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1. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett.
Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Kam Fong, Herman Wedemeyer
Votes: 8,232
2. 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, Lillian O'Malley, John Williams
Votes: 19,381
3. CHiPs (1977–1983)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers.
Stars: Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox, Robert Pine, Paul Linke
Votes: 11,585
4. Wonder Woman (1975– )
TV-G | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The adventures of the greatest of the female superheroes.
Stars: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Tom Kratochvil, Richard Eastham
Votes: 10,144
5. The Equalizer (1985– )
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A retired Intelligence Agent turned private detective helps various threatened clients to equalize the odds.
Stars: Edward Woodward, Keith Szarabajka, Robert Lansing, Mark Margolis
Votes: 5,958
6. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
The adventures of Shaolin Monk Kwai Chang Caine as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
Stars: David Carradine, Radames Pera, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn
Votes: 7,299
7. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
G | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Sinbad and the vizier of Marabia, followed by evil magician Koura, seek the three golden tablets that can gain them access to the ancient temple of the Oracle of All Knowledge.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker, Douglas Wilmer
Votes: 10,610 | Gross: $3.03M
8. Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975)
TV-PG | 51 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Carl Kolchak is a reporter for a Chicago newspaper. Through more accident than design he ends up investigating homicides, many of which involve supernatural forces. Ultimately, rather than reporting on the crimes, he solves them.
Stars: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage, Ruth McDevitt
Votes: 6,287
9. Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)
TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Short dramas each with a twist of some kind; across the first four seasons most of these are from short stories by Roald Dahl.
Stars: Roald Dahl, Andrew Ray, Forbes Collins, Richard Johnson
Votes: 2,517
10. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" was a continuation of the dramatic anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) hosted by the Master of Suspense and Mystery.
Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Hinton Pope, Jimmy Joyce, Lew Brown
Votes: 5,172
11. The Girl in a Swing (1988)
R | 119 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
London art broker travels to Copenhagen, hires trilingual secretary. Despite knowing little about her, they marry. Her past mysteriously resurfaces after marriage, straining their relationship as he navigates the situation.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Meg Tilly, Rupert Frazer, Nicholas Le Prevost, Elspet Gray
Votes: 828 | Gross: $0.75M
12. Biography (1987– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life stories of various historical figures and celebrities are told.
Stars: Jack Perkins, Peter Graves, Harry Smith, Robert J. Thompson
Votes: 2,094
13. The Master (1984)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An aging American ninja master and his headstrong young apprentice search for the elder man's daughter.
Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Timothy Van Patten, Shô Kosugi, Cynthia Lea Clark
Votes: 1,620
14. Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978 TV Movie)
PG | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror, Music
KISS, a rock band made up of superheroes, battles an evil inventor who has plans for destruction at a California amusement park.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley
Votes: 3,412
15. Switch (1975–1978)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ex-cop Frank McBride and ex-con Pete Ryan start their own detective agency.
Stars: Robert Wagner, Eddie Albert, Charlie Callas, Sharon Gless
Votes: 486
16. Run for Your Life (1965–1968)
60 min | Drama
The doctor tells a successful lawyer that he is terminally ill and will die in less than two years.
Stars: Ben Gazzara, Nicholas Colasanto, Jack Krupnick, Fernando Lamas
Votes: 432
17. Scream and Scream Again (1970)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A serial killer who drains his victims' blood is on the loose in London. The police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alfred Marks
Votes: 4,460 | Gross: $0.38M
18. Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Ted Bessell, Bette Davis, Sian Barbara Allen, Charles Drake
Votes: 1,197
19. Cry of the Banshee (1970)
GP | 91 min | Horror
In 1500s England, a cruel witch-hunting magistrate, who often tortures innocent villagers for his entertainment, runs afoul of a witch who conjures a banshee to kill the magistrate and his family.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Vincent Price, Elisabeth Bergner, Essy Persson, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 2,910
20. The Misfit Brigade (1987)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners. In 1943, this motley tank crew is sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a Soviet train that's carrying fuel for the Red Army.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Bruce Davison, David Patrick Kelly, D.W. Moffett, Jay O. Sanders
Votes: 2,186
21. Amy Prentiss (1974–1975)
120 min | Crime, Drama
When the Chief of Detectives suddenly dies, the police officer with the most seniority (who happens to be a woman) becomes the new Chief, which doesn't go down well with all of the men of the Department.
Stars: Jessica Walter, Art Metrano, Johnny Seven, Steve Sandor
Votes: 60
22. The Oblong Box (1969)
R | 96 min | Horror
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Sir Edward occasionally escapes and causes havoc around the town.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Vincent Price, Alister Williamson, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies
Votes: 3,938
23. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
PG-13 | 87 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi
Votes: 1,557
24. Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1967)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Legendary entertainer Bob Hope hosted, and occasionally starred in, one of the last major anthology series on network television, featuring many of Hollywood's top names, including quite a few who didn't do much television otherwise
Stars: Bob Hope, Jack Weston, Jack Kelly, John Francis
Votes: 240
25. Journey of Honor (1991)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the seventeenth century, Japan is divided between two forces. The Eastern Army, lead by the Warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the Western Army, which fights for Toyotomi's clan. Despite ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Shô Kosugi, David Essex, Kane Kosugi, Christopher Lee
Votes: 435
26. Bad Blood (1994)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
A trucker (Lamas) has to come home to help fight mobsters after his brother who embezzled $5,000,000 from them.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Frankie Lou Thorn, Hank Cheyne, Joe Son
Votes: 586
27. Little Women (1978)
194 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg... See full summary »
Stars: Meredith Baxter, Susan Dey, Ann Dusenberry, Eve Plumb
Votes: 289
28. Lucas Tanner (1974–1975)
60 min | Drama, Sport
Lucas Tanner changes careers after a grievous personal tragedy, taking up teaching in suburban St. Louis. He approaches it in an idealistic fashion, rebeling against the rules that keep him from connecting to the students.
Stars: David Hartman, Robbie Rist, Trish Soodik, Rosemary Murphy
Votes: 155
29. Rage of Honor (1987)
R | 92 min | Action, Drama
Tanaka, a DEA agent, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Tanaka follows the culprit, a sadistic drug lord, down to Argentina.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Shô Kosugi, Lewis Van Bergen, Robin Evans, Gerry Gibson
Votes: 967
30. Pray for Death (1985)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After a peace-loving Japanese immigrant and his family become victims of a crime syndicate, a master ninja emerges.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Shô Kosugi, James Booth, Donna Kei Benz, Norman Burton
Votes: 2,204
31. The Blue Knight (1975–1976)
60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The exploits of Los Angeles beat cop Bumper Morgan.
Stars: George Kennedy, John Steadman, Barbara Rhoades, Lee Weaver
Votes: 235
32. Secrets of Three Hungry Wives (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a millionaire playboy is murdered, suspicion falls on three married women, each of whom had an affair with him.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Jessica Walter, Gretchen Corbett, Eve Plumb, Heather MacRae
Votes: 62
33. The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (1965)
84 min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
An astute businesswoman is completely devoted to her faithless husband, who must kill her to carry on with her pretty young niece. It turns out that the dead don't die so easily.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Gary Merrill, Jane Merrow, Georgina Cookson, Neil McCallum
Votes: 360
34. Out on Bail (1989)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Tennessee sheriff and lawyer want a jailed drifter to assassinate a mayoral candidate.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Robert Ginty, Kathy Shower, Tom Badal, Sydney Lassick
Votes: 143
35. The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978–1979)
60 min | Drama, Crime
The mysteries of headstrong attorney Eddie Capra.
Stars: Vincent Baggetta, Wendy Phillips, Ken Swofford, Michael Horton
Votes: 85
36. Medusa (1973)
Unrated | 103 min | Mystery, Thriller
In Greece, a stewardess is murdered by a masked maniac. Suspicion falls on a drunken American playboy (George Hamilton) and a murderous gangster (Cameron Mitchell).
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: George Hamilton, Luciana Paluzzi, Cameron Mitchell, Thodoros Roubanis
Votes: 412
37. The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver (1977 TV Movie)
78 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A housewife is sick of her normal routine and makes all sorts of odd changes to her appearance. From her hair/wardrobe to her makeup, she creepily soon starts to take on the different personality of a lady who had died five years prior.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Karen Black, George Hamilton, Robert F. Lyons, Lucille Benson
Votes: 291
38. A Cry in the Wilderness (1974 TV Movie)
74 min | Thriller
The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: George Kennedy, Joanna Pettet, Lee Montgomery, Collin Wilcox Paxton
Votes: 167
39. Hitchhike! (1974 TV Movie)
90 min | Thriller
A Los Angeles woman, on her way to visit her sister in San Fransisco, picks up a hitchhiker who has just killed his stepmother. Charmed by him, she fails to notice his strange behavior until it is too late.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Cloris Leachman, Michael Brandon, Henry Darrow, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 135
40. Spencer's Pilots (1976)
49 min | Adventure
Centers on the lives of Cass Garrett and Stan Lewis who are pilots, and they work for Spencer Parish.
Stars: Christopher Stone, Todd Susman, Margie Impert, Britt Leach
Votes: 42
41. 100 Years of Horror (1996)
Unrated | 343 min | Documentary, Horror
Clips from Horror Films.
Stars: Christopher Lee, Roger Corman, Hugh Hefner, Fred Olen Ray
Votes: 477
42. Embassy (1972)
PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A Russian spy penetrates into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon to try to kill a Soviet defector under asylum there.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Chuck Connors, Marie-José Nat, Ray Milland
Votes: 153
43. Skyway to Death (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Adventure, Thriller
The passengers in an aerial tramway are trapped when the tramway breaks down 8500 feet in the air.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Ross Martin, Stefanie Powers, Bobby Sherman, Tige Andrews
Votes: 149
44. The Secret War of Jackie's Girls (1980 TV Movie)
100 min | Action, Drama
During WW2, 6. female helicopter pilots are recruited for a secret mission in England. They will bring spies, refugees and weapons back and forth from the behind enemy lines.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Lee Purcell, Ann Dusenberry, Tracy Brooks Swope, Dee Wallace
Votes: 68
45. Shannon (1981–1982)
60 min | Drama, Crime
Jack Shannon is a New York cop and a single father. He decides to move to San Francisco so that his late wife's parents can help him take care of his son. So he calls in a few favors to get... See full summary »
Stars: Kevin Dobson, Michael Durrell, Bruce Kirby, Charles Fields
Votes: 31
46. Sara (1976)
60 min | Drama, Western
Sara Yarnell leaves her staid existence back east to teach in a one-room school in Independence, Colorado. Her students adore her but she clashes with the school board. Julia Bailey and newspaperman Martin Pope are her friends.
Stars: Brenda Vaccaro, Louise Latham, William Phipps, Bert Kramer
Votes: 43
47. California Cowboys (1983)
PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young American is framed and thrown into a Mexican prison. His friends journey to Mexico to break him out.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Jimmy McNichol, Timothy Van Patten, Ethan Wayne, Patrick Mower
Votes: 56
48. Tales of the Haunted (1981 TV Movie)
96 min | Horror, Thriller
This is a story about an old dark house and a family curse.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Jack Palance, Cindy Hinds, Helen Hughes, Frances Hyland
Votes: 87
49. Betrayal (1974 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Drama, Thriller
A lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn't know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her when they get her money.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Amanda Blake, Tisha Sterling, Dick Haymes, Sam Groom
Votes: 104
50. 3-Way Split (1976)
PG-13 | 90 min | Adventure, Crime
Tony, a down and out movie stuntman and his girlfriend are persuaded to steal a ten million dollar gold mask from a museum by Luis Martin, a broke businessman hoping to salvage his financial house of cards.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Simón Andreu, Katia Christine, Aldo Sambrell
Votes: 62