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1. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
TV-PG | 51 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: 93,123
2.
E! True Hollywood Story (1996– )
Episode:
Margaux Hemingway
(1997)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography
Supermodel and actress Margaux Hemingway was found dead in July 1996, this story examines her life. From her success in the mid 1970's as a top fashion model, her first starring role, and a... See full summary »
Director: Claire Callahan | Stars: Kim Alexis, Rosemarie Belden, Bernard Foucher, Gigi Gaston
Votes: 12
3.
Judd for the Defense (1967–1969)
Episode:
Weep the Hunter Home
(1968)
60 min | Drama
An old friend of Judd objects to his son's friendship with a young man whom he thinks is a homosexual. Later, when the father is shot in an altercation, the son's friend is accused of attempted murder.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Carl Betz, Stephen Young, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Jason
Votes: 11
4.
Lincoln (1988)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1988)
Drama, History, War
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Sam Waterston, Mary Tyler Moore, Richard Mulligan, Deborah Adair
Votes: 10
5.
Profiles in Courage (1964–1965)
Episode:
Grover Cleveland
(1965)
30 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1887 President Grover Cleveland goes up against the GAR when he threatens to veto the Veterans Dependent Pensions bill. He also supports lowering a popular tariff, risking further condemnation.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, George Macready, Barbara Feldon, Paul Lambert
Votes: 6
6.
Profiles in Courage (1964–1965)
Episode:
Thomas Hart Benton
(1964)
60 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1850 Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri hopes for California statehood. Knowing it will not be admitted as a slave state he fights Senator Calhoun's bill that would forbid Congress from voting against slavery in the Territories.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Jim Boles, Richard Bull, Russell Collins, Gene Darfler
Votes: 6
7.
The Richard Boone Show (1963–1964)
Episode:
Don't Call Me Dirty Names
(1963)
60 min | Drama
When a college girl (Harding) tells her mother (Leslie) she's pregnant by a married man and threatens to kill herself, her well-to-do father (Bochner) desperately sets out to find her in time.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Robert Blake, Lloyd Bochner, Richard Boone, Laura Devon
Votes: 6
8.
Lincoln (1988)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1988)
Drama, History, War
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Sam Waterston, Mary Tyler Moore, Richard Mulligan, Deborah Adair
Votes: 9
9.
Judd for the Defense (1967–1969)
Episode:
Punishments, Cruel and Unusual
(1968)
60 min | Drama
Judd defends an alcoholic woman who has been charged with hit-and-run even though she has not had a drink in years. It is soon obvious the evidence against her is flimsy, but the judge in ... See full summary »
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Carl Betz, Stephen Young, Jessica Tandy, David Sheiner
Votes: 9
10.
The Richard Boone Show (1963–1964)
Episode:
The Mafia Man
(1964)
Drama
Exiled mobster Frank Richie (Boone) agrees to come back to the U.S. to testify against his Mafia associates, if he is allowed to spend one hour with his estranged son. But many in the ... See full summary »
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Robert Blake, Lloyd Bochner, Richard Boone, Laura Devon
Votes: 8
11. The Richard Boone Show (1963–1964)
60 min | Drama
An anthology series starring Richard Boone as host and starred in about 50% of the shows. Each regular had parts in almost every episode and starred in at least one episode.
Stars: Robert Blake, Lloyd Bochner, Richard Boone, Laura Devon
Votes: 103
12.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Shelter
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A suburban dinner party is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare themselves, they turn against the one family that installed a permanent bomb shelter.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Larry Gates, Joseph Bernard, Jack Albertson, Peggy Stewart
Votes: 3,545
13. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
TV-14 | 25 min | Drama, Mystery
Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not.
Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Tyler, John Williams, Patricia Hitchcock
Votes: 19,327
14. The Great Adventure (1963–1964)
60 min | Drama
A filmed series of one-hour dramatizations of the lives of famous historical people, as well as important historical events.
Stars: Russell Johnson, Van Heflin, Eddie Little Sky, Kent Smith
Votes: 136
15.
Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Episode:
The Teacher
(1958)
Not Rated | 26 min | Western
Questions of revising the Civil War put a schoolteacher in gunsights until Paladin decides to make a stand, urging those who may find the truth she teaches painful to do the same.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Boone, Marian Seldes, Andrew Duggan, Jack Albertson
Votes: 146
16.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An Army major awakens in a small room with no idea of who he is or how he got there. He finds four other people in the same room, and they all begin to question how they each arrived there, and more importantly, how to escape.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Susan Harrison, William Windom, Murray Matheson, Kelton Garwood
Votes: 3,871
17. 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: 3,330
18. Birdbath (1971 TV Short)
Short, Drama
A one act play about an unsuccessful poet and a shy, young waitress who meet while working at an all night cafeteria in Manhattan. It becomes obvious that she is hesitant to return home to the Bronx where she lives with her mother.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Patty Duke, James Farentino
Votes: 11
19. The Rifleman (1958–1963)
TV-PG | 30 min | Family, Western
The adventures of a Wild West rancher, wielding a customized rapid-fire Winchester rifle, and his son.
Stars: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, Joe Benson
Votes: 5,008
20. Faerie Tale Theatre (1982–1987)
50 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A miscellany of numerous classic fairy tales' adaptations.
Stars: Shelley Duvall, John Achorn, Patrick DeSantis, David McCharen
Votes: 2,519
21. Coronet Blue (1967)
60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Michael Alden is an amnesiac, who must discover his real identity before the operatives of a mysterious group locate him and kill him. The key to his past might be "Coronet Blue", a meaningless phrase he for some reason remembers.
Stars: Frank Converse, Joe Silver, Brian Bedford, Robert Burr
Votes: 209
22. Profiles in Courage (1964–1965)
60 min | Biography, Drama, History
This anthology series presented episodes in the lives of true-life historical personages who each faced a terrible crisis in their life.
Stars: Jason Wingreen, Ken Drake, Woodrow Parfrey, Len Wayland
Votes: 91
23. Slattery's People (1964–1965)
60 min | Drama
Jim Slattery enters the state legislature, hopeful that he can make a difference. He finds dealing with endless rules and the majority opposition party frustrates any meaningful change but he stubbornly perseveres.
Stars: Richard Crenna, Paul Geary, Tol Avery, Maxine Stuart
Votes: 117
24. Five Fingers (1959–1960)
60 min | Drama
Victor Sebastian is a successful undercover agent based in Europe. Victor's cover is as a talent agent for singer Simone Genet, who is later a romantic interest. Victor is often aided by his contact, Robertson.
Stars: David Hedison, Luciana Paluzzi, Paul Burke, Michael Romanoff
Votes: 61
25.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Prodigal
(1967)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A notorious outlaw was shot in the back, fatally, before Matt could arrest him. The large bounty on the man's head was never collected. Now a "crusading" newspaper reporter is trying to ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 175
26.
The Name of the Game (1968–1971)
Episode:
The Bobby Currier Story
(1969)
TV-PG | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Bobby Currier was always trouble just waiting to happen. Now he seems to have gone on a killing spree. Dan Farrell, taken prisoner by Currier, discovers an unexpected 'accomplice' has influenced his actions.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Robert Stack, Steve Forrest, Brandon De Wilde, Tisha Sterling
Votes: 9
27.
The Name of the Game (1968–1971)
Episode:
The White Birch
(1968)
TV-PG | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
August, 1968: as Russian tanks roll into Czechoslovakia, to crush the Prague Spring, Glenn Howard has a chance to have the manuscript is a new book smuggled out - a book he says is "political dynamite'.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Gene Barry, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Pete Duel, Bethel Leslie
Votes: 46
28.
The Richard Boone Show (1963–1964)
Episode:
Statement of Fact
(1963)
60 min | Drama
Assistant State's Attorney Chris Dale (Boone) heads to a small town to get a statement from murder suspect Ellen Dudley (Leslie), who has been captured there and is accused of killing her ... See full summary »
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Robert Blake, Lloyd Bochner, Richard Boone, Laura Devon
Votes: 11
29.
The Rifleman (1958–1963)
Episode:
The Hawk
(1959)
TV-PG | 30 min | Family, Western
Mark finally captures a hawk he's been after, but when his life is endangered by a rattlesnake, a stranger suddenly appears out of nowhere who knows about Mark and the hawk and says he will help him.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, Patrick McVey
Votes: 136
30.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Nothing in the Dark
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An old woman has fought with death a thousand times and has always won. But now she finds herself afraid to let a wounded policeman in her door for fear he is Mr. Death. Is he?
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford, R.G. Armstrong, Rod Serling
Votes: 3,395
31. Naked City (1958–1963)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The cases of the N.Y.P.D.'s 65th Precinct.
Stars: Harry Bellaver, Horace McMahon, Paul Burke, Nancy Malone
Votes: 1,432
32. American Masters (1985– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Bennett, Dick Cavett
Votes: 1,170
33. Cavalcade of America (1952–1957)
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama
"Cavalcade of America" documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds.
Stars: James Seay, Robert Foulk, Richard Gaines, Raymond Greenleaf
Votes: 98
34. Call to Danger (1968 TV Movie)
60 min | Adventure
Jim Kingsley leads a secret government agency whose mission is to solve cases that stump other law enforcement offices.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Peter Graves, James Gregory, Daniel J. Travanti, Albert Paulsen
Votes: 9
35.
Mr. Lucky (1959–1960)
Episode:
Hijacked
(1959)
25 min | Drama, Thriller
An armed robbery of the Fortuna II curiously includes the taking of personal checks which were used to pay off gambling losses. This oddity leads Mr. Lucky and Andamo to the true reason for the crime - and very nearly to Davy Jones' Locker.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: John Vivyan, Ross Martin, David White, Lili Kardell
Votes: 43
36.
The Rifleman (1958–1963)
Episode:
Long Trek
(1961)
TV-PG | 30 min | Family, Western
Micah and Lucas are escorting Stanley, a prisoner, across a vast area with no towns anywhere nearby. After Stanley scares away the three horses, Micah, Lucas, and Stanley start walking, and walking, and walking.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, Lonny Chapman
Votes: 109
37. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in rough-and-tumble Dodge City.
Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 8,747
38. Cameo Theatre (1950–1955)
30 min | Drama
Live dramatic plays presented in the round with minimal props, scenery and costumes.
Stars: Claire Luce, Ernest Truex, Donald Briggs, Robert Bolger
Votes: 23
39.
The Bold Ones: The Protectors (1969–1970)
Episode:
Deadlock
(1969)
100 min | Drama
The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and ... See full summary »
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Hari Rhodes, Aldo Ray, Ruby Dee
Votes: 27
40.
Dr. Kildare (1961–1966)
Episode:
Solomon's Choice
(1962)
60 min | Drama
Kitty, a nurse from Blair General Hospital, is ready to deliver a baby after suffering several miscarriages in the past. Winona Pine, a woman estranged from her husband, is also giving ... See full summary »
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Raymond Massey, Barbara Baxley, Collin Wilcox Paxton
Votes: 19
41.
Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Episode:
Deliver the Body
(1958)
Not Rated | 26 min | Western
Paladin applies the U.S. Constitution to criminal law in the West when he fights for Habeas Corpus, the right to counsel in defense, and jury trial by peers for a man accused of killing twice with an outmoded cap-and-ball pistol.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Boone, R.G. Armstrong, James Franciscus, Robert Gist
Votes: 114
42.
Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Episode:
The Chase
(1959)
Not Rated | 25 min | Western
Pallid bank clerk flees when accused of killing a deputy while robbing the bank. His wife is so sure of his innocence, she hires Paladin to bring him in before a rabid posse does. The posse... See full summary »
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Boone, Paul Richards, Paul Birch, Wright King
Votes: 94
43.
Mr. Lucky (1959–1960)
Episode:
The Parolee
(1960)
25 min | Drama, Thriller
A crooked businessman has convicts paroled to him and then threatens to have them sent back unless they do exactly as he says-including strong-arming and murder.Mr. Lucky and Andamo help ... See full summary »
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: John Vivyan, Ross Martin, Tom Brown, Jeremy Slate
Votes: 41
44. Peter Gunn (1958–1961)
TV-14 | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Peter Gunn is a private detective with a knack for finding trouble. His cases often mean he runs into the shadiest characters, most vicious thugs and the most powerful crime bosses. Cool and resourceful, he always gets the guilty party.
Stars: Craig Stevens, Herschel Bernardi, Lola Albright, Bill Chadney
Votes: 1,652
45. The Defenders (1961–1965)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A father and son lawyer duo take a variety of cases that often deal with the important issues of the day.
Stars: E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Polly Rowles, Ossie Davis
Votes: 501
46. Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958–1960)
60 min | Drama
An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. Stories came from several genres, often based on fact. A two part episode was spun off as the popular show The Untouchables (1959).
Stars: Desi Arnaz, Betty Furness, Bruce Gordon, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 143
47. The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1958–1959)
60 min | Drama
Ellery Queen was a mystery writer who assisted his father, a detective with the New York Police Department, in solving murders. Queen's methods were arcane and intellectual rather than ... See full summary »
Stars: George Nader, Les Tremayne, Lee Philips, Ruth Warrick
Votes: 38
48. European Eye (1968 TV Movie)
60 min | Adventure
An American private detective living in London aids foreign travelers in trouble.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Mark Miller, Michael Rennie, Barry Foster, Julie Sommars
Votes: 6
49.
The Detectives (1959–1962)
Episode:
The Frightened Ones
(1961)
30 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A loan shark borrows a car and runs a client off the road for non payment. He threatens the owner not to tell the cops. When the owner is picked up by the police, the man tries to hold his sister hostage.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Robert Taylor, Mark Goddard, Russell Thorson, Tige Andrews
Votes: 7
50.
Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Episode:
Gun Shy
(1958)
Not Rated | 26 min | Western
In order to collect the gift of a precious jade chess set, Paladin must first intercept the men who stole it from Hey Boy's family.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Boone, Jeanette Nolan, Lisa Gaye, Corey Allen
Votes: 136