7.8/1057 votes#1 - Only Zeroes Count
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1959
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"".
Director: George Waggner
Writer: Howard Browne
- 8.3/1068 votes
#2 - The Kookie Caper
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1959
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.
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1056 votes
#3 - Six Superior Skirts
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1959
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.
Director: André de Toth
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1054 votes
#4 - Clay Pigeon
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1959
Stu Bailey, hired to locate some old acquaintances of a disk jockey, finds himself framed for their murder.
Director: Arthur Lubin
Writer: James Barnett
- 8.2/1059 votes
#5 - Thanks for Tomorrow
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1059 votes
#6 - Sing Something Simple
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1959
Stu Bailey is hired to protect a temperamental opera diva who has been receiving threats.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1046 votes
#7 - The Treehouse Caper
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1959
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.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: Joel Kane
- 7.6/1051 votes
#8 - Out of the Past
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1959
Bailey is asked by the government to go to Germany to purchase top-secret documents and foil the attempted kidnapping of a scientist.
Director: Charles F. Haas
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1050 votes
#9 - The Widow and the Web
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1959
Jeff Spencer investigates an apparently accidental death and discovers a serial killer, thereby making himself the next victim.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1076 votes
#10 - Secret Island
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1959
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.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1052 votes
#11 - The Texas Doll
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1959
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.
Director: André de Toth
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1043 votes
#12 - Vacation with Pay
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1959
Stu and Kookie are in Paris trying to keep a millionaire's daughter from marrying a fortune hunter who is conspiring with her uncle.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1049 votes
#13 - The Jukebox Caper
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1959
Jeff Spencer poses as a singer to expose a jukebox racket that caused another singer's death.
Director: Ida Lupino
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1049 votes
#14 - Created He Them
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1960
Stu Bailey is hired by a woman to prove that she is innocent of the mercy killing of her invalid husband.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1047 votes
#15 - Collector's Item
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1960
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.
Director: William J. Hole Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1053 votes
#16 - Switchburg
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1960
Stu Bailey finds that the supposedly deserted hotel a client is looking to buy is currently occupied -- by a gang of counterfeiters.
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
- 7.8/1050 votes
#17 - The One That Got Away
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1960
Jeff Spencer goes to Mexico to track down a photographer whose insurance company is reluctant to pay out $200,000 for his supposed death.
Director: Everett Sloane
Writer: Jerry Davis
- 7.5/1048 votes
#18 - Ten Cents a Death
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1960
Stu Bailey's agency is hired to go undercover at a dance hall after two hostesses are murdered by an unknown assailant.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1060 votes
#19 - Who Killed Cock Robin?
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1960
Jeff Spencer is hired by a blind director to take part in a winner-take-all hunt for a dead movie producer's fortune.
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1058 votes
#20 - Condor's Lair
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1960
Stu Bailey is hired by a teen novelist to find the person trying to blackmail her.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1049 votes
#21 - The Starlet
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1960
Jeff Spencer is hired to prove that the apparent suicide of a despondent actress was actually murder.
Director: André de Toth
Writer: Ed Jurist, Sig Herzig
- 6.8/1052 votes
#22 - Safari
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1960
Stu Bailey is hired to protect the life of an eccentric tycoon on a safari.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
- 7.9/1050 votes
#23 - Blackout
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1960
Jeff Spencer pursues robbers who kidnap Suzanne in the course of a jewel heist.
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1047 votes
#24 - Return to San Dede: The Desert Story (1)
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1960
Stu Bailey is waylaid while escorting a Latin American politician's daughter back to her homeland.
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
- 7.4/1045 votes
#25 - Return to San Dede: The Capital City (2)
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/25/1960
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.
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
The Best Episodes of 77 Sunset Strip Season 2
Every episode of 77 Sunset Strip Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of 77 Sunset Strip Season 2!
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 2 Ratings Summary
"Only Zeroes Count" is the best rated episode of "77 Sunset Strip" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by George Waggner and written by Howard Browne, it aired on 10/2/1959. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Kookie Caper".