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1. The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965–1980)
Episode: Unaired Pilot

TV-PG | Comedy, Family, Game-Show

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Stars: Bert Parks, Abby Dalton, Robert Q. Lewis, Cliff Arquette

2. Mr. Magoo (1997)

PG | 87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

4.1
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18 Metascore

The myopic millionaire defeats jewel smugglers in his usual bumbling manner.

Director: Stanley Tong | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund

Votes: 16,155 | Gross: $21.38M

3. Gilligan's Island (1964–1992)
Episode: Marooned (1992)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

7.1
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The pilot episode that tells the tale of a tiny ship which set off on a three-hour tour but got caught in a storm and beached on an island. The pilot was filmed in November 1963, and not aired until almost 30 years later.

Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 397

4. Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends (1990–1993)

23 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

8.3
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In celebration of Bugs Bunny's fiftieth birthday, this television series, broadcast on weekdays, consisted of classic cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny and other characters conceived by the ... See full summary »

Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, June Foray, Daws Butler

Votes: 1,475

5. The Late Show (1986–1988)
Episode: Episode dated 18 May 1988 (1988)

Comedy, Talk-Show

8.4
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Ross Shafer hosts the entire original cast of Gilligan's Island for a special reunion including Tina Louise.

Stars: Jim Backus, Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Arsenio Hall

Votes: 9

6. The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986–2000)

Animation, Family, Comedy

7.8
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Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, and all their cartoon friends, with the exception of Speedy Gonzales, are featured in this long-running series consisting of classic theatrical cartoons, often ... See full summary »

Stars: Mel Blanc, June Foray, Julie Bennett, Jeff Bergman

Votes: 3,495

7. The Late Show (1986–1988)

Comedy, Talk-Show

6.5
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The talk show was a direct attempt at competing against NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, where Rivers had been Carson's permanent guest host since 1983. The show was initially broadcast live.

Stars: Joan Rivers, Clint Holmes, Arsenio Hall, Paul Reubens

Votes: 77

8. Prince Jack (1984)

Unrated | 100 min | Drama

6.6
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John F. Kennedy makes decisions with his father, brother Robert, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King.

Director: Bert Lovitt | Stars: Robert Hogan, James F. Kelly, Kenneth Mars, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 45

9. Imagine That (1983– )

23 min | Short

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Stars: Dian Hart, Jackie Ward, Rick Segall, Stan Farber

10. Family Feud (1976–1985)
Episode: TV's All-Time Favorites Week 2 Championship Game: Gilligan's Island vs. Lost in Space (1983)

TV-G | Game-Show

8.0
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The theme of today's program is TV's All-Time Favorites Week 2 Championship Game: Gilligan's Island Vs. Lost in Space.

Director: Paul Alter | Stars: Richard Dawson, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 11

11. Trapper John, M.D. (1979–1986)
Episode: It Only Hurts When I Love (1983)

60 min | Drama

8.2
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When Gloria Brancusi learns that Andrea, the orphan girl, has come back to the hospital as a patient her first reaction is to run away. Gloria has second thoughts after deciding to adopt the troubled orphan.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Madge Sinclair, Christopher Norris

Votes: 13

12. Family Feud (1976–1985)
Episode: TV's All-Time Favorites Week 2 Game 2: Gilligan's Island vs. Hawaiian Eye (1983)

TV-G | 30 min | Game-Show

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Director: Paul Alter | Stars: Richard Dawson, Alan Hale Jr., Gene Wood, Jim Backus

13. Imagine That (1983– )
Episode: A Visit with Ben (1983)

Short

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Stars: Jim Backus, Dian Hart, Jackie Ward, Rick Segall

14. Family Feud (1976–1985)
Episode: TV's All-Time Favorites Week 2 Game 4: Gilligan's Island vs. Batman (1983)

TV-G | Game-Show

8.5
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The theme of today's program is TV's All-Time Favorites Week 2 Game 4: Gilligan's Island Vs. Batman.

Director: Paul Alter | Stars: Richard Dawson, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 16

15. Tom Cottle: Up Close (1982–1983)
Episode: Episode #1.79 (1983)

Talk-Show

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Stars: Thomas Cottle, Jim Backus

16. Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)

PG | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

2.5
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A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.

Director: Steven Paul | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, John Abbott

Votes: 1,065

17. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)

Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

6.0
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The same passengers that got shipwrecked in the tv series get space-ship-wrecked on distant planet.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 205

18. Tom Cottle: Up Close (1982–1983)

30 min | Talk-Show

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Stars: Thomas Cottle, Dick Cavett, John Anderson, Nancy Marchand

19. Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

9.0
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An all-star tribute to Natalie Wood by some of her friends and co-workers.

Director: Harry Kooperstein | Stars: Natalie Wood, Lauren Bacall, Jim Backus, Martin Balsam

Votes: 77

20. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: I Dream of Genie (1982)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

4.6
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Gilligan discovers a robot who is programmed to fulfill his master's wishes. Soon the castaways are planning ways to take over the robot to serve each of them.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 10

21. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Turnabout Is Fair Play (1982)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

5.2
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Skipper refuses to do "women's work," preferring instead to do the "man's job" of defending the camp from aliens. But when aliens capture the Skipper, it's the women who rescue him.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Natalie Schafer, Jim Backus

Votes: 8

22. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Let Sleeping Minnows Lie (1982)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

5.0
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The castaways build a boat for the Skipper. On their maiden voyage they are pursued by a sea serpent and shipwrecked on an island.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 7

23. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Journey to the Center of Gilligan's Planet (1982)

Not Rated | 23 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

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Gilligan is bonked on the head by a moon melon, and has a nightmare about a world beneath the planet which is populated by aliens.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

24. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Bumper to Bumper (1982)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

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Bumper is kidnapped by aliens who worship his species. It is up to castaways to find and rescue him.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

25. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Amazing Colossal Gilligan (1982)

Not Rated | 23 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

6.4
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Gilligan falls into a strange lake which causes him to grow 50 feet tall. He is kidnapped by P.C. Barnaby, who wants Gilligan to be the main attraction in his circus.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 7

26. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Road to Boom (1982)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

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Bumper hides a quartz rock in the Professor's radar device. The quartz throws off the device, and the castaways think the planet is headed for a space hole.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

27. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Too Many Gilliagns (1982)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

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Gilligan discovers a cloning device and the planet is soon overpopulated.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

28. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Space Pirates (1982)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

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Gilligan discovers a "size transformer" which was left on the planet by pirates. In a struggle for control of the cube, the castaways are accidentally miniaturized. The pirates return for ... See full summary »

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

29. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Invaders of the Lost Barque (1982)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

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The castaways have found a map leading to the lost Barque, a spaceship that could take them back to Earth. But the tiny Quarks, the owners of the Barque, are also looking for it so they can return to their own planet.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

30. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Wings (1982)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

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An unmanned space probe lands on the planet, and the castaways think they can use it to send one of them back to Earth. But which one? The Professor devises a testing and training session to determine the pilot of the ship.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

31. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Super Gilligan (1982)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

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Gilligan stumbles into a cave and meets the Mystic Sage who gives Gilligan a Cosmic Cape which has super powers for the owner. But Gooniac has been searching the universe for the Cosmic ... See full summary »

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

32. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Gilligan's Army (1982)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

5.8
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Captain Quantum and Sgt. Tyrano land on the planet expecting to find army volunteers from Aridia, whom they are to train. Instead, they find the castaways and put them through basic training.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 8

33. The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981 TV Movie)

120 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sport

4.2
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The staff of the island resort need the aid of the Harlem Globetrotters to keep their island from a greedy millionaire.

Director: Peter Baldwin | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 729

34. The Enchanted Journey (1981)

Not Rated | 90 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

7.0
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A young chipmunk in the city undertakes a journey to return to the forest.

Director: Hideo Nishimaki | Stars: Orson Welles, Jim Backus, Lionel Wilson, Corinne Orr

Votes: 151

35. The Love Boat (1977–1987)
Episode: The Incredible Hunk/Isaac, the Marriage Counselor/Jewels & Jim (1981)

TV-G | 49 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.0
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Julie books Hank to entertain, but he moonlights as a stripper. Isaac tries to set up sad Frank with girls until his ex-wife Jan arrives. Merrill recognizes passenger Jim as a jewel thief and suspects him when a diamond is stolen.

Director: Howard Morris | Stars: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange

Votes: 89

36. There Goes the Bride (1980)

PG | 88 min | Comedy

3.4
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A nervous ad executive (Tom Smothers) creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl (Twiggy) he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't catch.

Director: Terry Marcel | Stars: Tom Smothers, Twiggy, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Syms

Votes: 152

37. The Gossip Columnist (1980 TV Movie)

100 min | Comedy, Drama

6.5
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New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.

Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Bobby Vinton, Robert Vaughn, Dick Sargent, Kim Cattrall

Votes: 75

38. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Eagleman/Children of Mentu (1980)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

6.8
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Widowed businessman Morris Binstock wants to become his estranged son Barney's favorite comic-book superhero Eagle Man to get the boy's attention. Journalism student Rochelle Mackenzie seeks out the story that will make her career.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Jim Backus, Ralph Bellamy

Votes: 63

39. Today (1952– )
Episode: Episode dated 18 February 1980 (1980)

TV-G | News, Talk-Show

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Stars: Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Jim Backus, Glenn Miller

40. The Mike Douglas Show (1961–1982)
Episode: Episode #19.159 (1980)

Comedy, Music, Talk-Show

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"Dallas" actor Steve Kanaly is this week's co-host. Guests are actress Cheryl Ladd, comedic actor Jim Backus, country singer Marty Robbins ("A White Sport Coat"), retired British General Sir John Hackett, and champion whistler Nancy Foran.

Stars: Mike Douglas, Jim Backus, John Hackett, Steve Kanaly

41. Trapper John, M.D. (1979–1986)

60 min | Drama

6.6
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The Korean War M*A*S*H unit veteran operates as Chief Surgeon in a major city hospital with his colleagues.

Stars: Pernell Roberts, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Charles Siebert, Gregory Harrison

Votes: 2,219

42. Angels' Brigade (1979)

PG | 97 min | Action, Comedy

2.2
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Six sexy women, and a teenage girl, devastate a right-wing militia before doing battle with ruthless drug pushers.

Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Sylvia Anderson, Lieu Chinh, Jacqulin Cole, Liza Greer

Votes: 2,096

43. C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)

PG | 89 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

4.9
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A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the invention from him.

Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Chuck McCann

Votes: 999

44. The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy

5.4
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The Castaways finally get permanently rescued and they turn their island home into an exclusive resort.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 581

45. The Rebels (1979)

240 min | Drama, History, War

6.4
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Philip Kent takes part in the American Revolution and the newly formed Congress.

Stars: Andrew Stevens, Don Johnson, William Conrad, Doug McClure

Votes: 235

46. Eischied (1979–1980)

60 min | Crime, Drama

7.8
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The investigations of NYPD Chief of Detectives Earl Eischied.

Stars: Joe Don Baker, Alan Oppenheimer, Alan Fudge, Eddie Egan

Votes: 97

47. Sweepstakes (1979)

60 min | Drama

6.0
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Similar to the series The Millionaire, as well as The Love Boat/Fantasy Island use of a different supporting cast each episode. Like The Millionaire, Edd Byrnes presents the winnings, and ... See full summary »

Stars: Edd Byrnes, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Bill Dana

Votes: 71

48. Sweepstakes (1979)
Episode: Billy, Wally and Ludmilla, and Theodore (1979)

Drama

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A wealthy man shuns his overly philanthropic nephew when the latter has given away his money to the poor.

Stars: Jim Backus, Edd Byrnes, Robert Coote, Jack Elam

49. Eischied (1979–1980)
Episode: Angels of Terror (1979)

60 min | Crime, Drama

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Captain Finnerty is charged with negligent homicide for fatally shooting an assailant, a 13-year-old boy.

Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Alan Oppenheimer, Alan Fudge, Eddie Egan

50. Charlie's Angels (1976–1981)
Episode: Angels Remembered (1979)

Not Rated | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

5.4
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The girls and Bosley gather in the office and Charlie calls them and they talk about their adventures.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, David Doyle

Votes: 169



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