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1. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Professional writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher uses her intellect, charm, and persistence to get to the bottom of every crime she encounters.
Stars: Angela Lansbury, William Windom, Ron Masak, Louis Herthum
Votes: 29,327
2. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
R | 98 min | Drama
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg
Votes: 40,598 | Gross: $19.40M
3. Empty Nest (1988–1995)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
"Empty Nest" tells of the day to day misadventures of a widowed pediatrician named Harry Weston and his two adult daughters, Barbara and Carol, who have come back to live with him after failed marriages.
Stars: Richard Mulligan, Dinah Manoff, David Leisure, Park Overall
Votes: 3,964
4. The Hitchhiker (1983–1991)
TV-MA | 26 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
Stars: Page Fletcher, Nicholas Campbell, Vincent Grass, Kirstie Alley
Votes: 1,875
5. McMillan & Wife (1971–1977)
TV-PG | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
San Francisco Police Commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan and his amateur detective wife keep their marriage unpredictable while solving the city's most baffling crimes.
Stars: Rock Hudson, John Schuck, Susan Saint James, Nancy Walker
Votes: 3,020
6. The Yellow Rose (1983–1984)
60 min | Drama
The trials of the Champion family as they run the Yellow Rose ranch.
Stars: Sam Elliott, Cybill Shepherd, David Soul, Edward Albert
Votes: 269
7. Play It Again, Sam (1972)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy
Votes: 28,022 | Gross: $2.30M
8. The Patty Duke Show (1963–1966)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Teenager Patty Lane and her worldly identical cousin Cathy navigate family and high school life.
Stars: Patty Duke, Jean Byron, William Schallert, Paul O'Keefe
Votes: 1,549
9. The Landlord (1970)
PG | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
At the age of 29, Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges) "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey
Votes: 3,092 | Gross: $0.96M
10. The Defenders (1961–1965)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A father and son lawyer duo take a variety of cases that often deal with the important issues of the day.
Stars: E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Polly Rowles, Ossie Davis
Votes: 503
11. The Mike Douglas Show (1961–1982)
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: 579
12. Blood Red (1989)
R | 91 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In 19th-century California, a Sicilian family of able winemakers gets targeted by a corrupt railroad tycoon after they refuse to leave their land.
Director: Peter Masterson | Stars: Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young
Votes: 983
13. Blue Monkey (1987)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Detective Jim Bishop and Dr. Rachel Carson must find a way to stop a giant monstrous insect that's eating people in her quarantined hospital before it procreates and spreads a deadly infection it's carrying.
Director: William Fruet | Stars: Ivan E. Roth, Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Don Lake
Votes: 1,317
14. The Big Fix (1978)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow
Votes: 2,402
15. Running (1979)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Sport
American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games. Meanwhile his marriage has fallen apart and his children have no respect for him... See full summary »
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Michael Douglas, Susan Anspach, Lawrence Dane, Eugene Levy
Votes: 832
16. Misunderstood (1984)
PG | 91 min | Drama
Busy and often absent father must take care of his two boys after his wife dies. They all live in Tunisia because of their father's job. The older boy is handling the difficult changes much better than the younger one.
Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Gene Hackman, Henry Thomas, Rip Torn, Huckleberry Fox
Votes: 571 | Gross: $1.53M
17. The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Max, a dead corrupt businessman, makes a Faustian pact with Satan's henchman to drive three people to Hell in exchange for longer life. Soon Max realizes that there still may be good in him.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Susan Anspach, Adam Rich
Votes: 1,443 | Gross: $16.00M
18. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
Filmmaker William Greaves auditioned acting students for a fictional drama, while simultaneously shooting the behind-the-scenes drama taking place.
Director: William Greaves | Stars: Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows, Jonathan Gordon, Bob Rosen
Votes: 2,522
19. Montenegro (1981)
R | 96 min | Drama, Comedy
A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.
Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Per Oscarsson, Marianne Jacobi
Votes: 2,127
20. Judd for the Defense (1967–1969)
60 min | Drama
High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take cases throughout the U.S. The program dealt with then-taboo subjects.
Stars: Carl Betz, Stephen Young, Walter Brooke, John Dehner
Votes: 262
21. The Doctors and the Nurses (1962–1965)
60 min | Drama
The story takes place in a large hospital and revolves around two nurses, Liz Thorpe (Shirl Conway), the older head nurse, and Gail Lucas, the naive student nurse. The two nurses were ... See full summary »
Stars: Shirl Conway, Zina Bethune, Michael Tolan, Joseph Campanella
Votes: 113
22. Blume in Love (1973)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson, Marsha Mason
Votes: 1,267 | Gross: $2.60M
23. AFI Life Achievement Award (1973– )
Documentary
The Award is the highest honor for a career in film and celebrates an individual whose career has greatly contributed to the enrichment of American culture.
Stars: Carole Bayer Sager, George Stevens Jr., Jack Nicholson, Gregory Peck
Votes: 50
24. Gas (1981)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the course of her investigation, other people ... See full summary »
Director: Les Rose | Stars: Susan Anspach, Howie Mandel, Sterling Hayden, Helen Shaver
Votes: 385
25. Space (1985)
780 min | Drama
A 13-hour mini-series detailing James A. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War II to the Apollo landings on the moon in the early 1970s.
Stars: James Garner, Susan Anspach, Blair Brown, Bruce Dern
Votes: 259
26. I Want to Keep My Baby! (1976 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A 15-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her boyfriend and decides to keep the baby and raise her on her own, instead of initially choosing abortion at the insistence of her boyfriend, or raising the baby at home with her meddling mother.
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: Mariel Hemingway, Susan Anspach, Jack Rader, Lisa Mordente
Votes: 108
27. Deadly Encounter (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, Horror
An ex-combat helicopter pilot (Larry Hagman) helps a widowed ex-girlfriend (Susan Anspach) find the black book her husband kept from mobsters.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Larry Hagman, Susan Anspach, James Gammon, Michael C. Gwynne
Votes: 222
28. Cagney & Lacey: The Return (1994 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Crime, Drama
Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, James Naughton, David Paymer
Votes: 253
29. Wild About Harry (2009)
PG-13 | 83 min | Drama, Family
In 1973 playing it straight can get a little twisted... Set in 1973 and inspired by true events, 'American Primitive' tells the story of the havoc that is wreaked in a teenage girl's life ... See full summary »
Director: Gwen Wynne | Stars: Tate Donovan, Adam Pascal, Danielle Savre, Skye McCole Bartusiak
Votes: 233
30. The First Time (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
An emotionally troubled teenage girl drops out of high school and travels with her boyfriend to San Diego, while the girl's mother enlists the help of an old U.S. Navy friend to help find her daughter.
Director: Noel Nosseck | Stars: Susan Anspach, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Barton, Edward Winter
Votes: 125
31. The Slap Maxwell Story (1987–1988)
30 min | Comedy, Sport
"Slap" Maxwell is an old-school sportswriter: hard-working, uncompromised. Unfortunately, his type of writing doesn't fit well into the modern world. His wife wants to discover her own ... See full summary »
Stars: Dabney Coleman, Brian Smiar, Megan Gallagher, Bill Cobbs
Votes: 146
32. Love Story (1973–1974)
60 min | Drama, Romance
An anthology of love stories dealing each week with a different couple with a different set of problems.
Stars: Samantha Eggar, Clifton Davis, Bruce Davison, Vic Morrow
Votes: 63
33. Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 84 min | Drama, Romance
A betrayed wife (Jacqueline Bisset), whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son (Eric Mabius) of her first love.
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Eric Mabius, Susan Anspach, Nan Martin
Votes: 407
34. Portrait of an Escort (1980 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
Jordan West is a divorcée who moonlights at a professional dating service to make ends meet. But her secret job causes gossip among her neighbors and trouble at the real estate office where... See full summary »
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Susan Anspach, Tony Bill, Cyd Charisse, Kevin McCarthy
Votes: 80
35. Visions (1976–1980)
Drama
Weekly anthology series of original dramas, often with period settings.
Stars: Ellen Travolta, Lesley Woods, Harry Basch, Philip Baker Hall
Votes: 85
36. Back to Back (1989)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama
Modern day western about two very different brothers, who join forces to clear their family name, from the shadow of their dead brother's blame for a bloody unsolved robbery.
Director: John Kincade | Stars: Bill Paxton, Todd Field, Apollonia Kotero, Luke Askew
Votes: 144
37. The Legend of Wolf Lodge (1987)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A guy falls for young, pretty, busty waitress, while having an affair with his landlady, who tries to convince him to kill her husband for money.
Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Susan Anspach, Art Hindle, Olivia d'Abo, Lee Montgomery
Votes: 230
38. Rosetti and Ryan (1977)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Upper-class, outgoing Joe Rosetti is law partners with former policeman Frank Ryan in a successful law firm. The introspective Frank uses his background to win cases against frequent adversary Jessica Hornesby.
Stars: Tony Roberts, Squire Fridell, Jane Elliot, Dick O'Neill
Votes: 28
39. The Secret Life of John Chapman (1976 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama
The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life outside his well-ordered but insulated college environment.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Ralph Waite, Susan Anspach, Richard Arnold, John Aylward
Votes: 46
40. Mad Bull (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A burly professional wrestler falls in love with a caring woman who helps convince him to abandon his vengeful search for the one who murdered his brother in this drama.
Directors: Walter Doniger, Len Steckler | Stars: Alex Karras, Susan Anspach, Nicholas Colasanto, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 100
41. The Bob Braun Show (1967–1984)
Talk-Show
This was a local Cincinnati, Ohio talk show hosted by Bob Braun, a Cincinnati personality. Bob Braun got his start as the sidekick for Ruth Lyons, another Cincinnati legend.
Stars: Bob Braun, Rob Reider, The Cliff Lash Orchestra, Nancy James
Votes: 156
42. Killer Instinct (1990)
R | 88 min | Action, Thriller
A U.S. agent (David Dukes) saves a journalist (Susan Anspach) and her son from an East German/Libyan chemical-warfare plot in Africa.
Director: David Lister | Stars: David Dukes, Susan Anspach, Henry Cele, Arnold Vosloo
Votes: 57
43. The Journey of the Fifth Horse (1966 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Directors: Larry Arrick, Earl Dawson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Michael Tolan, Susan Anspach, Lee Wallace
Votes: 78
44. Gone Are the Dayes (1984 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
After the Daye family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuade them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective Mitchell gets the job to hide the four until... See full summary »
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Harvey Korman, Susan Anspach, Robert Hogan, Nate Esformes
Votes: 51
45. The Last Giraffe (1979 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
An American wildlife photgrapher and her husband, a safari guide in Kenya, set out to save an endangered giraffe after its mother had been killed by poachers.
Director: Jack Couffer | Stars: Susan Anspach, Simon Ward, Gordon Jackson, Don Warrington
Votes: 35
46. Heaven and Earth (1987)
Drama
Mady McKeon, a 10-year-old girl living in a farm town, is deeply affected by the death of a schoolteacher and her grandfather. Her father sells part of the family farm to the Air Force. The... See full summary »
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Susan Anspach, Bert Conway, William Douglas, Stanley Grover
Votes: 40
47. For the Use of the Hall (1975 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the empty Long Island home of an aging matriarch... See full summary »
Directors: Rick Bennewitz, Lee Grant | Stars: Susan Anspach, Barbara Barrie, George Furth, David Hedison
Votes: 19
48. The Paul Ryan Show (1977–1992)
Talk-Show
The Paul Ryan Show footage collection consists of nearly 700 half-hour long, in-depth, one-on-one interviews with many of the biggest names in television.
Stars: Paul Ryan, Lainie Kazan, Gilbert Cates, John Ritter
Votes: 12
49. 39th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1982 TV Special)
Golden Globe Award - American award awarded by the Hollywood association of the foreign press from 1944 for works in movies and television's pictures.
Director: Walter C. Miller | Stars: Alan Alda, Debbie Allen, Susan Anspach, Susan Anton
Votes: 76
50. Inversion (I) (2010)
81 min | Thriller
Director: Nikolai Müllerschön | Stars: Marcus Thomas, Andy Davoli, Susan Anspach, Michael Patrick McCaffrey
Votes: 11