8.9/10192 votesLoading...#1 - Good Night, Sweet Blues
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1961
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
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: N/A
8.6/1095 votesLoading...#2 - Welcome to the Wedding
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1962
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
Director: George Sherman
Writer: Howard Rodman
8.5/10105 votesLoading...#3 - Voice at the End of the Line
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1962
Tod and Buz encounter a downtrodden stock clerk who is involved in a telephone romance. Filming Location: Chicago, Illinois
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
8.5/1077 votesLoading...#4 - I Wouldn't Start From Here
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1963
Tod and Linc work for a Vermont farmer and get involved in a pulling horse race. Filming Location: Vermont
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: Ernest Kinoy
8.4/10134 votesLoading...#5 - The Mud Nest
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1961
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
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.3/10129 votesLoading...#6 - A Month of Sundays
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1961
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
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.3/1095 votesLoading...#7 - Even Stones Have Eyes
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/30/1962
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
Director: Robert Gist
Writer: N/A
8.2/10107 votesLoading...#8 - Eleven, the Hard Way
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/7/1961
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
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.2/10108 votesLoading...#9 - Most Vanquished, Most Victorious
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/14/1961
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
Director: N/A
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.2/10105 votesLoading...#10 - Dont Count Stars
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/28/1961
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
Director: N/A
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.2/10113 votesLoading...#11 - The Opponent
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 6/2/1961
A has-been boxer Johnny Copa is now throwing fights. Johnny trains Buz in boxing. Filming Location: Youngstown, Ohio
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Stirling Silliphant, Leonard Freeman
8.2/10127 votesLoading...#12 - Love is a Skinny Kid
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 4/6/1962
Tod and Buz encounter Miriam, who steps off a bus wearing a mask. Filming Location: Lewisville, Texas.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.2/1072 votesLoading...#13 - A Cage in Search of a Bird
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1963
Tod and Linc meet Stephanie. Filming Location: Denver, Colorado.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.1/10109 votesLoading...#14 - Incident on a Bridge
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 6/16/1961
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
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.1/1095 votesLoading...#15 - A City of Wheels
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1962
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
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
8.1/1075 votesLoading...#16 - Hey Moth, Come Eat The Flame
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1962
Tod and Buz encounter Muddy Mullins, a piano playing ex-con and his son Arnie. Filming Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.0/10111 votesLoading...#17 - Fly Away Home (1)
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1961
Tod goes to work for the Windus Dusting Company as a crop duster. He meets Summers, a pilot. The company is losing money. Filming Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.0/10126 votesLoading...#18 - Like a Motherless Child
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/17/1961
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
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
8.0/10123 votesLoading...#19 - The Thin White Line
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1961
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
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Leonard Freeman
8.0/1097 votesLoading...#20 - One Tiger to a Hill
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1962
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
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.0/1084 votesLoading...#21 - Fifty Miles From Home
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/22/1963
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
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.0/1074 votesLoading...#22 - What a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant
Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 4/26/1963
Linc meets Lt. School, a former officer he served under in Vietnam. The officer now has the mentality of an eight-year old child and is living with his mother. Filming Location: Tampa, Florida
Director: James Goldstone
Writer: Howard Rodman
8.0/1078 votesLoading...#23 - Shadows of an Afternoon
Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 5/17/1963
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
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Leonard Freeman
7.9/10125 votesLoading...#24 - Welcome to Amity
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 6/9/1961
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
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: N/A
7.9/10120 votesLoading...#25 - Birdcage on My Foot
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1961
Buz uses his experience as a former drug addict in an attempt to rehabilitate heroin addict Arnie. Filming Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
The Best Episodes of Route 66
Every episode of Route 66 ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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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Best Episodes Summary
"Good Night, Sweet Blues" is the best rated episode of "Route 66". It scored 8.9/10 based on 192 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, "Welcome to the Wedding".