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Season 3 – Route 66

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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 New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.
Route 66 — Season 3

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Episode 1 Aired Sep 21, 1962 One Tiger to a Hill Tod and Buz, in Astoria, Ore., are working as crewmen on a fishing boat; a fisherman struggling with a trauma from his past makes a brutal, unprovoked attack on Tod. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 28, 1962 Journey to Ninevah A man (Buster Keaton) who believes he is a jinx proves himself when his brother (Joe E. Brown) is wrongly arrested; guest John Astin. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 5, 1962 Man Out of Time An aging former gangster, just released from prison, hires Tod and Buz when he feels that a person from his past is trying to kill him. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 12, 1962 Ever Ride the Waves of Oklahoma? Buz vows to end the reign of a surfing "king" (Jeremy Slate) after seeing his callous reaction to a fellow surfer's senseless death. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 19, 1962 Voice at the End of the Line After being the unwitting accomplice in a cruel practical joke, Buz enlists Tod's aid to help the victim redeem himself. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 26, 1962 Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing Tod enlists horror-film actors (Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr.) to get back at Buz, who won't share his hotel escort duties. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 2, 1962 Across Walnuts & Wine Tod and Buz wind up in the middle of a bitter family when they are boarders in a woman's house while working at an Oregon lumber mill. Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 9, 1962 Welcome to the Wedding A vicious criminal (Rod Steiger) escapes police custody and brings hostage Buz along on his hunt for long-hidden loot in Portland, Ore. Details Episode 9 Aired Nov 16, 1962 Every Father's Daughter While working for a road-construction firm near Chicago, Buz and Tod are startled when the owner asks them to entertain his daughter. Details Episode 10 Aired Nov 23, 1962 Poor Little Kangaroo Rat Tod and Buz work as shark hunters for a doctor using sharks as lab specimens; the doctor, working under a research grant, has an unhappy jealous wife who wants him to return to private practice and support their son. Details Episode 11 Aired Nov 30, 1962 Hey Moth, Come Eat the Flame Tod and Buz attempt to help a troubled boy struggling with his conflicting feelings concerning his alcoholic father. Details Episode 12 Aired Dec 7, 1962 Only by Cunning Glimpses To impress her skeptical father, a psychic tells Tod he will kill Buz. Details Episode 13 Aired Dec 14, 1962 Where Is Chick Lorimer? Where Has She Gone? A strip-tease dancer tricks Tod into helping her escape a debt and runs home to Missouri, where no one about knows her job. Details Episode 14 Aired Dec 21, 1962 Give the Old Cat a Tender Mouse On the way into Memphis, Tod encounters a girl (Julie Newmar) he met once before who has come searching for a prospective bridegroom. Details Episode 15 Aired Jan 4, 1963 A Bunch of Lonely Pagliaccis A famous novelist's daughter shoots her husband when she finds him with another woman. Details Episode 16 Aired Jan 11, 1963 You Can't Pick Cotton in Tahiti A footloose man (Richard Basehart) arrives in Tennessee and proceeds to steal the heart of a country girl while recording folk singing. Details Episode 17 Aired Jan 18, 1963 A Gift for a Warrior Tod and Buz encounter a bitter German man seeking to destroy his American father, whom he thinks deserted his mother. Details Episode 18 Aired Feb 8, 1963 Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain Tod romances a mysterious girl (Lois Nettleton) who leads him through a puzzling maze of different identities; guest Robert Duvall. Details Episode 19 Aired Feb 15, 1963 Somehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow Two orphans ask Tod to help them escape from their foster parents. Details Episode 20 Aired Feb 22, 1963 Shall Forfeit His Dog and Ten Shillings to the King Todd joins a posse with an old general and his wife to track two holdup men. Details Episode 21 Aired Mar 8, 1963 In the Closing of a Trunk Tod becomes the pawn in a deadly game between a bitter man (Ed Begley) and the ex-convict niece he hates because she killed her father. Details Episode 22 Aired Mar 15, 1963 The Cage Around Maria Tod, still alone, is in Texas working as a tour guide at the Houston Zoo; he rescues a dazed young woman from the bear pit; she explains to Tod that she suspects her penniless stepfather has attempted to kill her wealthy mother and will try again. Details Episode 23 Aired Mar 22, 1963 Fifty Miles From Home A girl falls for a troubled Vietnam hero come back to find himself. Details Episode 24 Aired Mar 29, 1963 Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine Linc falls for a troubled girl who has retreated from reality. Details Episode 25 Aired Apr 5, 1963 The Cruelest Sea of All Linc falls for a mysterious girl who can stay underwater for a remarkable length of time. Details Episode 26 Aired Apr 12, 1963 Peace, Pity, Pardon Two Cuban jai-alai players oppose their brother's ties to Castro. Details Episode 27 Aired Apr 26, 1963 What a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant Tod and Linc, in the Tampa, Fla., visit Linc's former platoon leader; Linc learns that the once-peerless leader has suffered a brain injury which has reduced him mentally to a child; the story does not affect Linc's loyalty to the man. Details Episode 28 Aired May 3, 1963 But What Do You Do in March? Two rival heiresses involve Tod and Linc in their speedboat race. Details Episode 29 Aired May 10, 1963 Who Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride? A psychotic man fools his cousin into committing armed robbery. Details Episode 30 Aired May 17, 1963 Shadows of an Afternoon Tod and Linc in Punta Gorda, Fla., are working at a Shell plant; a wealthy woman accuses Linc of having cut the dog with pruning shears; Linc is arrested and assumed guilty by the angry townspeople. Details Episode 31 Aired May 24, 1963 Soda Pop and Paper Flags Tod and Linc are en route from St. Louis to Memphis, Tenn.; Tod defends a transient hobo from troublemakers; when the hobo is accused by a mob of vigilantes of bringing a sleeping virus into town, Tod once again helps him. Details

Season Info

Director
David Lowell Rich, Tom Gries, James Sheldon, Robert Ellis Miller, George Sherman, James Goldstone, Ralph Senesky, Robert Gist, Fred Jackman Jr., Richard L. Bare, Walter Grauman, Herbert B. Leonard
Executive Producer
Herbert B. Leonard
Screenwriter
Stirling Silliphant, Lawrence B. Marcus, Howard Rodman, Shimon Wincelberg, Leonard Freeman, Anthony Lawrence, Joel Carpenter
Network
CBS
Genre
Drama, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 21, 1962