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1. 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: 8,809

2. MacGyver (1985–1992)

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

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

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

Votes: 42,137

3. The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Western

Two Secret Service agents, equipped with a wide array of gizmos, work for the government in the Old West.

Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Dick Cangey, Whitey Hughes

Votes: 6,538

4. Rawhide (1959–1965)

TV-PG | 50 min | Western

Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive. He is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way.

Stars: Clint Eastwood, Paul Brinegar, Steve Raines, Eric Fleming

Votes: 4,642

5. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A 20th-century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time to become Earth's greatest hero.

Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc

Votes: 10,426

6. The Outer Limits (1963–1965)

TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

"The Outer Limits" was an anthology series of insightful science fiction tales.

Stars: Bob Johnson, Ben Wright, William Douglas, Robert Culp

Votes: 9,350

7. How the West Was Won (1976–1979)

16+ | Drama, Western

The Macahans, a family from Virginia, headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West.

Stars: James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb, William Kirby Cullen

Votes: 2,584

8. The Untouchables (1959–1963)

50 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

Stars: Robert Stack, Walter Winchell, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni

Votes: 3,092

9. Kim (1950)

Approved | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas

Votes: 2,263

10. The Mike Douglas Show (1961–1982)

89 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show

Mike Douglas, aided by a different celebrity co-host every week, interviews a variety of figures from the world of entertainment.

Stars: Mike Douglas, Ellie Frankel, Ellie Frankel Sextet, Stan Kann

Votes: 580

11. Checkmate (1960–1962)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Don Corey and Jed Sills operate Checkmate, Inc., a very high-priced detective agency in San Francisco. Helping them protect the lives of their clients is British criminologist (once an Oxford professor) Carl Hyatt.

Stars: Anthony George, Doug McClure, Sebastian Cabot, Ken Lynch

Votes: 317

12. Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Western

James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the U.S. Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 television series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf (Joe Lara) who has taken... See full summary »

Director: Charles Correll | Stars: James Arness, Richard Kiley, Amy Stoch, Geoffrey Lewis

Votes: 468

13. Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987 TV Movie)

R | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins", is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there around twelve years ago, Marshal Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty Russell.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Georgie Collins, Amanda Blake, James Arness, Buck Taylor

Votes: 652

14. The 27th Day (1957)

Approved | 75 min | Sci-Fi

Aliens take five people, give them small capsules which can kill mankind without additional damage, with the understanding they will colonize Earth only if they use the weapons.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec, Arnold Moss

Votes: 1,850

15. Three Came Home (1950)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War

During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa

Votes: 2,146

16. Dirty Sally (1974)

30 min | Western

Crotchety old lady Sally Fergus roams the Old West with young companion Cyrus.

Stars: Jeanette Nolan, Dack Rambo, John McIntire, Annette O'Toole

Votes: 148

17. The Parson and the Outlaw (1957)

Approved | 71 min | Western

Billy the Kid tries to live in peace, under a new name and in a frontier town, but is approached by a preacher who asks for his help in freeing the town from a ruthless man and his gunman.

Director: Oliver Drake | Stars: Anthony Dexter, Sonny Tufts, Marie Windsor, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

Votes: 165

18. Woman Obsessed (1959)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, Romance

On a farm in the Canadian North-West, a young widow becomes the source of a jealous rivalry between her little son and her new husband.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols, Dennis Holmes

Votes: 452

19. The Secret Fury (1950)

Approved | 85 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

A woman preparing to marry her fiance is accused of bigamy by a stranger but she fights back by trying to prove she's the victim of a conspiracy designed to discredit her.

Director: Mel Ferrer | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl, Paul Kelly

Votes: 1,318

20. My Blood Runs Cold (1965)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Disturbed young man meets a girl he believes to be a long-dead ancestor.

Director: William Conrad | Stars: Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton, Barry Sullivan, Nicolas Coster

Votes: 360

21. 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

22. 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

23. Harrigan and Son (1960– )

30 min | Comedy

James Harrigan and his son run a law firm, but have different ways of proving their clients' innocence.

Stars: Roger Perry, Pat O'Brien, Georgine Darcy, Helen Kleeb

Votes: 69

24. Kraft Mystery Theater (1961–1963)

60 min | Crime, Mystery

A successor to Kraft Television Theater with a change of focus away from straight drama. The high productions remained along with the ability to attract well known talent.

Stars: Frank Gallop, Keir Dullea, John Ericson, Richard Anderson

Votes: 79

25. Sword in the Desert (1949)

Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1947, with only months remaining until the partition of British-administered Palestine, an American freighter captain smuggles European Jewish refugees ashore under the nose of the British authorities.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Jeff Chandler

Votes: 320

26. Cutter's Trail (1970 TV Movie)

100 min | Western

Marshal returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits, enlists the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother to track them down.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: John Gavin, Manuel Padilla Jr., Marisa Pavan, Beverly Garland

Votes: 44

27. Conrad Nagel Theater (1955– )

30 min | Drama

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Stars: Conrad Nagel, Tonio Selwart, John Stacy, Patrick Crean

28. The Last Bell ... The First of Many (2019)

121 min | Drama

It is a poetical, fable-like tale set in the near future, the story centering around an aged poet, Lazarus, a sub-dweller suffering out the remnant of a miserable mortality in a dictatorial... See full summary »

Director: Ray Goldrup | Stars: Jim Goldrup, Jeff Greenwalt, Tom Goldrup, Jaden Jensen

29. Trapped (1950–1952)

30 min | Mystery

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Stars: John Carradine, Ruth Taylor, Frank Baxter, Black Simms

30. How the West Was Won (1976–1979)
Episode: The Macahans (1976)

16+ | 119 min | Drama, Western

Zeb Macahan returns to the farm of Macahan to take his family to Oregon.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Eva Marie Saint, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb

Votes: 780

31. Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958–1960)
Episode: Six Guns for Donegan (1959)

60 min | Drama

An old sheriff risks his life to save the life of the town weakling.

Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Desi Arnaz, Lloyd Nolan, Jean Hagen, James Franciscus

32. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: Shgoratchx! (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Buck is tired and needing to rest, but Admiral Asimov assigns Hawk and him to explore a derelict spacecraft that is adrift in space in a route of other spaceships. When they arrive, they ... See full summary »

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 198

33. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: Journey to Oasis (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Earth and the rival planet Zykaria are on the cusp of war. Zykarian Ambassador Duvoe travels by a shuttle piloted by Buck Rogers to a peace conference in the city of Oasis on the otherwise ... See full summary »

Director: Daniel Haller | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 211

34. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: Mark of the Saurian (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

While sick in bed with Cignus Fever Buck starts seeing Ambassador Cabot and his party have a strange aura around them. Ambassador Cabot is responsible for bringing peace with the lizard ... See full summary »

Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 173

35. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: Testimony of a Traitor (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The crew returns to Earth. Buck is put on trial for helping a group that may have had a hand in the nuclear war that devastated Earth in 1987.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 192

36. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: The Crystals (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Buck Rogers visits the planet Phibocetes with a landing party, hoping to gather some thurbidian crystals to power the Searcher. Though the planet is believed to be uninhabited, the landing ... See full summary »

Director: John Patterson | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 181

37. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: The Dorian Secret (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Buck and Hawk transport refugees of a planetary disaster to a new home. Buck allows a fugitive woman named Asteria Eleefa to board the Searcher. Eleefa is a member of a harsh mutant race ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 176

38. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: The Golden Man (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

While traveling through an asteroid field, Buck Rogers and crew come across a life pod. Inside is a young golden-skinned boy, Vellus, who displays the unusual ability to alter the nature of... See full summary »

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 187

39. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: The Guardians (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Buck and Hawk discover an old man dying on a uncharted planet while searching for evidence of human settlements. He says it was destiny that brought him to this time and destiny that ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 190

40. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: The Hand of the Goral (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

While exploring Deeth, the "Planet of Death," Buck Rogers, Hawk, and Wilma come across a stranded crash victim. His wrecked ship mysteriously disappears after he is rescued - the first in a... See full summary »

Director: David G. Phinney | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 171

41. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: The Satyr (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After Buck is bitten the crew realizes that the Satyr is really the male colonist that has been infected by the planet. Shortly after they discover who the Satyr is, Buck battles the Satyr until he electrocutes himself with his laser whip.

Director: Victor French | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 181

42. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode: Time of the Hawk (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Buck Rogers, Wilma Deering and Twiki embark on a journey through the galaxy as members of the spaceship Searcher, which is on a mission to find the lost tribes of Earth who escaped the ... See full summary »

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner

Votes: 230

43. Checkmate (1960–1962)
Episode: Referendum on Murder (1962)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Checkmate is hired by the wife of a newspaper editor whose life is threatened because he opposes a local referendum that would legalize gambling.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Doug McClure, Sebastian Cabot, Jack Betts, Dan O'Herlihy

Votes: 13

44. Conrad Nagel Theater (1955– )
Episode: The Queen of Spades (1955)

Drama

A compulsive gambler learns about a formula for winning every game.

Director: John Mantley | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Lenore Shanewise, Tom Middleton, Stephen Garrett

45. Conrad Nagel Theater (1955– )
Episode: The Visitor (1955)

Drama

A tale of a shoemaker who daydreams of a visit from Christ.

Director: John Mantley | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Virginia Belmont, Tonio Selwart, Cecil Mathews

46. Dirty Sally (1974)
Episode: I Never Saw the Pacific (1974)

Western

Minister Lucius Collier confesses to Sally that he's not an ordained pastor on his deathbed. Instructed to tell his followers things get complicated for Sally when Collier recovers.

Director: Irving J. Moore | Stars: Jeanette Nolan, Dack Rambo, Woodrow Chambliss, Julie Anne Haddock

47. Dirty Sally (1974)
Episode: Much Ado About Nothing (1974)

Western

Pike is cast in a play along with a traveling troupe of actors. So taken with his ability Cyrus becomes so conceited that Sally must figure out a way to deflate his ego.

Stars: Jeanette Nolan, Dack Rambo, Virginia Baker, Julie Cobb

48. Dirty Sally (1974)
Episode: Honk 'em, Squonk 'em, Git the Wampum (1974)

Western

Sally pretends to be the mother of Billy the Kid to teach a band of wannabe outlaws a lesson they won't forget.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Jeanette Nolan, Dack Rambo, Kathleen Cody, Nicholas Hammond

49. Dirty Sally (1974)
Episode: Convict (1974)

Western

Sally and Pike cross paths with Otis, an escaped convict who claims to have escaped to get to his pregnant wife due to give birth.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Jeanette Nolan, Dack Rambo, Charles Alvin Bell, Billy Green Bush

50. Dirty Sally (1974)
Episode: Horse of a Different Color (1974)

Western

Pike wants to sell horses to the army but Sally wants nothing to do with it. But wants she learns Pike is involved with Parker, a notorious cheat, she decides to get involved.

Stars: Jeanette Nolan, Dack Rambo, Jon Lormer, Denver Pyle