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Season 1 – Route 66

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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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Martin Milner

Tod Stiles

George Maharis

Buz Murdock

Jenny Maxwell

Guest Star

Thomas Gomez

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Patty McCormack

Guest Star

Michael Rennie

Guest Star

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Oct 7, 1960 Black November Tod and Buz encounter hostility and uncover a long-buried secret when their car breaks down near a lumber-camp town; guest Keir Dullea. Details Episode 2 Aired Oct 14, 1960 A Lance of Straw A pretty Louisiana shrimper hauls a great catch, but faces a hurricane and a jealous suitor. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 21, 1960 The Swan Bed Parrot smugglers cause an outbreak of parrot fever in New Orleans. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 28, 1960 The Man on the Monkey Board An off-shore oil worker's (Lew Ayres) search for justice puts co-workers Tod and Buz in danger; guests Michael Conrad, Bruce Dern. Details Episode 5 Aired Nov 4, 1960 The Strengthening Angels A woman fights a murder charge after killing a sheriff's drunken brother in self-defense. Details Episode 6 Aired Nov 11, 1960 Ten Drops of Water A proud ranch-owner refuses to ask for help while a drought kills his cattle. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 18, 1960 Three Sides Tod and Buz take jobs with a rich Oregon hop grower (E.G. Marshall) struggling to control his spoiled children; guest Joey Heatherton. Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 25, 1960 Legacy for Lucia A Sicilian woman claims an American soldier willed her his Oregon timberland. Details Episode 9 Aired Dec 2, 1960 Layout at Glen Canyon A group of fashion models disrupts work at a dam-construction site. Details Episode 10 Aired Dec 9, 1960 The Beryllium Eater A mining tycoon pressures an old prospector to sell his claim. Details Episode 11 Aired Dec 30, 1960 A Fury Slinging Flame Believing a nuclear attack is imminent, a scientist (Leslie Nielsen) takes his son and a band of followers deep into Carlsbad Caverns. Details Episode 12 Aired Jan 6, 1961 Sheba A ruthless cattleman will stop at nothing to make a woman submit to his will. Details Episode 13 Aired Jan 13, 1961 The Quick and the Dead A stock-car racer's wife wants him to quit racing, but his daughter disagrees. Details Episode 14 Aired Jan 20, 1961 Play It Glissando Tod and Buz befriend a woman (Anne Francis) who claims her husband (Jack Lord), an ambitious trumpet player, is trying to murder her. Details Episode 15 Aired Jan 27, 1961 The Clover Throne Buz and Tod go to work for a paraplegic date-grower (Jack Warden) plagued by a greedy ward and the threat of a road across his land. Details Episode 16 Aired Feb 10, 1961 Fly Away Home A crop duster's widow cannot accept his death; a pilot thinks he is a jinx. Details Episode 17 Aired Feb 17, 1961 Fly Away Home A crop-dusting operation is in danger of going out of business. Details Episode 18 Aired Feb 24, 1961 Sleep on Four Pillows A female politician's troubled daughter claims the mob is following her. Details Episode 19 Aired Mar 3, 1961 An Absence of Tears A blind dance instructor vows to kill the mobsters who killed her husband. Details Episode 20 Aired Mar 17, 1961 Like a Motherless Child Tod returns a young fugitive to an orphanage; Buz falls for a gambling shill. Details Episode 21 Aired Mar 24, 1961 Effigy in Snow A disturbed killer finds his victims at a ski resort, and leaves a body in the snow. Details Episode 22 Aired Apr 7, 1961 Eleven, the Hard Way The people of a fading Nevada mining town pool their savings and send a gambler (Walter Matthau) to Reno to win enough to save the town. Details Episode 23 Aired Apr 14, 1961 Most Vanquished, Most Victorious Buz and Tod take on a violent youth gang while searching for the missing daughter of Tod's impoverished, dying aunt (Beatrice Straight). Details Episode 24 Aired Apr 28, 1961 Don't Count Stars An alcoholic man (Dan Duryea) faces the loss of his beloved 9-year-old niece when he is thought to be spending her entire inheritance. Details Episode 25 Aired May 5, 1961 The Newborn Tod and Buz help a pregnant Indian girl whose father-in-law, a brutal rancher, wants her child born on his land; guest Robert Duvall. Details Episode 26 Aired May 12, 1961 A Skill for Hunting A murderous trucking executive hunts endangered game -- his business partner. Details Episode 27 Aired May 26, 1961 Trap at Cordova Residents of a remote New Mexico town want their own school, in defiance of the law. Details Episode 28 Aired Jun 2, 1961 The Opponent Buz bets on a boxer (Darren McGavin), a boyhood chum he hasn't seen in years, unaware he is no longer a contender; guest Edward Asner. Details Episode 29 Aired Jun 9, 1961 Welcome to Amity No one in the town of Amity will help a distraught girl (Susan Oliver) move her mother's body from a pauper's grave into the cemetery. Details Episode 30 Aired Jun 16, 1961 Incident on a Bridge Tod and Buz go to work for a sand-and-gravel company in Cleveland, where they find a desperate love triangle that results in murder. Details
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Season Info

Director
Arthur Hiller, Philip Leacock, Alvin Ganzer, David Lowell Rich, Elliot Silverstein, Roger Kay, William D. Faralla, Paul Wendkos, Ted Post, Lewis Allen, William F. Claxton
Executive Producer
Herbert B. Leonard
Screenwriter
Stirling Silliphant, Howard Rodman, George Clayton Johnson, Richard Collins, Will Lorin, M. Gelman
Network
CBS
Genre
Drama, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date
Oct 7, 1960