Route 66 Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Route 66: Season 4 (1963 - 1964)

• Season 4 Episode 23: And Then There Were Two
• Season 4 Episode 22: And Then There Were Two
• Season 4 Episode 21: I'm Here to Kill a King
• Season 4 Episode 20: Follow the White Dove With the Broken Wing
• Season 4 Episode 19: This is Going to Hurt Me More Than it Hurts You
• Season 4 Episode 18: Who in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl?
• Season 4 Episode 17: Cries of Persons Close to One
• Season 4 Episode 16: Kiss the Monster, Make Him Sleep
• Season 4 Episode 15: Like This it Means Father, Like This Bitter, Like This Tiger
• Season 4 Episode 14: Is it True There are Poxies at the Bottom of Landfair Lake?
• Season 4 Episode 13: Child of a Night
• Season 4 Episode 12: 93 Percent in Smiling
• Season 4 Episode 11: Come Home Greta Inger Gruenschaffen
• Season 4 Episode 10: A Long Way From St. Louie
• Season 4 Episode 9: A Cage in Search of a Bird
• Season 4 Episode 8: I Wouldn't Start From Here
• Season 4 Episode 7: The Stone Guest
• Season 4 Episode 6: And Make Thunder His Tribute
• Season 4 Episode 5: Build Your Houses With Their Backs to the Sea
• Season 4 Episode 4: Where Are the Sounds of Celli Brahms?
• Season 4 Episode 3: Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are
• Season 4 Episode 2: Same Picture, Different Frame
• Season 4 Episode 1: Two Strangers and an Old Enemy

  A former flying ace crashes his plane in the Florida Everglades.

Route 66: Season 3 (1962 - 1963)

• Season 3 Episode 31: Soda Pop and Paper Flags

  A mob accuses a hobo of spreading a rare sleeping sickness.

• Season 3 Episode 30: Shadows of an Afternoon

  A wealthy woman accuses Linc of stabbing a dog with pruning shears.

• Season 3 Episode 29: Who Will Cheer My Bonny Bride?

  A psychotic fools his cousin into committing armed robbery.

• Season 3 Episode 28: But What Do You Do in March?

  Two rival heiresses involve Tod and Linc in their speedboat race.

• Season 3 Episode 27: What a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant

  A brain injury has left Linc's former lieutenant with the mind of an 8-year-old.

• Season 3 Episode 26: Peace, Pity, Pardon

  Two Cuban jai-alai players oppose their brother's ties to Castro.

• Season 3 Episode 25: The Cruelest Sea of All

  Linc falls for a mysterious girl who can stay underwater for a remarkable length of time.

• Season 3 Episode 24: Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine

  Linc falls for a troubled girl who has retreated from reality.

• Season 3 Episode 23: Fifty Miles From Home

  A girl falls for a troubled Vietnam hero come back to find himself.

• Season 3 Episode 22: The Cage Around Maria

  A girl thinks her ex-stable-boy stepfather plans to kill her invalid mother.

• Season 3 Episode 21: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 20: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 19: Somehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow

  Two orphans ask Tod to help them escape from their foster parents.

• Season 3 Episode 18: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 17: A Gift for a Warrior

  Tod and Buz encounter a bitter German man seeking to destroy his American father (James Whitmore), whom he thinks deserted his mother.

• Season 3 Episode 16: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 15: A Bunch of Lonely Pagliaccis

  A famous novelist's daughter shoots her husband when she finds him with another woman.

• Season 3 Episode 14: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Where Is Chick Lorimer? Where Has She Gone?

  A strip-tease dancer (Vera Miles) tricks Tod into helping her escape a debt and runs home to Missouri, where no one about knows her job.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Only by Cunning Glimpses

  To impress her skeptical father, a psychic tells Tod he will kill Buz.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Hey Moth, Come Eat the Flame

  Tod and Buz attempt to help a troubled boy struggling with his conflicting feelings concerning his alcoholic father (Harry Guardino).

• Season 3 Episode 10: Poor Little Kangaroo Rat

  A doctor's (Leslie Nielsen) wife (Joanne Linville) wants him to end his research project and support her and their son (Ronny Howard).

• Season 3 Episode 9: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 8: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 7: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 6: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 5: 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 (Sorrell Booke) redeem himself.

• Season 3 Episode 4: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 3: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 2: 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.

• Season 3 Episode 1: One Tiger to a Hill

  An Oregon fisherman (David Janssen) struggling with a trauma from his past makes a brutal, unprovoked attack on Tod; guest Signe Hasso.

Route 66: Season 2 (1961 - 1962)

• Season 2 Episode 32: From an Enchantress Fleeing

  A shy inventor with an ambitious wife creates an infallible love machine.

• Season 2 Episode 31: Hell Is Empty, All the Devils Are Here

  Tod goes to work for a wild-animal park, whose owner (Peter Graves) plans revenge against the man he blames for his first wife's death.

• Season 2 Episode 30: A Feat of Strength

  A Hungarian wrestling champion must appear in a promoter's fake matches.

• Season 2 Episode 29: Between Hello and Goodbye

  Tod becomes involved in a psychological drama when he falls for a girl (Susan Oliver) he met in a nightclub; guest Herschel Bernardi.

• Season 2 Episode 28: There I Am, There I Always Am

  Buz meets a sophisticated girl (Joanna Moore) on Catalina Island, then must try to save her when she becomes trapped in the rising tide.

• Season 2 Episode 27: Two on the House

  A construction tycoon's 12-year-old son claims he was pushed off a boat.

• Season 2 Episode 26: Kiss the Maiden, All Forlorn

  Police and press in Dallas speculate about the reason behind an escaped embezzler's (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) risky decision to return.

• Season 2 Episode 25: Love Is a Skinny Kid

  A masked, young woman (Tuesday Weld) comes to a Texas town and announces memorial services for a long-dead girl; guest Cloris Leachman.

• Season 2 Episode 24: Even Stones Have Eyes

  Buz enrolls in a Texas rehabilitation center after a construction mishap leaves him blinded, possibly for life; guest Barbara Barrie.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Go Read the River

  A speedboat designer retreats into his work after his wife leaves him.

• Season 2 Episode 22: Blues for the Left Foot

  Tod helps an old flame, a has-been dancer, make a television comeback.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Shoulder the Sky, My Lad

  A Jewish boy nearing his bar mitzvah threatens to leave his Arizona home for San Francisco after two drug addicts murder his father.

• Season 2 Episode 20: You Never Had It So Good

  A pretty and ambitious executive assistant schemes for a vice-presidency.

• Season 2 Episode 19: Aren't You Surprised to See Me?

  A madman threatens to kill a hostage unless the city of Dallas stops 'sinning.'

• Season 2 Episode 18: How Much a Pound Is Albatross?

  Tod and Buz try to help a confused girl (Julie Newmar) who ran them off the road, when they learn the reasons behind her wild behavior.

• Season 2 Episode 17: City of Wheels

  While working at a California veterans' hospital, Tod and Buz attempt to unite a bitter, paraplegic man and the nurse who loves him.

• Season 2 Episode 16: 1800 Days to Justice

  An ex-con stages a trial of the man who railroaded him to jail.

• Season 2 Episode 15: A Long Piece of Mischief

  Two cruel rodeo riders (Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens) use unwilling Buz as part of their scheme to humiliate a handicapped rodeo clown.

• Season 2 Episode 14: To Walk With the Serpent

  Tod and Buz agree to help federal agents and infiltrate a Boston radical group aiming to overthrow the government; guest Dan O'Herlihy.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Burning for Burning

  A young man's widow brings their baby to his domineering mother's farm.

• Season 2 Episode 12: And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon

  Tod and Buz become involved in a war between a gang leader (Martin Sheen) and his predecessor (James Caan) over the ex-leader's girl.

• Season 2 Episode 11: The Thin White Line

  Buz and police hunt frantically for Tod, who is temporarily psychotic from the effects of an accidental drug dose; guest Sylvia Miles.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Some of the People Some of the Time

  Buz and Tod join up with a man (Keenan Wynn) whose traveling beauty-contests promise winners roles in movies. Directed by Robert Altman.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Mon Petit Chou

  Tod falls for the singing protege of a talented but emotionally unstable teacher (Lee Marvin); directed by Sam Peckinpah.

• Season 2 Episode 8: A Bridge Across Five Days

  A woman released from a mental hospital seeks the daughter who thought she was dead.

• Season 2 Episode 7: The Mud Nest

  An apparent resemblance causes members of a Maryland family to believe Buz may be the son of a long-lost relative; guest Edward Asner.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Once to Every Man

  Tod falls for the jet-set heiress to a Massachusetts boat-building company, unaware of her plans to quickly dispose of the family firm.

• Season 2 Episode 5: First Class Mouliak

  While working in a Pittsburgh steel mill, Buz and Tod help search for a man (Robert Redford) accused of murdering his secret girlfriend.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Birdcage on My Foot

  Tod agrees to help a Boston drug addict (Robert Duvall) go through withdrawal, an action that uncovers a secret from Buz's childhood.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Goodnight Sweet Blues

  A former singer (Ethel Waters) with a short time to live asks Tod and Buz to find the members of the band she sang with 30 years before.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Blue Murder

  The deaths of a rancher and his brother are blamed on a wild stallion with a killer reputation; guests Suzanne Pleshette, Claude Akins.

• Season 2 Episode 1: A Month of Sundays

  While he and Tod are working in a Montana copper mine, Buz falls in love with an actress (Anne Francis) dying from a rare blood disease.

Route 66: Season 1 (1960 - 1961)

• Season 1 Episode 30: Incident on a Bridge

  Tod and Buz go to work for a sand-and-gravel company in Cleveland, where they find a desperate love triangle that results in murder.

• Season 1 Episode 29: Welcome to Amity

  No one in the town of Amity will help a distraught girl (Susan Oliver) move her mother's body from a pauper's grave into the cemetery.

• Season 1 Episode 28: The Opponent

  Buz bets on a boxer (Darren McGavin), a boyhood chum he hasn't seen in years, unaware he is no longer a contender; guest Edward Asner.

• Season 1 Episode 27: Trap at Cordova

  Residents of a remote New Mexico town want their own school, in defiance of the law.

• Season 1 Episode 26: A Skill for Hunting

  A murderous trucking executive hunts endangered game -- his business partner.

• Season 1 Episode 25: The Newborn

  Tod and Buz help a pregnant Indian girl whose father-in-law, a brutal rancher, wants her child born on his land; guest Robert Duvall.

• Season 1 Episode 24: Don't Count Stars

  An alcoholic man (Dan Duryea) faces the loss of his beloved 9-year-old niece when he is thought to be spending her entire inheritance.

• Season 1 Episode 23: Most Vanquished, Most Victorious

  Buz and Tod take on a violent youth gang while searching for the missing daughter of Tod's impoverished, dying aunt (Beatrice Straight).

• Season 1 Episode 22: Eleven, the Hard Way

  The people of a fading Nevada mining town pool their savings and send a gambler (Walter Matthau) to Reno to win enough to save the town.

• Season 1 Episode 21: Effigy in Snow

  A disturbed young man murders a woman on a ski slope.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Like a Motherless Child

  Tod returns a young fugitive to an orphanage; Buz falls for a gambling shill.

• Season 1 Episode 19: An Absence of Tears

  A blind dance instructor vows to kill the mobsters who killed her husband.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Sleep on Four Pillows

  A female politician's troubled daughter claims the mob is following her.

• Season 1 Episode 17: Fly Away Home

  A crop-dusting operation is in danger of going out of business.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Fly Away Home

  A crop duster's widow cannot accept his death; a pilot thinks he is a jinx.

• Season 1 Episode 15: The Clover Throne

  Buz and Tod go to work for a paraplegic date-grower (Jack Warden) plagued by a greedy ward and the threat of a road across his land.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Play It Glissando

  Tod and Buz befriend a woman (Anne Francis) who claims her husband (Jack Lord), an ambitious trumpet player, is trying to murder her.

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Quick and the Dead

  A stock-car racer's wife wants him to quit racing, but his daughter disagrees.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Sheba

  A ruthless cattleman will stop at nothing to make a woman submit to his will.

• Season 1 Episode 11: A Fury Slinging Flame

  Believing a nuclear attack is imminent, a scientist (Leslie Nielsen) takes his son and a band of followers deep into Carlsbad Caverns.

• Season 1 Episode 10: The Beryllium Eater

  A mining tycoon pressures an old prospector to sell his claim.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Layout at Glen Canyon

  A group of fashion models disrupts work at a dam-construction site.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Legacy for Lucia

  A Sicilian woman claims an American soldier willed her his Oregon timberland.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Three Sides

  Tod and Buz take jobs with a rich Oregon hop grower (E.G. Marshall) struggling to control his spoiled children; guest Joey Heatherton.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Ten Drops of Water

  A proud ranch-owner refuses to ask for help while a drought kills his cattle.

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Strengthening Angels

  A woman fights a murder charge after killing a sheriff's drunken brother in self-defense.

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Man on the Monkey Board

  An off-shore oil worker's (Lew Ayres) search for justice puts co-workers Tod and Buz in danger; guests Michael Conrad, Bruce Dern.

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Swan Bed

  Parrot smugglers cause an outbreak of parrot fever in New Orleans.

• Season 1 Episode 2: A Lance of Straw

  A pretty Louisiana shrimper hauls a great catch, but faces a hurricane and a jealous suitor.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Black November

  Tod and Buz encounter hostility and uncover a long-buried secret when their car breaks down near a lumber-camp town; guest Keir Dullea.