Don Porter

Don Porter

Donald "Don" Porter was an American actor who appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, including Top Sergeant and Eagle Squadron. On television, he portrayed the widowed father of 15-year-old Frances "Gidget" Lawrence (Sally Field) in the 1965 ABC sitcom Gidget. Besides his work in film and television, Porter was active on stage, as he acted in more than 200 plays, including The Front Page, Plaza Suite, and Any Wednesday. He appeared in various films in the 1940s before landing the role of Peter Sands, the boss of Susan Camille MacNamara (Ann Sothern), on the 1950s sitcom Private Secretary. A retooled version of the series appeared later, titled The Ann Sothern Show. It featured many of the same actors, including Porter as hotel manager James Devery in the venue of a fashionable New York City hotel. He later guest starred on episodes of Green Acres, Love, American Style, The Mod Squad, Barnaby Jones, The Six Million Dollar Man, Hawaii Five-O, Three's Company (on which he played Jack Tripper's uncle), and Switch.

  • Title: Don Porter
  • Popularity: 5.48
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1912-09-24
  • Place of Birth: Miami, Oklahoma, USA
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  • Also Known As: Donald Porter, Donald Cecil Porter
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Don Porter Movies

  • 1972
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    The Candidate

    The Candidate

    6.476 1972 HD

    Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robert Redford

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  • 1951
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    The Racket

    The Racket

    6.3 1951 HD

    The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Robert Mitchum

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  • 1947
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    Buck Privates Come Home

    Buck Privates Come Home

    6.3 1947 HD

    Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bud Abbott

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  • 1975
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    White Line Fever

    White Line Fever

    6.098 1975 HD

    An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Jan-Michael Vincent

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  • 1950
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    711 Ocean Drive

    711 Ocean Drive

    6.3 1950 HD

    The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Edmond O'Brien

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  • 1952
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    The Turning Point

    The Turning Point

    6.2 1952 HD

    Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: William Holden

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  • 1946
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    She-Wolf of London

    She-Wolf of London

    5.579 1946 HD

    A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Don Porter

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  • 1942
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    Who Done It?

    Who Done It?

    6.941 1942 HD

    Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bud Abbott

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  • 1973
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    The Norliss Tapes

    The Norliss Tapes

    5.8 1973 HD

    A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Roy Thinnes

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  • 1968
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    Live a Little, Love a Little

    Live a Little, Love a Little

    5.6 1968 HD

    Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Elvis Presley

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  • 1961
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    Bachelor in Paradise

    Bachelor in Paradise

    6.5 1961 HD

    A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bob Hope

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  • 1946
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    Danger Woman

    Danger Woman

    1 1946 HD

    A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Don Porter

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  • 1956
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    Our Miss Brooks

    Our Miss Brooks

    6.2 1956 HD

    The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Eve Arden

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  • 1942
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    Night Monster

    Night Monster

    6.152 1942 HD

    Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Ralph Morgan

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  • 1942
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    Eyes of the Underworld

    Eyes of the Underworld

    4 1942 HD

    Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Richard Dix

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  • 1964
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    Youngblood Hawke

    Youngblood Hawke

    6.1 1964 HD

    An unknown Kentucky writer (James Franciscus) comes to New York and pursues fame and women (Suzanne Pleshette, Genevieve Page).

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James Franciscus

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  • 1944
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    Resisting Enemy Interrogation

    Resisting Enemy Interrogation

    6.2 1944 HD

    A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Rand Brooks

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  • 1952
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    Cripple Creek

    Cripple Creek

    5.7 1952 HD

    It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted,...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: George Montgomery

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  • 1974
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    The Morning After

    The Morning After

    6.5 1974 HD

    A successful public relations man's refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family and his life. ABC Movie of the Week.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dick Van Dyke

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  • 1946
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    Cuban Pete

    Cuban Pete

    5 1946 HD

    Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Desi Arnaz

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  • 1952
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    The Savage

    The Savage

    6.1 1952 HD

    The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Charlton Heston

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  • 1975
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    The Legend of Lizzie Borden

    The Legend of Lizzie Borden

    6.519 1975 HD

    A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery

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  • 1974
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    Murder or Mercy

    Murder or Mercy

    1 1974 HD

    An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Bradford Dillman

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  • 1974
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    Mame

    Mame

    6 1974 HD

    The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lucille Ball

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  • 1942
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    Eagle Squadron

    Eagle Squadron

    1 1942 HD

    An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Robert Stack

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  • 1942
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    Top Sergeant

    Top Sergeant

    6 1942 HD

    An army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Leo Carrillo

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  • 1979
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    Tropic of Desire

    Tropic of Desire

    8 1979 HD

    A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with disreputable locals intertwined in various...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Matt Collins

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  • 1942
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    Madame Spy

    Madame Spy

    6 1942 HD

    Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Constance Bennett

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  • 1978
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    The President's Mistress

    The President's Mistress

    6.7 1978 HD

    A government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister was not only the mistress of a U.S. president, but...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Beau Bridges

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  • 1950
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    Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

    Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

    6 1950 HD

    Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Marjorie Main

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  • 1943
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    Keep 'Em Slugging

    Keep 'Em Slugging

    5.5 1943 HD

    A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Huntz Hall

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  • 1946
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    Wild Beauty

    Wild Beauty

    1 1946 HD

    In this western, a Native American boy and his horse Wild Beauty make friends with a gentle doctor who helps the boy save his beloved steed from the...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Don Porter

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  • 1950
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    My Friend Irma Goes West

    My Friend Irma Goes West

    6.1 1950 HD

    Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Marie Wilson

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  • 1975
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    A Woman for All Men

    A Woman for All Men

    5.5 1975 HD

    Irascible and domineering millionaire Walter McCoy marries the beautiful, but shady and duplicitous Karen Petrie. Walter's son Steve automatically...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judith Brown

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  • 1973
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    40 Carats

    40 Carats

    6.1 1973 HD

    After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Liv Ullmann

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  • 1939
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    Mystery of the White Room

    Mystery of the White Room

    1 1939 HD

    A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Bruce Cabot

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  • 1963
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    Gidget Goes to Rome

    Gidget Goes to Rome

    4.8 1963 HD

    Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: James Darren

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  • 1943
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    Reconnaissance Pilot

    Reconnaissance Pilot

    1 1943 HD

    Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: William Holden

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  • 1944
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    How to Fly the B-26 Airplane

    How to Fly the B-26 Airplane

    1 1944 HD

    Documentary feature film depicting the training of young Lieutenant Jim Anthony as a pilot of the B-26 Marauder bomber. Dick, the captain charged...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Don Porter

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  • 1980
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    The Last Song

    The Last Song

    6 1980 HD

    An aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer husband and his partner, in their electronic...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Lynda Carter

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  • 1952
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    Because You're Mine

    Because You're Mine

    6.7 1952 HD

    A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Mario Lanza

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  • 1952
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    The Fallbrook Story

    The Fallbrook Story

    1 1952 HD

    “The Fallbrook Story,” is a 20-minute film of Cold War-era uneasiness in which director Frank Capra rails against what he calls the evils...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Mary M. Melsheimer

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  • 1977
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    Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.

    Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.

    6.5 1977 HD

    Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Mitchell Ryan

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  • 1974
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    Happy Anniversary and Goodbye

    Happy Anniversary and Goodbye

    4.8 1974 HD

    As her 25th anniversary approaches, Norma Michaels realizes that her marriage to her dentist husband Malcolm has become boring. Seeking independence,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lucille Ball

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  • 1957
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    Desk Set

    Desk Set

    7 1957 HD

    A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Spencer Tracy

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  • 1975
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    Last Hours Before Morning

    Last Hours Before Morning

    2 1975 HD

    An ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a connection between that crime and the jewel robbery at...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Ed Lauter

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  • 1980
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    The Murder That Wouldn't Die

    The Murder That Wouldn't Die

    2 1980 HD

    William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: William Conrad

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  • 1980
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    The Ghosts of Buxley Hall

    The Ghosts of Buxley Hall

    6.3 1980 HD

    Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dick O'Neill

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  • 1974
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    Here's Lucy

    Here's Lucy

    6.92 1974 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lucille Ball

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  • 1974
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    The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

    5.35 1974 HD

    The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

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  • 1978
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    The Bionic Woman

    The Bionic Woman

    6.952 1978 HD

    After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Lindsay Wagner

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  • 1980
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    Hawaii Five-O

    Hawaii Five-O

    6.984 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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  • 1984
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    Three's Company

    Three's Company

    7.753 1984 HD

    The three single roommates Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow and Jack Tripper all platonically share Apartment 201 in a Santa Monica, California apartment...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Ritter

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  • 1973
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    The Mod Squad

    The Mod Squad

    6.286 1973 HD

    The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23,...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Peggy Lipton

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  • 1978
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    Switch

    Switch

    6.7 1978 HD

    Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Robert Wagner

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  • 1957
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    Private Secretary

    Private Secretary

    5 1957 HD

    Private Secretary is an American sitcom that aired from February 1, 1953 to September 10, 1957 on CBS, alternating with The Jack Benny Program on...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ann Sothern

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  • 1971
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    Green Acres

    Green Acres

    7.314 1971 HD

    Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Eddie Albert

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  • 1976
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    The Rookies

    The Rookies

    6.9 1976 HD

    The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Georg Stanford Brown

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  • 1987
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    The Love Boat

    The Love Boat

    6.3 1987 HD

    Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gavin MacLeod

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  • 1995
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    Matlock

    Matlock

    7.106 1995 HD

    Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Andy Griffith

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  • 1988
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    Hotel

    Hotel

    6.6 1988 HD

    Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James Brolin

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  • 1981
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    Vega$

    Vega$

    6.9 1981 HD

    Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Urich

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  • 1976
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    City of Angels

    City of Angels

    6 1976 HD

    City of Angels is a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who had previously worked together on The Rockford Files....

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Wayne Rogers

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  • 1969
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    Judd for the Defense

    Judd for the Defense

    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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  • 1976
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    Ellery Queen

    Ellery Queen

    7.4 1976 HD

    Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: David Wayne

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  • 1986
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    The Paper Chase

    The Paper Chase

    7.571 1986 HD

    Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Houseman

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  • 1967
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    Vacation Playhouse

    Vacation Playhouse

    1 1967 HD

    The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast:

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  • 1975
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    Archer

    Archer

    7.5 1975 HD

    Archer is a short-lived American crime drama series starring Brian Keith and John P. Ryan that aired on NBC in 1975.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Brian Keith

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  • 1966
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    Gidget

    Gidget

    6.385 1966 HD

    Gidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Don Porter

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  • 1978
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    The Six Million Dollar Man

    The Six Million Dollar Man

    7.226 1978 HD

    Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Lee Majors

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  • 1980
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    Barnaby Jones

    Barnaby Jones

    6.917 1980 HD

    Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Buddy Ebsen

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  • 1991
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    Dallas

    Dallas

    6.605 1991 HD

    The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly...

    Genre: Soap

    Cast: Patrick Duffy

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  • 1980
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    Hawaii Five-O

    Hawaii Five-O

    6.984 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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  • 1978
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    Switch

    Switch

    6.7 1978 HD

    Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Robert Wagner

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  • 1974
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    Love, American Style

    Love, American Style

    5.8 1974 HD

    An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast:

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  • 1966
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    Love, American Style

    Love, American Style

    6.385 1966 HD

    Gidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Don Porter

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