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1. Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

The misadventures of a suburban boy, family and friends.

Stars: Jerry Mathers, Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley, Tony Dow

Votes: 9,358

2. My Three Sons (1960–1972)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Widower Steve Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and is later aided by the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.

Stars: Fred MacMurray, Stanley Livingston, Don Grady, Barry Livingston

Votes: 4,498

3. Major Payne (1995)

PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

When a recently discharged Marine struggles to adjust to civilian life, his commanding officer brings him back to the military to train and lead a group of misfit JORTC cadets.

Director: Nick Castle | Stars: Damon Wayans, Michael Ironside, Bam Bam Bigelow, Joseph Blaire

Votes: 39,040 | Gross: $29.41M

4. The Munsters (1964–1966)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A family of friendly monsters have misadventures, never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.

Stars: Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis, Yvonne De Carlo, Butch Patrick

Votes: 16,913

5. Change of Habit (1969)

G | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Music

As an incognito nun tries to help a doctor clean up an inner-city ghetto, the pair grow closer with time.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair, Jane Elliot

Votes: 2,721

6. The New Leave It to Beaver (1983–1989)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

The continuing adventures of the "now adult" Beaver Cleaver, his family, and their friends.

Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers, Kipp Marcus

Votes: 531

7. Leave It to Beaver (1997)

PG | 84 min | Comedy, Family

Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, age 8, has misadventures and learns life lessons in this entertaining, hilarious tale of a small-town Ohio family and the daily trials of life.

Director: Andy Cadiff | Stars: Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Cameron Finley, Erik von Detten

Votes: 4,556 | Gross: $10.71M

8. General Electric Theater (1953–1962)

TV-G | 30 min | Drama

An American anthology series, with a new episode and different actors and actresses each week. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, the series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

Stars: Ronald Reagan, Don Herbert, Nancy Reagan, Lee Marvin

Votes: 432

9. Munster, Go Home! (1966)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Butch Patrick

Votes: 3,052

10. Still the Beaver (1983 TV Movie)

120 min | Comedy

This movie reunites most of the members of the Cleaver clan, Wally, June, and of course, the Beaver. Their father Ward has passed away. Wally's married to Mary Ellen and a successful lawyer... See full summary »

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers, Ken Osmond

Votes: 266

11. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)

30 min | Comedy

Stories mostly centered on The Kingfish's schemes to get rich, often by duping his brothers in the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge. Andy was particularly dupable. Amos mostly narrated.

Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Johnny Lee

Votes: 836

12. Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966–1967)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Western

The setting is 1871 Wretched, Colorado, where the local sheriff is jealous of the popular Hanks family, who do a better job of keeping the peace.

Stars: Ann Sheridan, Ruth McDevitt, Douglas Fowley, Gary Vinson

Votes: 177

13. Karen (1964–1965)

30 min | Comedy

Southern California is a great place to be a teenager and Karen, with her loving parents and mischievous sister Mimi, is ready to enjoy every minute of it. Her impulsiveness sometimes leads her to misadventures.

Stars: Richard Denning, Mary LaRoche, Gina Gillespie, Debbie Watson

Votes: 112

14. Studio 57 (1954–1958)

30 min | Drama, Family

This dramatic anthology series went into open syndication when the DuMont Television Network ceased operations.

Stars: Joel Aldrich, Tim Graham, Jean Byron, Marguerite Chapman

Votes: 244

15. Blondie (1968–1969)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy

Blondie is a stay-at-home mother to Cookie and Alexander. Husband Dagwood toils in an office where his boss Mr. Dithers is overly involved in the Bumstead household. Dog Daisy rounds out the cast.

Stars: Patricia Harty, Will Hutchins, Peter Robbins, Pamelyn Ferdin

Votes: 76

16. The Private War of Major Benson (1955)

Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

As a disciplinary measure, the Army transfers a heavy-handed Major to a ROTC academy where he must shape-up cadets and improve the school's overall ratings.

Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, William Demarest, Tim Hovey

Votes: 974

17. Going My Way (1962–1963)

60 min | Drama, Family

Father O'Malley is sent to a parish in lower class New York City to assist old, crusty pastor Father Fitzgibbon. When he arrives, Father O'Malley meets his boyhood friend Tom Colwell, who is running the local community center.

Stars: Gene Kelly, Dick York, Leo G. Carroll, Nydia Westman

Votes: 111

18. Harris Against the World (1964–1965)

30 min | Comedy

Alan Harris is the superintendent of a big Hollywood movie studio. At home, Harris's life is made complex by his two active children and his spend-thrift wife.

Stars: Jack Klugman, Patricia Barry, Claire Wilcox, David Macklin

Votes: 15

19. The Ray Milland Show (1953–1955)

30 min | Comedy

Originally Ray McNutley is an English professor at an all girls school where every female swoons for him except for the Dean. Luckily he has an understanding wife Peggy. By the second year ... See full summary »

Stars: Ray Milland, Phyllis Avery, Gordon Jones, Minerva Urecal

Votes: 57

20. Ichabod and Me (1961–1962)

30 min | Comedy

Life in a small New England town, as seen through the eyes of the current and formers editors of the local newspaper.

Stars: George Chandler, Robert Sterling, Christine White, Jimmy Hawkins

Votes: 28

21. Calvin and the Colonel (1961–1962)

30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

This show is about a mis-adventures with Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon (a cool fox), and Calvin Burnside (a dim witted bear). Oliver always makes mischief, he is also a lawyer.

Stars: Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Virginia Gregg, Beatrice Kay

Votes: 87

22. Bringing Up Buddy (1960–1961)

30 min | Comedy

Buddy Flower, a financial advisor, lives with his maiden aunts Iris and Violet who adore him but are a little eccentric. They keep him busy getting them out of scrapes, extricating himself ... See full summary »

Stars: Frank Aletter, Doro Merande, Enid Markey, Frank Albertson

Votes: 38

23. Half a House (1975)

PG | 84 min | Comedy

A middleaged couple, living in divorce, is forced to spend three month in their house, which belongs jointly to them. They both try to use exactly one half of the house, but this only leads... See full summary »

Director: Brice Mack | Stars: Anthony Eisley, Pat Delaney, Francine York, Kaz Garas

Votes: 64

24. Tom, Dick and Mary (1964– )

30 min | Comedy

Dr. Tom Gentry, an intern, and his secretary wife Mary are newlyweds who struggle to make ends meet. They unwilling take in a roomate, fellow intern Dick Moran, best friend to Tom but with some distinct and odd quirks.

Stars: Don Galloway, Joyce Bulifant, Steve Franken, John Hoyt

Votes: 9

25. The Far Out West (1967)

100 min | Comedy, Western

Compilation of several episodes of the TV series Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966)

Director: Joe Connelly | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Ruth McDevitt, Douglas Fowley, Gary Vinson

Votes: 52

26. Me and Benjie (1970 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy, Family

Recast and rewritten version of the 1967 pilot of the same title, the plot concerns the adventures and tribulations of two young friend, one black and one white and their families.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Logan Harbough, Mark Brown, Bernie Hamilton, Aneta Corsaut

27. Walter of the Jungle (1967 TV Short)

15 min | Short, Comedy

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Stars: Jonathan Daly, Bernard Fox, Victoria Harrington, Rose Marie

28. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Amos Helps Out (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Feeling that he's unappreciated by his wife, Kingfish concocts a scheme to cause Sapphire to believe they were never legally married.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 18

29. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Andy Buys a House (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Kingfish goes to work for a real estate company. He sells a house to Andy, without informing him that it must be moved because the underlying lot has been condemned to make room for a new highway.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 25

30. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Andy Gets a Telegram (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Andy gets a job opportunity in Brazil. Kingfish seeks to steal the opportunity from Andy, but is foiled when it is discovered that that opportunity was fake, designed by Sapphire to keep Kingfish away from Andy's "bad influence."

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 18

31. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Call Lehigh 4-9900 (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Sapphire tells Kingfish to burn some old clothes; rather, he tries to pawn them off on Andy. An old telephone number in a pocket reads, "The Best in Town." This leads to a few predicaments beyond Kingfish's control.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 26

32. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Jewelry Store Robbery (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Andy inadvertently shoots a photograph of a jewelry store robber, and the Kingfish tries to gyp him out of half the $1,000 reward.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 24

33. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Kingfish Gets Drafted (1951)

30 min | Comedy

The local draft board mixes up the Kingfish with another George Stevens.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 47

34. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Kingfish Has a Baby (1951)

30 min | Comedy

The Kingfish decides to reform because he thinks he is about to become a father.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 24

35. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Kingfish's Secretary (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Sapphire becomes jealous over Kingfish's new lodge hall secretary.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 33

36. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Leroy Lends a Hand (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Sapphire's brother, LeRoy comes to live with them. He goes to work for Kingfish and Andy at their parking lot. Thinking it is a used car lot, he inadvertently sells one of the cars.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 20

37. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Mr. Jackson Comes to Town (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Sapphire hires a man to portray her old flame in order to make Kingfish jealous. Kingfish tries everything he can to keep his marriage intact.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 15

38. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Quo Vadis (1951)

30 min | Comedy

When an old school chum visits New York, the Kingfish poses as a millionaire in order to perpetuate a hometown myth that he's an extremely successful New York businessman.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 19

39. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Ready-Made Family (1951)

30 min | Comedy

The Kingfish must put together a phony family quickly to convince his visiting Uncle Clarence to keep him in his will after he lied to him in a letter that he had a baby to scam him out of a $500 baby gift.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 17

40. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: Relatives (1951)

30 min | Comedy

After Sapphire's mama moves in with the Kingfish and Sapphire a domestic court judge orders Mama to remain nuetral and to stay out of all arguments between man and wife. Naturally the Kingfish uses this order to his advantage

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 17

41. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Diner (1951)

30 min | Comedy

While out for a Sunday drive with Sapphire and Mama the Kingfish sees a diner for sale so he and Andy go in together to buy it. Of course things don't work out as planned thanks to a new ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 22

42. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Gun (1951)

30 min | Comedy

The Kingfish purchases a gift for Sapphire for their anniversary and inside the gift is a gun that some crooks have hidden. Kingfish decides to pawn the gun so he can buy Sapphire a nicer gift, but things don't work out as planned.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 30

43. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Rare Coin (1951)

30 min | Comedy

The Kingfish swindles Andy out of a rare nickel. Later, he unthinkingly drops it in the slot of a lunchroom's phone booth and places a call. It's now up to Andy and him to figure out how to retrieve the valuable coin without getting caught.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 45

44. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Turkey Dinner (1951)

30 min | Comedy

The Kingfish figures there's a profit to be made, if he can insert himself as the middleman in acquiring the twenty turkeys that Sapphire needs for her woman's club dinner.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 20

45. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Winslow Woman (1951)

30 min | Comedy

Kingfish has Andy pose as a baron to trick a rich widow into marrying him.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Ernestine Wade

Votes: 22

46. The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1953)
Episode: The Young Girl's Mother (1951)

30 min | Comedy

In spite of his friends' advice, Andy plans to marry a girl much younger than himself.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Johnny Lee

Votes: 27

47. Blondie (1968–1969)
Episode: Sayanora Dagwood (1968)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy

Dagwood is unhappy when Dithers takes credit for his work. Bumstead doesn't tell Blondie why his behavior has altered and the wife suspects an affair. Things are soon a mess in the Bumstead household.

Director: Norman Abbott | Stars: Patricia Harty, Will Hutchins, Peter Robbins, Pamelyn Ferdin

48. Bringing Up Buddy (1960–1961)
Episode: Working Girls (1960)

30 min | Comedy

When Buddy complains about his aunts' overdrawn checking accounts, they decide to look for jobs.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Frank Aletter, Paul Dubov, Penny Edwards, Lee Goodman

49. Bringing Up Buddy (1960–1961)
Episode: Auntie's Cake (1961)

30 min | Comedy

A cake-mix manufacturer selects the aunts to be models for his endorsement. After they agree, Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris realize that product is inedible and want out. It's up to Buddy to charm ... See full summary »

Stars: Frank Aletter, Arte Johnson, Enid Markey, Joyce Meadows

50. Bringing Up Buddy (1960–1961)
Episode: Behind Bars (1961)

30 min | Comedy

Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris square off with City Hall over a tree on their property line. They want to prune it, but city commissioners won't let them without a permit, which they don't issue. ... See full summary »

Stars: Frank Albertson, Frank Aletter, William Bakewell, Bill Baldwin