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1. Family Ties (1982–1989)
Episode: Speed Trap (1983)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

8.4
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Alex turns to amphetamines to get through a particularly stressful period of exams and scholarship applications.

Director: Sam Weisman | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman

Votes: 204

2. CBS Summer Playhouse (1987–1989)
Episode: Curse of the Corn People (1989)

44 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

8.3
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In Kansas, a group of friends in their 20s undertakes the making of a horror movie called Curse of the Corn People about a feminist zombie who stalks farmers, but things don't go as planned.

Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: John Terlesky, Danielle von Zerneck, Darren Dalton, Catherine Keener

Votes: 21

3. Married... with Children (1987–1997)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy

8.1
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Al is the quintessential working class dad. Peggy, his wife, always wants more from him. With their children, they go through the highs and lows of ordinary life.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Christina Applegate, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse

Votes: 111,243

4. Family Ties (1982–1989)
Episode: The Harder They Fall (1983)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

8.0
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Teacher/parent interviews at Alex and Mallory's school become interesting when both Steven and Elyse contend with a rude, insufferable teacher.

Director: Sam Weisman | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman

Votes: 190

5. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: Countdown (1986)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

8.0
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A cruise ship is the target of a terrorist attack and has three bombs hidden aboard. MacGyver and a friend from the agency are asked to dismantle the bombs before it's too late for the crew and passengers.

Director: Stan Jolley | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Ellen Bry, Steven Williams, Dana Elcar

Votes: 461

6. Roots: The Next Generations (1979)

120 min | Biography, Drama, History

7.8
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The dramatization of Alex Haley's family line from post Civil War America to the writer's search for his roots.

Stars: Debbi Morgan, Dorian Harewood, Paul Koslo, Stan Shaw

Votes: 2,790

7. Our House (1986–1988)
Episode: A Point of View (1987)

Drama, Family

7.8
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Molly befriends a new classmate named Dana, who is blind, and tries to understand what Dana experiences by wearing a blindfold. Meanwhile, Gus is opposed to allowing a successful female ... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Kessler | Stars: Wilford Brimley, Deidre Hall, Shannen Doherty, Chad Allen

Votes: 12

8. Family Ties (1982–1989)
Episode: Not an Affair to Remember (1983)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

7.7
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Steven faces temptation at work when his new production assistant takes a liking to him.

Director: Sam Weisman | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman

Votes: 168

9. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: Target MacGyver (1985)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

7.7
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There is a contract out on MacGyver so he leaves town and visits his Grandfather whom he hasn't seen in years. Soon the two are fighting for their lives in a cat and mouse hunt with the killers.

Director: Ernest Pintoff | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, John Anderson, D'Mitch Davis, William Frankfather

Votes: 473

10. MacGyver (1985–1992)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

7.6
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The adventures of a secret Agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Bruce McGill, Robin Mossley

Votes: 42,089

11. Password Plus (1979–1982)

TV-G | 30 min | Family, Game-Show

7.6
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Revised version of the verenable Goodson-Todman game show, where celebrity-contestant teams try to convey passwords.

Stars: Allen Ludden, Tom Kennedy, Bill Cullen, Gene Wood

Votes: 288

12. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: Deathlock (1986)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

7.6
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An enemy of MacGyver's fills a supposed safe house with several deadly booby traps to exact his revenge on MacGyver.

Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Wendy Schaal, Christopher Neame, Dana Elcar

Votes: 444

13. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: Nightmares (1986)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

7.6
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MacGyver is kidnapped by enemy agents to retrieve sensitive information he stole from them. To get him to talk, they inject MacGyver with a hallucinogenic drug that will kill him in six hours, unless an antidote they have is administered.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Tammy Lauren, Dana Elcar, Robert O'Reilly

Votes: 453

14. Dark Shadows (1991)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

7.5
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Victoria Winters comes to Collinwood, an isolated mansion in Maine, to work as a governess, but soon finds herself drawn into a strange world of vampires, ghosts and curses.

Stars: Ben Cross, Barbara Blackburn, Jim Fyfe, Joanna Going

Votes: 2,140

15. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: Every Time She Smiles (1986)

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

7.4
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In Bulgaria, MacGyver collects a top-secret microfilm and attempts to smuggle it out of the country. At the airport he meets a mysterious beautiful American girl, who turns out to have ties to the Bulgarian Secret Police.

Director: Charles Correll | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Teri Hatcher, Kai Wulff, Michael Fox

Votes: 431

16. Our House (1986–1988)
Episode: Small Steps Up a Tall Mountain (1986)

Drama, Family

7.4
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Inspired by the stories of Gus and his pals, David and J.R. decide to pull a Halloween prank aided by Kris; Molly is exposed to chicken pox; Gus wants to make the kids first Halloween with him special.

Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Wilford Brimley, Deidre Hall, Shannen Doherty, Chad Allen

Votes: 11

17. Our House (1986–1988)
Episode: The 100 Year Old Weekend (1987)

Drama, Family

7.4
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Gus convinces the family to try living for a weekend without 20th century conveniences; an international crisis puts everyone on edge.

Director: Noel Nosseck | Stars: Wilford Brimley, Deidre Hall, Shannen Doherty, Chad Allen

Votes: 9

18. Family Ties (1982–1989)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

7.3
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Chronicles liberal ex-hippies Steven and Elyse Keaton, their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.

Stars: Michael J. Fox, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Justine Bateman

Votes: 20,359

19. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: Slow Death (1986)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

7.3
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MacGyver finds himself on a train that gets hijacked by Indian tribesmen. He tries to help them find the Westerners who sold tainted medicine to their tribe and resolve the situation peacefully.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Frances Bergen, Kenneth Danziger, Anthony De Fonte

Votes: 397

20. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: The Prodigal (1985)

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

7.3
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MacGyver is assigned to protect a person in the Federal Witness Protection Program. The man he is protecting wants to come out of hiding to visit his dying mother. MacGyver must protect him from the Mob and from the Feds.

Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Richard Romanus, Robert Romanus, Carl Franklin

Votes: 447

21. Our House (1986–1988)
Episode: Green Christmas (1986)

Drama, Family

7.3
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Molly mourns the first Christmas without her father.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Wilford Brimley, Deidre Hall, Shannen Doherty, Chad Allen

Votes: 11

22. Our House (1986–1988)

60 min | Drama, Family

7.2
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Following the death of his son, Gus Witherspoon takes in his daughter-in-law and his three grandchildren to live with him. Adjustment to the new arrangement is not easy on any of them.

Stars: Wilford Brimley, Deidre Hall, Shannen Doherty, Chad Allen

Votes: 906

23. The Renegades (1983)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.2
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An urban street gang operates as undercover agents for the police.

Stars: Patrick Swayze, Randy Brooks, Paul Mones, Tracy Scoggins

Votes: 92

24. A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain (1982 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Family

7.2
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With members of the Walton family living in different places, it appears that they will not be reunited on Thanksgiving Day.

Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Ralph Waite, Jon Walmsley, Judy Norton, Mary Beth McDonough

Votes: 303

25. Family Ties (1982–1989)
Episode: Tender Is the Knight (1983)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

7.2
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Alex must contend with a childhood playmate staying at the house who is unlike any girl he's known - or been attracted to - before, and has to decide whether to try and change her personality to his liking.

Director: Sam Weisman | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman

Votes: 180

26. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: Hellfire (1985)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

7.2
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MacGyver visits some friends who are are drilling for oil. Their oil well catches fire and burns out of control. MacGyver is the only one who can stop the fire and save his friends' oil strike.

Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Cooper Huckabee, Nana Visitor, Rudy Ramos

Votes: 476

27. A Wedding on Walton's Mountain (1982 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

7.1
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Set immediately after World War II and based on the long-running television series "The Waltons," this romantic drama focuses on the wedding plans of Erin Walton and Paul Northridge.

Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Ralph Waite, Jon Walmsley, Judy Norton, Mary Beth McDonough

Votes: 248

28. Bosom Buddies (1980–1982)
Episode: Not with My Sister, You Pig (1982)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

7.1
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After Henry is asked to take out Kip's sister, Kip and Henry wind up in a fight that lands them both in the hospital.

Directors: Chris Thompson, Don Van Atta | Stars: Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari, Donna Dixon, Wendie Jo Sperber

Votes: 48

29. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: Flame's End (1986)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

7.1
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A theft of uranium occurs at a nuclear power plant where an ex-girlfriend of MacGyver's works. She enlists his help to catch the thief which endangers hers and MacGyver's lives.

Director: Bruce Seth Green | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Tannis G. Montgomery, Conlan Carter, Robert Englund

Votes: 431

30. Family Ties (1982–1989)
Episode: The Homecoming (1983)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

7.0
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Mallory's boyfriend Jeff returns to Columbus and confesses to Alex he hates Princeton and is willing to do anything to get out of it--even ask Mallory to go steady with him.

Director: Sam Weisman | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman

Votes: 155

31. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: The Enemy Within (1986)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

7.0
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Four agents have been betrayed by a mole inside the Agency, leading to their deaths. MacGyver must discover who it is before he becomes the next victim.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Viktoriya Fyodorova, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Michael Goodwin

Votes: 435

32. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: Ugly Duckling (1986)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

7.0
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MacGyver is sent to rescue a teenage computer hacker kidnapped by weapons dealers who want her to arm a missile system they stole.

Director: Charles Correll | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Darcy Marta, Lee de Broux, Dana Elcar

Votes: 414

33. Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
Episode: Part III (1914-1918) (1979)

100 min | Biography, Drama, History

7.0
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Will and Cynthia Palmer's daughter Bertha is off to Lane College, the first in the family to do so. There she meets Simon Haley, a fellow student who is working his way through school. She ... See full summary »

Director: John Erman | Stars: Irene Cara, James Daly, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

Votes: 84

34. Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
Episode: Part I (1882-1883) (1979)

99 min | Biography, Drama, History

6.9
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It's now April 1882, 12 years later. Chicken George returns to live with Tom Harvey and his wife Irene. Tom travels to Memphis to attend a Republican convention but soon learns that his ... See full summary »

Director: John Erman | Stars: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

Votes: 91

35. Bosom Buddies (1980–1982)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

6.8
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Two young single ad men must disguise themselves as women to live in the one apartment they can afford.

Stars: Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari, Donna Dixon, Holland Taylor

Votes: 4,640

36. Bosom Buddies (1980–1982)
Episode: The Way Kip and Henry Were (1982)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

6.8
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To cheer up Isabelle, Henry recounts his college days and the story of how the boys began working for Ruth.

Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari, Donna Dixon, Holland Taylor

Votes: 44

37. Family Ties (1982–1989)
Episode: Batter Up (1983)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

6.8
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When the pitcher drops out of Jennifer's softball team, Jennifer asks Arlene to be on the team. Arlene is not a sports person, and is unaware that she is only needed to fill the team with another player so as to not forfeit.

Director: Sam Weisman | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman

Votes: 152

38. Married... with Children (1987–1997)
Episode: My Favorite Married... (1995)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy

6.8
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Cast members talk about some of the best moments in the series.

Director: Bill Brown | Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Christina Applegate, David Faustino

Votes: 408

39. The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (1985)

180 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.8
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Director: John Erman | Stars: Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 9

40. Solid Gold (1980–1988)

60 min | Music

6.7
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Television show featuring dancing and popular music.

Stars: Jaime Monroy, Robert W. Morgan, Dionne Warwick, Marilyn McCoo

Votes: 352

41. The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)

245 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.7
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The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over ... See full summary »

Stars: Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 487

42. General Electric's All-Star Anniversary (1978 TV Special)

120 min | Documentary

6.7
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Director: Dick McDonough | Stars: John Wayne, Lucille Ball, Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman, Albert Brooks

Votes: 52

43. Bosom Buddies (1980–1982)
Episode: Who's on Thirst? (1982)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

6.7
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Kip and Henry's weekend at a secluded cabin yields hunger and fears of death. Meanwhile Ruth accidentally lets a tiger loose in New York City.

Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari, Donna Dixon, Wendie Jo Sperber

Votes: 48

44. Family Ties (1982–1989)
Episode: Working at It (1984)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

6.7
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Elyse gets a new job at an architectural firm and experiences challenges at work and at home.

Director: Sam Weisman | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman

Votes: 137

45. Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
Episode: Part II (1896-1897) (1979)

96 min | Biography, Drama, History

6.7
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It's now 1896 and Elizabeth Harvey returns home. Her father still bears a grudge over their dispute all those years ago. Cynthia Harvey makes the acquaintance of Will Palmer and he asks ... See full summary »

Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Slim Gaillard

Votes: 80

46. The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1985)

120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.7
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Director: John Erman | Stars: Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 9

47. Honkytonk Man (1982)

PG | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

6.6
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A boy with a music talent goes on a journey with his uncle for a stage concert.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Alexa Kenin

Votes: 9,478 | Gross: $4.48M

48. Johnny Belinda (1982 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama

6.6
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A young deaf mute is befriended by a Vista worker.

Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Richard Thomas, Rosanna Arquette, Dennis Quaid, Candy Clark

Votes: 263

49. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: To Be a Man (1986)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

6.6
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While on a rescue mission in Soviet Afghanistan, MacGyver is shot and wounded. An Afghan woman and her son risk their lives to give refuge to MacGyver. A wounded MacGyver must now outwit the Russian Army to complete his mission.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Persis Khambatta, Dana Elcar, Sid Haig

Votes: 392

50. Bosom Buddies (1980–1982)
Episode: Kip Off the Old Block (1982)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

6.5
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Kip's parents visit the Big Apple and their marriage falls apart.

Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari, Donna Dixon, Wendie Jo Sperber

Votes: 47



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