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77 Sunset Strip
"Real cool."
Overview
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.
Status
Ended
Created By
Roy Huggins
Network
ABC
Seasons & Episodes
Season 2
Episodes
Only Zeroes Count
Stu Bailey goes to Hawaii to help the government uncover a gang producing phony money, by romancing the girlfriend of the girlfriend of an imprisoned counterfeiter. He gets help from Tom Lopaka of ""Hawaiian Eye"".
The Kookie Caper
Kookie befriends a pretty teenager who is kidnapped, making him think that she is a runaway heiress and causing Bailey and Spencer to become involved.
Six Superior Skirts
Bailey and Kookie, charged with protecting the jewels at a charity bazaar, are outsmarted by a master swindler who replaces the Moorfield Diamond with a replica.
Clay Pigeon
Stu Bailey, hired to locate some old acquaintances of a disk jockey, finds himself framed for their murder.
Thanks for Tomorrow
Jeff Spencer tries to help a friend with a gambling problem, who has become an assassin's target after becoming involved in a race-fixing scheme.
Sing Something Simple
Stu Bailey is hired to protect a temperamental opera diva who has been receiving threats.
The Treehouse Caper
Jeff Spencer promises a dying convict that he will retrieve a stash of stolen diamonds and give the reward to the man's daughter, but he has to beat out a crooked insurance investigator.
Out of the Past
Bailey is asked by the government to go to Germany to purchase top-secret documents and foil the attempted kidnapping of a scientist.
The Widow and the Web
Jeff Spencer investigates an apparently accidental death and discovers a serial killer, thereby making himself the next victim.
Secret Island
Stu Bailey and four other survivors of a plane crash at sea reach an isolated island only to discover that it is the target of an H-bomb test.
The Texas Doll
Jeff Spencer, hired by a Texas oil dynasty to protect their teenage daughter from a fortune-hunting gigolo, must prove her innocent when she is found with his dead body.
Vacation with Pay
Stu and Kookie are in Paris trying to keep a millionaire's daughter from marrying a fortune hunter who is conspiring with her uncle.
The Jukebox Caper
Jeff Spencer poses as a singer to expose a jukebox racket that caused another singer's death.
Created He Them
Stu Bailey is hired by a woman to prove that she is innocent of the mercy killing of her invalid husband.
Collector's Item
Jeff Spencer discovers that the countess who hired him to deliver a valuable sculpture to New York is actually part of a ring of spies.
Switchburg
Stu Bailey finds that the supposedly deserted hotel a client is looking to buy is currently occupied -- by a gang of counterfeiters.
The One That Got Away
Jeff Spencer goes to Mexico to track down a photographer whose insurance company is reluctant to pay out $200,000 for his supposed death.
Ten Cents a Death
Stu Bailey's agency is hired to go undercover at a dance hall after two hostesses are murdered by an unknown assailant.
Who Killed Cock Robin?
Jeff Spencer is hired by a blind director to take part in a winner-take-all hunt for a dead movie producer's fortune.
Condor's Lair
Stu Bailey is hired by a teen novelist to find the person trying to blackmail her.
The Starlet
Jeff Spencer is hired to prove that the apparent suicide of a despondent actress was actually murder.
Safari
Stu Bailey is hired to protect the life of an eccentric tycoon on a safari.
Blackout
Jeff Spencer pursues robbers who kidnap Suzanne in the course of a jewel heist.
Return to San Dede: The Desert Story (1)
Stu Bailey is waylaid while escorting a Latin American politician's daughter back to her homeland.
Return to San Dede: The Capital City (2)
The wounded Bailey finally manages to get the girl to San Dede's capital city, only to find that the government is now in the hands of her father's enemies.
Publicity Brat
Stu Bailey's efforts to find a woman's missing necklace are hampered by the well-meaning efforts of her scatterbrained mother and her bratty daughter, both of whom are actresses with overactive imaginations.
The Fix
Jeff Spencer is nearly killed himself while investigating the death of a boxer involved in a fight that was fixed.
Legend of Crystal Dart
Stu Bailey is hired by a glamourous former dancer to evict her estranged husband from their remote mountain cabin, but murder intervenes.
Stranger Than Fiction
The firm tries to solve the murder of a former chorus girl who faked her own kidnapping and collected $200,000 from her elderly husband.
Genesis of Treason
A woman hires Stu Bailey to clear her boyfriend, an Air Force lieutenant who was convicted of espionage.
Fraternity of Fear
Jeff Spencer is hired to pose as a college student to investigate the death of his client's son in a fraternity hazing incident.
Spark of Freedom
On an intelligence mission in Budapest, Stu Bailey dons a series of disguises to try to rescue a young political prisoner and recover his scientific data.
Perfect Setup
Trailing a fugitive to a small island off Hawaii, Jeff Spencer finds that his cover as a beachcomber gets him into trouble when the man and his girlfriend decide to kill Jeff and pass off his body as that of the fugitive.
Sierra
Summoned to a friend's mountain home to help discover the reason for his daughter's strange behavior, Stu Bailey must overcome both a gang of outlaws and a man-killing animal.
The Silent Caper
Jeff's attempts to rescue a kidnapped mob witness lead to a lethal game of tag.
Family Skeleton
Stu Bailey is in a race with time as he investigates the kidnapping of Philip Stanton, a businessman with a rare disease that will kill him unless he's supplied with daily medication.
Top Cast
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Stuart Bailey
Edd Byrnes
Gerald Lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III
Roger Smith
Jeff Spencer
Jacqueline Beer
Suzanne Fabray
Louis Quinn
Roscoe
