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1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

8.6
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89 Metascore

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 499,011

2. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Wolf (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.6
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Sgt. Wolf Bozeman, a gung ho street cop who lives through his job, tries to cope with the prospect of losing that job due to his deteriorating health.

Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Shelley Fabares, Tim O'Connor, Scott Brady

Votes: 45

3. Further Adventures of Spin and Marty (1956)

Western

8.4
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Add a Plot

Stars: Tim Considine, David Stollery, George DeNormand, Annette Funicello

Votes: 109

4. Columbo (1971–2003)

TV-PG | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

8.3
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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: 41,958

5. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Captain Hook (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.3
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A police officer fights the brass to keep his spot as a beat cop after he loses his right hand to a package bomb.

Director: Richard Benedict | Stars: David Birney, Dennis Cole, Richard Egan, Kim Darby

Votes: 33

6. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: The Return of Joe Forrester (1975)

73 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.3
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Detective Joe Forrester must go back to the rough area that was his old beat to try and catch a serial rapist.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Jim Backus, Lloyd Bridges, Pat Crowley, Tom Drake

Votes: 17

7. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Country Boy (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.2
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Cadets Crawford, Ryan, and Keegan struggle to get through the Police Academy.

Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Kurt Russell, Gary Collins, Jeremy Slate, Jason Evers

Votes: 47

8. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Passed | 129 min | Drama

8.1
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96 Metascore

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin

Votes: 99,924 | Gross: $0.06M

9. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Countdown: Part 2 (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.1
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In the second part of this two part episode, the mob family from Chicago hires an outside killer to go after the police sergeant they blame for the death of one of theirs, while the police search for other connections in the area.

Director: Richard Benedict | Stars: Vic Morrow, Tige Andrews, Laraine Stephens, Scott Marlowe

Votes: 31

10. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Fingerprint (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.1
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Charlie Ryan feels he is in a rut as a Forensics and Fingerprint detective.

Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Earl Holliman, Tim Matheson, Nita Talbot, Nancy Walker

Votes: 44

11. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Glamour Boy (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.1
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Detectives Tony Calabrese and Bert Jameson try to hold onto a charming bank robber, which proves to be more difficult than actually catching him.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Tony Lo Bianco, Don Meredith, David Doyle, Bettye Ackerman

Votes: 42

12. I've Got a Secret (1952–1967)

TV-G | 30 min | Family, Game-Show

8.0
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A group of panelists try to guess a guest's secret.

Stars: Garry Moore, Henry Morgan, Bill Cullen, John Cannon

Votes: 562

13. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Countdown: Part 1 (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.0
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Sgt. Joe LaFrieda becomes the target of a Chicago mob family after he fatally shoots a younger son who was burglarizing a bottling plant.

Director: Richard Benedict | Stars: Vic Morrow, Tige Andrews, Laraine Stephens, Michael Callan

Votes: 32

14. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Headhunter (1975)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.0
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IA Det. Sgt. Stiles investigates an indecent exposure charge against a veteran officer, resulting in the officer's dismissal. Months later, the exposure complainant confesses to a years-old... See full summary »

Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Don Murray, Michael Anderson Jr., Joan Leslie, Scott Brady

Votes: 36

15. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Wyatt Earp Syndrome (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.0
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Officer Nations is feeling the strain, in both his job and his personal life, of trying to solve all the world's ills from his patrol car.

Director: Robert L. Collins | Stars: Cliff Gorman, Smokey Robinson, Mel Ferrer, Scott Brady

Votes: 54

16. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: World Full of Hurt (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.9
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Juvenile officers Craig and Prescott deal with runaways, delinquents, and Prescott's own troubled home life.

Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Paul Burke, James Gregory, Susan Oliver, Diane McBain

Votes: 27

17. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Chain of Command (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.9
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Capt. Steve Calvino has to fight his superiors to get extra manpower to hunt down a cop-killer who may have racial motivations.

Director: Leo Penn | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Janet MacLachlan, Edmond O'Brien, Charles McGraw

Votes: 44

18. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Love, Mabel (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.9
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Detectives investigate a series of murders of homeless men along the piers.

Director: Robert L. Collins | Stars: Michael Learned, Dean Stockwell, Peter Brown, Larry Storch

Votes: 41

19. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: The Hunters (1974)

90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.9
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Detectives Calabrese and Jameson become emotionally involved in a robbery/homicide/rape crime spree when a friend becomes a victim. Originally aired on Oct 23, 1973. This title was changed from "The Hunters" to "Big John Morrison".

Director: Richard Benedict | Stars: Tony Lo Bianco, Don Meredith, Jackie Cooper, Dane Clark

Votes: 27

20. Seven Days in May (1964)

Approved | 118 min | Drama, Thriller

7.8
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73 Metascore

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner

Votes: 17,327 | Gross: $7.96M

21. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: The Ripper (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.8
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Detectives Hallett and Baker hunt a serial killer who is attacking and mutilating gay men.

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Darren McGavin, Kathie Browne, Leslie Parrish, Peter Mark Richman

Votes: 55

22. A Place in the Sun (1951)

Passed | 122 min | Drama, Romance

7.7
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76 Metascore

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere

Votes: 24,758

23. Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982–1986)

60 min | Documentary, Family, History

7.7
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Strange occurrences, odd historical facts and unusual artistic and social activities are explored.

Stars: Jack Palance, Holly Palance, Cathie Shirriff, Marie Osmond

Votes: 499

24. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: A Dangerous Age (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.7
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Arch Tatum is feeling the full weight of his 24 years on the force as he faces the contempt of his rookie partner, Bentley, who wants him to retire and make way for the next generation.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Edward Asner, David Huffman, Scott Brady, Albert Salmi

Votes: 36

25. The Time Tunnel (1966–1967)
Episode: The Day the Sky Fell In (1966)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.7
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December 6, 1941: Dr. Tony Newman confronts his own past at Pearl Harbor and he wants to know what happened to his father.

Director: William Hale | Stars: James Darren, Robert Colbert, Linden Chiles, Whit Bissell

Votes: 307

26. The Bishop's Wife (1947)

G | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

7.6
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73 Metascore

A debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley

Votes: 20,899

27. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)

G | 123 min | Drama

7.6
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When deaf-mute Singer moves to a new town to be near his hospitalized friend, he makes an indelible impression on the lives of those around him.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Chuck McCann, Peter Mamakos

Votes: 4,730

28. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Across the Line (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.6
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Joe Benton is taken off the surveillance squad after being involved in too many stakeouts that ended violently, so Sgt. Barrett drafts him for his narcotics squad investigating the "Mexican Connection."

Director: Nicholas Colasanto | Stars: James Wainwright, Linda Cristal, Alejandro Rey, Scott Brady

Votes: 28

29. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Robbery: 48 Hours (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.6
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Lt. Bruckner leads the Robbery Squad through a two-day run of holdups, big and small.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Joe Santos, Jeremy Slate, Glenn Corbett

Votes: 39

30. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: War Games (1975)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.6
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Detectives Gordy and Ballard go undercover in a white-supremacist gun club to bust a paranoid gun collector who specializes in illegal military munitions.

Director: Richard Benedict | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Neville Brand, Michael Parks, Robert Alda

Votes: 29

31. The Time Tunnel (1966– )

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.5
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Two scientists with a secret time travel project find themselves trapped in the time stream and appearing in notable periods of history.

Stars: James Darren, Robert Colbert, Whit Bissell, John Zaremba

Votes: 4,228

32. Police Story (1973–1980)

120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.5
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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: 1,183

33. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Chief (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.5
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A day in the life of the chief of police finds him in the middle of a political power play between the mayor and one of his subordinates, and a possible threat on his life.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: John Forsythe, Barbara Rush, Gary Conway, Ralph Meeker

Votes: 30

34. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Cop in the Middle (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.5
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Rollins is a detective on the take--he gives a mobster warnings of upcoming busts on his bookmaking parlors. But things escalate dangerously when the mobster wants a much larger favor than Rollins is willing to give.

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Christopher George, Glenn Corbett, John Ericson, Albert Paulsen

Votes: 41

35. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: Fade in to Murder (1976)

TV-PG | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.4
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An egotistical but successful star of a TV detective show murders his blackmailing producer and makes it look like a robbery.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Peter Falk, William Shatner, Bert Remsen, Alan Manson

Votes: 2,431

36. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Explosion (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.4
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Detectives Bert Jameson and Tony Calabrese try to catch an extortionist who leaves remote-control bombs at his targets.

Director: Alex March | Stars: Tony Lo Bianco, Don Meredith, Dane Clark, Joanna Moore

Votes: 30

37. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Requiem for C.Z. Smith (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.4
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Charlie Czonka resurrects his alter ego, pimp CZ Smith, to catch a murderer who mutilates prostitutes.

Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: James Farentino, Bruce Davison, Tina Louise, Janet Margolin

Votes: 25

38. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Sniper (1975)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.3
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Detectives Calabrese and Thorpe try to catch a sniper before he, or she, strikes again.

Director: Alex March | Stars: Tony Lo Bianco, Glenn Corbett, Dane Clark, Marsha Hunt

Votes: 33

39. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: The Gamble (1974)

51 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.3
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Police Woman Lisa Beaumont joins Sgt. Crowley's vice squad. Their target is an illegal gambling operation. The operation is run by Carl Vitale and Lisa goes undercover to get inside the ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Benedict | Stars: Angie Dickinson, Bert Convy, Cesare Danova, Peter Brown

Votes: 73

40. The Time Tunnel (1966–1967)
Episode: Kill Two by Two (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.3
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On a Pacific isle about to be bombed by America, Doug and Tony are held by a downed Japanese pilot and a sergeant. Kirk brings in a Japanese officer who served on the island. He won't help unless they save his son who died during the war.

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: James Darren, Robert Colbert, Mako, Kam Tong

Votes: 189

41. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: Fathers and Sons (1974)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.2
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Members of the Serbian community are being gunned down and the police have few leads. Sgt. Wilson decides to use officer Joe Basic, an ethnic Slav, in an undercover situation. Joe learns his father Andrea is a possible target.

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Tony Musante, Kaz Garas, Richard Jaeckel, Ramon Bieri

Votes: 28

42. Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode: To Steal a Million (1975)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.2
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Detectives Grosser and Hyland know a big hotel heist is about to happen. They know who's involved, but they don't know which hotel or how to catch the thieves red-handed.

Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Barbara Anderson, Pernell Roberts, Christopher Stone, Robert Brown

Votes: 34

43. The Time Tunnel (1966–1967)
Episode: Billy the Kid (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.2
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Landing in 1881 New Mexico in the middle of a jailbreak of Billy the Kid, to defend Tony Doug shoots at Billy who escapes swearing to hunt down Doug. According to their research back at the... See full summary »

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: James Darren, Robert Colbert, Robert Walker Jr., Allen Case

Votes: 172

44. The Time Tunnel (1966–1967)
Episode: Chase Through Time (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.2
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A saboteur enters the Time Tunnel HQ and kills Dr. Stiles, plants a timed nuclear bomb, exits through the tunnel and ends up with the guys. The tunnel sends the trio one million years ahead. They encounter two humanoids from the future.

Director: Sobey Martin | Stars: James Darren, Robert Colbert, Robert Duvall, Vitina Marcus

Votes: 206

45. Wonder Woman (1975–1979)
Episode: Formicida (1978)

TV-G | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

7.2
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A deadly pesticide threatens the human race and a strange ant woman threatens a billionaire industrialist as the IADC and Wonder Woman find themselves on both sides.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Robert Alda, Robert Shields

Votes: 186

46. Wonder Woman (1975–1979)
Episode: Time Bomb (1978)

TV-G | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

7.2
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Cassandra Loren uses a Time Portal to travel from 2155 back to 1978 and make herself a fortune in a time when that still meant something. Adam Clement, the Time Portal's inventor, follows ... See full summary »

Director: Seymour Robbie | Stars: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Joan Van Ark, Allan Miller

Votes: 179

47. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: Old Fashioned Murder (1976)

TV-PG | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.1
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The head of a family-run museum murders her brother when he threatens to dissolve the financially strapped institution.

Director: Robert Douglas | Stars: Peter Falk, Joyce Van Patten, Jeannie Berlin, Tim O'Connor

Votes: 2,098

48. The Time Tunnel (1966–1967)
Episode: Devil's Island (1966)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.1
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At the French penal colony of Devil's Island in 1895, where prisoners were sent and never left, Doug and Tony are mistaken as runaway prisoners. They try to tell the prisoners their plan to help Captain Alfred Dreyfus escape is doomed.

Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: James Darren, Robert Colbert, Marcel Hillaire, Oscar Beregi Jr.

Votes: 201

49. The Time Tunnel (1966–1967)
Episode: Revenge of the Gods (1966)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.1
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Doug and Tony are in 1200 BC during the war between Greeks and Trojans. They are captured by Ulysses and their knowledge of history makes him think they are gods. Doug is captured by traitor Sardis, brought to Troy and meets Helen of Troy.

Director: Sobey Martin | Stars: James Darren, Robert Colbert, John Doucette, Dee Hartford

Votes: 247

50. Wonder Woman (1975–1979)
Episode: Stolen Faces (1978)

TV-G | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

7.1
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Wonder Woman uncovers a plot to steal millions of dollars in jewels from wealthy party-goers by impersonating her and her colleagues.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Joseph Maher, Kenneth Tigar

Votes: 168



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