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Route 66
On CBS — From Lancer-Edling Productions · Lancer Productions Limited
The adventures of two young drifters across America
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After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.
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- E1 Black NovemberNext upOct 7, 1960 · 60 min
Synopsis
Tod's father dies leaving Tod the Corvette. Buz worked for Tod's father and the two decide to start driving. The Corvette breaks down in a small Mississippi town with some very nasty residents. The boys discover that the town hosted a POW camp during WW II and that the town boss had an escaped prisoner lynched when his son was killed in action. The boss plans to lynch Tod and Buz to keep the town's secret. Filming Location: Concord, Kentucky
Guest stars: Robert Sorrells, Keir Dullea, Malcolm Atterbury, Everett Sloane, George Kennedy, Whit Bissell
- E2 A Lance of StrawOct 14, 1960 · 60 min
Synopsis
Shrimp boat captain Charlotte Duval hires Tod and Buz as a crew for her boat. Suitor Jean Boussard gets very jealous of the male crew members. Buz falls in love with the captain. Filming Location: Grand Isle, Louisiana
Guest stars: Thomas Gomez, Janice Rule, Nico Minardos
- E3 The Swan BedOct 21, 1960 · 60 min
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Tod and Buz arrive in New Orleans during a parrot-fever epidemic. They meet a girl named Carrie Purcell and ask her out for a date. Carrie doesn't have money to afford nice clothes. Filming Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Guest stars: Zina Bethune, Betty Field, Murray Hamilton, Henry Hull, Louis Zorich, Louis Guss, Elizabeth MacRae (Randy Spring)
- E4 The Man on the Monkey BoardOct 28, 1960 · 60 min
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Tod and Buz are working at a Louisana Gulf of Mexico off-shore oil-drilling tower. Lew Ayres plays a Nazi-hunter hunting an escaped Nazi on the drilling rig. Filming Location: Denage and Venice, Louisana
Guest stars: Barnard Hughes, Lew Ayres, Ed Asner, Alfred Ryder, Frank Overton (Hanson), Michael Conrad (Al Jenkins), Roger C. Carmel (Man in the Shower), Bruce Dern (Albert)
- E5 The Strengthening AngelsNov 4, 1960 · 60 min
Synopsis
Tod and Buz give a lift to Lotti Montana, a migrant worker who is going to help pick the peach crop. As they approach the town of Sparrow Falls she begs them to drive through as quickly as possible. They take her to the Coronet Club and the Silver Dollar cafe. Sheriff Hingle keeps her from leaving town. The boys work with a revivalist. Filming Location: Needles, California
Guest stars: Suzanne Pleshette, Warren Stevens, Hal Smith, Sheldon Allman, Tom Reese, John Larch
- E6 Ten Drops of WaterNov 11, 1960 · 60 min
Synopsis
Vergil and Helen Page with their young brother Homer are owners of the family ranch. Fighting a desperate battle against drought they're too proud to accept Tod and Buz's offer to help. Filming Location: Kanab, Utah
Guest stars: Don Beddoe, Sara Haden, Burt Brinckerhoff (Virgil Paige), Deborah Walley (Helen Paige), Robert F. Simon (Mr. Pepperell), Oliver McGowan (Payson)
- E7 Three SidesNov 18, 1960 · 60 min
Synopsis
The boys work on a ranch and encounter a rancher's son. Joey dances on a table. Filming Location: Grants Pass, Oregon
Guest stars: Joey Heatherton, E.G. Marshall, Johnny Seven
- E8 Legacy for LuciaNov 25, 1960 · 60 min
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Tod and Buz are working as loggers in Oregon. They meet an Italian girl, Lucia Trapani, who has come from Sicily to buy a new Madonna for her church. She plans to do it by selling her only possessions. Filming Location: Merlin, Oregon
Guest stars: Jay C. Flippen, Leo Gordon (Bernie Duncan), Arlene Martel, John Larch (Bill Morrison)
- E9 Layout at Glen CanyonDec 2, 1960 · 60 min
Synopsis
A group of models are sent to a construction camp at Glen Canyon to do some fashion shots for a magazine. Jeff Grady head of the crew working at the dam appoints Tod and Buz as bodyguards. Filming Location: Glen Canyon Dam and Page, Arizona
Guest stars: Charles McGraw, Bethel Leslie, William Benedict, Zohra Lampert (Sue Ellis), Richard Shannon (Lou Gillis), Elizabeth MacRae (Betsy), Donna Douglas (Dana)
- E10 The Beryllium EaterDec 9, 1960 · 60 min
Synopsis
Jack McConkie makes a find of Beryllium, a rare ore. Mine operator Fred Durant insists that he sell his claim. The old man refuses and is found badly beaten. Filming Location: Eureka, Arizona
Guest stars: Edward Binns, Inger Stevens, Edgar Buchanan
- E11 A Fury Slinging FlameDec 30, 1960 · 60 min
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The boys meet scientist Mark Christopher and his friends who intend to remain in Carlsbad Caverns until a predicted nuclear war is over. Filming Location: Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
Guest stars: Phyllis Hill, Jon Lormer, Fay Spain, Leslie Nielsen, Conrad Nagel, Jimmy Carter (Alan Christopher)
- E12 ShebaJan 6, 1961 · 60 min
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Laura Church is paroled from a Texas prison and prepares to take up a new life. Then she discovers that the man assigned as her advisor is none other than Woody Biggs, the rancher who sent her to jail in the first place. The boys work as cowboys. Filming Location: El Paso, Texas
Guest stars: Stuart Nisbet, Carol Ohmart, Lee Marvin (Woody Biggs), Whitney Blake (Laura Church), Raymond Guth (Johnny Langway)
- E13 The Quick and the DeadJan 13, 1961 · 60 min
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Tod and Buz work at the Riverside race track for the Grand Prix stock-car races. They get involved with a family's problems, including whether the father should continue stock-car racing. Tod drives a racecar. Filming Location: Riverside Racetrack and Mission Inn, Riverside, California
Guest stars: Susan Kohner, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Regis Toomey, Frank Overton (Cord Webster), Harvey Korman (Len Statler)
- E14 Play It GlissandoJan 20, 1961 · 60 min
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Tod and Buz watch a show at a local night club where trumpeter Gabe Johnson and his group are appearing. While driving away, they witness Jana Johnson, Gabe's wife, crash her car. She tells the boys that Gabe is insanely jealous and tried to kill her. The boys watch over her. Gabe shoots Tod but Tod tells the hospital it was an accident. When Jana goes back with Gabe, the boys realize that Jana will keep returning to Gabe no matter what. Filming Location: Malibu, California
Guest stars: Barbara Bostock, Anne Francis (Jana Johnson), Jack Lord (Gabe Johnson), Harold J. Stone (Lieutenant Mangano)
- E15 The Clover ThroneJan 27, 1961 · 60 min
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The boys work on Adam Darcey's date farm. Adam loves his ward, ""Sweet Thing"", who wants to leave the farm. Adam is also trying to stop a road from being built on his property. Filming Location: Indio, California
Guest stars: DeForest Kelley (Willis), Anne Helm (Sweet Thing), Arthur Batanides (Joe Goss), Jack Warden (Adam)
- E16 Fly Away Home (1)Feb 10, 1961 · 60 min
Synopsis
Tod goes to work for the Windus Dusting Company as a crop duster. He meets Summers, a pilot. The company is losing money. Filming Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Guest stars: Jenny Maxwell, Bert Remsen, Dorothy Malone, Michael Rennie, Cathy Lewis
- E17 Fly Away Home (2)Feb 17, 1961 · 60 min
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A farmer wants his crops dusted with sulfur, which is very dangerous to the pilots. However, the risk means more money to for the crop-dusting company. Filming Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Guest stars: Jenny Maxwell, Bert Remsen, Dorothy Malone, Michael Rennie, Cathy Lewis, Ford Rainey
- E18 Sleep on Four PillowsFeb 24, 1961 · 60 min
Synopsis
Tod and Buz meet a teenage girl who claims to be running from gangsters. The girl's wealthy mother thinks her daughter has been kidnapped and calls the police and a detective. Filming Location: Hollywood and Los Angeles, California
Guest stars: John Beradino, Larry Gates
- E19 An Absence of TearsMar 3, 1961 · 60 min
Synopsis
A blind widow listens for the voices of her dead husband's murderers. She asks Tod and Buz to buy her a pistol for self-protection. Filming Location: Hollywood, California
Guest stars: Martha Hyer, Paul Richards, Herb Armstrong (Vince), Joseph Ruskin (Blinky Ober), Mary Webster (Midge Foster), Lewis Charles (Lew), Forrest Compton (Jeff Stevens (uncredited))
- E20 Like a Motherless ChildMar 17, 1961 · 60 min
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Tod and Buz pick up a small boy who has run away from an orphanage. Tod wants to return the boy but Buz, who has bad memories of an orphanage, refuses. The boys also get involved with showgirls. Filming Location: Reno, Fallon, and Carson City, Nevada
Guest stars: Ben Johnson, Jack Weston, Barbara Hines (Frieda), Sylvia Sidney (Hannah Ellis)
- E21 Effigy in SnowMar 24, 1961 · 60 min
Synopsis
A psychotic killer is killing women at the Squaw Valley ski resort. He leaves a body in the snow. Filming Location: Squaw Valley, California
Guest stars: Ulla Strömstedt, George Macready, Jeanne Bal, Kurt Kreuger, Scott Marlowe
- E22 Eleven, the Hard WayApr 7, 1961 · 60 min
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The gown of Broken Knee hand their money over to famous gambler Sam Keep to gamble it in Reno. Filming Location: Reno and Broken Knee, Nevada
Guest stars: Walter Matthau, Edward Andrews
- E23 Most Vanquished, Most VictoriousApr 14, 1961 · 60 min
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Tod's aunt Kitty asks Tod to find her daughter Carole. The boys find that she was living in a Los Angeles slum and has been killed. Filming Location: Los Angeles, California
Guest stars: Elizabeth Allen, Frank De Kova, Royal Dano, Beatrice Straight
- E24 Dont Count StarsApr 28, 1961 · 60 min
Synopsis
Tod and Buz meet a hotel owner Mike, who drinks and gambles. Mike is the guardian for his niece Linda, a little girl. Linda's executor wants to remove the child from her uncle, and she asks Tod and Buz for help. Filming Location: San Diego, Sands Hotel, California
Guest stars: Phil Arnold, Vaughn Taylor, Dan Duryea, Mary Jackson
- E25 The NewbornMay 5, 1961 · 60 min
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Tod and Buz work on a ranch belonging to Frank Ivy. Frank's son dies leaving an Indian girl Kawna pregnant. Frank and Kawna's relatives fight over the baby. The boys arrange an ""adoption"" of the baby after the mother dies. Filming Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Guest stars: Albert Dekker (Frank Ivy), Arlene Martel (Kawna Ivy), Robert Duvall (Roman), Denver Pyle (Father Prior), Bing Russell (Frank Satterfield), Fred Stromsoe (Pilot (uncredited))
- E26 A Skill for HuntingMay 12, 1961 · 60 min
Synopsis
Tod stops a poacher Hump Humphrey from killing a deer. Hump then shoots out the tires of Tod's car and later frames the boys for poaching. Filming Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Guest stars: Joanna Moore, Gene Evans, Harold J. Stone (Gus Patton), Ted de Corsia (Poker Player (uncredited)), Bobby Jordan (Garage Attendant (uncredited)), Warren J. Kemmerling (Fred Capper)
- E27 Trap at CordovaMay 26, 1961 · 60 min
Synopsis
Tod and Buz are kidnapped by New Mexican mountain townspeople who need a teacher. Tod addresses the New Mexico legislature about the culture of the people of Cordova and the need for teachers. Filming Location: Cordova, New Mexico
Guest stars: Dianne Foster, Thomas Gomez, Argentina Brunetti, Lee Roberts
- E28 The OpponentJun 2, 1961 · 60 min
Synopsis
A has-been boxer Johnny Copa is now throwing fights. Johnny trains Buz in boxing. Filming Location: Youngstown, Ohio
Guest stars: David Clarke, Lois Nettleton, Al Lewis, Darren McGavin, Ed Asner
- E29 Welcome to AmityJun 9, 1961 · 60 min
Synopsis
Joan Maslow wants to bury her mother in the cemetery outside of Amity. The entire community is determined to stop her. Filming Location: Amity, Ohio
Guest stars: Luke Halpin, Susan Oliver, Logan Ramsey, Martha Scott
- E30 Incident on a BridgeJun 16, 1961 · 60 min
Synopsis
Buz and Tod go to work for Volovich and live at his house. Two other boarders are courting Volovich's mute daughter. Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Guest stars: Lois Smith, Nehemiah Persoff, Herb Voland
Cast & crew
Created by Stirling Silliphant, Herbert B. Leonard
Glenn Corbett
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