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The Best Episodes of Route 66

After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in...

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  1. Background image for Good Night, Sweet Blues
    9.0/10(201 votes)

    #1 - Good Night, Sweet Blues

    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:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Mud Nest
    8.5/10(143 votes)

    #2 - The Mud Nest

    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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  3. Background image for Welcome to the Wedding
    8.5/10(100 votes)

    #3 - Welcome to the Wedding

    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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  4. Background image for I Wouldn't Start From Here
    8.5/10(82 votes)

    #4 - I Wouldn't Start From Here

    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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  5. Background image for Even Stones Have Eyes
    8.4/10(103 votes)

    #5 - Even Stones Have Eyes

    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:Unknown
  6. Background image for Voice at the End of the Line
    8.4/10(110 votes)

    #6 - Voice at the End of the Line

    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:Unknown
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  8. Background image for A Month of Sundays
    8.3/10(135 votes)

    #7 - A Month of Sundays

    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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  9. Background image for A City of Wheels
    8.2/10(104 votes)

    #8 - A City of Wheels

    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:Unknown
  10. Background image for Love is a Skinny Kid
    8.2/10(134 votes)

    #9 - Love is a Skinny Kid

    S2:E25

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

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  11. Background image for A Cage in Search of a Bird
    8.2/10(77 votes)

    #10 - A Cage in Search of a Bird

    S4:E9

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

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  12. Background image for Like a Motherless Child
    8.0/10(133 votes)

    #11 - Like a Motherless Child

    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:Unknown
  13. Background image for Eleven, the Hard Way
    8.0/10(114 votes)

    #12 - Eleven, the Hard Way

    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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  14. Background image for The Opponent
    8.0/10(120 votes)

    #13 - The Opponent

    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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  15. Background image for Incident on a Bridge
    8.0/10(116 votes)

    #14 - Incident on a Bridge

    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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  16. Background image for Birdcage on My Foot
    8.0/10(128 votes)

    #15 - Birdcage on My Foot

    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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  17. Background image for The Thin White Line
    8.0/10(131 votes)

    #16 - The Thin White Line

    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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  18. Background image for A Long Piece of Mischief
    8.0/10(109 votes)

    #17 - A Long Piece of Mischief

    S2:E15

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

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  19. Background image for Shoulder the Sky My Lad
    8.0/10(96 votes)

    #18 - Shoulder the Sky My Lad

    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:Unknown
  20. Background image for One Tiger to a Hill
    8.0/10(104 votes)

    #19 - One Tiger to a Hill

    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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  21. Background image for Hey Moth, Come Eat The Flame
    8.0/10(80 votes)

    #20 - Hey Moth, Come Eat The Flame

    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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  22. Background image for The Cruelest Sea of All
    8.0/10(93 votes)

    #21 - The Cruelest Sea of All

    S3:E25

    The boys get jobs at the Weeki Wachee theme park in Florida. The park show features girls dressed as mermaids performing underwater. A shy girl Elissa emerges from the water and after demonstrating amazing underwater swimming talent is hired for the show. She talks about ""coming from the sea"" and implies that she is a real mermaid. Skeptical Tod falls for her but assumes that she just wants publicity to launch a movie career. Linc has a more open mind and believes her. Tod discovers too late that she was telling the truth. Filming Location: Weeki-Wachee and Crystal River, Florida. Hotel credited: Port Paradise Hotel in Crystal River.

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  23. Background image for Shadows of an Afternoon
    8.0/10(85 votes)

    #22 - Shadows of an Afternoon

    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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  24. Background image for Most Vanquished, Most Victorious
    7.9/10(115 votes)

    #23 - Most Vanquished, Most Victorious

    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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  25. Background image for Dont Count Stars
    7.9/10(113 votes)

    #24 - Dont Count Stars

    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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  26. Background image for Welcome to Amity
    7.9/10(133 votes)

    #25 - Welcome to Amity

    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:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Good Night, Sweet Blues" is the best rated episode of "Route 66". It scored 9/10 based on 201 votes. Directed by Jack Smight and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/6/1961. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Mud Nest".