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The Best Episodes of Route 66

Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly...

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  1. 8.9/10(195 votes)

    #1 - Good Night, Sweet Blues

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    S2:E3

    Ethel Waters is a dying blues singer who asks Tod and Buz to locate her old jazz band for one last show. Filming Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.6/10(79 votes)

    #2 - I Wouldn't Start From Here

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    S4:E8

    Tod and Linc work for a Vermont farmer and get involved in a pulling horse race. Filming Location: Vermont

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  3. 8.5/10(138 votes)

    #3 - The Mud Nest

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    S2:E7

    In the small Maryland town of Hester, Buz meets some people who physically resemble him (played by Maharis' relatives). He has been looking for his mother and thinks she may be in the town. Filming Location: Near Baltimore, Maryland

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  4. 8.5/10(97 votes)

    #4 - Welcome to the Wedding

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    S3:E8

    While waiting for his date in a Cleveland railroad station Tod encounters convict Justin Lezama who is being moved to another prison. Lezama wants to call his brother and when the guard refuses Tod agrees to make the contact. Lezama takes Tod as a hostage. Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio

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  5. 8.4/10(98 votes)

    #5 - Even Stones Have Eyes

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    S2:E24

    Buz is blinded in an accident. At a school for the blind he falls for a blind girl (Celia). His sight returns and he has to leave her. Filming Location: Austin and Kerrville, Texas

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    Director:Robert Gist
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.4/10(107 votes)

    #6 - Voice at the End of the Line

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    S3:E5

    Tod and Buz encounter a downtrodden stock clerk who is involved in a telephone romance. Filming Location: Chicago, Illinois

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    Writer:N/A
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  8. 8.3/10(110 votes)

    #7 - Most Vanquished, Most Victorious

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    S1:E23

    Tod's aunt Kitty asks Tod to find her daughter Carole. The boys find that she was living in a Los Angeles slum and has been killed. Filming Location: Los Angeles, California

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    Director:N/A
  9. 8.2/10(110 votes)

    #8 - Eleven, the Hard Way

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    S1:E22

    The gown of Broken Knee hand their money over to famous gambler Sam Keep to gamble it in Reno. Filming Location: Reno and Broken Knee, Nevada

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  10. 8.2/10(108 votes)

    #9 - Dont Count Stars

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    S1:E24

    Tod and Buz meet a hotel owner Mike, who drinks and gambles. Mike is the guardian for his niece Linda, a little girl. Linda's executor wants to remove the child from her uncle, and she asks Tod and Buz for help. Filming Location: San Diego, Sands Hotel, California

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    Director:N/A
  11. 8.2/10(132 votes)

    #10 - A Month of Sundays

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    S2:E1

    Buz falls in love with actress Arlene Sims who has a fatal disease and has returned to her home town to die. Filming Location: Butte, Montana

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  12. 8.2/10(130 votes)

    #11 - Love is a Skinny Kid

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    S2:E25

    Tod and Buz encounter Miriam, who steps off a bus wearing a mask. Filming Location: Lewisville, Texas.

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  13. 8.2/10(74 votes)

    #12 - A Cage in Search of a Bird

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    S4:E9

    Tod and Linc meet Stephanie. Filming Location: Denver, Colorado.

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  14. 8.1/10(113 votes)

    #13 - Incident on a Bridge

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    S1:E30

    Buz and Tod go to work for Volovich and live at his house. Two other boarders are courting Volovich's mute daughter. Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio

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  15. 8.1/10(100 votes)

    #14 - A City of Wheels

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    S2:E17

    Tod and Buz work with wheel chair patients at a veteran's hospital. Nurse Lori Barton falls in love with patient Frank Madera. Filming Location: Long Beach (Veterans Hospital), California

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    Writer:N/A
  16. 8.1/10(76 votes)

    #15 - Hey Moth, Come Eat The Flame

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    S3:E11

    Tod and Buz encounter Muddy Mullins, a piano playing ex-con and his son Arnie. Filming Location: St. Louis, Missouri

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  17. 8.0/10(128 votes)

    #16 - Like a Motherless Child

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    S1:E20

    Tod and Buz pick up a small boy who has run away from an orphanage. Tod wants to return the boy but Buz, who has bad memories of an orphanage, refuses. The boys also get involved with showgirls. Filming Location: Reno, Fallon, and Carson City, Nevada

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    Writer:N/A
  18. 8.0/10(116 votes)

    #17 - The Opponent

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    S1:E28

    A has-been boxer Johnny Copa is now throwing fights. Johnny trains Buz in boxing. Filming Location: Youngstown, Ohio

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  19. 8.0/10(127 votes)

    #18 - The Thin White Line

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    S2:E11

    While at a party, Tod is accidentally given a powerful psychosis-producing drug. Buz tries to keep him from killing himself. Filming Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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  20. 8.0/10(104 votes)

    #19 - A Long Piece of Mischief

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    S2:E15

    Ollie Crump is a rodeo clown who is in love with Babe Hunter. Filming Location: Mesquite, Texas

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  21. 8.0/10(82 votes)

    #20 - Shadows of an Afternoon

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    S3:E30

    Tod and Linc are working in a Florida town. Linc is accused of stabbing an unfriendly dog and is arrested. Filming Location: Cape Coral, Florida

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  22. 7.9/10(130 votes)

    #21 - Welcome to Amity

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    S1:E29

    Joan Maslow wants to bury her mother in the cemetery outside of Amity. The entire community is determined to stop her. Filming Location: Amity, Ohio

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    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.9/10(123 votes)

    #22 - Birdcage on My Foot

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    S2:E4

    Buz uses his experience as a former drug addict in an attempt to rehabilitate heroin addict Arnie. Filming Location: Boston, Massachusetts

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  24. 7.9/10(91 votes)

    #23 - Shoulder the Sky My Lad

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    S2:E21

    Tod and Buz befriend a Jewish boy whose family is a victim of anti-Semitism. Filming Location: Phoenix, Arizona

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    Writer:N/A
  25. 7.9/10(100 votes)

    #24 - One Tiger to a Hill

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    S3:E1

    Buz and Tod hire out as deck hands on Anna Gustafson's salmon fishing trawler where Tod becomes involved with Anna's daughter. Filming Location: Astoria, Oregon (From a contributor) The opening scene is unforgettable. Buz and Tod are driving along a sandy beach in their classic corvette while Nelson Riddle's theme song is playing in the background. Buz and Tod land jobs as fishermen and deck hands for a widower named Anna Gustafson. While at her home they get a glimpse of her beautiful daughter, Toika, who has a ""bounce in her step"" as she walks by them. Immediately Anna takes a liking for both Buz and Tod but she notices their differences. It is evident to her that Tod is college educated and the type of guy for Toika. Meanwhile, Karno, played by David Janssen, is a veteran and also the boyfriend of Toika. He despises Tod because Tod went to college while he was drafted into the war. Furthermore, Toika, who has been rejected by Karno, is drawn to Tod. When Karno sees the

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  26. 7.9/10(87 votes)

    #25 - Fifty Miles From Home

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    S3:E23

    Tod meets a Lincoln Case who has just completed a six-year Army enlistment including two years in Vietnam as an Army ranger. Linc decides not to re-enlist but to join Tod on the cross-country odyssey. Filming Location: Houston, Texas

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Best Episodes Summary

"Good Night, Sweet Blues" is the best rated episode of "Route 66". It scored 8.9/10 based on 195 votes. Directed by Jack Smight and written by N/A, it aired on 10/6/1961. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "I Wouldn't Start From Here".