Severn Darden

Severn Darden

Severn Teakle Darden Jr. (November 9, 1929 – May 27, 1995) was an American comedian and actor, and a founding member of The Second City Chicago-based comedy troupe as well as its predecessor, the Compass Players. He is known from his film appearances for playing the human leader Kolp in the fourth and fifth Planet of the Apes films. His live comedy improv skit under the character of "Walther von der Vogelweide" was influential with two generations of comic performers. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he attended the University of Chicago, where he was a "campus legend" according to poet Paul Carroll. Darden’s offbeat and intellectual sense of humor was a major element in the style of The Second City at that time, and is evident throughout his work. Carroll described him as a combination of surrealistic New Orleans and tough, caustic "Chicago Style" comedy. An example of his offbeat humor is the way he squeezed the phrase "Know thyself" into the seven-character limitation of a New Mexico license plate: NOYOSEF. Darden was a core comedian in Paul Sills' Compass Players, the first improvisation theater in the US; it performed around the Chicago area during the mid-1950s. Sills went on to found The Second City in 1959 and brought in many of the comedians from Compass Players, including Darden.

  • Title: Severn Darden
  • Popularity: 5.681
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-11-09
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Severn Darden Movies

  • 1972
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    Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

    Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

    6.2 1972 HD

    In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities,...

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  • 1973
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    Battle for the Planet of the Apes

    Battle for the Planet of the Apes

    5.7 1973 HD

    The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar...

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  • 1981
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    Saturday the 14th

    Saturday the 14th

    5 1981 HD

    After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th....

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  • 1976
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    Jackson County Jail

    Jackson County Jail

    5.5 1976 HD

    A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

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  • 1976
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    Victory at Entebbe

    Victory at Entebbe

    5 1976 HD

    The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in...

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  • 1969
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    Justine

    Justine

    4.1 1969 HD

    In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine,...

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  • 1967
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    The President's Analyst

    The President's Analyst

    5.8 1967 HD

    At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the...

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  • 1971
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    Vanishing Point

    Vanishing Point

    7.2 1971 HD

    Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after...

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  • 1969
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    They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

    They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

    7.589 1969 HD

    In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are...

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  • 1980
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    Why Would I Lie?

    Why Would I Lie?

    6 1980 HD

    Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy...

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  • 1973
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    The Day of the Dolphin

    The Day of the Dolphin

    5.8 1973 HD

    Dr. Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand...

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  • 1979
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    Wanda Nevada

    Wanda Nevada

    5.6 1979 HD

    In the American Southwest of the 1950s, middle-aged vagabond Beaudray Demerille survives as a cardsharp who moves from town to town. But his latest...

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  • 1966
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    Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

    Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

    5.1 1966 HD

    A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.

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  • 1972
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    Playmates

    Playmates

    1 1972 HD

    Two divorced men meet and become friends, but unbeknownst to each other, start dating each other's ex-wives.

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  • 1972
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    Cisco Pike

    Cisco Pike

    5.6 1972 HD

    A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.

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  • 1973
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    The Man Who Died Twice

    The Man Who Died Twice

    1 1973 HD

    A painter who surfaces after having disappeared for seven years finds himself contending with art forgeries and a crooked art dealer.

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  • 1975
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    I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?

    I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?

    3.2 1975 HD

    Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't),...

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  • 1970
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    Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You

    Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You

    4.7 1970 HD

    An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.

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  • 1983
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    Quarterback Princess

    Quarterback Princess

    6.9 1983 HD

    The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. There's just one problem. She's...

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  • 1979
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    Rendezvous Hotel

    Rendezvous Hotel

    1 1979 HD

    A madcap family caters to assorted unpredictable guests availing themselves of the title resort's advertised bliss in this pilot to a prospective...

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  • 1965
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    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    1 1965 HD

    Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation...

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  • 1974
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    The Legend of Hillbilly John

    The Legend of Hillbilly John

    5 1974 HD

    A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.

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  • 1986
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    Back to School

    Back to School

    6.3 1986 HD

    Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his...

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  • 1976
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    The Disappearance of Aimee

    The Disappearance of Aimee

    8 1976 HD

    In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her...

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  • 1980
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    A Small Circle of Friends

    A Small Circle of Friends

    6.5 1980 HD

    In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica, Leo and Nick grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by...

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  • 1981
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    Evita Peron

    Evita Peron

    1 1981 HD

    Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition,...

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  • 1972
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    Dirty Little Billy

    Dirty Little Billy

    4.9 1972 HD

    Clearly influenced by the darker, more sinister style of spaghetti westerns, Dirty Little Billy offers a unique insight into the beginnings of the...

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  • 1977
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    Never Con a Killer

    Never Con a Killer

    1 1977 HD

    Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit...

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  • 1985
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    Real Genius

    Real Genius

    6.7 1985 HD

    Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious...

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  • 1968
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    P.J.

    P.J.

    5.2 1968 HD

    Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William...

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  • 1970
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    The Movie Murderer

    The Movie Murderer

    6.5 1970 HD

    An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.

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  • 1978
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    Outside Chance

    Outside Chance

    2 1978 HD

    An advertising executive finds herself in a small-town jail after being terrorized on a drive from Los Angeles to New York by two hitchhikers who...

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  • 1980
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    A Cry for Love

    A Cry for Love

    1 1980 HD

    Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and...

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  • 1969
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    The Mad Room

    The Mad Room

    6.1 1969 HD

    Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave their mental institution. As children, they...

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  • 1985
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    Half Nelson

    Half Nelson

    1 1985 HD

    Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an...

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  • 1967
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    Luv

    Luv

    4.2 1967 HD

    Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge. At the last minute he's...

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  • 1976
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    Mother, Jugs & Speed

    Mother, Jugs & Speed

    5.5 1976 HD

    To beat out competing ambulance services, an ace driver, an office secretary/paramedic and a suspended cop resort to some outrageous behavior to help...

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  • 1979
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    Orphan Train

    Orphan Train

    5.8 1979 HD

    A dedicated social worker organizes a train trip for a group of slum orphans in 1894, taking them from New York City to the Midwest in search of new...

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  • 1988
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    The Telephone

    The Telephone

    4.4 1988 HD

    Crazy out of work actress Vashti Blue spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve...

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  • 1972
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    The War Between Men and Women

    The War Between Men and Women

    6.3 1972 HD

    A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the only woman who can stand his strong...

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  • 1974
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    Skyway to Death

    Skyway to Death

    4.3 1974 HD

    The passengers in an aerial tramway are trapped when the tramway breaks down 8,500 feet in the air.

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  • 1980
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    Hopscotch

    Hopscotch

    6.9 1980 HD

    When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however,...

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  • 1965
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    Goldstein

    Goldstein

    5 1965 HD

    GOLDSTEIN, the feature film debut of talented director Philip Kaufman, is an early example of American independent filmmaking from the early 1960s. A...

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  • 1979
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    Once Upon a Midnight Scary

    Once Upon a Midnight Scary

    9.2 1979 HD

    "Once Upon a Midnight Scary" is a 1979 television program that aired as part of a CBS television anthology series. The program, hosted by noted actor...

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  • 1969
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    Fearless Frank

    Fearless Frank

    4.8 1969 HD

    A country boy arrives in Chicago, gets killed by some gangsters, and returns to life with superhuman powers in this satirical look at movie genres.

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  • 1969
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    To See or Not to See

    To See or Not to See

    4.7 1969 HD

    A scientist develops an unusual pair of eyeglasses which allows the wearer's mind to see things objectively rather than the usual subjective manner.

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  • 1972
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    Play It as It Lays

    Play It as It Lays

    6.2 1972 HD

    Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather...

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  • 1971
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    The Hired Hand

    The Hired Hand

    6.1 1971 HD

    Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and...

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  • 1980
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    In God We Tru$t

    In God We Tru$t

    6.2 1980 HD

    A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to...

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  • 1971
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    The Last Movie

    The Last Movie

    5.6 1971 HD

    After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.

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  • 1969
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    Model Shop

    Model Shop

    6.563 1969 HD

    While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop", an...

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  • 1968
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    The Virgin President

    The Virgin President

    7 1968 HD

    The President of the U.S. is suceeded by his naive, wide-eyed son, and his advisors try to take advantage of the situation by planning to drop an...

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  • 1979
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    Love for Rent

    Love for Rent

    1.5 1979 HD

    Two small-town sisters go to Hollywood and find themselves seduced by the glamor of the big time and big money as high-priced professional escorts.

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  • 1971
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    Werewolves on Wheels

    Werewolves on Wheels

    4.6 1971 HD

    A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female...

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  • 1982
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    Rooster

    Rooster

    2 1982 HD

    A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arson case.

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  • 1971
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    The Last Movie

    The Last Movie

    5.6 1971 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Mama Cass Television Program

    The Mama Cass Television Program

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Virgin President

    The Virgin President

    7 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Virgin President

    The Virgin President

    7 1968 HD

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  • 1975
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    Starsky & Hutch

    Starsky & Hutch

    7.243 1975 HD

    Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol 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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  • 1987
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    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast

    7.5 1987 HD

    Beauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a...

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  • 1975
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    Baretta

    Baretta

    6.4 1975 HD

    Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74...

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  • 1975
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    Barney Miller

    Barney Miller

    7.3 1975 HD

    Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was...

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  • 1971
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    Alias Smith and Jones

    Alias Smith and Jones

    6.9 1971 HD

    Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben...

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  • 1976
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    Laverne & Shirley

    Laverne & Shirley

    7.2 1976 HD

    Laverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De...

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  • 1970
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    Barefoot in the Park

    Barefoot in the Park

    5 1970 HD

    Barefoot in the Park is an American sitcom that aired in 1970 on ABC. Based on the Neil Simon Broadway play of the same name, the series cast members...

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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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  • 1981
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    The Fall Guy

    The Fall Guy

    7.5 1981 HD

    Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers picks up some extra pocket money by using his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers.

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  • 1974
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    Kolchak: The Night Stalker

    Kolchak: The Night Stalker

    7.6 1974 HD

    Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago...

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1966
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    The Monkees

    The Monkees

    6.5 1966 HD

    Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid...

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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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  • 1964
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    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

    6.9 1964 HD

    Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September...

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  • 1976
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    City of Angels

    City of Angels

    6 1976 HD

    City of Angels is a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who had previously worked together on The Rockford Files....

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  • 1971
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    Getting Together

    Getting Together

    5 1971 HD

    Getting Together is an American musical situation comedy, which aired on the ABC television network during the 1971-72 season. It stars Bobby Sherman...

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  • 1971
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    The Man and the City

    The Man and the City

    5 1971 HD

    The Man and the City is a dramatic television series which was aired on the ABC television network as part of its Fall 1971 lineup from September 15,...

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  • 1966
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    Occasional Wife

    Occasional Wife

    7.5 1966 HD

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  • 1975
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    Barbary Coast

    Barbary Coast

    5 1975 HD

    Barbary Coast is an American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on May 4, 1975 and the series itself premiered...

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  • 1965
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    Honey West

    Honey West

    7 1965 HD

    After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted by rugged Sam Bolt--and her pet ocelot Bruce.

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  • 1978
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    Flying High

    Flying High

    4.5 1978 HD

    Flying High is an American comedy-drama series that aired on CBS from August 28, 1978 until January 23, 1979. Created by Dawn Aldredge and Martin...

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  • 1987
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    Take Five

    Take Five

    1 1987 HD

    Take Five is an American sitcom that aired from April 1 until April 8, 1987.

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  • 1976
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    The Practice

    The Practice

    7.5 1976 HD

    Sitcom about Jules Bedford, a crusty, sometimes grumpy, and somewhat absent-minded old-school doctor with a genuine concern for people.

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  • 1982
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    Faerie Tale Theatre

    Faerie Tale Theatre

    8.421 1982 HD

    A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.

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  • 1974
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    The Six Million Dollar Man

    The Six Million Dollar Man

    7.232 1974 HD

    Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman...

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  • 1968
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    The Name of the Game

    The Name of the Game

    6.8 1968 HD

    The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC,...

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  • 1980
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    Beyond Westworld

    Beyond Westworld

    5.4 1980 HD

    Beyond Westworld was a short-lived 1980 television series that carried on the stories of the two feature films, Westworld and Futureworld. It...

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  • 1982
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    Cheers

    Cheers

    7.6 1982 HD

    The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

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  • 1965
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    I Dream of Jeannie

    I Dream of Jeannie

    7.8 1965 HD

    While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted...

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