77 Sunset Strip — Season 1
Those were the days
About this season
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
Episodes (34)
1. Girl on the Run
Aired 10 October 1958 • 60 min
Solo private eye Stu Bailey tries to locate a missing singer before a professional killer does.
2. Lovely Lady, Pity Me
Aired 17 October 1958 • 60 min
Stu Bailey's infatuation with a beautiful woman leads him into blackmail and suspicion of murder.
3. A Nice Social Evening
Aired 24 October 1958 • 60 min
Stu Bailey is hired by a government agent to keep a Latin playboy under surveillance while he's in Hollywood, but the playboy turns out to be on the run from a killer.
4. Casualty
Aired 31 October 1958 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer uncovers an insurance scam when he is hired by a woman who swears that the husband she thought dead is still alive.
5. The Bouncing Chip
Aired 7 November 1958 • 60 min
Stu Bailey is hired to find ot who is passing counterfeit chips in a Las Vegas casino.
6. Two and Two Make Six
Aired 14 November 1958 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer is hired by a fashion designer to protect her ex-con husband, who has evidence that would convict a man engaged in revenge killings.
7. All Our Yesterdays
Aired 21 November 1958 • 60 min
Stu Bailey is hired by the greedy relatives of a silent film star to prove her incompetent so that they can get their hands on the money she is spending to finance a remake of her old hit ""Foolish Girl"".
8. The Well-Selected Frame
Aired 28 November 1958 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer is hired by a woman to get divorce evidence against her husband, but her real plan is to murder him and frame Jeff for the crime.
9. Iron Curtain Caper
Aired 5 December 1958 • 60 min
Stu Bailey is hired to rescue a newspaper correspondent who is being held captive in an East German hospital.
10. Vicious Circle
Aired 12 December 1958 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer is hired by the lawyer son of a former gangster to prevent his wrathful father from taking vengeance on the crminals who kidnapped him.
11. One False Step
Aired 19 December 1958 • 60 min
Bailey & Spencer are hired by a Washington attorney to protect his wife after a man on a plane trip suggests they swap murders.
12. The Court Martial of Johnny Murdo
Aired 26 December 1958 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer is hired by a military cadet's mother to find out if he is really guilty of stealing from a student fund, but someone seems willing to kill to prevent the truth from coming out.
13. Hit and Run
Aired 2 January 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey loans his convertible to Kookie for a date, only to find that the young man has been arrested for reckless driving.
14. Not an Enemy in the World
Aired 9 January 1959 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer searches for Suzanne's missing brother but discovers a murder-for-insurance plot.
15. The Secret of Adam Cain
Aired 16 January 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey is hired to recover a seemingly worthless vase but is then kidnapped and taken to Algeria.
16. The Girl Who Couldn't Remember
Aired 23 January 1959 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer is hired by a pretty amnesiac with lots of money in her purse, who turns out to be a murder witness with a killer on her trail.
17. Dark Vengeance
Aired 30 January 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey becomes a target for murder when he agrees to help a newsman's crusade against the narcotics racketeers who blinded him.
18. Conspiracy of Silence
Aired 6 February 1959 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer is hired to protect his client's student daughter from a killer.
19. Eyewitness
Aired 13 February 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey is hired by an 8-year-old boy to prove that he's not making up stories when he says he witnessed a bear being killed. What he actually saw was the killing of a woman wearing a fur coat.
20. Lovely Alibi
Aired 20 February 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey helps exonerate a framed and suspended policeman and prove a racketeer guilty of murder.
21. In Memoriam
Aired 27 February 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey is hired by a publisher to find out why someone keeps faking reports of his death.
22. The Fifth Stair
Aired 6 March 1959 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer becomes the subject of a husband's jealous suspicions and is not only approached by a blackmailer but is charged with murder.
23. Pasadena Caper
Aired 13 March 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey, hired to find an elderly woman's missing son who was heavily insured, becomes suspicious when the body he dredges out of the bay is too decomposed to identify.
24. Hong Kong Caper
Aired 20 March 1959 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer takes off for Hong Kong when a note from an army pilot puts him on the trail of a woman named Candy and a fortune in diamonds.
25. A Check Will Do Nicely
Aired 27 March 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey is hired to go to Paris to rescue a kidnapped American schoolgirl and save a valuable painting.
26. The Grandma Caper
Aired 3 April 1959 • 60 min
The firm is hired by a wealty family to watch out for their eccentric grandmother, who has embarked on a crime spree.
27. Honey from the Bee
Aired 10 April 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey becomes involved after an ancient Russian tapestry donated to a Beverly Hills restaurant leads to multiple murder.
28. Abra-Cadaver
Aired 17 April 1959 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer goes undercover as a prospective victim of a murder-for-insurance racket.
29. A Bargain in Tombs
Aired 24 April 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey goes to Rome in search of a missing heiress and finds an archaeology student helping loot a tomb.
30. The Widow Wouldn't Weep
Aired 1 May 1959 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer is hired by a sexy widow to find out if her husband's apparent suicide was actually murder.
31. Downbeat
Aired 8 May 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey, though acquitted of the crime of sedition for lack of evidence, has his private investigator's license revoked and goes on a drinking spree. He is then recruited by a former friend to conduct business with Communists. At the end it is revealed that Bailey had been working undercover for the U.S. government all along.
32. Canine Caper
Aired 15 May 1959 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer becomes involved when stolen rubies are hidden in the collar of a wayward poodle belonging to a French starlet being pursued by Kookie.
33. Mr. Paradise
Aired 22 May 1959 • 60 min
Stu Bailey is hired by a wealthy man's relatives to investigate the leader of a mysterious cult he has been lured into joining.
34. Strange Girl in Town
Aired 29 May 1959 • 60 min
Jeff Spencer tries to protect a young woman who witnessed a murder in a nightclub.