This video features some highlights from the golden era of American television in the 1950s, with live clips and personal...
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1995
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Baker's Hawk is an old-style Western starring old-style Clint Walker. Burl Ives plays a recluse plagued by vigilantes. Ives...
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1976
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The Bunker family's doctor forces Archie to go on a diet. In the spirit of "one for all," Edith convinces the rest of the...
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Justin Quigley
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1976
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While Captain Stanley is on vacation, his replacement is Captain Robertson (John Anderson), a hardbitten veteran firefighter...
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1975
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His year-long college fellowship at an end, Mike lands a teaching job. At long last, he and Gloria are able to move out of...
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1975
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This final episode of Emergency!'s fourth season was intended as the pilot for a spinoff series titled 905-WILD. The members...
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1975
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Kurt Russell returns as Dexter Riley, the dedicated student of Medfield College who just can't stay out of trouble, in this...
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1975
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In Night Train, also known as Train Ride to Hollywood Harry Williams, head singer for Bloodstone, a modern rock group, is hit...
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1975
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This final episode of Adam-12's sixth season is actually the pilot for a proposed spinoff series titled Fraud. After they...
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1974
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Shelley Winters is appropriately cast as Big Rose, a rough 'n' tough private detective. Nobody messes with Big Rose, least of...
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1974
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The family is planning a 50th birthday party for Archie. The only one unwilling to enter into the festivities is Archie...
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1974
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Lucille Ball stars in this film version of the hit Jerry Herman Broadway musical, which featured an electrifying performance...
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1974
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Burt Mustin makes his first series appearance in the role of feisty octogenarian Justin Quigley (a character that, at age 82,...
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Justin Quigley
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1973
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1973
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Venerable character actor Paul Fix guests in this episode as Wade Tillman, a self-styled septugenarian Robin Hood. Outraged...
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1973
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, new police commissioner Edna Dixon (Juanita Moore) insists upon accompanying mobile...
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1973
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Intending to work his way around the world on a tramp steamer, Lamont (Demond Wilson) plans to sell the junkyard, but not...
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Malloy
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1973
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Bruce Gordon, best known to 1960s TV fans as Frank Nitti on the original Untouchables series, is no less menacing in the role...
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1972
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This unique western centers on an innocent farm boy with a talent for handling guns who decides to make it big. He begins as...
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1971
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Skin Game was historically significant as the 2000th film produced by Warner Bros. studios. The film is a comedy western...
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1971
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David Janssen stars in this Jack Webb production as James O'Hara, a small-town sheriff recruited by the US Treasury's Bureau...
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1971
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This episode offers a few clues as to what makes Archie Bunker "tick." Worried that he will be fired from his job, Arch...
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1971
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Miffed that Darrin refuses to allow Samantha to use witchcraft, Endora dispatches Sam's lookalike cousin, Serena, to the 14th...
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1971
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In this crime drama, a Vietnam vet goes to his California hometown and discovers that two Mexicans have murdered his...
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1970
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Today's shift finds mobile officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) chasing after a man suspected of...
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1970
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Dr. Ralph Hayes (Alvy Moore) is a professor of paranormal studies who leads a group into the Louisiana swamp to investigate a...
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1969
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In this western comedy, a bogus evangelist and his assistant travel to the town of Friendly and endeavor to rob the West's...
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1969
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Hail, Hero! stars Michael Douglas in his screen debut as long-haired college student Carl Dixon. Reversing the usual...
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1969
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Steve Grayson (Elvis Presley) is a swinging racecar driver whose manager Kenny (Bill Bixby) has bet his money on the horses....
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1968
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Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) organizes a barbershop quartet, only to be kicked out of the group because of his off-key singing....
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1968
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Future game-show host Geoff Edwards makes his first series appearance as Jeff Powers, the journalist boyfriend of Bobbie Jo...
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1968
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After missing several episodes due to illness, Bea Benaderet returns to her familiar Petticoat Junction role as Kate...
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1968
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Lucy (Lucille Ball) turns activist to save the small town of Bancroft, which is...
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Old Uncle Joe
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1967
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When babysitter Endora is called away to the Taj Mahal on emergency business, little Tabitha amuses herself by bringing her...
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1967
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1967
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Trading his guitar for a phony treasure map, Peter heads to a deserted island, with fellow Monkees Davy, Micky, and (briefly)...
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1967
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, a reluctant Mooney (Gale Gordon) has joined Lucy (Lucille Ball) and her songwriter...
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Old Uncle Joe
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1967
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Butch Patrick, late of The Munsters, plays a wealthy and cynical youngster named Melvin Vandersnoot. Hired to look after the...
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1967
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Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) is a typesetter at a newspaper who longs for a chance to be a reporter. Editor Beckett...
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1966
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Andy nominates Howard Sprague for membership in the Regal Order of Good Fellowship. Thanks to the intervention of Howard's...
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1966
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Written by James Henerson, this episode gets under way with a quarrel between Samantha and Darrin. Helpful Larry and Louise...
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1966
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1966
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Don Knotts makes a return visit to The Andy Griffith Show in the role of ex-deputy Barney Fife. The occasion is the Mayberry...
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1966
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A ricocheting bullet catches Little Joe Cartwright in his-er-nether regions. Seeking answers to his brother's non-fatal but...
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1966
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In Goober's absence, his girlfriend Flora (Alberta Nelson) fills in for him at Wally's Service Station. Though Flora isn't so...
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1966
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Andy hopes to beat his longtime rival Sheriff Blake (Ken Mayer) at the Mount Pilot Sheriff's Annual Barbershop Quartet...
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1966
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Opie and his pal Howie start publishing a penny newspaper, but are unable to attract any customers. Sensing that their...
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1965
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Countess Maria Von Holstein (Jean Willes), first seen in the 1964 Beverly Hillbillies episode "Another Neighbor," returns in...
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1965
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This musical spoof of Westerns featured Lee Marvin in dual roles that won him a Best Actor Oscar. Jane Fonda stars as the...
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1965
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Ben Cartwright makes a solemn promise that the entire estate of dying skinflint Jake Smith (Burt Mustin will go to Jake's...
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1965
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Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid...
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1965
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1964
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This lavishly produced, big-budget comedy (it cost $20 million in 1964 dollars) stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow who...
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1964
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Travelling under the name of "Richard Clark", Kimble (David Janssen) is arrested for hitchhiking by Marshall Joe Bob Simms...
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1964
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In this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the...
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1964
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Andy heads to Raleigh, there to interview for a job as that city's sheriff. Assuming that he will be Andy's successor, Barney...
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1964
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Barney is hoodwinked into purchasing a "magic kit" at an auction. Convinced of his ability to summon up the 200-year-old...
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1964
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Spring is here, and "Doctor" Granny hopes to administer her special tonic (read: moonshine) to her friends and neighbors....
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1964
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1964
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This amusing romantic comedy concerns Dr. Gerald Boyer (James Garner), a successful gynecologist with a wife and two...
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1963
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Donald Parker
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1963
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Son of Flubber represented the first time that Walt Disney ever attempted a theatrical feature sequel: in this case, the...
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1963
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Ben Wister (Fess Parker), sheriff of the small town of Linvale, is besieged by phone calls from the widowed Mrs. Logan...
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1963
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George Brenlin is cast as Whizzer McGee, a short-statured scrapper who doesn't take kindly to people making fun of his size....
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1963
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Deputy Barney tickets the Governor's car for illegal parking-then thinks he's in for it when the governor himself prepares...
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1963
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Former TV leading man Richard Chamberlain plays a young lawyer about to take on an important murder case. He is shepherded...
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1963
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It looks as though the Mayberry Band's annual trip to the state band competition in Charlotte will be cancelled....
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1962
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Wally (Tony Dow) needs to bring three friends along to the amusement park to qualify for a discount, but only Eddie...
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Gus
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1962
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Carlson
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1962
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Gus
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1962
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The Colonial Dames of America breeze into Mayberry, searching for the descendant of a celebrated hero of the Revolutionary...
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1961
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In this comic episode, mail-order huckster Gideon Flinch (Ian Wolfe), alias Homer T. Cranston, fleeces ornery Bullethead...
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1961
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Deputy Barney arrests a stranger for carelessly tossing a candy wrapper into the street. The stranger turns out to be Eddie...
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1961
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Sheriff Andy is invited to join the exclusive Esquire Club in Raleigh. Showing up at a club dinner with deputy Barney, Andy...
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1961
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Dr. Kirby (John Gallaudet) announces that Beaver (Jerry Mathers) very well may need a tonsillectomy. To mollify Beaver's...
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Gus
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1961
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1961
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In Andy's absence, deputy Barney takes over as acting sheriff. By the time Andy returns, by-the-book Barney has jailed...
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1961
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Beaver (Jerry Mathers) swells up with pride when his teacher appoints him to the position of junior fire chief....
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1961
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1960
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Twilight Zone's Yuletide offering for the 1960-61 season was this videotaped episode. Art Carney stars as Henry Corwin, a...
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Burt
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1960
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Beaver (Jerry Mathers) is "a-scared" about the I.Q. test that is soon to be taken in his school. It's bad enough that Wally...
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Gus
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1960
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Beaver (Jerry Mathers) sells raffle tickets in hopes of winning a contest. Luck of luck, Beaver is rewarded with third prize...
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Gus
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1960
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When Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow) are promised ten dollars apiece if they help clean up after the animals at a...
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Gus
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1959
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Gus
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1959
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The first episode of Maverick's second season may be the last appearance of Bret Maverick (James Garner) unless he does some...
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1958
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Director Leo McCarey was clearly past his prime when he made this screen version of Max Shulman's comic novel Rally 'Round...
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1958
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1958
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Gus
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1957
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Conceived as a Gone With the Wind for the CinemaScope generation, Raintree County wasn't quite as successful as its role...
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1957
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The MGM melodrama These Wilder Years marked the first onscreen pairing of Hollywood stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck....
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1956
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Trouble brews when a widowed, small town librarian takes a stand against censorship. The trouble begins when the town...
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1956
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Included are four Christmas episodes from '50s television shows: A Date with the Angels, Racket Squad, The Ruggles and...
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1955
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1955
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Next to Slightly Scarlet, Silver Lode is the best of the many 1950s collaborations between producer Benedict Bogaeus and...
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1954
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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1954
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Filmed on location at Montana's Glacier National Park, Cattle Queen of Montana makes excellent use of the diverse talents of...
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1954
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) rush to the small sanitarium where...
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1954
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Filmmaker Hugo Haas unfolds his usual cautionary "old man-young woman" story in One Girl's Confession. Perennial Haas leading...
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1953
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Disreputable wanderer Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) has been thrown in a frontier town calaboose, accused of being a...
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1953
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Although a few character names and minor details are different, Vicki is a fairly faithful remake of the 1941 murder...
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1953
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The Silver Whip stars Dale Robertson as Race Crim, the guard on a stage coach driven by his best friend, young Jess Harker...
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1953
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In 1945, James Cagney, through his independent production company, bought the rights to a lurid novel by Adria Locke Langley,...
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1953
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Young Robert Fontaine, Jr. (Billy Gray) lives with his hard-working father (George Murphy) and mother (Nancy Davis), who is...
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1952
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The titular Lusty Men are rodeo riders in this modern-day western, assembled with a touch of the offbeat by director...
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1952
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Lloyd Bacon wrapped up his lengthy directorial career with the innocuous comedy She Couldn't Say No. "She" is a young heiress...
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1952
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Blue-collar gal Henrietta Smith (Anne Sheridan) is mistaken for a woman of wealth by plumber Fred Newcombe (John Lund)....
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1952
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Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised for its realistic view of an event-filled day in a single police...
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1951
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1951
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1950
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