8.2/1067 votes#1 - Girl on the Run
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/1958
Solo private eye Stu Bailey tries to locate a missing singer before a professional killer does.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1094 votes
#2 - Lovely Lady, Pity Me
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/1958
Stu Bailey's infatuation with a beautiful woman leads him into blackmail and suspicion of murder.
Director: Douglas Heyes
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1072 votes
#3 - A Nice Social Evening
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/1958
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: N/A
- 7.9/1068 votes
#4 - Casualty
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/1958
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
- 8.2/1070 votes
#5 - The Bouncing Chip
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1958
Stu Bailey is hired to find ot who is passing counterfeit chips in a Las Vegas casino.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1065 votes
#6 - Two and Two Make Six
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/1958
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: N/A
- 8.5/1089 votes
#7 - All Our Yesterdays
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/1958
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: N/A
- 8.4/1069 votes
#8 - The Well-Selected Frame
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/28/1958
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
Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams, Charles Hoffman
- 7.4/1052 votes
#9 - Iron Curtain Caper
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1958
Stu Bailey is hired to rescue a newspaper correspondent who is being held captive in an East German hospital.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1056 votes
#10 - Vicious Circle
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1958
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
- 8.4/1085 votes
#11 - One False Step
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/1958
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
- 7.5/1055 votes
#12 - The Court Martial of Johnny Murdo
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/26/1958
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: N/A
- 8.1/1057 votes
#13 - Hit and Run
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1959
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
- 7.4/1052 votes
#14 - Not an Enemy in the World
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1959
Jeff Spencer searches for Suzanne's missing brother but discovers a murder-for-insurance plot.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Barry Trivers, Leonard Lee
- 7.9/1063 votes
#15 - The Secret of Adam Cain
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/16/1959
Stu Bailey is hired to recover a seemingly worthless vase but is then kidnapped and taken to Algeria.
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1059 votes
#16 - The Girl Who Couldn't Remember
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/23/1959
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: N/A
- 7.7/1056 votes
#17 - Dark Vengeance
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/30/1959
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: N/A
- 7.6/1061 votes
#18 - Conspiracy of Silence
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/6/1959
Jeff Spencer is hired to protect his client's student daughter from a killer.
Director: Charles F. Haas
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1068 votes
#19 - Eyewitness
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/13/1959
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: N/A
- 7.3/1056 votes
#20 - Lovely Alibi
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1959
Stu Bailey helps exonerate a framed and suspended policeman and prove a racketeer guilty of murder.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1055 votes
#21 - In Memoriam
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/1959
Stu Bailey is hired by a publisher to find out why someone keeps faking reports of his death.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1071 votes
#22 - The Fifth Stair
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/6/1959
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: N/A
- 8.0/1055 votes
#23 - Pasadena Caper
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/13/1959
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: N/A
- 7.3/1049 votes
#24 - Hong Kong Caper
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/20/1959
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: N/A
- 7.5/1050 votes
#25 - A Check Will Do Nicely
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/27/1959
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
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!
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...
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Girl on the Run" is the best rated episode of "77 Sunset Strip" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 67 votes. Directed by Richard L. Bare and written by N/A, it aired on 10/10/1958. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Lovely Lady, Pity Me".