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51. Secrets (1992 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 93 min | Drama, Romance

A producer sets up a cast for the pilot of a soap opera. Each actor brings a personal secret to the filming in Manhattan.

Director: Peter H. Hunt | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Linda Purl, Gary Collins, Ben Browder

Votes: 368

52. George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head (1986 TV Special)

TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary, Comedy

Legendary comedian George Carlin tackles some of his favorite subjects along with his brand of comedy and humor.

Director: Rocco Urbisci | Stars: George Carlin, Rick Ducommun, Anthony James, Vic Tayback

Votes: 1,869

53. The Gun (1974 TV Movie)

78 min | Crime, Drama

The "life" of a handgun is followed from its manufacture to its ultimate fate, and shows the effects the weapon has on its various owners.

Director: John Badham | Stars: Stephen Elliott, Jean Le Bouvier, Wallace Rooney, David Huffman

Votes: 97

54. Apt Pupil

Drama, Thriller | Abandoned

Todd Bowden realizes that Kurt Dussander, a nazi criminal, lives in his small town. Soon, Todd blackmails Dussander into telling him about the gory details in exchange for not turning him ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Bridges

55. Lights, Camera, Annie! (1982 TV Movie)

Documentary, Family

An in-depth look into the making of the film Annie (1982). It covers the adaptation changes from the original Broadway musical, the hiring of director John Huston, the nationwide search to ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew J. Kuehn | Stars: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry

Votes: 32

56. Great Performances (1971– )
Episode: Life on the Mississippi (1980)

Not Rated | 115 min | Music, Musical

Most mid-19th-century Mississippi River boys dreamed of occupying that pinnacle of power and glamour, the pilot house of a riverboat. In a riot of local color, this film tells how, unlike ... See full summary »

Director: Peter H. Hunt | Stars: Robert Lansing, David Knell, James Keane, Donald Madden

Votes: 85

57. Rags to Riches (1987–1988)
Episode: Pilot (1987)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A wealthy businessman decides to soften his "cutthroat" image by adopting some children. He winds up adopting six girls and isn't prepared for the problems that come with them.

Director: Bruce Seth Green | Stars: Joseph Bologna, Tisha Campbell, Blanca De Garr, Kimiko Gelman

Votes: 299

58. The Eleventh Hour (1962–1964)
Episode: The Wings of the Morning (1963)

60 min | Drama

Two teenagers elope and get married without telling their parents, and the parents of the girl ask Bassett and Graham to examine her. The teens are determined to go ahead, even by leaving ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Wendell Corey, Jack Ging, Lynn Loring, Peter Helm

Votes: 8

59. Going My Way (1962–1963)
Episode: The Shoemaker's Child (1963)

60 min | Drama, Family

Teenage son of a pediatrician behaves suspiciously to gain acceptance among his peers.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Gene Kelly, Dick York, Leo G. Carroll, Nydia Westman

60. Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964–1969)
Episode: Old Man Carter (1965)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, War

Gomer tries to collect money for Carter's birthday.

Director: Coby Ruskin | Stars: Jim Nabors, Frank Sutton, Ronnie Schell, Alvy Moore

Votes: 58

61. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: Alethea (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Seeing is believing. Or is it? A young girl's eyewitness testimony leads to a priest being tried for murder and sentenced to death by hanging.

Director: John Badham | Stars: David Carradine, Jodie Foster, Charles Tyner, Kenneth Tobey

Votes: 176

62. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: An Eye for an Eye (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine encounters a pregnant rape victim who is bent on having the 3 army officers who committed the crime, killed.

Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: David Carradine, L.Q. Jones, Tim McIntire, Harry Townes

Votes: 193

63. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: Arrogant Dragon (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

For the sake of an unwed mother and her unborn child, Caine champions an aging tong leader who is under a sentence of death.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: David Carradine, Richard Loo, Clyde Kusatsu, Keye Luke

Votes: 99

64. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: Crossties (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine is injected into a war between a hate-maddened detective and an outlaw leading a gang of ex-farmers victimized by a railroad.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: David Carradine, Barry Sullivan, John Anderson, Harrison Ford

Votes: 118

65. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: Empty Pages of a Dead Book (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine changes a Texas Ranger's life by showing him that the law can murder justice.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: David Carradine, Robert Foxworth, Slim Pickens, Philip Ahn

Votes: 99

66. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: In Uncertain Bondage (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A proud Southern belle, imprisoned in a pit with Caine, learns that serving others and being served are folds of the same garment.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: David Carradine, Warren Vanders, Judy Pace, Lynda Day George

Votes: 105

67. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: Nine Lives (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Cats are scarce in the Old West, and Caine must replace one to appease the death of one killed by a gold seeking miner.

Director: Allen Reisner | Stars: David Carradine, Albert Salmi, Dana Elcar, Royal Dano

Votes: 151

68. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: Sun and Cloud Shadow (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A powerful landowner attempts to drive off Chinese miners from their legally owned mountain of gold, but complications arise from his son's love for the girl Cloud Shadow.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: David Carradine, Morgan Woodward, Aimee Eccles, Ron Feinberg

Votes: 176

69. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: Superstition (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine is falsely arrested for stealing and is sent to a silver mine. After arriving, he teaches a fellow prisoner how to endure extreme heat, cold and how to survive in a serious cave-in.

Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: David Carradine, Fred Sadoff, Ford Rainey, Roy Jenson

Votes: 127

70. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: The Cenotaph: Part I (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine is involved in separate adventures in two interweaving story lines: he helps a mad mountain man save his dying wife, and -- in a flashback to China --- battles a warlord to win a concubine's heart.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: David Carradine, Stefan Gierasch, Michael Pataki, Robert Ridgely

Votes: 104

71. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: The Cenotaph: Part II (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine resolves his adventures with a mad mountain man, and -- in a flashback to China -- a marathon kung fu battle with a warlord to win a concubine's heart.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: David Carradine, Stefan Gierasch, Michael Pataki, Robert Ridgely

Votes: 98

72. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: The Chalice (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine promises a dying priest who stole a golden chalice, that he will recover it from 3 murdering bandits so his soul will be saved.

Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: David Carradine, William Smith, Gilbert Roland, Philip Ahn

Votes: 126

73. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: The Elixir (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine prescribes an emotional cure for a medicine-show goddess stricken with a deadly type of independence.

Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: David Carradine, Diana Muldaur, David Canary, Matt Clark

Votes: 110

74. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: The Salamander (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine saves a man's mind by demonstrating that ugliness -- and reality and illusion -- can be in the eye of the beholder.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: David Carradine, Ramon Bieri, Ed Flanders, David Huddleston

Votes: 103

75. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: The Soldier (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine delivers a self-accused coward from inner torment by showing him the nature of courage.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: David Carradine, Tim Matheson, Myron Healey, Keye Luke

Votes: 106

76. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: The Spirit-Helper (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine, in a reversal of roles, finds himself as the master with a 15-year-old boy as his disciple in which he must teach him that the act of revenge can lead to the death of the spirit.

Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: David Carradine, Bo Svenson, Scott Hylands, James A. Watson Jr.

Votes: 126

77. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: The Third Man (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine challenges a killer to be his own judge and his victim's widow to accept the verdict.

Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: David Carradine, Ed Nelson, Fred Beir, Barbara Stuart

Votes: 129

78. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: The Way of Violence Has No Mind (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Caine, pitted against a Chinese Robin Hood, teaches a boy that only the heart can truly conquer.

Director: Lee Philips | Stars: David Carradine, Gary Merrill, Ron Soble, Robert Ito

Votes: 103

79. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode: The Well (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Kwai Chang Caine, stricken by poisoned water, lies near death in the home of a former slave who fearfully harbors a secret so precious that it might well save the entire community from disaster.

Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: David Carradine, Hal Williams, Tim McIntire, Jim Davis

Votes: 147

80. Sam Benedict (1962–1963)
Episode: Nor Practice Make Perfect (1962)

60 min | Drama

Once brilliant lawyer Thonis Jundelin has become a drunk, and has taken advantage of a client. Benedict wants to help him, but he resists his efforts, instead wishing to kill himself ... See full summary »

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Richard Rust, Claude Rains, Joan Tompkins

Votes: 14

81. Going My Way (1962–1963)
Episode: Tell Me When You Get to Heaven (1963)

60 min | Drama, Family

Hostile agnostic doctor is harassed by neighborhood teens.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Gene Kelly, Dick York, Leo G. Carroll, Nydia Westman

82. Going My Way (1962–1963)
Episode: A Matter of Principle (1962)

60 min | Drama, Family

An egotistical high school basketball player is the catalyst for many lessons.

Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Gene Kelly, Dick York, Leo G. Carroll, Fred Clark

83. King (1978)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1978)

101 min | Biography, Drama, History

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Director: Abby Mann | Stars: Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Tony Bennett, Roscoe Lee Browne

Votes: 11

84. King (1978)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (1978)

86 min | Biography, Drama, History

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Director: Abby Mann | Stars: Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Tony Bennett, Roscoe Lee Browne

Votes: 10

85. King (1978)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (1978)

Biography, Drama, History

King now takes up the battle against the northern slums, which he calls "black ghettos". His meeting with black leaders Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael is a failure, as he intends to ... See full summary »

Director: Abby Mann | Stars: Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Tony Bennett, Roscoe Lee Browne

Votes: 9

86. My Three Sons (1960–1972)
Episode: Bub Goes to School (1961)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

When the boys continue to ask Bub for help with their homework, he realizes he does not have all the answers. He decides to go to night school for further education. He meets another ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Fred MacMurray, William Frawley, Tim Considine, Don Grady

Votes: 56