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1. The Amazing Spider-Man (1977–1979)
Episode: Night of the Clones (1978)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A scientist has perfected the art of cloning -- including himself, but Dr. Moon's clone wants revenge on a scientific committee for shunning his work. When Spider-Man threatens his plans, he responds by cloning the crime fighter.

Director: Fernando Lamas | Stars: Nicholas Hammond, Robert F. Simon, Chip Fields, Michael Pataki

Votes: 75

2. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away: Part I (1978)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Long hours studying by candlelight for the state teacher's exam results in tired, blurry eyes for Mary Ingalls, prompting a routine visit to the eye doctor; but when Charles is told that ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 402

3. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away: Part II (1978)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Feeling lost and abandoned, Mary Ingalls battles anger and self-pity at a school for the blind, far away from the little house by Plum Creek. But soon, Mary finds a source of hope in her ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 404

4. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Inheritance (1978)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

In this episode, Charles receives word of an inheritance from an eccentric uncle. Soon, the whole town is abuzz, eagerly helping the initially reluctant Ingalls family spend the promised ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 305

5. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: There's No Place Like Home (Part II) (1978)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

The Ingalls, Garveys, Olsens, and Albert get back to Walnut Grove to find it run down and in shabby condition. Lars Hansen found Walnut Grove over 50 years ago, and now that it is in this ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 311

6. The Amazing Spider-Man (1977–1979)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

With the powers given by the bite of a radioactive spider, a young man fights crime as a wall-crawling superhero.

Stars: Nicholas Hammond, Robert F. Simon, Chip Fields, Ellen Bry

Votes: 2,667

7. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Blizzard (1977)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Kind Miss Beadle dismisses her students early on Christmas Eve as soft snow flurries begin to fly, unaware that the children will soon be caught walking home in a deadly, howling blizzard.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 426

8. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Quarantine (1977)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Counting on his immunity to protect him from the deadly mountain fever that killed his first wife and daughter, Isaiah Edwards takes Doc Baker to help with neighboring Elmsville's outbreak.... See full summary »

Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 318

9. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Aftermath (1977)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

As Walnut Grove school begins to study the Civil War, Mary Ingalls unexpectedly learns firsthand information when she starts running errands for two mysterious newcomers who sided with the ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 301

10. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Creeper of Walnut Grove (1977)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Junior detectives Andy and Laura take tips from fictional sleuth Farnsdale Fremont of Scotland Yard to track down the mysterious Walnut Grove chicken thief, ruffling a few feathers of their own along the way.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 299

11. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Fighter (1977)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A road-weary, aging boxer who has sacrificed his family and his health for the only career he has ever known, comes to a long-dreaded crossroads when he unexpectedly meets his match in a ring in Walnut Grove.

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 299

12. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Wolves (1977)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Laura and Andy find a Mama in a trap and two pups nearby. They take the "dogs" home, only to find out they are wolves. At the same time, some dogs that used to be pets but were released to ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 292

13. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: To Live with Fear: Part I (1977)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Mary falls ills after a fall at the stable, and Dr. Baker is powerless to help her. He recommends a hospital for an operation in a nearby town, but Charles doesn't have the money to pay, neither for the trip nor surgery.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 308

14. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Centennial (1976)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

An immigrant family provides an example of thankfulness and a reminder that freedom isn't free after a property tax increase leaves most of Walnut Grove in no mood to celebrate the United States' 100th birthday.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 309

15. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: For My Lady (1976)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Caroline and the girls can't help but think the worst when Charles begins to behave mysteriously and later lies about the amount of time he has spent doing carpentry work for their lovely, young neighbor, the widow Elizabeth Thurman.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 325

16. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Going Home (1976)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Overwhelmed by the senseless destruction left in the wake of a devastating tornado, a bone-weary Charles Ingalls convinces himself to give up trying to make a life for his family on an ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 333

17. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Little Girl Lost (1976)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A broken-down drunk trying to forget his past may be little Carrie Ingalls's only hope of rescue after she falls into a deep hole while chasing a butterfly.

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 337

18. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Bully Boys (1976)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Following Reverend Alden's lead, the Walnut Grove townsfolk try to turn the other cheek when the bad behavior of the recently arrived Galender brothers causes tempers to flare, until a ... See full summary »

Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 366

19. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Pride of Walnut Grove (1976)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Mary worries that she'll disappoint Walnut Grove if she doesn't place first in the state mathematics competition after the community pays her way to represent them; meanwhile Laura's ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 318

20. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Race (1976)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Conniving Mrs. Oleson is so certain that her scheming and daughter Nellie's new thoroughbred racehorse will beat Laura Ingall's speedy mount, Bunny, in the Hero Township horse race that she... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 321

21. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Troublemaker (1976)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

When teacher, Miss Beadle, is deemed unable to control some of the rowdy, older boys in her class, Mrs. Oleson convinces the Walnut Grove school board to replace her with a firmer, male ... See full summary »

Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 379

22. Cannon (1971–1976)
Episode: Coffin Corner (1975)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Cannon flies to Tampa, Florida, to find a man who abruptly withdrew a large sum of money from his bank account and then disappeared with two gunmen on his heels.

Director: George McCowan | Stars: William Conrad, Gary Lockwood, Jim McMullan, Corinne Camacho

Votes: 86

23. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: Wild Country: Part 2 (1975)

Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Wild Country (1971) re-edited for two-part television presentation. The family tries to make a go of it, face hardship and opposition from man and nature as they struggle for their water rights and survive cyclone and fire.

Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Steve Forrest, Jack Elam, Ron Howard, Frank DeKova

24. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Child of Pain (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

The Walnut Grove community intervenes after a badly-beaten Graham Stewart is found unconscious on the floor of his cabin, the victim of his father, John's, drunken rage. While Graham ... See full summary »

Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 385

25. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Circus Man (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Jovial Willie O'Hara, a traveling, patent-medicine salesman, comes to Walnut Grove with his talking crow and chimpanzee "circus", appears to immediately cure Mr. Hanson's incurable headache... See full summary »

Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 359

26. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Doctor's Lady (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

It's love at first sight between Doc Baker and a beautiful, though much younger, Kate Thorvald, Harriet Oleson's visiting niece; but when Kate happily consents to become his wife, Doc's ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 393

27. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Ebenezer Sprague (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Laura Ingalls is stunned to learn that her amiable fishing friend is none other than Walnut Grove's new banker, miserly Ebenezer Sprague, and heartbroken when he accuses her of becoming his friend to secure a loan for her family.

Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 391

28. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Founder's Day (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Walnut Groves' Founder's Day festivities promise fun and friendly competition for all except aging logger and "Bull of the Woods" Jim Tyler, who secretly fears losing the log chopping ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 361

29. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: In the Big Inning (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Jebediah Mumfort's keen eye and fast arm seem to be just what Walnut Grove's baseball team needs to go up against Sleepy Eye's powerful hurler, Slick McBurney, and end their long-standing ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 355

30. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Money Crop (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Fearing a swindle, angry Walnut Grove farmers vent their frustration on the anxious, pregnant wife of the man who promised them a good deal on hybrid corn and then doesn't show up with the ... See full summary »

Director: Leo Penn | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 347

31. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Plague (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

With the sudden intensity of a prairie storm, typhus is unleashed on an unsuspecting Walnut Grove, teaming Charles with Doc Baker and Reverend Alden, who work together to the point of ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 401

32. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Remember Me: Part I (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A woman of strong faith, widow Julia Sanderson is unafraid of Doc Baker's diagnosis of incurable cancer, but knows she must help her three children cope with the news of her imminent death ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 421

33. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Remember Me: Part II (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

When it appears no Walnut Grove family will adopt all three of the Sanderson children together, a weary Charles fears he must break his promise to their mother, resigning himself to finding... See full summary »

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 390

34. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Gift (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

With the money they raised, the Sunday school class decides to buy a new Bible for Reverend Alden's birthday. Mary is entrusted with the total revenue: $1.67, and the new Bible they'd like ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 321

35. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: To See the World (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Taking full responsibility for filling Johnny Johnson's head with exaggerated tales of travel and adventure, Mr. Edwards goes with him when Johnny takes off to see the world, hoping to ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 348

36. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Family Quarrel (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Divorce looms when Nels and his dog storm away from Harriet and the mercantile after the Olesons quarrel over the price of eggs. But the situation only gets more muddled when the townsfolk ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 356

37. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Richest Man in Walnut Grove (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Mr. Ingalls and his employer Mr. Hansen are anticipating a large income from a big job they have done. The Ingalls plan to pay their bill at the Mercantile store and more. Unfortunately, ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 437

38. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance

The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the nineteenth century American Midwest.

Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Rachel Lindsay Greenbush

Votes: 26,803

39. Happy Days (1974– )

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Music

The Cunningham family live through the 1950s with help and guidance from lovable and almost superhuman greaser Fonzie.

Stars: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross, Tom Bosley

Votes: 21,054

40. Apple's Way (1974–1975)

60 min | Drama, Family

The Apple family adjusts to life in a small Iowa town.

Stars: Ronny Cox, Frances Lee McCain, Malcolm Atterbury, Vincent Van Patten

Votes: 246

41. The Gun and the Pulpit (1974 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 74 min | Drama, Western

A young gunslinger on the lam impersonates a preacher, brings hope to his parishioners and law-and-order to a town terrorized by a strongman's bunch.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Geoffrey Lewis

Votes: 334

42. Apple's Way (1974–1975)
Episode: The Pen Pal (1974)

Drama, Family

Patricia finds out her pen pal in Greece is handicapped. After sharing the details with her family her father George organizes an fundraising effort for an operation that will help the young girl recover.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Ronny Cox, Frances Lee McCain, Malcolm Atterbury, Vincent Van Patten

43. Doc Elliot (1973–1974)
Episode: The Gold Mine (1974)

60 min | Drama

Emma Johnson is anxious to keep her gold mine, as the men that work it fall ill and are getting old, yet they've been unable to extract enough to pay the debts or even the payroll. ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Totten | Stars: James Franciscus, Edith Atwater, Merle Haggard, Hoke Howell

44. Emergency! (1972–1979)
Episode: Messin' Around (1974)

Not Rated | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Chet (aka "The Phantom Bomber") nails Johnny with a number of practical jokes, for which Johnny later gets his revenge. A child is stuck in a tree house (with the tree burning underneath) ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Newton | Stars: Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup, Randolph Mantooth

Votes: 108

45. Happy Days (1974–1984)
Episode: Richie's Car (1974)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Family, Music

Howard Cunningham agrees to buy one of Fonzie's overhauled dragsters as a second family car but Richie soon discovers that its red color may not be the only reason that the hotrod's hot.

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Ron Howard, Marion Ross, Anson Williams, Henry Winkler

Votes: 194

46. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: A Harvest of Friends (1974)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Charles and his family settle on farmland by Plum Creek just outside the town of Walnut Grove. To support his family until he can bring in a harvest, Charles works several jobs, ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 639

47. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: If I Should Wake Before I Die (1974)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Certain that only her funeral will bring her distant children and grandchildren to Walnut Grove for a long overdue visit, Amy Hearn convinces Doc Baker and the Ingalls to fake her death and... See full summary »

Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 460

48. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Mr. Edward's Homecoming (1974)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

While in Mankato, Charles is surprised to find Isaiah Edwards, the mountain man befriended by the Ingalls family on their journey to Minnesota. The two men return to Walnut Grove together ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 462

49. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: School Mom (1974)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Caroline's special efforts to teach a shy, older boy to read while she is substitute-teaching for an injured Miss Beadle are ruined when mean-spirited Mrs. Oleson humiliates him in front of the class and he vows never to return to school.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 425

50. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: 100 Mile Walk (1974)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

When their wheat crop is ravaged by a hailstorm, the discouraged Walnut Grove men leave town to search for work. During his long walk, Charles meets Jack Peters 'powder monkey', a ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 518