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- DirectorBarry ShearStarsJames BrolinDon MitchellJames McEachinEight people are trapped in a New York City subway after an earthquake, and try to find their way out.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsScott JacobyPippa ScottJohn LarchA perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, then he falls for one of the new residents.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsClint WalkerRobert UrichCarl BetzA small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDon MurrayRay MillandGene TierneyA professor of cybernetics comes to believe that his dead daughter is communicating with him from the netherworld.
- DirectorJames SheldonStarsKaren ValentineEdward MulharePaul PetersenAfter spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian Sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
- DirectorJohn PeyserStarsJanet LeighRossano BrazziCesare DanovaWhile vacationing with her husband in Italy, a middle-aged woman wakes up one morning to find that the man in bed with her is an impostor. He, however, claims that he is her husband, and she cannot get anyone to believe her.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsMichael CallanAnn PrentissEve ArdenProblems arise for Steve and Jill when they discover that the JP that they are using for their marriage bureau is not licensed.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsRobert YoungJames BrolinAnne BaxterMarcus Welby hires brash young Doctor Kiley to assist in his bustling general practice. Among Welby's most pressing cases is a young man suffering from aphasia whose wife is seeking to have him committed to an institution.
- DirectorRobert ScheererStarsHelen HayesBob CraneLillian GishA drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
- DirectorMichael CaffeyStarsMilton BerleSean GarrisonDina MerrillBased on the Leonard Bishop's novel Against Heaven's Hand. Seven blind people are on a plane on their way to a convention for the blind in Seattle. Due to bad weather, the plane crashes and only the seven blind people survive.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsWalter BrennanEdgar BuchananAndy DevineA retired Texas Ranger and his three aging pals are hired to clean up a lawless town.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsLee MajorsJoey HeathertonJimmy DeanA returning Vietnam veteran finds out that while he was gone his girlfriend has been forced into marrying someone else, his small business is in ruins, and that those he once thought were his friends are in short supply.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJeanne MoreauRoger CoggioIn Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsGeorge MaharisJanet LeighRick JasonPrivate eye Gus Monk refuses when attorney Barnes wants him to secure material incriminating a gangster. But then Mrs. Barnes asks him, he agrees and soon regrets it when bodies start piling up and all involved speak with forked tongues.
- CreatorMichael ZagorStarsZalman KingJudy PaceLee J. CobbDavid Barrett heads an organization in Boston that supports poor and indigent clients with the aid of young lawyers, Aaron Silverman is the young idealist, Pat Walters is the black street-smart lawyer and Chris Blake is the WASP added to balance the cast.
- DirectorHarry FalkStarsLarry HagmanJessica WalterE.J. PeakerAn airline pilot tries to balance two wives he has in two separate cities.
- DirectorGene NelsonStarsKen BerryEva GaborWerner KlempererDuring the final months of WW2, a lonely German Baroness hides an attractive American airman in her mansion for long time without telling him the war has been over for almost five years.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsSuzanne PleshetteEd NelsonAndrew PrineThe widow of a scientist who was murdered by his colleagues goes undercover at the research lab where he worked to expose them.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsStephen BoydRobert HooksSusan OliverA racist officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Germans.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsHope LangePaul BurkeLloyd BochnerA young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.
- DirectorJerry ThorpeStarsVince EdwardsChelsea BrownMichael LarrainThe head of a psychiatric telephone hot line gets his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsAnthony PerkinsJulie HarrisJoan HackettAfter an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
- DirectorSidney HayersStarsPatrick MacneeConnie StevensHerbert LomDudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond.
- DirectorTed PostStarsJames FranciscusLee GrantScott MarloweA man and his wife find themselves stranded in a small western town. He discovers that a strange force has turned the residents into zombies, and runs into a beautiful woman who he believes is the key to the mystery.
- DirectorLeo PennStarsGary CollinsJohn DehnerSusan HowardA family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and a movie star who refuses to accept treatment for the disease.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsBurt ReynoldsInger StevensRoyal DanoA Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsDarren McGavinBroderick CrawfordJames WhitmoreGallery, a U.S. commando, and Yuro, an enemy commando, are sent to a no man's Pacific jungle island to capture a crashed U.S. space satellite. Whoever survives, wins. Their nations have agreed to this to avoid war, but they cheat.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckRichard EganMichael Anderson Jr.A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsLloyd BridgesAngie DickinsonDaniel J. TravantiAliens from two planets at war come to Earth, assume human form and continue their battle.
- DirectorJohn TrentStarsSandy DennisStuart WhitmanBurl IvesA famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady, and illegal, purposes.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsEdward G. RobinsonMartin BalsamDiane BakerEmile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsWalter BrennanFred AstaireEdgar BuchananRetired Texas Ranger Nash Crawford re-assembles his former Ranger outfit from the old days to fight crime in his hometown.
- DirectorRoy HugginsStarsWalter BrennanJoan HackettWally CoxAn adventurous young gambler searches for the owner of a mysterious fortune.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsDarren McGavinEarl HollimanJan-Michael VincentA Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsRobert ConradCarol LynleyLee MajorsThree nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsHugh O'BrianAnne FrancisMarilyn MaxwellFive female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDiane BakerEd NelsonHoward DuffA hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckBarbara ParkinsRoddy McDowallOn her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
- CreatorGlen A. LarsonStarsBen MurphyRoger DavisPete DuelHannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, two of the most wanted outlaws in the history of the West, are popular "with everyone except the railroads and the banks".
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsJoseph CottenLloyd HaynesDewey MartinDuring the Cold War, enemy agents, posing as U.S. Navy crew, plan to sabotage a nuclear submarine and steal its anti-ballistic missile guidance system.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsJames CaanBilly Dee WilliamsJack WardenBased on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
- DirectorTom GriesStarsGary LockwoodScott HylandsHari RhodesWhen Earth II, an orbiting research space station, is menaced by a Red Chinese nuclear weapon, its 2,000 inhabitants take action to disarm and dispose of the missile without resorting to violence.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsBill BixbyDiane BakerJack AlbertsonA bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.
- DirectorAlf KjellinStarsLloyd BridgesJanet LeighCarl BetzA scientist keeps having dreams that he is marked for murder by a mysterious tribunal for something that he's not aware that he's done, and that his wife and his friends are part of the conspiracy. Soon he's not sure which is the dream and which is reality.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsYvette MimieuxMonte MarkhamMelvyn DouglasDeath takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
- DirectorTed PostStarsHelen HayesVince EdwardsMyrna LoyFour elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.
- DirectorTed PostStarsBing CrosbyFrank ConverseBlythe DannerDr Cook has a beautiful garden! But what's the secret to his green thumb?
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDennis WeaverJacqueline ScottEddie FirestoneA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsChristopher GeorgeWilliam WindomMarlyn MasonA scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
- DirectorTed PostStarsRobert ConradAnjanette ComerBradford DillmanFive young women vacation together at a resort on an isolated island. They are the resort's only customers and, aside from the boat Captain who brought them there and the resort's handyman, Wylie, the island's only inhabitants. When one of the women is found dead, the others begin to fear the Captain, who's been acting strangely. Wylie and the Captain argue over the identity of the murderer, each accusing the other, and a fight erupts. Alarmed, the women attempt to leave the island, but the boat, their only means of escape, explodes and sinks before they can board it. Then Wylie comes to their aid, claiming to have killed the boat Captain in self-defense and telling the women they're safe. But are they?
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsPatty DukeFrank Michael LiuAnne BaxterA white Californian girl and her new Japanese-American husband must keep their recent marriage secret in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsSally FieldTim MathesonNeville BrandThe adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsRichard BooneSuzanne PleshetteStella StevensA blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend, and hatches a plot to murder them both.
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsCarl BetzVera MilesRuth McDevittA college dropout convinces his family to re-examine its goals and gets them to leave it all for a cross-country odyssey in a 1928 Greyhound bus.
- CreatorStirling SilliphantStarsJames FranciscusMarlyn MasonPeter Mark RichmanThe cases of a blind insurance investigator.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsRyan O'NealLesley Ann WarrenPeter HaskellRyan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance who turns out to be a psychotic who will not let go of Sheila that easily.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsSally FieldEleanor ParkerLane BradburyAfter finding out that the hippie lifestyle isn't as glamorous as the media makes it look, Dennie comes home to find disapproval and judgment at every turn, and her sister Susie wanting to follow in her footsteps.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsDesi Arnaz Jr.Christopher NorrisDan DaileyA high-school senior and his girlfriend get married when they find out she's pregnant.
- CreatorJerry McNeelyDavid VictorStarsArthur HillJoan DarlingLee MajorsIn a small California town, attorney Owen Marshall, assisted by several different younger lawyers, defends clients with great compassion for the accused.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsShelley WintersStuart WhitmanBradford DillmanA deranged mother avenges herself against the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.
- DirectorDavid FriedkinStarsRay MillandSuzanne PleshetteDack RamboA pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.
- DirectorCorey AllenStarsRobert CulpAngie DickinsonEddie AlbertKidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number & reach a struggling actor instead. He decides to cut himself in for some of the money.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsHal HolbrookBarbara RushMargot KidderA newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world.
- DirectorSutton RoleyStarsAlex DreierPat HingleLouise LathamAn ESP expert uses his powers to try to track down a psychic who uses telepathy to commit murder.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsDoug McClureRene AuberjonoisRichard BasehartDuring World War II, American soldier Harry Cook is sent to Norway to aid in the defection of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape Europe, they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in a high alpine castle on the German-Swiss border. Cook must find a way to escape with the scientist before the Gestapo discover the Norwegian's true identity. Cook convinces the other prisoners to build a two person glider that can fly to Switzerland. The race is on to complete the glider before the German guards discover the plane, and the Gestapo catch up with Cook and the scientist.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDoug McClureRosemary ForsythRichard BasehartThe editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.
- DirectorMichael CaffeyStarsGene BarryJanice RuleJames DruryA notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic powers. He uses them on the man's wife to try to possess her and help him escape.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsJane WymanDean StockwellDana AndrewsOn the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsBarbara EdenDavid HartmanJo Anne WorleyThrough unforeseen circumstances, a male chauvinist cop and a dedicated feminist become roommates.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDennis WeaverLois NettletonAnne FrancisFormer Vietnam War POW Lt.Joe Hardy returns home to the US where he finds a totally changed life situation and where he struggles with PTSD.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsMichael ColeVan HeflinHarry GuardinoIn a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.
- DirectorFred WolfStarsRingo StarrDustin HoffmanPaul FreesA father reads his son a bedtime story about young Oblio, who is banished from the fantastical kingdom of pointed heads and things for having no point.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsKen BerryJim HuttonTrini LópezDuring the Korean War, a newly commissioned lieutenant finds that he and his men are trapped after the enemy surrounds their position. Despite having had no leadership training, he uses ancient tactics he remembers from his history books to try to get them out of their seemingly hopeless situation.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsOssie DavisKaz GarasKyle JohnsonA rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.
- DirectorEarl BellamyStarsSammy Davis Jr.Ernest BorgnineJulie AdamsWhen a rancher's daughter is kidnapped by Apaches, he forms a posse and sends for the U.S. Marshal but an African-American Deputy Marshal shows up instead.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsRichard CrennaAngie DickinsonCameron MitchellA professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsPatty DukeTed BessellAndrew DugganOutgoing young girl and a square stockbroker meet on a park bench in Boston, are mistaken for international spies & chased by both sides.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsBrenda VaccaroJack WardenRoddy McDowallA working girl who is a dead ringer for a wealthy socialite is kidnapped by extortionists and forced to impersonate her.
- DirectorTed PostStarsClint WalkerBarry SullivanEdgar BuchananA tough marshal is sent to clean up a lawless western town.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsGeorge KennedyVera MilesWilliam WindomA middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his job. Unable to find work because of his age and a bad economy, he watches his bills pile up, his wife forced to go back to work, and his marriage start to break up.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsRobert YoungRaymond MasseyEve ArdenA judge has to deal with his four daughters, his four future sons-in-law and four weddings all on the same day.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsConnie StevensThelma CarpenterJohn David CarsonA sexy waitress becomes the house mother in a fraternity house.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsConnie StevensKen BerryGail FisherA male chauvinist architect is pressured into hiring a feminist as his assistant, finds himself falling for her.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsRod TaylorDina MerrillKristoffer TaboriDuring a flight from San Diego to Guaymas, Mexico, the Carlyle family from Florida is surprised by a weather front in the Rocky Mountains and must do an emergency landing in a Mexican desert with their plane damaged. Latent tensions in the family interfere with the efforts to solve their desperate situation.
- DirectorLee PhilipsStarsLarry HagmanBarbara FeldonGary CollinsTwo city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would be.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsMichael BurnsMonie EllisDon AmecheGidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husband's company.
- DirectorPeter HyamsStarsRichard BooneMichael DunnBarbara BainA down-on-his-luck private eye and his partner, a dwarf, are drawn into a tangle of missing persons and murder in 1940s Los Angeles.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLloyd BridgesCloris LeachmanEdward AsnerA group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort but find themselves wondering about their existences after a while.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsSally FieldJill HaworthJulie HarrisAn ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsLee GrantJack WardenDon GallowayAfter a policeman is murdered in an ambush, rumors surface that he was on the take. His widow sets out to catch the killers and clear her husband's name.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsDavid JanssenBarbara RushBradford DillmanAfter several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsMartin BalsamCatherine BurnsChuck ConnorsA hired killer hunts down a schoolteacher to get something she has. She doesn't know what it is, but he's already killed twice to get it.
- DirectorDelbert MannJohn BadhamStarsHerschel BernardiStefanie PowersLarry HagmanAn adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.
- DirectorTheodore J. FlickerStarsAlan AldaConnie StevensBarbara FeldonTwo divorced men meet and become friends, but unbeknownst to each other, start dating each other's ex-wives.
- DirectorMichael CrichtonStarsBen GazzaraE.G. MarshallWilliam WindomA political extremist plans to spread stolen nerve gas in a city where a political convention is being held. Government agents are sent to catch him.
- DirectorPeter HyamsStarsDennis WeaverDon StroudDonna MillsDuring the 1970s, a tow-truck driver serves 4 years in prison and upon release he tries to find his 2 motherless children and to put his life back together.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsSusan HaywardDarren McGavinMichael ConstantineA recently widowed research doctor is convinced by a colleague to join him in an inner-city clinic.
- DirectorPeter TewksburyStarsBrian KeithElizabeth AshleyKenneth MarsA rich stockbroker buys a Nevada ghost town as a community for people who need a second chance in life.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsPatty DukeDavid McCallumDorothy McGuireA murdered woman possesses her husband's new wife to seek revenge.
- DirectorBarry ShearStarsJames BrolinDon MitchellJames McEachinEight people are trapped in a New York City subway after an earthquake, and try to find their way out.