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The Best Episodes of Route 66 Season 1

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The Best Episodes of Route 66 Season 1

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. 8.3/10(110 votes)

    #1 - 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
  2. 8.2/10(110 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. 8.2/10(108 votes)

    #3 - 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
  4. 8.1/10(113 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. 8.0/10(128 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. 8.0/10(116 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. 7.9/10(130 votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. 7.8/10(103 votes)

    #8 - Fly Away Home (2)

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    S1:E17

    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

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  10. 7.7/10(115 votes)

    #9 - Fly Away Home (1)

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    S1:E16

    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

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  11. 7.7/10(104 votes)

    #10 - A Skill for Hunting

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    S1:E26

    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

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  12. 7.6/10(102 votes)

    #11 - The Newborn

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    S1:E25

    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

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  13. 7.5/10(289 votes)

    #12 - Black November

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    S1:E1

    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

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  14. 7.5/10(167 votes)

    #13 - The Man on the Monkey Board

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    S1:E4

    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

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    Director:N/A
  15. 7.5/10(164 votes)

    #14 - The Strengthening Angels

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    S1:E5

    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

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  16. 7.5/10(168 votes)

    #15 - Ten Drops of Water

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    S1:E6

    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

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  17. 7.4/10(108 votes)

    #16 - Trap at Cordova

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    S1:E27

    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

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  18. 7.2/10(125 votes)

    #17 - The Beryllium Eater

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    S1:E10

    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

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  19. 7.2/10(133 votes)

    #18 - Sheba

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    S1:E12

    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

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  20. 7.2/10(133 votes)

    #19 - Play It Glissando

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    S1:E14

    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

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  21. 7.1/10(111 votes)

    #20 - Effigy in Snow

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    S1:E21

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

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  22. 7.0/10(121 votes)

    #21 - The Quick and the Dead

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    S1:E13

    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

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    Director:N/A
  23. 7.0/10(101 votes)

    #22 - An Absence of Tears

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    S1:E19

    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

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    Director:N/A
  24. 6.9/10(159 votes)

    #23 - The Swan Bed

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    S1:E3

    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

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  25. 6.9/10(151 votes)

    #24 - Three Sides

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    S1:E7

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

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  26. 6.9/10(127 votes)

    #25 - Legacy for Lucia

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    S1:E8

    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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Most Vanquished, Most Victorious" is the best rated episode of "Route 66" season 1. It scored 8.3/10 based on 110 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Stirling Silliphant, it aired on 4/14/1961. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Eleven, the Hard Way".