: The Lady Plays Her Hand (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.7

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An eastern gambler playing a "system" breaks the bank at Bat's casino, putting the dapper Masterson out of business. Bat wonders if the "system" didn't have more than a little help from his pretty dealer.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Gene Barry, Wanda Hendrix, William Schallert, Robert Lynn

Votes: 31

76. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: The Marble Slab (1961)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

8.2

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Pinkerton hires Bat to get evidence against a gang that is terrorizing a town. Bat goes undercover as a marble salesman to convince the leader that so prominent a citizen should have a statue in his honor erected in the town square.

Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Gene Barry, Marvin Miller, Robert Bice, Patrick Waltz

Votes: 31

77. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: The Prescott Campaign (1961)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

8.4

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Bat's old friend from Dodge City, Marshal Ben Holt, asks him to help fight a scheme plotted by the power-grabbing land baron General Silas Guild. When he arrives, Bat isn't sure that the Marshal is on the side of law and order.

Director: Elliott Lewis | Stars: Gene Barry, John Dehner, Philip Ober, Valerie Allen

Votes: 30

78. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: The Price of Paradise (1961)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.8

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Bat arrives in Paradise, Colorado to collect a gambling debt from a crooked casino owner who doesn't like to pay his debts. He also doesn't like to pay his taxes - until Bat accepts an appointment as the new county tax assessor .

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Gene Barry, Richard Arlen, Dyan Cannon, Lance Fuller

Votes: 29

79. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Two Graves for Swan Valley (1958)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

8.1

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A vicious night rider reacts with murderous intent when he thinks Bat is flirting with his girl, pretty saloon girl Molly Doyle. Everyone tells Bat to leave town to save his life but Bat not wanting to be told what to do decides to stay.

Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Gene Barry, Broderick Crawford, Marcia Henderson, Patrick McVey

Votes: 86

80. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Welcome to Paradise (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

7.7

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While his stage makes a stop, Bat is arrested, charged with possession of a gun and assessed a staggering fine. When Bat learns that the local judge runs the town as a personal fiefdom, he decides to change things when a man faces hanging.

Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Gene Barry, Robert Foulk, Lonie Blackman, Ralph Taeger

Votes: 46