Route 66

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S2.E1 ∙ A Month of Sundays

Fri, Sep 22, 1961

Tod and Buz, in Butte, Montana working as laborers in a copper mine, meet a beautiful girl at their rooming house. She is a local girl who has made it big and has mysteriously come home despite being the star of a current hit on Broadway. Buz quickly falls in love with her and becomes serious. Tod knows her dark secret.

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S2.E2 ∙ Blue Murder

Fri, Sep 29, 1961

Buz and Tod warily transport a horse with a reputation as a killer to its new owner, whose family is as dysfunctional as any clan Tennessee Williams conjured up. The owner's sensuous wife Blossom Bludge toys with Buz poolside, as she explains why she chose her power-crazed husband over her passive brother-in-law. A third brother, the brawny Cam Bludge, stands brooding and mute as the owner struggles to break the stallion, the way he tamed his own family. As usual, the episode features superb on-location photography, this time in Butte, Montana.

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S2.E3 ∙ Goodnight Sweet Blues

Fri, Oct 6, 1961

Tod and Buzz agree to help fulfill a dying jazz singer's last wish to reunite with her old band.

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S2.E4 ∙ Birdcage on My Foot

Fri, Oct 13, 1961

Tod tries to rehabilitate a hostile young drug addict.

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S2.E5 ∙ First-Class Mouliak

Fri, Oct 20, 1961

A girl's death sets off a search for her boyfriend, who must explain that her death was an accident before he's lynched.

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S2.E6 ∙ Once to Every Man

Fri, Oct 27, 1961

Tod and Buz fail to save their ship-builder boss from accidentally drowning, but stay on when his free-spirited daughter takes over the yard. Misnamed Prudence's as conflicted and headstrong as she's alluring - which stabs a fork between streetwise Buz, and preppy Tod whose background matches Prudence and upper-crust Gloucester, Massachusetts maddeningly.

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S2.E7 ∙ The Mud Nest

Fri, Nov 10, 1961

On intuition Buz steers the 66ers off route to a Maryland hamlet where everyone thinks they recognize Buz - as returning prodigal of a hated local clan. When Buz meets the Colby clan they look like clones - of Buz. Tod & Buz speed into Charm City where a family member ran to with-child, disappearing into the sin-filled streets of Baltimore. Orphan Buz has to know if she's his mother.

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S2.E8 ∙ A Bridge Across Five Days

Fri, Nov 17, 1961

Tod and Buz befriend a woman who has just been released from a mental institute.

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S2.E9 ∙ Mon Petit Chou

Fri, Nov 24, 1961

Tod and Buz are in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania working as crewmen on a tugboat. Tod "rescues" a pretty girl who oddly was water skiing in the shipping lanes. She is a singer from France, managed by a Svengali who closely watches her and is haunted by the memory of a previous "discovery" who deserted him.

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S2.E10 ∙ Some of the People, Some of the Time

Fri, Dec 1, 1961

Tod and Buz, driving through Pennsylvania, make the acquaintance of a man who runs small-town beauty/talent contests with the winners promised a movie studio connection. Tod and Buz eagerly go to work for him in order to meet the local lovelies. They find the "talent scout" rather promotes a living for himself.

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S2.E11 ∙ The Thin White Line

Fri, Dec 8, 1961

Tod's drink is spiked with a hallucinatory drug, making him a danger to himself and to others.

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S2.E12 ∙ ...And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon

Fri, Dec 15, 1961

Tod and Buz are in Philadelphia visiting a friend/mentor of Buz from his New York Hell's Kitchen days. The old friend, a social worker trying to tame a quirky local gang leader, is killed after playing a rooftop "chicken game". Tod and Buz run into major trouble after staying to help a girl whose boyfriend has left the gang.

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S2.E13 ∙ Burning for Burning

Fri, Dec 29, 1961

A widow tries to make amends with her bitter mother-in-law.

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S2.E14 ∙ To Walk with the Serpent

Fri, Jan 5, 1962

Tod and Buz are asked by the FBI to infiltrate a nativist hate group.

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S2.E15 ∙ A Long Piece of Mischief

Fri, Jan 19, 1962

Tod and Buz, in Mesquite, Texas "finishing up a 30 day job at a brick factory", meet performers at the town's rodeo. Two of the contestants hate the rodeo's clown and torment him with nasty pranks. Buz is drawn into the latest gag unknowingly and helps both the rodeo clown and a female stunt rider to find peace with themselves.

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S2.E16 ∙ 1800 Days to Justice

Fri, Jan 26, 1962

Job seeks justice in his hometown after 5 years in a Texas prison. David Job and his gang take over the scrub town, putting its kingpins and collaborators on kangaroo trial for railroading Job out, and into prison. Passersby Buz & Tod get rounded up too, with Tod assigned to act as the defense mouthpiece. As Job and local Goliath Harcourt Jr. contend over maid Marion Ross, brother Doodle Job must choose sides.

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S2.E17 ∙ City of Wheels

Fri, Feb 2, 1962

Todd and Buz work with wheelchair patients at a veterans hospital, where a nurse falls in love with a patient.

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S2.E18 ∙ How Much a Pound Is Albatross?

Fri, Feb 9, 1962

Tod falls for a female motorcyclist.

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S2.E19 ∙ Aren't You Surprised to See Me?

Fri, Feb 16, 1962

A religious madman takes Buz hostage and threatens to kill him unless the people of Dallas go a full day without committing sin.

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S2.E20 ∙ You Never Had It So Good

Fri, Feb 23, 1962

Tod and Buz are in Phoenix, Arizona working as construction laborers with a land development company. When Tod, due to his Yale background, is summoned to Personnel about a job opening, Buz goes in his place in order to meet a pretty lady executive. Buz surprisingly gets the job and may have "found his place in the world". Or has he?

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S2.E21 ∙ Shoulder the Sky, My Lad

Fri, Mar 2, 1962

Tod and Buz pursue a 13-year-old boy who ran away following his father's murder.

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S2.E22 ∙ Blues for the Left Foot

Fri, Mar 9, 1962

Tod and Buz are in Los Angeles working at CBS as stage hands. A dancer who Tod had a crush on during his Yale days has recently become widowed from an older star actor who was a hopeless alcoholic. Now in her late 20's, she has not worked for almost ten years. Tod and Buz help and encourage her to make a life for herself.

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S2.E23 ∙ Go Read the River

Fri, Mar 16, 1962

Tod tries to help a girl make peace with her estranged father.

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S2.E24 ∙ Even Stones Have Eyes

Fri, Mar 30, 1962

Tod and Buz are in Austin, Texas employed as construction workers. On the job, Buz is hit on the head and nearly killed. He recovers but with a problem - he is totally blind. After initially having suicidal thoughts, Buz goes to a rural school for the blind. He slowly learns to cope with his situation and finds love as well.

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S2.E25 ∙ Love Is a Skinny Kid

Fri, Apr 6, 1962

A woman in a hideous Japanese mask refuses to remove it or give her name, as she riles up a Texas town after arriving to stage a memorial for a long-dead girl. Buz is fascinated by the scorned young woman but she refuses his help.

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S2.E26 ∙ Kiss the Maiden All Forlorn

Fri, Apr 13, 1962

Tod and Buz, heading toward Dallas, Texas, stop to help a girl whose car has broken down. The three are kidnapped at gunpoint, taken to a Dallas hotel and held prisoner. The kidnappers are associates of a wanted millionaire embezzler who has come back to the U.S. to stop the girl, his daughter, from becoming a nun.

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S2.E27 ∙ Two on the House

Fri, Apr 20, 1962

Tod and Buz are in Cleveland, Ohio where they are employed as crewman on the Cuyahoga River tour boat. They are drawn into the drama surrounding a motherless, lonely son of a workaholic land developer. The boy is seemingly in danger of being harmed or kidnapped. When he does disappear the truth is soon found out by Tod and Buz.

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S2.E28 ∙ There I Am - There I Always Am

Fri, May 4, 1962

Tod and Buz are staying on Catalina Island, California beach, and enjoying the Winter there. When Tod goes on an errand to Avalon, Buz settles in for an enjoyable time but an irresponsible woman creates a frenetic day for him. He must free her foot, caught in the shoreline rocks, before the engulfing tide comes in.

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S2.E29 ∙ Between Hello and Goodbye

Fri, May 11, 1962

Tod falls in love with an emotionally disturbed woman whose life is oddly connected with that of her lookalike sister.

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S2.E30 ∙ A Feat of Strength

Fri, May 18, 1962

Tod in the Los Angeles area, goes to work as an aide to a wrestling promoter who is owed a debt by a lady with a husband just released from prison in Hungary. The promoter loves the woman and seeks to break up the marriage. Buz is not seen - he is in an isolation ward at Pacoima Hospital with a "mysterious virus".

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S2.E31 ∙ Hell Is Empty, All the Devils Are Here

Fri, May 25, 1962

Tod is in Thousand Oaks, California "wrangling camels" at the Jungleland zoo. The zoo's owner has nightmares about the tiger which killed his first wife, a famous animal trainer. His second wife and Tod are puzzled as to what else he has in his thoughts. Buz is not seen - Tod mentions he has "a buddy in the Pacoima Hospital".

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S2.E32 ∙ From an Enchantress Fleeing

Fri, Jun 1, 1962

Tod, in Southern California, is working for an ultra-successful female doctor who combines psychology and dentistry. When her husband disappears, Tod is assigned to look for him. Tod does and finds an unhappy man who is tired of his wife's dominance and unwilling to live her lifestyle. Buz is not seen-or mentioned.