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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!

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
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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Reluctant Spy" is the best rated episode of "77 Sunset Strip" season 5. It scored 7.3/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Robert C. Dennis, it aired on 10/12/1962. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Leap, My Lovely".

  • The Reluctant Spy
    7.3/10(40)

    #1 - The Reluctant Spy

    Season 5 Episode 1

    Aired 10/12/1962

    Stu searches for the reasons behind an old friend's hit-and-run death in Austria.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Robert C. Dennis

  • Leap, My Lovely
    7.6/10(40)

    #2 - Leap, My Lovely

    Season 5 Episode 2

    Aired 10/19/1962

    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: N/A

  • Terror in a Small Town
    7.8/10(47)

    #3 - Terror in a Small Town

    Season 5 Episode 3

    Aired 10/26/1962

    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

  • The Raiders
    8.0/10(37)

    #4 - The Raiders

    Season 5 Episode 4

    Aired 11/2/1962

    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: N/A

  • The Floating Man
    8.0/10(34)

    #5 - The Floating Man

    Season 5 Episode 5

    Aired 11/9/1962

    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

  • The Catspaw Caper
    7.9/10(32)

    #6 - The Catspaw Caper

    Season 5 Episode 6

    Aired 11/16/1962

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: John K. Butler

  • Wolf, Cried the Blonde
    7.8/10(38)

    #7 - Wolf, Cried the Blonde

    Season 5 Episode 7

    Aired 11/23/1962

    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: N/A

  • The Dark Wood
    7.6/10(39)

    #8 - The Dark Wood

    Season 5 Episode 8

    Aired 11/30/1962

    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: N/A

  • Shadow on Your Shoulder
    7.9/10(37)

    #9 - Shadow on Your Shoulder

    Season 5 Episode 9

    Aired 12/7/1962

    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: N/A

  • Adventure in San Dede
    7.2/10(31)

    #10 - Adventure in San Dede

    Season 5 Episode 10

    Aired 12/14/1962

    Jeff and J.R. deliver an attache case to Latin American clients.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Odds on Odette
    7.9/10(39)

    #11 - The Odds on Odette

    Season 5 Episode 11

    Aired 12/21/1962

    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

  • The Snow Job Caper
    7.7/10(40)

    #12 - The Snow Job Caper

    Season 5 Episode 12

    Aired 12/28/1962

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Falling Stars
    7.6/10(41)

    #13 - Falling Stars

    Season 5 Episode 13

    Aired 1/4/1963

    Stu becomes involved in film society when a suicide, a murder, and subseuqent attempted murders disrupt the entertainment world.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Tarnished Idol
    7.9/10(42)

    #14 - The Tarnished Idol

    Season 5 Episode 14

    Aired 1/11/1963

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Robert C. Dennis

  • Scream Softly, Dear
    8.1/10(43)

    #15 - Scream Softly, Dear

    Season 5 Episode 15

    Aired 1/18/1963

    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: N/A

  • Terror in Silence
    7.9/10(48)

    #16 - Terror in Silence

    Season 5 Episode 16

    Aired 1/25/1963

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Robert C. Dennis

  • Crashout
    7.4/10(37)

    #17 - Crashout

    Season 5 Episode 17

    Aired 2/1/1963

    Jeff and Roscoe go undercover in prison to help a thief break out, in hopes he'll lead them to his hidden stash. But the man's cronies have their own plans for the escape and the cash.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Jerry Davis

  • The Night Was Six Years Long
    8.1/10(45)

    #18 - The Night Was Six Years Long

    Season 5 Episode 18

    Aired 2/8/1963

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

    Director: George Waggner

    Writer: N/A

  • Six Feet Under
    7.4/10(38)

    #19 - Six Feet Under

    Season 5 Episode 19

    Aired 2/15/1963

    Gang boss Marco Deederman was reported killed in an automobile accident. But after the funeral, a series of fur and jewels thefts show the unmistakable hand of the old master—while Jeff falls for Deederman's girlfriend.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Escape to Freedom
    7.6/10(41)

    #20 - Escape to Freedom

    Season 5 Episode 20

    Aired 2/22/1963

    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

  • Dial S for Spencer
    7.9/10(41)

    #21 - Dial S for Spencer

    Season 5 Episode 21

    Aired 3/1/1963

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Nine to Five
    6.5/10(43)

    #22 - Nine to Five

    Season 5 Episode 22

    Aired 3/8/1963

    Stu is called to New York to find a missing Hollywood wife.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Stranger from the Sea
    7.7/10(39)

    #23 - Stranger from the Sea

    Season 5 Episode 23

    Aired 3/15/1963

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

    Director: George Waggner

    Writer: John K. Butler, Robert C. Dennis

  • The Man Who Wasn't There
    8.0/10(36)

    #24 - The Man Who Wasn't There

    Season 5 Episode 24

    Aired 3/22/1963

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Flight 307
    7.9/10(54)

    #25 - Flight 307

    Season 5 Episode 25

    Aired 3/29/1963

    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: N/A