James Olson

James Olson

James Olson (October 8, 1930 – April 17, 2022) was an American actor. From 1952 until 1954, he was a military policeman in the United States Army. He performed stage work in and around Chicago before his 1956 film debut in The Sharkfighters. His Broadway credits include Of Love Remembered (1967), Slapstick Tragedy (1966), The Three Sisters (1964), The Chinese Prime Minister (1964), Romulus (1962), J.B. (1958), The Sin of Pat Muldoon (1957), and The Young and Beautiful (1955). He starred alongside Joanne Woodward in the Academy Award nominee for Best Picture Rachel, Rachel in 1968. He made numerous stage, feature film, and TV appearances from the mid-1950s until 1990, when he retired. On television, Olson portrayed Mickey Mantle in The Life of Mickey Mantle. His other TV appearances included guest roles on scores of shows, including episodes of Kraft Television Theatre; Ironside; Murder, She Wrote; Little House on the Prairie; Hawaii Five-O; Battlestar Galactica; Lou Grant; The Bionic Woman; Wonder Woman; Mannix; Bonanza; Have Gun-Will Travel; Marcus Welby, M.D.; Police Woman; Barnaby Jones; The New Land; Columbo; Maude; The Virginian; The Streets of San Francisco; and Cannon. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Olson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: James Olson
  • Popularity: 4.226
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1930-10-08
  • Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois, USA
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James Olson Movies

  • 1971
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    The Andromeda Strain

    The Andromeda Strain

    7.049 1971 HD

    When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air...

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  • 1968
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    The Stalking Moon

    The Stalking Moon

    5.9 1968 HD

    While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman,...

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  • 1981
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    Ragtime

    Ragtime

    7 1981 HD

    A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other...

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  • 1969
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    Moon Zero Two

    Moon Zero Two

    5 1969 HD

    On the Moon in the year 2021, a former-astronaut-turned-salvager helps a millionaire space industrialist capture a 6000-ton sapphire asteroid, while...

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  • 1968
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    Rachel, Rachel

    Rachel, Rachel

    6.5 1968 HD

    Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out,...

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  • 1973
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    Incident on a Dark Street

    Incident on a Dark Street

    5 1973 HD

    A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.

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  • 1970
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    Crescendo

    Crescendo

    5.1 1970 HD

    An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased...

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  • 1972
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    The Groundstar Conspiracy

    The Groundstar Conspiracy

    6.2 1972 HD

    A break-in and sabotage attempt occurs at a top secret research institute and the culprit is cornered and captured. The problem is that he's been...

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  • 1956
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    The Sharkfighters

    The Sharkfighters

    5.3 1956 HD

    Landing on a small island not far from Havana, Cuba, Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves joins a Navy scientific project engaged in finding an effective shark...

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  • 1978
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    No Prince for My Cinderella

    No Prince for My Cinderella

    1 1978 HD

    Tv pilot of the show The Runaways. A friend of McKay’s who is a cop asks for his help when his daughter is missing. It turns out she has...

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  • 1974
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    Manhunter

    Manhunter

    7 1974 HD

    Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after...

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  • 1983
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    Cave-In!

    Cave-In!

    4.5 1983 HD

    A party of tourists -- including a state senator, a park ranger who was her one-time lover, a cantankerous professor, and an escaped convict -- are...

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  • 1974
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    The Sex Symbol

    The Sex Symbol

    3 1974 HD

    A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her...

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  • 1975
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    Someone I Touched

    Someone I Touched

    5.4 1975 HD

    A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that she has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is...

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  • 1975
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    The Family Nobody Wanted

    The Family Nobody Wanted

    5.8 1975 HD

    A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids.

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  • 1979
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    Visions of Christmas Past

    Visions of Christmas Past

    1 1979 HD

    A 95-minute TV movie spin-off from the short-lived TV series Shirley (1979), starring Shirley Jones. Shirley is caught up in memories of her late...

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  • 1975
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    Strange New World

    Strange New World

    3.5 1975 HD

    In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.

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  • 1978
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    The Mafu Cage

    The Mafu Cage

    6.3 1978 HD

    Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the...

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  • 1975
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    Man on the Outside

    Man on the Outside

    1 1975 HD

    A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate...

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  • 1977
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    The Spell

    The Spell

    4.9 1977 HD

    A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.

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  • 1980
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    The Silent Lovers

    The Silent Lovers

    2 1980 HD

    The story of the ill-fated romance between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.

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  • 1977
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    The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

    The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

    1 1977 HD

    General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

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  • 1988
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    Rachel River

    Rachel River

    7 1988 HD

    A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.

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  • 1985
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    Commando

    Commando

    6.687 1985 HD

    John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young...

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  • 1985
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    North Beach and Rawhide

    North Beach and Rawhide

    1 1985 HD

    "Boys Town" drama about a man named Rawhide MacGregor, a one-time ex-convict who runs a cattle ranch as a correctional facility for urban juvenile...

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  • 1973
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    Legend in Granite

    Legend in Granite

    1 1973 HD

    Follows Vince Lombardi's football career from one of Fordham University's legendary "Seven Blocks of Granite" to one of American football's greatest...

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  • 1966
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    An Enemy of the People

    An Enemy of the People

    1 1966 HD

    Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contaminated. But with the community relying on the spa...

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  • 1971
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    Wild Rovers

    Wild Rovers

    6.3 1971 HD

    Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too...

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  • 1984
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    The Parade

    The Parade

    1 1984 HD

    When her estranged, drifter husband Matt returns after spending seven years in prison to ask her to let him be a part of her life again, Rachel...

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  • 1966
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    The Three Sisters

    The Three Sisters

    1 1966 HD

    In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream daily of their return to their former home in...

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  • 1971
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    Paper Man

    Paper Man

    6.3 1971 HD

    A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that leaves...

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  • 1986
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    One Police Plaza

    One Police Plaza

    1 1986 HD

    A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.

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  • 1982
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    Amityville II: The Possession

    Amityville II: The Possession

    5.648 1982 HD

    Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville and are immediately plagued by a string of...

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  • 1976
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    Law and Order

    Law and Order

    1 1976 HD

    Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.

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  • 1974
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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    1 1974 HD

    The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic father and a strong-willed mother.

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  • 1957
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    The Strange One

    The Strange One

    6.4 1957 HD

    A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.

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  • 1971
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    Columbo

    Columbo

    8.1 1971 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    The Rookies

    The Rookies

    6.9 1972 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...

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  • 1972
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    Kung Fu

    Kung Fu

    7.6 1972 HD

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

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  • 1965
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    The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

    5.4 1965 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...

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  • 1976
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    The Bionic Woman

    The Bionic Woman

    7 1976 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.

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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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  • 1960
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    Route 66

    Route 66

    6.4 1960 HD

    Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays...

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  • 1972
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    Maude

    Maude

    6.7 1972 HD

    Well-educated and upper middle class, Maude Findlay is the archetypal feminist of her generation. She lives in suburban Tuckahoe, New York, with her...

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  • 1972
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    The Streets of San Francisco

    The Streets of San Francisco

    7 1972 HD

    Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone...

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  • 1967
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    Mannix

    Mannix

    6.7 1967 HD

    Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed...

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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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  • 1975
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    Wonder Woman

    Wonder Woman

    7 1975 HD

    With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon...

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  • 1987
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    Jake and the Fatman

    Jake and the Fatman

    5.9 1987 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...

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  • 1971
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    Cannon

    Cannon

    6.455 1971 HD

    Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the...

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.8 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1967
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    Ironside

    Ironside

    6.9 1967 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    Harry O

    Harry O

    4.6 1974 HD

    After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry...

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  • 1974
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    Police Woman

    Police Woman

    6.3 1974 HD

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

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  • 1957
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    Have Gun, Will Travel

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    7.4 1957 HD

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

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  • 1973
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    Police Story

    Police Story

    7.1 1973 HD

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

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  • 1978
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    Project U.F.O.

    Project U.F.O.

    6.7 1978 HD

    Project U.F.O. is a NBC television series based loosely on the real-life Project Blue Book

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  • 1968
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    Lancer

    Lancer

    4.7 1968 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    McCloud

    McCloud

    7.1 1970 HD

    Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a...

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  • 1982
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    Matt Houston

    Matt Houston

    6.2 1982 HD

    Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron...

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  • 1950
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    Robert Montgomery Presents

    Robert Montgomery Presents

    4.333 1950 HD

    Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live...

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  • 1974
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    The New Land

    The New Land

    5 1974 HD

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  • 1965
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    The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

    5.4 1965 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...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1968
    imgS12 E20

    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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  • 1967
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    Mannix

    Mannix

    6.7 1967 HD

    Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed...

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  • 1978
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    The Runaways

    The Runaways

    5 1978 HD

    A psychologist tracked down runaways in what began as a short-run series called `Operation: Runaway,' which aired in the spring of 1978. It was...

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  • 1967
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    Ironside

    Ironside

    6.9 1967 HD

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

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  • 1971
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    McMillan and Wife

    McMillan and Wife

    7.3 1971 HD

    McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and...

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  • 1959
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    Bonanza

    Bonanza

    7.5 1959 HD

    The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

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  • 1972
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    The Streets of San Francisco

    The Streets of San Francisco

    7 1972 HD

    Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone...

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  • 1990
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    The Family Man

    The Family Man

    6.25 1990 HD

    A widowed fire chief tries to raise his four children with help from his father-in-law.

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  • 1973
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    Barnaby Jones

    Barnaby Jones

    6.9 1973 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...

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.6 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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  • 1978
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    Battlestar Galactica

    Battlestar Galactica

    7.1 1978 HD

    When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a...

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  • 1965
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    The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

    5.4 1965 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...

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