77 Sunset Strip (1961)
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer were the wisecracking, womanizing private detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. Stu and Jeff worked out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los ... See full summary »
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Episode 1 - Attic
Release Date: 16 Sep. 1960Jeff sees enticing wanted robber Vetta Nygood, tails her to a remote mountain hideout, but her accomplices nab him. The ice-cold gang leader Hammett panics, so he ties & gags Jeff up in the abandoned house's attic. Then the 3 robbers flee after divvying up the loot, before the 4th thug, the menacing Deek arrives to claim his cut. Who gets to Jeff first: a chummy rattlesnake, the cops or the vengeful Deek ?
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Episode 2 - The Fanatics
Release Date: 23 Sep. 1960Marcus Raymond hires Baily to accompany him on a sensitive diplomatic mission to Africa after there has been two attempts on his life.
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Episode 3 - The President's Daughter
Release Date: 30 Sep. 1960Add a Plot
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Episode 4 - The Office Caper
Release Date: 7 Oct. 1960Just before Stu sings lead in a mob trial, a toy manufacturer moves into 77 Sunset Strip, with no furniture but lots of ammo and suspicious visitors, especially a sinister couple who rub everybody the wrong way. Roscoe knows the head of the assassins, who hires Roscoe to courier a secret toy design from San Diego.
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Episode 5 - The Widescreen Caper
Release Date: 14 Oct. 1960Astrologer predicts murder will strike the same film fest again, once more claiming someone close to super-agent Shelly Blair. Bailey & Spencer have no trouble mobilizing all their young male ops to protect Shelly's 4 starlet clients (MM, Lotus Lee, Sprite Simpson, Helga Haller), while Roscoe draws an ex-silent film diva, and Suzanne shields an ego-maniacal French heartthrob.
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Episode 6 - The Negotiable Blonde
Release Date: 21 Oct. 1960A duplicitous blonde swipes $500,000 from her employer/fiancé, after he hired Jeff Spencer to accompany her and a satchel of negotiable bonds from San Francisco to L.A. She gives Jeff the slip, along with another, much younger fiancé. When Jeff suspects she's fled to Acapulco, fiancé number II joins the chase.
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Episode 7 - The Laurel Canyon Caper
Release Date: 28 Oct. 1960Crooner, who's finally cracked the big screen, is suspected of rubbing out scandal sheet publisher Ransome, for threatening to expose the singer's rap sheet. Bailey & Spencer's new gumshoe Rex Randolph sets out to nab the killer, to prove the golden throat's innocence. High on Rex's checklist of suspects is comic Chick Little, who may be another of Ransome's blackmail pigeons.
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Episode 8 - Double Trouble
Release Date: 4 Nov. 1960Is Stu moonlighting as a Mafia hit man or could he just be an exact double for Sandy the Executioner? Kefauver's G-Men summon ex-CIA spook Stu Bailey inside the Beltway, to find out before New York's Silk Cipriano has his contract fulfilled on rival narcotics dealer California Baldy Mike Hannigan, sparking a bi-coastal gang war.
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Episode 9 - Trouble in the Middle East
Release Date: 11 Nov. 1960Add a Plot
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Episode 10 - The Duncan Shrine
Release Date: 18 Nov. 1960The funeral of a revered old Western star gets surreal when his huge statue is stolen. The embarrassed Hollywood cemetery hires Jeff Spencer to get the statue back, but gets way more they expect. Jeff's investigation uncovers sex, lies, blackmail, decaying nitrate film, and murder suspects galore.
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Episode 11 - The Double Death of Benny Markham
Release Date: 25 Nov. 1960Add a Plot
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Episode 12 - The Antwerp Caper
Release Date: 2 Dec. 1960Manet the magician schemes to pay off his gambling debts by reuniting his assistant with her wealthy parents, back in California. To verify that the beautiful young woman's really the daughter who disappeared in World War II Europe, the parents hire Stu Bailey to fly to Antwerp to investigate.
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Episode 13 - The Affairs of Adam Gallante
Release Date: 9 Dec. 1960Newlywed Adam Gallante disappears, then someone keeps trying to kill his naive bride Alice. Bloodhounds Rex and Bailey find out that the meek-looking Gallante, a traveling women's clothing salesman, had paramours all over, including Sheila Storm, seer Karma Onyx, and Peaches Schultz.
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Episode 14 - The Valley Caper
Release Date: 16 Dec. 1960Add a Plot
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Episode 15 - The Dresden Doll
Release Date: 23 Dec. 1960Add a Plot
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Episode 16 - The Rice Estate
Release Date: 30 Dec. 1960Add a Plot
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Episode 17 - The Hamlet Caper
Release Date: 6 Jan. 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 18 - The Man in the Mirror
Release Date: 13 Jan. 1961A man with split personality hires Bailey and Spencer to protect him from his would-be murderer--his own alter ego.
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Episode 19 - The College Caper
Release Date: 20 Jan. 1961Bailey and Kookie enter college--as teacher and student--to protect a gangster's football-hero son.
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Episode 20 - The Positive Negative
Release Date: 27 Jan. 1961Rex is engaged by Gunnar Isis, a ruthless international tycoon, to guard a priceless diamond tiara. When it is stolen from his mistress, lovely ballerina Amanda Sant, Rex is thrown into a maze of murderers, blackmailers and Nazis.
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Episode 21 - The Corsican Caper
Release Date: 3 Feb. 1961Suzanne is swindled in a confidence scheme and then becomes a murder suspect when the con man turns up dead.
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Episode 22 - Once Upon a Caper
Release Date: 10 Feb. 1961Roger recounts how he took in struggling nerd Stu as junior partner, after Roger rescued a beauty from a kidnapping plus nabbed a car ring single-handed, after bow-tied, all-thumbs Stu botched the car theft investigation. Roger's princely version of the origin of 77 Sunset Strip is in response to Rex making a rash mistake by asking Roger how their agency started. As a true detective, Rex needs all the facts to close a case, so he grills Stu for his version of the events.
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Episode 23 - Strange Bedfellows
Release Date: 17 Feb. 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 24 - Face in the Window
Release Date: 24 Feb. 1961A starlet is being stalked-until she shoots him. Rex finds that though she says she has no idea who he was, he was connected to an upcoming film she and her western star husband are invested in.
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Episode 25 - Tiger by the Tail
Release Date: 3 Mar. 1961The boys are given the job of protecting the prince of Banar while he tours the United States. Kooki falls heavily for the prince's daughter, which could potentially have deadly consequences for him.
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Episode 26 - The Space Caper
Release Date: 10 Mar. 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 27 - Open and Close in One
Release Date: 19 Mar. 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 28 - The Legend of Leckonby
Release Date: 24 Mar. 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 29 - Old Card Sharps Never Die
Release Date: 31 Mar. 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 30 - Vamp 'til Ready
Release Date: 7 Apr. 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 31 - The Common Denominator
Release Date: 14 Apr. 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 32 - The 6 Out of 8 Caper
Release Date: 21 Apr. 1961Meek bookkeeper Wilmer Zaleski picks 6 of 8 winners every day at the track, attracting the attention of hoods Flip & Schoolboy plus a statuesque billionaire track dilettante. Babs hires Stu to find out Zaleski's secret, while the strong-arms pummel Wilmer and kidnap his daughter. Maverick's a sure bet to win, but Roscoe has to pull an all-nighter to pick the other 5, to draw the kidnappers out in the open.
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Episode 33 - The Celluloid Cowboy
Release Date: 28 Apr. 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 34 - The Eyes of Love
Release Date: 5 May 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 35 - Designing Eye
Release Date: 12 May 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 36 - Caper in E Flat
Release Date: 19 May 1961Add a Plot
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Episode 37 - Hot Tamale Caper: Part I
Release Date: 27 May 1961While Bailey and Spencer are out, Randolph takes an assignment from a mysterious South American girl, but he's apparently killed en route to her country when his plane explodes. The other detectives suspect he was actually kidnapped.
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Episode 38 - Hot Tamale Caper: Part II
Release Date: 2 Jun. 1961Randolph awakens from a drugged state to find he has been kidnapped by a banana republic's crooked politicos, and forced to impersonate a dead leader the people trust. Bailey and Spencer enlist Kookie and Roscoe to help in a rescue mission.
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Episode 39 - Mr. Goldilocks
Release Date: 30 Jun. 1961Add a Plot