77 Sunset Strip (1962) Season 5
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.
01 Stu searches for the reasons behind an old friend's hit-and-run death in Austria.
10/12/1962
02 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.
10/19/1962
03 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.
10/26/1962
04 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.
11/2/1962
05 Jeff becomes a bodyguard for a judge who says that if he's killed, he wants Jeff to find his murderer.
11/9/1962
06 Suzanne and Stu help her Hungarian friend find her mother, who fled the Communists in Budapest.
11/16/1962
07 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.
11/23/1962
08 Stu reunites with an old flame, a recent widow, and investigates her daughter's belief that her father's death was no accident.
11/30/1962
09 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.
12/7/1962
10 Jeff and J.R. deliver an attache case to Latin American clients.
12/14/1962
11 An astrologer hires Jeff when he begins receiving threatening phone calls, but Jeff discovers his secretary may be the real target.
12/21/1962
12 Jeff teams up with an insurance adjuster to recover an armored truck's lost shipment.
12/28/1962
13 Stu becomes involved in film society when a suicide, a murder, and subseuqent attempted murders disrupt the entertainment world.
1/4/1963
14 Suzanne finds love when she posses as an heiress to investigate the person who's suing a client.
1/11/1963
15 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.
1/18/1963
16 Stu helps a deaf librarian who ""overheard"" a a death threat in the reading room.
1/25/1963
17 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.
2/1/1963
The Night Was Six Years Long 18 The detectives' former secretary walks back in after six years, suffering from amnesia.
2/8/1963
19 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.
2/15/1963
20 Stu is asked to rescue scientist Marie Harben's son, being held hostage by East German Communists to prevent her defecting to the West.
2/22/1963
21 Sandra Keene fears that someone may try to prevent her brother Michael, a skid-row bum, from collecting his inheritance.
3/1/1963
22 Stu is called to New York to find a missing Hollywood wife.
3/8/1963
23 Kookie helps a Japanese friend find his uncle, who vanished with $50,000.
3/15/1963
24 Jeff investigates a former G.I.'s story of seeing a man who was reported killed in Korea.
3/22/1963
25 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.
3/29/1963
26 J.R. seaches for his date's missing brother, a sailor.
4/5/1963
27 Kookie and J.R. are on assignment at the beach when a hit-and-run accident injures a girl they've been watching.
4/12/1963
28 Stu finds a trap when he goes to collect the belongings of an industrialist and humanitarian killed in a train wreck.
4/19/1963
29 An unhappy little boy on a Little League team is the clue to a murder.
4/26/1963
30 Visiting professor Stu stumbles across a real mystery while teaching criminology.
5/3/1963
31 Stu attends a charity auction and spots an old flame—who promptly robs the place.
5/10/1963
32 Stu goes after a dangerous lady thief who's stolen a realtor's books.
5/17/1963
33 Con men take $1 million in securities from under Kookie's nose, and Stu gives chase to restore the firm's reputation.
5/24/1963
34 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.
5/31/1963
35 Stu ends up holding the bag when he's hired to help fake a robbery for the heir to a criminal family.
6/7/1963
36 An agent hires Stu and Kookie to protect a client from a charismatic director with a Svengali-like hold over her.
6/14/1963
