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1. Annie (1982)

PG | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking

Votes: 49,569 | Gross: $57.06M

2. Filthy Rich (1982–1983)

24 min | Comedy

An eccentric family is forced to live under one roof to receive a share of the vast fortune that was left behind by their patriarch.

Stars: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Charles Frank, Jerry Hardin

Votes: 138

3. Fallen Angel (1981 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

Twelve-year-old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom's relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of an adult man named Howie and joins the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Dana Hill, Richard Masur, Melinda Dillon, Ronny Cox

Votes: 586

4. Mr. Merlin (1981–1982)

30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The misadventures of Merlin the Magician and his apprentice in modern San Francisco.

Stars: Barnard Hughes, Clark Brandon, Jonathan Prince, Elaine Joyce

Votes: 293

5. Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood (1981 TV Movie)

120 min | Drama

A heavyweight (O.J. Simpson) and his little-girl manager/friend flee from a promoter and the adoption officials.

Director: David Miller | Stars: O.J. Simpson, Melissa Michaelsen, Roger Bowen, Reb Brown

Votes: 53

6. The Oklahoma City Dolls (1981 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

Susan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team for women and hires a down-on-his-luck coach (Eddie Albert) to make them winners.

Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Susan Blakely, Ronee Blakley, Sarah Cunningham, Judyann Elder

Votes: 61

7. High Hopes: The Capra Years (1981 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

A look back at the career of the director of numerous beloved classics.

Stars: Lucille Ball, Frank Capra, Carl Reiner, Burt Reynolds

Votes: 24

8. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Also Rans/Portrait of Solange (1981)

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

Department-store shoe salesman Jerome Pepper wants the boss's daughter Delia Latham to notice him. Granted a birthday fantasy to paint like Toulouse-Lautrec, Tattoo unexpectedly finds romance.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Macdonald Carey, Arlene Dahl

Votes: 57

9. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Basin Street/The Devil's Triangle (1981)

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

Mediocre jazz trumpeter Charlie Raines wants to play in the early New Orleans style and goes back in the actual era; and Kerry Dawson and her two suitors Tom and Clay tackle a mysterious dangerous section of the ocean.

Director: George W. Brooks | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Christopher Connelly, Mabel King

Votes: 64

10. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Chorus Girl/Surrogate Father (1981)

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

Dance teacher Franklin Adams asks Roarke to give his deaf student Sheila Richards the gift of hearing; and Evan Watkins must control his compulsive gambling or lose custody of his daughter.

Director: Richard Benedict | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Jason Evers, Rosemary Forsyth

Votes: 66

11. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Delphine/The Unkillable (1981)

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

Roarke's goddaughter Delphine, about to marry her unsuspecting beau Greg Randolph, wants to lose her magical powers. Scientist Paul Todd hopes to uncover the missing link but faces something he never imagined.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Carl Ballantine, Alex Cord

Votes: 66

12. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Artist and the Lady/Elizabeth's Baby (1981)

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

Dying Elizabeth Blake looks into her unborn child's future. Untalented artist Kermit Dobbs wishes to paint a great masterpiece.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Alison Arngrim, Peter Brown

Votes: 70

13. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Hard Knocks/Lady Godiva (1981)

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

Aspiring private investigator Steve Pryor gets advice from Bogart himself; and young Sheila Godfrey wants to be a champion equestrian, so Roarke sends her to medieval Coventry and turns her into Lady Godiva.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Ken Berry, Gunilla Hutton

Votes: 60

14. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: High Off the Hog/Reprisal (1981)

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

Hadley Boggs, whose family sacrificed heavily to send him to college, rewards them by making them rich for a weekend; and orphaned gymnast Trudy Brown, mistreated by her Aunt Mabel and Cousin Janet, seeks the power to make things happen.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Noah Beery Jr., Richard Gilliland

Votes: 66

15. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Loving Strangers/Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1981)

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

Long-married Tom and Margaret Chase want to find out if they would fall in love again if they were meeting for the first time. Bride-to-be Pamela Archer's wedding plans with Jack Foster may be ruined when her past comes back to haunt her.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, John Gavin, Marjoe Gortner

Votes: 60

16. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Man-Beast/Ole Island Opry (1981)

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

David Tabori learns that his recurring nightmares have been telling him that he's a werewolf; and Jennie Rowlands, whose father Charlie wants her to be a country music star, would rather be a photographer.

Director: George W. Brooks | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Jimmy Dean, Anne Francis

Votes: 66

17. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: My Late Lover/Sanctuary (1981)

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

Widow Anastasia Dexter trying to decide among three men to marry is constantly interrupted by her dead husband Dex's ghost; and poisoning victim Thomas Henshaw wants to find his attacker before he dies.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Gene Barry, Morgan Brittany

Votes: 68

18. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Paquito's Birthday/Technical Advisor (1981)

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

Poor Mexican couple Manuel and Consuelo Lopez want the best for their son Paquito, but may lose him altogether. Nancy Harvester has no experience in being in love, but gets advice from Helen of Troy.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Linda Cristal, A Martinez

Votes: 63

19. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Chateau/White Lightning (1981)

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

Vicki Lee, granddaughter of silent-film Becky Lee, visits a chateau to learn more about her grandmother's life. The feuding Scoggins and McAllister families compete for a special moonshine recipe.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Pamela Franklin, David Hedison

Votes: 69

20. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Heroine/The Warrior (1981)

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

Florence Richmond, the prim and proper author of steamy romance novels, steps into the shoes of one of her own heroines; and Bob Graham tries to impress his wife Linda by fighting for her honor against martial arts master Kwong Soo Luke..

Director: George McCowan | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Cesare Danova, Shelley Fabares

Votes: 62

21. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Man from Yesterday/World's Most Desirable Woman (1981)

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

Photojournalist Bill Keating has a hidden agenda for meeting reclusive island resident Calvin Doyle. Marsha Garnett regains her youth to get back at her husband Hal, whom she's about to divorce.

Director: Robert C. Thompson | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Edie Adams, Elizabeth Baur

Votes: 62

22. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Proxy Billionaire/The Experiment (1981)

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

Wall Street analyst Frank Miller's wish to be rich brings him trouble; and widowed doctor Lucas Bergmann and his daughter Lisa, still grief-stricken over his late wife, want to bring her back from the dead.

Director: Richard Benedict | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, James Broderick, Phyllis Davis

Votes: 65

23. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Searcher/The Way We Weren't (1981)

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

Young Karen Saunders-Holmes wants the truth about her absent father John; and long-married Fred and Dottie Cooper discover that you really can't go home again.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Hermione Baddeley, Paul Burke

Votes: 65

24. Mr. Merlin (1981–1982)
Episode: Pilot (1981)

30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Merlin, who nowadays operates an auto mechanics shop, meets Zac, who he takes on as his new apprentice in both sorcery and fixing cars.

Director: John Astin | Stars: Barnard Hughes, Clark Brandon, Jonathan Prince, Elaine Joyce

Votes: 10

25. Detour to Terror (1980 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Drama

A homicidal dune-buggy trio terrorizes a busload of Las Vegas bound tourists with the intent to kidnap one of them.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: O.J. Simpson, Randall Carver, Anne Francis, Rick Hill

Votes: 160

26. Beulah Land (1980)

281 min | Drama

Miniseries detailing the lives of two Civil War families.

Stars: Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert, Hope Lange

Votes: 268

27. From Here to Eternity (1980)

60 min | Drama, Romance, War

Soapy antics of the servicemen and women of Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese bombing.

Stars: David LeBell, William Devane, Roy Thinnes, Kim Basinger

Votes: 130

28. Once Upon a Spy (1980 TV Movie)

91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ted Danson plays a computer genius who gets involved in the theft of an important N.A.S.A. computer, then thrust into the world of espionage with Sir Christopher Lee.

Director: Ivan Nagy | Stars: Ted Danson, Mary Louise Weller, Christopher Lee, Eleanor Parker

Votes: 290

29. The Dream Merchants (1980)

240 min | Drama

In Harold Robbins' fictional account of early Hollywood movie making, pioneer filmmaker Johnny Edge comes to Hollywood in the early 20th century with dreams and helps build the orange-grove community into an entertainment capital.

Stars: Mark Harmon, Vincent Gardenia, Morgan Fairchild, Brianne Leary

Votes: 201

30. Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980 TV Movie)

100 min | Crime, Drama

14 year police veteran, looking to make it to retirement, experiences the highs and lows of police work as a police woman in a male-dominated metropolitan police department.

Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Karen Black, Don Murray, Eddie Egan, James Whitmore Jr.

Votes: 48

31. To Find My Son (1980 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with the government bureaucracy and ... See full summary »

Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Richard Thomas, Molly Cheek, Julie Cobb, Steve Kanaly

Votes: 119

32. Eischied (1979–1980)
Episode: Powder Burn (1980)

60 min | Crime, Drama

Saturday-night-special handguns are flooding the streets of New York City, and a check finds that they are being bought in South Carolina, where (at the time) there were no restrictions on ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Alan Oppenheimer, Alan Fudge, Eddie Egan

33. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Aphrodite/Dr. Jekyll and Miss Hyde (1980)

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

Picky Alan Blair seeks the perfect woman and meets Aphrodite; and stern psychologist Melanie Griffin wants to understand what attracts women to bad men, in hopes of rescuing her younger sister Jennifer from the clutches of a creep.

Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Britt Ekland, Rosemary Forsyth

Votes: 71

34. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Crescendo/Three Feathers (1980)

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

Singer Susan Lohman wants to meet Edmund Dumont, the composer whose songs made her famous; and Alan Colshaw needs to convince three former friends that he didn't abandon them after a plane crash the previous year.

Director: Michael Preece | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Diane Baker, Skip Homeier

Votes: 70

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

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

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

36. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Flying Aces/The Mermaid Returns (1980)

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

Tony Chilton returns to World War II in order to meet David, the father he never knew; and Princess Nyah the mermaid asks Roarke to help her learn about human love.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Robert Mandan, Dolly Read

Votes: 71

37. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Jungle Man/Mary Ann and Miss Sophisticate (1980)

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

Unemployed actor David Farley gets to reprise his signature role of Jungle Man. Acclaimed ventriloquist Mary Ann Carlin is afraid that her marionette Valerie has taken over some of her personality traits.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Dick Butkus, Dennis Cole

Votes: 73

38. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: My Fair Pharaoh/The Power (1980)

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

Lucy Atwell yearns to immerse herself in the ancient Egyptian world of Queen Cleopatra and Marc Anthony. Fred Webster asks Roarke to give him the power of telekinesis.

Director: George McCowan | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Michael Ansara, Joan Collins

Votes: 74

39. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Nona/One Million B.C. (1980)

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

Blind detective Ned Scott wants his sight back so he can search for a missing actress. Mindy Harris and Caroline Taylor return to a time of old-fashioned chivalry in men and daintiness in women.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Neville Brand, Edd Byrnes

Votes: 78

40. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: PlayGirl/Smith's Valhalla (1980)

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

Sick of male chauvinism, Erica Clarke wants to turn the tables and treat men as sex objects; and Oregon rancher Jason Smith asks for a chance to lead a commando raid.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Barbi Benton, Janet Blair

Votes: 70

41. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Rogues and Riches/Stark Terror (1980)

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

Lawyer Pete Gilbert is determined to lose himself in the eighteenth century, despite the entreaties of his partner Mark Hendricks; and young Amy Marson, rendered mute by her mother's death, wants to find out if she was responsible.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Melissa Sue Anderson, Michael Constantine

Votes: 74

42. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Skater's Edge/Concerto of Death/The Last Great Race (1980)

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

Minnesota farm girl Charlotte Johnson wants to be a champion figure skater; Jeremy Hale suspects that his brother, a concert pianist, was murdered and wants to find out how and by whom; and... See full summary »

Directors: Cliff Bole, Vince Edwards | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Dennis Cole, Bradford Dillman

Votes: 67

43. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Devil and Mandy Breem/Instant Millionaire (1980)

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

Mandy Breem sold her soul to the Devil to save her husband Phillip's life and now needs Roarke's help in saving her own; and Tattoo makes Fred Catlett a millionaire for the weekend, only to put the man's life in danger.

Director: Vince Edwards | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Arlene Golonka, Arte Johnson

Votes: 77

44. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Don Quixote/The Sex Symbol (1980)

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

Eccentric banker Donald Quick fulfills his ambitions to be a modern-day Don Quixote; and plain-looking Helen Hendricks wants to be a sex goddess until three men take advantage of her newfound beauty.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Edd Byrnes, Michael Callan

Votes: 65

45. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Invisible Woman/The Snowbird (1980)

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

Harriet Winkler wants the power to become invisible to be sure her fiancé Denny Palumbo is being faithful; and circus popcorn vendor Ned Pringle joins a trapeze-artist troupe to get closer to Velda Ferini, the girl he loves.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Don Ameche, Douglas Barr

Votes: 64

46. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Love Doctor/The Pleasure Palace/Possessed (1980)

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

Film star Kim Holland wants a weekend of anonymity; stuffy lawyer Gordon Hughes traces his roots and is disillusioned; and Lorna Hendricks needs help in finding out why her daughter Stephanie is acting so oddly.

Directors: Earl Bellamy, Cliff Bole | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Loni Anderson, Barbi Benton

Votes: 70

47. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Swinger/Terrors of the Mind (1980)

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

Middle-aged divorced Herman Dodge wants to be the swinging single that he didn't get to be before he married. Sharon Sanders gains the power to see into her future.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Frankie Avalon, Jack Carter

Votes: 73

48. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Unholy Wedlock/Elizabeth (1980)

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

Young bachelor Danny Collier gets into trouble in his quest to marry his fiancée; and thirty-year-old Lisa Corday needs Roarke's help to defeat a dangerous ghost and end a nightmare.

Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Michael Ansara, David Cassidy

Votes: 68

49. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: With Affection, Jack the Ripper/Gigolo (1980)

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

Lorraine Peters, who's writing a book about the Whitechapel murders, visits 1888 London to get the proof she needs, only to place dozens of people in danger; Stanley Hocker, who has no self-confidence around women, asks to become a gigolo.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Ken Berry, Victor Buono

Votes: 75

50. From Here to Eternity (1980)
Episode: Pearl Harbor (1980)

60 min | Drama, Romance, War

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Director: Ron Satlof | Stars: William Devane, Roy Thinnes, Barbara Hershey, David Spielberg

Votes: 9