77 Sunset Strip

- Season 5

(1962)

Stu travels to Vienna to investigate the "accidental" death of a man in whose effects his widow found a profoundly disturbing letter.

Jeff is hired after movie star Nita Maran is hypnotized by bit player Ferini. The ex-con is threatens to shut down an expensive film unless he's paid a small fortune. Jeff and his colleagues must locate the blackmailer plus protect Nita from harm.

Kookie and Jeff shoot it out in the office at 77, but it's just a prank on J.R. That night, en route to a case in a remote Cali town, Kookie's mistakenly arrested for rape. He figures a call to J.R. will straighten it out, but the car hop/operative thinks he's being punk-ed again, so J.R. tells the local sheriff to lock Kookie up and throw away the key. The rapist hijacked Kookie's wheels and made him switch clothes, so the sheriff has good reason to suspect the young PI. The whole town's inflamed over the assault, so Kookie may not even make it to trial.

Stu Bailey goes undercover to help a small town chief of police nail the kingpin of a gambling syndicate.

Finding the person who threatened Judge Mellon proves no easy task for Spencer. Suspects range from vengeful con men to the judge's wife.

A young woman who escaped from Communist Hungary asks Stu to help her find her mother, a refugee whom the Communists want badly.

Jeff is reluctant to get involved with publicity seeking starlet Dagne. After JR rescues her during a shooting, her rich fiance Warren demands protection. Her inconvenient first husband Opie appears from Oklahoma to stir things up.

Stu and JR are mountain fishing when Stu checks on friend Willa who is recently widowed. Daughter Netsie insists her father was murdered. The detectives stick around to learn more about the locals with Tuffy around when things go wrong.

Stu works with other private eyes to catch two criminals who steal from and hurt their victims.

Jeff and J.R. are hired to work on a case for Latin American clients.

Jeff is hired by an astrologer, who is receiving threatening phone calls, with unexpected results.

Jeff and an insurance adjuster try to find a lost truck shipment.

Stu investigates a suicide and a murder, and several attempts on the life of a TV comic that may be just publicity stunts, but could also be the real thing.

Jeff has his office girl Suzanne get in good with a brother and sister he believes are hotel swindlers. However, things get complicated when Suzanne falls in love with the brother.

Kookie investigates a complicated murder, that began with a borrowed car.

Stu helps a deaf librarian, who "hears" a death threat in the library.

Jeff and Roscoe go undercover in prison as inmates and plan an escape with an inmate who they believe can lead them to $500,000 in stolen money.

The agency's old secretary returns with amnesia, after six years away from the office.

Jeff begins to suspect that a mob boss who was supposedly killed in a car accident is in fact not only alive, but the brains behind a rash of jewel and fur thefts.

Stu must save a scientist's son, who is being held hostage to manipulate her.

A woman fears that her brother will be unable to collect his inheritance.

Bailey's old friend from New York has two problems, one with his business, the other with his marriage.

When a Japanese buddy shows up and finds that his uncle is missing along with $50K, Kookie pitches in to help solve the mystery.

Jeff is hired by a man who claims that his wife and doctor put him under psychiatric care when he said he saw an old army buddy who was known to have been killed in the Korean War.

Stu's flight to Hawaii is delayed by chaos: a murder, a fleeing thief, and a love triangle.

J.R. tries to find his date's missing brother, who is a sailor; Jeff finds the brother on an island used by the Navy for target practice.

When J.R. and Kookie go to the beach on an assignment, the girl they are watching is injured when her car is being stolen by two boys.

Stu uncovers a trap, when he searches a train crash for a client's belongings.

An unhappy Little League baseball player is the key to a murder.

Stu is giving a lecture at a college, and is asked to investigate the murders of two friends of a brilliant criminologist who has shown that he can beat lie detectors.

Things go wrong at a charity auction; Stu meets an old flame, who robs the event.

Stu pursues a lady thief who stole a realtor's books, but she is dangerous.

Stu chases some international crooks, who stole $1 million in securities from the agency, to Switzerland.

Stu tangles with a blonde while tracking down a cold case.

Stu finds himself in the middle of a fake robbery for the heir to a criminal family.

A talent agent hires Stu and Kookie to protect a client from a very charismatic and domineering director.