77 Sunset Strip
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama.
Cast:Efrem Zimbalist Jr. , Edd Byrnes , Roger Smith , Jacqueline Beer , Louis Quinn , Byron Keith , Robert Logan , The Frankie Ortega Trio , Richard Long , Joan Staley , Diane McBain , Joe De Santis , Kaye Elhardt , Brad Weston , John Hubbard , John Van Dreelen , Robert Colbert , Kathleen Crowley
S1.E1 ∙ Girl on the Run
PI Stu is hired to find a singer who witnessed a murder, before she's iced too by comb-crazy, cold-blooded hit-man Smiley. She and Stu fall in love.
S1.E2 ∙ Lovely Lady, Pity Me
Stu's Monday starts maddeningly. His op's blackmailing a philandering client, so Stu chucks him out onto the Strip, frightening off a voluptuous, potential client waiting in the lobby. Stu Bailey dashes after the steamy blonde, who refuses to divulge her name - despite their plunging into a whirlwind romance. The operative turns up dead in Stu's office, but Stu was trysting with the mystery woman at the time. When she goes missing, the heat hunt Stu for his op's murder, Stu tracks his alibi.
S1.E3 ∙ A Nice Social Evening
Bailey, Spencer, and Kookie protect a Latin playboy marked for murder.
S1.E4 ∙ Casualty
A woman hires Jeff to find her dead husband, who she's just seen alive ! Kookie and Doll trail the fast-moving zombie, who continues changing names & addresses, and his glamorous new girlfriend. As Jeff makes significant progress with the help of an easily-charmed landlady, the company which insured the resurrected man hires Stu also. Somehow, a mysterious Mr. Dolan who looks half-dead, is involved too.
S1.E5 ∙ The Bouncing Chip
A Vegas casino falters, because their chips are being counterfeited. "The Meteor" hires Stu, who discovers the plastics company that's making the counterfeits, then goes undercover as a cardsharp from Miami, to find out if the scheme's mastermind is relocated Chicago gangster Frenchy LaTour. The menacing Frenchy is also suspected of fitting his former boss Big Ears Beecham with a concrete kimono.
S1.E6 ∙ Two and Two Make Six
Ex-con's wife hires Jeff to determine who is trying to kill her husband, who was recently released from San Quentin. Convicted robber Detterback chilled out in the cooler, but the police don't buy that he's doesn't know the assassin, so Detterback goes almost batty. His wife made it large as a fashion designer during the bad time he was hanging in the stately big house, but is his Alice the greatest, most loyal spouse ? Or does she deserve something better than Detterback, who might get it, pow, right in the kisser?
S1.E7 ∙ All Our Yesterdays
PI Stu lensing brand-new silent flicker while battling gaggle of greedy heirs? Ex-screen goddess tabs Stu to spend whatever's necessary for a silent masterpiece, including rounding up her elderly former crew & cast-mates. Her adult children fear amateur mogul Stu will blow their inheritance, so they cast their own crew of experts, to prove Lucinda Lane's lost her marbles. Carhop Kookie wants a role in the spectacular too - reasoning he's a jumble of jerky moves already.
S1.E8 ∙ The Well-Selected Frame
Valerie Stacey believes her husband is trying to kill her. So convinced she approaches Bailey and Brynes to investigate and produce enough evidence to take her story to the police.
S1.E9 ∙ Iron Curtain Caper
Stu Bailey is sent to East Germany to rescue an American reporter possessing important government information who was taken prisoner by the Communists.
S1.E10 ∙ Vicious Circle
Kooki reports in that he saw a kidnapping while cruising Beverly Hills. He becomes even more concerned he reports into the police, but they take no action because they have no missing person report.
S1.E11 ∙ One False Step
Stranger on a plane proposes exchanging murders to crime-busting Fed whose wife won't grant him a divorce. A gossip column tips the stranger, a novelist, to the prosecutor's dilemma, so he trails the attorney onto a flight from D.C. to L.A. David the prosecutor isn't sure whether the charming "John Smith," the author, is seriously insane or just has a very cavalier sense of humor, so David hires Stu Bailey to protect his philandering wife from murder. Stu gets some unwanted aid from the Fed's future sister-in-law, who he fluffs off as an interfering ditz, but she turns out to have a very Hawaiian eye.
S1.E12 ∙ The Court Martial of Johnny Murdo
Johnny Murdo is accused of stealing $757 from other cadets at a military school. After his court martial and dismissal from the school, Johnny's mother hires Jeff Spencer to investigate and clear his name.
S1.E13 ∙ Hit And Run
Kookie's just driven by a hit & run killing 2 people, when a mysterious blonde repeatedly tries to run him off Sunset Boulevard. The crash disfigures the woman, & a witness disappears from the scene with her purse. Hotrodder Kookie was on the way to a hot date, so he'd borrowed Stu's classier ride. The woman's a well-known thesp, her hubby's a well-connected tycoon, so the fuzz put the squeeze on hep-cat Kookie, not the jet setters. PI Stu tries to untangle the web that's ensnared him too.
S1.E14 ∙ Not an Enemy in the World
Switchboard operator Suzanne's brother is missing. Jeff agrees to take the case for free. The brother works as a chauffeur for a woman whose husband died recently in an accident. There are many complications.
S1.E15 ∙ The Secret of Adam Cain
Stu goes international to fetch a black vase from duplicitous art dealer, while fending off tight-lipped tough guy Iron Man Brown. An Oklahoma oil tycoon left the seemingly worthless vessel to his English niece and nephew who hire Stu, but won't tell him why they'll pay anything to retrieve it.
S1.E16 ∙ The Girl Who Couldn't Remember
A lady suffering from amnesia hires Spencer to help her discover who she is and why her purse contained a large sum of money.
S1.E17 ∙ Dark Vengeance
The leader of a drug ring plots a counter-offensive against Bailey and Spencer after Stu seeks justice for his friend, a crusading TV journalist blinded in a murder attempt on him by the ring.
S1.E18 ∙ Conspiracy of Silence
Co-ed is murdered on a college campus. Jeff goes undercover as student to protect the daughter of a client. He knows students and faculty have more information that they are holding back and gets pulled into solving the murder.
S1.E19 ∙ Eyewitness
A boy with a telescope espies a murder being committed in a physician's office across from his family's apartment. Already known for having a fertile imagination, he is not believed when he describes the scene by what he thinks he saw: a man killing a bear.
S1.E20 ∙ Lovely Alibi
Ed, a policeman friend of Stu's, gets suspended over bar incident. He asks Stu for help on an investigation of a murder. Ed's girlfriend is somehow involved with the suspect. Girlfriend Jill disappears. The Frankie Ortega Trio plays their version of the show's theme song.
S1.E21 ∙ In Memoriam
Struggling book publisher learns that he's dead, from a newspaper ad. He hoped he'd be in clover, not a coffin, because he's about to publish a book blowing the whistle on a Latin American dictator. But with his ace editor about to divorce him for dallying with talentless, but shapely female authors, he needs Bailey and Spencer's services. Stu's soon in a spin too: he gets caught in a revolving brunette.
S1.E22 ∙ The Fifth Stair
Forlorn hubby prefers to have his wife killed, rather than let her get away with adultery. Tony's tight alibi, & plan to make it look like a burglary gone too far seem perfect. Even when major complications boil up, slick Tony turns them to his advantage. PIs Bailey & Spencer get mired in Tony's La Brea tar-pit, causing their apprentice operative Kookie to go totally Bugs Bunny a la Blanc.
S1.E23 ∙ Pasadena Caper
Bailey investigates when the discovery of a long lost son, dead in his submerged car puts a pair of little old ladies in line to claim a large double indemnity insurance payout.
S1.E24 ∙ Hong Kong Caper
When a client receives a letter from his now deceased serviceman son to complete some unfinished business, Spencer steps in to explore mysterious times the young man spent in Hong Kong with a woman called "Candy."
S1.E25 ∙ A Check Will Do Nicely
A California girl is kidnapped while studying in Europe, and Stu is engaged by her absent father. They fly over the pond, and Stu hatches a brilliant con to find the abductors, schmoozing with his suave and debonair French, fine art sensibilities and gendarme friend's help.
S1.E26 ∙ The Grandma Caper
An eccentric (Frances Bavier) spends her days happily shoplifting from her own stores. A business manager has hired Spencer to monitor her, fearing her need for thrills might endanger her credibility to sign an upcoming big money deal.
S1.E27 ∙ Honey from the Bee
An heirloom tapestry from Czarist Russia with no obvious value beyond the sentimental, seems to be triggering a series of murders.
S1.E28 ∙ Abra-Cadaver
Spencer works undercover with a group that uses false identities and dead bodies to scam life insurance companies. He's teamed with Audrey, a blonde beauty who's also a cold blooded killer.
S1.E29 ∙ A Bargain in Tombs
Stu is hired to find a missing girl in Italy. He encounters his driver from when he was in the war. He also befriends a local boy that offers to help in the task. The locals are not very helpful. The full picture is not clear, but the missing girl is related to an ongoing crime. Eventually the crime is found out.
S1.E30 ∙ The Widow Wouldn't Weep
A widow breaks into Jeff's apartment to entice him to prove her husband was murdered, rather than committed suicide. Jeff runs into multiple suspects since the dead man was a philanderer. He also gets kidnapped and warned off of the case. Kookie assists in the tailing of suspects.
S1.E31 ∙ Downbeat
Although he is acquitted for lack of evidence of the crime of sedition, Bailey's private investigator's license is revoked and he goes on a drinking spree. He is then recruited by a former friend to conduct business with Communists.
S1.E32 ∙ Canine Caper
A jewel robbery of rubies takes place in Amsterdam and Jeff is called upon to investigate if they are to be smuggled into the United States. It is found that they were smuggled in a poodle's collar and the agent of a famed actress is suspected.
S1.E33 ∙ Mr. Paradise
Stuart is hired by husband and wife Vincent and Helen Blanton, in believing that their wealthy uncle, Cyrus Blanton, is being swindled by his neighbors, who are building a Utopian paradise community called Eden on their vast rural property, Uncle Cyrus joining their cause in adding his property for the community. Outwardly, the community, led by a man calling himself Mr. Paradise, has renounced any form of progress, instead espousing peace and harmony and a "do unto others" philosophy. It also operates as a legal non-profit, the community members who only donate a small financial amount for the community to operate. However, in going undercover in meeting Mr. Paradise, Stuart believes Vincent and Helen's assertions are correct in that Mr. Paradise has some sort of scheme going on to dupe people like Cyrus. They have to convince Mr. Blanton's sister, Lois Blanton, who, closer to Uncle Cyrus than her brother, believes that her brother, sister-in-law and Stuart are all operating under a financial gain motive, and wants to see Uncle Cyrus happy in whatever form that takes. Upon meeting Uncle Cyrus with Mr. Paradise, Lois comes to the same conclusions as her brother, sister-in-law and Stuart, but by that time Stuart's cover is blown. As such, he has to co-opt Kookie and Roscoe to infiltrate the community, they acting as "converts" which may not be the easiest thing for them to do to a point of convincing Mr. Paradise of their sincerity. What Kookie, Roscoe and Stuart all ultimately believe to be at the core of the scheme is that Mr. Paradise is able to convince his followers to will their estates to the community, many of the wealthy elderly people whose deaths are accelerated in entering the community's infirmary with whatever minor ailment never to exit alive. This discovery places Kookie, Roscoe and Stuart's lives at risk, along with Cyrus and the other especially wealthy elderly followers', as Mr. Paradise and his operatives are willing to kill to protect their lucrative scheme.
S1.E34 ∙ Strange Girl in Town
A young woman witnesses a murder in a nightclub; Spencer tries to protect her.
S2.E1 ∙ Only Zeros Count
Stu is about to leave Hawaii when he is caught up in an investigation of counterfeiters. Dan and Kim from Hawaiian Eye make brief appearances. A woman suspected of being a conduit to the crooks falls for Stu. Things get complicated when the woman's friend is someone Stu wants to get to know better for the case.
S2.E2 ∙ The Kookie Caper
Man fleeing a murder scene is unaware a pretty runaway is hiding in his backseat. When they arrive at 77 Sunset Strip, Kookie avidly takes in the teenager to protect her from the killers. But the ginchy Carrie doesn't want to hide, she's come to Hollywood to crash the movies and meet Sugarfoot. Bailey & Spencer's sleazy rival, Shamus Legs Carson weasels in on the case when he hears there's a big reward for finding the starstruck teen.
S2.E3 ∙ Six Superior Skirts
A charity benefit with debutantes of 6 American cities; each is wearing jewelry from a prized collection. A diamond replaced with a fake. Bailey, Kookie, and others are present to protect the jewelry. Miss Augusta (GA) likes Kookie.
S2.E4 ∙ Clay Pigeon
Stu's on the lam for 2 murders committed after he tracked the victims down for an acid-tongued talk radio host who's about to ink a big TV deal. Police chief Happy Happerson hunts Stu, while Kookie & company scramble after the other 2 targets on the shock jock's list, before they take the big sleep too. The scandalmonger's Hollywood agent keeps leaving town. Is she the shooter ?
S2.E5 ∙ Thanks for Tomorrow
Crime syndicate hires a gambler to layoff racetrack bets to out-of-state bookies to keep the odds from diving. The go-between Lonnie Drew is an old pal of Jeff Spencer, whose help is needed when Drew suspects that he's going to be set up with a briefcase full of hot semolians. It's a boat race scheme, i.e. the other horses' owners are paid to lose to the long-shots backed by the Syndicate.
S2.E6 ∙ Sing Something Simple
An opera diva is almost sandbagged on stage, but she doesn't want any gendarmes involved, so her manager hires opera-loving Stu to investigate. Posing as her new paramour, Stu flushes her torch-bearing ex-husband and a hot-tempered tenor out of the scenery as suspects. Kookie almost ankles from his square, undercover assignment as a spear-carrier, but a blonde ingénue from the Bronx keeps him on task.
S2.E7 ∙ The Treehouse Caper
Spencer, the police, the insurance company and the daughter of a thief are all looking for $250,000 of buried jewelry.
S2.E8 ∙ Out of the Past
Nov.1959: Bailey makes a difficult choice when the government asks him to go to Germany for an assignment involving a traitor spy.
S2.E9 ∙ The Widow and the Web
Seductive widow suspected of offing her husband via an industrial accident, when she goes after PI Jeff Spencer and almost every available (& unavailable) man at her husband's plant. When an anonymous note alleges the worker was murdered, the factory's insurance company hires Jeff to investigate.
S2.E10 ∙ Secret Island
Stuart Bailey, his prisoner and four others survive a plane crash and are washed ashore on an isolated island. Exploring their haven, Bailey learns to his horror that within 48 hours, it might turn out to be a death-trap.
S2.E11 ∙ The Texas Doll
Jeff Spencer investigates a mob-backed fortune hunter on the prowl for a rich widow or her step-daughter.
S2.E12 ∙ Vacation with Pay
Stu and Kookie chaperon the 23 and 18 year-old daughters of a wealthy businessman on a trip to Paris.
S2.E13 ∙ The Jukebox Caper
Jeff and Kookie infiltrate a crooked music business to prove one of its singers didn't commit suicide.
S2.E14 ∙ Created He Them
Stu is hired to find who killed Dr. Adams handicapped husband otherwise she will have to plead it was a mercy killing.
S2.E15 ∙ Collector's Item
Jeff's new client is Countess Maruska who hires him in regards to her art collection. What seems like a simple case has Jeff roughed up and kidnapped. Kookie decides to be a music impresario.
S2.E16 ∙ Switchburg
Stuart and Jeff's old friend Art Moomey hires Stuart to look into a commercial property, the Switchburg Hotel, he is thinking about buying. He asks Stuart instead of a real estate agent since the hotel is located in Switchburg, a virtual ghost town in the old silver mining region of the Nevada desert about four hundred miles away from Las Vegas. There are no such regular services such as a real estate office in Switchburg let alone a mayor, and Art is unable to find out anything about the hotel on his own. It appeals to the eccentric side of him, he who plans to fix it up if it is worth buying only to sell it to someone even more eccentric than him for a profit. Stopping off in Las Vegas on his way, Stuart ends up having company, at least to Kingsley, fifty miles outside Switchburg, in the form of casino cocktail waitress Nan Polly with who he made a personal connection. In Switchburg, he finds that he seems to be getting some sort of runaround in that the few old timers he meets point him in one direction, only to be pointed back in the opposite direction by the next person to who he speaks. He also finds that the few men he has met in town all carry sidearms for whatever reason. A young couple, Clyde and Dorothy Amboy, have recently moved to town, Clyde, who opened a service station despite there already being one in town that has little business, suspicious of any man who talks to Dorothy, and Dorothy who runs the diner, also that does little business and charges high prices because of the expensive overhead of needing to ship everything into town. And although no one seems to have a key to the hotel with its owner George Silverdale's whereabouts unknown despite he promptly paying his property taxes every year, Clyde reports that he has seen lights on the second floor of the hotel at night. Those lights may provide some answers as to the mysteries of the town and why Stuart has been getting the runaround.
S2.E17 ∙ The One That Got Away
Jeff is hired to investigate the disappearance of scuba diver Carthwright before issuing insurance benefits. Jeff enlists Kookie and Roscoe to help while he talks with the attractive widow. A trip to Mexico brings the answers to the mystery.
S2.E18 ∙ Ten Cents a Death
Two employees of a dance hall are murdered so the agency goes under cover there to investigate.
S2.E19 ∙ Who Killed Cock Robin
Jeff, along with Suzanne, accompany a blind man James to an out of town reading of a will. The gathering consists of Hollywood types who stand to inherit one million dollars if they complete a puzzle but a murder interferes with the game.
S2.E21 ∙ The Starlet
Jeff is hired to look into attempts on actress Kay Donnelly's life but her sudden suicide leaves him with questions. The rooming house where she lived seems to be full of suspects except for the wisecracking Marge. A secret marriage points to a killer.
S2.E22 ∙ Safari
Stu is hired to protect belligerent business mogul Simon Galbraith on an African hunting trip. The rude man brings along a number of people who wish him ill, foremost wife Miriam. Stu does his job despite a distaste for his client and his actions.
S2.E23 ∙ Blackout
When Suzanne is kidnapped by escaping jewel thieves, Jeff and the police must find a way of catching up with them before it is too late for Suzanne.
S2.E24 ∙ Return to San Dede: 'The Desert Story'
Stu is hired to protect Roxanna, a member of a prominent family in a Latin American country poised for revolution. They head for her home country by train but end up stranded in an isolated area leaving them fighting for their lives.
S2.E25 ∙ Return to San Dede: 'Capital City'
Stu and Roxanna make it to the city having fallen in love with Stu to become first gentlemen. But then he's shot and Jeff heads south to help his partner find the missing future leader with the aid of a most obtuse local police captain.
S2.E26 ∙ Publicity Brat
Stu is hired by Paula Conway, mother of a spoiled child star Angel, when a valuable jewel goes missing. What seems like a simple case although one populated by unlikable characters turns serious when a murder occurs endangering Angel.
S2.E27 ∙ The Fix
Spencer is nearly killed while investigating a boxer's death in a fixed fight.
S2.E28 ∙ Legend of Crystal Dart
Stuart takes the case of legendary bigger-than-life actress/dancer/singer Crystal Dart, she initially making a name for herself in the post-war era as the star of the Folies Bergère in Paris. She wants him to accompany her to a cabin at Lake Arrowhead that was owned by her estranged husband, Swiss national ski instructor and aspiring not too good actor Kurt Weibel, before they married, after which, in his poor financial state, she assumed the mortgage. She wants him evicted from the cabin where he is living - she having legal papers to dispossess him - before she begins divorce proceedings. She wants Stuart along more for protection than anything. Also accompanying them will be her biographer, Ken Dexter, so that Ken and Crystal won't lose any of their work time. Ken not only makes it clear to Stuart in private that he does not want to go, but for undisclosed reasons does not want him to get involved. Stuart also further learns directly from the horse's mouth that Janice Dexter, Ken's wife, believes Crystal has some evil hold over her husband, Janice who wants Crystal out of their lives so that Ken can work on what was supposed to be his first novel after spending his career thus far solely on biographies. Upon arrival at the cabin, Stuart gets a slightly different perspective of the marriage from Kurt. Due to a snowstorm and the only road being blocked, those at the cabin are temporarily cut off from the rest of the world, they who not only include Stuart, Crystal, Ken and Kurt, but out of circumstance Janice and Marie Lang, Kurt's longtime companion who he left when he met and married Crystal. There is an explosive atmosphere in the cabin in their confinement, Stuart who has to find out what is truly going on with this collective in sifting through what is the truth and what are lies among all the stories before something tragic happens.
S2.E29 ∙ Stranger Than Fiction
Jeff is hired by a wealthy middle-aged man who wants his missing young wife found. The client refuses to believe she has left him for a younger man but Jeff thinks otherwise. With Roscoe's help, she is quickly spotted but, before her husband can be contacted, a new situation has developed - she is being held for ransom.
S2.E30 ∙ Genesis of Treason
Stuart is asked by the United States military to investigate whether classified documents were passed on to a foreign country. Bailey becomes close to Marta, a friend of the suspected spy Hollister creating conflict.
S2.E31 ∙ Fraternity of Fear
Jeff is hired by the Connors, parents of a student who died in an apparent hazing incident. Jeff poses as a student, living in the fraternity where he learns of rampant cheating by the football team which may be tied to the death.
S2.E32 ∙ Spark of Freedom
Stu travels to Budapest to free a political prisoner, donning various disguises in the process.
S2.E33 ∙ Perfect Setup
Jeff goes to capture a thief sneaking back via a remote corner of the Islands. PI Jeff poses as a wandering gigolo, signing on as a guitar-strumming lounge act to attract lonely women to a struggling resort. Cricket Blake chirps along with him, but the new competition brings out the worst in a scheming philanderer and a torch-bearing local police chief.
S2.E34 ∙ Sierra
Man-eating cat stalks the Sierras, making Stu's inquiry about a friend's daughter a low priority with frazzled mountain residents. Stu's old buddy suspects his daughter is rebelling against his strict single-parenting by getting mixed-up with shady characters. A mild-mannered geology professor boarding at the buddy's house, packing heat on his wilderness sabbatical makes Stu wary too.
S2.E35 ∙ The Silent Caper
Stripper Jingle Bells, key witness in a mob trial, is kidnapped to keep her from testifying. Jeff spots her being held in an apartment, then identifies her when he finds one of her trademark "jingle bell" earrings on the sidewalk. Jeff pursues when the kidnapper moves her to a mountain ranch off Route 66.
S2.E36 ∙ Family Skeleton
When an old friend of Stu is kidnapped, he's asked to deliver the ransom money. He soon begins to wonder if his friend's wife, a former singer with mob connections, his spoiled young sister, or the secretary who's in love with him, had anything to do with the kidnapping.
S3.E1 ∙ Attic
Jeff sees enticing wanted robber Vetta Nygood, tails her to a remote mountain hideout, but her accomplices nab him. The ice-cold gang leader Hammett panics, so he ties & gags Jeff up in the abandoned house's attic. Then the 3 robbers flee after divvying up the loot, before the 4th thug, the menacing Deek arrives to claim his cut. Who gets to Jeff first: a chummy rattlesnake, the cops or the vengeful Deek ?
S3.E2 ∙ The Fanatics
Marcus Raymond hires Baily to accompany him on a sensitive diplomatic mission to Africa after there has been two attempts on his life.
S3.E3 ∙ The President's Daughter
Jeff and Rex are hired to find the daughter of the former president before she is executed by the new regime.
S3.E4 ∙ The Office Caper
Just before Stu sings lead in a mob trial, a toy manufacturer moves into 77 Sunset Strip, with no furniture but lots of ammo and suspicious visitors, especially a sinister couple who rub everybody the wrong way. Roscoe knows the head of the assassins, who hires Roscoe to courier a secret toy design from San Diego.
S3.E5 ∙ The Widescreen Caper
Astrologer predicts murder will strike the same film fest again, once more claiming someone close to super-agent Shelly Blair. Bailey & Spencer have no trouble mobilizing all their young male ops to protect Shelly's 4 starlet clients (MM, Lotus Lee, Sprite Simpson, Helga Haller), while Roscoe draws an ex-silent film diva, and Suzanne shields an ego-maniacal French heartthrob.
S3.E6 ∙ The Negotiable Blonde
A duplicitous blonde swipes $500,000 from her employer/fiancé, after he hired Jeff Spencer to accompany her and a satchel of negotiable bonds from San Francisco to L.A. She gives Jeff the slip, along with another, much younger fiancé. When Jeff suspects she's fled to Acapulco, fiancé number II joins the chase.
S3.E7 ∙ The Laurel Canyon Caper
Crooner, who's finally cracked the big screen, is suspected of rubbing out scandal sheet publisher Ransome, for threatening to expose the singer's rap sheet. Bailey & Spencer's new gumshoe Rex Randolph sets out to nab the killer, to prove the golden throat's innocence. High on Rex's checklist of suspects is comic Chick Little, who may be another of Ransome's blackmail pigeons.
S3.E8 ∙ Double Trouble
Is Stu moonlighting as a Mafia hit man or could he just be an exact double for Sandy the Executioner? Kefauver's G-Men summon ex-CIA spook Stu Bailey inside the Beltway, to find out before New York's Silk Cipriano has his contract fulfilled on rival narcotics dealer California Baldy Mike Hannigan, sparking a bi-coastal gang war.
S3.E9 ∙ Trouble in the Middle East
Jeff rescues a Middle Eastern leader's daughter from a mob while vacationing.
S3.E10 ∙ The Duncan Shrine
The funeral of a revered old Western star gets surreal when his huge statue is stolen. The embarrassed Hollywood cemetery hires Rex Randolph to get the statue back, but gets way more they expect. Rex's investigation uncovers sex, lies, blackmail, decaying nitrate film, and murder suspects galore.
S3.E11 ∙ The Double Death of Benny Markham
While in England, Jeff is asked by his light-fingered friend, Benny, to help him find who hired him for a job in Liverpool. Unknown to Benny he stole a radioactive isotope. He was not warned of the danger of coming in contact with it. They only have two weeks to find who did this to Benny before he dies from the radiation poisoning.
S3.E12 ∙ The Antwerp Caper
Manet the magician schemes to pay off his gambling debts by reuniting his assistant with her wealthy parents, back in California. To verify that the beautiful young woman's really the daughter who disappeared in World War II Europe, the parents hire Stu Bailey to fly to Antwerp to investigate.
S3.E13 ∙ The Affairs of Adam Gallante
Newlywed Adam Gallante disappears, then someone keeps trying to kill his naive bride Alice. Bloodhounds Spencer and Kookie find out that the meek-looking Gallante, a traveling women's clothing salesman, had paramours all over, including Sheila Storm, seer Karma Onyx, and Peaches Schultz.
S3.E14 ∙ The Valley Caper
Rex is hired to protect an up and coming actress Abigail Allen pretending to be a fellow performer. He gets emotionally involved as he learns an ex-con is a suspect but it's the woman's secrets that put her in the most danger.
S3.E15 ∙ The Dresden Doll
Spencer is to be the Stewart's bodyguard, a couple where the husband is an older man married to the attractive Dolly. She makes a play for Jeff and he discovers her ex-con old boyfriend which puts several lives at risk.
S3.E16 ∙ The Rice Estate
Eunice Rice is in dire financial straits, a recent widow of an unhappy marriage, who is being blackmailed by an unknown stranger.
S3.E17 ∙ The Hamlet Caper
An egocentric actor has a series of "accidents" causing the nervous producer of the show the actor is in to hire Rex to solve who is trying to off the pompous actor. Lots of suspects, but thanks to a poisoned canteen the killer is found.
S3.E18 ∙ The Man in the Mirror
A man with split personality hires Bailey and Spencer to protect him from his would-be murderer--his own alter ego.
S3.E19 ∙ The College Caper
Bailey and Kookie enter college--as teacher and student--to protect a gangster's football-hero son.
S3.E20 ∙ Mr. Goldilocks
Jeff trails a jewel thief into the desert, only to have the thief and his girlfriend turn the tables on him.
S3.E21 ∙ The Corsican Caper
Suzanne is swindled in a confidence scheme and then becomes a murder suspect when the con man turns up dead.
S3.E22 ∙ Once Upon a Caper
Jeff recounts how he took in struggling nerd Stu as junior partner, after Jeff rescued a beauty from a kidnapping plus nabbed a car ring single-handed, after bow-tied, all-thumbs Stu botched the car theft investigation. Jeff's princely version of the origin of 77 Sunset Strip is in response to Rex making a rash mistake by asking Jeff how their agency started. As a true detective, Rex needs all the facts to close a case, so he grills Stu for his version of the events.
S3.E23 ∙ Strange Bedfellows
Jeff is hired by Maritza, a much married socialite to steal her jewels in an insurance scam. When he turns her down she frames him for theft. But it's her missing love letters that have several Hollywood lotharios on edge.
S3.E24 ∙ Face in the Window
A starlet is being stalked-until she shoots him. Rex finds that though she says she has no idea who he was, he was connected to an upcoming film she and her western star husband are invested in.
S3.E25 ∙ Tiger by the Tail
The boys are given the job of protecting the Padi Shah of Benar while he tours Southern California. Kookie falls heavily for the Padi Shah's daughter, which could potentially have deadly consequences for him.
S3.E26 ∙ The Space Caper
Jeff enters the world of espionage when he is asked to impersonate a brilliant scientist. He must keep up the subterfuge as he tries to ferret out who might be passing on intelligence to the nation's enemies.
S3.E27 ∙ Open and Close in One
Baxter Kellogg, a former star, is attempting a comeback but loses his luck charm at a party. Stu is hired to locate it but finds instead a secretive wife, a resentful nephew, an unemployed starlet plus a blackmailer who meets misfortune.
S3.E28 ∙ The Legend of Leckonby
Jeff is asked by Lt. Gilmore to look into the disappearance of $85,000 hidden by gambler Stanley, recently out of prison. Jeff gets nowhere as his fiancée Francie and friends claim ignorance. But a murder changes the investigation's course.
S3.E29 ∙ Old Card Sharps Never Die
Rex heads to an old mining town, hired by the local boss Henning. After he turns down the job he's prevented from leaving. He becomes involved with Notch who holds the deed to a valuable claim that several of the locals want their hands on.
S3.E30 ∙ Vamp 'til Ready
Stu is hired to find a missing husband, David Todd a once well known pianist who left the spotlight. Stu finds him playing at out of the way club where David insists his wife wants him back to murder him. Events unfold that the investigator must untangle.
S3.E31 ∙ The Common Denominator
Lt. Gilmore enlists Jeff when he's perplexed by a series of unrelated murders. Spencer's work reveals all had a connection to boats plus spoke French. Jeff enlists Suzanne's help but an encounter with a surly marina owner puts her at risk.
S3.E32 ∙ The 6 Out of 8 Caper
Meek bookkeeper Wilmer Zaleski picks 6 of 8 winners every day at the track, attracting the attention of hoods Flip & Schoolboy plus a statuesque billionaire track dilettante. Babs hires Stu to find out Zaleski's secret, while the strong-arms pummel Wilmer and kidnap his daughter. Maverick's a sure bet to win, but Roscoe has to pull an all-nighter to pick the other 5, to draw the kidnappers out in the open.
S3.E33 ∙ The Celluloid Cowboy
Jeff is hired by Fay Dakota to protect her estranged husband Flint on the set of his comeback western. A series of mishaps have plagued the film plus Flint's interest in starlet Rhonda creates complications as Jeff and Roscoe work as extras.
S3.E34 ∙ The Eyes of Love
When Stu's pilot friend Hal is fired for reporting a dead body that disappears Stu decides to help. An vehicle search reveals the involvement of advice columnist Amanda Strong and her gigolo husband Bowman that raises suspicions.
S3.E35 ∙ Designing Eye
Jeff is hired by a high end swimwear company to discover why their new designs appear first at their primary competition. Jeff places Suzanne as a model at the firm that unravels a complicated series of deceptions.
S3.E36 ∙ Caper in E Flat
Morton Franklin hires Rex to find out who is trying to kill his client, singer Billy Boy Baines.
S3.E37 ∙ Hot Tamale Caper: Part I
While Bailey and Spencer are out, Randolph takes an assignment from a mysterious South American girl, but he's apparently killed en route to her country when his plane explodes. The other detectives suspect he was actually kidnapped.
S3.E38 ∙ Hot Tamale Caper: Part II
Randolph awakens from a drugged state to find he has been kidnapped by a banana republic's crooked politicos, and forced to impersonate a dead leader the people trust. Bailey and Spencer enlist Kookie and Roscoe to help in a rescue mission.
S3.E39 ∙ The Positive Negative
Rex is engaged by Gunnar Isis, a ruthless international tycoon, to guard a priceless diamond tiara. When it is stolen from his mistress, lovely ballerina Amanda Sant, Rex is thrown into a maze of murderers, blackmailers and Nazis.
S4.E1 ∙ The Rival Eye Caper
Stu and Jeff run into a private eye business that is solving their jewel robbery cases instantly. They find it is a fence for receiving insurance money from the robberies.
S4.E2 ∙ The Desert Spa Caper
Suzanne goes undercover at females-only El Rancho Aphrodite when a actor dies suspiciously and a boozy actress is suspected of being involved. A studio hires Bailey & Spencer to help the bombshell make it through rehab , but someone sabotages her riding saddle and plants hooch in her drawer. Spa goers include a gossip columnist, a rival starlet, and others connected with the dead actor, such as a Waco riding instructor.
S4.E3 ∙ The Man in the Crowd
Jeff is being sought for murder by a vengeful compatriot who fought in the Korean War with him and believes that Jeff collaborated with North Korea.
S4.E4 ∙ The Inverness Cape Caper
Stu is used by an organized crime syndicate to find a lawyer that is to be murdered. When Stu emerges from unconsciousness, his job now is to find the men responsible.
S4.E5 ∙ The Lady Has the Answers
An overly functional family spins Jeff's head like a Lazy Susan, over a murder/jewel heist where nothing makes sense. A precocious grandchild with a pet ocelot bedevils Roscoe, one daughter's missing, and sister Lally's draped all over Jeff. Narcotics, somnambulism, an asylum visit, an elusive psychiatrist, and a mother who makes as much sense as Gracie Allen challenge the Bailey & Spencer firm's patience and resources, as everyone feeds Lt. Gilmore straight lines.
S4.E6 ∙ The Unremembered
Stuart investigates the case of a cat burglar who wears costumes from old films. He suspects Roland Dumont, an unemployed actor who has not made a film in 20 years, and rents Dumont's estate to get close to the suspect.
S4.E7 ∙ Big Boy Blue
Spencer tries to break through the defensive crust of a trumpet player who appears to fear for his own life.
S4.E8 ∙ The Cold Cash Caper
Hired to investigate a robbery, Bailey has one baffling lead: the theft was perfectly timed - almost like a wartime commando raid.
S4.E9 ∙ The Missing Daddy Caper
New father, Chet Willis, is happy about the state of his life until his sordid past begins to catch up with him.
S4.E10 ∙ The Turning Point
An army buddy of Stu's asks him to be responsible for delinquent Speed Minton. Stu and his friends make progress straightening out the troubled youth but his ex-con brother Nate shows up and tries to draw him back into a criminal life.
S4.E11 ∙ The Deadly Solo
A popular musician Gandy Waters is believed to be the target when a member of his band is murdered. Jeff goes on the road to protect Gandy plus find the killer. He stumbles onto a case of blackmail and a very unhappy wife.
S4.E12 ∙ Reserved for Mr. Bailey
This is a one-man show as Efrem Zimbalist Jr. does a solo performance. Stu Bailey is lured to a desert hideaway where an old enemy lies in wait to kill him. The enemy is never seen onscreen, only heard by voice.
S4.E13 ∙ The Navy Caper
Jeff is asked by old naval buddy Captain Ivers to do undercover work at a nearby military base. He brings in Suzanne, Roscoe and Kookie as a yeoman to help protect a top secret computer project. Kookie helps out a lovelorn Harold.
S4.E14 ∙ Bullets for Santa
Santa is killed in the holiday parade on a float with an aging actress. Then the actress is shot at during the Tournament of Roses parade. Jeff is hired to protect her. There are not many suspects, but more incidents. The police are looking foolish. Great cast including Marilyn Maxwell, Yvonne Craig, and Victor Buono.
S4.E15 ∙ The Chrome Coffin
Stu is hired by Montaigne, uncle and guardian to Drake, a wealthy youngster interested in drag racing. Threats have been made against Drake's life unless $100,000 is paid. Stu uses JR and Kookie's car expertise in solving the case.
S4.E16 ∙ The Down Under Caper
Malefactors invade Australian sheep station, looking for gold, and finding something quite different. Roger doesn't get the girl, again, although he did in real life.
S4.E17 ∙ Mr. Bailey's Honeymoon
Stu, suffering amnesia, finds himself in a small town near Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a phony new name (Roger Morley) and an equally phony (and lethal) new wife with ulterior motives. With help from sweet waitress Moxie Miller, he gets answers.
S4.E18 ∙ Penthouse on Skid Row
Somebody is picking on the inhabitants of an old house, framing or assaulting them one by one. Roger masquerades as a Shakesperean actor on the bum to sort it out. Grace Lee Whitney appears.
S4.E19 ∙ The Diplomatic Caper
Dr. Feld is casting the deciding vote at a European conference. Friend Stu is called in to protect his daughter Michelle from consequences and Kookie helps out. But her undercover identity is threatened by Ross who has misguided ideals.
S4.E20 ∙ The Bridal Trail Caper
A wealthy businessman hires Jeff and J.R. to keep the crowd and reporters away from his wedding and new bride. They end up saving the bride and solving a murder. All in time for the newlyweds to go on their Hawaiian honeymoon.
S4.E21 ∙ Brass Ring Caper
A hitchhiker is used as a set-up for the murder of a strip-club owner's wife and Kookie must find out the truth soon to clear him.
S4.E22 ∙ The Bel Air Hermit
Stu is called upon to investigate why Laurie Cameron is wastingly speculating the family inheritance. He finds that whoever is advising her, however, is an expert, as the stocks soar. However, it is also learned why the Bel Air Hermit is such: he is trying to hide from an organized crime mob.
S4.E23 ∙ The Parallel Caper
Jeff and Kookie unknowingly are working on the same case involving nefarious doings at the San Pedro docks. Kookie is helping old friend Nina while socialite Marianne employs Jeff to get the truth about the family of future in-laws.
S4.E24 ∙ Twice Dead
Tom Lansing needs Stu's help to reconnect with daughter Jean as just freed from prison for killing wife Connie. She prefers the estrangement continue but then Stu learns the murder never happened. But as things improve for Tom, Connie is found dead.
S4.E25 ∙ Jennifer
Jennifer's father and husband have died within the past two years. Jeff Spencer is employed to go to France where Jennifer is living to make sure she doing well.
S4.E26 ∙ Baker Street Caper
Stu, accompanied by Roscoe, just wrapped up a case in England and is relaxing. But a major heist gets their attention and the London police ask for their expertise. It also gives Roscoe a chance to put his Sherlock Holmes knowledge to use.
S4.E28 ∙ Violence for Your Furs
A road side diner's unlikely short order cook is Roscoe who's keeping an eye on a truck hijacking suspect and a pretty waitress.
S4.E29 ∙ The Pet Shop Caper
Stu Bailey re-opens a six year old robbery case when the leading suspect re-enters the country disguised as his own lookalike.
S4.E30 ∙ The Steerer
A crooked poker game in a hotel that sets up businessmen leads to a murder. But when Jeff and Kookie team with the police they encounter a cover up where supposedly claim no killing took place.
S4.E31 ∙ Ghost of a Memory
Singing sensation Johnny Main, killed in an airplane crash, has an eerie and memorable funeral: his voice is heard during the services.
S4.E32 ∙ The Disappearance
The kidnapping of an national leader pits Bailey against the brainy Doctor Burke (John Dehner) who has an ingenious plan for escaping with $1,000,000 in ransom.
S4.E33 ∙ The Lovely American
Jeff heads to an out of the way Italian villiage to distribute an expatriate's bequest to the inhabitants. But local police Lorenzo is jealous of Jeff and kidnaps but is oblivious to two strangers from Milan intent on getting the cash.
S4.E34 ∙ The Gemmologist Caper
The sleuths get a lesson in intrigue from a notorious international jewel thief who snatches a fortune in gems as they blithely look on.
S4.E35 ∙ Flight from Escondido
Jeff is flying to LA on a flight with a runaway heiress, a sick lad, an anti-Communist Latin American general, and an unhappy couple. When the flight is hijacked by revolutionaries, Jeff must get everyone to stay calm and also take back the plane.
S4.E36 ∙ Dress Rehearsal
Kookie's career as a private detective starts off with a whimper: he's summoned to rescue a wealthy matron's kidnapped dog.
S4.E37 ∙ Framework for a Badge
A killers ability to keep one step ahead of lieutenant Gilmore is having its effect on the policeman's reputation, until Spencer steps in.
S4.E38 ∙ Pattern for a Bomb
Blank walls and false leads abound as Spencer investigates the seemingly motiveless bombing of a delicatessen.
S4.E39 ∙ Upbeat
Stu and JR are lured out of town not knowing it's a subterfuge by Stu's nemesis from his espionage days. Cheva takes both men captive using Nora, a past romance of Bailey's which leaves their futures in doubt.
S4.E40 ∙ Nightmare
Spencer is retained by Mark Wade (Peter Breck), an artist whose dreams of murder have an eerie tinge of reality.
S4.E41 ∙ The Gang's All Here
Stu Bailey is hired to loosen a pool shark's grip on a policeman's rebellious son.
S5.E1 ∙ The Reluctant Spy
Stu travels to Vienna to investigate the "accidental" death of a man in whose effects his widow found a profoundly disturbing letter.
S5.E2 ∙ Leap, My Lovely
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.
S5.E3 ∙ Terror in a Small Town
Kookie and Jeff pretend to accuse each other of treachery and 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 California town, Kookie is attacked by a hitchhiker he unwisely picked up. The rapist hijacks Kookie's wheels and gun, and makes him switch clothes, so the sheriff has good reason to suspect the young PI. Kookie is mistakenly arrested for assault (really a euphemism for attempted rape). After insisting on his right to a phone call (the small town yokels don't seem aware of the right to a phone call), the first of which fails to go through, he then calls J.R., who is throwing a wild party. J.R. thinks he is being (what we now call) "punked" yet again. J.R. tells the sheriff to "lock him [Kookie] up and throw away the key". The sheriff then allows Kookie to see his accuser but the traumatized woman mistakenly claims Kookie IS the man who attacked her in the dark. The townsfolk, led by the woman's husband, are increasingly inflamed. Kookie may not even make it to trial, in a plot very similar to that of the Spencer Tracy-Sylvia Sidney classic Fury (1936) including the well-acted role of the conflicted and very morally ambiguous sheriff.
S5.E4 ∙ The Raiders
Stu Bailey goes undercover to help a small town chief of police nail the kingpin of a gambling syndicate.
S5.E5 ∙ The Floating Man
Finding the person who threatened Judge Mellon proves no easy task for Spencer. Suspects range from vengeful con men to the judge's wife.
S5.E6 ∙ The Catspaw Caper
A young woman who escaped from Communist Hungary asks Stu to help her find her mother, a refugee whom the Communists want badly.
S5.E7 ∙ Wolf! Cried the Blonde
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.
S5.E8 ∙ The Dark Wood
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.
S5.E9 ∙ Shadow on Your Shoulder
Stu Bailey works with law enforcement to catch a trio of sophisticated thieves who use a unique lethal nerve agent (whose effects range from serious to potentially lethal) to rob unsuspecting victims.
S5.E10 ∙ Adventure in San Dede
Jeff and J.R. are hired to work on a case for Latin American clients.
S5.E11 ∙ The Odds on Odette
Jeff is hired by an astrologer, who is receiving threatening phone calls, with unexpected results.
S5.E12 ∙ The Snow Job Caper
Jeff and an insurance adjuster try to find a lost truck shipment.
S5.E13 ∙ Falling Stars
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.
S5.E14 ∙ The Tarnished Idol
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.
S5.E15 ∙ Scream Softly, Dear
Kookie investigates a complicated murder, that began with a borrowed car.
S5.E16 ∙ Terror in Silence
Stu helps a deaf librarian, who "hears" a death threat in the library.
S5.E17 ∙ Crash Out!
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.
S5.E18 ∙ The Night Was Six Years Long
The agency's old secretary returns with amnesia, after six years away from the office.
S5.E19 ∙ Six Feet Under
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.
S5.E20 ∙ Escape to Freedom
Stu must save a scientist's son, who is being held hostage to manipulate her.
S5.E21 ∙ Dial 'S' for Spencer
A woman fears that her brother will be unable to collect his inheritance.
S5.E22 ∙ Nine to Five
Bailey's old friend from New York has two problems, one with his business, the other with his marriage.
S5.E23 ∙ Stranger from the Sea
When a Japanese buddy shows up and finds that his uncle is missing along with $50K, Kookie pitches in to help solve the mystery.
S5.E24 ∙ The Man Who Wasn't There
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.
S5.E25 ∙ Flight 307
Stu's flight to Hawaii is delayed by chaos: a murder, a fleeing thief, and a love triangle.
S5.E26 ∙ Target Island
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.
S5.E27 ∙ Reunion at Balboa
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.
S5.E28 ∙ Walk Among Tigers
Stu uncovers a trap, when he searches a train crash for a client's belongings.
S5.E29 ∙ The Left Field Caper
An unhappy Little League baseball player is the key to a murder.
S5.E30 ∙ The Heartbeat Caper
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.
S5.E31 ∙ To Catch a Mink
Things go wrong at a charity auction; Stu meets an old flame, who robs the event.
S5.E32 ∙ Lady in the Sun
Stu pursues a lady thief who stole a realtor's books, but she is dangerous.
S5.E33 ∙ Our Man in Switzerland
Stu chases some international crooks, who stole $1 million in securities from the agency, to Switzerland.
S5.E34 ∙ Your Fortune for a Penny
Stu tangles with a blonde while tracking down a cold case.
S5.E35 ∙ The Checkmate Caper
Stu finds himself in the middle of a fake robbery for the heir to a criminal family.
S5.E36 ∙ Never to Have Loved
A talent agent hires Stu and Kookie to protect a client from a very charismatic and domineering director.
S6.E1 ∙ 5: Part 1
Stuart Bailey, now operating a one-man detective agency, is summoned to New York by Vincent Marion. Marion wants Bailey to buy his late younger brother Andy's way to heaven -- by making amends to those who Andy has wronged during a wasted life. Bailey must contend with a hostile New York City police detective and various characters whose motives are unclear. Bailey has $9,000 that Andy Marion left. But Andy's debts likely far outweigh the money. One mystery is Carla Stevens, who is following the detective. As the first part ends, Bailey lies in the basement of an apartment building after having been attacked by a thug.
S6.E2 ∙ 5: Part 2
Stuart Bailey recovers from a beating and presses forward with his case, tracking down people who knew the late Andy Marion and attempt to make right the pain Andy had caused. Bailey encounters a series of eccentric characters who hold pieces of the puzzle. He also tracks down Carla Stevens, Andy's former girlfriend. Meanwhile, Andy's wife of one week turns up dead and New York City Lt. Butter looks to Bailey as the prime suspect. Bailey turns up a photograph of a large key and has a duplicate made. As the episode ends, Bailey has been fired by Victor Marion, the dead man's brother.The detective knows he has seen the lock the key must open -- and figures he must find it fast.
S6.E3 ∙ 5: Part 3
As Stuart Bailey digs deeper into the life the late Andy Marion, he discovers the dead man was dealing in art treasurers stolen by the Nazis in World War II. Vincent Marion, the dead man's brother, agrees to provide additional funds for Bailey to follow a lead to Italy. But Bailey doesn't know that Vincent Marion, an art dealer, is playing a deadly double cross.
S6.E4 ∙ 5: Part 4
Stuart Bailey crisscrosses Europe trying to solve the mystery of art objects stolen by the Nazis. The detective discovers the codename of Ajax. But other leads turn out to be literal dead ends. Bailey is also under observation by the U.S. Army unit charged with recovering priceless artworks stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Bailey gets a lead that calls for him to fly to Israel. But before he can make a flight to Israel, he's about to be attacked by thugs in Paris.
S6.E5 ∙ 5: The Conclusion
Stuart Bailey fights off attackers in Paris then managers to check out of his hotel and catch a flight to Tel Aviv. Once there, he encounters a World War II veteran who provides valuable knowledge about how a half-billion dollars in artworks stolen by the Nazis were, in turn, stolen again. Vincent Marion, who originally hired Bailey, was behind the theft. He had his brother Andy killed after the younger Marion had tried to go into business for himself. After Marion commits suicide, Bailey moves to solve the marathon case.
S6.E6 ∙ White Lie
Stu Bailey investigates the title for a piece of land in Oklahoma that could yield a fortune in oil. But the owner is afraid to reveal that she has Negro blood, a revelation that would ruin her standing in the White world.
S6.E7 ∙ 88 Bars
Stu Bailey is hired by one of the richest women in the world to investigate a series of attempts on the life of her brother. The highlights of Bailey's investigation include a quick trip to Las Vegas and discovering an intruder breaking into his office. The private investigator discovers the brother is hiding something -- something that could mean the end of Bailey.
S6.E8 ∙ Don't Wait for Me
Stu Bailey is hired by wealthy Mrs. Patterson to find out who shot her daughter Sharon in the park. She suspects the boy from the poor side of town and pays Stu when Marco is arrested. He proves what she thinks happened is not the truth.
S6.E9 ∙ By His Own Verdict
Bailey is hired by a retiring attorney to check into the background of his final client - a petty hoodlum accused of murder who, following his acquittal, admitted to the lawyer that he was, in fact, guilty.
S6.E10 ∙ Deposit with Caution
A NY cop is being framed for taking a payoff, and hires Bailey to find out why and clear his name.
S6.E11 ∙ The Toy Jungle
An investigation of a wife's double-life leads to a drug ring.
S6.E12 ∙ The Fumble
A drunk, that Stu is supposed to keep an eye on, is framed for murder.
S6.E13 ∙ Bonus Baby
Stu works on a paternity case that involves a son abandoned by his father years before.
S6.E14 ∙ Paper Chase
Stu works on a case, for a paper company, that is complicated by murder and blackmail.
S6.E15 ∙ Lovers' Lane
Stu tries to clear a politician's son, on death row for rape and murder, who claims he was framed.
S6.E16 ∙ Alimony League
Stu assists with a millionaire's alimony re-negotiations, but the situation turns deadly.
S6.E17 ∙ Not Such a Simple Knot
Stu babysits for a math genius in Las Vegas; the boy may be able to break the casino.
S6.E18 ∙ The Target
The author of a true crime book finds himself the target of an assassin.
S6.E19 ∙ Dead as in 'Dude'
Stu investigates a suicide at a dude ranch, when the widow rejects the cause of death.
S6.E20 ∙ Queen of the Cats
An heiress from Philadelphia hires Stu to locate her long-lost mother.
