Joel Polis

Joel Polis

An American television, film and stage actor. He has appeared in over one hundred television programs and films during his career. Polis' first film role was the character 'Fuchs' in the science fiction film The Thing. He appeared in numerous television series including Cheers, Alien Nation, Northern Exposure, Star Trek: Voyager, Roseanne, Seinfeld, Chicago Hope, Boston Legal and CSI. He appeared in a recurring role on the television series Cheers as the mischievous Gary, owner of the rival bar, Gary's Olde Towne Tavern. Polis's theater credits include performances at the Astor Place Theatre, Hartford Stage, Old Globe Theater, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Odyssey Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Lillian Theater and the Pasadena Playhouse.

  • Title : Joel Polis
  • Popularity : 4.038
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1951-10-03
  • Place of Birth : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Joel Polis Movies

  • 1982
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    The Thing

    The Thing

    8.1 1982 HD

    In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000...

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  • 1990
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    Burning Bridges

    Burning Bridges

    1 1990 HD

    Fact-based story of a woman who suffered a nervous breakdown after having an extra-marital affair.

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  • 2000
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    Shadows

    Shadows

    1 2000 HD

    Joshua and his father are among the Jewish prisoners in a concentration camp. When the assistant leader of their work crew is gunned down by mistake,...

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  • 1995
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    Serial Killer

    Serial Killer

    4.3 1995 HD

    As a member of FBI Psychological Profile Unit, Selby Younger tracks Morrano, vicious and intelligent serial killer. Before getting caught, Morrano...

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  • 1991
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    Deadly Medicine

    Deadly Medicine

    1 1991 HD

    A pediatrician becomes trapped in a web of betrayal and guilt when her best friend, a nurse, seems to be a baby-killer.

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  • 1997
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    Prison of Secrets

    Prison of Secrets

    5 1997 HD

    Lynn Schaffer is willfully irresponsible once too often, gets fired and refuses a plea-bargain with her employer. She's now convicted and because of...

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  • 1995
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    Twilight Man

    Twilight Man

    6.7 1995 HD

    Jordan Cooper, a professor in Durham, has everything going for him. A beautiful girlfriend named Kathy, a good job and a nice place to live. But when...

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  • 2000
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    Rocket's Red Glare

    Rocket's Red Glare

    3 2000 HD

    A troubled 17-year-old Todd Baker restores a Mercury Redstone rocket as a science project with the help of his ex-astronaut grandfather. When a NASA...

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  • 1989
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    Those She Left Behind

    Those She Left Behind

    5 1989 HD

    Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together. Unfortunately, that plan gets turned...

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  • 1998
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    The Thing: Terror Takes Shape

    The Thing: Terror Takes Shape

    7.5 1998 HD

    An in-depth look at the making of John Carpenter's cult classic sci-fi horror The Thing, telling the story of a group of researchers in Antarctica...

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  • 1984
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    All The Kids Do It

    All The Kids Do It

    1 1984 HD

    High school diving champion Buddy Elder (Scott Baio) can't seem to stop drinking and driving.

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  • 1984
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    Best Defense

    Best Defense

    4.122 1984 HD

    An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.

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  • 1990
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    The Rookie

    The Rookie

    5.8 1990 HD

    Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result...

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  • 2009
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    Chasing a Dream

    Chasing a Dream

    6.3 2009 HD

    When high school football player Cam Stiles loses his best friend, he decides to drop football and focus on attaining his friend's goal of running a...

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  • 2003
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    Alien Hunter

    Alien Hunter

    5.1 2003 HD

    Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.

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  • 1989
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    True Believer

    True Believer

    6.171 1989 HD

    Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has...

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  • 1990
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    My Blue Heaven

    My Blue Heaven

    6.1 1990 HD

    FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is...

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  • 2001
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    Attraction

    Attraction

    7 2001 HD

    A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.

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  • 2004
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    Swallow

    Swallow

    1 2004 HD

    Lacking the grades and money for college, a Florida high school senior takes assignment as a cocaine mule.

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  • 1999
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    Tumbleweeds

    Tumbleweeds

    6.5 1999 HD

    Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine...

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  • 1982
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    Born Beautiful

    Born Beautiful

    1 1982 HD

    This is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered to be the age of retirement. She then sets out...

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  • 1982
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    St. Elsewhere

    St. Elsewhere

    5.4 1982 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...

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  • 2000
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    Boston Public

    Boston Public

    7.7 2000 HD

    Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the demands of the faculty, the students and their parents.

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  • 1982
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    Cheers

    Cheers

    7.6 1982 HD

    The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.4 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

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  • 1989
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    Seinfeld

    Seinfeld

    8.28 1989 HD

    A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.

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  • 1982
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    Remington Steele

    Remington Steele

    7.1 1982 HD

    Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To...

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  • 2000
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    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    7.621 2000 HD

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

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  • 1982
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    T. J. Hooker

    T. J. Hooker

    6.3 1982 HD

    Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to...

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  • 1991
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    Home Improvement

    Home Improvement

    7.418 1991 HD

    The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and...

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  • 2002
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    CSI: Miami

    CSI: Miami

    7.7 2002 HD

    CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas...

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  • 2001
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    The Guardian

    The Guardian

    6.867 2001 HD

    Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of...

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  • 1990
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    Beverly Hills, 90210

    Beverly Hills, 90210

    7.4 1990 HD

    Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West...

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  • 1999
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    Judging Amy

    Judging Amy

    7.5 1999 HD

    Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy...

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  • 1995
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    Star Trek: Voyager

    Star Trek: Voyager

    7.8 1995 HD

    Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels...

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  • 1994
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    Touched by an Angel

    Touched by an Angel

    7.2 1994 HD

    Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

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  • 1986
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    Matlock

    Matlock

    7.2 1986 HD

    Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced...

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  • 1996
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    The Pretender

    The Pretender

    7.4 1996 HD

    Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When...

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  • 1985
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    7.7 1985 HD

    This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two...

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  • 2006
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    The Unit

    The Unit

    7.276 2006 HD

    A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront,...

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  • 1985
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    Moonlighting

    Moonlighting

    7.506 1985 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...

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  • 1999
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    Angel

    Angel

    7.9 1999 HD

    The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption....

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  • 2004
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    CSI: NY

    CSI: NY

    7.362 2004 HD

    Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".

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  • 1983
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    Scarecrow and Mrs. King

    Scarecrow and Mrs. King

    6.4 1983 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    Dharma & Greg

    Dharma & Greg

    6.4 1997 HD

    Dharma & Greg is an American television sitcom that aired from September 24, 1997, to April 30, 2002. It stars Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as...

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  • 2003
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    Mister Sterling

    Mister Sterling

    7.5 2003 HD

    Mister Sterling is an American television serial drama created by Lawrence O'Donnell that ran from January to March in 2003. It starred Josh Brolin...

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  • 1982
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    Cagney & Lacey

    Cagney & Lacey

    6.9 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Diagnosis: Murder

    Diagnosis: Murder

    7.1 1993 HD

    Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

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  • 1996
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    7th Heaven

    7th Heaven

    6.419 1996 HD

    Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven children, not to mention the friends, sweethearts and...

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  • 2000
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    The Invisible Man

    The Invisible Man

    7 2000 HD

    The Invisible Man is a Sci-Fi American television series starring Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Shannon Kenny and Michael...

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  • 1994
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    Chicago Hope

    Chicago Hope

    7.2 1994 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...

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  • 2004
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    Boston Legal

    Boston Legal

    7.9 2004 HD

    Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and...

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  • 1983
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    The Hitchhiker

    The Hitchhiker

    6.1 1983 HD

    A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody...

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  • 2000
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    Bull

    Bull

    6.8 2000 HD

    Bull is a short-lived American drama series created by Michael S. Chernuchin, who had worked on Law & Order and Brooklyn South in 2000. It was TNT's...

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  • 1991
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    Eddie Dodd

    Eddie Dodd

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1989
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    Alien Nation

    Alien Nation

    7 1989 HD

    Detective Matthew Sikes, a Los Angeles police officer reluctantly works with "Newcomer" alien George Francisco. Sikes also has an 'on again off...

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  • 2010
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    Rizzoli & Isles

    Rizzoli & Isles

    7.9 2010 HD

    Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective....

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  • 2009
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    Castle

    Castle

    8.002 2009 HD

    After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New...

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  • 2013
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    7.487 2013 HD

    Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to...

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  • 2002
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    The Best Sex Ever

    The Best Sex Ever

    3.8 2002 HD

    Veronica hosts a midnight radio show called "The Best Sex Ever". Each night "after all the good girls and boys have gone to bed", she invites...

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  • 1994
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    One West Waikiki

    One West Waikiki

    7 1994 HD

    One West Waikiki is an American crime/drama TV show set in Hawaii which ran from 1994-1996. It starred Cheryl Ladd, Richard Burgi and Kayla Blake and...

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  • 1984
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    Fatal Vision

    Fatal Vision

    6.3 1984 HD

    A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two...

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  • 2004
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    Stargate Atlantis

    Stargate Atlantis

    8.009 2004 HD

    With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific...

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  • 2003
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    NCIS

    NCIS

    7.623 2003 HD

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

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  • 2005
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    Bones

    Bones

    8.234 2005 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

    Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

    7.2 1997 HD

    Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each...

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  • 2002
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    Without a Trace

    Without a Trace

    7.301 2002 HD

    The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

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  • 1985
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    Misfits of Science

    Misfits of Science

    6.6 1985 HD

    A superhero fantasy television series featuring super-powered humans and their madcap adventures.

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  • 1990
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    Capital News

    Capital News

    6 1990 HD

    Capital News is a short-lived American drama series that aired on ABC in 1990. Starring Lloyd Bridges and Helen Slater, Capital News was created by...

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  • 1997
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    Ally McBeal

    Ally McBeal

    6.559 1997 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...

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  • 2009
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    The Forgotten

    The Forgotten

    6.1 2009 HD

    A team of dedicated amateurs work on cases involving unidentified victims. After the police have given up, this group must first solve the puzzle of...

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  • 2014
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    Growing Up Fisher

    Growing Up Fisher

    6.6 2014 HD

    It's not every family that's brought closer together by divorce, but then again, the Fishers are anything but typical.

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