Robert Butler

Robert Butler

Robert Butler (November 17, 1927 - November 3, 2023), the revered director known for steering the debut episodes of iconic series like Batman, Star Trek, Hill Street Blues, and Moonlighting, passed away on November 3 in Los Angeles at the age of 95. Butler also played a role in co-creating Remington Steele, featuring Pierce Brosnan, and directed its inaugural episode. His legacy extends to directing the premiere of Hogan’s Heroes in 1965, setting the stage and directing pivotal episodes for Glenn Gordon Caron’s Moonlighting, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Sisters, and The Division.

  • Title: Robert Butler
  • Popularity: 10.852
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1927-11-17
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Bob Butler
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Robert Butler Movies

  • 1986
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    Long Time Gone

    Long Time Gone

    1 1986 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Paul Le Mat

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  • 1971
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    The Barefoot Executive

    The Barefoot Executive

    5.5 1971 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kurt Russell

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  • 1972
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    Now You See Him, Now You Don't

    Now You See Him, Now You Don't

    6.3 1972 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kurt Russell

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  • 1997
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    Turbulence

    Turbulence

    5.295 1997 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Ray Liotta

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  • 1978
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    Hot Lead & Cold Feet

    Hot Lead & Cold Feet

    6 1978 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Jim Dale

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  • 1984
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    Up the Creek

    Up the Creek

    5.696 1984 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tim Matheson

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  • 1969
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    The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

    The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

    6.1 1969 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kurt Russell

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  • 1980
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    Night of the Juggler

    Night of the Juggler

    5.9 1980 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: James Brolin

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  • 1971
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    Scandalous John

    Scandalous John

    6.3 1971 HD

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Brian Keith

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  • 1976
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    James Dean

    James Dean

    4.7 1976 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Stephen McHattie

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  • 1994
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    White Mile

    White Mile

    5.6 1994 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alan Alda

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  • 1975
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    Black Bart

    Black Bart

    3.7 1975 HD

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Louis Gossett Jr.

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  • 1975
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    Black Bart

    Black Bart

    3.7 1975 HD

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Louis Gossett Jr.

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  • 1988
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    Out of Time

    Out of Time

    4 1988 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Bruce Abbott

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  • 1978
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    A Question of Guilt

    A Question of Guilt

    6.2 1978 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tuesday Weld

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  • 1973
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    The Blue Knight

    The Blue Knight

    5.8 1973 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: William Holden

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  • 1971
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    Death Takes a Holiday

    Death Takes a Holiday

    5.2 1971 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Yvette Mimieux

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  • 1981
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    Underground Aces

    Underground Aces

    5.6 1981 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dirk Benedict

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  • 1977
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    Mayday at 40,000 Feet

    Mayday at 40,000 Feet

    6.5 1977 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Janssen

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  • 1969
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    Guns in the Heather

    Guns in the Heather

    4.5 1969 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Glenn Corbett

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  • 1975
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    Strange New World

    Strange New World

    3.5 1975 HD

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: John Saxon

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  • 1974
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    The Ultimate Thrill

    The Ultimate Thrill

    4.5 1974 HD

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Barry Brown

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  • 1976
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    Dark Victory

    Dark Victory

    1 1976 HD

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery

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  • 1984
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    Concrete Beat

    Concrete Beat

    4 1984 HD

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Marla Adams

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  • 1988
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    Out of Time

    Out of Time

    4 1988 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Bruce Abbott

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  • 1977
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    In the Glitter Palace

    In the Glitter Palace

    3.5 1977 HD

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Chad Everett

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  • 1956
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    No Right to Kill

    No Right to Kill

    1 1956 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Terry Moore

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  • 1958
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    Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    1 1958 HD

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Roddy McDowall

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  • 1978
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    Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

    Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

    1 1978 HD

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Kathleen Lloyd

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  • 1965
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    Star Trek: The Cage

    Star Trek: The Cage

    5 1965 HD

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Jeffrey Hunter

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  • 1965
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    Kilroy

    Kilroy

    1 1965 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Warren Berlinger

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  • 1975
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    7.635 1975 HD

    The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: David Carradine

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  • 1989
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    7.485 1989 HD

    After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Cybill Shepherd

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  • 1966
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    7.4 1966 HD

    The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dick Van Dyke

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  • 2004
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    7 2004 HD

    The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bonnie Bedelia

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  • 1968
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    7.312 1968 HD

    Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Adam West

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  • 1980
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    6.96 1980 HD

    Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Jack Lord

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  • 1975
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    6.5 1975 HD

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: James Arness

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  • 1987
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    7.6 1987 HD

    A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Daniel J. Travanti

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  • 1971
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    7.573 1971 HD

    Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was...

    Genre: War & Politics

    Cast: Bob Crane

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  • 1973
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    7.6 1973 HD

    Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Peter Graves

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  • 1997
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    6.966 1997 HD

    A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Dean Cain

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  • 1997
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    6.966 1997 HD

    A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Dean Cain

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  • 1975
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    6.852 1975 HD

    When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Raymond Burr

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  • 1981
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    7.052 1981 HD

    The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ralph Waite

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  • 1996
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    7.5 1996 HD

    Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama. It follows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the Reed family...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Swoosie Kurtz

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  • 1964
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    8.441 1964 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Rod Serling

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  • 1970
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    4.7 1970 HD

    Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Andrew Duggan

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  • 1967
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    7.176 1967 HD

    Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes,...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: David Janssen

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  • 1971
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    6.3 1971 HD

    The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Doug McClure

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  • 1969
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    7 1969 HD

    Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Howard Duff

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  • 1991
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    7.4 1991 HD

    Midnight Caller is a dramatic NBC television series created by Richard DiLello, which ran from 1988 to 1991. It was one of the first television...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gary Cole

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  • 1963
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    7.5 1963 HD

    Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Richard Boone

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  • 1965
    imgS4 E30

    6.188 1965 HD

    The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: E.G. Marshall

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  • 1972
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    5 1972 HD

    Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set the...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Margot Kidder

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  • 1969
    imgS1 E26

    5.3 1969 HD

    The Outcasts is an American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series stars Don Murray and Otis Young. It...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Don Murray

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  • 1969
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    7.5 1969 HD

    High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Stephen Young

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  • 1968
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    4.8 1968 HD

    Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Stuart Whitman

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  • 1964
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    1 1964 HD

    Espionage is a 1963 Associated Television series, distributed outside the UK by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by NBC.

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast:

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  • 1995
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    1 1995 HD

    Sirens focused on the work and lives of three rookie female Pittsburgh Police officers. Officer Sarah Berkezchuk is dealing with her failing...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: A.J. Johnson

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  • 1969
    imgS2 E23

    5.75 1969 HD

    N.Y.P.D. is the title of a half-hour American television crime drama of the 1960s set in the context of the New York City Police Department. The...

    Genre:

    Cast: Frank Converse

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  • 1986
    imgS1 E13

    5 1986 HD

    Launched as a two-hour TV-movie, Our Family Honor is about two New York City families who had known each other since their childhoods and who were...

    Genre:

    Cast: Ray Liotta

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  • 1963
    imgS5 E26

    7.045 1963 HD

    The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Chuck Connors

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  • 1966
    imgS5 E26

    5.7 1966 HD

    Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Vince Edwards

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  • 1963
    imgS1 E32

    5.7 1963 HD

    Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962 until May 20, 1963. Six years before the premiere of his...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Jack Lord

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  • 1962
    imgS3 E29

    5.571 1962 HD

    The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Robert Taylor

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  • 1964
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    7 1964 HD

    The Richard Boone Show is a short-lived, award-winning anthology television series. It aired on NBC during the 1963-64 season.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Laura Devon

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  • 1961
    imgS2 E3

    5.5 1961 HD

    Happy is an American sitcom that aired on NBC. The series stars Ronnie Burns, the adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, which aired from June...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ronnie Burns

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  • 1972
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    8 1972 HD

    Genre:

    Cast:

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  • 1966
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    5 1966 HD

    A U.S. double agent in WWII Germany infiltrates Nazi councils while evading Allied intelligence (publicly, he was a foreign correspondent who had...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Goulet

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  • 1963
    imgS2 E30

    4.2 1963 HD

    The Dick Powell Show is an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dick Powell

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  • 1963
    imgS4 E36

    5.923 1963 HD

    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dwayne Hickman

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  • 1987
    imgS5 E6

    7.043 1987 HD

    Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Stephanie Zimbalist

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  • 2003
    imgS10 E14

    8.1 2003 HD

    Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Peter Falk

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  • 1966
    imgS1 E31

    7.5 1966 HD

    Mister Roberts is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 17, 1965 to April 8, 1966. Based on the best selling novel, 1948 play, and the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Roger Smith

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  • 1968
    imgS3 E26

    6.519 1968 HD

    I Spy is an American television secret-agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Bill Cosby

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E26

    4.75 1970 HD

    Then Came Bronson is an American adventure/drama television series starring Michael Parks that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970, and was produced by...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Michael Parks

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  • 1967
    imgS4 E26

    5.2 1967 HD

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bob Hope

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  • 1964
    imgS1 E29

    6 1964 HD

    The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gary Lockwood

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  • 1966
    imgS5 E58

    5.375 1966 HD

    The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Chamberlain

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  • 1961
    imgS1 E32

    5 1961 HD

    Peter Loves Mary is a one-season American situation comedy, starring real-life husband and wife Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, that aired on NBC...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bea Benaderet

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  • 1969
    imgS3 E24

    8.054 1969 HD

    Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: William Shatner

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  • 1987
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    5.3 1987 HD

    An intense, clandestine love affair with a prominent politician sparks Shirley MacLaine's quest of self-discovery. From Stockholm to Hawaii, to the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Shirley MacLaine

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  • 1968
    imgS2 E26

    6.792 1968 HD

    The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Roy Thinnes

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  • 1966
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    6 1966 HD

    Shane works for the Starett family, a young widow, her son, and her aging father-in-law, protecting them against the anti-sodbuster rancher Ryker and...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Jill Ireland

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  • 1987
    imgS5 E6

    7.043 1987 HD

    Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Stephanie Zimbalist

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