Frank Cady

Frank Cady

Although Frank Cady's most famous role would be that of general-store owner Sam Drucker, one of the less nutty residents of Hooterville in both Green Acres (1965) and Petticoat Junction (1963), he had a history as a film, stage and television actor long before those shows. Cady also appeared on some radio programs including Gunsmoke. In the 1950s, Cady played Doc Williams in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952), along with numerous supporting parts in movies and also appeared in television commercials for (among other products) Shasta Grape Soda. Cady has been most prolific in television and was the only actor to play a recurring character on three TV sitcoms at the same time, The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Green Acres (1965), and Petticoat Junction (1963). Usually cast as a gregarious small-town businessman, druggist, store clerk or other type of all-around Midwestern-type good guy, Cady was actually a California native, born in Susanville in 1915. The acting bug bit him when he sang in an elementary school play, and after graduating from Stanford University he headed to London, England, to train in the theater. When World War II broke out he was already in Europe, so he enlisted in the Army Air Force and spent the next several years in postings all over the continent. After his discharge he returned to the US and headed for Hollywood. An agent saw him in a local play, signed him, and he was on his way. One of his earlier--and more atypical--roles was as a seedy underworld character pulled in for questioning in a cop's murder in the noir classic He Walked by Night (1948), and he played a succession of hotel clerks, bureaucrats, henpecked husbands and the like for the next 40+ years. He did much television work from the mid-'50s onward. Cady resided in Wilsonville, Oregon and at the time of his death had two children, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

  • Title: Frank Cady
  • Popularity: 2.694
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1915-09-08
  • Place of Birth: Susanville, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Frank Randolph Cady
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Frank Cady Movies

  • 1954
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    Rear Window

    Rear Window

    8.352 1954 HD

    A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

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  • 1950
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    Perfect Strangers

    Perfect Strangers

    6.2 1950 HD

    Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from...

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  • 1951
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    Let's Make It Legal

    Let's Make It Legal

    6.3 1951 HD

    A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.

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  • 1951
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    Ace in the Hole

    Ace in the Hole

    7.837 1951 HD

    An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

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  • 1952
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    The Sellout

    The Sellout

    5.5 1952 HD

    A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.

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  • 1949
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    It's a Great Feeling

    It's a Great Feeling

    5.9 1949 HD

    A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and...

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  • 1950
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    Experiment Alcatraz

    Experiment Alcatraz

    6.5 1950 HD

    A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

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  • 1956
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    The Bad Seed

    The Bad Seed

    7.1 1956 HD

    Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps...

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  • 1964
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    7 Faces of Dr. Lao

    7 Faces of Dr. Lao

    6.898 1964 HD

    An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's...

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  • 1951
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    When Worlds Collide

    When Worlds Collide

    6.3 1951 HD

    When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close...

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  • 1975
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    Hearts of the West

    Hearts of the West

    5.4 1975 HD

    Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession...

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  • 1955
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    The Indian Fighter

    The Indian Fighter

    6.1 1955 HD

    A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.

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  • 1953
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    Marry Me Again

    Marry Me Again

    1 1953 HD

    Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars...

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  • 1952
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    The Atomic City

    The Atomic City

    5.2 1952 HD

    Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.

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  • 1974
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    Zandy's Bride

    Zandy's Bride

    6.3 1974 HD

    Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they...

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  • 1950
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    Young Man with a Horn

    Young Man with a Horn

    6.2 1950 HD

    Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst...

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  • 1955
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    Trial

    Trial

    6.7 1955 HD

    A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute...

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  • 1950
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    The Next Voice You Hear...

    The Next Voice You Hear...

    5.7 1950 HD

    The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the...

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  • 1951
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    Dear Brat

    Dear Brat

    4 1951 HD

    Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge...

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  • 1949
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    D.O.A.

    D.O.A.

    6.9 1949 HD

    Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him....

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  • 1953
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    Half a Hero

    Half a Hero

    5.5 1953 HD

    A man moves his family from the big city to the suburbs.

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  • 1949
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    The Crooked Way

    The Crooked Way

    6.417 1949 HD

    A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his...

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  • 1950
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    Three Husbands

    Three Husbands

    5 1950 HD

    When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions...

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  • 1948
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    The Checkered Coat

    The Checkered Coat

    6.5 1948 HD

    A psychiatrist tries to help a patient who loses consciousness after he kills someone. When the doctor provides the patient with a letter that...

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  • 1958
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    The Missouri Traveler

    The Missouri Traveler

    6.4 1958 HD

    Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner...

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  • 1949
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    Abandoned

    Abandoned

    6.2 1949 HD

    A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

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  • 1958
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    The Girl Most Likely

    The Girl Most Likely

    3.7 1958 HD

    Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing...

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  • 1950
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    Dial 1119

    Dial 1119

    5.5 1950 HD

    A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of...

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  • 1950
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    The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle

    7.476 1950 HD

    Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of...

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  • 1990
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    Return to Green Acres

    Return to Green Acres

    2.5 1990 HD

    Tv movie that reunites most the show's cast members. The Douglases move back to New York. But when Haney tries to get everyone's property so that a...

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  • 1948
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    Bungalow 13

    Bungalow 13

    1 1948 HD

    In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate when the police succeed in killing all of the...

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  • 1949
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    Special Agent

    Special Agent

    1 1949 HD

    A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

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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.

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  • 1950
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    The Great Rupert

    The Great Rupert

    5.8 1950 HD

    Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday...

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  • 1949
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    He Walked by Night

    He Walked by Night

    6.7 1949 HD

    Roy Morgan aka Roy Morgan (Richard Basehart) is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls,...

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  • 1957
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    The Tin Star

    The Tin Star

    7 1957 HD

    An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

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  • 1947
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    Sarge Goes to College

    Sarge Goes to College

    4 1947 HD

    A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge"...

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  • 1971
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    The Million Dollar Duck

    The Million Dollar Duck

    5.7 1971 HD

    Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.

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  • 1956
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    Three Violent People

    Three Violent People

    6.1 1956 HD

    A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.

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  • 1951
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    Lightning Strikes Twice

    Lightning Strikes Twice

    5.7 1951 HD

    Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his...

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  • 1950
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    Pretty Baby

    Pretty Baby

    6 1950 HD

    A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.

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  • 1950
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    Father of the Bride

    Father of the Bride

    6.965 1950 HD

    Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding...

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  • 1950
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    Convicted

    Convicted

    6.3 1950 HD

    A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

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  • 1950
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    Hunt the Man Down

    Hunt the Man Down

    6.2 1950 HD

    A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.

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  • 1949
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    Take One False Step

    Take One False Step

    5.4 1949 HD

    Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...

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  • 2005
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    The History of Hooterville

    The History of Hooterville

    1 2005 HD

    Documentary and interviews with the cast of Petticoat Junction and stories of the show's production.

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  • 1978
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    Soup and Me

    Soup and Me

    4 1978 HD

    On the day of the Halloween party, Soup and Rob are finding plenty of ways to get into trouble: swimming in a local pond (though their mothers...

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  • 1959
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    The Man Who Understood Women

    The Man Who Understood Women

    3.6 1959 HD

    A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.

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  • 1949
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    Flamingo Road

    Flamingo Road

    7.009 1949 HD

    A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

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  • 1960
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    The Andy Griffith Show

    The Andy Griffith Show

    7.6 1960 HD

    The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed...

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  • 1963
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    The Great Adventure

    The Great Adventure

    1 1963 HD

    The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van...

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  • 1955
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    Cheyenne

    Cheyenne

    5.8 1955 HD

    Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first...

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  • 1954
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    December Bride

    December Bride

    5.5 1954 HD

    December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series...

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1968
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    Hawaii Five-O

    Hawaii Five-O

    7.1 1968 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...

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  • 1962
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    The Beverly Hillbillies

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    6.9 1962 HD

    Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of...

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  • 1955
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    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

    6.5 1955 HD

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

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.6 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1959
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    Hawaiian Eye

    Hawaiian Eye

    5.2 1959 HD

    Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look...

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1963
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    Glynis

    Glynis

    1 1963 HD

    Glynis is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 25 to December 18, 1963.

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  • 1977
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    Weekend Special

    Weekend Special

    7.167 1977 HD

    The ABC Weekend Special is a weekly 30-minute anthology TV series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997. It featured a...

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  • 1960
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    Klondike

    Klondike

    6.25 1960 HD

    Klondike is a 17-episode half-hour American Western television series starring Ralph Taeger and James Coburn that aired on NBC. The series premiered...

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  • 1959
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    Dennis the Menace

    Dennis the Menace

    6.7 1959 HD

    This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic,...

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  • 1959
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    Rawhide

    Rawhide

    7 1959 HD

    The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.429 1962 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...

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  • 1961
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    Hazel

    Hazel

    7 1961 HD

    Hazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series...

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  • 1960
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    Pete and Gladys

    Pete and Gladys

    6.5 1960 HD

    Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m....

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  • 1953
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    Private Secretary

    Private Secretary

    5 1953 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...

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  • 1953
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    You Are There

    You Are There

    5.7 1953 HD

    You Are There is an American historical educational television and radio series broadcast over the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks.

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  • 1963
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    Grindl

    Grindl

    5.5 1963 HD

    Grindl is an American situation comedy that began in the fall of 1963 on NBC, originally sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The show, starring Imogene...

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  • 1960
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    Guestward, Ho!

    Guestward, Ho!

    4 1960 HD

    Guestward, Ho! is an American situation comedy which aired on the ABC network in the 1960-1961 television season, based on the 1956 book of the same...

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  • 1959
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    The Deputy

    The Deputy

    6.2 1959 HD

    The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961. The series stars Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry...

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  • 1959
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    The Alaskans

    The Alaskans

    5.5 1959 HD

    The Alaskans is a 1959-1960 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series set during the late 1890s in the port of Skagway, Alaska. The show features...

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  • 1957
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    Sugarfoot

    Sugarfoot

    4.2 1957 HD

    Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner...

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  • 1974
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    These Are the Days

    These Are the Days

    5 1974 HD

    These Are the Days is an animated television series from Hanna-Barbera, originally broadcast on ABC from September 7, 1974, to September 27, 1975....

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  • 1945
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    Front Row Center

    Front Row Center

    4 1945 HD

    Broadway plays are presented live in condensed one hour versions.

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  • 1955
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    The Jane Wyman Show

    The Jane Wyman Show

    4 1955 HD

    The Jane Wyman Show is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1955 to 1958.

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  • 1957
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    Maverick

    Maverick

    6.8 1957 HD

    The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than...

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  • 1963
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    Petticoat Junction

    Petticoat Junction

    5.8 1963 HD

    The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

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  • 1960
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    The Andy Griffith Show

    The Andy Griffith Show

    7.6 1960 HD

    The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed...

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  • 1965
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    Green Acres

    Green Acres

    7.303 1965 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...

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  • 1952
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    The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

    The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

    6.136 1952 HD

    The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966, starring the real life Nelson...

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  • 1952
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    The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

    The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

    6.136 1952 HD

    The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966, starring the real life Nelson...

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  • 1952
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    The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

    The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

    6.136 1952 HD

    The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966, starring the real life Nelson...

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  • 1983
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    AfterMASH

    AfterMASH

    5.1 1983 HD

    AfterMASH is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 26, 1983, to December 11, 1984. A spin-off of the series M*A*S*H, the show...

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  • 1965
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    Green Acres

    Green Acres

    7.303 1965 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...

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  • 1959
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    The Untouchables

    The Untouchables

    7.856 1959 HD

    Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

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