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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
Episodes
36
Avg. Rating
7.6
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
7.8
8.3
7.4

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".

  • Only Zeroes Count
    7.8/10(57)

    #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

  • The Kookie Caper
    8.3/10(68)

    #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

  • Six Superior Skirts
    7.4/10(56)

    #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

  • Clay Pigeon
    8.0/10(54)

    #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

  • Thanks for Tomorrow
    8.2/10(59)

    #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

  • Sing Something Simple
    7.7/10(59)

    #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

  • The Treehouse Caper
    7.6/10(46)

    #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

  • Out of the Past
    7.6/10(51)

    #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

  • The Widow and the Web
    8.0/10(50)

    #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

  • Secret Island
    8.5/10(76)

    #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

  • The Texas Doll
    8.0/10(52)

    #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

  • Vacation with Pay
    7.4/10(43)

    #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

  • The Jukebox Caper
    7.7/10(49)

    #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

  • Created He Them
    8.2/10(49)

    #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

  • Collector's Item
    7.5/10(47)

    #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

  • Switchburg
    7.6/10(53)

    #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

  • The One That Got Away
    7.8/10(50)

    #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

  • Ten Cents a Death
    7.5/10(48)

    #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

  • Who Killed Cock Robin?
    7.8/10(60)

    #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

  • Condor's Lair
    7.5/10(58)

    #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

  • The Starlet
    7.3/10(49)

    #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

  • Safari
    6.8/10(52)

    #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

  • Blackout
    7.9/10(50)

    #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

  • Return to San Dede: The Desert Story (1)
    7.1/10(47)

    #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

  • Return to San Dede: The Capital City (2)
    7.4/10(45)

    #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