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James Arness famously played Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years on the classic Western series “Gunsmoke,” one of the longest-running shows on TV. After “Gunsmoke” was over he played a different lawman, though this time he was in present-day California rather than on the frontier. “McClain’s Law” premiered on NBC on November 20, 1981, six…

Nearly two decades before Jeff Bridges starred in “True Grit,” his brother Beau Bridges led a very different sort of Western. The 1993 TV series “Harts of the West” was an innovative contemporary Western comedy that’s now available to stream for free on Tubi and Pluto TV.

Tom Hardy’s feature debut was Ridley Scott’s 2001 war thriller, “Black Hawk Down,” and he made his television breakout the same year with the HBO war drama, “Band of Brothers.” Easily one of the best HBO miniseries ever made, “Band of Brothers” featured Hardy in the supporting role of Private John A. Janovec, while the…

Seven years ago, Lanternsstar Aaron Pierre starred in a totally different DC TV show where he even fought Brainiac before Man of Tomorrow. The world has recently been waking up to the talent of the 32-year-old British actor Aaron Pierre after his breakout role in Netflix’s Emmy-winning flick Rebel Ridge. Pierre has since voiced the…

Years before she took on the role of Bobby, a Ground Branch QRF team leader in the Lioness program, Jill Wagner co-starred in David S. Goyer’s “Blade: The Series.” This short-lived Marvel TV show aired for a single season in 2006 on the Paramount Network — then known as Spike TV — as a continuation of the…

Over the years, many beloved franchises have been driven into the ground by sequels, prequels, and inbetweequels trying to extract the last bit of box-office juice from a property that peaked decades ago. One such revered entry that’s been regularly put through the Hollywood wringer is “The Terminator” franchise, which hit an all-time low with…

Before he terrorized audiences as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in both cinematic chapters of “It” (and later, HBO’s “It: Welcome to Derry” — which just got renewed for a second season), Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård scored his first English-language horror genre role on American TV. That role was in “Hemlock Grove,” one of the first…

Jada Pinkett Smith has appeared in “The Matrix” series since the first sequel, “The Matrix Reloaded.” “The Matrix” fans should be familiar with her face, considering her reprisal of Niobe in the following films, “The Matrix Revolutions” and “The Matrix Resurrections.” However, some might not realize she also voiced her character in the first video game…

Alyson Hannigan famously played a witch in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but Willow Rosenberg was not the actress’s first on-screen brush with the supernatural. She starred in a short-lived, now-forgotten sitcom where she played a teenager whose dad hired a housekeeper who was secretly a witch.

Does a good boy make for a good TV show? Sometimes! There have been dogs on the small screen for decades, and a few of these pooch programs are among the most beloved TV series ever to air. These are five of the best shows that starred dogs, ranked.