Route 66
Route 66
TV ShowEnded

Route 66

The adventures of two young drifters across America

6.3 / 10
1960
4 seasons
116 episodes
DramaCrimeAction & AdventureMystery

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.

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Cast

Seasons

  • Black November

    1.Black November

    07-10-196060m

    Tod's father dies leaving Tod the Corvette. Buz worked for Tod's father and the two decide to start driving. The Corvette breaks down in a small Mississippi town with some very n...

  • A Lance of Straw

    2.A Lance of Straw

    14-10-196060m

    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 capt...

  • The Swan Bed

    3.The Swan Bed

    21-10-196060m

    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 c...

  • The Man on the Monkey Board

    4.The Man on the Monkey Board

    28-10-196060m

    Tod and Buz are working at a Louisana Gulf of Mexico off-shore oil-drilling tower. Lew Ayres plays a Nazi-hunter hunting an escaped Nazi on the drilling rig. Filming Location: De...

  • The Strengthening Angels

    5.The Strengthening Angels

    04-11-196060m

    Tod and Buz give a lift to Lotti Montana, a migrant worker who is going to help pick the peach crop. As they approach the town of Sparrow Falls she begs them to drive through as...

  • Ten Drops of Water

    6.Ten Drops of Water

    11-11-196060m

    Vergil and Helen Page with their young brother Homer are owners of the family ranch. Fighting a desperate battle against drought they're too proud to accept Tod and Buz's offer to...

  • Three Sides

    7.Three Sides

    18-11-196060m

    The boys work on a ranch and encounter a rancher's son. Joey dances on a table. Filming Location: Grants Pass, Oregon

  • Legacy for Lucia

    8.Legacy for Lucia

    25-11-196060m

    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...

  • Layout at Glen Canyon

    9.Layout at Glen Canyon

    02-12-196060m

    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 bod...

  • The Beryllium Eater

    10.The Beryllium Eater

    09-12-196060m

    Jack McConkie makes a find of Beryllium, a rare ore. Mine operator Fred Durant insists that he sell his claim. The old man refuses and is found badly beaten. Filming Location:...

  • A Fury Slinging Flame

    11.A Fury Slinging Flame

    30-12-196060m

    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 M...

  • Sheba

    12.Sheba

    06-01-196160m

    Laura Church is paroled from a Texas prison and prepares to take up a new life. Then she discovers that the man assigned as her advisor is none other than Woody Biggs, the rancher...

  • The Quick and the Dead

    13.The Quick and the Dead

    13-01-196160m

    Tod and Buz work at the Riverside race track for the Grand Prix stock-car races. They get involved with a family's problems, including whether the father should continue stock-car...

  • Play It Glissando

    14.Play It Glissando

    20-01-196160m

    Tod and Buz watch a show at a local night club where trumpeter Gabe Johnson and his group are appearing. While driving away, they witness Jana Johnson, Gabe's wife, crash her car....

  • The Clover Throne

    15.The Clover Throne

    27-01-196160m

    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....

  • Fly Away Home (1)

    16.Fly Away Home (1)

    10-02-196160m

    Tod goes to work for the Windus Dusting Company as a crop duster. He meets Summers, a pilot. The company is losing money. Filming Location: Phoenix, Arizona

  • Fly Away Home (2)

    17.Fly Away Home (2)

    17-02-196160m

    A farmer wants his crops dusted with sulfur, which is very dangerous to the pilots. However, the risk means more money to for the crop-dusting company. Filming Location: Phoenix...

  • Sleep on Four Pillows

    18.Sleep on Four Pillows

    24-02-196160m

    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....

  • An Absence of Tears

    19.An Absence of Tears

    03-03-196160m

    A blind widow listens for the voices of her dead husband's murderers. She asks Tod and Buz to buy her a pistol for self-protection. Filming Location: Hollywood, California

  • Like a Motherless Child

    20.Like a Motherless Child

    17-03-196160m

    Tod and Buz pick up a small boy who has run away from an orphanage. Tod wants to return the boy but Buz, who has bad memories of an orphanage, refuses. The boys also get involved w...

  • Effigy in Snow

    21.Effigy in Snow

    24-03-196160m

    A psychotic killer is killing women at the Squaw Valley ski resort. He leaves a body in the snow. Filming Location: Squaw Valley, California

  • Eleven, the Hard Way

    22.Eleven, the Hard Way

    07-04-196160m

    The gown of Broken Knee hand their money over to famous gambler Sam Keep to gamble it in Reno. Filming Location: Reno and Broken Knee, Nevada

  • Most Vanquished, Most Victorious

    23.Most Vanquished, Most Victorious

    14-04-196160m

    Tod's aunt Kitty asks Tod to find her daughter Carole. The boys find that she was living in a Los Angeles slum and has been killed. Filming Location: Los Angeles, California

  • Dont Count Stars

    24.Dont Count Stars

    28-04-196160m

    Tod and Buz meet a hotel owner Mike, who drinks and gambles. Mike is the guardian for his niece Linda, a little girl. Linda's executor wants to remove the child from her uncle,...

  • The Newborn

    25.The Newborn

    05-05-196160m

    Tod and Buz work on a ranch belonging to Frank Ivy. Frank's son dies leaving an Indian girl Kawna pregnant. Frank and Kawna's relatives fight over the baby. The boys arrange...

  • A Skill for Hunting

    26.A Skill for Hunting

    12-05-196160m

    Tod stops a poacher Hump Humphrey from killing a deer. Hump then shoots out the tires of Tod's car and later frames the boys for poaching. Filming Location: Santa Fe, New Me...

  • Trap at Cordova

    27.Trap at Cordova

    26-05-196160m

    Tod and Buz are kidnapped by New Mexican mountain townspeople who need a teacher. Tod addresses the New Mexico legislature about the culture of the people of Cordova and the need...

  • The Opponent

    28.The Opponent

    02-06-196160m

    A has-been boxer Johnny Copa is now throwing fights. Johnny trains Buz in boxing. Filming Location: Youngstown, Ohio

  • Welcome to Amity

    29.Welcome to Amity

    09-06-196160m

    Joan Maslow wants to bury her mother in the cemetery outside of Amity. The entire community is determined to stop her. Filming Location: Amity, Ohio

  • Incident on a Bridge

    30.Incident on a Bridge

    16-06-196160m

    Buz and Tod go to work for Volovich and live at his house. Two other boarders are courting Volovich's mute daughter. Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio

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