John Ashton

John Ashton

John Ashton (born February 22, 1948) is an American actor born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theatre. John Ashton attended Enfield High School in Enfield, Connecticut. Ashton has starred in several productions including MAS*H and Midnight Run. He played "Willie Joe Garr" on several episodes of Dallas, his character and that of "Jeb Ames" were charged with the crime of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Tina Louise's Dallas character "Julie Grey". Ashton also starred as Detective Sergeant John Taggart in the first two movies of the popular Beverly Hills Cop trilogy alongside Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold. He also starred in the 1994 film, Little Big League, with Luke Edwards. Ashton currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado and is co-host of the Ashton and Davis show on 870 ESPN radio. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Title: John Ashton
  • Popularity: 21.707
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1948-02-22
  • Place of Birth: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Also Known As: John David Ashton
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John Ashton Movies

  • 1984
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    Beverly Hills Cop
    Beverly Hills Cop

    7.188 1984 HD

    Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered,...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Eddie Murphy

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  • 1987
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    Beverly Hills Cop II
    Beverly Hills Cop II

    6.48 1987 HD

    Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Eddie Murphy

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  • 2007
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    Gone Baby Gone
    Gone Baby Gone

    7.306 2007 HD

    When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Casey Affleck

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  • 1979
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    Breaking Away
    Breaking Away

    7.122 1979 HD

    Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dennis Christopher

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  • 1994
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    Trapped in Paradise
    Trapped in Paradise

    5.6 1994 HD

    Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Nicolas Cage

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  • 1994
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    Little Big League
    Little Big League

    5.7 1994 HD

    When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Luke Edwards

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  • 1986
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    King Kong Lives
    King Kong Lives

    5.1 1986 HD

    After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a...

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Linda Hamilton

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  • 1980
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    Borderline
    Borderline

    5.905 1980 HD

    Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Charles Bronson

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  • 1988
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    Midnight Run
    Midnight Run

    7.2 1988 HD

    A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Robert De Niro

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  • 1988
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    She's Having a Baby
    She's Having a Baby

    5.922 1988 HD

    Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kevin Bacon

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  • 1998
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    Meet the Deedles
    Meet the Deedles

    4.454 1998 HD

    Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Paul Walker

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  • 2007
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    Reign of the Gargoyles
    Reign of the Gargoyles

    5.9 2007 HD

    During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Julia Rose

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  • 1974
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    Psycho Sisters
    Psycho Sisters

    1 1974 HD

    After her husband dies, a woman begins to have a nervous breakdown and is consoled by her younger sister. Soon, however, other members of the family...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Susan Strasberg

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  • 1987
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    Some Kind of Wonderful
    Some Kind of Wonderful

    6.842 1987 HD

    A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Eric Stoltz

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  • 1973
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    An Eye for an Eye
    An Eye for an Eye

    5 1973 HD

    The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Tom Basham

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  • 1999
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    Escape from Alaska
    Escape from Alaska

    4.2 1999 HD

    A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Thomas Ian Griffith

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  • 1995
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    The Shooter
    The Shooter

    4.8 1995 HD

    A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Dolph Lundgren

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  • 1986
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    The Deliberate Stranger
    The Deliberate Stranger

    6.5 1986 HD

    Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Mark Harmon

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  • 1976
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    Cat Murkil and the Silks
    Cat Murkil and the Silks

    4 1976 HD

    A street-gang member kills the gang's leader and blames it on a rival gang.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: David Kyle

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  • 1996
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    Fast Money
    Fast Money

    6 1996 HD

    Butler is an experienced car thief, McCoy a struggling reporter trying to nail a bad guy-senator. Meeting for the first time when they're both in...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Matt McCoy

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  • 1996
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    For Which He Stands
    For Which He Stands

    6 1996 HD

    To save his family he'll risk losing everything. Fame, fortune, his life... even his soul.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: William Forsythe

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  • 1998
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    The Day Lincoln Was Shot
    The Day Lincoln Was Shot

    6.8 1998 HD

    A dramatization of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Based on the book by Jim Bishop.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Rob Morrow

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  • 1997
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    Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
    Little Girls in Pretty Boxes

    5 1997 HD

    A gymnast moves to a gym where the top coach in the US is and has difficulties adjusting.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Swoosie Kurtz

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  • 2009
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    Middle Men
    Middle Men

    6.467 2009 HD

    Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Luke Wilson

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  • 1986
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    Last Resort
    Last Resort

    3.4 1986 HD

    George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Charles Grodin

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  • 1977
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    Oh, God!
    Oh, God!

    6.429 1977 HD

    When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: John Denver

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  • 2015
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    Uncle John
    Uncle John

    5.8 2015 HD

    In this tale of small town intrigue, an urbanite returns to his quiet hometown on an impromptu trip as his Uncle, widely respected in town, struggles...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: John Ashton

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  • 1995
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    Condition Red
    Condition Red

    4.5 1995 HD

    Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: James Russo

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  • 1999
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    Instinct
    Instinct

    6.44 1999 HD

    In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anthony Hopkins

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  • 1991
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    Curly Sue
    Curly Sue

    6.432 1991 HD

    Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jim Belushi

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  • 1984
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    The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
    The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

    5.997 1984 HD

    Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Peter Weller

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  • 2018
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    The Joke Thief
    The Joke Thief

    5.8 2018 HD

    The Joke Thief takes us on a journey of one man's last hurrah. Simon McCabe is a stand up comedian who has been making people laugh for 35 years. All...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Frank D'Angelo

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  • 1981
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    Elvis and the Beauty Queen
    Elvis and the Beauty Queen

    2.2 1981 HD

    Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Don Johnson

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  • 2019
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    Making a Deal with the Devil
    Making a Deal with the Devil

    1 2019 HD

    A fascinating and dramatic tale of a behind the scenes plot developed by the FBI as they work secretly with the mob to eradicate corruption and crime...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Frank D'Angelo

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  • 2019
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    The Last Big Save
    The Last Big Save

    7.3 2019 HD

    A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that covers his entire career only to ruin it in his...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dominique Swain

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  • 2019
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    Once Upon a River
    Once Upon a River

    6 2019 HD

    After her father’s violent death, Native American teenager Margo Crane flees down Michigan’s Stark River in search of her estranged...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kenadi DelaCerna

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  • 1981
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    Honky Tonk Freeway
    Honky Tonk Freeway

    5.1 1981 HD

    Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Beau Bridges

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  • 2019
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    American Christmas
    American Christmas

    4 2019 HD

    It took another ruined Christmas dinner to make Martha finally realize: her kids are jerks. Daughter, Penny is a 42-year old bully who's still...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tara Reid

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  • 2009
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    A Letter to Dad
    A Letter to Dad

    6 2009 HD

    Dan Donahue has finally met the woman of his dreams. But on the night he is going to propose, he is overcome by deep-rooted anger caused by the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Thom Mathews

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  • 1989
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    I Want to Go Home
    I Want to Go Home

    4.9 1989 HD

    Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Laura Benson

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  • 2022
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    Death in Texas
    Death in Texas

    4.5 2022 HD

    Recently released from prison, Billy will do whatever it takes to save the only person who has stuck by him, his mother Grace who desperately needs a...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Ronnie Gene Blevins

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  • 1984
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    Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link
    Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link

    1 1984 HD

    In this film noir comedy, detective Cash Hunt follows clues to solve a difficult puzzle. The producers offered a prize of $100,000 for the first...

    Genre:

    Cast: John Ashton

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  • 1979
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    Lawman Without a Gun
    Lawman Without a Gun

    1 1979 HD

    During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Louis Gossett Jr.

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  • 2024
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    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

    1 2024 HD

    Detective Axel Foley is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter Jane’s life is threatened, she and Foley team up with a new...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Eddie Murphy

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  • 2023
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    All Happy Families
    All Happy Families

    9 2023 HD

    The Landrys are blindsided by news of their son's behavior, and must rally to find their way amidst comical family dysfunction.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Josh Radnor

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  • 1992
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    Dirty Work
    Dirty Work

    1 1992 HD

    A bail bondsman deals drugs on the side and thinks he's struck it rich when he conceives a scheme to steal counterfeit money. When the mob comes...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Kevin Dobson

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  • 1978
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    The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands
    The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands

    1 1978 HD

    While studying the behavior of birds on one of the western Florida island wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, the Wild family encounters hunters and an...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Charlie Aiken

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  • 2023
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    Lonesome Soldier
    Lonesome Soldier

    8 2023 HD

    Based on a true American story, Lonesome Soldier immerses viewers in the captivating journey of Jackson Harlow, a young man hailing from the heart of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Ashton

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  • 1979
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    Starsky & Hutch
    Starsky & Hutch

    7.23 1979 HD

    Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: David Soul

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  • 1988
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    Police Story
    Police Story

    7 1988 HD

    Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast:

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  • 1990
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    Hardball
    Hardball

    7 1990 HD

    Hardball is an American crime drama television series that ran on NBC during the 1989-1990 television schedule.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Ashton

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  • 2009
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    The Take
    The Take

    7.634 2009 HD

    Freddie Jackson is released from prison in 1984 having served a four-year sentence for armed robbery. His wife Jackie, who has been waiting for him...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Shaun Evans

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  • 2012
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    The Finder
    The Finder

    7.093 2012 HD

    Walter Sherman, an Iraq War veteran, has the extraordinary ability to help people find the unfindable.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Geoff Stults

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  • 1983
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    M*A*S*H
    M*A*S*H

    7.898 1983 HD

    The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in,...

    Genre: War & Politics

    Cast: Alan Alda

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  • 2022
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    Today
    Today

    5.8 2022 HD

    Today is a daily American morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on...

    Genre: News

    Cast: Al Roker

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  • 2005
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    Judging Amy
    Judging Amy

    7.5 2005 HD

    Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Amy Brenneman

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  • 2010
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    A Touch of Frost
    A Touch of Frost

    7.429 2010 HD

    Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Jason

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  • 2013
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    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

    5.4 2013 HD

    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that initially aired from May 25, 1992 to May 29, 2009, and...

    Genre: Talk

    Cast: Jay Leno

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  • 2024
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.937 2024 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Mariska Hargitay

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  • 1978
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    Kojak
    Kojak

    6.895 1978 HD

    A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Telly Savalas

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  • 1982
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    Police Squad!
    Police Squad!

    7.8 1982 HD

    In this cult parody of cop dramas, replete with farce and sight gags, Lieutenant Frank Drebin and his fellow officers from Police Squad bungle their...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Leslie Nielsen

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  • 1978
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    Police Woman
    Police Woman

    6.26 1978 HD

    Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Angie Dickinson

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  • 1977
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    Code R
    Code R

    1 1977 HD

    Code R is an American action-adventure television series that aired on CBS from January 21 to June 10, 1977. Code R focuses on the emergency services...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Tom Simcox

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  • 1985
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    A Death in California
    A Death in California

    2 1985 HD

    A Beverly Hills socialite embarks on a love/hate relationship with a psychotic businessman who murdered her fiance and then raped and terrorized her...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Cheryl Ladd

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  • 1993
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    The Tommyknockers
    The Tommyknockers

    5.563 1993 HD

    A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutants.

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Jimmy Smits

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  • 2012
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    Fairly Legal
    Fairly Legal

    6.637 2012 HD

    Kate Reed is a firm believer that justice can always be found – even if it's not always in the courtroom. Once a lawyer at her family's...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sarah Shahi

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  • 2005
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    JAG
    JAG

    7.261 2005 HD

    Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David James Elliott

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  • 1999
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    Fantasy Island
    Fantasy Island

    7.5 1999 HD

    Mr. Roarke and his three assistants run a tropical paradise where guests come in to have their wildest dreams and fantasies come true.

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Malcolm McDowell

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  • 1991
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    Dallas
    Dallas

    6.604 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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  • 1989
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    I Know My First Name Is Steven
    I Know My First Name Is Steven

    6.6 1989 HD

    In 1973, 7-year-old Steven Stayner is kidnapped by pedophile Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Corin Nemec

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  • 2003
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    Columbo
    Columbo

    8.056 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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  • 2009
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    King of the Hill
    King of the Hill

    7.314 2009 HD

    Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Mike Judge

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  • 1989
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    The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone

    7.736 1989 HD

    This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Robin Ward

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  • 1987
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    The A-Team
    The A-Team

    7.462 1987 HD

    A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: George Peppard

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