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Birthday:

08-18-1942 (82 years)

Birthplace:

Houston, Texas, USA

Biography

Henry Gayle Sanders is an American actor known for his TV roles as Prosper Denton on Queen Sugar, Samuel Carter on 9-1-1, Uncle Chester on Hap & Leonard, Cedric on the miniseries DMZ, and Robert E. On Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as well as the TV movie of the same name.

He's known for his film roles as Arthur Holloway in Samaritan, Pastor Jack in Roman J. Israel Esq., Cager Lee in Selma, Red Henderson in Whiplash, Martin in Rocky Balboa, Cesar's Trainer in Play It to the Bone, and Sandy in Bull Durham. He has also had roles in a number of TV movies.

He's guest starred on numerous TV shows including Shameless, American Horror Story, Grey's Anatomy, The Mentalist, CSI, Cold Case, Eleventh Hour, Heartland, Commander in Chief, Joan of Arcadia, The West Wing, Boomtown, NYPD Blue, Moesha, Sliders, ER, Murphy Brown, The Young and the Restless, L.A. Law, Alf, Matlock, Married... with Children, Beauty and the Beast, Moonlighting, Cagney & Lacey, Highway to Heaven, What's Happening Now?, 227, Hunter, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, Knots Landing, Night Court, Knight Rider, Diff'rent Strokes, St. Elsewhere, The Greatest American Hero, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and The Rockford Files.

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Bull Durham

Act like Sandy

event1988 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.

Rocky Balboa

Act like Martin

event2006 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

His wife is dead and his son hates him, but this old man still has fight in him! When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging Rocky to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger, and thirty years his junior.

Crimes of the Mind

Act like Judge Maynard

event2014 star_border 4.8 top_panel_open

The true story of Carolyn's Raeburn's daughter who graduated from high school at the age of 16. Laura was bright, popular and enthusiastic about the future, but the summer before she was to begin college, an event occurred changing forever the lives of her and her family. Laura visited a boarding ranch in the country to learn horseback riding. And there, she entered a world dominated by a strange and fearsome woman who took control of Laura's mind. She was groomed to replace the woman's dead daughter. Carolyn spent the next five years of her life, much of her sanity and more than half a million dollars to get her daughter back.

Made in Heaven

Act like Henry

event1987 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her assignment on Earth. When Annie leaves, Mike follows.

Session Man

Act like Louie

event1991 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

When personal and creative differences threaten to destroy a musical supergroup during the recording of an album, studio guitar player McQueen is brought in to smooth out the tracks. Soon he is reconsidering the direction of his life as he dreams of the elusive brass ring.

Kuffs

Act like Building Owner

event1992 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's brother Brad is killed and George inherits Brad's "patrol special" privatized police district and all the problems that come with it.

Choose Me

Act like Hospital Administrator

event1984 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talk radio relationship counselor, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.

Killer of Sheep

Act like Stan

event1978 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.

The Inheritance

Act like Blacksmith

event1997 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

A beautiful orphan of mysterious parentage is asked by her adoptive family to help find a husband for their niece, but when two suitors both fall for the orphan girl, the niece instigates a scheme to discredit her in the eyes of her guardians. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.

The Ambush Murders

Act like Old Con

event1982 star_border 9 top_panel_open

An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.

No Man's Land

Act like Heath

event1987 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The rookie becomes too involved and starts to enjoy the thrill and lifestyle of the game, and becomes romanticly involved with the leaders sister.

Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes

Act like Sam Kingston (as Henry Sanders)

event1974 star_border 3.9 top_panel_open

In 1950s Harlem a vicious Italian gangster (Frank deKova) tries to muscle in on a black racketeer's (Paul Harris) numbers game.

Kicks

Act like Garage Attendant

event1985 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A wealthy man with a penchant for living on the edge and engaging in dangerous, life-threatening activities becomes romantically involved with a female university professor who has the same proclivities.

The Devil's Garden

Act like Cult Member with Cigar

event1973 star_border 3 top_panel_open

Bizarre Rituals of Forbidden Ecstasy on the Island of the Possessed

Little John

Act like Merle

event2002 star_border 7.1 top_panel_open

The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her knowledge, her father took the boy and raised him. Twelve years later, she is now a successful family-court judge in L.A. Over the years, she has avoided her father and knows nothing of the child. That all changes when he decides that is time she knew her own child and heads for L.A.

Rebel

Act like James Henderson

Blues

Act like Pop Boudreaux

event2008 top_panel_open

Chile and Head, two wannabe thugs, get more than they bargained for when they duck into a blues joint while on the run from the cops. The seventy-year-old owner of the club and his staff, each societal misfits in their own right, become hostages and bear witness to an intense journey of self discovery as Chile and Head move down vastly divergent paths.

Deadly Sunday

Act like Johnny

event1982 top_panel_open

A family's weekly Sunday drive turns terrifying when desperate jewel thieves detour them and hold them hostage.

No Place to Hide

Act like James Henderson

event1974 star_border 3.9 top_panel_open

In New York in the late 60s, a politically motivated group of students plans bombings of company offices who do business with dictators in Middle American countries. But when they contact a known terrorist and bombing specialist, the FBI gets on their track.

Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie

Act like Robert E.

event1999 star_border 8.2 top_panel_open

As Colorado Springs' Commisioner, Sully opposes a deal to mine for copper to make electricity. In order to sway Sully's decision, Mr. Garrick threatens Sully. Sully and Michaela's daugther, Katie, is then kidnapped while the town celebrates Michaela's birthday. The search for Katie takes Sully, Micheala, and their friends on an adventure through Mexico that is filled with danger at every turn.

Samaritan

Act like Arthur Holloway

event2022 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

Thirteen year old Sam Cleary suspects that his mysteriously reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith is actually the legendary vigilante Samaritan, who was reported dead 25 years ago. With crime on the rise and the city on the brink of chaos, Sam makes it his mission to coax his neighbor out of hiding to save the city from ruin.

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

Act like Al Melden

event1986 star_border 5 top_panel_open

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

Callie & Son

Act like Tanner

event1981 star_border 7 top_panel_open

A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to wealth and power as the wife of a newspaper publisher who helps her locate her son, in whose future she becomes obsessed.

Breathless

Act like Man with Pipe

event1983 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a highway patrolman, he becomes the most wanted fugitive in L.A.

Dying to Love You

Act like Attorney

event1993 star_border 3.5 top_panel_open

Roger Paulson is lonely after his divorce. He thinks he has finally found the woman of his dreams...until he uncovers her web of lies.

Weekend Pass

Act like Officer Henry

event1984 star_border 2.4 top_panel_open

Four Navy recruits fresh from boot camp graduation in San Diego spend a weekend pass together out on the town in Los Angeles before shipping out for further training.

Berkeley

Act like Gadsen

event2005 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

Just as sex, drugs, rock & roll, hippies, and Vietnam enter our consciousness, so it does for Ben Sweet, the shy, 18-year-old son of conservative businessman, Sy. Ben enters UC Berkeley in 1966 to avoid the draft, but finds himself smack in the middle of a home-grown revolution.

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

Act like Harve

event1979 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.

The Man Who Fell to Earth

event1987 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

An alien lands on Earth, and decides that he needs to a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can return to his home planet.

Whiplash

Act like Red Henderson

event2014 star_border 8.4 top_panel_open

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

A Time to Live

Act like Fred

event1985 star_border 8.5 top_panel_open

The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.

My Brother's Wedding

Act like Beat-up man

event1983 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

A young African-American man, living in Los Angeles without direction in his life, reluctantly agrees to be the best man for his brother, an upwardly mobile lawyer.

Panama Red

Act like John

event1976 star_border 4.5 top_panel_open

A hippie musician needs to make $60,000 through selling high grade Panama Red in just three days to pay back a drug smuggler known as The Money Man.

Carnival of Souls

Act like Officer Soby

event1998 star_border 3.8 top_panel_open

A young woman is pursued in reality and in her subconscious by the sadistic carnival clown who raped and murdered her mother.

Independence Day

Act like Charles

event1976 top_panel_open

In this drama that was a UCLA student thesis expanded to feature length, two African-Americans come from Tennessee to Los Angeles. The man will not marry the woman as he has just been released from prison and cannot commit himself. He ends up working in a factory, while she gets a job as a maid. The two split up after he gets involved in a strike. She goes to school but ends up laid off from a good paying job. Later the two meet again. Both are surprised by the great changes in their lives since they have been apart.

The Switch

Act like Hank

event1993 star_border 10 top_panel_open

Larry McAfee is paralyzed from the neck down following a motorcycle accident. He gradually loses the will to live, in the meantime befriending a talk radio DJ over the phone. The two meet each other and become friends, though Larry still wishes to end his life. The DJ reluctantly has a switch installed on Larry's life support that Larry can activate at any time (via his mouth) to end his life.

Tonight's the Night

Act like Disc Jockey

event1987 star_border 1 top_panel_open

The game of love starts in a typical blues bar. The hot and magic rhythm of the blues makes even the shiest man throw away his fears and participate in the erotic of the night.

The Boss' Son

Act like Charles

event1978 top_panel_open

Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working for his father, a successful carpet manufacturer. Bobby's dreams of a cushy junior exec position are quashed when he's told to report to the shipping department, where he's trained as a delivery driver. Learning the business from the ground up embitters Bobby, as well as his coworkers, some of whom, he discovers, are stealing from the company.

Child's Play 3

Act like Major

event1991 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, teen Andy Barclay is placed in a military school, and the spirit of Chucky returns to renew his quest and seek vengeance after being recreated from a mass of melted plastic.

Selma

Act like Cager Lee

event2014 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

You Again

Act like Chaplain

event2010 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl from her past, is set to be her sister-in-law. Before the wedding bells toll, Marni must show her brother that a tiger doesn't change its stripes. On Marni's side is her mother, while Joanna's backed by her wealthy aunt.

Play It to the Bone

Act like Cesar's Trainer

event1999 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the middleweight title. They enlist Grace, Cesar's current and Vinnie's ex girlfriend, to drive them to Vegas.

Rainbow Drive

Act like Marvin Burgess

event1990 star_border 4.5 top_panel_open

A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Act like Pastor Jack

event2017 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.

Endangered Species

Act like Dr. Ross

event1982 star_border 5.1 top_panel_open

A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped

Act like Ellis Watley

event1995 star_border 4.3 top_panel_open

Arthur Milo, an IRS official with access to detailed personal and financial data, chooses his kidnap victims from his files. Pete Honeycutt is in charge of the case and Milo taunts him with personal phone calls, eventually threatening his family.

Hobson's Choice

Act like Tubby Wadlow

event1983 top_panel_open

Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.

Ride with the Wind

Act like Dr. Dailey

event1994 top_panel_open

Frank Shelby is a motorcycle racer for whom age, personal tragedy and a love for the bottle have supplanted hopes of the big time. But when he meets Katherine, a widow whose young son, Danny, has leukemia, Frank forms an unexpected bond with them. And Danny's determination in the face of his illness gives Frank a newfound drive to win.

Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder

Act like Harry

event1989 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case.

Blue: The American Dream

Act like China Banks

event2016 top_panel_open

Gary "Blue" Meekins is a medium-weight fighter struggling to box his way to the American dream, but Harlem's mean streets threaten to turn him into another statistic when an old friend cons him into helping rob a local drug dealer. But the heist goes disastrously wrong when the victims turn out to be an innocent family. Wracked by guilt, Blue commits himself to seeking his redemption in the ring.

Something So Right

Act like Officer

event1982 star_border 4.7 top_panel_open

Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a real little scamp. Being at one's wit's end, his mother decides to look for a "big brother" (sort of surrogate father) for Joey. At first this clumsy Arnie doesn't know how to handle Joey but after a while everything changes and not only for Joey ...

Good Men

Act like Self

event2024 top_panel_open

After the birth of his grandson, Bobby Roth undertakes a cinematic investigation as to what constitutes being a "good man" in today's world. This voyage of discovery leads him to interview more than fifty of his friends, both men and women who he considers to be "good people," about their views on everything from how they were parented to their thoughts on feminism, change, and regrets they might have. Their answers both surprises and enlighten both the viewers and Bobby, himself.

I Don't Know

Act like Brad

event2024 top_panel_open

A failed cartoonist scores a dangerous win at a high-stakes poker game, and flees the criminal underworld of Los Angeles with his resilient sex worker fiancé.

Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home

event1983 star_border 4.5 top_panel_open

An award winning high school football coach finds himself out of work, and switching roles with his wife for the summer when she goes back to work for the first time in 15 years.

Concrete Beat

Act like Lt. Lucas

event1984 star_border 4 top_panel_open

A newspaper columnist becomes determined to clear a woman who is blamed for the death of her child in a tragic fire.

Manhood

Act like Police Officer

event2003 star_border 4.5 top_panel_open

Filled with both laughter and tears, Manhood is a fascinating exploration of the interpersonal relationships that can define - or destroy - a family. A teenage son rebels against everything his parents hold sacred. A gather tries hard to own up to his responsibilities. A black-sheep brother-in-law revels in the depths of depravity. His estranged wife finds the freedom to explore her sexuality. Together, they create an emotionally charged family dynamic that builds to a powerful - and unexpected - ending.

Family Feud

Act like 2096 Descendant

event2018 star_border 2.5 top_panel_open

Jay-Z aims to unite the new and older generations of rap fans, while also reflecting on his own infidelity.

Deadly Messages

Act like Gym Attendant

event1985 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

When Laura unearths an old Ouija board in her closet, her roommate, Cindy, uses it and encounters the spirit of a man that had been murdered in their apartment. After Laura later witnesses Cindy being strangled to death, the authorities arrive to find Cindy missing and no evidence of a crime. Laura sets out to convince everyone that the murder was real while evading the man she feels is Cindy's killer.

Good Times

(1 ep.)

event1974 star_border 8 top_panel_open

Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons. The series is set in Chicago. The first two seasons were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. In the fall of 1975, the show moved to Metromedia Square, where Norman Lear's own production company was housed.

Boomtown

Act like Police Sergeant Miller (1 ep.)

event2002 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

Each episode of this series, set in contemporary Los Angeles, examines one crime from many different viewpoints - uniformed cops, detectives, witnesses, the media, the fire department and rescue squad, even the criminals themselves.

L.A. Law

Act like Judge Robinson Lowry (1 ep.)

event1986 star_border 7.1 top_panel_open

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 Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.

Joan of Arcadia

(1 ep.)

event2003 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

Joan Girardi has begun acting a little strange since her family moved to the city of Arcadia. No one knows that various people keep introducing themselves as God, and then giving the teenager specific directions to do things. Unsure of what God wants, and if she's even sane, Joan tentatively begins to follow God's cryptic directives, all the while trying to retain a "normal" teen-aged existence.

The Division

(1 ep.)

event2001 star_border 7 top_panel_open

The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on Lifetime on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes.

Matlock

(3 ep.)

event1986 star_border 7.1 top_panel_open

Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.

Knight Rider

Act like Hotel Security Guard (1 ep.)

event1982 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.

Cold Case

Act like Ronnie Collins (1 ep.)

event2003 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.

Beauty and the Beast

(1 ep.)

event1987 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

Beauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent, a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine, a savvy Assistant District Attorney in New York; and a secret Utopian community of social outcasts living in a subterranean sanctuary. Through an empathetic bond, Vincent senses Catherine's emotions, and becomes her guardian.

The Jeffersons

(1 ep.)

event1975 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.

Moonlighting

Act like Investigator #1 (as Henry Sanders) (1 ep.)

event1985 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.

Highway to Heaven

(2 ep.)

event1984 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.

American Horror Story

Act like Willie (1 ep.)

event2011 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

Heartland

(1 ep.)

event2007 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

Dr. Nathaniel Grant is a pioneering organ-transplant surgeon who takes risks that other doctors would not in order to save the lives of his patients. He works closely with his ex-wife, Kate Armstrong, an organ-donor coordinator with whom he has a volatile relationship. Grant's arrogance and willingness to perform risky procedures causes him to butt heads with the hospital administration. But his main focus is on his intense relationship with his job and his patients, often at the expense of his family.

Hill Street Blues

(2 ep.)

event1981 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

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

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

(1 ep.)

event1983 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.

Knots Landing

Act like Stan (1 ep.)

event1979 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

(1 ep.)

event1977 star_border 7 top_panel_open

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually, in an almost anthological style. That is, some episodes featured only the Hardy Boys and others only Nancy Drew.

Moesha

(1 ep.)

event1996 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

The everyday life of Moesha Mitchell, a vivacious young woman juggling romance, school, ever-changing family dynamics, and friendships.

Cagney & Lacey

Act like Det. Cummings / Sgt. Trask (2 ep.)

event1982 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

(11 ep.)

event1993 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.

ALF

Act like George (1 ep.)

event1986 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.

Hunter

Act like Police P.R. Man (1 ep.)

event1984 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

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. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Act like Merlle (1 ep.)

event1951 star_border 8.7 top_panel_open

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.

Act like Phillip (1 ep.)

event1994 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Eleventh Hour

Act like Sam Tewsbury (1 ep.)

event2008 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities. His crusade is to protect the substance of science against those who would abuse and misuse scientific discoveries for their own gain.

Kingston: Confidential

(1 ep.)

event1977 star_border 5 top_panel_open

Kingston: Confidential is an American mystery crime drama that aired on NBC for 13 episodes during the spring of 1977, following the success of a 1976 made-for-TV movie entitled Kingston.

Palmerstown, U.S.A.

(1 ep.)

event1980 star_border 5.5 top_panel_open

Palmerstown, U.S.A. is a drama series. It centers on the lives of two 9-year-old best friends, one black and one white, growing up in a small Southern town during the 1930s.

The West Wing

Act like Ambassador Tiki (1 ep.)

event1999 star_border 8.2 top_panel_open

The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.

The Mentalist

Act like Willie Shubert (1 ep.)

event2008 star_border 8.4 top_panel_open

Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.

Married... with Children

Act like Murray (1 ep.)

event1987 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.

Night Court

Act like Leo Bell (1 ep.)

event1984 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.

The Atlanta Child Murders

Act like Judge Clarence Cooper (2 ep.)

event1985 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

The Atlanta Child Murders is a TV miniseries that aired on February 10 and 12, 1985 on CBS. Inspired by true events, the miniseries examines the so-called "Atlanta child murders" of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Act like Bill Gibson (1 ep.)

event2000 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

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

Sliders

Act like Harold (1 ep.)

event1995 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see his new invention. But an increase in power and an early departure leave all three, plus a washed-up soul singer named Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown, lost in a parallel world. Now they must "slide" from world to world, not only adapting to their changing surroundings, but also trying to get back to their world. Will they ever make it home?

Grey's Anatomy

Act like Dr. Hudson (1 ep.)

event2005 star_border 8.2 top_panel_open

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

Commander in Chief

Act like Gavin Kester (1 ep.)

event2005 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

Mackenzie Allen has a lot on her plate -- she has twin teenagers, a 6-year-old at home and an ambitious husband at the office, and she is about to become the first female president of the United States. Before that happens, however; Mackenzie, who serves as vice president, has to decide whether or not to go against the dying wishes of the current president, who has asked her to step down and let someone "more appropriate" fill his shoes in the Oval Office. Not only does the president want her to resign, so does the entire party that elected her in the first place. But when the moment of truth arrives, Mackenzie isn't willing to be a mere footnote in history. Instead of allowing her detractors to keep her down, she decides to trust her instincts and accept the most powerful job in the world.

9-1-1

Act like Samuel Carter (4 ep.)

event2018 star_border 8.2 top_panel_open

Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.

Miami Vice

Act like Trick Baby (1 ep.)

event1984 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

Father Dowling Mysteries

Act like City Hall Guard (1 ep.)

event1989 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

Father Dowling Mysteries is an American television mystery series that aired from January 20, 1989 to May 2, 1991. Prior to the series, a TV movie aired on November 30, 1987. For its first season, the show was on NBC; it moved to ABC for its last two seasons. It is based on the adventures of the title character created by Ralph McInerny, in a series of mystery novels. The series was produced by The Fred Siverman Company and Dean Hargrove Productions in association with Viacom Productions.

Murder, She Wrote

Act like Skycap (1 ep.)

event1984 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

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

Heart of the City

(1 ep.)

event1986 star_border 5 top_panel_open

Wes Kennedy is a cop who works long hours at night in order to spend the daytime with his two teenage kids Robin and Kevin... Heart of the City was a crime drama that aired on the ABC television network from September 1986 to January 1987.

Starman

Act like Coach Carl Newman (1 ep.)

event1986 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

Starman is an American science fiction television series, starring Robert Hays and Christopher Daniel Barnes and continuing the story from John Carpenter's 1984 film. The series ran on the ABC network from September 19, 1986 to May 2, 1987. The series was an adaptation and sequel to a movie of the same name produced in 1984.

Shameless

Act like Jelly (1 ep.)

event2011 star_border 8.2 top_panel_open

Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.

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