Richard Lawson

Richard Lawson

Richard Lee Lawson (born March 7, 1947) is an American actor who has starred in movies and on television. He is perhaps best known for his roles in genre films; he portrayed Ryan in the 1982 film Poltergeist, and Dr. Ben Taylor in the 1983 NBC miniseries V.

  • Title: Richard Lawson
  • Popularity: 11.194
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1947-03-07
  • Place of Birth: Loma Linda, California, USA
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Richard Lawson Movies

  • 1982
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    Poltergeist

    Poltergeist

    7.145 1982 HD

    Upon realizing that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve Freeling calls in a team of parapsychologists to help before it's too late.

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  • 1999
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    Justice

    Justice

    5.2 1999 HD

    A lawyer and her partner run from the Colombian Mafia and the corrupt U.S. marshals and attorneys assigned to protect them.

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  • 1989
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    The Forgotten

    The Forgotten

    6.2 1989 HD

    Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are...

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  • 2021
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    Not Alone

    Not Alone

    5 2021 HD

    An unsuspecting family buys a mansion for a bargain but discovers a presence in the home and must fight to save their lives.

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  • 1979
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    The Main Event

    The Main Event

    5.2 1979 HD

    A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring — an...

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  • 2021
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    A Holiday Chance

    A Holiday Chance

    8.5 2021 HD

    The family of the founder of a multi-million-dollar film company experiences some tragic events during the holidays and two sisters must set aside a...

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  • 1973
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    Scream Blacula Scream

    Scream Blacula Scream

    5.9 1973 HD

    After an aging voodoo priestess dies, her arrogant son Willis Daniel's believes he is next in line to lead. He is outraged when Lisa, his mother's...

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  • 1997
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    Wag the Dog

    Wag the Dog

    7 1997 HD

    During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the...

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  • 1975
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    Crossfire

    Crossfire

    1 1975 HD

    Vince Rossi is a cop who has been asked by the department to go undercover. Part of the process was being dismissed from the department and being...

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  • 2010
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    For Colored Girls

    For Colored Girls

    6.7 2010 HD

    About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of...

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  • 2001
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    Blue Hill Avenue

    Blue Hill Avenue

    7.107 2001 HD

    A child of a middle class home with solid moral values is lured into a world of crime and corruption.

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  • 1977
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    Audrey Rose

    Audrey Rose

    5.6 1977 HD

    A man is convinced that a young girl is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two...

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  • 1989
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    Double Your Pleasure

    Double Your Pleasure

    6.1 1989 HD

    A television movie about an FBI agent (Jackée) who breaks her leg while trying to capture drug runners, and her identical twin sister (also...

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  • 1974
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    Sugar Hill

    Sugar Hill

    5.8 1974 HD

    When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides...

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  • 1980
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    The Jericho Mile

    The Jericho Mile

    6.1 1980 HD

    A runner, serving a life sentence at Folsom Prison, works at becoming the world's fastest miler and wins a chance to compete for a spot on the...

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  • 2004
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    Christmas at Water's Edge

    Christmas at Water's Edge

    10 2004 HD

    Everyone knows Christmas is a time of giving — well, everyone but one wealthy, spoiled college student who's about to get the ultimate wake-up...

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  • 1977
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    Black Fist

    Black Fist

    4.3 1977 HD

    To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters.

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  • 1985
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    Stick

    Stick

    5.3 1985 HD

    After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting killed by...

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  • 2023
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    CHAAW: Chapter 1

    CHAAW: Chapter 1

    1 2023 HD

    A Celebration of Hip Hop through beatboxing and unique storytelling by the Legendary Biz Markie who rhymes while telling the stories of victims of...

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  • 1986
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    Under the Influence

    Under the Influence

    5.3 1986 HD

    Noah Talbot is a long-time alcoholic whose drinking begins to have a devastating effect not only on his personal life but on his family as well.

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  • 1982
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    Leadfoot

    Leadfoot

    1 1982 HD

    Tommy just bought his first car with his own money. He enjoys driving it fast regardless of the speed limit. He ignores several warnings and not even...

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  • 2024
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    Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black

    Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black

    7.1 2024 HD

    Ava, a young bank professional is devastated when her husband Dallas abandons a marriage she is determined to fight for until fate intervenes,...

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  • 1979
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    Charleston

    Charleston

    1 1979 HD

    Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following...

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  • 1998
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    How Stella Got Her Groove Back

    How Stella Got Her Groove Back

    5.852 1998 HD

    Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really...

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  • 2019
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    Beyoncé Presents: Making The Gift

    Beyoncé Presents: Making The Gift

    7.8 2019 HD

    Beyoncé takes viewers on a journey through Africa with an hour-long documentary special, an intimate behind-the-scenes look at the making of...

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  • 1970
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    Black Terror

    Black Terror

    1 1970 HD

    Fifty years after Richard Wesley's original production of Black Terror, Richard Lawson directs a bi-coastal cast of revolutionaries on a daunting...

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  • 1980
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    The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

    The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

    1 1980 HD

    This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently withdrew, focuses on an American athlete whose...

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  • 1971
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    Dirty Harry

    Dirty Harry

    7.452 1971 HD

    When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law...

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  • 2024
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    Will I See You Again?

    Will I See You Again?

    1 2024 HD

    Two former friends find themselves summoned to their late friend's estate hearing. To claim their inheritance, they must first confront their past...

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  • 2015
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    A Royal Family Christmas

    A Royal Family Christmas

    6 2015 HD

    In the sequel to "A Royal Family Holiday", the children Phillip "Flip" Royal (Romeo Miller), a good-looking spiritual guru; Austin Royal (Eric Myrick...

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  • 2015
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    A Royal Family Holiday

    A Royal Family Holiday

    5 2015 HD

    Royalty in name and mind only, the Royal family led by patriarch Leighton and matriarch Alfreda, kick-off the first film, Royal Family Thanksgiving,...

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  • 2016
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    Lemonade

    Lemonade

    8.4 2016 HD

    The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist...

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  • 1984
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    Streets of Fire

    Streets of Fire

    6.9 1984 HD

    Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be...

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  • 1978
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    Coming Home

    Coming Home

    7 1978 HD

    In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

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  • 1986
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    Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

    Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

    5 1986 HD

    A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.

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  • 2019
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    Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

    Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

    7.3 2019 HD

    Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold...

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  • 2019
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    Always a Bridesmaid

    Always a Bridesmaid

    6.2 2019 HD

    Tired of always being the bridesmaid, Corina James wonders if marriage is for everyone else but her, even when she finally meets Mr. Right.

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  • 2019
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    From Zero to I Love You

    From Zero to I Love You

    5.2 2019 HD

    Darryl Stephens plays Pete Logsdon-just a guy in Philadelphia who happens to have a history of getting involved with married men. His father, played...

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  • 2021
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    North Hollywood

    North Hollywood

    5.7 2021 HD

    A kid must decide between choosing the future his father wants and following his dream of becoming a pro skater.

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  • 2007
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    They Are Here: The Real World of the Poltergeists

    They Are Here: The Real World of the Poltergeists

    1 2007 HD

    This two-parter is about as insightful and plausible as one of those "Histories Mysteries" specials, or that weekly John Edwards "Coast to Coast"...

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  • 2017
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    Shotguns and Six Strings: Making a Rock N Roll Fable

    Shotguns and Six Strings: Making a Rock N Roll Fable

    1 2017 HD

    Documentary about the making of Streets of Fire.

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  • 2006
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    The Last Stand

    The Last Stand

    4.8 2006 HD

    The Last Stand, a drama that chronicles the life of four very different people attempting success as performers in Los Angeles until life becomes too...

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  • 2008
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    Love for Sale

    Love for Sale

    6.5 2008 HD

    Trey is a young deliveryman who can't seem to catch a break. His whole life is a shambles - no money for college and no game to attract the ladies....

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  • 2005
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    Guess Who

    Guess Who

    6 2005 HD

    When a young African-American woman brings her fiancé home to meet her parents, she's neglected to mention one tiny detail – he's white.

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  • 2003
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    Maniac Magee

    Maniac Magee

    1 2003 HD

    An orphaned runaway with many extraordinary and athletic talents arrives in a town divided with racial conflict.

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  • 1999
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    Jackie's Back!

    Jackie's Back!

    7.8 1999 HD

    A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.

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  • 1970
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    Black Terror

    Black Terror

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Black Terror

    Black Terror

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1982
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    St. Elsewhere

    St. Elsewhere

    5.411 1982 HD

    St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed...

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  • 1989
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    Father Dowling Mysteries

    Father Dowling Mysteries

    7.3 1989 HD

    Father Dowling Mysteries is an American television mystery series that aired from January 20, 1989 to May 2, 1991. Prior to the series, a TV movie...

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  • 1983
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    Hardcastle and McCormick

    Hardcastle and McCormick

    6.4 1983 HD

    Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The...

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  • 1974
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    Good Times

    Good Times

    7.926 1974 HD

    Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by...

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  • 1993
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    Saved by the Bell: The New Class

    Saved by the Bell: The New Class

    5.737 1993 HD

    Saved by the Bell: The New Class is a spin-off of the Saved by the Bell series which ran from September 11, 1993 to January 8, 2000. The series...

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  • 2005
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    Numb3rs

    Numb3rs

    7.047 2005 HD

    Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his...

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  • 1982
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    Remington Steele

    Remington Steele

    7.1 1982 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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  • 2000
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    The District

    The District

    6.9 2000 HD

    The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the...

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  • 2002
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    Half & Half

    Half & Half

    8.3 2002 HD

    Half & Half is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from September 23, 2002, to May 15, 2006. The show focuses on the lives of two paternal...

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  • 2003
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    All of Us

    All of Us

    7.354 2003 HD

    Robert James, an entertainment reporter for a local Los Angeles television station, is handsome, smart and thoroughly modern in his thinking....

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  • 2001
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    The Division

    The Division

    7 2001 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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  • 1999
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    Judging Amy

    Judging Amy

    7.48 1999 HD

    Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy...

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  • 1994
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    Touched by an Angel

    Touched by an Angel

    7.2 1994 HD

    Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

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  • 1998
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    L.A. Doctors

    L.A. Doctors

    7 1998 HD

    L.A. Doctors is an American medical drama television series set in a Los Angeles practice. It ran on CBS during the 1998-99 season.

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  • 2001
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    The Bernie Mac Show

    The Bernie Mac Show

    6.342 2001 HD

    The Bernie Mac Show is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001 to April 14, 2006. The series featured comic...

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  • 1984
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    The Cosby Show

    The Cosby Show

    7.009 1984 HD

    The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until...

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  • 1971
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    All in the Family

    All in the Family

    7.837 1971 HD

    Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.

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  • 1972
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    The Streets of San Francisco

    The Streets of San Francisco

    6.983 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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  • 1994
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    Sister, Sister

    Sister, Sister

    7.2 1994 HD

    Twins Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell were separated and adopted at birth. Fourteen years later, they encounter each other by chance at the mall....

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  • 1981
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    Dynasty

    Dynasty

    6.5 1981 HD

    The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam,...

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  • 2000
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    Soul Food

    Soul Food

    6.2 2000 HD

    Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George...

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  • 1985
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    MacGyver

    MacGyver

    7.736 1985 HD

    He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon....

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  • 1995
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    The Parent 'Hood

    The Parent 'Hood

    7.2 1995 HD

    The Parent 'Hood is an American sitcom that aired on The WB airing from January 18, 1995 to July 25, 1999. The series starred Robert Townsend and...

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  • 1996
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    Moesha

    Moesha

    6.806 1996 HD

    Moesha was an American sitcom series that aired on the UPN network from January 23, 1996 to May 14, 2001. The series stars R&B singer Brandy Norwood...

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  • 1973
    imgS5 E22

    Kojak

    Kojak

    6.942 1973 HD

    A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

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  • 1969
    imgS7 E24

    Medical Center

    Medical Center

    6.1 1969 HD

    Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.

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  • 1995
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    JAG

    JAG

    7.305 1995 HD

    Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of...

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  • 1987
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    Wiseguy

    Wiseguy

    6.5 1987 HD

    Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United...

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  • 1982
    imgS1 E13

    Chicago Story

    Chicago Story

    5 1982 HD

    Chicago Story is an NBC drama that aired in the spring of 1982.

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  • 1997
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    Good News

    Good News

    1 1997 HD

    Good News is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from 1997 to 1998. The series is a spin-off of the UPN series Sparks.

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  • 1978
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    The White Shadow

    The White Shadow

    6.8 1978 HD

    The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to March 16 1981.

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  • 1999
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    Family Law

    Family Law

    8.2 1999 HD

    Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together since her husband left her and took most of their...

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  • 1977
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    The Fantastic Journey

    The Fantastic Journey

    5.8 1977 HD

    The Fantastic Journey was an American science fiction television series that was originally aired on NBC from February 3 through June 17, 1977.

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  • 1983
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    V

    V

    7.735 1983 HD

    Fifty spaceships, each three miles across, hover ominously above Earth's major cities. The Visitors that emerge are humanlike in appearance and...

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  • 1977
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    What Really Happened To the Class Of '65?

    What Really Happened To the Class Of '65?

    4.5 1977 HD

    Sam Ashley, a graduate of 1965 class of Bret Harte High School, who was now a teacher at the school, served as the narrator describing what had...

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  • 2003
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    Dead Like Me

    Dead Like Me

    7.642 2003 HD

    When her life comes to an abrupt end, George discovers that death is nothing like she thought it would be. Recruited to collect the souls of others...

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  • 2016
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    Saints & Sinners

    Saints & Sinners

    7.808 2016 HD

    A large Southern church is the background for greed, corruption and murder.

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  • 2015
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    Stitchers

    Stitchers

    6.942 2015 HD

    A young woman is recruited into a secret government agency to be “stitched” into the minds of the recently deceased, using their memories...

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  • 1996
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    Pandora's Clock

    Pandora's Clock

    4.4 1996 HD

    A man infected with a deadly virus boards Quantum Airlines flight 66 in Frankfurt, Germany. The US government must stop the plane before it lands at...

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  • 2022
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    The Black Hamptons

    The Black Hamptons

    6.6 2022 HD

    A feud between two families in the quaint town of Sag Harbor on Long Island, N.Y., starkly illustrates the difference between old and new money;...

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  • 1983
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    1 1983 HD

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  • 2005
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    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey's Anatomy

    8.2 2005 HD

    Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

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  • 1987
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    The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

    The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

    5 1987 HD

    Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of...

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  • 2024
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    Beauty in Black

    Beauty in Black

    7.5 2024 HD

    A stripper's fate takes a turn when she crosses paths with the wealthy, dysfunctional family behind a cosmetics dynasty and a devious trafficking...

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  • 1982
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    T. J. Hooker

    T. J. Hooker

    6.294 1982 HD

    Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to...

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  • 2019
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    mixed-ish

    mixed-ish

    7.8 2019 HD

    Rainbow Johnson recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the ‘80s and the constant dilemmas they had to face over whether...

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  • 2000
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    Strong Medicine

    Strong Medicine

    7.1 2000 HD

    The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.

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  • 1985
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    Comedy Factory

    Comedy Factory

    1 1985 HD

    The Comedy Factory (no known affiliation with the comedy club of the same name) was a live-action, scripted comedy series that ran during the summers...

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