The Best Episodes of 77 Sunset Strip Season 5

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

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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

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

Director: George Waggner

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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

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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

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

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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.

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Writer: Robert C. Dennis

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

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Writer: John K. Butler

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

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

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

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Writer: Robert C. Dennis

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

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Writer: Robert C. Dennis

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

Director: George Waggner

Writer: John K. Butler, Robert C. Dennis

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: N/A

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: N/A

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

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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

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

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