Nell Carter

Nell Carter

Nell Carter (born Nell Ruth Hardy; September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an American singer and actress. Carter began her career in 1970, singing in the theater, and later crossed over to television. She was best known for her role as Nell Harper on the sitcom Gimme a Break! which originally aired from 1981 to 1987. Carter received two Emmy and two Golden Globe award nominations for her work on the series. Prior to Gimme a Break!, Carter won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical in 1978 for her performance in the Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin' as well as a Primetime Emmy Award for her reprisal of the role on television in 1982

  • Title: Nell Carter
  • Popularity: 8.684
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1948-09-13
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  • Also Known As: Nell Ruth Carter
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Nell Carter Movies

  • 2004
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    Broadway's Lost Treasures II
    Broadway's Lost Treasures II

    8 2004 HD

    The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Lauren Bacall

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  • 2001
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    Perfect Fit
    Perfect Fit

    3 2001 HD

    An aimless young man turns to murder in order to satisfy the desires of his new girlfriend, a narcissistic blue jean fetishist.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alexander Polinsky

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  • 1981
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    Modern Problems
    Modern Problems

    5.414 1981 HD

    Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fielder, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Chevy Chase

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  • 1995
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    The Grass Harp
    The Grass Harp

    5.9 1995 HD

    Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Piper Laurie

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  • 2003
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    Swing
    Swing

    1 2003 HD

    Anthony is caught between dreams of being a musician and pleasing his father and fiance. Encouraged by his great uncle, Anthony finds inspiration...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Constance Brenneman

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  • 1999
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    Sealed with a Kiss
    Sealed with a Kiss

    5.7 1999 HD

    Bennett, who's engaged to his boss's daughter, just lost a major client for his company. When a letter meant for someone else is accidentally mailed...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Stamos

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  • 1996
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    The Proprietor
    The Proprietor

    1 1996 HD

    An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jeanne Moreau

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  • 1981
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    Back Roads
    Back Roads

    5.6 1981 HD

    A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Sally Field

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  • 1995
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    The Misery Brothers
    The Misery Brothers

    2 1995 HD

    Screwball sex comedy focusing on two brothers.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Leo Rossi

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  • 1978
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    Cindy
    Cindy

    3 1978 HD

    A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Charlayne Woodard

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  • 1982
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    Ain't Misbehavin'
    Ain't Misbehavin'

    10 1982 HD

    Ain't Misbehavin' is the televised version of the 1978 Tony Award-winning Broadway sensation celebrating the music, life and times of Thomas "Fats"...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Nell Carter

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  • 1992
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    Maid for Each Other
    Maid for Each Other

    5 1992 HD

    In this hilarious crime caper, a rich woman (Nell Carter) and her maid (Dinah Manoff) happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time -- and now,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dinah Manoff

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  • 1980
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    Baryshnikov on Broadway
    Baryshnikov on Broadway

    1 1980 HD

    Mikhail Baryshnikov and his guests perform numbers from over a dozen renowned Broadway musicals including Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Can-Can,...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov

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  • 1996
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    A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
    A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury

    1 1996 HD

    Broadway salute to Tony Award-winning actress Angela Lansbury in a star-packed gala November 17,1996 at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. The event...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Angela Lansbury

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  • 1999
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    My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies
    My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies

    9 1999 HD

    On Sept. 28, 1998, some of the greatest divas in musical theater -- including Marin Mazzie, Judy Kuhn and Audra McDonald -- took the stage at New...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Julie Andrews

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  • 1985
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    The Best of Broadway
    The Best of Broadway

    1 1985 HD

    Tom Bosley hosts a tribute to the American musical theater taped before a live audience featuring dozens of stars recreating their original...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Ethel Merman

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  • 2000
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    The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
    The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

    1 2000 HD

    Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Ed Asner

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  • 2005
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    Back By Midnight
    Back By Midnight

    5.15 2005 HD

    The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the the prison's dishonest owner by having four inmates break out and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Rodney Dangerfield

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  • 1992
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    Bebe's Kids
    Bebe's Kids

    5.79 1992 HD

    When Robin meets the lovely Jamika he thinks he's in heaven. But when he meets her friend Bebe's children, whom she is looking after, he knows he's...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Robin Harris

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  • 1982
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    Night of 100 Stars
    Night of 100 Stars

    6 1982 HD

    The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jane Alexander

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  • 1994
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    The Crazysitter
    The Crazysitter

    4.938 1994 HD

    When a petty criminal escapes from jail, she lays low by posing as a babysitter for two semmingly precious children. But when she decides to sell...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Beverly D'Angelo

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  • 1999
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    We Wish You a Merry Christmas
    We Wish You a Merry Christmas

    6.3 1999 HD

    In the tiny town of Harmony, the people have been working so hard they've forgotten music even exists! Then, three determined little orphans set out...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Lacey Chabert

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  • 1991
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    Voices That Care
    Voices That Care

    8 1991 HD

    Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Marcus Allen

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  • 1997
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    Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
    Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special

    7.5 1997 HD

    Whoopi Goldberg is the voice of Mother Goose in this all-star, all-rhyming tale set in multi-ethnic nursery-rhyme land.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

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  • 1992
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    Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
    Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story

    1 1992 HD

    Chronicling the short but eventful life of Hank Gathers (played by Donny B. Lord as a child and Victor Love as a young adult), this fact-based drama...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Victor Love

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  • 1984
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    Christmas in Washington
    Christmas in Washington

    1 1984 HD

    The 3rd Annual Christmas in Washington Special.

    Genre:

    Cast: Donny Osmond

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  • 1985
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    Night of 100 Stars II
    Night of 100 Stars II

    8 1985 HD

    This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Debbie Allen

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  • 1997
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    Fakin' Da Funk
    Fakin' Da Funk

    5.278 1997 HD

    Chinese kid Julian, who was adopted by the black family of Joe and Annabelle Lee and Asian exchange student May-Ling, who is housed with a black...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dante Basco

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  • 1979
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    Hair
    Hair

    7.3 1979 HD

    Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: John Savage

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  • 1988
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    Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
    Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration

    1 1988 HD

    The life, career, and music of Irving Berlin are celebrated live on stage with musical performances.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Bea Arthur

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  • 1988
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    Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
    Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz

    1 1988 HD

    Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Joan Rivers

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  • 2002
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    Ally McBeal
    Ally McBeal

    6.52 2002 HD

    Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Calista Flockhart

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  • 1990
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    227
    227

    6.8 1990 HD

    A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Marla Gibbs

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  • 2003
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    Touched by an Angel
    Touched by an Angel

    7.269 2003 HD

    Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Roma Downey

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  • 1997
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    Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
    Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

    6.4 1997 HD

    Hangin' with Mr. Cooper is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from 1992 to 1997, starring Mark Curry and Holly Robinson. The...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Mark Curry

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  • 1991
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    Amen
    Amen

    6.5 1991 HD

    Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Sherman Hemsley

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  • 1987
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    Gimme a Break!
    Gimme a Break!

    6.7 1987 HD

    Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Nell Carter

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  • 2007
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    Reba
    Reba

    6.638 2007 HD

    After her dentist husband of 20 years leaves her for his dental hygienist, Reba Hart's seemingly perfect world is turned upside down.​

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Reba McEntire

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  • 1998
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    Spider-Man
    Spider-Man

    8.268 1998 HD

    Bitten by a neogenetic spider, Peter Parker develops spider-like superpowers. He uses these to fight crime while trying to balance it with the...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Christopher Daniel Barnes

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  • 1997
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    Brotherly Love
    Brotherly Love

    6.8 1997 HD

    Brotherly Love is an American sitcom that ran from September 16, 1995 to April 1, 1996, on NBC, and then moved to The WB, where it aired from...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Joey Lawrence

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  • 1992
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    Jake and the Fatman
    Jake and the Fatman

    5.8 1992 HD

    Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: William Conrad

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  • 2001
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    Seven Days
    Seven Days

    6.8 2001 HD

    "Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Jonathan LaPaglia

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  • 1981
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    The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
    The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

    5 1981 HD

    The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo is an American action/adventure situation

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Claude Akins

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  • 1980
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    The Big Show
    The Big Show

    1 1980 HD

    The Big Show is an American comedy-variety-musical television series produced and broadcast by NBC for several months in 1980. The series aimed to...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Charlie Hill

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  • 2009
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    Christmas in Washington
    Christmas in Washington

    8 2009 HD

    Christmas in Washington is an annual Christmas television special that currently airs on the U.S. TNT network.

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  • 1982
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    The Billy Crystal Comedy Hour
    The Billy Crystal Comedy Hour

    1 1982 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Shavar Ross

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  • 2024
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    The Oscars
    The Oscars

    6.923 2024 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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  • 1991
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    You Take the Kids
    You Take the Kids

    1 1991 HD

    You Take the Kids is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from December 1990 to January 1991. The series stars Nell Carter, who also performed the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Yasiin Bey

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  • 2002
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    The Rosie O'Donnell Show
    The Rosie O'Donnell Show

    3.2 2002 HD

    The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six...

    Genre: Talk

    Cast: Rosie O'Donnell

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  • 2024
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    Great Performances
    Great Performances

    5.214 2024 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bray Poor

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  • 1989
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    Morton's by the Bay
    Morton's by the Bay

    1 1989 HD

    Nell Carter portrays the assistant to the owner of a large banquet hall which features curious customers and an odd-ball staff.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Greg Ramos

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  • 2000
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    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

    6.6 2000 HD

    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Robert Guillaume

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  • 1992
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.3 1992 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

    Genre: Talk

    Cast: Johnny Carson

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  • 2024
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    People's Choice Awards
    People's Choice Awards

    8.8 2024 HD

    An American awards show recognizing people in entertainment, voted online by the general public and fans.

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