Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Corvette sports car.[1] The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. The series currently airs on Me-TV, My Family TV and RTV.
Amongst the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song (composed and performed by Nelson Riddle), which became a major pop hit.
Route 66 was a hybrid between episodic television drama, which has continuing characters and situations, and the anthology format (e.g., The Twilight Zone), in which each week's show has a completely different cast and story. Route 66 had just three continuing characters, no more than two of whom appeared in the same episode. Like Richard Kimble from The Fugitive, the wanderers would move from place to place and get caught up in the struggles of the people there. Unlike Kimble, nothing was forcing them to stay on the move except their own sense of adventure, thus making it thematically closer to Run for Your Life, Maverick, Movin' On, and Then Came Bronson.
This semi-anthology concept, where the drama is centered on the guest stars rather than the regular cast, was carried over from series creator Stirling Silliphant's previous drama Naked City (1958–1963). Both shows were recognized for their literate scripts and rich characterizations. The open-ended format, featuring two roaming observers/facilitators, gave Silliphant and the other writers an almost unlimited landscape for presenting a wide variety of dramatic (or comedic) story lines. Virtually any tale could be adapted to the series. The two regulars merely had to be worked in and the setting tailored to fit the location. The two men take odd jobs along their journey, like toiling in a California vineyard or manning a Maine lobster boat, bringing them in contact with dysfunctional families or troubled individuals in need of help.
Tod and Buz (and later, Linc) symbolized restless youth searching for meaning in the early 1960s, but they were essentially non-characters. We learn almost nothing about them over the course of the series. All we are told is that, after the death of his father, Tod Stiles inherits a new Corvette and decides to drive across America with his friend Buz. Tod, portrayed by clean-cut Martin Milner, is the epitome of the decent, honest, all-American type. He is the moral anchor of the series. By contrast, the working-class Buz (George Maharis) is looser, hipper, more Beat Generation in attitude. There were subtle indications the Buz character was intended to loosely embody Jack Kerouac in appearance and attitudes.
Towards the end of the second season, Maharis was absent for several episodes, due to a bout of infectious hepatitis. He returned for the start of third season, but was again absent for number of episodes before leaving the show entirely mid-way through season three. Consequently, in numerous episodes in late season two and early season three, Tod travels solo, while Buz is said to be in the hospital with an unspecified ailment. Tod is often seen writing to Buz in these episodes, or having a one-sided phone conversation with him. In total, Tod appears solo in 13 episodes during seasons two and three.
Buz made his final appearance in a January 1963 episode, and was then written out of the show without a definitive explanation. Then, after five consecutive solo Tod stories, Tod gained a new traveling companion named Lincoln Case (Glenn Corbett) in March 1963. Case is a darker character than Buz Murdock, an army veteran haunted by his past. He's also more introspective than Buz with a sometimes explosive temper, but he is nonetheless a reliable companion as the duo continues their travels.
The series concluded in Tampa with the two-part episode "Where There's a Will, There's a Way," in which Tod Stiles got married, and Linc announced his intention to return home to his family in Texas, after a long period of estrangement. This made the series one of the earlier prime-time television dramas to have a planned series finale resolving the fate of its main characters.
The show was filmed and presented in black and white throughout its run.
Route 66 is well-remembered for its cinematography and location filming. Writer-producer Stirling Silliphant traveled the country with a location manager (Sam Manners), scouting a wide range of locales and writing scripts to match the settings. The actors and film crew would arrive a few months later. Memorable locations include a logging camp, shrimp boats, an offshore oil rig, and Glen Canyon Dam, the latter while still under construction.
The show actually had very little real connection with the U.S. Highway providing its name. Most of the locations visited throughout the series were far afield from the territory covered by "The Mother Road", which only wound through a total of eight states. The series, meanwhile, took place throughout the lower 48 American states, and two episodes were actually filmed and took place in Canada. U.S. Route 66 the highway was briefly referred to in just three early episodes of the series ("Black November," "Play It Glissando," and "An Absence of Tears") and is shown only rarely, as in the early first season episode "The Strengthening Angels".
Route 66 is one of very few series in the history of television to be filmed entirely on the road. This was done at a time when the United States was much less homogeneous than it is now. People, their accents, livelihoods, ethnic backgrounds and attitudes varied widely from one location to the next. Scripted characters reflected a far less mobile, provincial society, in which people were more apt to spend their entire lives in one small part of the country. Obviously there were no regional barrier breakers like today's Internet, satellite/cable TV or national talk radio. Similarly, the places themselves were very different from one another visually, environmentally, architecturally, in goods and services available, etc. Stars Martin Milner and George Maharis both mentioned this in 1980s interviews. "Now you can go wherever you want," Maharis added by way of contrast, "and it's a Denny's."
The roster of guest stars on Route 66 includes quite a few actors who later went on to fame and fortune, as well as major stars on the downward side of their careers. One of the most historically significant episodes of the series in this respect was "Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing." It featured Lon Chaney, Jr., Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff as themselves, with Karloff donning his famous Frankenstein monster make-up for the first time in 25 years and Chaney reprising his role as the Wolfman. The show was filmed at the O'Hare Inn, near O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois. Dutch singer Ronnie Tober had a small guest role with Sharon Russo, Junior Miss America.
Other notable guest stars from the series included James Brown (of Leonard's previous show, "Rin Tin Tin," multiple times and the actual Rin Tin Tin dog once with a guest starring credit as a guide dog in "Absence of Tears"), James Caan, Robert Duvall, George Kennedy, Joey Heatherton, Ben Johnson, E.G. Marshall, Walter Matthau, David Janssen, Buster Keaton, Ed Asner, Lee Marvin, Michael Rennie, Tina Louise, Darren McGavin, Jack Lord, Suzanne Pleshette, Anne Francis, Tuesday Weld, Susan Oliver, Robert Redford, Martin Sheen, Rod Steiger, and Joan Tompkins. Julie Newmar is especially memorable as a motorcycle-riding free-spirit—a role she reprised in a later episode. William Shatner and DeForest Kelley also guest starred, in separate episodes. Lee Marvin and DeForest Kelley were among the many actors and actresses to appear in more than one role over the course of the series. Two others were Logan Ramsey and Bruce Glover, who both later appeared in the three theatrical movies about Buford Pusser, Walking Tall, Walking Tall, Part 2, and Final Chapter, Walking Tall. Burt Reynolds, Gene Hackman, among others, appeared in small bit-parts.
In a 1986 interview, Martin Milner reported that Lee Marvin credited him with helping his career by breaking Marvin's nose "just enough" to improve his look. This happened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during a scripted fistfight for "Mon Petit Chou," the second of two episodes in which Marvin appeared.
Two late third-season episodes, which aired one week apart, each featured a guest star in a bit part playing a character with a profession with which they would later become associated as stars of their own respective mega-hit television series. In "Shadows of an Afternoon," Michael Conrad can be seen as a uniformed policeman, many years before he became famous in his regular role as Police Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues. And in "Soda Pop and Paper Flags," Alan Alda guested as a surgeon, a precursor to his career-defining role as Dr. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce on M*A*S*H. Also in the first season episode The Strengthening Angels that aired November 4, 1960 Hal Smith, who played town drunk Otis Campbell in The Andy Griffith Show, also plays a drunk named Howard and is listed in the credits as "Drunk".
A 4th season episode, "Is It True There Are Poxies at the Bottom of Landfair Lake?", featured guest stars Geoffrey Horne and Collin Wilcox. In the episode's storyline, Wilcox's character pretended to get married to Horne's, although it turned out to be a practical joke. A few years after appearing in this episode, Horne and Wilcox would in real life be briefly married to each other.
A noteworthy in-joke occurs during the 4th season episode "Where Are the Sounds of Celli Brahams?" In this segment, Horace McMahon guests as a Minneapolis, Minnesota, festival promoter. At one point, his character confesses to Linc his failed ambition to be a policeman. Linc remarks that he looks like a policeman Linc once knew in New York City. McMahon had starred as Lt. Mike Parker on the New York-based police drama Naked City from 1958–63, another television series overseen by the creative team of Stirling Silliphant and Herbert B. Leonard.
- The original working title of the series was The Searchers, according to George Maharis. That title was also the title of the 1956 film The Searchers directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, so the series was renamed.
- The episode "I'm Here to Kill a King," which was originally scheduled to air on November 29, 1963, was removed from the schedule because of President John F. Kennedy's assassination one week earlier. It was (according to TV schedule listings published at the time) not aired until the series went into syndication. This episode, and "A Long Way from St. Louie," are the only ones filmed outside the United States. Both were filmed in Canada, the latter in Toronto.
- Sam Peckinpah wrote and directed an episode of season 2, "Mon Petit Chou," in 1961.
Route 66 was officially created by producer Herbert B. Leonard and writer Stirling Silliphant, though Silliphant wrote the majority of the episodes (including the pilot) while Leonard did not write at all. It was notable for its dark storylines and exceptional realism. Tod and Buz would frequently become involved with individuals whose almost nihilistic worldview made for occasionally frightening television. Some 50 years after its premiere, Route 66 is still one of the few television series to offer such a range of socially-conscious stories, including mercy killing, the threat of nuclear annihilation, terrorism, runaways and orphans. Other episodes dealt with the mentally ill, drug addiction or gang violence. However, some stories were congenially lighthearted, such as a memorable episode featuring Richard Basehart as a folklorist trying to record the local music of an isolated Appalachian community, and a Halloween episode called "Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing".
Even more unusual is the way it served up a kind of soaring dialog that has been referred to as "Shakespearean" and free-verse poetry. For instance, the boys encounter a Nazi hunter named Bartlett on the offshore oil drilling rig where they work. Bartlett describes the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust thus: "Tod, I hope you live a long life and never know the blistering forces that sear and destroy, turn men into enemies and sweep past the last frontiers of compassion" and "once you've seen that dark, unceasing tide of faces... of the victims...the last spark of dignity so obliterated that not one face is lifted to heaven, not one voice is raised in protest even as they died..." (from episode #4, "The Man on the Monkey Board").
The quirky, textured writing extended even to episode titles, which included such oddities as "How Much a Pound is Albatross?" and "Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?" the latter causing a sensation as a 'surfing story' where Buz oddly berates a surf bum for existing without purpose. Other storylines were patently absurd, such as "Fifty Miles From Home" where Linc Case is set upon by several men who want to beat him up because he was deliberately and publicly avoiding a woman who has been following him across the country like some lovesick groupie (played by the beautiful Susan Oliver no less!). When Linc uses his martial arts expertise to handily trounce the entire mob who had ganged up on him, Tod becomes (believe it or not) so incensed at Linc's act of self-defense that he actually goes out of his way to "teach Linc a lesson" by later somehow managing to beat Linc in a fistfight! Other episode titles were drawn from a wide range of literary sources, such as Shakespeare ("A Lance of Straw", "Hell is Empty, All the Devils are Here") or Alfred Tennyson ("A Fury Slinging Flame").
Many of the stories were character studies, like the above-mentioned one featuring Richard Basehart as a man who uses people then tosses them away, as if they are plastic spoons. The episode titled "You Can't Pick Cotton in Tahiti" refers to small-town America as both a far-away, exotic Tahiti and the "real America" compared to "phony-baloney" Hollywood, and still offers food for thought. Many episodes offer moving soliloquies, into which future Academy-Award-winning writer Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night) poured his deepest thoughts.
Despite all the adventure, travelogue, drama and poetry, the real subject of the series was the human condition, with Tod and Buz often cast as a kind of roving Greek chorus, observers and mentors to broken-down prizefighters and rodeo clowns, sadists and iron-willed matrons, surfers and heiresses, runaway kids and people from all walks of life, forced by circumstances to confront their demons.
One hallmark of the show was the way it introduced viewers, however briefly, to new ways of life and new cultures. For instance, we get a glimpse of a shrimper's life in episode 2 of season 1, "A Lance of Straw," and a look at Cleveland, Ohio's Polish community in episode 35, "First Class Mouliak". Here the young are pushed by their parents into careers and even marriages they may not want, in an effort to hold community and family together, albeit at the expense of the happiness and well-being of the kids. This story featured Robert Redford, Martin Balsam, Nehemiah Persoff and Nancy Malone as guest stars.
One of the legacies Route 66 left behind is a dramatic and photographic portrait of early-1960s America as a less crowded and less complicated era — if not a less violent one — in which altruism and optimism still had a place. That place was filled by two young men who seemed to represent the best in us, the willingness to stand up for the weak, and who espoused old-fashioned values like honesty and the physical courage necessary to fight in their own and others' defense. In their role of wanderers, they appeared to be peaceful rebels who seemed to reject, at least for a time, material possessions and the American dream of owning a home. The boys were de facto orphans adrift in American society; as such, they embodied facets of Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation, a little bit of Marlon Brando's wild side from The Wild One, James Dean's inability to settle down and fit in from Rebel Without a Cause, and the wanderlust of the above-mentioned Jim Bronson, the traveling writer and loner who toured the USA on a motorcycle in the 1969-1970 series Then Came Bronson. The use of the Corvette on Route 66, not only as the boys' transportation but as their marquee and symbol of their wandering spirit, created a link between America's Sports Car and America's highways that endures to this day.
Nelson Riddle was commissioned to write the instrumental theme when CBS decided to have a new song, rather than pay royalties for the Bobby Troup song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66". Riddle's theme, however, offers an unmistakable homage to the latter's piano solo (as originally recorded by Nat King Cole) throughout the number. Riddle's "Route 66 Theme"[2] instrumental was one of the first television themes[3] to make Billboard Magazine's Top 30,[4] following Henry Mancini's "Mr. Lucky Theme" in 1960. The song earned two Grammy nominations in 1962.[5]
George Maharis reported in a 1986 Nick at Nite interview that people often ask him about "the red Corvette." According to Maharis, the Corvette was never red. (The misconception may partially stem from the box illustration on the official board game, released by Transogram in 1962, which showed Tod and Buz in a red-colored model.) It was light blue the first season (in which a 1960 Corvette appeared in the pilot episode, and a '61 Corvette was used in all subsequent first-season episodes), and Fawn Beige for the second season (on a '62) and Saddle Tan (on '63 and '64 Corvette Sting Rays) for the third and fourth seasons. Those colors were chosen to photograph well in black and white, but the show's cinematographer complained that the powder blue car reflected too much light. The Corvette was replaced with a newer model annually by series' sponsor Chevrolet but the show itself never mentioned or explained the technicality, though the series' travels apparently took them through St. Louis, (where Corvettes were assembled then). The model update made a particular splash in the third season, when the new Corvette Sting Ray introduced the then-revolutionary design change of headlights that rotated into the hoodline when not in use. Virtually every car and truck driven by each episode's characters, and used in street scenes, were different variations of Chevrolets. Also, as part of their deal with the producers, Chevrolet supplied the trucks that moved the show's company across the country—and a Corvair Greenbrier van for Marty Milner and his family.
- In 1962, guest star Ethel Waters was nominated[6] for an Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Series" for her performance in the episode "Good Night, Sweet Blues". It was the first-ever Emmy nomination for an African-American actress.[7]
- Also in 1962, George Maharis was nominated for "Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series" (Best Actor)[8] for his role as Buz.
Route 66 aired Friday at 8:30-9:30 PM on CBS its entire run.
| Ep. # |
Title |
Airdate |
Writer |
Overview |
| 1 |
"Black November" |
October 7, 1960 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Car trouble strands Tod and Buz in an isolated but hostile Mississippi lumber town named for and dominated by its unscrupulous ruler (Everett Sloane) and haunted by a secret dating back to World War II.[9] |
| 2 |
"A Lance of Straw" |
October 14, 1960 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Buz crew a Grand Isle, Louisiana shrimp trawler while its fiercely independent captain (Janice Rule) deals with a hurricane and a jealous boyfriend (Nico Minardos). |
| 3 |
"The Swan Bed" |
October 21, 1960 |
Stirling Silliphant |
A young woman (Zina Bethune) living with her embittered mother (Betty Field) inadvertently interferes with a bird smuggling ring at the center of a psittacosis outbreak in New Orleans. |
| 4 |
"The Man on the Monkey Board" |
October 28, 1960 |
Stirling Silliphant |
While working on an oil platform off the coast of Venice, Louisiana, Tod and Buz assist a peculiar co-worker with his mission after discovering that he is an undercover Nazi hunter (Lew Ayres). |
| 5 |
"The Strengthening Angels" |
November 4, 1960 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Buz attempts to prove to a small-town California sheriff (John Larch) that the killing of the latter's younger brother by a single mother (Suzanne Pleshette) was in self-defense by searching for the lone witness.[10] |
| 6 |
"Ten Drops of Water" |
November 11, 1960 |
Howard Rodman |
Three orphaned ranchers (Burt Brinckerhoff, Deborah Walley and Tony Haig) stubbornly fight a losing battle against chronic drought conditions near Kanab, Utah. |
| 7 |
"Three Sides" |
November 18, 1960 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Buz help a Grants Pass, Oregon hops farmer (E. G. Marshall) reluctant to instill discipline in his spoiled son and daughter (Stephen Bolster and Joey Heatherton). |
| 8 |
"Legacy for Lucia" |
November 25, 1960 |
Stirling Silliphant, Melvin Levy |
Tod, Buz and their logging camp supervisor (John Larch) help the efforts of a Sicilian woman (Arline Sax) trying to finance a new Virgin Mary statue for her church in Palagonia by selling the entire state of Oregon "bequeathed" to her by an American soldier during World War II. |
| 9 |
"Layout at Glen Canyon" |
December 2, 1960 |
Stirling Silliphant |
While Tod and Buz serve as bodyguards for four models, marital problems between the young women's chaperone (Bethel Leslie) and a foreman (Charles McGraw) are revealed during a fashion shoot at the Glen Canyon Dam construction site. |
| 10 |
"The Beryllium Eater" |
December 9, 1960 |
Richard Collins |
After an elderly prospector (Edgar Buchanan) discovers beryllium ore in the Colorado Plateau, Tod and Buz protect his mining claim despite intimidation from their mining company employer (Edward Binns) and his enforcers. |
| 11 |
"A Fury Slinging Flame" |
December 30, 1960 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Based on perceived clues from a mysterious stranger, an atomic physicist (Leslie Nielsen) and his handpicked followers take cover in Carlsbad Caverns fearing a possible nuclear attack at sunset on New Year's Day. |
| 12 |
"Sheba" |
January 6, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
While employed at an El Paso, Texas cotton processing company, Tod and Buz search for the truth behind a "David and Bathsheba" situation between a paroled widow (Whitney Blake) and a manipulative cowboy (Lee Marvin) who had framed her for embezzlement. |
| 13 |
"The Quick and the Dead" |
January 13, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant, Charles Beaumont and Jerry Sohl |
Fearful of a fatal crash, the wife (Betsy Jones-Moreland) of an aging champion racer (Frank Overton) asks Tod to substitute for her husband at the United States Grand Prix at Riverside International Raceway despite initial objections from their daughter (Susan Kohner). |
| 14 |
"Play It Glissando" |
January 20, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Buz's vacation in Malibu, California is interrupted when they get caught between a violently possessive jazz trumpet virtuoso (Jack Lord) and his heiress wife (Anne Francis) who is trying to escape from him. |
| 15 |
"The Clover Throne" |
January 27, 1961 |
Herman Meadow |
Tod and Buz work for an Indio, California date grower (Jack Warden) fighting to prevent highway construction from running through his property while holding on to his attractive but flirtatious ward (Anne Helm) whom he wants to eventually marry. |
| 16 |
"Fly Away Home (Part 1)" |
February 10, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Haunted by her husband's death, the owner (Cathy Lewis) of a Phoenix, Arizona crop dusting business, her daughter (Jenny Maxwell) and a veteran pilot (Michael Rennie) with a "Jonah" complex all attempt to dissuade Tod from joining their flyer ranks.[11] |
| 17 |
"Fly Away Home (Part 2)" |
February 17, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
While his ex-wife (Dorothy Malone) is romantically involved with Buz, the veteran pilot tries to save the financially troubled company by undertaking a job involving the application of sulfur, similar to the one that caused the death of the owner's husband.[12] |
| 18 |
"Sleep on Four Pillows" |
February 24, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Feeling neglected by her affluent and influential parents, a Los Angeles teenager (Patty McCormack) latches on to UCLA computer programming student Tod and door-to-door cosmetics salesman Buz while faking her own kidnapping.[13] |
| 19 |
"An Absence of Tears" |
March 3, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
A totally blind Los Angeles dance instructor (Martha Hyer), accompanied by her guide dog (Rin Tin Tin), is motivated to avenge her newlywed husband's murder at a filling station by attempting to kill the three perpetrators with exactly the same type of M1911 pistol used in the crime.[14] |
| 20 |
"Like a Motherless Child" |
March 17, 1961 |
Howard Rodman, Betty Andrews |
Buz confronts his past in separate encounters in western Nevada with a runaway orphan boy and an alcoholic chorus girl chaperone (Sylvia Sidney) still torturing herself over abandoning her infant son decades earlier. |
| 21 |
"Effigy in Snow" |
March 24, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Vengeful over his mother's infidelity, a ski-jumping psychiatric hospital escapee (Scott Marlowe) strangles a woman to death on the slopes of Squaw Valley Ski Resort and targets the ski shop's widowed proprietor (Jeanne Bal). |
| 22 |
"Eleven, the Hard Way" |
April 7, 1961 |
George Clayton Johnson |
Tod and Buz assist a gambler (Walter Matthau) and a paymaster (Edward Andrews) who are both going to Reno hoping to win enough money at the craps table to save their economically depressed Nevada mining town. |
| 23 |
"Most Vanquished, Most Victorious" |
April 14, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Fulfilling the final request of his dying destitute aunt (Beatrice Straight), Tod searches for and learns about his inspirational cousin but also confronts the gang responsible for her murder in Los Angeles. |
| 24 |
"Don't Count Stars" |
April 28, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
A 9-year-old San Diego hotel heiress (Susan Melvin) enlists Tod and Buz to help her with a child custody case to stay with her gambling, alcoholic "uncle" who is actually her widowed biological father (Dan Duryea). |
| 25 |
"The Newborn" |
May 5, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant, Herb Purdum |
Tod and Buz bring the newborn son of a Native American mother (Arline Sax) who died after childbirth to her father at a New Mexico Pueblo while being pursued by ranchers led by the infant's other grandfather, a ruthless cattle baron (Albert Dekker) hell-bent on raising him. |
| 26 |
"A Skill for Hunting" |
May 12, 1961 |
Jack Turley, Milton Gelman |
A driven, unprincipled Oklahoman (Gene Evans) frames Tod and Buz for poaching and fights to seize control of a trucking company from his business partner who is also its majority owner (Harold J. Stone) in New Mexico. |
| 27 |
"Trap at Cordova" |
May 26, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant, Joseph Vogel |
With Cordova, New Mexico struggling for its survival, its village patrón (Thomas Gomez) defies a state government order to bus its schoolchildren to a new facility in Las Cruces. Special appearance by then-State Senate Majority Leader Fabian Chavez.[15] |
| 28 |
"The Opponent" |
June 2, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant, Leonard Freeman |
Realizing that a professional boxer (Darren McGavin) he has idolized since boyhood is way past his prime, Buz, along with the pugilist's girlfriend (Lois Nettleton), encourages him to end his career positively in Youngstown, Ohio. |
| 29 |
"Welcome to Amity" |
June 9, 1961 |
Will Lorin |
A native (Susan Oliver) returning to her small Ohio town enlists Tod and Buz to help relocate her mother's remains from a potter's field to the adjacent cemetery, but is confronted by resistance from townspeople due to the pariah status of the deceased. |
| 30 |
"Incident on a Bridge" |
June 16, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Buz witness the violent contention between two sand & gravel workers, one jealous (Allan Melvin) and the other compassionate (Nehemiah Persoff), for the affections of their boss' oppressed mute daughter (Lois Smith) in Cleveland's Russian community.[16] |
| Ep. # |
Title |
Airdate |
Writer |
Overview |
| 31 |
"A Month of Sundays" |
September 22, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
A terminally ill Broadway star (Anne Francis) secretly abandoning her career to return to her Butte, Montana hometown is advised by Tod on how to cope with her oncoming death as she is courted by Buz who is unaware of her condition.[17] |
| 32 |
"Blue Murder" |
September 29, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant, Wilbur Daniel Steele |
A farrier (Claude Akins) exploits the violent reputation of an untamed stallion to murder his two affluent brothers in order to gain the affections of the wife (Suzanne Pleshette) of his rancher sibling (Gene Evans) in Montana. |
| 33 |
"Goodnight Sweet Blues" |
October 6, 1961 |
Will Lorin, Leonard Freeman |
Tod and Buz fulfill the wishes of a dying singer (Ethel Waters) in Pittsburgh to be reunited with the members of a jazz band (Roy Eldridge, Bill Gunn, Coleman Hawkins, Juano Hernández, Jo Jones and Frederick O'Neal) with which she last performed thirty years earlier.[18] |
| 34 |
"Bird Cage on My Foot" |
October 13, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant, Elliot Silverstein |
Motivated by a traumatic experience during his adolescence, Buz overcomes his initial refusal to help a Boston heroin addict (Robert Duvall) go cold turkey after the latter's attempted theft of Tod's Corvette.[19] |
| 35 |
"First-Class Mouliak" |
October 20, 1961 |
John Vlahos |
The son (Robert Redford) of Tod and Buz's supervisor (Nehemiah Persoff) at a Cleveland foundry is involved in the accidental death of the daughter of the latter's colleague and best friend (Martin Balsam). |
| 36 |
"Once to Every Man" |
October 27, 1961 |
Frank L. Moss |
Tod seems ready to finally settle down and tie the knot with the daughter of a Gloucester, Massachusetts shipyard owner (Janice Rule). The Mako Shark (concept car) makes an appearance. |
| 37 |
"The Mud Nest" |
November 10, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant, Leonard Freeman |
An encounter with a rural Maryland family bearing a striking resemblance to him leads Buz to Baltimore where, with the help of a police detective (Edward Asner), he searches for the woman who might be his mother (Betty Field). |
| 38 |
"A Bridge Across Five Days" |
November 17, 1961 |
Howard Rodman |
While working at a shipyard, Tod and Buz try to help a woman (Nina Foch) recently released from Spring Grove State Hospital readjust to normal life. |
| 39 |
"Mon Petit Chou" |
November 24, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod becomes enamored of a lounge singer, but finds an obstacle in her intensely jealous manager (Lee Marvin). |
| 40 |
"Some of the People, Some of the Time" |
December 1, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Buz work for a fraudulent beauty contest promoter (Keenan Wynn) and become hucksters in the process. |
| 41 |
"The Thin White Line" |
December 8, 1961 |
Teleplay by Leonard Freeman,
Story by Jordan Brotman, Bill Stine |
Tod goes on a one-man rampage through Philadelphia after inadvertently drinking a beer spiked with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. |
| 42 |
"And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon" |
December 15, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant, Frank L. Moss |
A social worker (Milt Kamen) who is a former mentor of Buz is killed playing a dare game with gang leader Packy (Martin Sheen). |
| 43 |
"Burning for Burning" |
December 29, 1961 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Buz work for a wealthy family with a dead son. When their daughter-in-law pays a visit with their grandchild, the family treats her with open hostility. |
| 44 |
"To Walk with the Serpent" |
January 5, 1962 |
Will Lorin |
The F.B.I. wants Tod and Buz to infiltrate a Neo-Nazi group that is planning terrorism. |
| 45 |
"A Long Piece of Mischief" |
January 19, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant, Richard Shapiro and Esther Mayesh |
A rodeo clown nurses a love for a trick rider while fending off sadistic cowboys. |
| 46 |
"1800 Days to Justice" |
January 26, 1962 |
Jo Pagano |
An ex-con (John Ericson) who was framed takes over a small Texas town and holds a kangaroo court to pass judgment on the real culprit (DeForest Kelly). |
| 47 |
"A City of Wheels" |
February 2, 1962 |
Frank Chase |
Working in a Long Beach veterans hospital brings Tod and Buz into the life of an embittered invalid (Steven Hill). |
| 48 |
"How Much a Pound Is Albatross?" |
February 9, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Free-spirited motorcycle rider Vicki Russell (Julie Newmar) arrives in Tucson and turns it - and the lives of Tod and Buz - upside down. |
| 49 |
"Aren't You Surprised to See Me?" |
February 16, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
A religious fanatic (David Wayne) with a biological weapon kidnaps Buz and threatens to kill him - unless the entire city of Dallas abstains from sin for 24 hours. |
| 50 |
"You Never Had It So Good" |
February 23, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant, Frank L. Moss |
As part of a power play, a female executive promotes day-laborer Buz to a high administrative position. |
| 51 |
"Shoulder the Sky, My Lad" |
March 2, 1962 |
Mort Thaw |
Tod and Buz come to the aid of a young Jewish boy, who has a crisis of faith after his father is killed in a mugging. |
| 52 |
"Blues for the Left Foot" |
March 9, 1962 |
Leonard Freeman |
Tod helps a dancer - his first love - get a tryout with a major television network. |
| 53 |
"Go Read the River" |
March 16, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod finds that his new employer, a designer of speedboat engines, is an exceptionally driven and desolate man. |
| 54 |
"Even Stones Have Eyes" |
March 30, 1962 |
Barry Trivers |
Buz contemplates taking his own life after a construction accident leaves him without his sight. |
| 55 |
"Love is a Skinny Kid" |
April 6, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
A young woman (Tuesday Weld) stirs up a small Texas community by arriving in town wearing a frightful mask, which she refuses to remove. |
| 56 |
"Kiss the Maiden, All Forlorn" |
April 13, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
An international fugitive (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) risks recapture by returning to the U.S. to visit his daughter. |
| 57 |
"Two on the House" |
April 20, 1962 |
Gilbert Ralston |
A young boy pretends to be the target of kidnappers in order to get attention from his business-obsessed father. |
| 58 |
"There I Am - There I Always Am" |
May 4, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Buz attempts to rescue a young woman (Joanna Moore) who gets her foot stuck in the rocks of a southern California beach (Santa Catalina Island), with the high tide coming in. |
| 59 |
"Between Hello and Goodbye" |
May 11, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod becomes involved with a reckless blonde and her reserved brunette sister (Susan Oliver). Filmed in Venice Beach, California. |
| 60 |
"A Feat of Strength" |
May 18, 1962 |
Howard Rodman, Joseph Petracca and Everett De Baun |
Tod helps introduce a legitimate Hungarian wrestler (Jack Warden) to the American version of the sport. |
| 61 |
"Hell is Empty, All the Devils Are Here" |
May 25, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod's employer (Peter Graves) is an animal trainer plotting revenge against the man he believes responsible for his wife's death. Filmed in Jungleland USA |
| 62 |
"From an Enchantress Fleeing" |
June 1, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant, Abram S. Ginnes |
Tod goes in search of a henpecked runaway husband (Arthur O'Connell). |
| Ep. # |
Title |
Airdate |
Writer |
Overview |
| 63 |
"One Tiger to a Hill" |
September 21, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Buz cross paths with an Oregon fisherman (David Janssen) whose war experiences have turned him into a bitter, vicious misanthrope. |
| 64 |
"Journey to Ninevah" |
September 28, 1962 |
William R. Cox |
Tod and Buz suffer a series of odd misfortunes after they give a ride to a local jinx (Buster Keaton). |
| 65 |
"Man Out of Time" |
October 5, 1962 |
Larry Marcus |
Tod's cab fare is a former Chicago prohibition-era gangster (Luther Adler) who believes someone from his past wants to kill him. |
| 66 |
"Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?" |
October 12, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant, Borden Chase and Frank Chase |
At California's famous Huntington Beach, Buz challenges the local surfing champ (Jeremy Slate) to avenge the death of a former challenger. |
| 67 |
"Voice at the End of the Line" |
October 19, 1962 |
Larry Marcus |
A co-worker (Sorrell Brooke) of Buz carries on a telephone romance with a woman he has never seen. |
| 68 |
"Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing" |
October 26, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Old-time horror-movie icons Lon Chaney, Jr., Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre reunite at a Chicago hotel to plan a horror TV show for a new generation. |
| 69 |
"Across Walnuts and Wine" |
November 2, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Buz board at an Oregon house with a strangely dysfunctional family. Guest star Nina Foch |
| 70 |
"Welcome to the Wedding" |
November 9, 1962 |
Howard Rodman |
A cold-blooded killer (Rod Steiger) escapes from police custody in a Cleveland train station and takes Tod captive. |
| 71 |
"Every Father's Daughter" (a.k.a. "Every Father's Daughter Must Weave Her Own") |
November 16, 1962 |
Anthony Lawrence |
Buz's employer (Jack Kruschen) tries to set him up with his troubled daughter (Madelyn Rhue). |
| 72 |
"Poor Little Kangaroo Rat" |
November 23, 1962 |
Les Pine |
Tod and Buz work for a shark-hunting scientist (Leslie Nielsen) who is so obsessed with his cholesterol research he ignores his own family. Final appearance of the C1 Corvette in series. |
| 73 |
"Hey Moth, Come Eat the Flame" |
November 30, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Buz try to help a young boy in St. Louis cope with his father's alcoholism (Harry Guardino). Debut of the Corvette Stingray. |
| 74 |
"Only by Cunning Glimpses" |
December 7, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant, Preston Wood |
A traveling medium in Cleveland displays an uncanny ability to predict the future, and her next prediction is for Buz's death! Guest star Theodore Bikel. |
| 75 |
"Where is Chick Lorimer? Where Has She Gone?" |
December 14, 1962 |
Larry Marcus, Bert Lambert |
Tod unwittingly helps a young woman (Vera Miles) escape from her bail bondsman. |
| 76 |
"Give the Old Cat a Tender Mouse" |
December 21, 1962 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod once again encounters Vicki Russell (Julie Newmar) in Tennessee, where she is being courted by a cotton baron. |
| 77 |
"A Bunch of Lonely Pagliaccis" |
January 4, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod's idyllic new existence working for a prize-winning, William Faulkner-ish novelist (Barry Sullivan) in rural Mississippi is shattered by murder. |
| 78 |
"You Can't Pick Cotton in Tahiti" |
January 11, 1963 |
Shimon Wincelberg |
A runaway groom (Richard Basehart) in a tiny Tennessee community pretends to study local folk songs as he uses the town, its people and Tod for his own ends. |
| 79 |
"A Gift for a Warrior" |
January 18, 1963 |
Larry Marcus and Harlan Ellison |
Tod and Buz try to help a German youth find his American father (James Whitmore), unaware that the youth plans to kill the man. (Maharis' Final Appearance). |
| 80 |
"Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain" |
February 8, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant, Jerome B. Thomas |
Tod becomes romantically involved with a woman (Lois Nettleton) who gives the term "role playing" a whole new meaning. |
| 81 |
"Somehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow" |
February 15, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod tries to help a pair of runaway orphans in Corpus Christi. Guest staring Martin Balsam. |
| 82 |
"Shall Forfeit His Dog and Ten Shillings to the King" |
February 22, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod joins a posse hunting a pair of killers near Arizona's Superstition Mountain. Guest stars Steve Cochran, John Anderson and Barbara Shelley. |
| 83 |
"In the Closing of a Trunk" |
March 8, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
A Texas woman returning from a long prison stay believes Tod to be her son. Guest stars Ed Begley and Ruth Roman. |
| 84 |
"The Cage Around Maria" |
March 15, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod comes to the rescue of a young woman (Elizabeth Ashley) who jumps into the bear pit of the Houston Zoo. |
| 85 |
"Fifty Miles from Home" |
March 22, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod meets his new traveling partner, one Lincoln Case (Glenn Corbett) - Army Ranger and war hero, just returned from Vietnam. |
| 86 |
"Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine" |
March 29, 1963 |
Joel Carpenter |
Linc becomes involved with a troubled, self-obsessed young Galveston debutante (Anne Helm). Guest stars Alan Hale, Jr. |
| 87 |
"The Cruelest Sea of All" |
April 5, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod works at Florida's famous Weeki Wachee aquatic park when he meets a young woman (Diane Baker) who may be a real mermaid. |
| 88 |
"Peace, Pity, Pardon" |
April 12, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
In Tampa, Tod and Linc aid Jai-Lai players (Alejandro Rey) in a dangerous attempt to smuggle a little girl out of Cuba. |
| 89 |
"What a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant" |
April 26, 1963 |
Howard Rodman |
After the guys are shortchanged on the docks in Tampa, Linc pays a visit to his former commanding officer (Dick York) only to find that head wounds suffered in combat have regressed him back into an 8-year-old boy. |
| 90 |
"But What Do You Do In March?" |
May 3, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Linc race speedboats as they get caught up in the rivalry between two spoiled heiresses. Guy Lombardo and Carmen Lombardo portray themselves. |
| 91 |
"Who Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride?" |
May 10, 1963 |
Shimon Wincelberg |
Linc is shanghaied by holdup men (Rip Torn, Albert Salmi) who are on their way to a Florida wedding. |
| 92 |
"Shadows of an Afternoon" |
May 17, 1963 |
Leonard Freeman, Alvin Sargent and Eric Scott |
Linc is jailed after an old woman accuses him of cruelly injuring a dog. |
| 93 |
"Soda Pop and Paper Flags" |
May 31, 1963 |
John McGreevey |
A hobo befriended by Tod and Linc is suspected of bringing a rare and deadly virus into a Missouri town. An early appearance of Alan Alda as a town doctor. |
| Ep. # |
Title |
Airdate |
Writer |
Overview |
| 94 |
"Two Strangers and an Old Enemy" |
September 27, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Linc search for a missing war hero (Jack Warden) in the Everglades. |
| 95 |
"Same Picture, Different Frame" |
October 4, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
A matron (Joan Crawford) visiting (Poland, Maine) fears her ex-husband (Patrick O'Neal) means to kill her. |
| 96 |
"Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are" |
October 11, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Linc falls for Diane Baker, the capricious daughter of a Maine sawmill owner (Lon Chaney, Jr). |
| 97 |
"Where Are the Sounds of Celli Brahams?" |
October 18, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod gets a job in Minneapolis working with a female acoustical engineer (Tammy Grimes) and finds her difficult to keep up with. |
| 98 |
"Build Your Houses With Their Backs to the Sea" |
October 25, 1963 |
Frank L. Pierson |
Tod and Linc observe the grim conflict between a Maine lobster fisherman and his prodigal son (William Shatner). |
| 99 |
"And Make Thunder His Tribute" |
November 1, 1963 |
Lewis John Carlino |
Tod and Linc go to work for a raspberry farmer and find themselves in yet another father-son conflict. |
| 100 |
"The Stone Guest" |
November 8, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
A cave-in at a Colorado mine traps the town ne'er-do-well underground with a spinster, while Mozart's Don Giovanni plays in the town and parallels the mine tragedy. |
| 101 |
"I Wouldn't Start From Here" |
November 15, 1963 |
Ernest Kinoy |
Tod and Linc help an old Vermont farmer try to stave off bankruptcy. |
| 102 |
"I'm Here to Kill a King" |
Originally scheduled November 29, 1963, canceled by CBS due to John F. Kennedy assassination and unaired during series' original run. |
Stirling Silliphant |
Coincidence brings Tod together with a political assassin (also played by Martin Milner) who is his identical double. |
| 103 |
"A Cage in Search of a Bird" |
November 29, 1963 (pre-empted November 22, 1963 due to JFK assassination coverage) |
Stirling Silliphant |
A moll (Stefanie Powers) steals six hundred dollars from her boyfriend's poker game and then hides the money in the hubcap of Tod and Linc's car. |
| 104 |
"A Long Way From St. Louie" |
December 6, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Linc takes it upon himself to help out a quintet of girl musicians (two were played by Lynda Day and Jessica Walter) stranded in Toronto. |
| 105 |
"Come Home, Greta Inger Gruenshaffen" |
December 13, 1963 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Linc vie for the affections of a German physical culturalist who is on a sabbatical. |
| 106 |
"93 Percent in Smiling" |
December 20, 1963 |
Alvin Sargent |
Tired of their parents' bickering, two young children kidnap their baby brother and set up their own "family." |
| 107 |
"Child of a Night" |
January 3, 1964 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Tod and Linc try to fulfill a dying man's wish to find the child he never knew and give her his life's savings. |
| 108 |
"Is it True There Are Poxies at the Bottom of Landfair Lake?" |
January 10, 1964 |
Alvin Sargent |
A young man in rural Georgia seeks to publicly humiliate a woman who was the instrument of a cruel practical joke perpetrated on him in the Army. |
| 109 |
"Like This It Means Father --- Like This - Bitter --- Like This - Tiger" |
January 17, 1964 |
Stirling Silliphant |
Linc runs into a former member of his Vietnam outfit - the man who got his men killed in combat. |
| 110 |
"Kiss the Monster, Make Him Sleep" |
January 24, 1964 (originally scheduled November 22, 1963; postponed due to JFK assassination coverage earlier that day) |
Stanley R. Greenberg |
Linc has a full plate as he carries on a relationship with a troubled young woman while reconciling with his mother and estranged father. |
| 111 |
"Cries of Persons Close to One" |
January 31, 1964 |
William Kelley and Howard Rodman |
Linc must take the place of an alcoholic boxer who is unable to participate in a fight. |
| 112 |
"Who in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl?" |
February 7, 1964 |
Joel Carpenter |
A shy and naive young librarian becomes infatuated with a dashing stranger, unaware he is a murderer being sought by the police. |
| 113 |
"This is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You" |
February 14, 1964 |
Stirling Silliphant |
A former classmate of Tod's (Soupy Sales), who is now a millionaire, wants Tod and his "manservant" Linc to take his place. |
| 114 |
"Follow the White Dove With the Broken Wing" |
February 21, 1964 |
Alvin Sargent |
After accidentally killing a policeman, a troubled teenager takes Tod and Linc hostage. |
| 115 |
"Where There's a Will, There's a Way" (Part One) |
March 6, 1964 |
Stirling Silliphant |
The bizarre terms of a tycoon's will mandate that Tod marry his daughter (Barbara Eden). Filmed in Tampa. |
| 116 |
"Where There's a Will, There's a Way" (Part Two) |
March 13, 1964 |
Stirling Silliphant |
After surviving an attempt on his life by inheritance-seekers, Tod plans a Monte Cristo-esque revenge. Filmed in Tampa. |
Roxbury Entertainment released the first three seasons of Route 66 on DVD in Region 1 between 2008-2010. As of November 2011, these releases are now out of print as Roxbury Entertainment no longer possesses the rights to the series.
On November 7, 2011, Shout! Factory announced that they had acquired the exclusive rights to the series including the home entertainment rights. They plan on releasing the series through multiple platforms including DVD releases.[20] They subsequently announced that they will release Route 66- The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 on May 22, 2012.[21] The 24-disc collectors box set will feature all 116 episodes of the series as well as special bonus features.
| Title |
Ep # |
Release Date |
| Complete First Season |
30 |
August 5, 2008 |
| Complete Second Season |
32 |
October 21, 2008 |
| Season Three, Volume One |
16 |
July 21, 2009 |
| Season Three, Volume Two |
15 |
October 20, 2009 |
| Complete Third Season |
31 |
January 12, 2010 |
| The Complete Series |
116 |
May 22, 2012 |
- The series was lampooned in the April 1962 issue of Mad magazine. The parody, entitled "Route 67," followed the publication's established practice of irreverently satirizing current popular programs and motion pictures in comic strip format. The send-up features an appearance by the character Mary Worth, who chides the boys for trying to usurp her role as the nation's chief do-gooder.
- According to biographer Dennis McNally (Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, and America), Jack Kerouac tried to sue the show's producer Stirling Silliphant, claiming that it plagiarized his novel On the Road, which also featured two buddies traveling America's byways in search of adventure. McNally said Kerouac was "appalled by the show's violence," but the lawyers he contacted convinced him that he could never win a lawsuit. (page 272, Desolate Angel, McNally)
- Route 66 was featured on the cover of TV Guide four times.
- In a 1963 episode of the popular situation comedy Leave It to Beaver, the character Eddie Haskell obtains a summer job on an Alaskan fishing boat and likens himself to "the guys on Route 66." Beaver was at the time airing on the rival ABC network.
- In a 1977 episode of SCTV a space age satire of the show called Galaxy 66 stars Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas as Micron and Antar, two guys who prowl the galaxies looking for adventure, and find it when a mutant thug (John Candy) accosts a human girl (Catherine O'Hara), whom they rescue. Later on in the show, they are seen at the end of another skit tying pyramids to their heads to keep from being hit by meteoroids.
- In the Alien Nation episode "Gimmee, Gimmee," Albert gives Matt a vintage Corvette, whereupon the series theme by Nelson Riddle is heard.
- Actor Martin Milner toured the real Route 66 for the 2002 video production Route 66: Return to the Road with Martin Milner.
In 1993, Route 66 was resurrected, albeit briefly. The "sequel" series followed the adventures of two friends, Nick Lewis (played by James Wilder) and Arthur Clark (Dan Cortese), one of whom (Lewis) had inherited a classic Corvette from his father, Buz Murdock. The new series lasted just four episodes on NBC before being canceled.
- ^ Neil Genzlinger (May 18, 2012). "A Half-Century-Old Road to Today". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/arts/television/route-66-shows-50-year-old-issues-relevant-today.html.
- ^ "Route 66 Theme". Nelson Riddle - The Official Website. http://www.nelsonriddlemusic.com/nr_tv_rt66.htm. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- ^ "Nelson Riddle". Nelson Riddle - The Official Website. http://www.nelsonriddlemusic.com/nr_bio_ex.htm. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- ^ http://www.ericrecords.com/orchestral_2.html
- ^ 1962 Grammy Nominations.
- ^ http://www.emmys.org/awards/awardsearch.php
- ^ Ethel Waters.
- ^ Emmy Awards: 1962.
- ^ Beaulieu, David. "Wolf Tree," About.com, Tuesday, March 2, 2010.
- ^ "The Strengthening Angels" – Ohio66.com.
- ^ Route 66: "Fly Away Home (Part 1)" – LiveJournal.com.
- ^ Route 66: "Fly Away Home (Part 2)" – LiveJournal.com.
- ^ Route 66: "Sleep on Four Pillows" – LiveJournal.com.
- ^ Route 66: "An Absence of Tears" – LiveJournal.com.
- ^ "10:15am – And Starring Fabian Chavez As Himself," Albuquerque Journal, Wednesday, February 6, 2008.
- ^ Kane, Russell W. "TV Stunt Men Battle in Flats as 'Route 66' Leaves Beaten Track," The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), Thursday, May 25, 1961.
- ^ Newspaper Clippings: Butte, Montana – Ohio66.com.
- ^ Devlin, Paul. "Papa Jo Jones, Jazz Drummer and...Actor?" University of Minnesota Press, Thursday, April 12, 2012.
- ^ Whalen, John M. "Getting His Kicks on Route 66," Outré (magazine), 2001.
- ^ http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Route-66-Shout-Factory-Acquires-Rights/16184
- ^ http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Route-66-The-Complete-Series/16510
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