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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!

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...

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  1. 8.4/10(40 votes)

    #1 - The Checkmate Caper

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    S5:E35

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

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  2. 8.1/10(43 votes)

    #2 - Scream Softly, Dear

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    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.

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  3. 8.1/10(45 votes)

    #3 - The Night Was Six Years Long

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    S5:E18

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

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  4. 8.0/10(37 votes)

    #4 - The Raiders

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    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.

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  5. 8.0/10(34 votes)

    #5 - The Floating Man

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    S5:E5

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

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  6. 8.0/10(36 votes)

    #6 - The Man Who Wasn't There

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    S5:E24

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

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  8. 8.0/10(40 votes)

    #7 - Your Fortune for a Penny

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    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.

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  9. 7.9/10(32 votes)

    #8 - The Catspaw Caper

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    S5:E6

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

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  10. 7.9/10(37 votes)

    #9 - Shadow on Your Shoulder

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    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.

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  11. 7.9/10(39 votes)

    #10 - The Odds on Odette

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    S5:E11

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

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  12. 7.9/10(42 votes)

    #11 - The Tarnished Idol

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    S5:E14

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

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  13. 7.9/10(48 votes)

    #12 - Terror in Silence

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    S5:E16

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

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  14. 7.9/10(41 votes)

    #13 - Dial S for Spencer

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    S5:E21

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

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  15. 7.9/10(54 votes)

    #14 - Flight 307

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    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.

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  16. 7.8/10(47 votes)

    #15 - Terror in a Small Town

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    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.

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  17. 7.8/10(38 votes)

    #16 - Wolf, Cried the Blonde

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    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.

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  18. 7.7/10(40 votes)

    #17 - The Dark Wood

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    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.

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  19. 7.7/10(40 votes)

    #18 - The Snow Job Caper

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    S5:E12

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

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  20. 7.7/10(42 votes)

    #19 - Escape to Freedom

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    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.

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  21. 7.7/10(39 votes)

    #20 - Stranger from the Sea

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    S5:E23

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

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  22. 7.7/10(44 votes)

    #21 - Reunion at Balboa

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    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.

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  23. 7.7/10(38 votes)

    #22 - Walk Among Tigers

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    S5:E28

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

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  24. 7.7/10(33 votes)

    #23 - The Heartbeat Caper

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    S5:E30

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

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  25. 7.6/10(41 votes)

    #24 - Leap, My Lovely

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    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.

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  26. 7.6/10(41 votes)

    #25 - Falling Stars

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    S5:E13

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

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Checkmate Caper" is the best rated episode of "77 Sunset Strip" season 5. It scored 8.4/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by George Waggner and written by N/A, it aired on 6/7/1963. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Scream Softly, Dear".