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The Best Episodes of Route 66 Season 2

Every episode of Route 66 Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Route 66 Season 2!

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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 search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Route 66 Season 2 Episode 1 - A Month of Sundays
    8.4/10(143 votes)

    #1 - 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

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  2. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 2 - Blue Murder
    7.4/10(119 votes)

    #2 - Blue Murder

    S2:E2

    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

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  3. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 3 - Good Night, Sweet Blues
    9.0/10(209 votes)

    #3 - 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

    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 4 - Birdcage on My Foot
    8.1/10(133 votes)

    #4 - 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

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  5. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 5 - First Class Mouliak
    7.2/10(133 votes)

    #5 - First Class Mouliak

    S2:E5

    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

    Director:William Conrad
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 6 - Once to Every Man
    7.9/10(106 votes)

    #6 - Once to Every Man

    S2:E6

    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

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 7 - The Mud Nest
    8.5/10(152 votes)

    #7 - 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

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  8. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 8 - A Bridge Across Five Days
    7.7/10(111 votes)

    #8 - A Bridge Across Five Days

    S2:E8

    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

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Howard Rodman

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  9. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 9 - Mon Petit Chou
    7.2/10(146 votes)

    #9 - Mon Petit Chou

    S2:E9

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

    Director:Sam Peckinpah
    Writer:Sam Peckinpah

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  10. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 10 - Some of the People, Some of the Time
    7.4/10(113 votes)

    #10 - Some of the People, Some of the Time

    S2:E10

    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

    Directors:Robert Altman, Sam Peckinpah
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  11. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 11 - The Thin White Line
    8.1/10(134 votes)

    #11 - 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

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Leonard Freeman

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  12. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 12 - And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon
    7.6/10(118 votes)

    #12 - And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon

    S2:E12

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

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  13. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 13 - Burning for Burning
    7.7/10(96 votes)

    #13 - Burning for Burning

    S2:E13

    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

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  14. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 14 - To Walk with the Serpent
    7.4/10(122 votes)

    #14 - To Walk with the Serpent

    S2:E14

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

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 15 - A Long Piece of Mischief
    8.1/10(112 votes)

    #15 - A Long Piece of Mischief

    S2:E15

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

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  16. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 16 - 1800 Days to Justice
    7.2/10(94 votes)

    #16 - 1800 Days to Justice

    S2:E16

    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

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 17 - A City of Wheels
    8.2/10(105 votes)

    #17 - 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

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 18 - How Much a Pound is Albatross
    8.0/10(115 votes)

    #18 - How Much a Pound is Albatross

    S2:E18

    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

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  19. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 19 - Aren't You Surprised to See Me?
    7.5/10(89 votes)

    #19 - Aren't You Surprised to See Me?

    S2:E19

    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

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  20. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 20 - You Never Had It So Good
    7.8/10(84 votes)

    #20 - You Never Had It So Good

    S2:E20

    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

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  21. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 21 - Shoulder the Sky My Lad
    8.1/10(99 votes)

    #21 - 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

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 22 - Blues for a Left Foot
    7.6/10(97 votes)

    #22 - Blues for a Left Foot

    S2:E22

    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

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Leonard Freeman

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  23. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 23 - Go Read the River
    7.3/10(95 votes)

    #23 - Go Read the River

    S2:E23

    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 (?)

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  24. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 24 - Even Stones Have Eyes
    8.5/10(105 votes)

    #24 - 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

    Director:Robert Gist
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 25 - Love is a Skinny Kid
    8.4/10(137 votes)

    #25 - Love is a Skinny Kid

    S2:E25

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

    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"A Month of Sundays" is the best rated episode of "Route 66" season 2. It scored 8.4/10 based on 143 votes. Directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Stirling Silliphant, it aired on 9/22/1961. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "Blue Murder".