Tom Ewell

Tom Ewell

Tom Ewell (born Samuel Yewell Tompkins) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is noted for having Starred alongside two of Classic Hollywood's Iconic Bombshells, first reprising his stage role in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which he starred Opposite Marilyn Munroe in what is considered one of her most iconic roles and then the following year The Girl Can't Help it (1956) alongside Jayne Mansfield in her breakthrough role. Ewell had 70 credits in film and television.

  • Title: Tom Ewell
  • Popularity: 10.63
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1909-04-29
  • Place of Birth: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
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  • Also Known As: Samuel Yewell Tompkins, Tommy Ewell
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Tom Ewell Movies

  • 1955
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    The Seven Year Itch
    The Seven Year Itch

    7.1 1955 HD

    With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Marilyn Monroe

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  • 1952
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    Finders Keepers
    Finders Keepers

    1 1952 HD

    A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tom Ewell

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  • 1949
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    Adam's Rib
    Adam's Rib

    7.1 1949 HD

    A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Spencer Tracy

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  • 1962
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    State Fair
    State Fair

    4.9 1962 HD

    Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. The parents are focused on winning the competitions for livestock and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Pat Boone

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  • 1956
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    The Girl Can't Help It
    The Girl Can't Help It

    6 1956 HD

    A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tom Ewell

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  • 1972
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    They Only Kill Their Masters
    They Only Kill Their Masters

    5.1 1972 HD

    An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: James Garner

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  • 1983
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    Easy Money
    Easy Money

    6.1 1983 HD

    To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Rodney Dangerfield

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  • 1950
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    American Guerrilla in the Philippines
    American Guerrilla in the Philippines

    5.5 1950 HD

    American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tyrone Power

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  • 1956
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    The Great American Pastime
    The Great American Pastime

    1 1956 HD

    Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tom Ewell

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  • 1958
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    A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
    A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

    3.3 1958 HD

    Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tom Ewell

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  • 1956
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    The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
    The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

    5.7 1956 HD

    TV writer Greg Whitcomb did his military service heroically but now has settled into everyday life with a young wife, Katy. A letter from the war...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tom Ewell

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  • 1950
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    Mr. Music
    Mr. Music

    4 1950 HD

    A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bing Crosby

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  • 1972
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    To Find a Man
    To Find a Man

    6 1972 HD

    A boarding-school girl asks the boy next door for help getting an abortion.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Pamela Sue Martin

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  • 1950
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    A Life of Her Own
    A Life of Her Own

    5.2 1950 HD

    A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lana Turner

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  • 1951
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    Up Front
    Up Front

    1 1951 HD

    Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "Willie" and "Joe".

    Genre: War

    Cast: David Wayne

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  • 1970
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    Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
    Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

    5 1970 HD

    War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Brian Keith

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  • 1947
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    Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
    Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful

    1 1947 HD

    Patsy Kelly is a baby sitter who has no end of problems dealing with the kids in her charge. When Harold and Genevieve sit down in the moonlight for...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Patsy Kelly

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  • 1979
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    Tropic of Desire
    Tropic of Desire

    8 1979 HD

    A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with disreputable locals intertwined in various...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Matt Collins

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  • 1940
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    They Knew What They Wanted
    They Knew What They Wanted

    5.4 1940 HD

    While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Carole Lombard

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  • 1941
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    Desert Bandit
    Desert Bandit

    1 1941 HD

    Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Don 'Red' Barry

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  • 1975
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    Promise Him Anything
    Promise Him Anything

    1 1975 HD

    A young bachelor using a dating service picks a woman whose information card read "Anything goes." When he takes her out and finds out that she...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Eddie Albert

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  • 1952
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    Lost in Alaska
    Lost in Alaska

    6.1 1952 HD

    After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bud Abbott

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  • 2016
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    All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
    All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

    7.6 2016 HD

    Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: I. F. Stone

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  • 1979
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    The Return of Mod Squad
    The Return of Mod Squad

    5 1979 HD

    Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their old boss. But the three soon discover that they...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Michael Cole

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  • 1963
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    Marilyn
    Marilyn

    6 1963 HD

    This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Rock Hudson

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  • 1962
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    Tender Is the Night
    Tender Is the Night

    5.1 1962 HD

    Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jennifer Jones

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  • 1965
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    The World of Abbott and Costello
    The World of Abbott and Costello

    6.3 1965 HD

    A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jack E. Leonard

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  • 1949
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    Concerning a Woman of Sin
    Concerning a Woman of Sin

    1 1949 HD

    An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief for big money. But he has to conceal the fact that...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tom Ewell

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  • 1974
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    The Great Gatsby
    The Great Gatsby

    6.3 1974 HD

    Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Redford

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  • 1986
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    Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
    Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

    7.6 1986 HD

    Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Marilyn Monroe

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  • 1952
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    Back at the Front
    Back at the Front

    1 1952 HD

    Further misadventures of comic soldiers Willie and Joe, now in Japan.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tom Ewell

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  • 1982
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    Terror at Alcatraz
    Terror at Alcatraz

    1 1982 HD

    Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, respectively, involved in the race to find the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tom Smothers

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  • 1990
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    Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
    Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

    5.7 1990 HD

    Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Edgar Bergen

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  • 2018
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    Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
    Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

    6 2018 HD

    A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Scotty Bowers

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  • 1974
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    The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
    The Spy Who Returned from the Dead

    5.2 1974 HD

    Spy spoof about a double agent involcved in a phony death plot.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Orson Bean

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  • 1978
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    Baretta
    Baretta

    6.2 1978 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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Robert Blake

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  • 1962
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    General Electric Theater
    General Electric Theater

    5.5 1962 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ronald Reagan

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  • 1954
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    Your Show of Shows
    Your Show of Shows

    5.5 1954 HD

    Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Sid Caesar

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  • 1963
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    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

    4 1963 HD

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was...

    Genre:

    Cast: Dinah Shore

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  • 1980
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    Eischied
    Eischied

    6 1980 HD

    Eischied is an American crime drama broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1979 to January 20, 1980. It was based on the starring character from the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Joe Don Baker

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  • 1996
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    Murder, She Wrote
    Murder, She Wrote

    7.587 1996 HD

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

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Angela Lansbury

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  • 1966
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    Burke's Law
    Burke's Law

    6 1966 HD

    Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gene Barry

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  • 1986
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    Trapper John, M.D.
    Trapper John, M.D.

    6.289 1986 HD

    Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Pernell Roberts

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  • 1982
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    Best of the West
    Best of the West

    6 1982 HD

    The Wild West misadventures of a mild-mannered store owner turned town Marshal, Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Joel Higgins

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  • 1973
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    Alias Smith and Jones
    Alias Smith and Jones

    6.857 1973 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...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Ben Murphy

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  • 1962
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.704 1962 HD

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

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Alfred Hitchcock

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  • 1957
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    Robert Montgomery Presents
    Robert Montgomery Presents

    4.333 1957 HD

    Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Montgomery

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  • 1956
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    Playwrights '56
    Playwrights '56

    6 1956 HD

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  • 1972
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    Lights Out
    Lights Out

    5.3 1972 HD

    Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Jack La Rue

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Connie Sellecca

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  • 1961
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    The Tom Ewell Show
    The Tom Ewell Show

    1 1961 HD

    The Tom Ewell Show is an American television situation comedy that aired on CBS during the 1960-61 television season.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Sherry Alberoni

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  • 1974
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    Temperatures Rising
    Temperatures Rising

    5 1974 HD

    Temperatures Rising is an American television sitcom that ran from September 12, 1972 to August 29, 1974 on the ABC network. The network had a good...

    Genre:

    Cast: Cleavon Little

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  • 1967
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    What's My Line?
    What's My Line?

    6.619 1967 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: John Charles Daly

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  • 1967
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    The Merv Griffin Show
    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.3 1967 HD

    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

    Genre: Talk

    Cast: Merv Griffin

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  • 1958
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    Studio One
    Studio One

    4.4 1958 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1983
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    Taxi
    Taxi

    7.2 1983 HD

    Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Judd Hirsch

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  • 1981
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    The Mike Douglas Show
    The Mike Douglas Show

    4.833 1981 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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Mike Douglas

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  • 1992
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.3 1992 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

    Genre: Talk

    Cast: Johnny Carson

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