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Tod's father dies leaving Tod the Corvette. Buz worked for Tod's   father and the two decide to start driving. The Corvette breaks down in a small Mississippi town with some very nasty residents. The boys discover that the town hosted a POW camp during WW II and that the town boss had an escaped prisoner lynched when his son was killed in action. The boss plans to lynch Tod and Buz to keep the town's secret.   Filming Location: Concord, Kentucky

Black November

Shrimp boat captain Charlotte Duval hires Tod and Buz   as a crew for her boat.  Suitor Jean Boussard gets very jealous   of the male crew members.  Buz falls in love with the captain.   Filming Location: Grand Isle, Louisiana

A Lance of Straw

Tod and Buz arrive in   New Orleans during a parrot-fever epidemic. They meet a   girl named Carrie Purcell and ask her out for a date.   Carrie doesn't have money to afford nice clothes.   Filming Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

The Swan Bed

Tod and Buz are working at a Louisana Gulf of Mexico off-shore oil-drilling tower. Lew Ayres plays a Nazi-hunter hunting an escaped Nazi on the drilling rig.   Filming Location: Denage and Venice, Louisana

The Man on the Monkey Board

Tod and Buz give a lift to Lotti Montana, a migrant worker who   is going to help pick the peach crop. As they approach the town of Sparrow Falls she begs them to drive through as quickly as possible.  They take her to the Coronet Club and the Silver Dollar cafe. Sheriff Hingle keeps her from leaving town. The boys work with a revivalist.   Filming Location: Needles, California

The Strengthening Angels

Vergil and Helen Page with their young brother Homer are owners of the family ranch. Fighting a desperate battle against drought they're too proud to accept Tod and Buz's offer to help.   Filming Location: Kanab, Utah

Ten Drops of Water

The boys work on a ranch and encounter a rancher's son. Joey dances on a table.    Filming Location: Grants Pass, Oregon

Three Sides

Tod and Buz are working as loggers in Oregon.  They meet an Italian girl, Lucia Trapani, who has come from Sicily to buy a new Madonna for her church. She plans to do it by selling her only possessions.   Filming Location: Merlin, Oregon

Legacy for Lucia

A group of models are sent to a construction camp at Glen Canyon to do some fashion shots for a magazine. Jeff Grady head of the crew working at the dam appoints Tod and Buz as bodyguards.    Filming Location: Glen Canyon Dam and Page, Arizona

Layout at Glen Canyon

Jack McConkie makes a find of Beryllium, a rare ore.  Mine operator Fred Durant insists that he sell his claim. The old man refuses and is found badly beaten.    Filming Location: Eureka, Arizona

The Beryllium Eater

The boys meet scientist Mark Christopher and his friends who intend to remain in Carlsbad Caverns until a predicted nuclear war is over.   Filming Location: Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico

A Fury Slinging Flame

Laura Church is paroled from a Texas prison and prepares to take up a new life. Then she discovers that the man assigned as her advisor is none other than Woody Biggs, the rancher who sent her to jail in the first place.  The boys work as cowboys.   Filming Location: El Paso, Texas

Sheba

Tod and Buz work at the Riverside race track for the Grand Prix stock-car races.  They get involved with a family's problems, including whether the father should continue stock-car racing.  Tod drives a racecar.

Filming Location: Riverside Racetrack and Mission Inn, Riverside, California

The Quick and the Dead

Tod and Buz watch a show at a local night club where trumpeter Gabe Johnson and his group are appearing. While driving away, they witness Jana Johnson, Gabe's wife, crash her car.  She tells the boys that Gabe is insanely jealous and tried to kill her.  The boys watch over her.  Gabe shoots Tod but Tod tells the hospital it was an accident. When Jana goes back with Gabe, the boys realize that Jana will keep returning to Gabe no matter what.   Filming Location: Malibu, California

Play It Glissando

The boys work on Adam Darcey's date farm.  Adam loves his ward, ""Sweet Thing"", who wants to leave the farm.  Adam is also trying to stop a road from being built on his property.    Filming Location: Indio, California

The Clover Throne

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

Fly Away Home (1)

A farmer wants his crops dusted with sulfur, which is very dangerous to the pilots.  However, the risk means more money to for the crop-dusting company.   Filming Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Fly Away Home (2)

Tod and Buz meet a teenage girl who claims to be running from   gangsters.  The girl's wealthy mother thinks her daughter has   been kidnapped and calls the police and a detective.   Filming Location: Hollywood and Los Angeles, California

Sleep on Four Pillows

A blind widow listens for the voices of her dead husband's murderers. She asks Tod and Buz to buy her a pistol for self-protection.   Filming Location: Hollywood, California

An Absence of Tears

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

Like a Motherless Child

A psychotic killer is killing women at the Squaw Valley ski resort.  He leaves a body in the snow.   Filming Location: Squaw Valley, California

Effigy in Snow

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

Eleven, the Hard Way

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

Most Vanquished, Most Victorious

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

Dont Count Stars

Tod and Buz work on a ranch belonging to Frank Ivy.   Frank's son dies leaving an Indian girl Kawna pregnant.   Frank and Kawna's relatives fight over the baby.   The boys arrange an ""adoption"" of the baby after the   mother dies.   Filming Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Newborn

Tod stops a poacher Hump Humphrey from killing a deer.  Hump   then shoots out the tires of Tod's car and later frames the   boys for poaching.   Filming Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico

A Skill for Hunting

Tod and Buz are kidnapped by New Mexican mountain townspeople who need a teacher.  Tod addresses the New Mexico legislature about the culture of the people of Cordova and the need for teachers.   Filming Location: Cordova, New Mexico

Trap at Cordova

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

The Opponent

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

Welcome to Amity

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

Incident on a Bridge

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

A Month of Sundays

Tod and Buz deliver ""Blue Murder"", a wild rodeo stallion, to   Jim Bludge's ranch.  Later Bludge is found dead with the mark   of a horse hoof on him.   Filming Location: Butte, Montana

Blue Murder

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

Good Night, Sweet Blues

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

Birdcage on My Foot

Tod and Buz are working in a Russian -American neighborhood for Jack and Mike in a steel mill.  Mike's daughter is found dead and Jack's son Janosh was with the girl when she died.   Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio

First Class Mouliak

Tod and Buz are working on a fishing boat.  The owner Leigh Adams is killed in an accident and his wandering daughter Prudence returns for the funeral.  She takes over the boat and falls in love with Tod.   Filming Location: Gloucester, Massachusetts

Once to Every Man

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

The Mud Nest

Tod and Buz are working at a shipyard.  They meet Lillian Aldrich, another employee.  Lillian has been released from a mental hospital.   Filming Location: Baltimore, Maryland

A Bridge Across Five Days

Tod and Buz meet French singer Perette and her controlling tough-guy manager Glenn.   Filming Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mon Petit Chou

Maximillian Coyne is running a beauty contest.  He claims to have   connections with Hollywood and that the winner will get into pictures. Tod and Buz discover that Max is a fraud.   Filming Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Some of the People, Some of the Time

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

The Thin White Line

Johnny quits a juvenile gang.  Packy takes over and also claims Johnny's girlfriend Marva.   Filming Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon

Tod and Buz are working on a chicken farm.  They meet Agnes Brack who doesn't like her son's widow Julie. Agnes tries to cause trouble for Julie.   Filming Location: Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania

Burning for Burning

In Boston, Tod and Buz encounter right-wing nuts armed with plastic explosives.   Filming Location: Boston, Massachusetts

To Walk with the Serpent

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

A Long Piece of Mischief

After five years in prison, David Job and his mob return to Harcourt Junction, Texas. Their mission is to take over the town and put its leading citizen Bob Harcourt on trial for sending them to jail.   Filming Location: Harcourt Junction (?), Texas

1800 Days to Justice

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

A City of Wheels

Tod and Buz meet Vicki Russell who is cruising around on her  motorcycle. Vicki doesn't have a driver's license and the bike hasn't got plates.   Filming Location: Tucson, Arizona

How Much a Pound is Albatross

In Dallas, Tod and Buz are delighted to be staying at a hotel hosting a secretary's convention. Then Caine, a religious serial killer armed with nerve gas kidnaps Buz. He plans to kill Buz unless the city ""repents"".   Filming Location: Dallas, Texas

Aren't You Surprised to See Me?

Tod and Buz are working in building construction. Tod's attempt to pick up Terry involves the boys in a corporate executive training program.   Filming Location: Phoenix, Arizona

You Never Had It So Good

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

Shoulder the Sky My Lad

Tod and Buz work with a former Broadway show dancer Rosemarie Brown who is trying to make a comeback in a television show.   Filming Location: Hollywood, California

Blues for a Left Foot

Tod is working as a high-speed boat test driver. He gets to pilot a boat whose new engine is developed by Tod's boss Sandy Mason.   Filming Location: Colorado River (?)

Go Read the River

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

Even Stones Have Eyes

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

Love is a Skinny Kid

Tod and Buz meet Charles Clayton, a fugitive swindler who has returned to the US.   Filming Location: Dallas, Texas

Kiss the Maiden All Forlorn

Several school children are touring Lake Erie aboard an excursion boat when ""poor little rich boy"" Ritchie McIntyre falls overboard. When Ritchie is brought back onboard the boat, he claims that he was pushed.   Filming Location: Cleveland and Lake Erie, Ohio

Two on the House

Tod and Buz visit Santa Catalina Island. A woman on the beach has caught her foot in a rock and the tide is coming in.   Filming Location: Santa Catalina Island, California

There I am, There I Always Am

Tod and Buz visit Pacific Ocean Park, a Southern California amusement park. While there they encounter a woman with two identities.   Filming Location: Pacific Ocean Park, California

Between Hello and Goodbye

A refugee Hungarian wrestling champion finds that American wrestling has it's own set of rules when he is offered a position as a ""good guy"" wrestler.   Filming Location: Los Angeles, California

A Feat of Strength

Tod goes to work for Peter Hale, who owns a wild animal park.  Peter's first wife was killed by an animal.  Hale has re-married and his new wife is frightened.   Filming Location: Jungleland, Thousand Oaks, California

Hell is Empty, All the Devils are Here

Tod works as a dental assistant to Dr. Anna Martin.  Her husband Lawrence Martin, a famous inventor, has moved out and is living at a religious retreat.   Filming Location: Southern California

From an Enchantress Fleeing

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

One Tiger to a Hill

Tod and Buz ride into Harleyville.  They meet some old comedians, including Jonah Butler, the town jinx.   Filming Location: Harleyville (state?)

Journey to Nineveh

In Chicago, Tod and Buz encounter Harry Wender, a frightened 1930's gangster who has outlived his time.   Filming Location: Chicago, Illinois

Man Out of Time

Tod and Buz go surfing in Southern California.  Buz challenges a surfing champion to a match.   Filming Location: Huntington Beach, California

Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma

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

Voice at the End of the Line

Tod and Buz are excited to be working at a Chicago hotel which is hosting a women's convention. Also staying at the hotel are the famous horror film actors. The actors are debating whether their traditional horror film characters can still scare modern audiences. The actors test their ideas on the conventioneers.

Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing

In Oregon City Tod and Buz get a real deal on rooms at an old house - $6.50 per week. Living in the house is Maggie a psychic reader, Van her unemployed husband, Michael, her nephew. Maggie's sister Autumn arrives after being fired from her teaching job and moves in. Michael is the house's sarcastic unpleasant owner and threatens to evict his relatives when he turns 21 in a few months. Michael is also trying to avoid some young men who want to beat him up.   Filming Location: Oregon City, Oregon

Across Walnuts and Wine

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

Welcome to the Wedding

Tod and Buz work for John Rados' road building-business.  John has a strange daughter and John offers Buz money and a business if he will date her.   Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Every Father's Daughter Must Weave Her Own

Tod and Buz work with a Doc Duncan, a shark fisherman. Doc is catching sharks for scientific experiments.   Filming Location: California

Poor Little Kangaroo Rat

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

Hey Moth, Come Eat The Flame

Mentalist Brycie Koseloff makes dire predictions about Tod's future including predicting that finally Tod will kill Buz.  Her predictions start coming true.   Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Only by Cunning Glimpses

Tod becomes involved in a kidnapping. Ellen Barnes claims that a mental patient is kidnapping her.   Filming Location: St. Charles, Missouri

Where is Chick Lorrimer? Where Has He Gone?

Tod meets Vicki Russell again (from ""How Much a Pound is Albatross""). She is again riding her motorcycle and this time has a boyfriend Frank pursuing her.   Filming Location: Memphis, Tennessee

Give an Old Cat a Tender Mouse

Tod becomes an assistant to novelist Warren Barr.  Warren's daughter Beth shoots her husband.   Filming Location: Hernando, Mississippi

A Bunch of Lonely Pagliaccis

Tod meets music composer Julian Roebuck who is recording local folk musicians in Tennessee.   Filming Location: Lake Chisholm, Tennessee

You Can't Pick Cotton in Tahiti

Tod and Buz meet Lars, a German sailor in Tijuana who is looking for his father Ralph and is carrying a gun.    Filming Location: Chula Vista and San Diego, California

A Gift for a Warrior

Tod is carrying his new credit card around Los Angeles, and is being followed around Los Angeles by Diane. She asks him for a date and then steals the credit card.   Filming Location: Los Angeles, California

Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain

Tod meets Joby, who steals his wallet. Corelli is a social worker who helps out.   Filming Location: Corpus Christi, Texas

Somehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow

Tod witnesses a double murder and joins a posse hunting for the killers.   Filming Location: Apache Junction, Arizona

Shall Forfeit His Dog and Ten Shillings to the King

Alma Hawkes returns to a Gulf Coast fishing town after spending time in prison for killing her father. She is looking for her son and mistakes Tod for the son.   Filming Location: Corpus Christi, Texas

In the Closing of a Trunk

Tod is working for the Houston zoo. Maria, the troubled daughter of a Mexican family, throws herself into the bear pit.   Filming Location: Houston, Texas

The Cage Around Maria

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

Fifty Miles From Home

Linc meets a girl named Janie in a tavern and she gives him a knockout drink.   Filming Location: Galveston, Texas

Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine

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.

The Cruelest Sea of All

Tod and Linc meet Jai-Alai players who involve the boys in Cuban politics. Quiepo wants to smuggle his niece out of Cuba.   Filming Location: Tampa, Florida

Peace, Pity, Pardon

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

What a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant

Tod and Linc meet two rich playgirls after one of them runs down his boat with her speedboat.   Filming Location: St. Petersburg, Florida

But What Do You Do in March

Tod and Linc's car breaks down. Linc hitches a ride with Alva and Charlie, two robbers who force him to drive their getaway car.   Filming Location: Cape Coral, Florida

Who Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride

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

Shadows of an Afternoon

Tod and Linc are working with Emmett McNeill, a tramp. A strange disease breaks out which turns out to be spread by ticks.   Filming Location: Unknown (Florida?)

Soda Pop and Paper Flags

While in a Florida swamp, Tod and Linc meet Major Barben, an American World War II ace and Takasuka, a Japanese officer who are still fighting the war.   Filming Location: Everglades and Cape Coral, Florida

Two Strangers and an Old Enemy

Tod and Linc encounter Morgan Harper who is back to reopen an estate. Her psycho husband Eric is back to kill her.   Filming Location: Poland Springs, Maine

Same Picture, Different Frame

In Maine, Tod and Linc work at a sawmill and board with a French Canadian one-armed former logger Poppa and his beautiful daughter Marie. Marie tries to be what ever a man wants her to be. Marie and Link are having a romance and Marie tells Tod "I'm going to hurt your friend". Sailor Jack arrives in town between ships and has a fling with Marie. Marie decides to leave home to "find herself" but Tod and Linc talk her out of it.

Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are

Tod and Linc work at a beauty contest with Celli who is an acoustical engineer.   Filming Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Where Are the Sounds of Celli Brahms

Tod and Linc go fishing for lobsters with Thayer Faxon. Thayer's problem son Mamomsha returns to cause more trouble.   Filming Location: Maine coast

Build Your Houses With Their Backs to the Sea

Tod and Linc meet Mike Donato, an eccentric raspberry farmer.   Filming Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

And Make Thunder His Tribute

Spinster Hazel comes to Colorado. She meets Ben Beldon, who was in the Army with Linc. Ben is now a miner amd a trouble-maker. Ben and Hazel get trapped in a mine.   Filming Location: Central City, Colorado

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