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1.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Killer's Choice
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A young woman is found murdered in the liquor store she was working in as a clerk. Though it at first looks like a burglary, the detectives soon discount that theory and look into the ... See full summary »
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 27
2.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
The Last Stop
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Veteran officer Mike Power, only months away from retirement, is transferred to the 87th from Central Station after he is shot and a prisoner he was assigned to protect killed. While ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 14
3.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Ramon
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Havilland's usually cold and cynical heart is warmed by a boy who stole a wreath for his mother's grave, so he helps out the youth by buying him a wreath. The boy, Ramon, wants to somehow ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 14
4. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
TV-14 | 25 min | Drama, Mystery
Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not.
Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Tyler, John Williams, Patricia Hitchcock
Votes: 19,338
5.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
My Friend, My Enemy
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A girl is found murdered in a park after she left a party. The main suspect is a troubled young man who is regarded as a social outcast by most of his fellow students.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 16
6. High and Low (1963)
Not Rated | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 53,271
7. Living Famously (2002– )
60 min | Documentary, Biography
Stars: Caroline Quentin, David Thomson, Patrick Allen, Sheridan Morley
Votes: 21
8. 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: 42,061
9. The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957–1962)
105 min | Comedy, Family, Talk-Show
Originally airing during late-night, Tonight Starring Jack Paar was an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under the Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. After 1959, it was officially known as The Jack Paar Show.
Stars: Hugh Downs, Jose Melis, Jack Paar, Cliff Arquette
Votes: 324
10.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Girl in the Case
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
After a public stenographer takes the dictation of a millionaire's last will and testament, three apparent attempts are made her life, and she is approached by a man offering $100,000 if ... See full summary »
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 11
11.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
The Very Hard Sell
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A car salesman is found dead in his car, shot with his own gun. The coroner believes it's a clear case of suicide, but the man's wife insists he would not have taken his own life. Lt. ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Stewart | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 17
12. 87th Precinct (1961–1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Manhattan's 87th precinct forms the backdrop for this grim and gritty police drama based on the long-running series of novels by Ed McBain. Storylines focus on neighborhood crime, and the ... See full summary »
Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 196
13.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
The Heckler
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
The detectives investigate a rash of bomb threats against businesses. Then a night watchman is found murdered. The watchman was part of a gang that is planning a bank robbery. The ... See full summary »
Director: Dick Moder | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 12
14.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Idol in the Dust
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
In response to an incident of vandalism at a store, Kling tries to persuade baseball player Larry Brooks to start a ball club for young kids in the neighborhood he grew up in. Larry finally... See full summary »
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 15
15.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
King's Ransom
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Two ex-convicts kidnap a young man, believing him to be the son of shoe manufacturer Douglas King. Actually, the boy is the son of the manufacturer's chauffeur. When the kidnappers discover... See full summary »
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 16
16.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
New Man in the Precinct
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
The detectives are on the hunt for a wounded boxer who, after being shot by the owner of the store he was trying to rob, later killed an off-duty cop by slugging him through a glass window.... See full summary »
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 10
17.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Step Forward
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Tired of being unable to pay his bills, Detective Carella tries out a new and better paying job as head of security for a bank.
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 10
18.
Dream West (1986)
Episode:
Part II
(1986)
120 min | Biography, Drama, Western
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, F. Murray Abraham, René Enríquez
Votes: 9
19.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
A Bullet for Katie
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Right after returning from her honeymoon, a policeman's wife is shot in the back and seriously wounded by a sniper. The only apparent witness is a young boy who strangely claims to have ... See full summary »
Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 13
20.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
The Modus Man
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
The detectives investigate a recent series of burglaries. The crimes have identical MOs to those of several known burglars. However, when these suspects are checked out, it turns out one ... See full summary »
Director: James Wong Howe | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 19
21. Mike Hammer (1958–1959)
30 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The adventures of Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private detective Mike Hammer, who's always ready to use his fists on a "mug" or his charm on a "skirt" to get the case solved.
Stars: Darren McGavin, Bart Burns, Vito Scotti, Johnny Seven
Votes: 302
22. Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
60 min | Drama
A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
Stars: Ed Herlihy, Vaughn Taylor, Valerie Cossart, Dan Morgan
Votes: 222
23.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Occupation, Citizen
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A Hungarian immigrant locksmith realizes that two thugs used the key he made for them to enter their victim's home and beat him. He goes to the police to tell them, but his pregnant wife, ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 14
24.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Run, Rabbit, Run
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
On the eve of his execution, a mobster vows to the press that three men who testified against him will be dead not long after he is. Very soon two of the men are killed. The third returns ... See full summary »
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 14
25.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
The Pigeon
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Acting on an anonymous tip, the detectives pick up Greg Brovane in connection with a robbery in which two men were killed. On interrogation, Brovane names three accomplices. However, the ... See full summary »
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Norman Fell, Peter Falk
Votes: 25
26.
The Chisholms (1979– )
Episode:
Chapter III
(1979)
46 min | Romance, Western
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Robert Preston, Rosemary Harris, Ben Murphy, Brian Kerwin
Votes: 12
27.
Dream West (1986)
Episode:
Dream West
(1986)
120 min | Biography, Drama, Western
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, F. Murray Abraham, René Enríquez
Votes: 9
28.
Reputations (1994–2002)
Episode:
Hitch: Alfred the Auteur
(1999)
59 min | Documentary
Second episode of a two-part profile on the life and films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Director: Tim Kirby | Stars: Denis Lawson, Dan Auiler, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert F. Boyle
Votes: 19
29.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Killer's Payoff
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A blackmailer has been murdered, and the detectives focus their attention on three people whom he was known to have been blackmailing. Havilland also looks into a woman friend of the murder... See full summary »
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 19
30.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Lady Killer
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A boy delivers a letter to 87th Precinct headquarters. The writer of the letter claims that he will kill "the lady" at 8 PM that night if he is not stopped.
Director: Dick Moder | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 19
31.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Lady in Waiting
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A woman enters the 87th precinct headquarters and holds Detectives Kling and Meyer at gunpoint, announcing that she plans to kill Lt. Carrella as soon as he arrives. She blames Carrella for... See full summary »
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 20
32.
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1967)
Episode:
Deadlock
(1967)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A woman walks into a police station with a pistol and a vial of nitroglycerin. It turns out that she is the widow of an infamous criminal shot and killed by a detective. She notifies the ... See full summary »
Director: Leo Penn | Stars: Bob Hope, Jack Kelly, Tige Andrews, Percy Rodrigues
Votes: 10
33.
Living Famously (2002– )
Episode:
Alfred Hitchcock
(2003)
59 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Deep Sehgal | Stars: Caroline Quentin, Patrick Allen, Charles Barr, Robert F. Boyle
Votes: 21
34. The Horror Hall of Fame II (1991 TV Movie)
120 min | Horror
"The Horror Hall of Fame II" was a television special that celebrates the history of horror by inducting another dozen movies and people.
Director: Ron de Moraes | Stars: Samuel Z. Arkoff, Adrienne Barbeau, Robert Boyle, Morgan Brittany
Votes: 45
35.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Out of Order
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
The detectives investigate a series of phone booth bombings. One suspect, feeling persecuted about being accused due to his past record, decides to copy the bombings and take advantage of them to commit robbery as well.
Director: Dick Moder | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 9
36.
Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode:
All in a Day's Work
(1968)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Eve shoots and kills one of the two men involved in a jewelry store robbery. Stunned when she finds out he was only seventeen years old and everyone that knew him says he was a fine young ... See full summary »
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Raymond Burr, Jeanette Nolan, Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson
Votes: 76
37. The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956–1957)
60 min | Drama
Live dramas that were broadcast every other week. The show had covered both light and serious drama and featured both well-known and not so well-known actors and actresses.
Stars: William Shatner, Alexander Scourby, Clint Young, Paul Newman
Votes: 63
38. All About 'the Birds' (2000 Video)
80 min | Documentary
A wonderfully informative 80-minute documentary combining current interviews with archival materials and scenes from the film. Hitchcock's daughter Pat, production designer Robert Boyle, ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Patricia Hitchcock, Robert F. Boyle, Evan Hunter
Votes: 354
39.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Give the Boys a Great Big Hand
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A human hand is found in a flight bag that was thrown in a trash can. The detectives try to match it to a recent missing person. Their main focus is on a man who was reported missing by his... See full summary »
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 11
40.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Square Cop
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Veteran beat cop Otto Forman is plagued with guilt after his partner is shot and killed during a robbery. The detectives also have questions about Forman, particularly after they learn that... See full summary »
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 10
41.
The Chisholms (1979– )
Episode:
Betrayal
(1980)
46 min | Romance, Western
Betsy uses her charms to create a rivalry between Bo and Gideon for her affections. When grazing foe the cattle is destroyed by fire the troops use grain intended for the Indians for feed.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Robert Preston, Rosemary Harris, Ben Murphy, James Van Patten
Votes: 8
42. The Birds (1963)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
Votes: 204,654 | Gross: $11.40M
43. Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1967)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Legendary entertainer Bob Hope hosted, and occasionally starred in, one of the last major anthology series on network television, featuring many of Hollywood's top names, including quite a few who didn't do much television otherwise
Stars: Bob Hope, Jack Weston, Jack Kelly, John Francis
Votes: 239
44.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Empty Hours
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A man causes a young woman, Claudia Davis, to fall into a lake by shooting holes into the canoe she was in. Her friend Josie Thompson tries to save her but is too late, and Claudia drowns. ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 15
45.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Man in a Jam
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama
After returning drunk to his bachelor party the night before his wedding, Cleve Tompson remembers finding his fiancee's body in her apartment. He calls police and tells them that he had to ... See full summary »
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 10
46.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
The Floater
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
The body of a young woman is found by a boy diving from a pier. The coroner finds that she died, not by drowning, but due to arsenic poisoning. The main clue in the detectives' ... See full summary »
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 38
47.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Til Death
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A Sunday afternoon backyard wedding has a pall cast over it by ominous threats to the bride and groom. Carella enlists Kling's help in keeping a killer at bay.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 10
48.
The Chisholms (1979– )
Episode:
Chapter IV
(1979)
96 min | Romance, Western
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Robert Preston, Rosemary Harris, Ben Murphy, Brian Kerwin
Votes: 13
49.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
Line of Duty
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Detective Bert Kling is deeply troubled after he is forced to shoot and kill an 18-year-old who was firing at him after attempting to rob a theater box office. Everyone who knew the youth ... See full summary »
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 18
50.
87th Precinct (1961–1962)
Episode:
The Guilt
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Detective Meyer feels responsible after a mistake in judgment enables a small-time hood to escape from his custody, particularly after the man is bitten during a holdup by a watchdog---who then is discovered to be infected with rabies.
Director: William D. Faralla | Stars: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, Norman Fell
Votes: 16