
Route 66 (1960)
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Glenn Corbett as Linc Case
Episodes 54
One Tiger to a Hill
Buz and Tod hire out as deck hands on Anna Gustafson's salmon fishing trawler where Tod becomes involved with Anna's daughter. Filming Location: Astoria, Oregon
(From a contributor) The opening scene is unforgettable. Buz and Tod are driving along a sandy beach in their classic corvette while Nelson Riddle's theme song is playing in the background. Buz and Tod land jobs as fishermen and deck hands for a widower named Anna Gustafson. While at her home they get a glimpse of her beautiful daughter, Toika, who has a ""bounce in her step"" as she walks by them. Immediately Anna takes a liking for both Buz and Tod but she notices their differences. It is evident to her that Tod is college educated and the type of guy for Toika. Meanwhile, Karno, played by David Janssen, is a veteran and also the boyfriend of Toika. He despises Tod because Tod went to college while he was drafted into the war. Furthermore, Toika, who has been rejected by Karno, is drawn to Tod. When Karno sees the
Read MoreJourney to Nineveh
Tod and Buz ride into Harleyville. They meet some old comedians, including Jonah Butler, the town jinx. Filming Location: Harleyville (state?)
Read MoreMan Out of Time
In Chicago, Tod and Buz encounter Harry Wender, a frightened 1930's gangster who has outlived his time. Filming Location: Chicago, Illinois
Read MoreEver Ride the Waves in Oklahoma
Tod and Buz go surfing in Southern California. Buz challenges a surfing champion to a match. Filming Location: Huntington Beach, California
Read MoreVoice at the End of the Line
Tod and Buz encounter a downtrodden stock clerk who is involved in a telephone romance. Filming Location: Chicago, Illinois
Read MoreLizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
Tod and Buz are excited to be working at a Chicago hotel which is hosting a women's convention. Also staying at the hotel are the famous horror film actors. The actors are debating whether their traditional horror film characters can still scare modern audiences. The actors test their ideas on the conventioneers.
Read MoreAcross Walnuts and Wine
In Oregon City Tod and Buz get a real deal on rooms at an old house - $6.50 per week. Living in the house is Maggie a psychic reader, Van her unemployed husband, Michael, her nephew. Maggie's sister Autumn arrives after being fired from her teaching job and moves in. Michael is the house's sarcastic unpleasant owner and threatens to evict his relatives when he turns 21 in a few months. Michael is also trying to avoid some young men who want to beat him up. Filming Location: Oregon City, Oregon
Read MoreWelcome to the Wedding
While waiting for his date in a Cleveland railroad station Tod encounters convict Justin Lezama who is being moved to another prison. Lezama wants to call his brother and when the guard refuses Tod agrees to make the contact. Lezama takes Tod as a hostage. Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Read MoreEvery Father's Daughter Must Weave Her Own
Tod and Buz work for John Rados' road building-business. John has a strange daughter and John offers Buz money and a business if he will date her. Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Read MorePoor Little Kangaroo Rat
Tod and Buz work with a Doc Duncan, a shark fisherman. Doc is catching sharks for scientific experiments. Filming Location: California
Read MoreHey Moth, Come Eat The Flame
Tod and Buz encounter Muddy Mullins, a piano playing ex-con and his son Arnie. Filming Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Read MoreOnly by Cunning Glimpses
Mentalist Brycie Koseloff makes dire predictions about Tod's future including predicting that finally Tod will kill Buz. Her predictions start coming true. Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Read MoreWhere is Chick Lorrimer? Where Has He Gone?
Tod becomes involved in a kidnapping. Ellen Barnes claims that a mental patient is kidnapping her. Filming Location: St. Charles, Missouri
Read MoreGive an Old Cat a Tender Mouse
Tod meets Vicki Russell again (from ""How Much a Pound is Albatross""). She is again riding her motorcycle and this time has a boyfriend Frank pursuing her. Filming Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Read MoreA Bunch of Lonely Pagliaccis
Tod becomes an assistant to novelist Warren Barr. Warren's daughter Beth shoots her husband. Filming Location: Hernando, Mississippi
Read MoreYou Can't Pick Cotton in Tahiti
Tod meets music composer Julian Roebuck who is recording local folk musicians in Tennessee. Filming Location: Lake Chisholm, Tennessee
Read MoreA Gift for a Warrior
Tod and Buz meet Lars, a German sailor in Tijuana who is looking for his father Ralph and is carrying a gun. Filming Location: Chula Vista and San Diego, California
Read MoreSuppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain
Tod is carrying his new credit card around Los Angeles, and is being followed around Los Angeles by Diane. She asks him for a date and then steals the credit card. Filming Location: Los Angeles, California
Read MoreSomehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow
Tod meets Joby, who steals his wallet. Corelli is a social worker who helps out. Filming Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
Read MoreShall Forfeit His Dog and Ten Shillings to the King
Tod witnesses a double murder and joins a posse hunting for the killers. Filming Location: Apache Junction, Arizona
Read MoreIn the Closing of a Trunk
Alma Hawkes returns to a Gulf Coast fishing town after spending time in prison for killing her father. She is looking for her son and mistakes Tod for the son. Filming Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
Read MoreThe Cage Around Maria
Tod is working for the Houston zoo. Maria, the troubled daughter of a Mexican family, throws herself into the bear pit. Filming Location: Houston, Texas
Read MoreFifty Miles From Home
Tod meets a Lincoln Case who has just completed a six-year Army enlistment including two years in Vietnam as an Army ranger. Linc decides not to re-enlist but to join Tod on the cross-country odyssey. Filming Location: Houston, Texas
Read MoreNarcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine
Linc meets a girl named Janie in a tavern and she gives him a knockout drink. Filming Location: Galveston, Texas
Read MoreThe Cruelest Sea of All
The boys get jobs at the Weeki Wachee theme park in Florida. The park show features girls dressed as mermaids performing underwater. A shy girl Elissa emerges from the water and after demonstrating amazing underwater swimming talent is hired for the show. She talks about ""coming from the sea"" and implies that she is a real mermaid. Skeptical Tod falls for her but assumes that she just wants publicity to launch a movie career. Linc has a more open mind and believes her. Tod discovers too late that she was telling the truth. Filming Location: Weeki-Wachee and Crystal River, Florida. Hotel credited: Port Paradise Hotel in Crystal River.
Read MorePeace, Pity, Pardon
Tod and Linc meet Jai-Alai players who involve the boys in Cuban politics. Quiepo wants to smuggle his niece out of Cuba. Filming Location: Tampa, Florida
Read MoreWhat a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant
Linc meets Lt. School, a former officer he served under in Vietnam. The officer now has the mentality of an eight-year old child and is living with his mother. Filming Location: Tampa, Florida
Read MoreBut What Do You Do in March
Tod and Linc meet two rich playgirls after one of them runs down his boat with her speedboat. Filming Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
Read MoreWho Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride
Tod and Linc's car breaks down. Linc hitches a ride with Alva and Charlie, two robbers who force him to drive their getaway car. Filming Location: Cape Coral, Florida
Read MoreShadows of an Afternoon
Tod and Linc are working in a Florida town. Linc is accused of stabbing an unfriendly dog and is arrested. Filming Location: Cape Coral, Florida
Read MoreSoda Pop and Paper Flags
Tod and Linc are working with Emmett McNeill, a tramp. A strange disease breaks out which turns out to be spread by ticks. Filming Location: Unknown (Florida?)
Read MoreTwo Strangers and an Old Enemy
While in a Florida swamp, Tod and Linc meet Major Barben, an American World War II ace and Takasuka, a Japanese officer who are still fighting the war. Filming Location: Everglades and Cape Coral, Florida
Read MoreSame Picture, Different Frame
Tod and Linc encounter Morgan Harper who is back to reopen an estate. Her psycho husband Eric is back to kill her. Filming Location: Poland Springs, Maine
Read MoreCome Out, Come Out Wherever You Are
In Maine, Tod and Linc work at a sawmill and board with a French Canadian one-armed former logger Poppa and his beautiful daughter Marie. Marie tries to be what ever a man wants her to be. Marie and Link are having a romance and Marie tells Tod "I'm going to hurt your friend". Sailor Jack arrives in town between ships and has a fling with Marie. Marie decides to leave home to "find herself" but Tod and Linc talk her out of it.
Read MoreWhere Are the Sounds of Celli Brahms
Tod and Linc work at a beauty contest with Celli who is an acoustical engineer. Filming Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Read MoreBuild Your Houses With Their Backs to the Sea
Tod and Linc go fishing for lobsters with Thayer Faxon. Thayer's problem son Mamomsha returns to cause more trouble. Filming Location: Maine coast
Read MoreAnd Make Thunder His Tribute
Tod and Linc meet Mike Donato, an eccentric raspberry farmer. Filming Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Read MoreThe Stone Guest
Spinster Hazel comes to Colorado. She meets Ben Beldon, who was in the Army with Linc. Ben is now a miner amd a trouble-maker. Ben and Hazel get trapped in a mine. Filming Location: Central City, Colorado
Read MoreI Wouldn't Start From Here
Tod and Linc work for a Vermont farmer and get involved in a pulling horse race. Filming Location: Vermont
Read MoreA Cage in Search of a Bird
Tod and Linc meet Stephanie. Filming Location: Denver, Colorado.
Read MoreA Long Way From St. Louie
Tod and Linc encounter five lady instrumentalists in Toronto. Filming Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Read MoreCome Home Greta Inger Gruenchaffen
Tod and Linc meet physical culturist Greta. Filming Location: Mt. Snow, Vermont and Buffalo, New York (?)
Read More93 Percent in Smiling
Two children leave their little brother on a doorstep. Filming Location: Erie Canal
Read MoreChild of a Night
Tod and Linc witness a plane crash and a dying passenger asks Linc to deliver money to a child in Savannah. Filming Location: Savannah, Georgia
Read MoreIs it True There Are Poxies at the Bottom of Landfair Lake?
Tod and Linc work on a neon sign in a small Georgia town. Simon rips the sign down. Filming Location: Savannah, Georgia
Read MoreLike This It Means Father, Like This Bitter, Like This Tiger
Linc beats up a man (Cam) in a Georgia bar. The man was in Linc's unit in Vietnam and his cowardice in battle caused the death of a Vietnamese girl. Filming Location: Savannah, Georgia
Read MoreKiss the Monster, Make Him Sleep
Link stops Nola Nielsen from committing suicide and romances her. Her possessive brother Hamar dissaproves. Filming Location: Minneapolis, MN
Read MoreCries of Persons Close to One
Tod and Linc meet Tank, a boxer who likes rum, and Tank's girlfriend Gaybee. Filming Location: Unknown
Read MoreWho in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl
Tod and Linc encounter a Daytona Florida librarian and a murderer. Filming Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Read MoreThis is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You
Tod and Linc meet Harlan Livingston III, a naive millionaire who is surrounded by women who are pretending to be hurt. Filming Location: St. Augustine, Florida
Read MoreFollow the White Dove With the Broken Wing
A disturbed teenager kills his friend. Filming Location: Unknown
Read MoreWhere There's a Will, There's a Way (1)
In Florida, Tod and Linc meet the Tiffins, a family of con men and criminals who are squabbling over a will. Tod becomes involved romantically with family member Margo who stands to inherit the money if she marries. Tod is thrown off a bridge. Filming Location: Tampa, Florida
Read MoreWhere There's a Will, There's a Way (2)
Believing that Tod has been killed, Linc and Margo set out to catch his murderer. Tod turns up alive and marries Margo. Linc leaves the Corvette with Tod. Filming Location: Tampa, Florida
Read MoreI'm Here to Kill a King
Tod is vacationing by himself in Canada near Niagara Falls. He meets a professional assassin who looks exactly like him. Middle-Eastern plotters have hired the assassin to kill their king and he plans to do so with a high-powered sniper rifle. The assassin complains to Tod that his deprived childhood has caused him to become what he is. Filming Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
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