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51. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)

R | 105 min | Drama

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Earl Holliman

Votes: 457

52. Hollow Image (1979 TV Movie)

120 min | Drama

A Black New York career girl who has made it big in the fashion world is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old boyfriend still living there.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Robert Hooks, S. Pearl Sharp, Dick Anthony Williams, Hattie Winston

Votes: 73

53. Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration (1979 TV Movie)

73 min | Documentary

A salute to Playboy Magazine on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, hosted by founding publisher Hugh Hefner and an all-male guest list.

Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, Marshall Flaum | Stars: Hugh Hefner, James Caan, Tony Curtis, Tony Bennett

54. Holocaust (1978)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance

The saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.

Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, Tony Haygarth

Votes: 5,507

55. The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978 TV Special)

210 min | Reality-TV

Primetime Emmy Award is the main American award in area of television, annually handed by the American television academy.

Director: Clark Jones | Stars: Alan Alda, Jack Albertson, Robert Alda, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 59

56. Holocaust (1978)
Episode: Part 4: 1944-1945 (1978)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, History, Romance

Erik Dorf complains to the other S.S. leaders that the executions of the Jews are not being efficiently done. An order is placed by Erik for Zyklon B (a lethal gas) for use at Auschwitz and... See full summary »

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Tom Bell, Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris

Votes: 196

57. Holocaust (1978)
Episode: Part 2: 1941-1942 (1978)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, History, Romance

Inga is desperate to reunite with Karl, but her parents don't want to risk hiding her Jewish in-laws. Rudi runs away from their hiding place. Erik Dorf helps Heydrich plan and execute his ... See full summary »

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Tom Bell, Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris

Votes: 216

58. Holocaust (1978)
Episode: Part 3: 1942-1944 (1978)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, History, Romance

Rudi and Helena escape from a long procession of Jews being marched into Babi Yar. They are eventually rescued from a hayloft by a group of Jewish partisans. Erik Dorf attends a top-level ... See full summary »

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, Tony Haygarth

Votes: 184

59. Holocaust (1978)
Episode: Part 1: 1935-1940 (1978)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, History, Romance

In 1935 Berlin, the Weisses celebrate son Karl's marriage to Inga Helms. When Erik Dorf is unable to find work as a lawyer, wife Marta urges him to apply for a Nazi government job. Erik ... See full summary »

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Tom Bell, Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Marius Goring

Votes: 239

60. Roots (1977)

TV-14 | 74 min | Biography, Drama, History

A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.

Stars: LeVar Burton, Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr.

Votes: 18,889

61. Little Ladies of the Night (1977 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Kyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to ... See full summary »

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: David Soul, Louis Gossett Jr., Linda Purl, Clifton Davis

Votes: 216

62. Big Hawaii (1977)

60 min | Adventure, Drama

Adventures on the Paradise Ranch located on the big island of Hawaii.

Stars: John Dehner, Lucia Stralser, Cliff Potts, William Lucking

Votes: 30

63. Danger in Paradise (1977 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

A young man has to battle his greedy stepmother for control of his father's huge estate.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Ina Balin, Peter Brandon, Anthony Charnota, Lynette Chun

Votes: 21

64. Roots (1977)
Episode: Part III (1977)

TV-14 | 50 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1776, John Reynolds sells the now adult Kunta Kinte to his brother William. Kunta tries to escape again, this time with dire consequences. He also meets his match in Belle Reynolds, the slave who cooks for William's family.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: John Amos, Lynda Day George, Louis Gossett Jr., Lorne Greene

Votes: 320

65. Roots (1977)
Episode: Part VI (1977)

TV-14 | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1824, Kizzy is allowed to visit the plantation of her previous owner, Dr. William Reynolds, and learn the ultimate fate of her parents. Meanwhile, old slave Mingo teaches Kizzy's son ... See full summary »

Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, Gilbert Moses | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Chuck Connors, Scatman Crothers, Sandy Duncan

Votes: 297

66. Roots (1977)
Episode: Part VII (1977)

TV-14 | 51 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1861, "Chicken George" returns home hoping to free his enslaved family.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia Cole, Brad Davis

Votes: 273

67. Roots (1977)
Episode: Part VIII (1977)

TV-14 | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History

The war is over, the Confederacy having surrendered, freeing the slaves. Mr. Harvey invites the slaves to stay if they wish, maybe sharecropping. The rest of the plantation owners, a ... See full summary »

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia Cole, Brad Davis

Votes: 277

68. Roots (1977)
Episode: Part V (1977)

TV-14 | 51 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1806, Kunta's teenage daughter Kizzy falls in love with a slave called Noah, who later tries to escape. Unfortunately, he is quickly caught and tortured until he names Kizzy as his accomplice, sealing her horrific fate.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: John Amos, Chuck Connors, Sandy Duncan, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Votes: 294

69. Roots (1977)
Episode: Part IV (1977)

TV-14 | 51 min | Biography, Drama, History

By 1780, Kunta accepts his fate, settles down with Bell and they have a daughter named Kizzy. Several years later, Kizzy befriends Anne, the young girl who was the result of a secret affair... See full summary »

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: John Amos, Lynda Day George, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Reed

Votes: 318

70. Victory at Entebbe (1976 TV Movie)

Unrated | 119 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1976, terrorists hijack an Air France airplane, and divert it to Uganda, where they demand to exchange their hostages for fellow terrorists held in Israeli jails.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Helmut Berger, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss

Votes: 1,274

71. Law and Order (1976 TV Movie)

150 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Darren McGavin, Keir Dullea, Robert Reed, James Olson

Votes: 101

72. Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme police pressure. When he is sent up to ... See full summary »

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Carl Betz, Stephen Collins, Burr DeBenning, Michael V. Gazzo

Votes: 85

73. Mackintosh and T.J. (1975)

PG | 96 min | Drama, Western

Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Roy Rogers, Clay O'Brien, Joan Hackett, Billy Green Bush

Votes: 245

74. Murph the Surf (1975)

PG | 101 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

Based on a true story, details the daring 1964 theft of the J.P. Morgan jewel collection from New York's American Museum of Natural History. Called "The Greatest Jewel Heist of the 20th ... See full summary »

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Robert Conrad, Don Stroud, Donna Mills, Robyn Millan

Votes: 243 | Gross: $0.06M

75. Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975 TV Movie)

215 min | Drama

After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Ned Beatty, John Beck, Billy Green Bush, Dabney Coleman

Votes: 183

76. A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975 TV Movie)

73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A private investigator is confronted by the police and the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Rod Taylor, Marc Alaimo, Abraham Alvarez, Anne Archer

Votes: 92

77. Kate McShane (1975– )

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The trials of Kate McShane, a middle-aged attorney who often became emotionally involved in her clients.

Stars: Anne Meara, Sean McClory, Charles Haid, Biff McGuire

Votes: 35

78. Kate McShane (1975– )
Episode: Kate McShane (1975)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A lawyer gets her father, who is a retired cop, and her brother, who is a Jesuit priest and a law professor, to help her solve the case of a rich woman accused of murdering her husband.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Anne Meara, Sean McClory, Charles Haid, Cal Bellini

Votes: 16

79. Mrs. Sundance (1974 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that the Sundance Kid may still be alive.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Robert Foxworth, L.Q. Jones, Arthur Hunnicutt

Votes: 325

80. The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Robert Foxworth, David Wayne, Kay Lenz, Gary Lockwood

Votes: 89

81. Police Story (1973–1980)

120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the "Empire of Chaiba", a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia, he initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.

Stars: Scott Brady, Mel Scott, Don Meredith, Joe Santos

Votes: 1,184

82. The Magician (1973–1974)

60 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

The cases of a stage magician/escape artist who moonlights as an amateur crimefighter.

Stars: Bill Bixby, Julian Christopher, Keene Curtis, Joseph Sirola

Votes: 622

83. Female Artillery (1973 TV Movie)

73 min | Comedy, Western

An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his old gang shows up and wants their money - and the women.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Ida Lupino, Sally Ann Howes, Linda Evans

Votes: 75

84. The Magician (1973–1974)
Episode: Pilot (1973)

70 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

A magician is asked by the mother of a plane-crash victim to check into a possible conspiracy; he discovers that the plane crash was staged.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Bill Bixby, Keene Curtis, Joan Caulfield, Julian Christopher

Votes: 133

85. The Magician (1973–1974)
Episode: The Vanishing Lady (1973)

45 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

When Julie Carter, the singer in Tony Blake's Vegas magic act and personal friend, is kidnapped in her dressing room, the magician has to race against time to save her.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Bill Bixby, Keene Curtis, Julian Christopher, Todd Crespi

Votes: 31

86. Mannix (1967–1975)
Episode: Little Girl Lost (1973)

TV-PG | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A reporter is killed in front of his daughter at the zoo. Joe has to find out who killed him and why because the little girl thinks it's her fault.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Mike Connors, Gail Fisher, Pernell Roberts, Robert Reed

Votes: 136

87. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Requiem for an Informer (1973)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Detectives Calabrese and Jameson use a junkie as an informant to find a violent gang of bank robbers.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Don Meredith, Michael Ansara, Sharon Farrell

Votes: 55

88. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: The Ten Year Honeymoon (1973)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The ten-year honeymoon concerned a pair of - policemen. But even the best things in life come to an end. Divorce threatens when Shaner, one of the two men, starts developing a strange, unpredictable behavior.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Claude Akins, Verna Bloom, Paul Burke, Michael Baseleon

Votes: 53

89. Family Flight (1972 TV Movie)

73 min | Drama

During a flight from San Diego to Guaymas, Mexico, the Carlyle family from Florida is surprised by a weather front in the Rocky Mountains and must do an emergency landing in a Mexican ... See full summary »

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Rod Taylor, Dina Merrill, Kristoffer Tabori, Janet Margolin

Votes: 99

90. Fireball Forward (1972 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Drama, War

A hard-nosed general takes over a division with a bad combat record.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Ricardo Montalban, Anne Francis, Dana Elcar

Votes: 227

91. Sam Cade (1972 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Sam Cade was the first feature-length "movie" put together from episodes of Cade's County. Sam Cade is targeted for assassination when he is scheduled to testify against a man kingpin.

Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, Richard Donner | Stars: Edward Asner, Edgar Buchanan, Betty Ann Carr, Sandra Ego

Votes: 63

92. Invitation to a March (1972 TV Movie)

120 min | Comedy

Norma Brown falls asleep whenever her rich but conventional fiancé discusses their future together. Their wedding plans are complicated when Norma is woken from one of her naps by the kiss of an enigmatic, free-spirited young plumber.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Danny Bonaduce, Blythe Danner, Louise Latham, Rosemary Murphy

93. Banyon (1971–1973)
Episode: Just Once (1972)

60 min | Crime, Drama

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Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Robert Forster, Nate Esformes, Ed Flanders, Bob Golden

94. Banyon (1971–1973)
Episode: Think of Me Kindly (1972)

60 min | Crime, Drama

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Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Robert Forster, Corinne Camacho, Ahna Capri, Dabney Coleman

95. The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969–1973)
Episode: A Purge of Madness (1972)

60 min | Drama

Harry Burke has violent psychotic episodes and the doctors want to perform psycho surgery.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: E.G. Marshall, David Hartman, Robert Walden, Ross Martin

96. Cade's County (1971–1972)
Episode: Jessie (1972)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Cade and his deputies investigate a burglary at the home of a rancher, but nothing is missing and no one seems to know what the burglar was after. Then the rancher is murdered, and his wife, an old flame of Cade's, is the prime suspect.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Glenn Ford, Edgar Buchanan, Bobby Sherman, Fredd Wayne

Votes: 13

97. Cannon (1971–1976)
Episode: Devil's Playground (1972)

Not Rated | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Months after being injured while chasing a payroll holdup suspect, an ex-motorcycle cop hires Cannon to help him find the robber, who was assumed to have died in the chase.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Conrad, Martin Sheen, Daniel J. Travanti, Collin Wilcox Paxton

Votes: 120

98. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: Pig in a Blanket (1972)

Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

During a traffic stop in the boonies, the driver slips out a concealed handgun and shoots the HPD officer down in his tracks. Before dying, the cop gets off a couple of rounds at the ... See full summary »

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Al Harrington, Kam Fong

Votes: 110

99. Cannon (1971–1976)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Frank Cannon, a husky ex-cop and culinary enthusiast, solves tough cases as a private investigator.

Stars: William Conrad, Patrick Culliton, Tom Pittman, Charles Bateman

Votes: 3,612

100. Bearcats! (1971)

120 min | Action, Adventure, War

Two honorable men-for-hire look for adventure in the pre-World War I American southwest in their fancy Stutz Bearcat.

Stars: Rod Taylor, Dennis Cole, Henry Darrow, Leslie Nielsen

Votes: 228