Those were the days
Original title
77 Sunset Strip
Released
10/10/1958
Origin country
US
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
6
Number of episodes
206
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
Solo private eye Stu Bailey tries to locate a missing singer before a professional killer does.
Stu Bailey's infatuation with a beautiful woman leads him into blackmail and suspicion of murder.
Stu Bailey is hired by a government agent to keep a Latin playboy under surveillance while he's in Hollywood, but the playboy turns out to be on the run from a killer.
Jeff Spencer uncovers an insurance scam when he is hired by a woman who swears that the husband she thought dead is still alive.
Stu Bailey is hired to find ot who is passing counterfeit chips in a Las Vegas casino.
Jeff Spencer is hired by a fashion designer to protect her ex-con husband, who has evidence that would convict a man engaged in revenge killings.
Stu Bailey is hired by the greedy relatives of a silent film star to prove her incompetent so that they can get their hands on the money she is spending to finance a remake of her old hit ""Foolish Girl"".
Jeff Spencer is hired by a woman to get divorce evidence against her husband, but her real plan is to murder him and frame Jeff for the crime.
Stu Bailey is hired to rescue a newspaper correspondent who is being held captive in an East German hospital.
Jeff Spencer is hired by the lawyer son of a former gangster to prevent his wrathful father from taking vengeance on the crminals who kidnapped him.
Bailey & Spencer are hired by a Washington attorney to protect his wife after a man on a plane trip suggests they swap murders.
Jeff Spencer is hired by a military cadet's mother to find out if he is really guilty of stealing from a student fund, but someone seems willing to kill to prevent the truth from coming out.
Stu Bailey loans his convertible to Kookie for a date, only to find that the young man has been arrested for reckless driving.
Jeff Spencer searches for Suzanne's missing brother but discovers a murder-for-insurance plot.
Stu Bailey is hired to recover a seemingly worthless vase but is then kidnapped and taken to Algeria.
Jeff Spencer is hired by a pretty amnesiac with lots of money in her purse, who turns out to be a murder witness with a killer on her trail.
Stu Bailey becomes a target for murder when he agrees to help a newsman's crusade against the narcotics racketeers who blinded him.
Jeff Spencer is hired to protect his client's student daughter from a killer.
Stu Bailey is hired by an 8-year-old boy to prove that he's not making up stories when he says he witnessed a bear being killed. What he actually saw was the killing of a woman wearing a fur coat.
Stu Bailey helps exonerate a framed and suspended policeman and prove a racketeer guilty of murder.
Stu Bailey is hired by a publisher to find out why someone keeps faking reports of his death.
Jeff Spencer becomes the subject of a husband's jealous suspicions and is not only approached by a blackmailer but is charged with murder.
Stu Bailey, hired to find an elderly woman's missing son who was heavily insured, becomes suspicious when the body he dredges out of the bay is too decomposed to identify.
Jeff Spencer takes off for Hong Kong when a note from an army pilot puts him on the trail of a woman named Candy and a fortune in diamonds.
Stu Bailey is hired to go to Paris to rescue a kidnapped American schoolgirl and save a valuable painting.
The firm is hired by a wealty family to watch out for their eccentric grandmother, who has embarked on a crime spree.
Stu Bailey becomes involved after an ancient Russian tapestry donated to a Beverly Hills restaurant leads to multiple murder.
Jeff Spencer goes undercover as a prospective victim of a murder-for-insurance racket.
Stu Bailey goes to Rome in search of a missing heiress and finds an archaeology student helping loot a tomb.
Jeff Spencer is hired by a sexy widow to find out if her husband's apparent suicide was actually murder.
Stu Bailey, though acquitted of the crime of sedition for lack of evidence, has his private investigator's license revoked and goes on a drinking spree. He is then recruited by a former friend to conduct business with Communists. At the end it is revealed that Bailey had been working undercover for the U.S. government all along.
Jeff Spencer becomes involved when stolen rubies are hidden in the collar of a wayward poodle belonging to a French starlet being pursued by Kookie.
Stu Bailey is hired by a wealthy man's relatives to investigate the leader of a mysterious cult he has been lured into joining.
Jeff Spencer tries to protect a young woman who witnessed a murder in a nightclub.
Stu Bailey goes to Hawaii to help the government uncover a gang producing phony money, by romancing the girlfriend of the girlfriend of an imprisoned counterfeiter. He gets help from Tom Lopaka of ""Hawaiian Eye"".
Kookie befriends a pretty teenager who is kidnapped, making him think that she is a runaway heiress and causing Bailey and Spencer to become involved.
Bailey and Kookie, charged with protecting the jewels at a charity bazaar, are outsmarted by a master swindler who replaces the Moorfield Diamond with a replica.
Stu Bailey, hired to locate some old acquaintances of a disk jockey, finds himself framed for their murder.
Jeff Spencer tries to help a friend with a gambling problem, who has become an assassin's target after becoming involved in a race-fixing scheme.
Stu Bailey is hired to protect a temperamental opera diva who has been receiving threats.
Jeff Spencer promises a dying convict that he will retrieve a stash of stolen diamonds and give the reward to the man's daughter, but he has to beat out a crooked insurance investigator.
Bailey is asked by the government to go to Germany to purchase top-secret documents and foil the attempted kidnapping of a scientist.
Jeff Spencer investigates an apparently accidental death and discovers a serial killer, thereby making himself the next victim.
Stu Bailey and four other survivors of a plane crash at sea reach an isolated island only to discover that it is the target of an H-bomb test.
Jeff Spencer, hired by a Texas oil dynasty to protect their teenage daughter from a fortune-hunting gigolo, must prove her innocent when she is found with his dead body.
Stu and Kookie are in Paris trying to keep a millionaire's daughter from marrying a fortune hunter who is conspiring with her uncle.
Jeff Spencer poses as a singer to expose a jukebox racket that caused another singer's death.
Stu Bailey is hired by a woman to prove that she is innocent of the mercy killing of her invalid husband.
Jeff Spencer discovers that the countess who hired him to deliver a valuable sculpture to New York is actually part of a ring of spies.
Stu Bailey finds that the supposedly deserted hotel a client is looking to buy is currently occupied -- by a gang of counterfeiters.
Jeff Spencer goes to Mexico to track down a photographer whose insurance company is reluctant to pay out $200,000 for his supposed death.
Stu Bailey's agency is hired to go undercover at a dance hall after two hostesses are murdered by an unknown assailant.
Jeff Spencer is hired by a blind director to take part in a winner-take-all hunt for a dead movie producer's fortune.
Stu Bailey is hired by a teen novelist to find the person trying to blackmail her.
Jeff Spencer is hired to prove that the apparent suicide of a despondent actress was actually murder.
Stu Bailey is hired to protect the life of an eccentric tycoon on a safari.
Jeff Spencer pursues robbers who kidnap Suzanne in the course of a jewel heist.
Stu Bailey is waylaid while escorting a Latin American politician's daughter back to her homeland.
The wounded Bailey finally manages to get the girl to San Dede's capital city, only to find that the government is now in the hands of her father's enemies.
Stu Bailey's efforts to find a woman's missing necklace are hampered by the well-meaning efforts of her scatterbrained mother and her bratty daughter, both of whom are actresses with overactive imaginations.
Jeff Spencer is nearly killed himself while investigating the death of a boxer involved in a fight that was fixed.
Stu Bailey is hired by a glamourous former dancer to evict her estranged husband from their remote mountain cabin, but murder intervenes.
The firm tries to solve the murder of a former chorus girl who faked her own kidnapping and collected $200,000 from her elderly husband.
A woman hires Stu Bailey to clear her boyfriend, an Air Force lieutenant who was convicted of espionage.
Jeff Spencer is hired to pose as a college student to investigate the death of his client's son in a fraternity hazing incident.
On an intelligence mission in Budapest, Stu Bailey dons a series of disguises to try to rescue a young political prisoner and recover his scientific data.
Trailing a fugitive to a small island off Hawaii, Jeff Spencer finds that his cover as a beachcomber gets him into trouble when the man and his girlfriend decide to kill Jeff and pass off his body as that of the fugitive.
Summoned to a friend's mountain home to help discover the reason for his daughter's strange behavior, Stu Bailey must overcome both a gang of outlaws and a man-killing animal.
Jeff's attempts to rescue a kidnapped mob witness lead to a lethal game of tag.
Stu Bailey is in a race with time as he investigates the kidnapping of Philip Stanton, a businessman with a rare disease that will kill him unless he's supplied with daily medication.
Jeff is caught by the criminals he was tracking to an abandoned farmhouse.
Stu goes undercover as a secretary to a Middle East peace mediator and becomes involved in a life-and-death struggle.
Jeff and Rex go undercover in a Latin American nation to rescue the daughter of the deposed leader.
A mobster's cronies put out a hit on Stu, who is the main witness against the criminal.
The detectives play bodyguard for six movie stars at a film festival that turns deadly.
Exporter Henry Packer hires Jeff to find a missing woman and a small fortune.
Rex is suspected of murder when he tries to help a friend deal with blackmail.
Stu goes undercover as a hit man to gather evidence against a mobster.
A vacationing Jeff is drawn into dangerous politics when he rescues the daughter of a Middle Eastern president from a mob.
Rex searches for a vanished statue of a movie idol and tries to catch the mystery woman who makes an annual visit to the shrine of a former cowboy star.
Jeff repays a debt owed a safecracker and finds a traitor.
Stu searches for a woman supposedly killed by the Nazis.
A woman hires Jeff and Kookie to search for her missing husband. They find a killer, an inheritance, and several other wives.
Rex poses as an actor to find the reason an actress is in debt to the mob.
Jeff walks into a trap when he's hired to protect a young woman's elderly husband from her ex-boyfriend.
Stu loses his heart to the recluse he's been assigned to protect.
Rex has a tough time protecting a nasty actor from his fed-up co-stars.
Jeff proves that a man who fears he is going insane has other problems -- someone pretending to be his other personality is actually trying to kill him.
Bailey is hired by a crime boss to protect his son Mark, a college football player, who is being threatened by an ex-convict. Bailey and Kookie work undercover at the college to save Mark's life.
An injured Jeff chases jewel thief Abern Wills into the desert.
Rex goes after a lawyer who sells non-existent European real estate.
Stu, Jeff, and Kookie tell Rex three very different versions of the events that launched the agency.
Jeff refuses to help a former film star fake the theft of her jewelry, but becomes entangled in her dealings with several former flames.
A fading star hires Rex to safeguard his leading lady.
Stu is hired as a bodyguard for a visiting king.
Jeff goes undercover at a missile base to clear a friend accused of leaking classified information.
Silent film star Baxter Kellogg hires Stu to find his missing good luck charm before he undertakes a dangerous stunt.
Jeff tracks paroled crook Stanley Leckonby in hopes of finding a hidden fortune.
Rex is hired to protect a man during Nugget City's Frontier Week.
Hired to find a brilliant young pianist, Stu uncovers a plot to kill him.
Suzanne becomes bait when Jeff and Lt. Gilmore become desperate to find a serial killer who targets French women.
Stu tries to discover the secret of a man who can pick winners at the track.
Jeff is hired to get to the bottom of a series of near-fatal accidents.
A woman's glove gives Bailey a vital clue for catching a killer before he claims his second victim.
Jeff tries to uncover the source of design leaks from one fashion house to another by having Suzanne pose as a model.
Rex searches for the person who shot at country singer Billy Baines.
Rex is assumed dead in a plane crash but his partners, realizing the plane was sabotaged, believe he's still alive. They get assistance from the Miami-based detectives of another Warner Bros. show, Surfside 6.
After discovering that Rex Randolph is still alive, the Sunset Strip team head for the Latin-American country where they believe he is being held. (Part 2 of 2)
In the process of recovering a stolen diamond tiara, Rex and Kookie uncover the identity of a former Nazi who is also a killer.
A successful new detective agency tries to buy Stu out. Kookie joins the firm of Bailey & Spencer as a detective.
Suzanne's spa getaway turns dangerous and she calls Jeff for help.
Someone calling himself R.E. Venge begins sending threatening letters and trying to kill Jeff.
Stu finds a college student's long-lost uncle, who has been running from the mob for fifteen years.
Jeff's bedroom is invaded by a beautiful woman who wants him to investigate a mystery involving stolen jewels, murder, and sleepwalking.
A cat burglar who dons the costumes of films past confounds Stu.
Jeff checks into the background of a talent agency's newest find, a trumpet player.
Stu's date provides a vital clue in a $400,000 robbery.
Kookie and Jeff protect their godchild from becoming the target of a mobster's revenge.
Stu does a minister friend a favor by taking an interest in a rebellious kid, but a fabulous jewel heist threatens to undo his good deed.
The detectives protect a threatened jazz musician and his family.
Stu finds himself in a ghost town, plagued by a ghostly voice that promises him a terrible death.
Jeff is hired to test the security of a Naval base and enlists the help of Kookie, Suzanne, and Roscoe to go undercover to infiltrate the closely guarded facility.
Jeff is hired by a movie executive who suspects the attempted murder of a parade Santa during a televised event may have been an attempt on the life of the actress sitting beside him.
Stu, Kookie and Roscoe infiltrate a hotrod group to unmask a killer.
Jeff becomes enraptured with a lovely rancher in Australia.
An amnesiac Stu wakes up in a small town with a wealthy woman claiming to be his bride, and a concerned waitress watching over him.
Jeff and Roscoe help a group of poor friends keep the fixer-upper mansion they've just bought.
Foreign agents plot to pressure a UN delegate.
A former rodeo star interrupts a wedding, threatening to expose secrets from the bride's past.
Kookie picks up a hitchhiking kid bound for Hollywood, and later comes to his rescue when the youth is suspected of a murder.
Stu searches for the mysterious source of an heiress's bad stock tips.
A murdered fisherman and a rich girl's concern for her troubled brother send Kookie and Jeff off on seemingly unrelated cases.
An ex-con hires Stu to find his daughter.
Jeff is hired to check up on a young woman who's recently lost both her husband and her father.
Stu and Roscoe, vacationing in England, are asked to find some paintings.
Roscoe is duped into being the middleman for a botched mafia hit.
Undercover Roscoe falls in love while spying on a gang of hijackers, but his infatuation with a waitress proves dangerous for Kookie.
Stu's memory is stirred when a hood is killed in a way that was the trademark of a man who was deported six years earlier.
Kookie is hired to track down a missing beauty queen and a high-stakes poker game beomes lethal.
A ghostly appararition at the funeral of a teen singing sensation causes Jeff to send Kookie and J.R. undercover among the singer's fans to uncover the truth.
Stu chases a brilliant kidnapper with a flawless plan for escaping with a $1 million ransom.
Jeff delivers an inheritance to an Italian village and becomes the target of a plot to discredit America.
The detectives provide security at a gem sale, but an expert discovers that some of the valuable jewels have been stolen from under their noses.
A hijacker takes over the plane carrying Jeff and the runaway he was sent to find.
Kookie's first real solo case is as bodyguard to a wealthy woman.
The detectives turn their skills toward helping Lt. Gilmore, who's apparently being set up.
The detectives again team up to help Lt. Gilmore, who in this case is trying to solve the bombings of a lunchroom and a tailor shop.
Stu becomes the target of a spy's revenge. A sequel to episode 31, ""Downbeat.""
A psychiatrist hires Jeff to look for the truth behind a patient's recurring dream of murder.
The detectives help a cop reform his son, who idolizes a bored, rebellious pool shark.
Stu searches for the reasons behind an old friend's hit-and-run death in Austria.
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.
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.
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.
Jeff becomes a bodyguard for a judge who says that if he's killed, he wants Jeff to find his murderer.
Suzanne and Stu help her Hungarian friend find her mother, who fled the Communists in Budapest.
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.
Stu reunites with an old flame, a recent widow, and investigates her daughter's belief that her father's death was no accident.
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.
Jeff and J.R. deliver an attache case to Latin American clients.
An astrologer hires Jeff when he begins receiving threatening phone calls, but Jeff discovers his secretary may be the real target.
Jeff teams up with an insurance adjuster to recover an armored truck's lost shipment.
Stu becomes involved in film society when a suicide, a murder, and subseuqent attempted murders disrupt the entertainment world.
Suzanne finds love when she posses as an heiress to investigate the person who's suing a client.
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.
Stu helps a deaf librarian who ""overheard"" a a death threat in the reading room.
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.
The detectives' former secretary walks back in after six years, suffering from amnesia.
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.
Stu is asked to rescue scientist Marie Harben's son, being held hostage by East German Communists to prevent her defecting to the West.
Sandra Keene fears that someone may try to prevent her brother Michael, a skid-row bum, from collecting his inheritance.
Stu is called to New York to find a missing Hollywood wife.
Kookie helps a Japanese friend find his uncle, who vanished with $50,000.
Jeff investigates a former G.I.'s story of seeing a man who was reported killed in Korea.
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.
J.R. seaches for his date's missing brother, a sailor.
Kookie and J.R. are on assignment at the beach when a hit-and-run accident injures a girl they've been watching.
Stu finds a trap when he goes to collect the belongings of an industrialist and humanitarian killed in a train wreck.
An unhappy little boy on a Little League team is the clue to a murder.
Visiting professor Stu stumbles across a real mystery while teaching criminology.
Stu attends a charity auction and spots an old flame—who promptly robs the place.
Stu goes after a dangerous lady thief who's stolen a realtor's books.
Con men take $1 million in securities from under Kookie's nose, and Stu gives chase to restore the firm's reputation.
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.
Stu ends up holding the bag when he's hired to help fake a robbery for the heir to a criminal family.
An agent hires Stu and Kookie to protect a client from a charismatic director with a Svengali-like hold over her.
Stu's quest to solve the hit-and-run murder of an art collector's brother takes him to Europe and the Middle East. (Part 1 of 5)
Questioning various artists for clues to the killing, Bailey finds only further confusion in a mysterious blonde and a missing painting.
Stu discovers that he may be hunting for two killers rather than just one, but broadening his search results in two attempts to kill him, and his search for answers leads him to Italy.
Bailey's continuing search for two murderers leads him all over Europe, through Holland to France and an ambush on the river Seine.
Bailey's international search for murderers and missing treasure finally takes him back to New York for the startling conclusion.
Stu's search for the owner of some oil-rich land in Oklahoma takes him to Connecticut, and a black man who is passing for white.
Bailey is hired by wealthy Constance Wingate to protect her brother, whose life is being threatened. In the course of his investigation, Bailey encounters big-time gamblers and a piano player who is being framed because he is in love with Constance.
A woman hires Stu to get to the truth behind her daughter's near-fatal shooting.
Acquitted of murder, Max Dent confesses his guilt to his lawyer, who decides on vengeance.
Stu goes to New York to clear police lieutenant John Frazier, who is accused of corruption, but finds his client hates private detectives.
A husband's anxieties about his wife's double life leads to a drug ring.
Bailey is hired by his friend Diana to keep an eye on her husband, Charlie, so that he doesn't drink too much and lose his job. Charlie is then framed for murder by a colleague who wants his job, and Bailey must expose the murderer.
Stu investigates a paternity case involving bulldozers and baseball when Antonio Malfi hires him to find the son he deserted years ago.
Bailey is hired by the Clinton Paper Company to find Paul Keddy, an employee who has stolen a formula for a new product. Keddy needs money because he is being blackmailed; later, he is framed for murder. Bailey uncovers the blackmailing ring and identifies the murderer.
Politician Boss Gates hires Stu to clear his son Chuck, who is on death row for rape and murder but insists he was framed.
Eccentric millionaire Jerry Kenzie wants to remarry, and hires Stu to attend a meeting with his four ex-wives on his island retreat to negotiate alimony cutbacks—with deadly results.
Stu babysits an 11-year-old mathematical genius in Vegas, not realizing his client is the key to breaking the casino.
A woman hires Stu to protect her husband, an author on the verge of publishing a crime exposé, who has become the taget of an assassin while serving time himself.
Stu is hired to investigate a man's death at a dude ranch when his widow rejects the coroner's verdict of suicide.
A Philadelphia heiress hires Stu to find her long-lost mother.
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