Margaret Hamilton

Born: 1902-12-09

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Margaret Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American film actress known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actor in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image. In later years, Hamilton made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials. She also gained recognition for her work as an advocate of causes designed to benefit children and animals, and retained a lifelong commitment to public education.


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The Wizard of Oz

as Miss Gulch / Wicked Witch of the West
Released: 1939-08-15

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow...

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13 Ghosts

as Elaine Zacharides
Released: 1960-07-18

Reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will...

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You Only Live Once

as Hester
Released: 1937-01-23

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

as Mrs. Harper
Released: 1938-02-11

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River,...

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The Ox-Bow Incident

as Mrs. Larch (uncredited)
Released: 1943-03-11

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between...

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Nothing Sacred

as Warsaw, Vermont Drugstore Lady
Released: 1937-11-25

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing...

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State of the Union

as Norah
Released: 1948-04-30

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on...

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People Will Talk

as Sarah Pickett (uncredited)
Released: 1951-08-29

Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of...

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The Anderson Tapes

as Miss Kaler
Released: 1971-06-17

Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her...

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The Invisible Woman

as Mrs. Jackson
Released: 1940-12-28

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that...

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Brewster McCloud

as Daphne Heap
Released: 1970-12-05

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome....

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Journey Back to Oz

as Aunt Em (voice)
Released: 1972-12-14

Dorothy and Toto return to the Land of Oz to find the Scarecrow as ruler of the Emerald City....

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My Little Chickadee

as Mrs. Gideon
Released: 1940-02-09

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a...

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The Red Pony

as Teacher
Released: 1949-03-08

Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in...

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Angel in My Pocket

as Rhoda
Released: 1969-04-02

The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.

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Night of 100 Stars

as Self
Released: 1982-03-08

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took...

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Saratoga

as Lady at Kiffmeyer's table in train dining car
Released: 1937-07-23

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

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Dishonored Lady

as Mrs. Geiger
Released: 1947-05-16

Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship...

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The Night Strangler

as Prof. Crabwell
Released: 1973-01-16

After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting...

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These Three

as Agatha
Released: 1936-03-18

Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the...

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Guest in the House

as Hilda
Released: 1944-12-08

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan...

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A Slight Case of Murder

as Mrs. Cagle
Released: 1938-02-26

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective...

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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

as Flora
Released: 1947-04-04

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team...

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Babes in Arms

as Martha Steele
Released: 1939-10-10

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his...

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Broadway Bill

as Edna
Released: 1934-11-30

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his...

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Mother Carey's Chickens

as Pauline Fuller
Released: 1938-07-29

A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.

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By Your Leave

as Whiffen
Released: 1934-11-09

A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.

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Wabash Avenue

as Tillie Hutch
Released: 1950-03-31

Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a...

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Riding High

as Edna
Released: 1950-04-12

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win...

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Four's a Crowd

as Amy
Released: 1938-08-04

A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.

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Johnny Come Lately

as Myrtle Ferguso
Released: 1943-09-03

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her...

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Driftwood

as Essie
Released: 1947-09-15

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s...

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Comin' Round the Mountain

as Aunt Huddy
Released: 1951-07-26

Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin,...

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Angels Wash Their Faces

as Miss Hannaberry
Released: 1939-08-26

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister,...

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The Witness Chair

as Grace Franklin
Released: 1936-04-23

Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley...

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The Farmer Takes a Wife

as Lucy Gurget
Released: 1935-07-05

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

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Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1972-01-10

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading...

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1990-02-20

Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews...

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Breaking the Ice

as Mrs. Small
Released: 1938-09-22

The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and...

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Meet the Stewarts

as Willametta
Released: 1942-05-21

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

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Way Down East

as Martha Perkins
Released: 1935-10-25

A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that...

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The Villain Still Pursued Her

as Mrs. Wilson
Released: 1940-10-11

Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen...

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Stablemates

as Beulah Flanders
Released: 1938-10-07

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a...

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Chatterbox

as Emily 'Tippie' Tipton
Released: 1936-01-17

Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama...

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Another Language

as Helen Hallam
Released: 1933-07-28

A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.

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There's Always Tomorrow

as Ella
Released: 1934-11-01

Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a...

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Janie Gets Married

as Mrs. Angles
Released: 1946-06-22

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her...

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When's Your Birthday?

as Mossy
Released: 1937-02-19

Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict...

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Main Street Lawyer

as Lucy, Boggs' Housekeeper
Released: 1939-11-02

Story of a lawyer, gangster and a floozy.

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The Affairs of Martha

as Guinevere
Released: 1942-06-21

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their...

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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

as Mrs. Elvira O'Toole (uncredited)
Released: 1949-05-27

Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around....

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Laughing at Trouble

as Lizzie Beadle
Released: 1936-12-11

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper...

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Twin Beds

as Norah
Released: 1942-04-30

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of...

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Play Girl

as Josie
Released: 1941-01-29

When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all...

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The Paul Lynde Halloween Special

as Wicked Witch
Released: 1976-10-30

A Halloween-themed television special starring Paul Lynde which aired only once on October 29,...

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The Moon's Our Home

as Mitty Simpson
Released: 1936-04-10

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware...

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A String of Blue Beads

as Mrs. Loomis
Released: 1953-01-01

A STRING OF BLUE BEADS is a slight little Christmas tale that was a pilot for an anthology...

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Faithful in My Fashion

as Miss Applegate
Released: 1946-08-21

A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry....

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The Daydreamer

as Mrs. Klopplebobbler
Released: 1966-06-01

A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order...

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The Sun Comes Up

as Mrs. Golightly
Released: 1949-05-12

Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her...

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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

as Ruby Cheever
Released: 1948-07-16

Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in,...

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Mountain Justice

as Phoebe Lamb
Released: 1937-04-24

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid...

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George White's Scandals

as Clarabelle Evans
Released: 1945-10-09

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.

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Reaching from Heaven

as Sophie Manley
Released: 1948-02-01

Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an...

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I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now

as Mrs. Triffle
Released: 1940-10-19

In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their...

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The Making of the Wizard of Oz

as Self
Released: 1979-01-01

The time was 1938. The place, Hollywood. This is the story of one of the 456 films made that...

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I'll Take Romance

as Margot
Released: 1937-11-17

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry...

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The World of Abbott and Costello

as Aunt Huddy in Comin' Round The Mountain (archive footage)
Released: 1965-04-01

A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In...

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Bungalow 13

as Mrs. Theresa Appleby
Released: 1948-11-19

In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads...

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The Good Old Soak

as Minnie
Released: 1937-04-23

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

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Paradise Alley

as Mrs. Nicholson
Released: 1962-01-02

An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the...

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The Dark Side of the Rainbow

as Miss Gulch (archive footage)
Released: 2000-07-01

The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark...

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Ghostbreakers

as Ivy Rumson
Released: 1967-09-08

A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly...

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Hat, Coat and Glove

as Madame Du Barry
Released: 1934-07-26

A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the...

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City Without Men

as Dora
Released: 1943-01-14

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near...

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Rosie!

as Mae
Released: 1967-11-22

An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to...

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The Bat

as Lizzie Allen
Released: 1960-03-29

A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities...

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The Gay Vagabond

as Agatha Badger
Released: 1941-05-12

Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.

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Letters from Frank

as Grandma Miller
Released: 1979-11-22

When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a...

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Harold Arlen's Home Movies on set of The Wizard of Oz

as uncredited
Released: 1939-12-31

The Wizard of Oz composer Harold Arlen was a life-long camera buff, and this 16mm color footage...

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The Dark Side of Oz

as Miss Gulch / Wicked Witch of the West (archive footage)
Released: 1995-08-15

Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz

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Sesame Street

as The Wicked Witch
First aired: 1969-11-10

On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic...

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The Addams Family

as Granny Frump
First aired: 1964-09-18

A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric...

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Lou Grant

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-09-20

The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his...

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Studio One

as uncredited
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Studio One

as Irma Davis
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Studio One

as Mrs. McIntosh
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Studio One

as Laura Lawson
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Gunsmoke

as Edsel Pry
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Startime

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-10-06

Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American...

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The Patty Duke Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1963-09-18

The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963 to April 27,...

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Sigmund and the Sea Monsters

as Mrs. Eddels
First aired: 1973-09-08

Sigmund and the Sea Monsters was an American children's television series that ran from 1973 to...

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Nurse

as Mrs. Evers
First aired: 1981-04-02

Nurse is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from April 2, 1981 to May 1982. Series star...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Mrs. Dudgeon
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Demetria Riffle
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Man Against Crime

as Mrs. Barker
First aired: 1949-10-07

Man Against Crime, one of the first television programs about private eyes, ran on CBS, the...

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Ichabod and Me

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-09-26

Ichabod and Me is a 36-episode American situation comedy series set in a small New England town...

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