77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip: Season 5

Air Date

October 12, 1962

Episodes

36 episodes

77 Sunset Strip

Season 5

Episodes

1. The Reluctant Spy

October 12, 1962
60 min

Stu searches for the reasons behind an old friend's hit-and-run death in Austria.

2. Leap, My Lovely

October 19, 1962
60 min

A con man hypnotizes an actress into jumping out a window, then blackmails a film's producer with threats of doing the same to his leading man.

3. Terror in a Small Town

October 26, 1962
60 min

After a rash of practical jokes at the office, Kookie can't convince his partners that he really has been arrested for a serious crime.

4. The Raiders

November 2, 1962
60 min

Stu arrives in the corrupt small town where an old friend is chief of police and with the help of a senaor's wife uncovers a murder and a blackmail scheme.

5. The Floating Man

November 9, 1962
60 min

Jeff becomes a bodyguard for a judge who says that if he's killed, he wants Jeff to find his murderer.

6. The Catspaw Caper

November 16, 1962
60 min

Suzanne and Stu help her Hungarian friend find her mother, who fled the Communists in Budapest.

7. Wolf, Cried the Blonde

November 23, 1962
60 min

An actress cons the detectives into helping her pull off a publicity stunt, but gets more than she bargained for when a man from her past shows up with his hand out.

8. The Dark Wood

November 30, 1962
60 min

Stu reunites with an old flame, a recent widow, and investigates her daughter's belief that her father's death was no accident.

9. Shadow on Your Shoulder

December 7, 1962
60 min

Stu teams up with private detectives from Hawaii and French and English police to discover how a pair of criminals steal from their victims and leave them physical wrecks. Folk singers Peter, Paul & Mary perform.

10. Adventure in San Dede

December 14, 1962
60 min

Jeff and J.R. deliver an attache case to Latin American clients.

11. The Odds on Odette

December 21, 1962
60 min

An astrologer hires Jeff when he begins receiving threatening phone calls, but Jeff discovers his secretary may be the real target.

12. The Snow Job Caper

December 28, 1962
60 min

Jeff teams up with an insurance adjuster to recover an armored truck's lost shipment.

13. Falling Stars

January 4, 1963
60 min

Stu becomes involved in film society when a suicide, a murder, and subseuqent attempted murders disrupt the entertainment world.

14. The Tarnished Idol

January 11, 1963
60 min

Suzanne finds love when she posses as an heiress to investigate the person who's suing a client.

15. Scream Softly, Dear

January 18, 1963
60 min

A borrowed car with sabotaged brakes leads to murder, and Kookie's quest to find the killer leads him into a tangle of romantic triangles and blackmail.

16. Terror in Silence

January 25, 1963
60 min

Stu helps a deaf librarian who ""overheard"" a a death threat in the reading room.

17. Crashout

February 1, 1963
60 min

Jeff and Roscoe go undercover in prison to help a thief break out, in hopes he'll lead them to his hidden stash. But the man's cronies have their own plans for the escape and the cash.

18. The Night Was Six Years Long

February 8, 1963
60 min

The detectives' former secretary walks back in after six years, suffering from amnesia.

19. Six Feet Under

February 15, 1963
60 min

Gang boss Marco Deederman was reported killed in an automobile accident. But after the funeral, a series of fur and jewels thefts show the unmistakable hand of the old master—while Jeff falls for Deederman's girlfriend.

20. Escape to Freedom

February 22, 1963
60 min

Stu is asked to rescue scientist Marie Harben's son, being held hostage by East German Communists to prevent her defecting to the West.

21. Dial S for Spencer

March 1, 1963
60 min

Sandra Keene fears that someone may try to prevent her brother Michael, a skid-row bum, from collecting his inheritance.

22. Nine to Five

March 8, 1963
60 min

Stu is called to New York to find a missing Hollywood wife.

23. Stranger from the Sea

March 15, 1963
60 min

Kookie helps a Japanese friend find his uncle, who vanished with $50,000.

24. The Man Who Wasn't There

March 22, 1963
60 min

Jeff investigates a former G.I.'s story of seeing a man who was reported killed in Korea.

25. Flight 307

March 29, 1963
60 min

Stu's flight to Hawaii is stalled by a busy airline official trying to cope with a murder, a fleeing thief, a messy love triangle, and a sick pilot in the air.

26. Target Island

April 5, 1963
60 min

J.R. seaches for his date's missing brother, a sailor.

27. Reunion at Balboa

April 12, 1963
60 min

Kookie and J.R. are on assignment at the beach when a hit-and-run accident injures a girl they've been watching.

28. Walk Among Tigers

April 19, 1963
60 min

Stu finds a trap when he goes to collect the belongings of an industrialist and humanitarian killed in a train wreck.

29. The Left Field Caper

April 26, 1963
60 min

An unhappy little boy on a Little League team is the clue to a murder.

30. The Heartbeat Caper

May 3, 1963
60 min

Visiting professor Stu stumbles across a real mystery while teaching criminology.

31. To Catch a Mink

May 10, 1963
60 min

Stu attends a charity auction and spots an old flame—who promptly robs the place.

32. Lady in the Sun

May 17, 1963
60 min

Stu goes after a dangerous lady thief who's stolen a realtor's books.

33. Our Man in Switzerland

May 24, 1963
60 min

Con men take $1 million in securities from under Kookie's nose, and Stu gives chase to restore the firm's reputation.

34. Your Fortune for a Penny

May 31, 1963
60 min

A millionaire hires Stu to protect his daughter from her rogue lover, a suspected swindler recently returned to the U.S. from an overseas hideaway.

35. The Checkmate Caper

June 7, 1963
60 min

Stu ends up holding the bag when he's hired to help fake a robbery for the heir to a criminal family.

36. Never to Have Loved

June 14, 1963
60 min

An agent hires Stu and Kookie to protect a client from a charismatic director with a Svengali-like hold over her.