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1.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Breakdown
(1955)
TV-14 | 26 min | Drama, Mystery
William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Cotten, Raymond Bailey, Forrest Stanley
Votes: 1,987
2.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Lamb to the Slaughter
(1958)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
After Mary Maloney's police chief husband is murdered, the police investigate but have a hard time figuring out the murder weapon.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Bel Geddes, Harold J. Stone, Allan Lane
Votes: 1,270
3.
Adventures of the Falcon (1954– )
Episode:
Backlash
(1954)
Adventure
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Charles McGraw, Douglas Kennedy, Laura Mason, Ben Welden
4.
Big Town (1950–1956)
Episode:
Father and Son
(1952)
TV-MA | 30 min | Drama
The son of a homicide detective friend of Steve Wilson is arrested for narcotics violation.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Patrick McVey, Jane Nigh, George Conrad, Toni Gerry
5.
Bourbon Street Beat (1959–1960)
Episode:
Light Touch of Terror
(1959)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Kenny becomes involved in a case when it appears one of New Orleans most famous criminals "The Axe Murder" has re-emerged.
Director: William J. Hole Jr. | Stars: Richard Long, Andrew Duggan, Arlene Howell, Van Williams
Votes: 14
6.
Charlie Wild, Private Detective (1950–1952)
Episode:
The Case of Double Trouble
(1951)
Crime, Drama
Charlie is offered $500 to guard a rare and valuable parchment, but he soon finds out that the amount of money he's been paid may not be worth the trouble the job is turning out to be.
Stars: Cloris Leachman, Kevin O'Morrison
7.
Climax! (1954–1958)
Episode:
To Walk the Night
(1957)
Unrated | Drama
On a snowy Christmas eve, police detective Ed Brooks hopes to be able to get away early. But a call comes in that a prowler, who has murdered several women, has struck again.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Mary Costa, Mary Anderson, Michael Anzel, Richard Boone
8.
Dragnet (1951–1959)
Episode:
The Big Mustache
(1955)
TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Stars: Jack Webb, Howard Culver, Tom Daly, Barbara Eiler
9.
Dragnet (1951–1959)
Episode:
The Big Reminisce
(1955)
TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A slow New Year's Eve shift gives Friday and Smith a chance to remember some of their previous cases.
Stars: Jack Webb, Mary Dean, Monte Masters, George Fenneman
10.
Dragnet (1951–1959)
Episode:
The Big Bed
(1958)
TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Friday and Smith are following up on a missing persons report when they do find the man -- folded up in a wall bed with fatal hammer blows to the head.
Director: Jack Webb | Stars: Jack Edwards, Claudia Bryar, William Boyett, Hazel Franklyn
Votes: 24
11.
Foreign Intrigue (1951–1955)
Episode:
Bullfighter's Woman
(1954)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Jack Gage | Stars: Emilio Carrer, Gerald Mohr, Sonja Wigert
12.
The Fugitive (1963–1967)
Episode:
Fear in a Desert City
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
After being on the run for 6 months, Richard Kimble falls in love with a beautiful woman who has a young son. She also has a physically abusive, estranged husband, that wants Kimble out of town, or dead.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: David Janssen, Vera Miles, Brian Keith, Harry Townes
Votes: 375
13.
The Fugitive (1963–1967)
Episode:
The Judgment: Part I
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
The one-armed man is arrested in Los Angeles for fighting and police want the story highlighted in the newspaper to try and lure Kimble into capture.
Directors: Don Medford, Jesse Hibbs, Paul Wurtzel | Stars: David Janssen, Richard Anderson, Joseph Campanella, Michael Constantine
Votes: 273
14.
The Fugitive (1963–1967)
Episode:
The Judgment: Part II
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Lt. Gerard agrees to work with Kimble for 24 hours to prove his innocence, because someone who may have been there when his wife was killed, posted bail for the one-armed man.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: David Janssen, Richard Anderson, J.D. Cannon, Jacqueline Scott
Votes: 335
15.
Gang Busters (1952– )
Episode:
Dillinger
(1952)
Not Rated | 26 min | Crime, Drama
John Dillinger, a notorious 1930s bank robber, escapes from the state penitentiary using a wooden gun, but makes a critical error when he crosses the state line in a stolen car. That act ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Karn | Stars: Myron Healey, Richard Crane, Darlene Fields, Ann Morriss
Votes: 11
16.
Johnny Staccato (1959–1960)
Episode:
The Naked Truth
(1959)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young singer's promising career is threatened by a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: John Cassavetes, Eduardo Ciannelli, Chick Chandler, Michael Landon
Votes: 66
17.
Johnny Staccato (1959–1960)
Episode:
A Piece of Paradise
(1959)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Johnny helps his ex jockey friend who has been accused of killing a dance hall hostess.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: John Cassavetes, Eduardo Ciannelli, Bert Freed, Walter Burke
Votes: 35
18.
Johnny Staccato (1959–1960)
Episode:
Evil
(1959)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Johnny investigates the popular new preacher at the mission who's taken the life savings of at least one elderly local woman.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: John Cassavetes, Alexander Scourby, Lloyd Corrigan, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 50
19.
M Squad (1957–1960)
Episode:
Contraband
(1958)
Not Rated | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Narcotics are being smuggled into Chicago. M Squad must take down this dangerous smuggling ring quickly.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Ross Martin, Marti Stevens
Votes: 13
20.
M Squad (1957–1960)
Episode:
The Human Bond
(1959)
Not Rated | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A bail bondsman's son is kidnapped to force his father to post an $80,000 bond for the release of a murderous extortionist. Lieutenant Ballinger finds himself on a dangerous high-speed boat... See full summary »
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Grant Richards, Carolyn Craig
Votes: 11
21.
Man with a Camera (1958–1960)
Episode:
Closeup on Violence
(1958)
TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama
Kovac takes a crowd shot at a fire scene, inadvertently recording the daughter of an aged mobster, hiding out in a tough neighborhood. The old man is being protected by a gang of young hoods, or so he thinks.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Charles Bronson, Ludwig Stössel, Angie Dickinson, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 53
22.
Man with a Camera (1958–1960)
Episode:
Another Barrier
(1958)
TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama
Mike takes an assignment doing a story on a U.S. Air Force jet pilot. When the pilot doesn't return on schedule from a test flight, his fiancé is convinced he's died, and that it's her fault, so attempts suicide.
Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Charles Bronson, Norma Crane, Grant Williams, Peter Walker
Votes: 42
23.
Man with a Camera (1958–1960)
Episode:
Black Light
(1959)
TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama
A police detective asks Mike's help in documenting payoffs he believes are being made to police officers in a particular precinct.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Charles Bronson, James Flavin, Ann Baker, John Pickard
Votes: 33
24.
Naked City (1958–1963)
Episode:
Fire Island
(1959)
TV-14 | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The detectives hunt down bootleggers on Fire Island after they shoot a revenue agent.
Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: John McIntire, James Franciscus, Henry Hull, Harry Bellaver
Votes: 90
25.
Naked City (1958–1963)
Episode:
A Hole in the City
(1961)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Armored car robbers vanish across from Yankee Stadium, so Lt. Busti dragnets the neighborhood, house-to-house. Brutal gang mastermind Nunda has much more to worry about, because he's barged... See full summary »
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Paul Burke, Horace McMahon, Harry Bellaver, Sylvia Sidney
Votes: 107
26.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A dustball caught in a vacuum cleaner gives birth to a mindless energy creature, which a research director uses to mercilessly exert unconditional control over his staff.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Scott Marlowe, Kent Smith, BarBara Luna, Michael Forest
Votes: 699
27.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Chameleon
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
To penetrate the spaceship of secretive alien visitors, a compromised agent is surgically altered to resemble them and learn their purpose.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Robert Duvall, Howard Caine, Douglas Henderson, William O'Connell
Votes: 516
28.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Demon with a Glass Hand
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Continuance of the human race against alien invaders depends on a man with an incomplete glass computer hand and no memory of his past.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Robert Culp, Arlene Martel, Abraham Sofaer, Rex Holman
Votes: 1,096
29.
Peter Gunn (1958–1961)
Episode:
The Kill
(1958)
TV-14 | 26 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gang attempts to extort money from Mother. When she refuses to pay, the gang dynamites her club and critically injures its owner. The police investigation stalls so Gunn goes hunting for the man he holds responsible.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Craig Stevens, Lola Albright, Hope Emerson, Herschel Bernardi
Votes: 269
30.
Peter Gunn (1958–1961)
Episode:
The Blind Pianist
(1958)
TV-14 | 26 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A suavely dressed man enters a nightclub late at night, carefully takes off his scarf and strangles a woman who is sitting at a table. The only other person in the nightclub is a blind pianist who hires his friend Gunn to get the murderer.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Craig Stevens, Lola Albright, Herschel Bernardi, Richard Ney
Votes: 126
31.
Peter Gunn (1958–1961)
Episode:
Crisscross
(1959)
TV-14 | 25 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A bank manager robs his own bank after disabling everyone with knockout gas. When the manager's co-conspirator escapes to Italy with the money, Gunn is hired to track the man down.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Craig Stevens, Lola Albright, Herschel Bernardi, Minerva Urecal
Votes: 107
32.
Racket Squad (1950–1953)
Episode:
The Con Gambit
(1952)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Paul Birch, Buff Brady, Lynn DeHaven, King Donovan
33.
Racket Squad (1950–1953)
Episode:
Anyone Can Be a Sucker
(1952)
Crime, Drama
In order to prevent a murder, small-time crook Smiley Gibbons squeals on a major gangster who's running a gambling ring, thereby putting his own life in danger.
Director: James Flood | Stars: Reed Hadley, Nancy Valentine, James Flavin, Louis Jean Heydt
Votes: 19
34.
77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
Episode:
Downbeat
(1959)
TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Although he is acquitted for lack of evidence of the crime of sedition, Bailey's private investigator's license is revoked and he goes on a drinking spree. He is then recruited by a former friend to conduct business with Communists.
Director: Montgomery Pittman | Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Roger Smith, Edd Byrnes, John van Dreelen
Votes: 59
35.
77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
Episode:
The College Caper
(1961)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Bailey and Kookie enter college--as teacher and student--to protect a gangster's football-hero son.
Director: Robert Douglas | Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Edd Byrnes, Roger Smith, Richard Long
Votes: 37
36.
77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
Episode:
88 Bars
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Stu Bailey is hired by one of the richest women in the world to investigate a series of attempts on the life of her brother. The highlights of Bailey's investigation include a quick trip to... See full summary »
Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Cloris Leachman, Joanna Barnes, Bobby Troup
Votes: 52
37.
77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
Episode:
The Fumble
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A drunk, that Stu is supposed to keep an eye on, is framed for murder.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin | Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Richard Long, Gail Kobe, Sue Ane Langdon
Votes: 40
38.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Mirror Image
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
While waiting in a bus station, Millicent Barnes has the strange feeling that her doppelganger is trying to take over her life.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Rod Serling, Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Joseph Hamilton
Votes: 4,335
39.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Shelter
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A suburban dinner party is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare themselves, they turn against the one family that installed a permanent bomb shelter.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Larry Gates, Joseph Bernard, Jack Albertson, Peggy Stewart
Votes: 3,549
40.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
He's Alive
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A tiny neo-Nazi organization struggles pathetically to succeed in a big city. A mysterious figure begins to ruthlessly guide a young, insecure U.S. Nazi leader, and the group begins to draw more attention.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Ludwig Donath, Paul Mazursky, Howard Caine
Votes: 2,181
41.
The Untouchables (1959–1963)
Episode:
A Fist of Five
(1962)
52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Mike Brannon is a tough cop but his two blocks of Chicago are among the safest there are. He has a tendency to be rough with hoodlums and when he beats up one of Tony Lamberto's boys he ... See full summary »
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Robert Stack, Lee Marvin, Frank DeKova, Phyllis Coates
Votes: 65
42.
The Untouchables (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Man in the Cooler
(1963)
52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ness arranges parole for convict Al Remp, in order for Remp to obtain information enough to convict his old boss, bootlegger Fat Augie Strom. Remp's wife is not informed about the fact that... See full summary »
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Robert Stack, J.D. Cannon, Peter Whitney, Salome Jens
Votes: 52
43.
The Untouchables (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Torpedo
(1963)
52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Mobster Victor Kurtz makes peace with his main rival for illegal liquor distribution in Chicago's South Side, Monk Lyselle. All goes well for several months until Eliot Ness and his men ... See full summary »
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Robert Stack, Charles McGraw, John Anderson, Gail Kobe
Votes: 48
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