77 Sunset Strip — Season 5
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 (36)
1. The Reluctant Spy
Aired 12 October 1962 • 60 min
Stu searches for the reasons behind an old friend's hit-and-run death in Austria.
2. Leap, My Lovely
Aired 19 October 1962 • 60 min
A con man hypnotizes an actress into jumping out a window, then blackmails a film's producer with threats of doing the same to his leading man.
3. Terror in a Small Town
10.0Aired 26 October 1962 • 60 min
After a rash of practical jokes at the office, Kookie can't convince his partners that he really has been arrested for a serious crime.
4. The Raiders
Aired 2 November 1962 • 60 min
Stu arrives in the corrupt small town where an old friend is chief of police and with the help of a senaor's wife uncovers a murder and a blackmail scheme.
5. The Floating Man
Aired 9 November 1962 • 60 min
Jeff becomes a bodyguard for a judge who says that if he's killed, he wants Jeff to find his murderer.
6. The Catspaw Caper
Aired 16 November 1962 • 60 min
Suzanne and Stu help her Hungarian friend find her mother, who fled the Communists in Budapest.
7. Wolf, Cried the Blonde
Aired 23 November 1962 • 60 min
An actress cons the detectives into helping her pull off a publicity stunt, but gets more than she bargained for when a man from her past shows up with his hand out.
8. The Dark Wood
Aired 30 November 1962 • 60 min
Stu reunites with an old flame, a recent widow, and investigates her daughter's belief that her father's death was no accident.
9. Shadow on Your Shoulder
Aired 7 December 1962 • 60 min
Stu teams up with private detectives from Hawaii and French and English police to discover how a pair of criminals steal from their victims and leave them physical wrecks. Folk singers Peter, Paul & Mary perform.
10. Adventure in San Dede
Aired 14 December 1962 • 60 min
Jeff and J.R. deliver an attache case to Latin American clients.
11. The Odds on Odette
Aired 21 December 1962 • 60 min
An astrologer hires Jeff when he begins receiving threatening phone calls, but Jeff discovers his secretary may be the real target.
12. The Snow Job Caper
Aired 28 December 1962 • 60 min
Jeff teams up with an insurance adjuster to recover an armored truck's lost shipment.
13. Falling Stars
Aired 4 January 1963 • 60 min
Stu becomes involved in film society when a suicide, a murder, and subseuqent attempted murders disrupt the entertainment world.
14. The Tarnished Idol
Aired 11 January 1963 • 60 min
Suzanne finds love when she posses as an heiress to investigate the person who's suing a client.
15. Scream Softly, Dear
Aired 18 January 1963 • 60 min
A borrowed car with sabotaged brakes leads to murder, and Kookie's quest to find the killer leads him into a tangle of romantic triangles and blackmail.
16. Terror in Silence
Aired 25 January 1963 • 60 min
Stu helps a deaf librarian who ""overheard"" a a death threat in the reading room.
17. Crashout
Aired 1 February 1963 • 60 min
Jeff and Roscoe go undercover in prison to help a thief break out, in hopes he'll lead them to his hidden stash. But the man's cronies have their own plans for the escape and the cash.
18. The Night Was Six Years Long
Aired 8 February 1963 • 60 min
The detectives' former secretary walks back in after six years, suffering from amnesia.
19. Six Feet Under
Aired 15 February 1963 • 60 min
Gang boss Marco Deederman was reported killed in an automobile accident. But after the funeral, a series of fur and jewels thefts show the unmistakable hand of the old master—while Jeff falls for Deederman's girlfriend.
20. Escape to Freedom
Aired 22 February 1963 • 60 min
Stu is asked to rescue scientist Marie Harben's son, being held hostage by East German Communists to prevent her defecting to the West.
21. Dial S for Spencer
Aired 1 March 1963 • 60 min
Sandra Keene fears that someone may try to prevent her brother Michael, a skid-row bum, from collecting his inheritance.
22. Nine to Five
Aired 8 March 1963 • 60 min
Stu is called to New York to find a missing Hollywood wife.
23. Stranger from the Sea
Aired 15 March 1963 • 60 min
Kookie helps a Japanese friend find his uncle, who vanished with $50,000.
24. The Man Who Wasn't There
Aired 22 March 1963 • 60 min
Jeff investigates a former G.I.'s story of seeing a man who was reported killed in Korea.
25. Flight 307
Aired 29 March 1963 • 60 min
Stu's flight to Hawaii is stalled by a busy airline official trying to cope with a murder, a fleeing thief, a messy love triangle, and a sick pilot in the air.
26. Target Island
Aired 5 April 1963 • 60 min
J.R. seaches for his date's missing brother, a sailor.
27. Reunion at Balboa
Aired 12 April 1963 • 60 min
Kookie and J.R. are on assignment at the beach when a hit-and-run accident injures a girl they've been watching.
28. Walk Among Tigers
Aired 19 April 1963 • 60 min
Stu finds a trap when he goes to collect the belongings of an industrialist and humanitarian killed in a train wreck.
29. The Left Field Caper
Aired 26 April 1963 • 60 min
An unhappy little boy on a Little League team is the clue to a murder.
30. The Heartbeat Caper
Aired 3 May 1963 • 60 min
Visiting professor Stu stumbles across a real mystery while teaching criminology.
31. To Catch a Mink
Aired 10 May 1963 • 60 min
Stu attends a charity auction and spots an old flame—who promptly robs the place.
32. Lady in the Sun
Aired 17 May 1963 • 60 min
Stu goes after a dangerous lady thief who's stolen a realtor's books.
33. Our Man in Switzerland
Aired 24 May 1963 • 60 min
Con men take $1 million in securities from under Kookie's nose, and Stu gives chase to restore the firm's reputation.
34. Your Fortune for a Penny
Aired 31 May 1963 • 60 min
A millionaire hires Stu to protect his daughter from her rogue lover, a suspected swindler recently returned to the U.S. from an overseas hideaway.
35. The Checkmate Caper
Aired 7 June 1963 • 60 min
Stu ends up holding the bag when he's hired to help fake a robbery for the heir to a criminal family.
36. Never to Have Loved
Aired 14 June 1963 • 60 min
An agent hires Stu and Kookie to protect a client from a charismatic director with a Svengali-like hold over her.