Episode 1
Girl on the Run
1h
Solo private eye Stu Bailey tries to locate a missing singer before a professional killer does.
Episode credits
Directed by Richard L. BareGuest stars Harry Lauter, Barton MacLane, Shepperd Strudwick, Ray Teal
TV series
77 Sunset Strip
1958TV-PG6 seasons7.2 / 10
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Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
77 Sunset Strip premiered October 10, 1958. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
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Episode 2
Lovely Lady, Pity Me
1h
Stu Bailey's infatuation with a beautiful woman leads him into blackmail and suspicion of murder.
Episode credits
Directed by Douglas HeyesGuest stars Richard Long, Barney Phillips, Kathleen Crowley, Peter Breck, Jeanne Cooper, Irving Bacon
Episode 3
A Nice Social Evening
1h
Stu Bailey is hired by a government agent to keep a Latin playboy under surveillance while he's in Hollywood, but the playboy turns out to be on the run from a killer.
Episode credits
Directed by Stuart HeislerGuest stars Dorothy Provine, Ray Danton, Venetia Stevenson, Mario Alcalde, Arlene Howell, Lou Krugman, Abel Fernandez, Myrna Fahey
Episode 4
Casualty
1h
Jeff Spencer uncovers an insurance scam when he is hired by a woman who swears that the husband she thought dead is still alive.
Episode credits
Directed by Richard L. BareWritten by Gene LevittGuest stars Dolores Donlon, Walter Reed, Nancy Kulp, Keith Richards
Episode 5
The Bouncing Chip
1h
Stu Bailey is hired to find ot who is passing counterfeit chips in a Las Vegas casino.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonGuest stars Dyan Cannon, Ruta Lee, Brad Dexter, Russ Conway, Ray Teal, Sidney Clute
Episode 6
Two and Two Make Six
1h
Jeff Spencer is hired by a fashion designer to protect her ex-con husband, who has evidence that would convict a man engaged in revenge killings.
Episode credits
Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Whitney Blake, Richard Long, Barney Phillips, Karl Swenson, John Stephenson, Adam West
Episode 7
All Our Yesterdays
1h
Stu Bailey is hired by the greedy relatives of a silent film star to prove her incompetent so that they can get their hands on the money she is spending to finance a remake of her old hit ""Foolish Girl"".
Episode credits
Directed by Richard L. BareGuest stars Francis X. Bushman, John Carradine, Merry Anders, Doris Kenyon, Herbert Rudley, John Hubbard, Jacqueline Beer, Robert Shayne
Episode 8
The Well-Selected Frame
1h
Jeff Spencer is hired by a woman to get divorce evidence against her husband, but her real plan is to murder him and frame Jeff for the crime.
Episode credits
Directed by Boris SagalWritten by Charles Hoffman, Gerald Drayson AdamsGuest stars Richard Long, Peggie Castle, Hal Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Episode 9
Iron Curtain Caper
1h
Stu Bailey is hired to rescue a newspaper correspondent who is being held captive in an East German hospital.
Episode credits
Directed by Richard L. BareGuest stars Willis Bouchey, Jacqueline Scott, Kurt Kreuger, Lawrence Dobkin, Richard Garland, Richard Crane, Emory Parnell, Otto Waldis
Episode 10
Vicious Circle
1h
Jeff Spencer is hired by the lawyer son of a former gangster to prevent his wrathful father from taking vengeance on the crminals who kidnapped him.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by James BarnettGuest stars George Tobias, Bert Convy, Harold J. Stone, Frank De Kova
Episode 11
One False Step
1h
Bailey & Spencer are hired by a Washington attorney to protect his wife after a man on a plane trip suggests they swap murders.
Episode credits
Directed by James V. KernWritten by Howard BrowneGuest stars Ed Kemmer, Richard Long, Connie Stevens, Harlan Warde
Episode 12
The Court Martial of Johnny Murdo
1h
Jeff Spencer is hired by a military cadet's mother to find out if he is really guilty of stealing from a student fund, but someone seems willing to kill to prevent the truth from coming out.
Episode credits
Directed by Lee SholemGuest stars Catherine McLeod, Robert Ellis Miller, Bruce Bennett, John Litel, Chuck Courtney, Robert Ellis
Episode 13
Hit and Run
1h
Stu Bailey loans his convertible to Kookie for a date, only to find that the young man has been arrested for reckless driving.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by James GunnGuest stars Louis Quinn, Sue Randall, Robert H. Harris
Episode 14
Not an Enemy in the World
1h
Jeff Spencer searches for Suzanne's missing brother but discovers a murder-for-insurance plot.
Episode credits
Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr.Written by Barry Trivers, Leonard LeeGuest stars Phillip Terry, Carole Mathews, Frances DeSales, Louise Glenn, Bobby Jordan, Herbert Lytton
Episode 15
The Secret of Adam Cain
1h
Stu Bailey is hired to recover a seemingly worthless vase but is then kidnapped and taken to Algeria.
Episode credits
Directed by Montgomery PittmanGuest stars Patti Davis, Richard Long, Jon Lormer, Berry Kroeger, Don Gordon, Olan Soule, Liliane Montevecchi
Episode 16
The Girl Who Couldn't Remember
1h
Jeff Spencer is hired by a pretty amnesiac with lots of money in her purse, who turns out to be a murder witness with a killer on her trail.
Episode credits
Directed by George WaggnerGuest stars John Vivyan, Nancy Gates, John Vivyan, Kathleen Hughes, Harvey Stephens, Brad Weston, John Hubbard
Episode 17
Dark Vengeance
1h
Stu Bailey becomes a target for murder when he agrees to help a newsman's crusade against the narcotics racketeers who blinded him.
Episode credits
Directed by Richard L. BareGuest stars Richard Long, Jonathan Haze, Adele Mara, Barry Kelley, Sam White
Episode 18
Conspiracy of Silence
1h
Jeff Spencer is hired to protect his client's student daughter from a killer.
Episode credits
Directed by Charles F. HaasGuest stars Robert Ivers, Gerald Mohr, Pat Crowley, John Dennis, Myrna Fahey
Episode 19
Eyewitness
1h
Stu Bailey is hired by an 8-year-old boy to prove that he's not making up stories when he says he witnessed a bear being killed. What he actually saw was the killing of a woman wearing a fur coat.
Episode credits
Directed by David Lowell RichGuest stars Jay North, Barbara Lang, Robert Douglas, Dean Harens, Patricia Barry
Episode 20
Lovely Alibi
1h
Stu Bailey helps exonerate a framed and suspended policeman and prove a racketeer guilty of murder.
Episode credits
Directed by George WaggnerGuest stars Stacy Keach, Sr., Steve Brodie, Claude Akins, Wayne Heffley, Sol Gorss, Linda Lawson, Leslie Parrish, Andra Martin
Episode 21
In Memoriam
1h
Stu Bailey is hired by a publisher to find out why someone keeps faking reports of his death.
Episode credits
Directed by Richard L. BareGuest stars Joe De Santis, Dolores Donlon, Alan Marshal, Ellen Corby, Fred Stromsoe
Episode 22
The Fifth Stair
1h
Jeff Spencer becomes the subject of a husband's jealous suspicions and is not only approached by a blackmailer but is charged with murder.
Episode credits
Directed by Vincent ShermanGuest stars Richard Long, Patrick McVey, Richard Devon, Julie Adams, Mel Blanc, John Hubbard
Episode 23
Pasadena Caper
1h
Stu Bailey, hired to find an elderly woman's missing son who was heavily insured, becomes suspicious when the body he dredges out of the bay is too decomposed to identify.
Episode credits
Directed by Montgomery PittmanGuest stars Elizabeth Patterson, Olan Soule
Episode 24
Hong Kong Caper
1h
Jeff Spencer takes off for Hong Kong when a note from an army pilot puts him on the trail of a woman named Candy and a fortune in diamonds.
Episode credits
Directed by George WaggnerGuest stars Richard Long, Karen Steele, Willard Waterman, Neil Hamilton, Kathleen Freeman, Reggie Nalder
Episode 25
A Check Will Do Nicely
1h
Stu Bailey is hired to go to Paris to rescue a kidnapped American schoolgirl and save a valuable painting.
Episode credits
Directed by Ida LupinoWritten by Alan CaillouGuest stars Robin Hughes, Florence Marly, Rolfe Sedan, Louis Mercier, Edward Platt
Episode 26
The Grandma Caper
1h
The firm is hired by a wealty family to watch out for their eccentric grandmother, who has embarked on a crime spree.
Episode credits
Directed by David ButlerGuest stars Frances Bavier, Jerome Cowan, Paul Comi
Episode 27
Honey from the Bee
1h
Stu Bailey becomes involved after an ancient Russian tapestry donated to a Beverly Hills restaurant leads to multiple murder.
Episode credits
Directed by George WaggnerWritten by Charles HoffmanGuest stars Connie Stevens, Jay Novello, Gregory Gaye, Ruta Lee, Celia Lovsky, Alex Gerry, Byron Keith, Nancy Walters
Episode 28
Abra-Cadaver
1h
Jeff Spencer goes undercover as a prospective victim of a murder-for-insurance racket.
Episode credits
Guest stars Robert McQueeney, Richard Long, Pernell Roberts, Fay Spain, Malcolm Atterbury
Episode 29
A Bargain in Tombs
1h
Stu Bailey goes to Rome in search of a missing heiress and finds an archaeology student helping loot a tomb.
Episode credits
Directed by Reginald Le BorgWritten by Charles HoffmanGuest stars Richard Long, Ray Danton, Lisa Gaye, Louise Fletcher, Linda Watkins, Al Ruscio
Episode 30
The Widow Wouldn't Weep
1h
Jeff Spencer is hired by a sexy widow to find out if her husband's apparent suicide was actually murder.
Episode credits
Directed by Arthur LubinWritten by Howard BrowneGuest stars Valerie Allen, Raymond Bailey, Naura Hayden
Episode 31
Downbeat
1h
Stu Bailey, though acquitted of the crime of sedition for lack of evidence, has his private investigator's license revoked and goes on a drinking spree. He is then recruited by a former friend to conduct business with Communists. At the end it is revealed that Bailey had been working undercover for the U.S. government all along.
Episode credits
Directed by Montgomery PittmanWritten by Montgomery PittmanGuest stars Dorothy Provine, Johnny Grant, John van Dreelen, James Garner, James Bacon, Jacqueline Beer, Don 'Red' Barry, Brad Weston
Episode 32
Canine Caper
1h
Jeff Spencer becomes involved when stolen rubies are hidden in the collar of a wayward poodle belonging to a French starlet being pursued by Kookie.
Episode credits
Directed by George WaggnerGuest stars Mark Roberts, Keith Richards, Julie Adams
Episode 33
Mr. Paradise
1h
Stu Bailey is hired by a wealthy man's relatives to investigate the leader of a mysterious cult he has been lured into joining.
Episode credits
Directed by Arthur LubinGuest stars Richard Long, Andrew Duggan, Ruth Terry, John Litel, Lillian Bronson
Episode 34
Strange Girl in Town
1hfinale
Jeff Spencer tries to protect a young woman who witnessed a murder in a nightclub.
Episode credits
Directed by George WaggnerWritten by Howard BrowneGuest stars Sue Randall, Carol Ohmart, Alan Baxter, Percy Helton
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Cast
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.Stuart Bailey
Edd ByrnesGerald Lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III
Roger SmithJeff Spencer
Louis QuinnRoscoe
Jacqueline BeerSuzanne Fabray
Lisa Gaye
Carol Ohmart
Merry AndersCredits
- Created by
- Roy Huggins
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 206
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
ABCUnited States
Themes
private detective