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The Best Episodes of 77 Sunset Strip Season 5

Every episode of 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of 77 Sunset Strip Season 5!

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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 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 35 - The Checkmate Caper
    8.5/10(40 votes)

    S5:E35

    Stu ends up holding the bag when he's hired to help fake a robbery for the heir to a criminal family.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 15 - Scream Softly, Dear
    8.4/10(44 votes)

    S5:E15

    A borrowed car with sabotaged brakes leads to murder, and Kookie's quest to find the killer leads him into a tangle of romantic triangles and blackmail.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 5 - The Floating Man
    8.2/10(33 votes)

    S5:E5

    Jeff becomes a bodyguard for a judge who says that if he's killed, he wants Jeff to find his murderer.

    Director:Irving J. Moore
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  4. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 6 - The Catspaw Caper
    8.2/10(33 votes)

    S5:E6

    Suzanne and Stu help her Hungarian friend find her mother, who fled the Communists in Budapest.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:John K. Butler

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  5. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 18 - The Night Was Six Years Long
    8.2/10(46 votes)

    S5:E18

    The detectives' former secretary walks back in after six years, suffering from amnesia.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 24 - The Man Who Wasn't There
    8.2/10(37 votes)

    S5:E24

    Jeff investigates a former G.I.'s story of seeing a man who was reported killed in Korea.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 4 - The Raiders
    8.1/10(37 votes)

    S5:E4

    Stu arrives in the corrupt small town where an old friend is chief of police and with the help of a senaor's wife uncovers a murder and a blackmail scheme.

    Director:Irving J. Moore
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 14 - The Tarnished Idol
    8.1/10(42 votes)

    S5:E14

    Suzanne finds love when she posses as an heiress to investigate the person who's suing a client.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  9. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 34 - Your Fortune for a Penny
    8.1/10(40 votes)

    S5:E34

    A millionaire hires Stu to protect his daughter from her rogue lover, a suspected swindler recently returned to the U.S. from an overseas hideaway.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  10. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 9 - Shadow on Your Shoulder
    8.0/10(37 votes)

    S5:E9

    Stu teams up with private detectives from Hawaii and French and English police to discover how a pair of criminals steal from their victims and leave them physical wrecks. Folk singers Peter, Paul & Mary perform.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 11 - The Odds on Odette
    8.0/10(38 votes)

    S5:E11

    An astrologer hires Jeff when he begins receiving threatening phone calls, but Jeff discovers his secretary may be the real target.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  12. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 16 - Terror in Silence
    8.0/10(49 votes)

    S5:E16

    Stu helps a deaf librarian who ""overheard"" a a death threat in the reading room.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  13. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 21 - Dial S for Spencer
    8.0/10(42 votes)

    S5:E21

    Sandra Keene fears that someone may try to prevent her brother Michael, a skid-row bum, from collecting his inheritance.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 25 - Flight 307
    8.0/10(54 votes)

    S5:E25

    Stu's flight to Hawaii is stalled by a busy airline official trying to cope with a murder, a fleeing thief, a messy love triangle, and a sick pilot in the air.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 2 - Leap, My Lovely
    7.9/10(43 votes)

    S5:E2

    A con man hypnotizes an actress into jumping out a window, then blackmails a film's producer with threats of doing the same to his leading man.

    Director:Irving J. Moore
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 3 - Terror in a Small Town
    7.9/10(48 votes)

    S5:E3

    After a rash of practical jokes at the office, Kookie can't convince his partners that he really has been arrested for a serious crime.

    Director:Richard C. Sarafian
    Writer:Paul Savage

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  17. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 12 - The Snow Job Caper
    7.9/10(40 votes)

    S5:E12

    Jeff teams up with an insurance adjuster to recover an armored truck's lost shipment.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 27 - Reunion at Balboa
    7.9/10(44 votes)

    S5:E27

    Kookie and J.R. are on assignment at the beach when a hit-and-run accident injures a girl they've been watching.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 28 - Walk Among Tigers
    7.9/10(39 votes)

    S5:E28

    Stu finds a trap when he goes to collect the belongings of an industrialist and humanitarian killed in a train wreck.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 31 - To Catch a Mink
    7.9/10(35 votes)

    S5:E31

    Stu attends a charity auction and spots an old flame—who promptly robs the place.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 7 - Wolf, Cried the Blonde
    7.8/10(39 votes)

    S5:E7

    An actress cons the detectives into helping her pull off a publicity stunt, but gets more than she bargained for when a man from her past shows up with his hand out.

    Director:Robert Douglas
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 20 - Escape to Freedom
    7.8/10(43 votes)

    S5:E20

    Stu is asked to rescue scientist Marie Harben's son, being held hostage by East German Communists to prevent her defecting to the West.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Paul Savage

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  23. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 23 - Stranger from the Sea
    7.8/10(40 votes)

    S5:E23

    Kookie helps a Japanese friend find his uncle, who vanished with $50,000.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writers:Robert C. Dennis, John K. Butler

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  24. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 30 - The Heartbeat Caper
    7.8/10(32 votes)

    S5:E30

    Visiting professor Stu stumbles across a real mystery while teaching criminology.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. 77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 8 - The Dark Wood
    7.7/10(40 votes)

    S5:E8

    Stu reunites with an old flame, a recent widow, and investigates her daughter's belief that her father's death was no accident.

    Director:Richard C. Sarafian
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Checkmate Caper" is the best rated episode of "77 Sunset Strip" season 5. It scored 8.5/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by George Waggner and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/7/1963. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Scream Softly, Dear".