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51. Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1963)
60 min | Drama
Documentary dramas, plays that were based on true stories, were the forte of Armstrong Circle Theater. Many movie actors and actresses got their start here.
Stars: Douglas Edwards, Sandy Becker, Bob Sherry, John Cameron Swayze
Votes: 123
52. I, Jane Doe (1948)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, War
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl, but when he goes home he doesn't take her with him--because he's already married to a ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 120
53. Red Barry (1938)
Passed | 256 min | Drama
A famous detective sets out to discover who stole $2 million in bonds.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Alan James | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Frances Robinson, Edna Sedgewick, Cyril Delevanti
Votes: 114
54. Glamour for Sale (1940)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Romance
An undercover man (Roger Pryor) recruits an escort-service rookie (Anita Louise) to inform him of scams.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Anita Louise, Roger Pryor, Frances Robinson, June MacCloy
Votes: 107
55. Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Robert Cummings
Votes: 104
56. Fireside Theatre (1949–1955)
30 min | Drama
An anthology series which became the first successful filmed series on American television.
Stars: Gene Raymond, John Warburton, Nolan Leary, Dabbs Greer
Votes: 97
57. Run Buddy Run (1966–1967)
30 min | Comedy
Buddy Overstreet was an everyday, ordinary sort of guy... until the one day he overheard a member of "The Syndicate" (a crime organization) say the words "Chicken Little!" Now The Syndicate... See full summary »
Stars: Jack Sheldon, Bruce Gordon, Nicholas Georgiade, Jim Connell
Votes: 91
58. The Spy Ring (1938)
Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: William Hall, Jane Wyman, Esther Ralston, Robert Warwick
Votes: 89
59. This Is the Life (1952–1988)
30 min | Drama, Family
Long-running religious series featuring dramatizations of contemporary problems and how they were resolved using a Christian solution.
Stars: Nelson Leigh, Forrest Taylor, Onslow Stevens, Nan Boardman
Votes: 84
60. The Family Next Door (1939)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy
About a plumber (a Rodney Dangerfield type) and the misadventures of his family.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Joy Hodges, Eddie Quillan, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 80
61. Desperate Trails (1939)
Approved | 60 min | Western
A young boy helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.
Director: Albert Ray | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Frances Robinson
Votes: 73
62. The Hathaways (1961–1962)
30 min | Comedy
Suburban couple with three chimps as "children".
Stars: The Marquis Chimps, Peggy Cass, Jack Weston, Barbara Perry
Votes: 66
63. Mr. Adams and Eve (1957–1958)
30 min | Comedy
Famous Hollywood actors Eve Drake and Howard Adams, a married couple, are shown at home plus at work, usually to comedic effect. They wrangle with studio head J.B. Hafter and deal with their agent, the affable Steve.
Stars: Howard Duff, Ida Lupino, Alan Reed, Olive Carey
Votes: 66
64. Double Alibi (1940)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Wayne Morris, Margaret Lindsay, William Gargan, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 63
65.
Screen Directors Playhouse (1955–1956)
Episode:
A Ticket for Thaddeus
(1956)
30 min | Drama
A Polish refugee and new citizen gets involved in a slight car accident, but he doesn't fully understand American life, and believes he will be sent to a concentration camp.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Raymond Bailey, Clem Bevans, Russ Conway, Alan Hale Jr.
Votes: 63
66. Lux Playhouse (1958–1959)
30 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance
This filmed series of light comedies, romances and melodramas alternated on Friday nights with the "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" between October 1958 and September 1959.
Stars: Alice Backes, Charles Keane, Nesdon Booth, Michael Rennie
Votes: 61
67. The Big Story (1949–1959)
30 min | Drama
Based on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States. Comments from the actual reporter open and... See full summary »
Stars: Robert Sloane, Ernest Chappell, Ben Grauer, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 59
68. The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Drama
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Josephine Hutchinson, William Gargan, Barbara Read
Votes: 58
69. Exposed (1938)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Otto Kruger, Herbert Mundin, Charles D. Brown
Votes: 58
70. The Jean Arthur Show (1966)
30 min | Comedy
Widowed Patricia Marshall is a successful attorney who welcomes her newly graduated son Paul into her law firm. She uses her chauffeur Morton as a sounding board and occasionally dates the eligible Richie Wells.
Stars: Jean Arthur, Ron Harper, Leonard Stone, Richard Conte
Votes: 56
71. A Storm in Summer (1970 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
An emotionally powerful story written by Rod Serling, about a hostile elderly Jewish man (Peter Ustinov), as the proprietor of an upstate New York delicatessen, who becomes the reluctant ... See full summary »
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Peter Ustinov, N'Gai Dixon, Peter Bonerz, Anne Collings
Votes: 56
72. The Adventures of McGraw (1957–1958)
30 min | Crime, Drama
McGraw is a solitary type who manages to get entangled in the stopping of criminal activity despite not having any official capacity. He often doesn't carry a weapon, especially if an attractive woman is involved.
Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Jean Willes, James Flavin, Angie Dickinson
Votes: 53
73. Laddie (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: John Beal, Gloria Stuart, Virginia Weidler, Donald Crisp
Votes: 53
74. Johnny Midnight (1960)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Johnny Midnight (Edmond O'Brien) is an ex-actor/theater owner, now turned private eye. His turf is Broadway and New York City's theater district. He lives in a penthouse apartment above the... See full synopsis »
Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Yuki Shimoda, Arthur Batanides, Barney Phillips
Votes: 52
75. Ponds Theater (1953– )
60 min | Drama
Stars: Valerie Cossart, Harry Townes, Mildred Dunnock, Carmen Mathews
Votes: 52
76. Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
60 min | Drama
Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, et cetera.
Stars: Elmer Davis, Charles Dingle, Richard Bishop, Joan Chandler
Votes: 50
77. The Last Warning (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Mystery
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, Kay Linaker, E.E. Clive
Votes: 50
78. Society Smugglers (1939)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, Walter Woolf King, Frank Jenks
Votes: 49
79. Damon Runyon Theater (1955–1956)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology, the episodes of which were based mostly on the original short stories of Daymon Runyan.
Stars: Donald Woods, Wally Vernon, Allen Jenkins, Clegg Hoyt
Votes: 48
80.
The Jack Benny Program (1950–1965)
Episode:
Jack Is Kidnapped
(1963)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy
Jack is kidnapped and forced to make a $10,000 withdrawal from the bank.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Dennis Day, George Burns
Votes: 48
81. Keeper of the Bees (1947)
68 min | Drama
Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the romance... See full summary »
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Michael Duane, Gloria Henry, Harry Davenport, Jane Darwell
Votes: 47
82. Riders of Pasco Basin (1940)
Approved | 56 min | Drama, Music, Western
A newspaper editor stumbles upon an irrigation project swindle.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Frances Robinson
Votes: 47
83. Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy
Under a doctor's orders, a society matron invites six ruffians to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Mischa Auer, Mary Boland, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Parrish
Votes: 46
84. Fair Exchange (1962–1963)
60 min | Comedy
Former World War II buddies Eddie Walker of New York City and Tommy Finch of London, England decide to swap teenage daughters Patty and Heather for a year.
Stars: Eddie Foy Jr., Lynn Loring, Victor Maddern, Judy Carne
Votes: 45
85. Redheads on Parade (1935)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him withdrawing his support. But all ends well.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: John Boles, Dixie Lee, Jack Haley, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 45
86.
The Jack Benny Program (1950–1965)
Episode:
Jack Renews Driver's License
(1964)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy
While doing a PSA promoting safe driving, it's discovered that Jack's license expired, so the organization the PSA is for stalks out. Jack's attempt to renew his license at the Kafkaesque motor vehicle office is nightmarish.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Jack Benny, Parley Baer, Cliff Norton, Ross Elliott
Votes: 44
87.
The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966)
Episode:
The Ideal Wife
(1959)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Donna comes to the conclusion that she's too nice for her own good. She decides to be more assertive to see what people think then.
Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Donna Reed, Carl Betz, Shelley Fabares, Paul Petersen
Votes: 43
88.
Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956)
Episode:
One Way Out
(1955)
30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Diana finally leaves her playboy husband and moves to an apartment in New York. Soon after arriving at her new place, she finds herself locked in with no electricity and very little food. ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: Ida Lupino, Scott Forbes, Frances Robinson, Gayle Kellogg
Votes: 43
89. Headmaster (1970–1971)
30 min | Drama, Comedy
The relationship between the headmaster of an elite California private school and his students and faculty.
Stars: Andy Griffith, Claudette Nevins, Jerry Van Dyke, Parker Fennelly
Votes: 42
90. Our Man Higgins (1962–1963)
30 min | Comedy
Alice and Duncan MacRoberts are looking forward to an unexpected inheritance from Scotland but then are surprised when it's a servant. Higgins is a prim butler who lends a hand with the ... See full summary »
Stars: Stanley Holloway, Audrey Totter, Frank Maxwell, Rickey Kelman
Votes: 41
91. So You Won't Talk (1940)
Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Crime
"Whiskers," the timid book reviewer on a metropolitan daily newspaper is fired, along with his girlfriend, switchboard-operator Lucy Walters. They agree to meet for dinner to discuss a book... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Frances Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Bernard Nedell
Votes: 40
92. The Jury's Secret (1938)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Bill Sheldon has a grudge against Midland City newspaper publisher Brandon Williams as Sheldon blames the city's recent flood against Williams for using his power and influence to hold up ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Kent Taylor, Fay Wray, Jane Darwell, Nan Grey
Votes: 37
93. Colonel Humphrey Flack (1953–1959)
30 min | Comedy, Family
Colonel Humphrey Flack is the consummate con-man, swindling swindlers at every opportunity.
Stars: Alan Mowbray, Frank Jenks, Eliot Sharfe, Boris Aplon
Votes: 37
94. The Spirit of Culver (1939)
Approved | 89 min | Drama
Tom Allen, the son of a decorated war hero who is feared to have died in battle, wins a scholarship to the Culver military academy. His arrogance and unwillingness to comply with the ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartholomew, Andy Devine, Henry Hull
Votes: 36
95. Nurse from Brooklyn (1938)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do ... See full summary »
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Sally Eilers, Paul Kelly, Larry J. Blake, Maurice Murphy
Votes: 36
96. Risky Business (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: George Murphy, Dorothea Kent, Eduardo Ciannelli, Leon Ames
Votes: 35
97. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1969–1970)
30 min | Comedy
Longfellow Deeds is a small town guy who is editor of the local newspaper. He unexpectedly inherits a fortune and a corporation, bringing his simple, honest ways to the cynical big city.
Stars: Monte Markham, Pat Harrington Jr., Herb Voland, Ivor Barry
Votes: 33
98. A Girl with Ideas (1937)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Wendy Barrie, Walter Pidgeon, Kent Taylor, Dorothea Kent
Votes: 31
99. Border Patrol (1959)
30 min | Adventure
Don Jagger is a Border Patrol deputy chief who is a troubleshooter from to various locations. His assignments take him from the Florida Everglades to Washington logging camps in this syndicated series.
Stars: Richard Webb, Rico Alaniz, John Indrisano, Don Gordon
Votes: 31
100. Big Town Czar (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Mystery
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Barton MacLane, Tom Brown, Eve Arden, Jack La Rue
Votes: 29