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Starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, Edward Byrnes
Season 2 (ABC) (1959-60)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: James Beer
references:
TV Guide /
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UCLA Film and Television Archive
############# 77 Sunset Strip ################
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ABC Fridays 9:00 pm Eastern (36 episodes)
2.01 [034] 77 Sunset Strip: ONLY ZEROES COUNT
2Oct59 (some sources have this as a late season 1 episode)
of season 2.
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Adele Mara .................... Martha Swain
Hugh Sanders .................. Sam Boone
Dolores Donlon ................ Faye North
Richard Shannon
and from 'Hawaiian Eye'
Robert Conrad ................. Tom Lopaka (The Wild, Wild West)
Poncie Ponce .................. Kazuo Kim
2.02 [035] 77 Sunset Strip: THE KOOKIE CAPER
9Oct59 (some sources have this as a late season 1 episode)
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Written by Maurita Pittman
Directed by Montgomery Pittman
cast
Will Hutchins ................. himself (Sugarfoot)
Sherry Jackson ................ Carrie (The Danny Thomas Show)
King Donovan .................. Legs Carson
John Hubbard .................. Laroque
Mickey Simpson ................ Wilkes
Bart Patten ................... Joey
Alexander Campbell ............ Silas Rocklin
Mary Tyler Moore .............. girl (The Dick Van Dyke Show)
Sue Casey ..................... girl
Kookie meets a girl who claims her life is in
danger. She explains
that because she has witness a murder, she is
afraid the murderer
will make her his next victim.
2.03 [036] 77 Sunset Strip: SIX SUPERIOR SKIRTS
16Oct59 ABC Fri
Directed by Andre De Toth
Teleplay by William L. Stuart, Story by Richard Wormser
[SC]
Starring: Efrem Zimbalist,Jr. (Stu Bailey), Edward Byrnes (Kookie)
Guest Cast:
Abraham Sofaer ................ M. Halevy
Kaye Elhardt .................. Wanda Hill
Diane McBain .................. Laura Stanley (Surfside 6)
Will Hutchins ................. himself (Sugarfoot)
Frankie Ortega ................ himself
Army Archerd .................. himself
Dick Haynes ................... himself
The Mary Kaye Trio ............ themselves
Ralph Clanton
Synopsis:
Stu and Kookie are hired to protect a collection of valuable jewels worn by
six debutantes. In spite of their vigilance, the Moorfield Diamond disappears.
As they investigate, they are drawn into the world of show business.
2.04 [037] 77 Sunset Strip: CLAY PIGEON
23Oct59
Directed by Arthur Lubin
cast:
Paula Raymond ................. Mildred DeWitt
Dan Tobin
Charles Fredericks
Talent agent Mildred DeWitt seeks help from
Stu. She fears one of
her clients, a DJ, is in danger. Stu searches
out four people that
the client had known years before, but they are
murdered as soon as
they are located.
2.05 [038] 77 Sunset Strip: THANKS FOR TOMORROW
30Oct59
Directed by Mark Sandrich, Jr.
cast:
Adam West ..................... Lonnie Drew (Batman)
Brad Dexter
Mary Tyler Moore .............. Marie Drew
Gambler Lonnie Drew comes to his friend Jeff
Spencer with a story
of a robbery and an attempt on his life. Jeff
takes the case and
discovers a race-fixing scheme.
2.06 [039] 77 Sunset Strip: SING SOMETHING SIMPLE
6Nov59
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Linda Darnell ................. Zina Felice
Nico Minardos
Richard Garland
Because of threats on the life of opera star
Zina Felice, Stu is
hired to protect her. To aid the investigation,
Stu gets jobs for
Kookie and Roscoe in the opera chorus.
2.07 [040] 77 Sunset Strip: THE TREEHOUSE CAPER
13Nov59
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Bunny Cooper .................. Vicky Travers
Tom Drake ..................... Clifford Towne
Donald Barry .................. Shorty Adams
John Sebastian ................ Connie Paris
J. Edward McKinley ............ Ronald Lowery
Jeff has promised the daughter of a deceased
convict that he will
return some stolen gems and collect the
insurance money. Spencer
learns that the police want to use him as bait
to trap a killer and
he is double-crossed by a crooked insurance
investigator.
2.08 [041] 77 Sunset Strip: OUT OF THE PAST
20Nov59
Directed by Charles Haas
cast:
Patric Knowles ................ Major George Haney
Narda Onyx .................... Karen Rodek
Reggie Nalder
Robert Christopher
Carl Esmond
Adam West
While in Hamburg, Stu is assigned to a
top-secret case by the U.S.
Intelligence Service. He learns that the case
involves a kidnapping
plot against a famous scientist which threatens
the future of an
entire nation.
2.09 [042] 77 Sunset Strip: THE WIDOW AND THE WEB
27Nov59
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Suzanne Lloyd ................. Elaine Shannon
John Beradino ................. Carl Dorr (General Hospital)
Pat Michon .................... Gloria Shannon
Kathleen Freeman .............. Mrs. Ryan (Topper)
Mark Roberts .................. Johnny Liston
When a man falls off of a ladder and is killed,
Jeff is hired to
investigate the accidental death. He receives
an anonymous note
which says the accident was really murder and
he soon becomes a
target for murder himself.
2.10 [043] 77 Sunset Strip: SECRET ISLAND
4Dec59
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Jacques Bergerac .............. Pierre D'Albert
Kathleen Crowley .............. Carol Miller
Tuesday Weld .................. Barrie
Catherine McLeod .............. Amanda Connell
Grant Sullivan ................ Dave Connell
Stu is returning from Manila with a jewel thief
and some stolen gems
in his custody. The plane crashes and Stu and
his prisoner are
among the few survivors washed ashore on a
deserted island. Stu
soon finds out the island is scheduled to be a
target for an
H-bomb test.
2.11 [044] 77 Sunset Strip: TEXAS DOLL [RS]
11Dec59
Directed by Andre de Toth
cast?
Sherry Jackson ................ Chris Benson (The Danny Thomas Show)
Carol Ohmart .................. Ann
Rhodes Reason ................. Rick Allen
Douglas Dick .................. Jim Ferris
The Benson family of Texas hires Jeff to find
out why Rick Allen is
pursuing Chris Benson and her stepmother. When
Allen is murdered
and Chris is found in his bedroom, it is up to
Jeff to prove her
innocence.
2.12 [045] 77 Sunset Strip: VACATION WITH PAY [EZ, EB]
18Dec59
Directed by James V. Kern
cast:
Judy Wright Nugent ............ Bobbie Anderson
Kipp Hamilton ................. Lili
John Stutton .................. Ralph Anderson
Donald Buka ................... Pierre Le Clair
Herbert Rudley ................ Gerald Anderson
Gerald Anderson hires Stu to act as escort for
his teenage daughter
Bobbie on a trip to Europe. Stu
enthusiastically accepts the
assignment, unaware that Bobbie has some
special romantic plans.
Stu and Kookie also learn the girl's uncle
plans to force a marriage
with a young Frenchman on the wealthy heiress.
2.13 [046] 77 Sunset Strip: THE JUKEBOX CAPER [RS,EB]
25Dec59
Directed by Ida Lupino
cast:
Patricia Donahue .............. Marylyn King
Ted De Corsia ................. Ben Gale
Anthony George ................ Si Temple
Lisa Davis .................... Linda Atkins
Michael Harris ................ Mike Andre
Oliver McGowan ................ Fleet Johnson
Suzanne Edward ................ Jeannie Mayes
Jim Oberlin ................... Eddie Mayes
Jeff Spencer poses as a singer in order to unmask, Ben Gale, the
mastermind of a clever blackmail ring. But when
Jeff and Kookie
begin to probe they find themselves close to
death. Jeannie Mayes,
sister of a recording artist, tells Jeff that
her brother was killed
because he refused to cooperate with jukebox
racketeers.
2.14 [047] 77 Sunset Strip: CREATED HE THEM [EZ]
1Jan60
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Adele Mara .................... Dr. Mary Adams
Jean Byron .................... Claire Donalson
Max Lewin ..................... Max Lewin as himself
Edward Kemmer
Stu is asked to conduct a discreet
investigation of an apparent
mercy killing. He meets opposition at every
turn but is finally
able to prove that Dr. Mary Adams did not kill
her invalid husband.
2.15 [048] 77 Sunset Strip: COLLECTOR'S ITEM [RS]
8Jan60
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Directed by William J. Hole, Jr.
cast:
Marie Windsor ................. Countess Maruska
Alan Baxter ................... Fred Keller
Jim Backus .................... Maury Samuels
(I Married Joan, Gilligan's Island)
Eric Feldary .................. Eric House
Joannie Sommers ............... Joanie
The Countess Maruska is interested in obtaining
a valuable piece of
sculpture. She hires Jeff to get it for her.
But the Countess is
really a member of a spy ring and a top-secret
plastic formula is
her real objective.
2.16 [049] 77 Sunset Strip: SWITCHBURG [EZ]
15Jan60
Directed by Montgomery Pittman
cast:
Dolores Donlon ................ Nan and Ann Polly
Jean Allison .................. Dorothy
Lance Fuller .................. Clyde Amboy
Charity Grace ................. Mrs. Brandon
John Hubbard .................. Art Morney
Emile Meyer ................... Sheriff Hale
William Fawcett ............... Morty Genes
Richard Reeves ................ Wilbur Van Brock
Stuart Bailey inquires into the purchase of an old decaying hotel in
a ghost town and walks into a strange and
overwhelming assortment of
petty crooks. He finds the hotel padlocked and
guarded by two old
characters with shotguns. Behind the doors is a
silver dollar
counterfeiting operation.
2.17 [050] 77 Sunset Strip: THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY [RS]
22Jan60
Directed by Everett Sloane
cast:
Whitney Blake ................. Dianna Cartwright
Lisa Montell .................. Pilar
William Hudson ................ Phillip Marsden
Fortunio Bonanova ............. Senor Ramon
Dennis Patrick
An insurance company hires Jeff to investigate
the death of a famous
photographer. He becomes suspicious after
seeing the picture of a
beautiful Mexican girl in a number of the man's
photos. Then the
man is seen alive in Mexico with the girl.
2.18 [051] 77 Sunset Strip: TEN CENTS A DEATH [EZ]
29Jan60
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Bea Benaderet ................. Mary Field (Petticoat Junction)
Linda Lawson .................. Jeanne
Tony George ................... Nick Hercules
Jay Novello ................... Mr. Neidorf
Byron Kieth ................... Lt. Gilmore (recurring)
Robert Colbert ................ Ernie Pozen
Hal Baylor .................... Herky's bouncer
Sandra Edwards ................ Lorna
Hugh Lawrence ................. Police Desk Sergeant
Sandy Koufax .................. Policeman
The mysterious deaths of two dance hall hostesses involve Stuart
Bailey, Roscoe and Suzanne in a masquerade to
find the killer.
Bailey frequents the dime-a-dance spots in an
effort to pick up some
clues and Suzanne poses as a dancer at the
club.
2.19 [052] 77 Sunset Strip: WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? [RS]
5Feb60
German title - Wer Offnet Den Safe
Directed by Montgomery Pittman
cast:
Jacques Aubuchon .............. Wilson James
Fay Wray ...................... Clara
Neil Hamilton ................. Hamilton
Richard Rust .................. Walter Legal
Don Barry
and from 'Hawaiian Eye'
Robert Conrad ................. Tom Lopaka
Hawaiian detective Tom Lopaka asks Jeff to take a case for him.
Jeff's client turns out to be a one-time movie star who has been
invited to hear the will of J.C. Usher, a dead producer. The will
is to be presented as a motion picture, with Usher narrating. The
film includes a treasure hunt with the assembled group given the
opportunity of finding a million dollar fortune.
2.20 [053] 77 Sunset Strip: CONDOR'S LAIR [EZ]
12Feb60
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Tuesday Weld .................. Kitten Lang
Troy Donahue .................. Flip Farrell (Surfside 6)
Robert Lowery ................. Stacy Noble
Andrea King ................... Maggie Lang
David Cross ................... Paname
Teenage novelist Kitten Lang relates a
hair-raising tale of
blackmail and intrigue when she appeals to Stu
for protection.
Though he believes that Kitten's flamboyant
imagination is working
overtime, Stu moves into action when she
reports mysterious doings
at the home of a former movie star.
2.21 [054] 77 Sunset Strip: THE STARLET
26Feb60
Directed by Andre De Toth
cast:
Jean Blake .................... Ellie Hayes
Diane McBain .................. Paula Harding
Linda Watkins ................. Mrs. Wetherby
A young actress is an apparrent suicide after
she loses out in the
Starlet Award contest. But evidence of murder
is found and the
shocked award winner, Ellie Hayes, offers Jeff
her cash prize to
find the killer.
2.22 [055] 77 Sunset Strip: SAFARI [EZ]
4Mar60
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Arch Johnson .................. Simon Galbraith
Julie Adams ................... Miriam Galbraith
Richard Coogan ................ Doug Walters
Janet Lake .................... Joyce
Robert Colbert ................ Pete Mallon (The Time Tunnel)
Tycoon Simon Galbraith wants Stu to join his
African safari
immediately to find out who's trying to kill
him. It doesn't
take Stu long to realize that every member of
the party has a
valid motive for killing the domineering
Galbraith.
2.23 [056] 77 Sunset Strip: BLACKOUT [EZ, RS]
11Mar60
Directed by georger waGGner -OR- Herbert L.
Strock
cast
Donald May .................... Tip Lanahan
Rex Reason .................... Monty Salow (brother of actor Rhodes)
Sammy White ................... Red Neal
Warren Oates .................. Dink Strahman (Stoney Burke)
Hired to watch a collection of cultured pearls,
Bailey & Spencer
find that a gang of thieves also has an eye out
for larceny. The
thieves steal the jewels and head for So.
America with Suzanne as
hostage.
2.24 [057] 77 Sunset Strip: RETURN TO SAN DEDE Pt.1: THE DESERT STORY [EZ]
18Mar60 [EZ]
Directed by Montgomery Pittman
cast:
Andrea Martin ................. Roxanna Ferrales
Luis van Rooten ............... Salazar
George Lewis .................. DeLeon
Marianna Hill ................. Juanita
Rodolfo Hoyos ................. Pinedo
Stuart Bailey is involved in a deadly game of politics when he
escorts beautiful Roxanna Ferrales - heiress to her father's
political throne - back to her tiny Latin American republic. Stu
becomes involved with the political
machinations of various
factions in the country.
2.25 [058] 77 Sunset Strip: RETURN TO SAN DEDE Pt.2: THE CAPITAL CITY [EZ]
25Mar60
Directed by Montgomery Pittman
cast:
Andrea Martin ................. Roxanna Ferrales
Luis van Rooten ............... Salazar
George Lewis .................. DeLeon
Marianna Hill ................. Juanita
Rodolfo Hoyos ................. Pinedo
Stuart Bailey arrives with lovely political heiress Roxanna in her
native city and realizes the opposition has installed an imposter,
and that he an Roxanna face death. Stu is
wounded in a political
skirmish and he decides to send for Jeff for
help.
2.26 [059] 77 Sunset Strip: PUBLICITY BRAT
1Apr60
Written by Richard DeRoy.
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
cast:
Billie Burke .................. Mavis
Evelyn Rudie .................. Angel
Pamela Britton ................ Paula Conway
Ken Lynch ..................... Fred Thorn (The Plainclothesman)
Also:
Ralph Clanton, Maurice Marson, Della Sharman,
Mousie Garner, Beau Gentry.
Bailey's search for a missing necklace is strictly routine, until
he meets two actresses, a brat and her giddy
grandma, who complicate
the investigation with their wild imaginations.
2.27 [060] 77 Sunset Strip: THE FIX [RS]
8Apr60
Directed by Robert B. Sinclair
cast:
Rhodes Reason ................. Chad Morrow
Mary Tyler Moore .............. Laura Chandler
Julie Reding .................. Miss Saturn
Paul Dubov .................... Joe Carter
Dennis Patrick ................ Fred Horner
Jeff Spencer is hired to investigate the baffling slaying of a
pugilist in a 'rigged' bout, but his client is
also marked for
death. The fighter was killed because he
wouldn't cooperate in
a fight fixing racket.
2.28 [061] 77 Sunset Strip: LEGEND OF CRYSTAL DART
15Apr60 [EZ]
Directed by Montgomery Pittman
cast:
Marilyn Maxwell ............... Crystal Dart
Pat Michon .................... Janice Dexter
William Schallert ............. Ken Dexter
Kurt Kreuger .................. Kurt Weibel
Bek Nelson .................... Marie Lang
Dennis Moore .................. Sheriff Painter
Stuart Bailey finds blood in the snow on a mountain journey with an
ex-follies queen. Former Follies Bergere star
Crystal Dart wants
Stu to help her foreclose on a mountain cabin
and force her
estranged husband from the premises. Shortly
after they arrive, a
murder occurs.
2.29 [062] 77 Sunset Strip: STRANGER THAN FICTION [EZ]
22Apr60
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
John Howard ................... Arnold Rediger
Suzanne Lloyd ................. Eve Rediger
Mike Road ..................... Carl Packard
Sam Gilman .................... Ian Pepperday
Stuart Bailey is hired by millionaire Arnold Rediger to find his
missing wife. With the help of Roscoe, Bailey
soon discovers that
the 'disappearance' is really a fake. A
millionaire's wife has been
kidnapped, but Stu's sure the whole thing has
been rigged. Then the
husband gets a ransom note and the woman is
killed. The kidnapping
was a hoax but the woman's lover double-crossed
her.
2.30 [063] 77 Sunset Strip: GENESIS OF TREASON [EZ]
29Apr60
German title - Interview mit Eienem Verrater
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Dianne Foster ................. Marta Wentworth
Donald May .................... Lt. Francis B. Hollister
Richard Shannon ............... Eric Gregory
John Shay ..................... Major Windham
Raymond Bailey ................ Ben Salway
The Frankie Ortega Trio plays 'Jealousy'
Stuart Bailey unknowingly possesses the clue to a Communist plot
following his meeting with a court-martialed
Air Force officer,
convicted of treason. As a result of the
court-martial, the
officer's girlfriend's reputation has been
shattered. She asks
Bailey to prove she is no traitor.
2.31 [064] 77 Sunset Strip: FRATERNITY OF FEAR
6May60 [RS]
Directed by Robert B. Sinclair
cast:
Shirley Knight ................ Mari Ellen (Spenser For Hire)
Gary Vinson ................... Brad Vurtis (McHale's Navy)
Diane McBain .................. Doris Spinner
The parents of a college student ask Jeff Spenser to investigate the
circumstances of their son's death. Jeff goes
undercover at the
college. The student died in a fraternity
hazing. Not satisfied
with the inquest verdict of accidental death,
the boy's father
calls on Jeff. Jeff goes to live in the frat
house to uncover the
real story behind the death.
2.32 [065] 77 Sunset Strip: SPARK OF FREEDOM [EZ]
13May60
Produced by Jerry Davis (NOT Jerry Paris as in some guides)
Directed by Charles Haas
cast:
Anna-Lisa .................... Marie Kosary
Marcel Dalio .................. Dr. Pierre Carnet
Theodore Marcuse .............. Ferenzi
John Van Dreelen .............. Colonel Szatmar
Rudolph Anders ................ Josef Jaszi
Sasha Harden .................. Miklos Jaszi
Charles Maxwell ............... Kirkland
Norbert Schiller .............. Father Cyna
David Manley .................. Anton
John Czingula ................. Geza
Joseph Waring ................. Prison official
Posing as a Viennese doctor, Stu Bailey attends a congress of
physicians in Budapest. His real mission is to
obtain scientific
data from a carefully guarded prisoner of the
Communists. He is
assisted by a group of Hungarian Freedom
Fighters in his attempt
to rescue the young scientist. Though the
scientist is killed,
Stu smuggles out some important information
while disguised as a
priest.
2.33 [066] 77 Sunset Strip: PERFECT SETUP
20May60
Written by Roy Huggins
Directed by Montgomery Pittman
cast:
Warren Stevens ................ Mel Dixon
Myrna Hansen .................. Carol
Skip Ward ..................... Victor King
Joyce Meadows ................. Jessica King
Paul Bryar .................... Ed
and from 'Hawaiian Eye'
Anthony Eisley ................ Tracy Steele
Connie Stevens ................ Cricket Blake
Poncie Ponce .................. Kazuo Kim
To trap a thief, Hawaiian eye Tracy Steele
needs an undercover man
who won't be recognized on the island. He ropes
in Jeff Spencer for
the assignment. Jeff is set up to be killed by
a couple, and then
to pass Jeff's body off as that of his
murderer.
2.34 [067] 77 Sunset Strip: SIERRA [EZ]
27May60 [us] ABC orig. airdate
13May61 [uk] ATV-London, Sat 8:35 pm
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Directed by georger waGGner
Guest Cast:
Sherry Jackson ................ Ella Jennings
Lawrence Dobkin ............... Professor Chastain
Anthony George ................ Barney Vincent
Edward Platt .................. Steve Jennings
Horace McMahon ................ Silva
William Hudson ................ Bart Reed
Ric Roman ..................... Chuck
Tom Fadden .................... Attendant
Synopsis 1:
Stu stops at a mountain top filing station to ask directions to a friend's
hunting lodge. An aged attendant warns that
strange unnatural perils lie in wait on the road ahead. When he arrives at his
friend's house to investigate his
daughter's strange behavior, Stu is forced to face a dangerous animal and a gang
of criminals.
Synopsis 2:
Stu Bailey stops at a mountain-top filling station to ask directions to a
friend's hunting lodge. An aged attendant
warns that strange, unnatural perils lie in wait on the road ahead. [James Beer]
Time-shifted broadcast on KTWO-2 (All Networks) Casper. WY Sun 12Jun 60 10:15
p.m. MDT
2.35 [068] 77 Sunset Strip: THE SILENT CAPER
(a.k.a. "Much Ado About Nothing")
3Jun60
Written by Roger Smith (Jeff Spencer)
Directed by georger waGGner
cast:
Ann Duncan .................... Jingle Bells
Dale Van Sickel ............... hood
Cliff Ketchum ................. man with the rifle
Carolyn Komant ................ girl friend
Don Hix ....................... old man
Shortly before she is to testify before the
Senate Rackets
Committee, striptease artist Jingle Bells
disapears. Jeff sets out
to find her. [This episode has no dialogue,
only sound effects.]
2.36 [069] 77 Sunset Strip: FAMILY SKELETONS [EZ][EB]
10Jun60
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Directed by Reginald LeBorg
cast:
Suzanne Storrs ................ Diane Loring
Gale Robbins .................. Terry Staunton
Yvonne Craig .................. Luanna Staunton (Batman)
Walter Reed ................... Philip Staunton
Russ Bender ................... Chief Howard
Frank Gerstle ................. Bennie Cannon
Boyd Santell .................. Johnny Richie
Nesdon Booth .................. Bartender
Stuart Bailey answers the plea of a former girlfriend of Diane
Loring, to help her employer, Philip Staunton, who has been
kidnapped. Bailey, Kookie and Roscoe have twenty-four hours to solve
the crime. Staunton has a rare disease which
will kill him unless
he is supplied with a daily injection. Stu
learns that neither the
man's wife nor his friend are involved in the
kidnapping.
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