The Best Episodes of 77 Sunset Strip Season 2

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.8/10(60 votes)

   #1 - Only Zeroes Count

   S2:E110/2/1959

   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

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   Director:George Waggner

   Writer:Howard Browne
2. 

   8.3/10(70 votes)

   #2 - The Kookie Caper

   S2:E210/9/1959

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Montgomery Pittman

   Writer:Unknown
3. 

   7.5/10(58 votes)

   #3 - Six Superior Skirts

   S2:E310/16/1959

   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:Unknown

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   Director:André de Toth

   Writer:Unknown
4. 

   8.1/10(55 votes)

   #4 - Clay Pigeon

   S2:E410/23/1959

   Stu Bailey, hired to locate some old acquaintances of a disk jockey, finds himself framed for their murder.

   Director:Arthur Lubin

   Writer:James Barnett

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   Director:Arthur Lubin

   Writer:James Barnett
5. 

   8.2/10(60 votes)

   #5 - Thanks for Tomorrow

   S2:E510/30/1959

   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:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Unknown

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6. 

   7.7/10(60 votes)

   #6 - Sing Something Simple

   S2:E611/6/1959

   Stu Bailey is hired to protect a temperamental opera diva who has been receiving threats.

   Director:George Waggner

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:George Waggner

   Writer:Unknown
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7. 

   7.7/10(47 votes)

   #7 - The Treehouse Caper

   S2:E711/13/1959

   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

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   Director:George Waggner

   Writer:Joel Kane
8. 

   7.7/10(52 votes)

   #8 - Out of the Past

   S2:E811/20/1959

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Charles F. Haas

   Writer:Unknown
9. 

   8.0/10(51 votes)

   #9 - The Widow and the Web

   S2:E911/27/1959

   Jeff Spencer investigates an apparently accidental death and discovers a serial killer, thereby making himself the next victim.

   Director:George Waggner

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:George Waggner

   Writer:Unknown
10. 

    8.5/10(77 votes)

    #10 - Secret Island

    S2:E1012/4/1959

    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:Unknown

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    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown
11. 

    8.1/10(53 votes)

    #11 - The Texas Doll

    S2:E1112/11/1959

    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:Unknown

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    Director:André de Toth

    Writer:Unknown
12. 

    7.4/10(44 votes)

    #12 - Vacation with Pay

    S2:E1212/18/1959

    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:Unknown

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    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:Unknown
13. 

    7.9/10(51 votes)

    #13 - The Jukebox Caper

    S2:E1312/25/1959

    Jeff Spencer poses as a singer to expose a jukebox racket that caused another singer's death.

    Director:Ida Lupino

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Ida Lupino

    Writer:Unknown
14. 

    8.3/10(50 votes)

    #14 - Created He Them

    S2:E141/1/1960

    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:Unknown

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    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown
15. 

    7.5/10(48 votes)

    #15 - Collector's Item

    S2:E151/8/1960

    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:Unknown

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    Director:William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer:Unknown
16. 

    7.6/10(54 votes)

    #16 - Switchburg

    S2:E161/15/1960

    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

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    Director:Montgomery Pittman

    Writer:Montgomery Pittman
17. 

    7.9/10(51 votes)

    #17 - The One That Got Away

    S2:E171/22/1960

    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

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    Director:Everett Sloane

    Writer:Jerry Davis
18. 

    7.5/10(49 votes)

    #18 - Ten Cents a Death

    S2:E181/29/1960

    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:Unknown

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    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown
19. 

    7.8/10(61 votes)

    #19 - Who Killed Cock Robin?

    S2:E192/5/1960

    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:Unknown

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    Director:Montgomery Pittman

    Writer:Unknown
20. 

    7.6/10(59 votes)

    #20 - Condor's Lair

    S2:E202/12/1960

    Stu Bailey is hired by a teen novelist to find the person trying to blackmail her.

    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown
21. 

    7.3/10(51 votes)

    #21 - The Starlet

    S2:E212/26/1960

    Jeff Spencer is hired to prove that the apparent suicide of a despondent actress was actually murder.

    Director:André de Toth

    Writers:Ed Jurist, Sig Herzig

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    Director:André de Toth

    Writers:Ed Jurist, Sig Herzig
22. 

    6.8/10(53 votes)

    #22 - Safari

    S2:E223/4/1960

    Stu Bailey is hired to protect the life of an eccentric tycoon on a safari.

    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Bernard C. Schoenfeld

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    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Bernard C. Schoenfeld
23. 

    7.9/10(51 votes)

    #23 - Blackout

    S2:E233/11/1960

    Jeff Spencer pursues robbers who kidnap Suzanne in the course of a jewel heist.

    Director:Herbert L. Strock

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Herbert L. Strock

    Writer:Unknown
24. 

    7.1/10(48 votes)

    #24 - Return to San Dede: The Desert Story (1)

    S2:E243/18/1960

    Stu Bailey is waylaid while escorting a Latin American politician's daughter back to her homeland.

    Director:Montgomery Pittman

    Writer:Montgomery Pittman

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    Director:Montgomery Pittman

    Writer:Montgomery Pittman
25. 

    7.5/10(46 votes)

    #25 - Return to San Dede: The Capital City (2)

    S2:E253/25/1960

    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

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    Director:Montgomery Pittman

    Writer:Montgomery Pittman