Robert Butler

Robert Butler

Robert Butler (November 17, 1927 - November 3, 2023), the revered director known for steering the debut episodes of iconic series like Batman, Star Trek, Hill Street Blues, and Moonlighting, passed away on November 3 in Los Angeles at the age of 95. Butler also played a role in co-creating Remington Steele, featuring Pierce Brosnan, and directed its inaugural episode. His legacy extends to directing the premiere of Hogan’s Heroes in 1965, setting the stage and directing pivotal episodes for Glenn Gordon Caron’s Moonlighting, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Sisters, and The Division.

  • Title: Robert Butler
  • Popularity: 2.287
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1927-11-17
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Bob Butler
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Robert Butler Movies

  • 1971
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    The Barefoot Executive

    The Barefoot Executive

    5.539 1971 HD

    In the great Disney tradition of wild family fun, a young Kurt Russell stars as Steven Post - an ambitious mailroom clerk at a second-rate TV...

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  • 1972
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    Now You See Him, Now You Don't

    Now You See Him, Now You Don't

    6.3 1972 HD

    Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before...

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  • 1997
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    Turbulence

    Turbulence

    5.271 1997 HD

    On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various...

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  • 1984
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    Up the Creek

    Up the Creek

    5.6 1984 HD

    Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to...

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  • 1978
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    Hot Lead & Cold Feet

    Hot Lead & Cold Feet

    5.9 1978 HD

    Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.

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  • 1969
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    The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

    The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

    6 1969 HD

    Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student,...

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  • 1980
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    Night of the Juggler

    Night of the Juggler

    5.9 1980 HD

    An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.

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  • 1971
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    Scandalous John

    Scandalous John

    6.3 1971 HD

    A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

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  • 1976
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    James Dean

    James Dean

    4.7 1976 HD

    A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s, when both...

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  • 1975
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    Black Bart

    Black Bart

    3.7 1975 HD

    A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's...

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  • 1975
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    Black Bart

    Black Bart

    3.7 1975 HD

    A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's...

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  • 1994
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    White Mile

    White Mile

    5.6 1994 HD

    An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.

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  • 1988
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    Out of Time

    Out of Time

    4 1988 HD

    A cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his grandfather to capture a master criminal.

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  • 1978
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    A Question of Guilt

    A Question of Guilt

    6.2 1978 HD

    A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.

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  • 1973
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    The Blue Knight

    The Blue Knight

    5.8 1973 HD

    Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the...

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  • 1971
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    Death Takes a Holiday

    Death Takes a Holiday

    5.2 1971 HD

    Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a...

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  • 1981
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    Underground Aces

    Underground Aces

    5.1 1981 HD

    The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants.

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  • 1977
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    Mayday at 40,000 Feet

    Mayday at 40,000 Feet

    6.5 1977 HD

    The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a...

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  • 1969
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    Guns in the Heather

    Guns in the Heather

    4.5 1969 HD

    An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass...

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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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  • 1974
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    The Ultimate Thrill

    The Ultimate Thrill

    4.5 1974 HD

    At a Colorado ski resort, a jealous man's paranoia results in murder.

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  • 1986
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    Long Time Gone

    Long Time Gone

    1 1986 HD

    A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son.

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  • 1978
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    Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

    Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

    1 1978 HD

    This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomboy and a beauty with an engaging smile -- team up...

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  • 1976
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    Dark Victory

    Dark Victory

    1 1976 HD

    A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.

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  • 1965
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    Kilroy

    Kilroy

    1 1965 HD

    Just discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton Junction. Befriending the young Bill Fuller, he gets involved...

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  • 1984
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    Concrete Beat

    Concrete Beat

    4 1984 HD

    A newspaper columnist becomes determined to clear a woman who is blamed for the death of her child in a tragic fire.

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  • 1988
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    Out of Time

    Out of Time

    4 1988 HD

    A cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his grandfather to capture a master criminal.

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  • 1977
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    In the Glitter Palace

    In the Glitter Palace

    3.5 1977 HD

    The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.

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  • 1965
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    Star Trek: The Cage

    Star Trek: The Cage

    5 1965 HD

    The first pilot episode of Star Trek. Led by Captain Christopher Pike, the crew of the starship Enterprise investigates of a far-off planet which was...

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  • 1956
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    No Right to Kill

    No Right to Kill

    1 1956 HD

    This is a special series of lost classic programs from the Golden Age of TV. The series has been restored by SabuCat Productions from the best...

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  • 1958
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    Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    1 1958 HD

    A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

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  • 1970
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    5.9 1970 HD

    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a...

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  • 1970
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    4.2 1970 HD

    The Dick Powell Show is an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was...

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  • 1970
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    8.032 1970 HD

    Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain...

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  • 1970
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    7.5 1970 HD

    Mister Roberts is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 17, 1965 to April 8, 1966. Based on the best selling novel, 1948 play, and the...

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  • 1970
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    7.3 1970 HD

    Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama. It follows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the Reed family...

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  • 1970
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    7.1 1970 HD

    Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To...

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  • 1970
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    8.442 1970 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 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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  • 1970
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    8.1 1970 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    7.6 1970 HD

    A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

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  • 1970
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    4.7 1970 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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    7.506 1970 HD

    After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various...

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  • 1970
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    7.2 1970 HD

    Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes,...

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  • 1970
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    6.4 1970 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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  • 1970
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    7.5 1970 HD

    Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was...

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  • 1970
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    7.4 1970 HD

    The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of...

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  • 1970
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    7.4 1970 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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  • 1970
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    7.607 1970 HD

    Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of...

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  • 1970
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    7.4 1970 HD

    Midnight Caller is a dramatic NBC television series created by Richard DiLello, which ran from 1988 to 1991. It was one of the first television...

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  • 1970
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    7.3 1970 HD

    Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret...

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  • 1970
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    6.2 1970 HD

    The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized...

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  • 1970
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    7.1 1970 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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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set the...

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  • 1970
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    5.2 1970 HD

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967....

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  • 1970
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    7.5 1970 HD

    High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.

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  • 1970
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    6.978 1970 HD

    A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man...

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  • 1970
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    6.978 1970 HD

    A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man...

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  • 1970
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    5.045 1970 HD

    Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim...

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  • 1970
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    5.3 1970 HD

    The Outcasts is an American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series stars Don Murray and Otis Young. It...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Espionage is a 1963 Associated Television series, distributed outside the UK by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by NBC.

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  • 1970
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    7.601 1970 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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  • 1970
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    4.75 1970 HD

    Then Came Bronson is an American adventure/drama television series starring Michael Parks that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970, and was produced by...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Sirens focused on the work and lives of three rookie female Pittsburgh Police officers. Officer Sarah Berkezchuk is dealing with her failing...

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  • 1970
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    6.9 1970 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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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    A pair of intelligence agents posing as a tennis pro and his coach go on secret missions around the world.

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  • 1970
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    7.1 1970 HD

    The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.

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  • 1970
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    5.75 1970 HD

    N.Y.P.D. is the title of a half-hour American television crime drama of the 1960s set in the context of the New York City Police Department. The...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It...

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  • 1970
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    5.7 1970 HD

    Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    Launched as a two-hour TV-movie, Our Family Honor is about two New York City families who had known each other since their childhoods and who were...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964...

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  • 1970
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    5.7 1970 HD

    Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962 until May 20, 1963. Six years before the premiere of his...

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  • 1970
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    5.6 1970 HD

    The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    The Richard Boone Show is a short-lived, award-winning anthology television series. It aired on NBC during the 1963-64 season.

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  • 1970
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    5.4 1970 HD

    The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the...

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    Happy is an American sitcom that aired on NBC. The series stars Ronnie Burns, the adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, which aired from June...

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  • 1970
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    8 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    A U.S. double agent in WWII Germany infiltrates Nazi councils while evading Allied intelligence (publicly, he was a foreign correspondent who had...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    Peter Loves Mary is a one-season American situation comedy, starring real-life husband and wife Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, that aired on NBC...

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  • 1970
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    5.3 1970 HD

    An intense, clandestine love affair with a prominent politician sparks Shirley MacLaine's quest of self-discovery. From Stockholm to Hawaii, to the...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Shane works for the Starett family, a young widow, her son, and her aging father-in-law, protecting them against the anti-sodbuster rancher Ryker and...

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  • 1970
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    7.1 1970 HD

    Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To...

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