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1. The Woodsman (2004)

R | 87 min | Drama

A child molester returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.

Director: Nicole Kassell | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Yasiin Bey, David Alan Grier

Votes: 35,411 | Gross: $0.04M

2. Sons and Daughters (1991)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

Comedy-darma series focusing on an extended family in Portland, Oregon. After many years of absence from his family, Bing Hammersmith returns with a new wife and young son to his ... See full summary »

Stars: Lucie Arnaz, Rick Rossovich, Peggy Smithhart, Paul Scherrer

Votes: 41

3. Never Forget (1991 TV Movie)

Unrated | 94 min | Drama, History

The story of Mel Mermelstein, an American holocaust survivor who confronted a Holocaust denial organization's lies in court.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Dabney Coleman, Blythe Danner, Paul Hampton

Votes: 305

4. Living to Die (1990)

R | 84 min | Crime, Mystery

A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.

Director: Wings Hauser | Stars: Wings Hauser, Darcy DeMoss, Asher Brauner, Arnold Vosloo

Votes: 168

5. Vietnam War Story (1987–1988)

Drama, War

An anthology series featuring stories suggested by true events occurring during the war in Vietnam, often written by Vietnam veterans.

Stars: Tony Becker, Cameron Arnett, Joshua Cadman, Tim Guinee

Votes: 67

6. 227 (1985–1990)
Episode: And Baby Makes Three (1987)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Brenda and Calvin take care of a pig for a class project designed to teach the seriousness of teenage pregnancy.

Director: Gerren Keith | Stars: Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall, Jackée Harry

Votes: 23

7. 227 (1985–1990)
Episode: Bull's Eye (1987)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Mary is suspicious of her new neighbor just because he throws knives.

Director: Gerren Keith | Stars: Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall, Jackée Harry

Votes: 26

8. 227 (1985–1990)
Episode: Low Noon (1987)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Mary dreams about a Western musical showdown when a friend of Sandra's intends to open a club in her neighborhood.

Director: Gerren Keith | Stars: Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall, Jackée Harry

Votes: 18

9. 227 (1985–1990)
Episode: Men's Club (1987)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Lester's Uncle's men's club is honoring him. Mary wants to be there with him but his Uncle says that no women are allowed. Mary then decides to dress up like a man and go to the award ceremony as does Sandra.

Director: Gerren Keith | Stars: Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall, Jackée Harry

Votes: 30

10. 227 (1985–1990)
Episode: The Facade (1987)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

The ladies go to a self-help seminar and Mary meets a developer who has a 50 million dollar museum job. Rose recommends Lester for the job, but when Mary tells Lester about it, he says he ... See full summary »

Director: Gerren Keith | Stars: Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall, Jackée Harry

Votes: 26

11. 227 (1985–1990)
Episode: The Honeymoon's Over (1987)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Lester's cousin Ed and his wife Sherry are visiting Mary and Lester. Ed is absolutely devoted to Sherry and still treats her like they're still on a honeymoon after 5 years of marriage, but... See full summary »

Director: Whitney J. LeBlanc | Stars: Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall, Jackée Harry

Votes: 27

12. Vietnam War Story (1987–1988)
Episode: Home (1987)

Drama, War

Zadig is a Marine who has lost his leg in combat. In a stateside hospital, he peppers his companions with corny jokes and makes a light-hearted nuisance of himself to the staff. His fellow ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Danton | Stars: Joshua Cadman, Nicholas Cascone, Peter Cohl, Ernest Dixon

Votes: 7

13. Better Days (1986)

30 min | Comedy

Brian McGuire is a California teenager who loves life in Los Angeles, until something happens to his family and he must move to his uncle's place in Brooklyn.

Stars: Raphael Sbarge, Chip McAllister, Guy Killum, Randall Batinkoff

Votes: 26

14. Better Days (1986)
Episode: Never Blow Up the World (1986)

Comedy

Again directed by Bill Bixby and written by Ronald Rubin.

Director: Bill Bixby | Stars: Raphael Sbarge, Chip McAllister, Guy Killum, Randall Batinkoff

15. 227 (1985–1990)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

This series took place in an apartment building numbered 227. The cast would frequently be sitting outside on a large set of stone stairs, involved in some discussion that would unfold into the weekly plotline.

Stars: Helen Martin, Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall

Votes: 3,993

16. Lost in London (1985 TV Movie)

97 min | Drama

Facing his parent's (Lynne Moody, Ben Vereen) impending divorce and emotional upheaval, a young boy (Emmanuel Lewis) runs away and joins a gang of London street urchins who live by their wits, begging, and thievery.

Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Emmanuel Lewis, Lynne Moody, Ben Vereen, Freddie Jones

Votes: 100

17. A Doctor's Story (1984 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama

A physician (Howard E. Rollins, Jr.) frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Art Carney, Charles Kimbrough, Jodi Thelen

Votes: 51

18. Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige (1981 TV Movie)

98 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, star pitcher in the Negro Leagues, and later in the major leagues. Traces his life from his troubled youth, including his life in a detention school for ... See full summary »

Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Beverly Todd, Cleavon Little, Ernie Barnes

Votes: 139

19. Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1980–1981)

60 min | Drama, Family

In Depression-era South, Booker T. Freeman and David Hall become best friends, despite different racial backgrounds. Booker's dad Luther is the local blacksmith, W.D. Hall the grocer, with the families becoming close, due to the boys.

Stars: Jonelle Allen, Beeson Carroll, Bill Duke, Janice St. John

Votes: 105

20. Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1980–1981)
Episode: Palmerstown, U.S.A (1980)

60 min | Drama, Family

A dispute over a bill causes tension between the Freeman and Hall families and inseparable friends Booker and David are pressured not to see each other anymore.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Jonelle Allen, Beeson Carroll, Bill Duke, Janice St. John

Votes: 7

21. Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1980–1981)
Episode: Kidnapped (1980)

Drama, Family

Booker T. and David are held hostage by convicts from a prison work gang. The boys fathers and Willie-Joe work on a plan to save them.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Michael Alldredge, Jonelle Allen, Star-Shemah Bobatoon, Beeson Carroll

22. Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1980–1981)
Episode: The Black Travelers: I (1980)

Drama, Family

Guest star Morgan Freeman plays Mailman, a pitcher on a traveling black baseball team that's hustles a game against the white Palmerston team.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Jonelle Allen, Beeson Carroll, Bill Duke, Janice St. John

23. Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1980–1981)
Episode: The Black Travelers: II (1980)

Drama, Family

W. D. takes bets on the ballgame, but doesn't tell that the opponents are a professional team. Everyone wants Rifle Johnson (Scatman Crothers) to pitch. The game is played between The Black Travelers and the town's mixed team.

Director: Gilbert Moses | Stars: Jonelle Allen, G.W. Bailey, Mary Betten, Star-Shemah Bobatoon

24. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Actions Speak Louder (1978)

48 min | Drama

Scott, a deaf student, transfers to James' school and struggles for acceptance.

Director: Joseph Hardy | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 18

25. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Ducks (1978)

49 min | Drama

When the expressway expansion threatens a local park James and his friends help relocate the park ducks to a new outdoor area rather than see them moved to a zoo.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 13

26. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Knocking Heads (1978)

49 min | Drama

James writes an article questioning the offense of the football team but pays the price in history class. Later he finds out the coach didn't play college football as he claims.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 17

27. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Hunter Country (1978)

49 min | Drama

James runs for student body president. Marlene is opposed to some of his views and decides that she will run against him.

Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 17

28. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: The Gift (1978)

48 min | Drama

James looks forward to his upcoming 16th birthday and hopes to get a car as a gift. His uncle decides to give him a night with a call-girl instead. Shunning that situation, James falls in ... See full summary »

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 25

29. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Unrequited Love... Twice (1978)

47 min | Drama

A young friend of Sandy develops a crush on James while one of Mr. Hunter's students shows a romantic interest in him.

Director: Ernest Pintoff | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 15

30. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Queen of the Silver Dollar (1978)

49 min | Drama

While away at a swim meet James convinces a young woman to spend the night in his motel room to win a bet with the other swimmers.

Director: George Tyne | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 15

31. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Champions (1978)

48 min | Drama

James, Sly and other Bunker Hill students fail to make it onto the school basketball team, and start up their own intramural team instead. But when he falls for Jennifer, a friend of ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 14

32. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Rebel Without a Car (1978)

49 min | Drama

James takes driving lessons as he attempts to obtain his driver's license but finds trouble when he borrows the family car without permission.

Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 17

33. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: An Hour Before Midnight (1978)

48 min | Drama

James befriends Karen on the newspaper staff, and helps her to confront her alcoholism.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 18

34. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: The Blowout (1978)

49 min | Drama

The school dance is around the corner, and everybody's looking for a date. James has a crush on a fellow student who's taller than he is, while fending off the advances of another who's much shorter than him.

Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 17

35. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Star-Crossed Lovers (1978)

48 min | Drama

Marlene falls for a street musician.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 16

36. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Listless Fever (1978)

49 min | Drama

James fears he may have contracted a venereal disease from Swedish exchange student Christine.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 16

37. James at 16 (1977–1978)

60 min | Drama

James, a daydreamer and photographer, must learn to cope with life as his father moves the family from Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts.

Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 522

38. The Banana Company (1977 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

Comedy pilot aired on CBS set in the South Pacific during Wold War II about the misadventures of a group of combat correspondents going to great lengths to secure stories for their press service.

Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Bob Brown, Sam Chew Jr., Ted Gehring, Ron Masak

39. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Kathy's in the Shower (1977)

47 min | Drama

James' older sister Kathy is found to be romantically involved with one of her college professors, and struggles to keep this knowledge a secret from their parents.

Director: Joseph Hardy | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 19

40. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: The Girl with the Bad Rep (1977)

47 min | Drama

James falls for a fellow student who is known to be promiscuous.

Director: Joseph Hardy | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 28

41. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Friends (1977)

46 min | Drama

James struggles to find his place in Boston, and tries to make friends with three fellow students at Bunker Hill: Sly, Marlene, and Paisley.

Director: Joseph Hardy | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 25

42. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Fast and Loose (1977)

48 min | Drama

James befriends a new boy at school from a wealthy family, and the two take an unsupervised trip to California.

Director: Richard Crenna | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 16

43. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Higher Ground (1977)

48 min | Drama

James is interested in a young woman who belongs to a cult.

Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 17

44. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Mrs. Carson (1977)

47 min | Drama

James becomes concerned when a student teacher finds herself alone and pregnant.

Director: Ernest A. Losso | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 15

45. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: The Apple Tree, the Singing and the Gold (1977)

48 min | Drama

When his best friend comes to visit from Portland, James has to confront how to deal with a loss.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 16

46. To Sir, with Love (1974 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

A Black foreign-exchange teacher must adapt his lesson plans in order to instruct the lower-middle-class London students who are his pupils.

Director: Jay Sandrich | Stars: Hari Rhodes, James Grout, Rosemary Leach, Roddy Maude-Roxby

Votes: 27

47. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode: The Toothpaste Millionaire (1974)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

12-year-old entrepreneur decides to create and sell his own brand of toothpaste.

Director: Richard Kinon | Stars: Tierre Turner, Shelly Juttner, David Pollock, Wright King

Votes: 15

48. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A teen drama anthology that often touched on social issues of the day.

Stars: Lance Kerwin, Samaria Graham, Mara Hobel, Alexa Kenin

Votes: 1,266

49. Room 222 (1969–1974)
Episode: A Sort of Loving (1971)

30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Principal Seymour Kaufman is concerned about the prevalence of drug use at Whitman, and asks for suggestions how the teachers can help the students with this problem. Pete Dixon suggests ... See full summary »

Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Lloyd Haynes, Denise Nicholas, Michael Constantine, Karen Valentine

Votes: 21

50. Room 222 (1969–1974)
Episode: I Hate You, Silas Marner (1971)

30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Alice Johnson finds herself exhausted to the point of collapse, as she not only teaches class by day, but also spends hours grading papers - in between counseling students about the ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Lloyd Haynes, Denise Nicholas, Michael Constantine, Karen Valentine

Votes: 24