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Starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, Edward Byrnes
Season 1 (ABC) (1958-59)
Episode Guide
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0.01 [---] CONFLICT (anthology series episode) ANYTHING FOR MONEY
(1st pilot - 60 min)
16Apr57
Starring:
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Stuart Bailey
with:
Barton MacLane ................ Glen Callister
Margaret Hayes ................ Eileen Callister
Richard Webb .................. Madden (Capt. Midnight)
Joanna Barnes ................. Betty Callister
This was an episode from the 'Warner Brothers presents
... Conflict' anthology series,
and although not strictly a 'pilot' it lead to the
long running series.
In this segment, Stuart bailey is hired to serve
as a bodyguard for a pleasure cruise to Havana.
0.02 [---] GIRL ON THE RUN (2nd pilot - 90 min)
10Oct58
written by Marion Hargrove
directed by Richard L. Bare
starring
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Stuart Bailey
with
Erin O'Brien .................. Kathy Allen/Karen Shay
Shepperd Strudwick ............ James McCullough/Ralph Graham
Edward Byrnes ................. Kenneth Smiley
Barton MacLane ................ Francis J. Brannigan
Vince Barnett ................. Janitor
Ray Teal ...................... Lt. Harper (Bonanza)
A hired killer played, by Edward Byrnes, menaces a beautiful
nightclub singer. (In the series he was re-cast as Kookie.) Kathy
Allen witnesses the fatal shooting of a man scheduled to testify at
a hearing. Though she is given police protection, someone tries to
kill her, and she gets away. Stuart Bailey is hired to find her.
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ABC Fridays 9:30 pm Eastern (33 episodes)
1.01 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: LOVELY LADY, PITY ME [EZ]
17Oct58
Written By James O'Hanlon.
Directed by Douglas Heyes
Starring:
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Stuart Bailey
Guest Cast:
Kathleen Crowley .............. Ann
Jeanne Cooper ................. Jean Kingsley
Peter Breck ................... Charles Dixon (The Big Valley, Black Saddle)
Barney Philips ................ Coletti
John Dodsworth ................ Martin Melville
Irving Bacon .................. Apt. house manager
Gordon Richards ............... Butler
Michael Carr .................. Policeman
When Stu lets his masculine enthusiasm for a beautiful stranger
go as far as romance, he finds himself involved
in a blackmail
scheme and accused of murder. Bailey becomes
fascinated with a
beautiful girl he finds waiting outside his
office for Charles
Dixon, a known blackmailer. Because the girl
refuses to tell Stu
who she is, he is all the more intrigued, then
Dixon is found
murdered in Bailey's office and Bailey becomes
the prime suspect.
1.02 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: A NICE SOCIAL EVENING [EZ-RS-EB]
24Oct58
German title - Einladung Auf Eine Jacht
Directed by Stuart Heisler
cast:
Ray Danton .................... Senor Velasquez (The Alaskans)
Arlene Howell ................. Marilyn
Dorothy Provine ............... Betty (The Alaskans, The Roaring Twenties)
Venetia Stevenson ............. Patty
Joyce Taylor .................. Nancy
Lorence Kerr .................. Jim Benton
Lou Krugmen ................... Marco
Fierro ........................ Gomez
Mario Alcalde ................. The Killer
Abel Fernadez ................. Officer
featuring The Frankie Ortega Trio as themselves
Stu and Jeff, with the help of their jive-talking buddy Kookie, take
on an assignment to protect a wealthy Latin-
American playboy who
has been marked for murder. The detectives find
the dangerous job
has some pleasant aspects because the playboy
keeps himself
surrounded with a large number of very
beautiful girls on his
palatial yacht.
1.03 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: CASUALTY [RS]
31Oct58
German title - Geschaft Mit Dem Tod
Directed by Richard L. Bare
cast:
Dolores Donlon ................ Mrs. Selkirk
Sam Buffington ................ Vincent Manchester
Walter Reed ................... Bill Foster
Hugh Sanders .................. Mr. Clark
Adrienne Marden ............... Mrs. Dolan
Nancy Kulp .................... The Landlady
Joyce Taylor .................. Doll
Keith Richards ................ Mr. Dolan
Russ Bender ................... Humphries
Nesdon Booth .................. Tobacco proprietor
Jeff Spencer is retained by a dead man's wife to investigate when
the dead man who comes back to life. Kookie,
trying to prove his
ability as a detective, helps Jeff uncover a
nest of gangsters
engaged in an insurance scam, but unknowingly
puts Jeff's life in
jeopardy. The gang of criminals lure Jeff into
a death trap.
1.04 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: THE BOUNCING CHIP [EZ]
7Nov58
Written by Leonard Lee
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
cast:
Ruta Lee ...................... Diane Adams
Brad Dexter ................... Frenchy LaTour
Russ Conway ................... Cranston MacDonald (Richard Diamond)
Ray Teal ...................... Peter Collier
Scott Peters .................. Marty Rica
Sid Clute ..................... Lou Lewis (Cagney & Lacey)
Lew Gallo .............. ......Jake Lang
A Las Vegas gambling syndicate engages Stu to investigate when the
syndicate begins suffering big losses through
the passing of bogus
$100 chips. Bailey poses as an underworld
character and suspects a
showgirl of passing the chips.
1.05 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: TWO AND TWO MAKE SIX [RS]
14Nov58
Written by Frederic Brady.
Directed by James V. Kern
Starring: Roger Smith as Jeff Spencer
cast
Whitney Blake ................. Alice Detterback ('Hazel')
Adam West ..................... Ernest Detterback ('Batman')
Karl Swenson ................... Baldwin
Douglas Dick .................. Prof. Highsmith
Barney Phillips ............... Coletti
John Stephenson ............... Shafter
A mysterious man with a limp has killed four
people. An ex-convict
comes to Jeff and asks him for protection
because he believes he,
too, is marked for death by the mysterious
killer. When an
attractive fashion designer Alice Detterback
hires Jeff to find out
who is trying to kill husband - an ex-convict
just released from
three years in prison - he is forced to
investigate his client's
private life.
1.06 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: ALL OUR YESTERDAYS [EZ]
21Nov58
(German title - "Noch Einmal Gestern")
Directed by Richard L. Bare
cast
Doris Kenyon .............. Lucinda Lane
Francis X. Bushman ........ Bramwell Stone
Merry Anders .............. Marcia Frome
John Carradine ............ Roderick Delaquois
Relatives of Lucinda Lane, an aging queen of silent films, hire
Stu to help her in a movie venture. But Bailey soon learns the
relatives are seeking to gain control of the actress' fortune.
1.07 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: THE WELL-SELECTED FRAME [RS]
28Nov58
(German title - "Kommen sie heute abend")
Directed by Boris Sagal (late father of Katy Sagal (Married With
Children) and twins Jean & Liz Sagal (Double Trouble)
cast:
Peggy Castle .............. Valerie Stacey (Lilly in "Lawman")
Frances Fong .............. Lotus Wong
Richard Webb .............. Alec Lewis
Bartlett Robinson ......... Howard Stacey
Arthur Hanson ............. Proctor
Robert Burton ............. Alec Lewis, Inquest deputy
Hal Smith ................. Hubert
Barry Bernard ............. Ben, the Butler
Morgan Sha'an ............. Deputy
Jeff is retained to assist a beautiful woman, Valerie Stacey,
who claims her wealthy husband is trying to murder her in order
to marry his secretary. But when her husband is killed, Valerie
frames Jeff for the murder.
1.08 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: THE IRON CURTAIN CAPER [EZ]
5Dec58
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Directed by Richard L. Bare
cast:
Kurt Krueger .................. John Luder
Jacqueline Scott .............. Nancy Devere
Lawrence Dobkin ............... Sergei Ruschev
Richard Garland ............... Hilton Green
Richard Crane ................. Duncan Scott
Willis Bouchey ................ Paul Corrick
Emery Parnell ................. Burton Baldwin
Otto Waldis ................... Police Chief Smetzer
Zina Provendie ................ Nurse Vera Bonner
Svea Grunfeld ................. Sonja Barlow
Sheldon Allman ................ Comrad Temko
John Mylong ................... Baron Von Hefner
and featuring The Frankie Ortega Trio
Stu is retained by the owners of a newspaper
chain to go behind the
Iron Curtain in Communist controlled Berlin,
East Germany and find a
crack American correspondent who has been
kidnapped by Soviet
officials.
1.09 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: VICIOUS CIRCLE [RS]
12Dec58
Teleplay by Jim Barnett and Jack Emanuel
Story by Frederic Brady and Richard Brady Macaulay.
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
cast:
Harold J. Stone ............... Lou Catto
George Tobias ................. Pete Schreiber
Richard Carlyle ............... Terry Nash
Bert Convy .................... Blake Catto
Frank DeKova .................. Jerry London (F Troop)
Jeff is hired by an ex-gang leader who wants his son's kidnapping
investigated. The old gang members kidnap the
grown son of their old
boss, Lou Catto, who pays their ransom demands
for his release.
1.10 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: FALSE STEP aka ONE FALSE STEP
19Dec58
Directed by James V. Kern
cast
Edward Kemmer ................. David Evans
Lynn Bernay ................... Mildred
Richard Long .................. Marc Harrington
Joan Evans .................... Diana Forsythe
Stu and Jeff are retained by a Washington
attorney to protect his
wife. The attorney, David Evans, says a
stranger approached him
with a diabolical plan which threatens his
wife.
1.11 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: THE COURT MARTIAL OF JOHNNY MURDO
26Dec58
Written by William L. Stuart.
Directed by Lee Sholem
cast:
Bruce Bennett ................. Arnold Santley
Catherine McLeod .............. Grace Murdo
Peter Miles ................... Johnny Murdo
John Litel .................... Col. Gaunt
Robert Lowery
Jeff travels to a military academy to
investigate a theft which has
resulted in the expulsion of one of the
students. During the
investigation, Spencer realizes that someone is
trying to stop him,
by murder if necessary.
1.12 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: HIT AND RUN
2Jan59
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
cast
Gloria Robertson .............. Liz Murphy
Robert H. Harris .............. Robert Carter Murray
Sue Randall ................... Chick Hammons
Stu's admirer, Kookie, the parking-lot
attendant, borrows Stu's
convertible and is involved in an auto crash. A
former film
beauty claims she was disfigured in the crash,
and Kookie, charged
with criminal negligence, appeals to Bailey for
help.
1.13 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: NOT AN ENEMY IN THE WORLD
9Jan59
Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr.
cast:
Carole Mathews ................ Mrs. Elaine Lamson
Phil Terry .................... Mike Lamson
Francis DeSales ............... Sgt. Egan
Louise Glenn .................. Barrie
Louis Quinn .................. Roscoe
Jeff tries to help his French switchboard
operator locate her
missing brother. He learns the man quit his job
as Mrs. Elaine
Lamson's chauffeur on the same day that Mr.
Lamson was killed in an
auto accident, and decides there is some
connection between the two
incidents. The search reveals that the brother
was the one who was
killed in an insurance scam.
1.14 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: THE SECRET OF ADAM CAIN
16Jan59
Directed by Montgomery Pittman
cast:
Berry Kroeger ................. Bernard Stagg
David Frankham ................ Fred Cain
Lisa Davis .................... Venice Cain
Don Gordon .................... Iron Man Brown
Liliane Montevecchi ........... Tosca
Joan Elan ..................... Jane Neddleton
Hired by the niece and nephew of a deceased
oilman, Bailey is asked
to locate a stolen vase. The vase itself is of
no special value,
but it contains information on the location of
a fortune in oil. Stu
is kidnapped and taken to Algeria and the vase
is lost.
1.15 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: THE GIRL WHO COULDN'T REMEMBER
23Jan59
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Nancy Gates ................... Sandra
John Vivyan ................... Mitch (Mr. Lucky)
Harvey Stephens ............... Sid de Forest
Kathlyn Hughes
A young woman suffering from amnesia asks
private detective Jeff
for help. Her purse contains thousands of
dollars in cash, but no
identification. Jeff learns that the woman was
a witness to a
murder.
1.16 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: DARK VENGEANCE
30Jan59
Directed by Richard L. Bare
cast
Jerome Thor ................... John Cosgrove
Adele Mara .................... Margo Harris
Barry Kelley .................. Vincent Barrett
Sammy White ................... Phil
John Cosgrove, a TV reporter, attempting to
clean up a narcotics
ring, exposes the ring's leader and is blinded
for his efforts.
Despite continued threats from the racketeers,
Cosgrove is
determined to continue the investigation and
hires Stu to help him.
1.17 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE [RS]
6Feb59
German title - "Mord Im College"
Directed by Charles Haas
cast
Pat Crowley ................... Johanna Martin
Gerald Mohr ................... Carlos Traynor
Robert Ivers .................. Nevin Williams
Maureen Leeds ................. Eloise Traynor
Jeff goes back to college to investigate a
murder. Following the
death of a co-ed, a worried father hires Jeff
to protect his
daughter, who has been threatened by the
unknown assailant.
1.18 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: EYEWITNESS [EZ][EB]
13Feb59
German title - "Der Braune Bar"
Directed by David Lowell Rich
cast:
Robert Douglas ................ Dr. Emory Williams
Jay North ..................... Timmy Wilson (Dennis The Menace)
Patricia Barry ................ Audrey King
Dean Harens ................... Hugh Wilson
In the spirit of fun, Stu accepts
eight-year-old Timmy Wilson as his
client. Timmy claims that, while looking
through his telescope, he
saw a hunter kill a bear. The fun ends when
Bailey realizes that
the youngster is mixed
up in a bizarre plot and that what he really
saw was the murder of a doctor's wife who was
wearing a fur coat.
1.19 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: LOVELY ALIBI
20Feb59
German title - Helfen Sie Einem Polizisten
Directed by georger waGGner
cast
Claude Akins .................. Ed Bird (Movin' On)
Steve Brodie .................. Vic Burney (my book says Gurney)
Andra Martin .................. Jill Franklyn
Louis Quinn .................. Roscoe
Ed Bird, a police officer and friend of Stu's,
has been suspended
from the force. But he persists in trying to
prove a racketeer
named Vic Gurney is guilty of murdering Ed
Fuller. When Gurney
threatens the life of his girl friend, Bird
decides to ask Bailey
for help.
1.20 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: IN MEMORIAM
27Feb59
Directed by Richard L. Bare
cast:
Alan Marshal
Joe De Santis
Noreen Nash ................... Mrs. Reynolds
Publisher Noel Reynolds hires Stu to learn the
identity of a
practical joker who has written Reynolds'
obituary. Talking with
Noel's estranged wife, Bailey discovers that
Reynolds had been
threatened because of his knowledge of the
assassination of a
foreign political figure.
1.21 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: THE FIFTH STAIR
06Mar59
Written by Lowell Barrington.
Directed by Vincent Sherman
cast
Julie Adams ................... Margo (Code Red, wife of Ray Danton)
Richard Long .................. Tony Wendice
Joe Partridge
Stu & Jeff are involved in a blackmail
scheme after Jeff writes a
letter to a beautiful woman. The woman's
husband suspects Jeff is
having an affair with his wife and hires a
killer. When his wife
kills the hired assassin in self-defense, she
and Jeff are accused
of murder.
1.22 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: PASADENA CAPER [EZ][RS]
13Mar59
(German title - Mr Baker's Geheimnis)
Written By N.B.Stone,Jr [SC]
Directed by Montgomery Pittman
cast:
Hallene Hill .................. Rachel Baker
Elizabeth Patterson ........... Lavinia (I Love Lucy)
Murvyn Vye .................... Peter Baker/Harry Diamond
Rony Romano ................... Senor Poco
Carol Kelly ................... Kim Diamond
Stu and Jeff are exasperated by the machinations of a pair of
elderly women. In order to collect a large insurance settlement,
the old ladies have switched the identities of their sons, one of
whom was found dead in a submerged automobile.
1.23 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: HONG KONG CAPER
20Mar59
Written By Steve Fisher [SC]
Directed by George Waggner
cast
Karen Steele .................. Candy
Neil Hamilton ................. Shelby (Batman)
Weaver Levy ................... Sam
Frank Wilcox .................. Paul Nolan, Sr.
Reggie Nalder ................. Run Run Lee
Willard Waterman .............. George Wells
Anna Freeman .................. Kathleen
Jeff & Stu receive a visit from businessman Paul Nolan, Nolan
received an urgent letter from his son, a pilot stationed in the
Orient, written just before the young man's sudden death. The
father is anxious to have the instructions in the letter carried
out, and he asks Jeff to undertake an assignment which requires him
to go to Hong Kong
1.24 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: A CHECK WILL DO NICELY
27Mar59
Written By Alan Caillou and Dwight Taylor [SC]
Directed by Ida Lupino
cast:
Janet Lake .................... Laura Jacobin
Robin Hughes .................. Sandby
Edward C. Platt ............... Mr. Jacobin (Get Smart)
Florence Marly ................ Madeleine
Danielle Aubry ................ Suzette
Rolfe Sedan ................... Tissot
Louis Mercier ................. Robert
Stu is asked to polish up his French and find the abductors of an
American schoolgirl in Paris. Learning that the girl, Laura
Jacobin, is being held by a gang whose leader is an English artist,
Bailey takes along a worthless $250,000 check and an equally worth-
less copy of a famous painting in an effort to outwit the
kidnappers.
1.25 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: THE GRANDMA CAPER
3Apr59
Directed by David Butler
cast:
Frances Bavier ................ Grandma Fenwick (The Andy Griffith
Jerome Cowan .................. Oliver Fenwick
Show)
Jennifer Grant ................ Vickie
Francis DeSales ............... Chief Johnson
Members of the Fenwick family ask Stu to watch
their eccentric
grandmother. They are afraid the elderly woman
might get into
serious trouble by staging a bank robbery. But
Grandman Fenwick
inadvertently causes the capture of a notorious
criminal gang.
1.26 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: HONEY FROM THE BEE
10Apr59
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Jay Novello ................... Yego Danilov
Connie Stevens ................ Cleo Mason (Hawaiian Eye)
Celia Lovsky .................. Countess Combroaka
Ruta Lee ...................... Natalie Branova
Private investigator Stu Bailey admires a rare
tapestry in a
Beverly Hills restaurant and learns it was
given to the owner by a
refugee Russian countess. After a murder
occurs, Bailey suspects
the tapestry is connected with the crime. It
develops that a
fortune in diamonds is concealed in the
tapestry.
1.27 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: ABRA-CADAVER
17Apr59
Directed by Mark Sandrich, Jr.
cast:
Fay Spain ..................... Audrey
Robert McQueeney .............. Ernie Hayden
Pernell Roberts ............... Tony Gray (Bonanza)
Harry Jackson ................. Joe Redden
Jeff Spencer poses as an unemployed confidence
man in order to
learn the inner workings of a suspected
insurance racket. There
a lovely agent for the company begins to pay
special attention to
him. But Jeff nearly becomes a victim of the
group when his
identity is exposed, and Stu Bailey must come
to the rescue.
1.28 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: A BARGAIN IN TOMBS
24Apr59
Directed by Reginald LeBorg
cast:
Louise Fletcher ............... Julia Maltby
Bart Bradley .................. Guido Orsini
Linda Watkins ................. Delphine de Janville
Lisa Gaye ..................... Martha
Ray Danton .................... Johnny Manetti
Al Ruscio
While in Paris, Stu Bailey is asked by Mme. de Janville to locate
her niece who apparently disappeared in Rome. Bailey meets the
girl's roommate and suspects she is not giving straight answers to
his questions. He learns the missing girl is posing as an
archaeology student, and is unknowingly involved with the looting of
an ancient Roman tomb.
1.29 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: THE WIDOW WOULDN'T WEEP
1May59
Directed by Arthur Lubin
cast:
Valerie Allen ................. Marie
Raymond Bailey ................ John Harkins (The Beverly
Nora Hayden ................... Alice Beasley Hillbillies)
The wife of a man who apparently committed
suicide by leaping from
a window offers Jeff a fat fee to prove it was
murder. Spencer
learns that the widow is eager to collect the
life insurance
benefits.
1.30 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: DOWNBEAT [EZ][RS][EB]
8May59
German title - Geheimauftrag
Directed by Montgomery Pittman
Teleplay by Montgomery Pittman / Story by Maurita Pittman [SC]
cast:
John Van Dreelen .............. Hendrick van Horn
Dorothy Provine ............... Nora Shirley (The Roaring Twenties)
Donald Barry .................. Rock
cameo appearances by
James Garner .................. himself (Maverick)
James Bacon ................... himself
Johnny Grant .................. himself
Stuart Bailey is aquitted of trumped-up charges of treason and
conspiracy, but the doubts raised by his trial
result in the loss
of an old friend with the OSS. But Stu's
problems were all a ruse
developed to flush out the OSS agent who has
been selling government
secrets.
1.31 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: THE CANINE CAPER
15May59
Written by Fenton Earnshaw.
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Julie Adams ................... Marie La Shelle
Roxane Berard ................. Charmaine Chalet
Roland Varno .................. Rolfe Berne
Mark Roberts .................. Harry Orwitt
Also:
Bill ?........Sam
Jack Mann........Jack Birdman
Keith Richards.
Some valuable gems are stolen in Amsterdam, Holland. Suspecting
that they may be smuggled into the U.S., an
insurance company hires
Jeff to find them. The gems have been hidden in
the collar of a
poodle owned by a starlet that Kookie is
interested in.
1.32 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: MR. PARADISE
22May59
Directed by Arthur Lubin
cast
John Litel .................... Cyrus Blanton
Andrew Duggan ................. Mr. Paradise (Lancer)
Sandra White
Leslie Barrett
Wealthy Cyrus Blanton has become interested in
a mystic cult and
his relatives fear that the cult leaders intend
to bilk Blanton
of his fortune. The relatives hire Stu to
investigate the group.
Stu is nearly killed by the cult's leader when
he uncovers evidence
of fraud
1.33 [--] 77 Sunset Strip: STRANGE GIRL IN TOWN
29May59 ABC Fri
Written By Howard Browne and Frederic Brady [SC]
Directed by georger waGGner
cast
Sue Randall ................... Ruth Douglas
Jack Mulhall .................. Kenneth Webster
Carol Ohmart .................. Nancy Costello
Alan Baxter ................... Dan Costello
Jeff arranges a nightclub audition for
Suzanne's newly arrived
friend, Ruth Douglas, who's looking for a
dancing job. Ruth goes
to the club and becomes an eyewitness to a
murder.
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