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The Best Episodes of 77 Sunset Strip Season 1

Every episode of 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of 77 Sunset Strip Season 1!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 8 - The Well-Selected Frame
    8.5/10(72 votes)

    S1:E8

    Jeff Spencer is hired by a woman to get divorce evidence against her husband, but her real plan is to murder him and frame Jeff for the crime.

    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writers:Gerald Drayson Adams, Charles Hoffman

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  2. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 11 - One False Step
    8.5/10(89 votes)

    S1:E11

    Bailey & Spencer are hired by a Washington attorney to protect his wife after a man on a plane trip suggests they swap murders.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Howard Browne

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  3. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 7 - All Our Yesterdays
    8.4/10(97 votes)

    S1:E7

    Stu Bailey is hired by the greedy relatives of a silent film star to prove her incompetent so that they can get their hands on the money she is spending to finance a remake of her old hit ""Foolish Girl"".

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 2 - Lovely Lady, Pity Me
    8.2/10(101 votes)

    S1:E2

    Stu Bailey's infatuation with a beautiful woman leads him into blackmail and suspicion of murder.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 5 - The Bouncing Chip
    8.2/10(74 votes)

    S1:E5

    Stu Bailey is hired to find ot who is passing counterfeit chips in a Las Vegas casino.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 6 - Two and Two Make Six
    8.2/10(70 votes)

    S1:E6

    Jeff Spencer is hired by a fashion designer to protect her ex-con husband, who has evidence that would convict a man engaged in revenge killings.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 19 - Eyewitness
    8.2/10(68 votes)

    S1:E19

    Stu Bailey is hired by an 8-year-old boy to prove that he's not making up stories when he says he witnessed a bear being killed. What he actually saw was the killing of a woman wearing a fur coat.

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 10 - Vicious Circle
    8.1/10(58 votes)

    S1:E10

    Jeff Spencer is hired by the lawyer son of a former gangster to prevent his wrathful father from taking vengeance on the crminals who kidnapped him.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:James Barnett

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  9. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 13 - Hit and Run
    8.1/10(58 votes)

    S1:E13

    Stu Bailey loans his convertible to Kookie for a date, only to find that the young man has been arrested for reckless driving.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:James Gunn

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  10. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 16 - The Girl Who Couldn't Remember
    8.1/10(61 votes)

    S1:E16

    Jeff Spencer is hired by a pretty amnesiac with lots of money in her purse, who turns out to be a murder witness with a killer on her trail.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 22 - The Fifth Stair
    8.1/10(78 votes)

    S1:E22

    Jeff Spencer becomes the subject of a husband's jealous suspicions and is not only approached by a blackmailer but is charged with murder.

    Director:Vincent Sherman
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 23 - Pasadena Caper
    8.1/10(59 votes)

    S1:E23

    Stu Bailey, hired to find an elderly woman's missing son who was heavily insured, becomes suspicious when the body he dredges out of the bay is too decomposed to identify.

    Director:Montgomery Pittman
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 32 - Canine Caper
    8.1/10(60 votes)

    S1:E32

    Jeff Spencer becomes involved when stolen rubies are hidden in the collar of a wayward poodle belonging to a French starlet being pursued by Kookie.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 1 - Girl on the Run
    8.0/10(75 votes)

    S1:E1

    Solo private eye Stu Bailey tries to locate a missing singer before a professional killer does.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 34 - Strange Girl in Town
    8.0/10(51 votes)

    S1:E34

    Jeff Spencer tries to protect a young woman who witnessed a murder in a nightclub.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Howard Browne

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  16. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 4 - Casualty
    7.9/10(72 votes)

    S1:E4

    Jeff Spencer uncovers an insurance scam when he is hired by a woman who swears that the husband she thought dead is still alive.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Gene Levitt

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  17. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 15 - The Secret of Adam Cain
    7.9/10(62 votes)

    S1:E15

    Stu Bailey is hired to recover a seemingly worthless vase but is then kidnapped and taken to Algeria.

    Director:Montgomery Pittman
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 21 - In Memoriam
    7.9/10(55 votes)

    S1:E21

    Stu Bailey is hired by a publisher to find out why someone keeps faking reports of his death.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 30 - The Widow Wouldn't Weep
    7.9/10(54 votes)

    S1:E30

    Jeff Spencer is hired by a sexy widow to find out if her husband's apparent suicide was actually murder.

    Director:Arthur Lubin
    Writer:Howard Browne

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  20. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 17 - Dark Vengeance
    7.8/10(59 votes)

    S1:E17

    Stu Bailey becomes a target for murder when he agrees to help a newsman's crusade against the narcotics racketeers who blinded him.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 26 - The Grandma Caper
    7.8/10(56 votes)

    S1:E26

    The firm is hired by a wealty family to watch out for their eccentric grandmother, who has embarked on a crime spree.

    Director:David Butler
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 33 - Mr. Paradise
    7.8/10(54 votes)

    S1:E33

    Stu Bailey is hired by a wealthy man's relatives to investigate the leader of a mysterious cult he has been lured into joining.

    Director:Arthur Lubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 3 - A Nice Social Evening
    7.7/10(79 votes)

    S1:E3

    Stu Bailey is hired by a government agent to keep a Latin playboy under surveillance while he's in Hollywood, but the playboy turns out to be on the run from a killer.

    Director:Stuart Heisler
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 25 - A Check Will Do Nicely
    7.7/10(51 votes)

    S1:E25

    Stu Bailey is hired to go to Paris to rescue a kidnapped American schoolgirl and save a valuable painting.

    Director:Ida Lupino
    Writer:Alan Caillou

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  25. 77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episode 31 - Downbeat
    7.7/10(61 votes)

    S1:E31

    Stu Bailey, though acquitted of the crime of sedition for lack of evidence, has his private investigator's license revoked and goes on a drinking spree. He is then recruited by a former friend to conduct business with Communists. At the end it is revealed that Bailey had been working undercover for the U.S. government all along.

    Director:Montgomery Pittman
    Writer:Montgomery Pittman

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Well-Selected Frame" is the best rated episode of "77 Sunset Strip" season 1. It scored 8.5/10 based on 72 votes. Directed by Boris Sagal and written by Gerald Drayson Adams, Charles Hoffman, it aired on 11/28/1958. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "One False Step".