Best Route 66 Episodes
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- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisEverett SloaneLeaving New York City behind, Tod and Buz begin their search "to catch a star" and find themselves in a nightmare right out of "Bad Day at Black Rock." The unfriendly, suspicious, and violent residents of a tiny Mississippi town have a long-held secret--and they will kill to protect it.
- DirectorRoger KayStarsLew AyresMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisTod and Buz take labor jobs on a Louisiana offshore oil rig. Tod immediately finds the behavior of a seemingly out-of-place older worker to be odd. As Tod continues to watch the man he finds the strange behavior has a sane purpose-the man is a Nazi hunter who is closing in on his prey.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsLee MarvinMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisA modern version of the old "David and Bathsheba" story in which King David fell in love with a married woman and arranged for her husband to be killed during a battle. Rich cattleman Woody Biggs continues to be rejected by recently widowed Laura Church so he has her framed for embezzlement and sent to prison. Then he pulls some strings and gets her paroled. Buz and Tod try to protect her from Woody who is pressuring her to marry him.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisMichael RennieTod and Buz, in Phoenix, Arizona, and looking for work with a crop-dusting company, encounter a combat-scarred, world-weary pilot who is a self-described "Jonah." The pilot hates himself for still being alive and causing others' deaths. Buz' interest in the pilot's chanteuse ex-wife is a side story.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisMichael RennieTod tempts the fates by training for crop dusting with the "jinx".The doomed pilot financially saves the dusting business by taking on a dangerous assignment and brings the owner of the business back to reality.Buz,ready to end his life's search,is turned down.He vows to look for her (and perhaps finds her in Season 3).
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisSylvia SidneyTod and Buz, driving through Nevada, pick up an orphan hitchhiking. Tod insists he be returned to the orphanage. Buz, both unhappy and angry, separates from Tod. On his own now, Buz looks to fill his loneliness and meets a motherly lady. He finds her sad life includes alcoholism over regret for a long lost son.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisWalter MatthauTod and Buz, driving through Nevada, help protect the bankroll of two men who are from the dried up mining town of Broken Knee. The two men are heading to Reno to try to win enough money at the craps table to fund a project which can save the town. Later in Reno, Tod and Buz end up lending moral and financial support.
- DirectorWilliam D. FarallaStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisBeatrice StraightTod and Buz travel to Los Angeles in response to a letter Tod received from an Aunt who has not been heard of for 20 yrs and thought to be dead. From her deathbed she makes a final request of Tod-find her daughter. Tod and Buz embark on a search that leads them to many people and places and eventually to the answer.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisDan DuryeaTod and Buz, in San Diego and employed in aerospace jobs, save a drunken man from drowning while they are enjoying a day off. The man's underage niece uses her influence to get Tod and Buz to help her. The objective is to sober him up so he can remain her guardian. The man is not cooperative and is hiding a secret.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisAlbert DekkerTod and Buz, working as ranch hands in New Mexico, become disgusted with the actions of their employer. The man wants possession of his dead son's baby whether the mother approves of it or not. The rancher will stop at nothing to get his way and neither will his men-including murder.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisThomas GomezTod and Buz are bamboozled into a tiny remote mountain town in New Mexico. Once there,they are convicted on a trumped up "crime" with the sentence being to teach school for one year. Slowly,they come to lose their resentment and actually end up empathizing with the reason for the deception.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisDarren McGavinTod and Buz "detour" to Youngstown,Ohio to see a boyhood idol of Buz,a boxer who is scheduled to fight a local hero.The "idol" is no longer a contender,he is a punch-drunk has-been. Buz attempts both to build up the man's confidence and give him a view to the future with the help of the boxer's female admirer.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisSusan OliverTod and Buz, working as laborers in a factory in Amity, Ohio, meet a strange young woman at their boarding house. She is towing a headstone on a trailer behind her car-with the person's date of death from 10 years before. Finding she is a pariah in Amity, Tod and Buz offer help in carrying out her unusual mission.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisNehemiah PersoffTod and Buz, in Cleveland, Ohio working as laborers on a "three week job at a gravel yard", stay at their Russian supervisor's home. He has a mute daughter who has a miserable life. When a fellow Russian, whom the community has ostracized, shows his love for her tragedy follows. The two ill-fated people meet an uncertain end.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisAnne FrancisTod 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.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisEthel WatersTod and Buzz agree to help fulfill a dying jazz singer's last wish to reunite with her old band.
- DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisRobert DuvallTod tries to rehabilitate a hostile young drug addict.
- DirectorWilliam ConradStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisNehemiah PersoffA girl's death sets off a search for her boyfriend, who must explain that her death was an accident before he's lynched.
- DirectorJames SheldonStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisBetty FieldOn 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.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisNina FochTod and Buz befriend a woman who has just been released from a mental institute.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisMurray HamiltonTod's drink is spiked with a hallucinatory drug, making him a danger to himself and to others.
- DirectorCharles F. HaasStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisInger StevensA widow tries to make amends with her bitter mother-in-law.
- DirectorJames SheldonStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisDan O'HerlihyTod and Buz are asked by the FBI to infiltrate a nativist hate group.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisAlbert SalmiTod 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.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsMartin MilnerGeorge MaharisSteven HillTodd and Buz work with wheelchair patients at a veterans hospital, where a nurse falls in love with a patient.