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1. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.
Stars: Rod Serling, Robert McCord, Jay Overholts, James Turley
Votes: 93,233
2. The Christmas Songs (1979 TV Movie)
Music
Director: Bob Henry | Stars: Mel Tormé, Richard Basehart, Billy Davis Jr., Jo Ann Greer
Votes: 10
3.
Combat! (1962–1967)
Episode:
The Long Way Home: Part 2
(1963)
60 min | Action, Drama, War
Still interred in a German POW camp, Sgt. Saunders and his squad must find a way to escape before they are all killed.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Vic Morrow, Rick Jason, Richard Basehart, Jack Hogan
Votes: 110
4. Here's Hollywood (1960–1962)
30 min | Talk-Show
Hollywood celebrities are interviewed, often at their homes.
Stars: Dean Miller, Helen O'Connell, Jack Linkletter, Joanne Jordan
Votes: 169
5.
How the West Was Won (1976–1979)
Episode:
Orville Gant
(1978)
16+ | 90 min | Drama, Western
With the sheriff's son held hostage by Flint, the robbery goes forward, leaving two men dead. Jessie's condition worsens as the doctor can't help her. Zeb's and Beth's accounts of her ... See full summary »
Directors: Bernard McEveety, Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb
Votes: 64
6. National Geographic Specials (1965– )
60 min | Documentary, History
For over 30 years, the National Geographic Society has presented specials on nature, foreign culture, scientific breakthroughs, and things which fall under the general category of "neat stuff." Each special is self-contained.
Stars: Alexander Scourby, Leslie Nielsen, Richard Kiley, Joseph Campanella
Votes: 340
7. National Geographic: The Invisible World (1979 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
Each moment, events take place that the human eye cannot perceive because these occurrences are too small, too large, too fast, too slow or beyond the spectrum of visible light. Witness ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Pomasanoff | Star: Richard Basehart
Votes: 33
8. The Challenge of Change (1984)
Documentary, Biography
Director: Michael Mendizza | Stars: Richard Basehart, Jiddu Krishnamurti
Votes: 54
9. 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: 5,159
10. The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956–1960)
60 min | Comedy
The Steve Allen Show was an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen.
Stars: Steve Allen, Gene Rayburn, Louis Nye, Skitch Henderson
Votes: 258
11. The Ten Thousand Day War (1980– )
52 min | Documentary, History, War
A comprehensive history of the American stage of the Vietnam War.
Stars: Joseph B. Anderson, Peter Braestrup, Anthony Astuccio, George R. Christmas
Votes: 259
12. Bicentennial Minutes (1974– )
1 min | Short, History
Minute-long "on this day in history" shorts, used a countdown to America's bicentennial.
Stars: Walter Cronkite, Cleveland Amory, Edward Asner, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 51
13.
Combat! (1962–1967)
Episode:
The Long Way Home: Part 1
(1963)
60 min | Action, Drama, War
Sgt. Saunder's squad is captured and placed in a temporary stockade, where they are interrogated by a cruel SS officer.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Vic Morrow, Rick Jason, Richard Basehart, Jack Hogan
Votes: 112
14.
How the West Was Won (1976–1979)
Episode:
Mormon Story
(1978)
16+ | 96 min | Drama, Western
Zeb sides with the Sioux after the Russian incident triggers a war - and the clash leads to a great leader's sacrifice. Luke's feelings for Hillary Gant intensify, but when her father ... See full summary »
Directors: Bernard McEveety, Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb
Votes: 73
15.
How the West Was Won (1976–1979)
Episode:
Interlude
(1978)
16+ | 97 min | Drama, Western
Luke's attempt to foil the Flint gang's gold robbery scheme doesn't go as planned. Zeb rescues a woman from two hide-cutters and is surprised to find a love from his past. When a certain ... See full summary »
Directors: Bernard McEveety, Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb
Votes: 68
16. Combat! (1962–1967)
60 min | Action, Drama, War
Combat!, a one-hour World War II drama series, followed a front line American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe
Stars: Vic Morrow, Rick Jason, Pierre Jalbert, Jack Hogan
Votes: 3,144
17. Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season.
Stars: Richard Joy, Paul Lambert, Helen Kleeb, Charles Bickford
Votes: 419
18. Bix: 'Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet' (1981)
116 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Documentary of the life and music of Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, considered to be the greatest jazz cornet player. Dead at 28 and still a legend. He and Louis Armstrong pioneered the playing of... See full summary »
Director: Brigitte Berman | Stars: Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Richard Basehart, Hoagy Carmichael
Votes: 53
19.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
Submarine Sunk Here
(1964)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Chip Morton and Curley Jones are in New London making repairs on the diving bell's guidance system. At the same time a skirmish in the control room of the Seaview inadvertently allows it to... See full summary »
Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Carl Reindel, Eddie Ryder
Votes: 119
20.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
Edge of Doom
(1968)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Nelson is told the Seaview could be destroyed while carrying a top secret defense weapon but he has to determine if Captain Crane is an impostor.
Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Terry Becker, Del Monroe
Votes: 72
21. Columbo (1971–2003)
TV-PG | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Los Angeles homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo uses his humble ways and ingenuous demeanor to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes.
Stars: Peter Falk, Mike Lally, John Finnegan, Bruce Kirby
Votes: 42,058
22.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Sky Is Falling
(1964)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A U. F. O. has been spotted flying around the United States, terrifying people and violating every airspace regulation in the book. It falls into the sea, which, after another ship is ... See full summary »
Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Charles McGraw, Adam Williams
Votes: 120
23. 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: 2,574
24. Naked City (1958–1963)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The cases of the N.Y.P.D.'s 65th Precinct.
Stars: Harry Bellaver, Horace McMahon, Paul Burke, Nancy Malone
Votes: 1,434
25. The Light That Failed (1961 TV Movie)
Drama
Presented by The Breck Shampoo Company, this Rudyard Kipling classic takes place in 1880, the changes that take place, some good, some bad in the life of Dick Heldar. A struggling artist ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Edward Atienza, Richard Basehart, Eric Berry, Joan Fontaine
Votes: 19
26.
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode:
Troublemaker
(1976)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance
When teacher, Miss Beadle, is deemed unable to control some of the rowdy, older boys in her class, Mrs. Oleson convinces the Walnut Grove school board to replace her with a firmer, male ... See full summary »
Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Votes: 382
27.
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969–1976)
Episode:
The Last Rip-Off
(1974)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama
Dr. Welby's patient dies in the night and her daughter agrees, under grieving duress, to a $5000 funeral. In the meantime, Dr. Kiley's long-time friend develops problems with his kidneys, ... See full summary »
Director: William Asher | Stars: Robert Young, James Brolin, Elena Verdugo, Richard Basehart
Votes: 10
28.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
Doomsday
(1965)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Seaview is on exercises when a series of signals are received indicating the USA is at war and they are to prepare for launch of all missiles.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Donald Harron, Paul Carr
Votes: 102
29.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
Man of Many Faces
(1967)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane are shocked to see a scientist shot to death during a live televised news conference viewed from the Nelson Institute. Especially shocking is that the ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Terry Becker, Del Monroe
Votes: 82
30.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Day the World Ended
(1966)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After the arrival of a newly elected U.S. Senator to inspect Admiral Nelson's new weapon, strange things begin to happen, culminating with the realization that everyone outside of the Seaview appears to have disappeared from the Earth.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Skip Homeier, Terry Becker
Votes: 86
31.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Lost Bomb
(1966)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
An unfriendly government shoots down a cargo plane carrying a new top secret bomb. The race is on to retrieve the bomb and avoid detection from the enemy before the bomb can be accidentally exploded.
Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, John Lupton, Gerald Mohr
Votes: 77
32. 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: 8,763
33. Treasure Galleons (1973 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary
A documentary about a sunken seventeenth century Spanish ship and the divers who search for her cargo of gold off the coast of Florida.
Director: Richard Basehart
Votes: 7
34.
Rawhide (1959–1965)
Episode:
The Black Sheep
(1961)
Not Rated | 51 min | Western
Rowdy escorts an injured sheepman and his flock to a nearby town. However, when the town's residents think he is one of the sheepmen, Rowdy finds himself on the receiving end of the same kind of treatment he used to dish out to sheepmen.
Director: Anton Leader | Stars: Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood, Sheb Wooley, Paul Brinegar
Votes: 103
35. The Road (1954)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani
Votes: 66,613
36.
Vega$ (1978–1981)
Episode:
Set Up
(1981)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Nelson gets a call from one of his informants who asks Nelson to meet him. Nelson goes there and finds the man dead, that's when someone knocks him out. He then takes out Nelson's gun and ... See full summary »
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Robert Urich, Greg Morris, Bart Braverman, Phyllis Davis
Votes: 39
37.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Condemned
(1965)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
This episode involves the testing of a new air mixture that will allow a submarine to go to the "bottom of the sea" literally! A brash, news hogging, admiral and his aide, along with his ... See full summary »
Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, J.D. Cannon, Arthur Franz
Votes: 72
38. 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: 4,617
39. Being There (1979)
PG | 130 min | Comedy, Drama
After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden
Votes: 77,699 | Gross: $30.18M
40. The Andersonville Trial (1970 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Director: George C. Scott | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, William Shatner, Jack Cassidy, Wright King
Votes: 493
41. The Paradine Case (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
Director: Alex March | Stars: Richard Basehart, Viveca Lindfors, Boris Karloff, Robert Webber
Votes: 26
42.
Ben Casey (1961–1966)
Episode:
Light Up the Dark Corners
(1963)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
A bar room brawl sends salty Irish sea captain Mark Cassidy to County General for treatment. There, he falls for Kathleen Dooley, a spirited nurse and equally strong personality. However, ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Vince Edwards, Sam Jaffe, Jeanne Bates, Nick Dennis
Votes: 9
43.
The Dick Powell Theatre (1961–1963)
Episode:
The Judge
(1963)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
A judge runs the risk of being compromised when he seeks to commute a death sentence.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: David Niven, Richard Basehart, Nico Minardos, Mary Murphy
Votes: 11
44.
Knight Rider (1982–1986)
Episode:
K.I.T.T. vs. K.A.R.R.
(1984)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
K.I.T.T.'s bad tempered prototype K.A.R.R. is found buried in the sand by mechanic John Stanton and his girlfriend Mandy. K.A.R.R. convinces Stanton to replace his damaged parts and give ... See full summary »
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Patricia McPherson, Jeff Osterhage
Votes: 434
45.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
Cave of the Dead
(1967)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
When four capital ships vanish, Admiral Nelson and Commander Van Wyck are sent to investigate. They find an island where Nelson removes a dagger from a skeleton which happens to be the ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Warren Stevens, Terry Becker
Votes: 76
46.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Fear-Makers
(1964)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Seaview continues the secret underwater explorations that another sub was on when it mysteriously disappeared.
Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Lloyd Bochner, Edgar Bergen
Votes: 123
47.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Mechanical Man
(1966)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
While assisting an undersea drilling operation, Capt. Crane and the Seaview become locked in a life-and-death struggle with an android, powered by a new source of limitless energy, Subterranium 116.
Director: Sobey Martin | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, James Darren, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 88
48.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Saboteur
(1965)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Crane is brainwashed to sabotage an important national defense mission which is being monitored by the national intelligence agency.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Warren Stevens, Bert Freed
Votes: 86
49. Masada (1981)
394 min | Action, Drama, History
After the destruction of the Second Temple, nine hundred Jewish zealots hold out against a five thousand man Roman legion on the mountaintop fortress of Masada.
Stars: Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Alan Feinstein
Votes: 2,437
50. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1968 TV Movie)
180 min | Documentary, History, War
"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" exposes the darkest chapter in history, from Adolf Hitler's rise to power as a Nazi demagogue to his ultimate fatal mistakes. Researchers spent ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Kaufman | Stars: Richard Basehart, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Adolf Hitler, Erich Kempka
Votes: 301