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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: 93,226
2.
Climax! (1954–1958)
Episode:
Strange Sanctuary
(1957)
Unrated | 60 min | Drama
In the old southwest, a pair of bank robbers must ride out after killing a man. They intend on eventually getting far away, but one seeks to reunite with his daughter in a nearby convent. ... See full summary »
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Michael Rennie, Cesar Romero, Rita Moreno, Osa Massen
Votes: 15
3.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
The Griswold Murder
(1959)
Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Elfego defends a rancher who has been unjustly accused of murder. It is up to Elfego to track down the real murderer, and in doing so, he wins his first case in Santa Fe.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Robert Loggia, James Dunn, Jay C. Flippen, Patric Knowles
Votes: 12
4.
I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
Episode:
The Freezer
(1952)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Lucy and Ethel decide to make some money by buying a used walk-in freezer. When they unwittingly buy 700 pounds of beef, they try to sell it to customers at the butcher shop.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley
Votes: 534
5.
Trackdown (1957–1959)
Episode:
Back to Crawford
(1959)
30 min | Western
Hoby returns home to Crawford to help his sister Nora after she sends him a telegram that somebody has been threatening her and because he gets a telegram from town drunk Fred Sales to come home quick because his sister is going to die.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Robert Culp, Nancy Asch, King Calder, Peggy Webber
Votes: 34
6.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Caleb
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Childless and poor, farmer Caleb feels like a failure, and his wife assures him he is one. Caleb moves into town to seek some meaning in his life, and soon finds himself--a man who doesn't wear a gun--challenged to a duel.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Burt Reynolds
Votes: 274
7.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
With a Smile
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A rancher's spoiled son believes even after he is convicted of murder that his father's wealth and influence will save him from the hangman.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 302
8.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Once a Haggen
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Bucko, a close friend of Festus, is accused of murdering a man to whom he lost at poker. When his alibi witness lies out of fear, Bucko is sentenced to hang, and Festus, who'd begun to see the marshal as a friend, vows Bucko won't swing.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 230
9. The Jack Benny Program (1950–1965)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy
The comic misadventures of the "skinflint" comedian and his friends.
Stars: Jack Benny, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Don Wilson, Dennis Day
Votes: 1,648
10. I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The wife of a band leader constantly tries to become a star - in spite of her having no talent, and gets herself (along with her best friend) into the funniest predicaments.
Stars: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley
Votes: 28,935
11.
Bronco (1958–1962)
Episode:
Tangled Trail
(1960)
60 min | Western
Bronco comes to the aid of the small rancher Joe Russo up against a brutal cattle baron to collect a debt owed Bronco. He winds up accused of murder when the cattle baron uses the herder's mentally unbalanced wife to get at him.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Ty Hardin, Randy Stuart, Joan Lora, Marc Lawrence
Votes: 26
12.
Cheyenne (1955–1963)
Episode:
Trial by Conscience
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Cheyenne, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is sent to a town to bring law and order after the sheriff there is killed. He finds one man runs the town and is stealing it blind. Due to jealousy he kills a man but Cheyenne needs proof to stop him.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Clint Walker, Jeff York, Pat Crowley, Richard Garland
Votes: 80
13.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Bently
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A dying man confesses to a murder of which he was acquitted, but Chester suspects the man was lying.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 217
14.
I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
Episode:
Equal Rights
(1953)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Lucy and Ethel demand to be treated as if they were men, so Ricky and Fred do just that.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley
Votes: 378
15. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Votes: 236,554
16. Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Approved | 25 min | Western
The adventures of a gentlemanly gunfighter-for-hire.
Stars: Richard Boone, Kam Tong, Hal Needham, Stewart East
Votes: 3,335
17. The Great Dictator (1940)
G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 237,453 | Gross: $0.29M
18. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
TV-G | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A Disney-produced anthology covering many different genres.
Stars: Walt Disney, Paul Frees, Clarence Nash, Slim Pickens
Votes: 2,292
19. 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
20.
The High Chaparral (1967–1971)
Episode:
The Last Hundred Miles
(1969)
PG | 60 min | Western
A freight shipper is faking Apache attacks to raise the prices on goods he brings into Tucson. Big John has a plan to bring in competition to reduce the costs but rumors of Apache talks stop his plan until he contacts Cochise personally.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade, Henry Darrow
Votes: 57
21.
Lawman (1958–1962)
Episode:
9:05 to North Platte
(1959)
30 min | Western
The Jute family takes over the Marshal's office with two hostages - a young boy and Lily. They're in town to free Lester Jute, arriving on the 9:05 train. Dan Troop has a risky plan but it has grave danger for both the boy and Lily.
Director: Robert Sparr | Stars: John Russell, Peter Brown, Peggie Castle, Harry Shannon
Votes: 55
22. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The trials of a master criminal defense attorney handling the most difficult cases in support of the innocent.
Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, Ray Collins
Votes: 11,850
23. The Rifleman (1958–1963)
TV-PG | 30 min | Family, Western
The adventures of a Wild West rancher, wielding a customized rapid-fire Winchester rifle, and his son.
Stars: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, Joe Benson
Votes: 5,018
24.
Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
Episode:
A Town Has Turned to Dust
(1958)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A weakling sheriff is unable to prevent a lynching. Can he redeem himself by preventing a second one?
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Rod Steiger, William Shatner, Fay Spain, James Gregory
Votes: 65
25.
Daniel Boone (1964–1970)
Episode:
Tekawitha McLeod
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Western
A dance at Fort Boonesborough is interrupted by Flathead Joseph, a halfbreed slave trader. He has a young Indian girl with him whom he claims is a Cherokee Princess...and a white girl. Her ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Fess Parker, Albert Salmi, Ed Ames, Patricia Blair
Votes: 60
26.
I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
Episode:
Lucy Cries Wolf
(1954)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Lucy fakes a crisis to test Ricky's love for her.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley
Votes: 350
27.
I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
Episode:
Lucy Meets Orson Welles
(1956)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Orson Welles asks Lucy to assist in his magic act.
Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley
Votes: 353
28.
Lawman (1958–1962)
Episode:
To Capture the West
(1960)
30 min | Western
An artist, whose dream is to capture this big country on canvas before it disappears forever, rides into Laramie. When Dan finds out the Brock gang is heading to town just because of him, he does his best to keep him and his dream alive.
Director: Robert Sparr | Stars: John Russell, Peter Brown, Peggie Castle, Warren Stevens
Votes: 66
29.
Maverick (1957–1962)
Episode:
The Sheriff of Duck 'n' Shoot
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Bret gets coralled into serving out jail time as a wild-and-woolly Western town's sheriff, and does a surprisingly good job of it - until he ends up imprisoned in his own jail.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: James Garner, Jack Kelly, Peggy McCay, Chubby Johnson
Votes: 116
30.
Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode:
The Case of the Prodigal Parent
(1958)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Philip Larkin is killed, his stepfather Joseph Harrison, recently divorced from Philip's mother Ethel, is charged. With Joe in serious difficulty, Ethel asks Perry Mason to defend him, then disappears.
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman
Votes: 398
31.
Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode:
The Case of the Rolling Bones
(1958)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Daniel Reed is forcibly placed in a mental sanitarium as incompetent. Mason takes the case to court and wins Reed's freedom on a writ of habeas corpus. Before the writ can be served, however, Reed escapes and is charged with murder.
Director: Roger Kay | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman
Votes: 382
32.
The Rebel (1959–1961)
Episode:
Johnny Yuma
(1959)
Approved | 25 min | Western
Johnny Yuma returns home one year after the war's end to find a gang of thugs have extorted a local mine and murdered his father while his father's deputy and the rest of the town live in fear and despair.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Nick Adams, John Carradine, Richard Bakalyan, Jeanette Nolan
Votes: 117
33.
Trackdown (1957–1959)
Episode:
Fear
(1959)
30 min | Western
Ambrose Hooker and his 3 brothers are bullying Joe the Bartender and saloon owner Tenner Smith. Hoby walks in and Ambrose goads his kid brother Little Beamer to draw on Hoby and Hoby kills him. Now Abrose wants revenge.
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Robert Culp, Peter Leeds, Harold J. Stone, Warren Oates
Votes: 21
34.
The Untouchables (1959–1963)
Episode:
Element of Danger
(1962)
52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Victor Rait has developed a new method for converting opium to heroin and he and his partner Arnold Stegler hope to make a handsome profit. When Rait kills a Chicago policeman, who was ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Robert Stack, Lee Marvin, Victor Jory, Paul Picerni
Votes: 72
35.
The Untouchables (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Chess Game
(1962)
52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Having had major successes in eliminating the illegal trade in champagne, Eliot Ness and the Untouchables suddenly find that the expensive wine is finding its way onto the market again. ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Robert Stack, Richard Conte, Murray Hamilton, Barbara Barrie
Votes: 53
36. Get Smart (1965–1970)
TV-G | 25 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, battles the evil forces of rival spy agency KAOS with the help of his competent partner Agent 99.
Stars: Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Edward Platt, Robert Karvelas
Votes: 13,795
37.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
The Man Everyone Hated
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
A general planning to house Indians on a reservation finds himself hated by white men and red men alike.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: James Craig, Sonya Wilde, Linda Watkins, Charles Davis
Votes: 22
38.
Get Smart (1965–1970)
Episode:
Ship of Spies: Part 1
(1966)
TV-G | 25 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Max is working undercover on a ship trying to find the plans of a super-secret weapon.
Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Harold J. Stone, Victor French
Votes: 235
39.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Carter Caper
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A man with a grudge hits upon the perfect revenge when he spreads the word in Dodge that short-tempered Billy is so good with a gun that he shot down the famous gunfighter, Beau Carter.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 222
40.
Maverick (1957–1962)
Episode:
Marshal Maverick
(1962)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Abilene's marshal is bumped off and Bart kills the murderer. But instead of thanks, he's threatened with jail for vagrancy unless he becomes marshal. At least it's only a temp job, because ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Jack Kelly, John Dehner, Peter Breck, Gail Kobe
Votes: 65
41.
The Rifleman (1958–1963)
Episode:
The Wrong Man
(1959)
TV-PG | 30 min | Family, Western
A corrupt marshal from outside North Fork goes after an outlaw with a price on his head. However, he sees an opportunity to make some extra money, so he murders an innocent man to pass off ... See full summary »
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, Robert H. Harris
Votes: 120
42. 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
43. Lawman (1958–1962)
30 min | Western
This is the story of Marshal Dan Troop of Laramie, Wyoming, and his Deputy Johnny McKay, an orphan Troop took under his wing.
Stars: John Russell, Peter Brown, Peggie Castle, Emile Avery
Votes: 971
44.
Bronco (1958–1962)
Episode:
Ordeal at Dead Tree
(1961)
60 min | Western
A bank is robbed and a teller killed. The four brothers responsible knock out Bronco and make it look like he was involved. He is arrested but escapes when lynch talk gets out of control and heads with the sheriff to find the real robbers.
Director: Robert Sparr | Stars: Ty Hardin, Merry Anders, Frank Ferguson, Dorothy Neumann
Votes: 26
45.
Daniel Boone (1964–1970)
Episode:
Pompey
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Western
Daniel runs afoul of Carolina law when he helps Pompey, a runaway slave, remove his leg iron and refuses to turn him over to Calhoun, the bond servant in charge of him.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Fess Parker, Albert Salmi, Patricia Blair, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 50
46.
Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Episode:
The Last Judgment
(1961)
Approved | 30 min | Western
Paladin rides into an Arkansas town where they are about to have a hanging. He finds a man, a doctor, whose crime is that he mended an outlaw's wounds and that outlaw then shot the deputy ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Richard Boone, Harold J. Stone, Donald Randolph, Leo Gordon
Votes: 85
47.
I Spy (1965–1968)
Episode:
Trial by Treehouse
(1966)
60 min | Action, Adventure
Kelly and Alexander are tasked with apprehending the mastermind of a scheme to turn city-wide power outages into a marketable commodity. 2 complications; Alexander has little confidence in ... See full summary »
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Robert Culp, Bill Cosby, Cicely Tyson, Raymond St. Jacques
Votes: 53
48.
Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode:
The Case of the Empty Tin
(1958)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Elston Carr is searching for the heir to the Hocksley fortune, with Alan Neil conducting the preliminary interviews. Miriam Hocksley may be the heiress. Another woman, Doris Hocksley, also has reliable credentials but Carr is found dead.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman
Votes: 400
49.
Public Defender (1954–1955)
Episode:
Return of the Dead
(1954)
30 min | Crime, Drama
A teenage girl is charged with the attempted murder of a gangland figure. Her mother has also been shot. To further complicate matters, the girl's father, who went missing in action in the War fifteen years ago, has suddenly reappeared.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Reed Hadley, Gladys Holland, Natalie Wood, Steven Geray
Votes: 14
50.
Public Defender (1954–1955)
Episode:
Youth Crime Ring
(1954)
30 min | Crime, Drama
A group of teenagers rob a store. The driver is later caught in arrested. While being questioned by the public defender, it's learned his reason behind his life of crime and the consequences of trying to stop.
Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Reed Hadley, Robert Arthur, Don Garner, Paul Langton
Votes: 11