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1. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.
Stars: Rod Serling, Robert McCord, Jay Overholts, James Turley
Votes: 93,314
2.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Beaver and Andy
(1960)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
A middle-aged man named Andy stops by the Cleavers seeking work as a handyman. Ward agrees to hire his friend, despite June's concerns that Andy is an alcoholic and may influence Wally and Beaver.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 174
3.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Wally's Practical Joke
(1963)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
After Lumpy Rutherford puts exploding smoke bombs in Wally's and Eddie's cars, Eddie coaxes Wally into retaliating against Lumpy with their own practical joke. But real damage is done to ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 160
4.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Beaver Finds a Wallet
(1960)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Beaver and his friend Larry Mondello find a lost wallet stuffed with money, turn it in to the police station and hope that no one claims it so they can split the loot.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 147
5.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
A Night in the Woods
(1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
When their week-end dating plans are ruined by Wally's promise to take Beaver and his buddies camping, Lumpy and Eddie connive to free up their pal by trying to scare the young campers into coming home early.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 147
6.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Wally's Big Date
(1961)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Eddie tricks Wally into taking a tall girl to a school dance.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 147
7.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Bernal Sierra Story
(1958)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Revolutionary Bernal Sierra joins the train finding the wife of his dead friend married to Casey Reardon who sold guns to the Mexican revolutionaries. Bernal is suspicious of Casey, his brothers, and Perdita over missing gold.
Directors: David Butler, Jerry Hopper | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Gilbert Roland, Charlita
Votes: 80
8.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Beaver the Magician
(1959)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Bengie thinks Larry Mondello magically turned Beaver into a rock.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 163
9.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
June's Birthday
(1959)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Not wanting to hurt Beaver's feelings when he gives her a tacky blouse for her birthday, loving mother June promises Beaver that she will wear the blouse to a mother's club tea. But June ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 141
10.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Wally Buys a Car
(1963)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Ward's offer to help Wally pay for the high cost of automobile insurance hinges on several conditions, including the concerned dad having final say on the excited, but naive, teen's choice of used car.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 142
11.
Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode:
No Second Helping
(1957)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
A wife finds a letter in the pocket of her suave husband and learns he's been seeing a young woman. She suspects he's been cheating, but he says she's the daughter of a friend and simply ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Myrna Loy, Tom Helmore, Jill St. John, Molly Glessing
Votes: 20
12.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Bill Tawnee Story
(1958)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Bill Tawnee served his country heroically. When Major Adams recognizes him on the trail and sees he is unable to wake, he asks his wife to join his wagon train even though there is plenty of anti-Indian sentiment afloat.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Macdonald Carey, Joy Page
Votes: 95
13.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Jess MacAbee Story
(1959)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Flint, scouting ahead of the wagon train, is in search of fresh meat. With prospects none too good he comes upon a hidden paradise, green and lush and offering far more than he expected especially for a single man.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Andy Devine, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 118
14.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Kitty Allbright Story
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Kitty Allbright is a registered nurse whose stagecoach is attacked and destroyed. Flint agrees to let her use her new skill on the wagon train. She quickly becomes disturbed at the lack of hygiene and health in general around the train.
Director: David Butler | Stars: John McIntire, Robert Horton, Polly Bergen, Terry Wilson
Votes: 80
15.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Substitute Father
(1961)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Wally takes his responsibility seriously when he is left in charge of the Cleaver household while Ward is in St. Louis on a business trip but isn't sure he can fill his father's shoes when ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 136
16. M Squad (1957–1960)
Not Rated | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The hard-hitting adventures of tough Lieutenant Frank Ballinger, a member of the Chicago Police Department's M Squad, an elite crime-fighting unit.
Stars: Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Gail Kobe, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 387
17. Karen (1964–1965)
30 min | Comedy
Southern California is a great place to be a teenager and Karen, with her loving parents and mischievous sister Mimi, is ready to enjoy every minute of it. Her impulsiveness sometimes leads her to misadventures.
Stars: Richard Denning, Mary LaRoche, Gina Gillespie, Debbie Watson
Votes: 112
18.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Beaver and Violet
(1960)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The Cleavers' and the Rutherfords' picnic day turns into embarrassment for Beaver when a snapshot of Violet kissing him on the cheek appears on the cover of Ward's company magazine.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 146
19.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Beaver's Autobiography
(1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Beaver encourages pretty classmate Betsy Carter's crush on him to get her to help him write his autobiography for a school assignment; but when Betsy finds out that Beaver has been calling ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 131
20.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Beaver's Fear
(1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Beaver is reluctant to go to the amusement park with Wally and the older boys after Richard and Whitey tell him how scary the roller coaster ride is.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 138
21.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Lumpy's Car Trouble
(1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Wally breaks the rules for borrowing the family car.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 121
22.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Sally Potter Story
(1958)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Sally Potter hitches a ride on the wagon train but being pretty helps and hurts her. Someone she knew catches up to the train and wants to remind her of who she is and where she came from, possibly ruining what she wants for her future.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Vanessa Brown, Lyle Bettger
Votes: 103
23.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Beaver Makes a Loan
(1959)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Beaver is forced to break his promise to bring home the change from the dollar his dad gave him to buy a 25-cent notebook, after his unreliable pal, Larry Mondello, takes the money to buy a... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 129
24. Buckskin (1958–1959)
30 min | Western
Annie O'Connell's boarding house in Buckskin, Montana, in 1880, is the setting for dramas unfolding for travelers and townies alike. Stories are seen through the eyes of 10-year-old Jody.
Stars: Tom Nolan, Sallie Brophy, Mike Road, Orville Sherman
Votes: 51
25.
The Deputy (1959–1961)
Episode:
The Choice
(1960)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
Dory Matson, an ex-convict returns to his hometown of Silver City and announces his intentions to reform. The townspeople are reluctant to accept him at his word, especially when he guns ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Henry Fonda, Allen Case, Vince Edwards, Rex Holman
Votes: 22
26.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Beaver on TV
(1963)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Beaver's classmates and family plan to watch him "live" when he is chosen to appear as a panelist on the popular TV show "Teen Age Forum". But when everyone, including Beaver, misses an ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 146
27.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
No Time for Babysitters
(1961)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Beaver tries to hide from his friends the fact that he still has to have a babysitter when Wally and his parents are gone.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 150
28.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
The All-Night Party
(1963)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Wally gets his parents' permission to attend his all-night high-school graduation party, but he finds that if he wants to escort his new girlfriend to it, he must make a good impression on ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 150
29.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Uncle Billy's Visit
(1963)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
June isn't sure it's a good idea when eccentric Uncle Billy comes to stay with the boys while she and Ward spend the weekend at the lake with friends. But when Beaver is caught trying to ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 142
30.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Wally's Car
(1961)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Wally buys his first car, a non-running jalopy which becomes a blight on the neighborhood.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 135
31.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Larry Hides Out
(1960)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Larry hides in Wally and Beaver's bathroom after his mother embarrasses him in front of Beaver.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 137
32.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
The Merchant Marine
(1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Angry with his dad for taking his car keys away, Lumpy Rutherford decides to secretly join the Merchant Marine Corp and has the enlistment information sent to the Cleaver's address instead ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 117
33. Handle with Care (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: James Dunn, Boots Mallory, El Brendel, Victor Jory
Votes: 18
34.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Beaver's Typewriter
(1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Beaver finds that learning to type on his new typewriter is harder than it looks and is once again reminded that accepting help from Eddie Haskell is never...ever...a good idea.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 106
35.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Box Office Attraction
(1963)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Wally falls hard for the pretty ticket taker at the movie theater. When he takes her out on a date, he finds she is not as nice as he thought.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 168
36.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
The Yard Birds
(1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Wally and Beaver reluctantly give up their Saturday morning to clean the yard, miss the garbage man's pick-up deadline and go from the frying pan into the fire when they trust Eddie Haskell... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 120
37.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Beaver's Laundry
(1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Wally comes to the rescue after Beaver lets his pal Richard do the Rickover family laundry in the Cleaver washing machine, "bailing" the inexperienced younger boys out when laundry day turns into soapy mayhem.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 108
38. Bringing Up Buddy (1960–1961)
30 min | Comedy
Buddy Flower, a financial advisor, lives with his maiden aunts Iris and Violet who adore him but are a little eccentric. They keep him busy getting them out of scrapes, extricating himself ... See full summary »
Stars: Frank Aletter, Doro Merande, Enid Markey, Frank Albertson
Votes: 38
39.
The Deputy (1959–1961)
Episode:
Powder Keg
(1959)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
Herk Lansom and his men capture Tom Deaver, a notorious renegade wanted for supplying gunpowder to the Apaches. Herk's journey to Prescott with his prisoner is endangered when a garrulous ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Henry Fonda, Allen Case, Wallace Ford, Betty Lou Keim
Votes: 32
40.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Brother vs. Brother
(1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Beaver feels betrayed when the first girl he ever wanted to bring home after school falls for big brother Wally as soon as they get there.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 114
41.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Double Date
(1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Wally and Beaver arrange a double date with two sisters who are new to town, but unforeseen problems arise.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 132
42.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Summer in Alaska
(1963)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
When Eddie Haskell's uncle gets his nephew a summer job on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska, Eddie makes it sound so exciting that Wally and Lumpy want to go too...until Eddie's ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 127
43.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
The Credit Card
(1963)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Showing off his new credit card, Eddie Haskell foots the bill for a new battery when Wally's car breaks down on the way home from a school function. Wally pays Eddie the cash to cover the ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 131
44.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
The Tooth
(1959)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
While Beaver and his small toothache wait for the results of a dental X-ray, he's convinced that he will soon have a painful experience after mean-spirited Lumpy Rutherford tells him that, ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 117
45.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Weekend Invitation
(1961)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Wally must decide whether or not to tell his parents when he learns that a week-end party with friends at a lakeside cabin will be unchaperoned.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 124
46.
The Patty Duke Show (1963–1966)
Episode:
The Greatest Psychologist in the World
(1964)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Patty gets invited to a college prom but her parents won't let her attend. Taking Cathy's advice, she decides to use a little psychology to get her way.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Patty Duke, William Schallert, Jean Byron, Paul O'Keefe
Votes: 18
47.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
The Hypnotist
(1960)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Rascally Eddie Haskell pretends to be Beaver's hypnotized slave.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 123
48.
Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode:
Beaver's Pigeons
(1959)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
When Beaver gets sick with the chicken pox, Wally takes care of his new pigeons. Then he ends up having to take care of Larry's, too.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers
Votes: 131
49. 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama.
Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Edd Byrnes, Roger Smith, Jacqueline Beer
Votes: 1,636
50. Intolerance (1916)
Passed | 163 min | Drama, History
The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, F.A. Turner
Votes: 16,732 | Gross: $2.18M