7.3/1038 votes#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
- 7.6/1039 votes
#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
- 7.8/1047 votes
#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
- 8.0/1036 votes
#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
- 8.0/1034 votes
#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
- 7.9/1031 votes
#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
- 7.7/1037 votes
#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
- 7.5/1036 votes
#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
- 7.9/1037 votes
#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
- 7.1/1030 votes
#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
- 7.9/1039 votes
#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
- 7.6/1036 votes
#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
- 7.6/1040 votes
#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
- 7.9/1041 votes
#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
- 8.1/1041 votes
#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
- 7.9/1045 votes
#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
- 7.4/1037 votes
#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
- 8.1/1043 votes
#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
- 7.5/1037 votes
#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
- 7.6/1040 votes
#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
- 7.9/1040 votes
#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
- 6.5/1042 votes
#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
- 7.8/1036 votes
#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
- 8.0/1035 votes
#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
- 7.9/1053 votes
#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
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
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 38 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".