USA, 7 October 1960 -20 March 1964
4 seasons, 116 episodes, average 50m
35mm film, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
An American drama television series with one genre episode.
Plot Summary
Tod Stiles and Buz Murdock are unlikely travelling companions – Stiles is from a wealthy family but lost his inheritance, while Murdock worked for Stile’s father and grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. But together they decide to take Stiles’ red Corvette convertible on a trip along Route 66.
Episodes
Genre episodes are noted in bold and are linked to further information – other episodes are listed for reference only.
Season One
Black November (7 October 1960)
A Lance of Straw (14 October 1960)
The Swan Bed (21 October 1960)
The Man on the Monkey Board (28 October 1960)
The Strengthening Angels (4 November 1960)
Ten Drops of Water (11 November 1960)
Three Sides (18 November 1960)
Legacy for Lucia (25 November 1960)
Layout at Glen Canyon (2 November 1960)
The Beryllium Eater (9 December 1960)
A Fury Slinging Flame (30 December 1960)
Sheba (6 January 1961)
The Quick and the Dead (13 January 1961)
Play It Glissando (20 January 1961)
The Clover Throne (27 January 1961)
Fly Away Home Part 1 (10 February 1961)
Fly Away Home Part 2 (17 February 1961)
Sleep on Four Pillows (24 February 1961)
An Absence of Tears (3 March 1961)
Like a Motherless Child (17 March 1961)
An Effigy in Snow (24 March 1961)
Eleven, the Hard Way (7 April 1961)
Most Vanquished, Most Victorious (14 April 1961)
Don’t Count Stars (28 April 1961)
The Newborn (5 May 1961)
A Skill for Hunting (12 May 1961)
Trap at Cordova (26 May 1961)
The Opponent (2 June 1961)
Welcome to Amity (9 June 1961)
Incident on a Bridge (16 June 1961)
Season Two
A Month of Sundays (22 September 1961)
Blue Murder (29 September 1961)
Goodnight Sweet Blues (6 October 1961)
Birdcage on My Foot (13 October 1961)
First Class Mouliak (20 October 1961)
Once to Every Man (27 October 1961)
The Mud Nest (10 November 1961)
A Bridge Across Five Days (17 November 1961)
Mon Petit Chou (24 November 1961)
Some of the People, Some of the Time (1 December 1961)
And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon (15 December 1961)
Burning for Burning (29 December 1961)
To Walk with the Serpent (5 January 1962)
A Long Piece of Mischief (19 January 1962)
1800 Days to Justice (26 January 1962)
A City of Wheels (2 February 1962)
How Much a Pound Is Albatross? (9 February 1962)
Aren’t You Surprised to See Me? (16 February 1962)
You Never Had It So Good (23 February 1962)
Shoulder the Sky, My Lad (2 March 1962)
Blues for the Left Foot (9 March 1962)
Go Read the River (16 March 1962)
Even Stones Have Eyes (30 March 1962)
Love Is a Skinny Kid (6 April 1962)
Kiss the Maiden All Forlorn (13 April 1962)
Two on the House (20 April 1962)
There I Am – There I Always Am (4 May 1962)
Between Hello and Goodbye (11 May 1962)
A Feat of Strength (18 May 1962)
Hell Is Empty, All the Devils Are Here (25 May 1962)
From an Entrantress Fleeing (1 June 1962)
Season Three
One Tiger to a Hill (21 September 1962)
Journey to Nineveh (28 September 1962)
Man Out of Time (5 October 1962)
Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma? (12 October 1962)
Voice at the End of the Line (19 October 1962)
Lizard’s Leg and Owlet’s Wing (26 October 1962)
Across Walnuts and Wine (2 November 1962)
Welcome to the Wedding (8 November 1962)
Every Father’s Daughter Must Weave Her Own (16 November 1962)
Poor Little Kangaroo Rat (23 November 1962)
Hey Moth, Come Eat the Flame (30 November 1962)
Only by Cunning Glances (7 December 1962)
Where Is Chick Lorrimer? Where Has He Gone? (14 December 1962)
Give an Old Cat a Tender Mouse (21 December 1962)
A Bunch of Lonely Pagliaccis (4 January 1963)
You Can’t Pick Cotton in Tahiti (11 January 1963)
A Gift for a Warrior (18 January 1963)
Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain (8 February 1963)
Somehow It Gets to be Tomorrow (15 February 1963)
Shall Forfeit His Dog and Ten Shillings to the King (22 February 1963)
In the Closing of a Trunk (8 March 1963)
The Cage Around Maria (15 March 1963)
Fifty Miles from Home (22 March 1963)
Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine (29 March 1963)
The Cruelest Sea of All (5 April 1963)
Peace, Pity, Pardon (12 April 1963)
What a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant (26 April 1963)
But What Do You Do in March (3 May 1963)
Who Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride (10 May 1963)
Shadows of an Afternoon (17 May 1963)
Soda Pop and Paper Flags (31 May 1963)
Season Four
Two Strangers and an Old Enemy (27 September 1963)
Same Picture, Different Frame (4 October 1963)
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (11 October 1963)
Where Are the Sounds of Celli Brahms (18 October 1963)
Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea (25 October 1963)
And Make Thunder His Tribute (1 November 1963)
The Stone Guest (7 November 1963)
I Wouldn’t Start from Here (15 November 1963)
A Cage in Search of a Bird (29 November 1963)
A Long Way from St Louie (6 December 1963)
Come Home Greta Inger Gruenschaffen (13 December 1963)
93 Percent in Smiling (20 December 1963)
Child of a Night (3 January 1964)
Is It True There are Poxies at the Bottom of Landfair Lake? (10 January 1964)
Like This It Means Father, Like This Bitter, Like This Tiger (17 January 1964)
Kiss the Monster – Make Him Sleep (24 January 1964)
Cries of Persons Close to One (31 January 1964)
Who in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl? (7 February 1964)
This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You (14 February 1964)
Follow the White Dove with the Broken Wing (21 February 1964)
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way Part 1 (6 March 1964)
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way Part 2 (13 March 1964)
I’m Here to Kill a King (20 March 1964)
Alternative Titles
Ruta 66 – Argentina
Links
Extracts included in
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
Wolfman Chronicles (1991)
