5.4/1058 votesLoading...#1 - Come Home Greta Inger Gruenchaffen
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1963
Tod and Linc meet physical culturist Greta. Filming Location: Mt. Snow, Vermont and Buffalo, New York (?)
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
5.9/10235 votesLoading...#2 - Same Picture, Different Frame
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1963
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
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.1/1062 votesLoading...#3 - The Cage Around Maria
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/15/1963
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
Director: George Sherman
Writer: Jesse Sandler
6.1/1064 votesLoading...#4 - Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1963
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.1/1061 votesLoading...#5 - Is it True There Are Poxies at the Bottom of Landfair Lake?
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1964
Tod and Linc work on a neon sign in a small Georgia town. Simon rips the sign down. Filming Location: Savannah, Georgia
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.2/1059 votesLoading...#6 - Where There's a Will, There's a Way (1)
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/6/1964
In Florida, Tod and Linc meet the Tiffins, a family of con men and criminals who are squabbling over a will. Tod becomes involved romantically with family member Margo who stands to inherit the money if she marries. Tod is thrown off a bridge. Filming Location: Tampa, Florida
Director: N/A
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.4/10113 votesLoading...#7 - The Clover Throne
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1961
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
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: N/A
6.4/1061 votesLoading...#8 - A Feat of Strength
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 5/18/1962
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
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Joseph Petracca
6.5/10118 votesLoading...#9 - A Fury Slinging Flame
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/30/1960
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
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.6/10137 votesLoading...#10 - Layout at Glen Canyon
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1960
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
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.6/1077 votesLoading...#11 - Kiss the Maiden All Forlorn
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 4/13/1962
Tod and Buz meet Charles Clayton, a fugitive swindler who has returned to the US. Filming Location: Dallas, Texas
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.6/1066 votesLoading...#12 - Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/29/1963
Linc meets a girl named Janie in a tavern and she gives him a knockout drink. Filming Location: Galveston, Texas
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: N/A
6.6/1059 votesLoading...#13 - Who in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1964
Tod and Linc encounter a Daytona Florida librarian and a murderer. Filming Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: N/A
6.7/1060 votesLoading...#14 - The Stone Guest
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1963
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
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.7/1062 votesLoading...#15 - This is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1964
Tod and Linc meet Harlan Livingston III, a naive millionaire who is surrounded by women who are pretending to be hurt. Filming Location: St. Augustine, Florida
Director: N/A
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.8/10162 votesLoading...#16 - A Lance of Straw
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/1960
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
Director: N/A
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.8/10104 votesLoading...#17 - Sleep on Four Pillows
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1961
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
Director: Ted Post
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.8/1088 votesLoading...#18 - Give an Old Cat a Tender Mouse
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/21/1962
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
Director: Tom Gries
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.8/1057 votesLoading...#19 - Where Are the Sounds of Celli Brahms
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1963
Tod and Linc work at a beauty contest with Celli who is an acoustical engineer. Filming Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.8/1061 votesLoading...#20 - Follow the White Dove With the Broken Wing
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1964
A disturbed teenager kills his friend. Filming Location: Unknown
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10150 votesLoading...#21 - The Swan Bed
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1960
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
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.9/10147 votesLoading...#22 - Three Sides
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1960
The boys work on a ranch and encounter a rancher's son. Joey dances on a table. Filming Location: Grants Pass, Oregon
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.9/10124 votesLoading...#23 - Legacy for Lucia
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1960
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
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.9/1080 votesLoading...#24 - 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
6.9/1072 votesLoading...#25 - Hell is Empty, All the Devils are Here
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 5/25/1962
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
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
The Worst Episodes of Route 66
Every episode of Route 66 ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Route 66!
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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Network:CBS
Worst Episodes Summary
"Come Home Greta Inger Gruenchaffen" is the worst rated episode of "Route 66". It scored 5.4/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by Philip Leacock and written by Stirling Silliphant, it aired on 12/13/1963. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Same Picture, Different Frame".