8.3/10129 votes#1 - 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
7.5/10104 votes#2 - Blue Murder
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1961
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
8.9/10192 votes#3 - 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
7.9/10120 votes#4 - 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
7.1/10119 votes#5 - First Class Mouliak
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1961
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: N/A
7.8/1093 votes#6 - Once to Every Man
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1961
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: N/A
8.4/10134 votes#7 - 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
7.6/1094 votes#8 - A Bridge Across Five Days
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1961
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
7.2/10130 votes#9 - Mon Petit Chou
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1961
Tod and Buz meet French singer Perette and her controlling tough-guy manager Glenn. Filming Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
7.3/10101 votes#10 - Some of the People, Some of the Time
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1961
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
Director: Sam Peckinpah, Robert Altman
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.0/10123 votes#11 - 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
7.3/10105 votes#12 - And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1961
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
7.5/1087 votes#13 - Burning for Burning
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/29/1961
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
7.4/10106 votes#14 - To Walk with the Serpent
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/5/1962
In Boston, Tod and Buz encounter right-wing nuts armed with plastic explosives. Filming Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: N/A
7.9/10101 votes#15 - A Long Piece of Mischief
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1962
Ollie Crump is a rodeo clown who is in love with Babe Hunter. Filming Location: Mesquite, Texas
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.9/1081 votes#16 - 1800 Days to Justice
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1962
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: N/A
8.1/1095 votes#17 - 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
7.8/10103 votes#18 - How Much a Pound is Albatross
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1962
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
7.3/1079 votes#19 - Aren't You Surprised to See Me?
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/1962
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
7.6/1075 votes#20 - You Never Had It So Good
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/1962
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
7.9/1087 votes#21 - Shoulder the Sky My Lad
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1962
Tod and Buz befriend a Jewish boy whose family is a victim of anti-Semitism. Filming Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
7.4/1088 votes#22 - Blues for a Left Foot
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1962
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
7.2/1081 votes#23 - Go Read the River
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/16/1962
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
8.3/1095 votes#24 - 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
8.2/10127 votes#25 - 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
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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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"A Month of Sundays" is the best rated episode of "Route 66" season 2. It scored 8.3/10 based on 129 votes. Directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Stirling Silliphant, it aired on 9/22/1961. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Blue Murder".