The Best Episodes of 77 Sunset Strip Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.1/10(73 votes)

   #1 - Girl on the Run

   S1:E110/10/1958

   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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   Director:Richard L. Bare

   Writer:Unknown
2. 

   8.2/10(100 votes)

   #2 - Lovely Lady, Pity Me

   S1:E210/17/1958

   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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   Director:Douglas Heyes

   Writer:Unknown
3. 

   7.7/10(78 votes)

   #3 - A Nice Social Evening

   S1:E310/24/1958

   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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   Director:Stuart Heisler

   Writer:Unknown
4. 

   7.9/10(71 votes)

   #4 - Casualty

   S1:E410/31/1958

   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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   Director:Richard L. Bare

   Writer:Gene Levitt
5. 

   8.2/10(73 votes)

   #5 - The Bouncing Chip

   S1:E511/7/1958

   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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   Director:Leslie H. Martinson

   Writer:Unknown
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   8.4/10(68 votes)

   #6 - Two and Two Make Six

   S1:E611/14/1958

   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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   Director:James V. Kern

   Writer:Unknown
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7. 

   8.5/10(94 votes)

   #7 - All Our Yesterdays

   S1:E711/21/1958

   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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   Director:Richard L. Bare

   Writer:Unknown
8. 

   8.5/10(72 votes)

   #8 - The Well-Selected Frame

   S1:E811/28/1958

   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:Charles Hoffman, Gerald Drayson Adams

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   Director:Boris Sagal

   Writers:Charles Hoffman, Gerald Drayson Adams
9. 

   7.6/10(53 votes)

   #9 - Iron Curtain Caper

   S1:E912/5/1958

   Stu Bailey is hired to rescue a newspaper correspondent who is being held captive in an East German hospital.

   Director:Richard L. Bare

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Richard L. Bare

   Writer:Unknown
10. 

    8.1/10(57 votes)

    #10 - Vicious Circle

    S1:E1012/12/1958

    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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    Director:Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer:James Barnett
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    8.6/10(87 votes)

    #11 - One False Step

    S1:E1112/19/1958

    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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    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:Howard Browne
12. 

    7.6/10(55 votes)

    #12 - The Court Martial of Johnny Murdo

    S1:E1212/26/1958

    Jeff Spencer is hired by a military cadet's mother to find out if he is really guilty of stealing from a student fund, but someone seems willing to kill to prevent the truth from coming out.

    Director:Lee Sholem

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Lee Sholem

    Writer:Unknown
13. 

    8.1/10(58 votes)

    #13 - Hit and Run

    S1:E131/2/1959

    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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    Director:Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer:James Gunn
14. 

    7.5/10(52 votes)

    #14 - Not an Enemy in the World

    S1:E141/9/1959

    Jeff Spencer searches for Suzanne's missing brother but discovers a murder-for-insurance plot.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.

    Writers:Barry Trivers, Leonard Lee

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    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.

    Writers:Barry Trivers, Leonard Lee
15. 

    7.9/10(63 votes)

    #15 - The Secret of Adam Cain

    S1:E151/16/1959

    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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    Director:Montgomery Pittman

    Writer:Unknown
16. 

    8.1/10(60 votes)

    #16 - The Girl Who Couldn't Remember

    S1:E161/23/1959

    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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    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown
17. 

    7.8/10(58 votes)

    #17 - Dark Vengeance

    S1:E171/30/1959

    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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    Director:Richard L. Bare

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18. 

    7.6/10(63 votes)

    #18 - Conspiracy of Silence

    S1:E182/6/1959

    Jeff Spencer is hired to protect his client's student daughter from a killer.

    Director:Charles F. Haas

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Charles F. Haas

    Writer:Unknown
19. 

    8.2/10(71 votes)

    #19 - Eyewitness

    S1:E192/13/1959

    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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    Director:David Lowell Rich

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20. 

    7.4/10(59 votes)

    #20 - Lovely Alibi

    S1:E202/20/1959

    Stu Bailey helps exonerate a framed and suspended policeman and prove a racketeer guilty of murder.

    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown
21. 

    7.9/10(56 votes)

    #21 - In Memoriam

    S1:E212/27/1959

    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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    Director:Richard L. Bare

    Writer:Unknown
22. 

    8.1/10(77 votes)

    #22 - The Fifth Stair

    S1:E223/6/1959

    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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    Director:Vincent Sherman

    Writer:Unknown
23. 

    8.1/10(59 votes)

    #23 - Pasadena Caper

    S1:E233/13/1959

    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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    Director:Montgomery Pittman

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24. 

    7.4/10(50 votes)

    #24 - Hong Kong Caper

    S1:E243/20/1959

    Jeff Spencer takes off for Hong Kong when a note from an army pilot puts him on the trail of a woman named Candy and a fortune in diamonds.

    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown
25. 

    7.7/10(50 votes)

    #25 - A Check Will Do Nicely

    S1:E253/27/1959

    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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    Director:Ida Lupino

    Writer:Alan Caillou