Dennis Dugan

Dennis Dugan

American director, comedian, and actor Dennis Dugan started his acting career in 1972, appearing in the 1973 made for TV movie” The Girl Most Likely to...” He is well known for his frequent collaborations with comedic actor Adam Sandler. Dennis has also made a career as a television and film director, and appears in cameo parts in many of his films. Dugan has directed episodes of such television series as Moonlighting (was also a guest star in some episodes), Ally McBeal, and NYPD Blue.  Dugan's latest film was “Just Go With It”, which is his sixth film with Sandler. The film also starred Jennifer Aniston and Brooklyn Decker. Dugan married actress Joyce Van Patten in 1973 and divorced her fourteen years later. Now he is married to Sharon O'Connor and has a son named Kelly Dugan.

  • Title: Dennis Dugan
  • Popularity: 23.331
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1946-09-05
  • Place of Birth: Wheaton, Illinois, USA
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  • Also Known As: Walter Bishop
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Dennis Dugan Movies

  • 1989
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    Parenthood
    Parenthood

    6.7 1989 HD

    The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Steve Martin

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  • 1981
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    The Howling
    The Howling

    6.57 1981 HD

    After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Dee Wallace

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  • 1984
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    The Toughest Man in the World
    The Toughest Man in the World

    5 1984 HD

    Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds himself involved...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Mr. T

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  • 1975
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    Night Moves
    Night Moves

    6.7 1975 HD

    Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Gene Hackman

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  • 1996
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    Happy Gilmore
    Happy Gilmore

    6.632 1996 HD

    Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore -- whose unconventional approach and antics on the grass courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 1979
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    Unidentified Flying Oddball
    Unidentified Flying Oddball

    5.4 1979 HD

    A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jim Dale

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  • 1988
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    The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
    The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

    5.708 1988 HD

    After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr....

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Tami Erin

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  • 1976
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    Norman... Is That You?
    Norman... Is That You?

    5.3 1976 HD

    Ben and Beatrice Chambers discover that their son Norman is gay and so Ben is intent on setting him right.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Redd Foxx

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  • 1972
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    Night Call Nurses
    Night Call Nurses

    4.333 1972 HD

    The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Patty Byrne

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  • 1976
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    Harry and Walter Go to New York
    Harry and Walter Go to New York

    5.6 1976 HD

    Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century—by gaining the enmity of the most...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Elliott Gould

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  • 1973
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    The Girl Most Likely to...
    The Girl Most Likely to...

    6.6 1973 HD

    An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Stockard Channing

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  • 1985
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    Water
    Water

    5.8 1985 HD

    A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Michael Caine

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  • 1982
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    Country Gold
    Country Gold

    6 1982 HD

    An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Loni Anderson

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  • 2008
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    You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    5.706 2008 HD

    An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 1988
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    She's Having a Baby
    She's Having a Baby

    5.9 1988 HD

    Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kevin Bacon

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  • 1990
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    Problem Child
    Problem Child

    6.063 1990 HD

    Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Ritter

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  • 1980
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    Deer in the Works
    Deer in the Works

    1 1980 HD

    David Potter, owner of a small town weekly newspaper, decides to get a more secure job. Despite his wife's misgivings, he applies to be a publicity...

    Genre:

    Cast: Dennis Dugan

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  • 2006
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    The Benchwarmers
    The Benchwarmers

    5.86 2006 HD

    A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Rob Schneider

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  • 2013
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    Grown Ups 2
    Grown Ups 2

    6.1 2013 HD

    Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 1978
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    Last of the Good Guys
    Last of the Good Guys

    1 1978 HD

    Comedy-drama about a bunch of police rookies who conspire to convince their hard-nosed sergeant that a seriously ill fellow officer, two weeks away...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robert Culp

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  • 1975
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    The Day of the Locust
    The Day of the Locust

    6.4 1975 HD

    Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Donald Sutherland

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  • 1999
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    Big Daddy
    Big Daddy

    6.468 1999 HD

    A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2001
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    Saving Silverman
    Saving Silverman

    5.6 2001 HD

    A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Steve Zahn

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  • 1987
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    Can't Buy Me Love
    Can't Buy Me Love

    7 1987 HD

    Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Patrick Dempsey

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  • 1973
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    Death Race
    Death Race

    4.4 1973 HD

    In the North African desert in World War II, a crippled American fighter plane that is unable to take off tries to evade and destroy a pursuing Nazi...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Lloyd Bridges

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  • 2020
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    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

    5.951 2020 HD

    A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Maggie Grace

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  • 1976
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    Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours
    Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours

    6 1976 HD

    A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn't know why a gunman is trying to kill her but believes she...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Dennis Dugan

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  • 1971
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    The Hospital
    The Hospital

    6.6 1971 HD

    Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: George C. Scott

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  • 2010
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    Grown Ups
    Grown Ups

    6.4 2010 HD

    After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2012
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    That's My Boy
    That's My Boy

    5.796 2012 HD

    While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2011
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    Jack and Jill
    Jack and Jill

    4.357 2011 HD

    Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2007
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    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

    6.034 2007 HD

    Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his lover...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Philip McKeon

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  • 1975
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    Smile
    Smile

    6 1975 HD

    It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bruce Dern

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  • 2024
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    Knox Goes Away
    Knox Goes Away

    6.394 2024 HD

    A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Michael Keaton

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  • 2007
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    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

    6.034 2007 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2008
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    You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    5.706 2008 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2001
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    Saving Silverman
    Saving Silverman

    5.6 2001 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Steve Zahn

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  • 1990
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    Problem Child
    Problem Child

    6.063 1990 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Ritter

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  • 2003
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    National Security
    National Security

    5.928 2003 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Martin Lawrence

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  • 1992
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    Brain Donors
    Brain Donors

    6.3 1992 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Mel Smith

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  • 1999
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    Big Daddy
    Big Daddy

    6.468 1999 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 1997
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    Beverly Hills Ninja
    Beverly Hills Ninja

    5.6 1997 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Chris Farley

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  • 1996
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    Happy Gilmore
    Happy Gilmore

    6.632 1996 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2006
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    The Benchwarmers
    The Benchwarmers

    5.86 2006 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Rob Schneider

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  • 2011
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    Just Go with It
    Just Go with It

    6.7 2011 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2011
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    Jack and Jill
    Jack and Jill

    4.357 2011 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2004
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    Karroll's Christmas
    Karroll's Christmas

    5.1 2004 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tom Everett Scott

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  • 1994
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    The Shaggy Dog
    The Shaggy Dog

    4.9 1994 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ed Begley Jr.

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  • 2020
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    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

    5.951 2020 HD

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Maggie Grace

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  • 2020
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    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

    5.951 2020 HD

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Maggie Grace

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  • 2010
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    Grown Ups
    Grown Ups

    6.4 2010 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2012
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    That's My Boy
    That's My Boy

    5.796 2012 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2013
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    Grown Ups 2
    Grown Ups 2

    6.1 2013 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Sandler

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  • 2020
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    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

    5.951 2020 HD

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Maggie Grace

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  • 2020
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    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

    5.951 2020 HD

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Maggie Grace

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  • 1983
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    M*A*S*H
    M*A*S*H

    7.9 1983 HD

    The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in,...

    Genre: War & Politics

    Cast: Alan Alda

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  • 1976
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    Cannon
    Cannon

    6.4 1976 HD

    Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: William Conrad

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  • 1981
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    The Waltons
    The Waltons

    7 1981 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ralph Waite

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  • 1976
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    Good Heavens
    Good Heavens

    5.5 1976 HD

    Good Heavens was an ABC comedy anthology series produced by Columbia Pictures Television that aired between February 29 to June 26, 1976. It ranked...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Carl Reiner

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  • 1988
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    St. Elsewhere
    St. Elsewhere

    5.24 1988 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: William Daniels

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  • 1985
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    Alice
    Alice

    6.9 1985 HD

    Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Linda Lavin

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  • 1994
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    L.A. Law
    L.A. Law

    7 1994 HD

    L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Corbin Bernsen

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  • 2003
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    Columbo
    Columbo

    8.062 2003 HD

    Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Peter Falk

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  • 1989
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    7.5 1989 HD

    After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Cybill Shepherd

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  • 1987
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    Hill Street Blues
    Hill Street Blues

    7.6 1987 HD

    A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Daniel J. Travanti

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  • 1988
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    Police Story
    Police Story

    7 1988 HD

    Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast:

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  • 1972
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    The Sixth Sense
    The Sixth Sense

    6.3 1972 HD

    The Sixth Sense is an American paranormal thriller television

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Gary Collins

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  • 1986
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    Shadow Chasers
    Shadow Chasers

    6.5 1986 HD

    Shadow Chasers is a 1985 American mystery television series created by Brian Grazer and Kenneth Johnson. Thirteen episodes were produced, nine of...

    Genre:

    Cast: Dennis Dugan

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  • 1978
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    Richie Brockelman, Private Eye
    Richie Brockelman, Private Eye

    5 1978 HD

    Richie Brockelman, Private Eye is an American detective drama that aired on NBC from March 17, 1978 to April 1978. The series was a spin-off of The...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Barbara Bosson

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  • 1984
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    Empire
    Empire

    5 1984 HD

    Empire is an American comedy television series that aired from January 4 until February 1, 1984.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Richard Masur

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  • 1980
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    The Rockford Files
    The Rockford Files

    7.457 1980 HD

    Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit,...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: James Garner

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

    7.383 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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  • 1989
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    7.5 1989 HD

    After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Cybill Shepherd

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  • 2002
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    6.5 2002 HD

    Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Calista Flockhart

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  • 2006
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    5.3 2006 HD

    Hope, a down-to-earth, happily married mother of three has her tidy world turned upside down when her celebrity sister moves in. Faith was living the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Faith Ford

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  • 1993
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    6.6 1993 HD

    Doogie Howser is a doctor. He is also a 16-year-old genius who graduated college at age 10 and finished medical school at age 14. But he is still a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Neil Patrick Harris

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  • 1989
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    7.5 1989 HD

    After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Cybill Shepherd

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  • 1991
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    7.2 1991 HD

    Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt....

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Fred Dryer

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  • 2000
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    7.2 2000 HD

    Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The...

    Genre: Soap

    Cast: Adam Arkin

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  • 1990
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    6.4 1990 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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Steven Bauer

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  • 2004
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    4 2004 HD

    The Mullets is a sitcom that was created by producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein. It first aired on UPN in 2003, and was cancelled in 2004 due to...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Loni Anderson

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  • 2000
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    5 2000 HD

    Shasta McNasty is an American sitcom that aired on UPN during the 1999-2000 season. The show was created by Jeff Eastin and produced by Eastin and...

    Genre:

    Cast: Carmine Giovinazzo

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  • 1994
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    4.5 1994 HD

    The Byrds of Paradise is an American television series .The hour-long drama centers on a father and his three children, abruptly relocated to Hawaii...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt

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  • 2003
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    8.062 2003 HD

    Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Peter Falk

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  • 1999
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    5 1999 HD

    In this updated version of the classic "The Love Boat" series, recently divorced former U.S. Navy captain Jim Kennedy III takes the helm of a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robert Urich

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  • 1995
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    4 1995 HD

    Marker is an American hour long television drama that premiered on the UPN on March 20, 1995. It is set in and was filmed in Hawaii. The series...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Grieco

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  • 1995
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    Moonlighting
    Moonlighting

    6.7 1995 HD

    Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gene Barry

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