Ralph Waite

Ralph Waite

Ralph Waite (June 22, 1928 – February 13, 2014) was an American actor. His most famous role may be John Walton Sr. on the 1970s CBS TV series The Waltons, which he occasionally directed. He is also well known for his portrayal of the slave ship first mate Slater in the mini-series Roots. Later in his career, he appeared as Reverend Norman Balthus for 16 out of 24 episodes over the two seasons of the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005). He portrayed the recurring roles of Father Matt on the daytime serial Days of our Lives, of Jethro Gibbs's (Mark Harmon) father, Jackson Gibbs, on NCIS and of Seeley Booth's (David Boreanaz) grandfather, Hank Booth on Bones.

  • Title: Ralph Waite
  • Popularity: 13.337
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1928-06-22
  • Place of Birth: White Plains, New York, USA
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Ralph Waite Movies

  • 1992
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    The Bodyguard

    The Bodyguard

    6.691 1992 HD

    A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed...

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  • 1972
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    Trouble Man

    Trouble Man

    6.2 1972 HD

    It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix...

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  • 1990
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    Crash and Burn

    Crash and Burn

    4.3 1990 HD

    Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to...

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  • 1996
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    Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

    Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

    6.571 1996 HD

    When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy navigate the mean streets of San Francisco, trying...

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  • 1993
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    Cliffhanger

    Cliffhanger

    6.503 1993 HD

    A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to...

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  • 1972
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    Chato's Land

    Chato's Land

    6.6 1972 HD

    In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

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  • 2010
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    Letters to God

    Letters to God

    6.8 2010 HD

    A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An...

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  • 1971
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    Lawman

    Lawman

    6.6 1971 HD

    While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a...

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  • 1972
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    The Magnificent Seven Ride!

    The Magnificent Seven Ride!

    5.4 1972 HD

    Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers...

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  • 2009
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    Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective

    Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective

    3.4 2009 HD

    "I will try to be normal" 12-year-old Ace Ventura Jr. promises. Thats cool, except whats normal for him is finding missing mutts, kidnapped kitties...

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  • 1969
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    Last Summer

    Last Summer

    6.4 1969 HD

    During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found...

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  • 2003
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    Timequest

    Timequest

    4.5 2003 HD

    A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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  • 1982
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    Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain

    Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain

    8 1982 HD

    Mary Ellen marries Jonesy but they don't exactly have a good start.

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  • 1982
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    A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain

    A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain

    7 1982 HD

    Most of the Waltons have split up in the days approaching Thanksgiving 1947. But most of the family begins to arrive at Walton's Mountain begging...

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  • 1972
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    Hot Summer Week

    Hot Summer Week

    2 1972 HD

    Two girls pick up a crazed hitchhiker who may or may not be the serial killer murdering hippies in the area.

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  • 2012
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    Gabe the Cupid Dog

    Gabe the Cupid Dog

    7 2012 HD

    When Eric and Marsha break off their long-term relationship, journalist Eric is able to weather it pretty well. He still has his long time canine...

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  • 1988
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    Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood

    Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood

    6 1988 HD

    A timeless story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City, in the 1940s during World War II, roaming with his friends,...

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  • 1973
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    Kid Blue

    Kid Blue

    6.9 1973 HD

    Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's...

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  • 1990
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    Sparks: The Price of Passion

    Sparks: The Price of Passion

    5.5 1990 HD

    A female mayor (Victoria Principal) of Albuquerque gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic center. In the midst of this, she...

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  • 1977
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    Red Alert

    Red Alert

    4 1977 HD

    A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation leak. It seals off the compound, trapping the crew...

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  • 1971
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    The Sporting Club

    The Sporting Club

    3.9 1971 HD

    The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive,...

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  • 1970
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    Five Easy Pieces

    Five Easy Pieces

    7.108 1970 HD

    A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and...

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  • 1994
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    Sin and Redemption

    Sin and Redemption

    4 1994 HD

    Taking a short-cut home from work, high-schooler Billie Simms is raped. Not only does the incident cause an unwanted pregnancy that damages her...

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  • 2008
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    Generation Gap

    Generation Gap

    7.4 2008 HD

    When a rebellious teenager is forced to spend the summer with his grandfather, their differences go deeper than just the years that separate them.

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  • 1973
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    The Stone Killer

    The Stone Killer

    6.2 1973 HD

    A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

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  • 1982
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    A Wedding on Waltons Mountain

    A Wedding on Waltons Mountain

    8 1982 HD

    Erin Walton is considering marrying her boyfriend Paul but her old boyfriend Ashley, who left for the war and married someone else, lived through his...

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  • 1984
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    A Good Sport

    A Good Sport

    1 1984 HD

    The stylish editor of a fashion magazine and a rumpled sports reporter endeavor to keep their somewhat offbeat romance on a purely platonic level.

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  • 2001
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    Spirit

    Spirit

    6.2 2001 HD

    When Kelly and her father move to New Orleans after the death of her mother, strange things start happening in their new home. Kelly is convinced...

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  • 1989
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    Snake Treaty

    Snake Treaty

    1 1989 HD

    Guy Pehrsson is summoned by his grandfather to return to the farming community of his childhood. He arrives from the City to find that his mother has...

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  • 2003
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    Blessings

    Blessings

    6 2003 HD

    Released from jail after a term basically served instead of friends he refused to rat out, Charles 'Skip' Cuddy is grateful his gentleman instinct...

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  • 1971
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    The Grissom Gang

    The Grissom Gang

    6.7 1971 HD

    The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is...

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  • 1995
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    A Season of Hope

    A Season of Hope

    3.5 1995 HD

    When trees in their only source of income, a lemon grove, start showing signs of disease, a burdened Californian family reaches their breaking point....

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  • 1968
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    A Lovely Way to Die

    A Lovely Way to Die

    4.423 1968 HD

    A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's...

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  • 1980
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    Angel City

    Angel City

    6 1980 HD

    Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.

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  • 1994
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    Sioux City

    Sioux City

    5.1 1994 HD

    A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this...

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  • 1967
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    Cool Hand Luke

    Cool Hand Luke

    7.727 1967 HD

    When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or...

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  • 2000
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    The President's Man

    The President's Man

    4.5 2000 HD

    To many, Joshua McCord is a charismatic Asian studies professor. To the President of the United States, he's America's greatest secret weapon; a...

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  • 1993
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    A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion

    A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion

    7.5 1993 HD

    The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, trying to persuade his fiancée to marry him....

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  • 1981
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    The Gentleman Bandit

    The Gentleman Bandit

    6 1981 HD

    Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.

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  • 1994
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    Sin & Redemption

    Sin & Redemption

    1 1994 HD

    A rape victim learns the truth about her husband when their daughter has a life-threatening illness.

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  • 2011
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    25 Hill

    25 Hill

    6.2 2011 HD

    This is the story of an 11-year-old boy whose derby dreams are left in pieces when his soldier father is killed in Afghanistan. The boy teams up with...

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  • 1994
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    Keys

    Keys

    5 1994 HD

    A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.

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  • 2004
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    Silver City

    Silver City

    6.1 2004 HD

    The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor...

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  • 1997
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    A Walton Easter

    A Walton Easter

    6.5 1997 HD

    In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorperson in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans...

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  • 1980
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    On the Nickel

    On the Nickel

    6 1980 HD

    Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his wino friends...

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  • 1967
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    The Desperate Hours

    The Desperate Hours

    4 1967 HD

    The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed,...

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  • 1976
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    The Secret Life of John Chapman

    The Secret Life of John Chapman

    6.5 1976 HD

    The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life...

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  • 2002
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    Sunshine State

    Sunshine State

    6.3 2002 HD

    A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real...

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  • 2007
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    Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses

    Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses

    7.4 2007 HD

    Dr. Maxwell is called in to investigate the kidnapping of a prize race horse. When the case leads to murder, Maxwell and Detective Bryant suspect the...

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  • 1980
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    OHMS

    OHMS

    5 1980 HD

    A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political...

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  • 1991
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    Wild by Law

    Wild by Law

    6.3 1991 HD

    Tells about the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philosopher Aldo Leopold, author of the bestselling...

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  • 1985
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    Crime of Innocence

    Crime of Innocence

    5.3 1985 HD

    Two teenage girls are locked up for a minor offence by a harsh judge who thinks a night in jail will do them good. It's a traumatizing experience...

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  • 1971
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    The Pursuit of Happiness

    The Pursuit of Happiness

    6.3 1971 HD

    William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran...

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  • 1967
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    The Borgia Stick

    The Borgia Stick

    7.8 1967 HD

    A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the...

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  • 1995
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    A Walton Wedding

    A Walton Wedding

    1 1995 HD

    In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashion magazine and the daughter of a diplomat. The...

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  • 1980
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    On the Nickel

    On the Nickel

    6 1980 HD

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  • 1984
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    A Good Sport

    A Good Sport

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1980
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    On the Nickel

    On the Nickel

    6 1980 HD

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  • 1980
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    On the Nickel

    On the Nickel

    6 1980 HD

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  • 2003
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    Carnivàle

    Carnivàle

    7.92 2003 HD

    Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two...

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  • 2000
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    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    7.624 2000 HD

    A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and...

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  • 1972
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    The Waltons

    The Waltons

    7.126 1972 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    Roots

    Roots

    7.4 1977 HD

    The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was...

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  • 1995
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    The Outer Limits

    The Outer Limits

    7.8 1995 HD

    Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were...

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  • 1983
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    The Mississippi

    The Mississippi

    5 1983 HD

    The Mississippi was a television series which ran for 2 seasons from 1982 to 1984. The series consisted of 27 episodes, 1 pilot, 6 first season...

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  • 2003
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    NCIS

    NCIS

    7.6 2003 HD

    From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected...

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  • 1971
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    Nichols

    Nichols

    5 1971 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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  • 1959
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    Bonanza

    Bonanza

    7.5 1959 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    The Third Twin

    The Third Twin

    5.1 1997 HD

    A biologist falls for a twin she is studying and confronts a scientist with evidence on a cloning scandal.

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  • 1983
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    Reading Rainbow

    Reading Rainbow

    8.4 1983 HD

    Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's...

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  • 2005
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    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey's Anatomy

    8.227 2005 HD

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

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    5.1 1961 HD

    The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

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  • 1996
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    The West

    The West

    8.4 1996 HD

    The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and...

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  • 2005
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    Bones

    Bones

    8.2 2005 HD

    Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder...

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  • 1977
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    Roots

    Roots

    7.4 1977 HD

    The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was...

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  • 1974
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    Dinah!

    Dinah!

    6.5 1974 HD

    Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured...

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  • 1990
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    Shannon's Deal

    Shannon's Deal

    8 1990 HD

    Shannon's Deal is an American legal drama. The show centers on a successful Philadelphia corporate lawyer named Jack Shannon, who lost his family and...

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  • 1993
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    Time Trax

    Time Trax

    6.4 1993 HD

    Time Trax is an American/Australian co-produced science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent through time into...

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.5 1984 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    The Practice

    The Practice

    7.7 1997 HD

    A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its...

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  • 1970
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    The Practice

    The Practice

    7.126 1970 HD

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

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