ROUTE 66 - S3 V2

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• Release Year: 1960
• Genre: Adventure
• Plot: Only fiction series written & shot all over North America. Two young adventurers in a Corvette explore early 60's social problems and changing mores, looking for the right place to settle down while seeking themselves. Debuting 3 years after "On the Road" transformed modern literature, while such newly available fast cars dominated the new teenage culture, Tod, an Ivy Leaguer, and Buz, an orphan from Hell's Kitchen, cruise the U.S.A. coping with shifting relationships and lifestyles. The FCC's Newton Minow characterized U.S. TV as a "vast wasteland," in 1961, but "Route 66" found important, compelling stories all over. Sterling Silliphant who won an Oscar for writing "In the Heat of the Night," traveled around the U.S. and Canada scouting locales, while writing ¾ of the very dark, literate show's episodes - a feat only Rod Serling matched with The Twilight Zone. Soon, a crew of 50 arrived at the location. Shows were filmed in 40 States. Tod, from a once-wealthy family, inherited only a Corvette when his father died, so he and Buz (suddenly jobless because he worked for Tod's father's company) strike out across North America, especially along the iconic Route 66 from Chicago to L.A. which the Okies traveled. Tod and Buz take local jobs (such as shrimping, shipbuilding, oil rigging) to support their wanderings. The 2 socially conscious knights of the road, encourage, champion, and learn from oppressed and troubled people they encounter. 1962 guest star Ethel Waters was the first African-American woman nominated for an Emmy Award. The CBS show doubled Corvette sales its first season. Tod and Buz's beige Corvette's 2 seats meant "sans souci" and constant movement, so shows were shot in 6 days, in a new city almost every week. The two drifters reject the post-war American Dream of the suburbs, while exploring a disappearing North America with very diverse local culture, not yet dominated by international franchises and cookie-cutter suburbs. The shows' vibrate with the new dreams for a Great Society and the fears of the Cold War. The volatile Buz Murdock was cast quickly, while Martin Milner beat out Robert Redford for the Tod Stiles role. Due to hepatitis, Maharis did not appear in the series' last 1 ½ seasons. The show grew from a pilot on creator Silliphant and Route 66 producer Herbert B. Leonard's "Naked City," also shot on location. Naked City and Route 66 bridged the widely varied anthologies and live plays of the 1950's Golden Age of Television, to the much cheaper, 1 hour dramatic, set-character based series, which continue to rule prime-time. Nelson Riddle's atmospheric Theme from Route 66, and his episode scores factored heavily in the show's allure. The breezy song Route 66, written by Bobby Troup (of the 1970's TV series "Emergency !"), a 1946 Nat King Cole hit, wasn't used for the series. A sequel to Route 66 appeared in 1993, but lasted only 4 episodes.
• Cast: Martin Milner; George Maharis; Glenn Corbett; James Brown; Alex Cord; Edward Asner; Bert Remsen; Lois Smith; Nina Foch; Frank Overton; Guy Raymond; Elizabeth MacRae; Oliver McGowan; Janice Rule; Betty Field; Susan Oliver; Jack Warden; Albert Salmi; Anne Helm; Lois Nettleton; John Larch; Lon Chaney Jr.; Robert Duvall; Beatrice Straight; Roger C. Carmel; Conrad Nagel; Frank Campanella; Patrick O'Neal; Harry Townes; Dan Frazer; Jenny Maxwell; Al Lewis; Peter Gumeny; Rodney Bell; Joe Warren; Griff Evans; Henry Beckman; Suzanne Pleshette; Lee Marvin; Leslie Nielsen; Inger Stevens; Sylvia Sidney; Dan Duryea; Anne Francis; Nehemiah Persoff; Michael Rennie; Ralph Meeker; Peter Graves; Julie Newmar; Diane Baker; Tammy Grimes; Thomas Gomez; Patty McCormack; Martin Balsam; Susan Kohner; Joanna Moore; Gene Evans; Chester Morris; Lee Philips; Edward Binns; Alfred Ryder; Bethel Leslie; Murray Hamilton; Pat Hingle; Mike Kellin; Martha Scott; Dorothy Malone; Signe Hasso; Frank McHugh; Arlene Martel; James Dunn; Linda Watkins; Warren Stevens; Zina Bethune; Fred J. Scollay; Cathy Lewis; Harold J. Stone; Herschel Bernardi; Robert Emhardt; Bibi Osterwald; Robert F. Simon; Benedict Herrman; Murray Matheson; Logan Ramsey; Tom Bosley; Barbara Eden; Phyllis Hill; Richard Shannon; Malcolm Atterbury; Paul Genge; DeForest Kelley; Med Flory; Michael Conrad; Edgar Buchanan; Herb Armstrong; David Clarke; Denver Pyle; Sylvia Miles; Lou Criscuolo; Michael Tolan; Robert Dryden; Harvey Korman; Herb Voland; Kelly Jean Peters; Warren J. Kemmerling; Joseph Campanella; John Astin; Crahan Denton; Victor Junquera; Chill Wills; Louis Zorich; Arnold Soboloff; Ann Dee; Herman Rudin; Laura Devon; Marion Ross; Barnard Hughes; Ben Johnson; Betsy Jones-Moreland; George L. Smith; Harold Gould; Jacqueline Courtney; Lorraine Rogers; Ken Strange; Carol Ann Lewis; Joseph Leon; Jon Lormer; Phil Arnold; DeAnn Mears; Harry Gresham; Duke Farley; Clifford A. Pellow; Bruce Glover; Dan Morgan; Cece Whitney; Lester Mack; Denis Adams; Lynda Day George; Ford Rainey; Patrick Cranshaw; Lew Ayres; Elizabeth Ashley; Ed Begley; Burt Brinckerhoff; Jay C. Flippen; E.G. Marshall; Charles McGraw; Everett Sloane; Albert Dekker; Martha Hyer; Milt Kamen; Scott Marlowe; Walter Matthau; Darren McGavin; Ethel Waters; Keenan Wynn; Luther Adler; Barbara Barrie; Theodore Bikel; Sorrell Booke; Joe E. Brown; Lili Darvas; John Ericson; Harry Guardino; Arthur Hill; Steven Hill; David Janssen; Peter Lorre; Vera Miles; Arthur O'Connell; Dan O'Herlihy; Madlyn Rhue; Elizabeth Seal; Jeremy Slate; Rod Steiger; David Wayne; Tuesday Weld; Mario Alcalde; Richard Basehart; Steve Cochran; Joan Crawford; Parker Fennelly; Sessue Hayakawa; J. Carrol Naish; Alejandro Rey; Ruth Roman; Barry Sullivan; Rip Torn; Jo Van Fleet; Jessica Walter; James Whitmore; Dick York; Larry Blyden; James Coburn; Geoffrey Horne; Lee Kinsolving; Robert Loggia; Michael Parks; Soupy Sales; Henry Hull; Johnny Seven; Fay Spain; Deborah Walley; Edward Andrews; Jeanne Bal; Whitney Blake; Beulah Bondi; Royal Dano; Dianne Foster; Larry Gates; Juano Hernandez; Jack Lord; Susan Melvin; Macha Méril; Rin Tin Tin II; Ann Shoemaker; Susan Silo; Jack Weston; Patricia Barry; Noah Beery Jr.; Émile Genest; Susan Gordon; Henry Jones; Buster Keaton; Jack Kruschen; Cloris Leachman; Joanne Linville; Simon Oakland; Eva Stern; Akim Tamiroff; Audrey Totter; Romney Tree; Paul Tripp; Robert Webber; Kathleen Crowley; Don Dubbins; Jena Engstrom; Chad Everett; Rosemary Forsyth; Alan Hale Jr.; Miriam Hopkins; John Howell; Carolyn Kearney; Horace McMahon; Roger Mobley; Stefanie Powers; Jane Rose; William Shatner; Virginia Wing; Bert Freed; Frances Helm; Tina Louise; Ellen Madison; Collin Wilcox Paxton; Stephen Bolster; Keir Dullea; Zohra Lampert; Nico Minardos; Claude Akins; Rico Alaniz; Arthur Batanides; James Caan; Shirl Conway; Rod Dana; Pat DeSimone; Betty Garde; Jo Jones; Allan Melvin; Diana Millay; Jean Muir; Carmen Phillips; Robert Redford; Marianne Stewart; Vaughn Taylor; James T. Callahan; Booth Colman; Barbara Davis; Joe De Santis; Robert Drivas; Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; Bruce Gordon; Martha Greenhouse; Martita Hunt; Russell Johnson; Judson Laire; Linda Leighton; Zack Matalon; Michael McGreevey; Steve Peck; Maggie Pierce; Charles H. Radilak; Natalie Schafer; Mickey Sholdar; Ray Teal; June Vincent; Bruce Watson; Philip Abbott; Lou Antonio; Harry Bellaver; Vivian Blaine; William Bramlette; Peter Brocco; Howard Freeman; Chris Gampel; Kathryn Hays; Susan Howell; Leslye Hunter; Clifton James; William LeMassena; Audra Lindley; Kay Medford; Lars Passgård; Paula Stewart; Christopher Votos; Nancy Wickwire; Michael Baseleon; Grayson Hall; Barbara Mattes; Ruth McDevitt; Arnold Moss; Eugene Roche; Diana Van der Vlis; Roland Winters; Whit Bissell; Sara Haden; Vivi Janiss; Joey Kennedy; Peter Mamakos; Edward Atienza; John Beradino; Barbara Bostock; Argentina Brunetti; Philip Coolidge; Davey Davison; Frank DeKova; Nancy Downey; Clement Fowler; Jane Hoffman; Nancy Malone; Debbie Megowan; Emile Meyer; Stuart Nisbet; Frederick O'Neal; Lenka Peterson; Joseph Ruskin; Muni Seroff; Martin Sheen; Joseph Sweeney; Regis Toomey; Ralph Barnard; Dale Berry; Jennifer Billingsley; Mushy Callahan; Glenda Farrell; Lou Gilbert; Ron Howard; Boris Karloff; Ron Kipling; Harvey Lembeck; Lu Leonard; Frank Maxwell; Dallas Mitchell; Michael Pate; Slim Pickens; Jacqueline Scott; Milton Selzer; Patricia Smith; Robert Walker Jr.; Than Wyenn; Olga Bellin; Charles Brown; William Cort; Don Diamond; John Gibson; Gene Hackman; Berkeley Harris; Albert Henderson; James Leo Herlihy; Harry Hickox; L.Q. Jones; John Litel; Michael J. Pollard; Paul Reed; Pat Renella; Susan Ringwood; Bill Southern; Jack Stamberger; Charles White; Mart Hulswit; Graham Jarvis; Dawn Nickerson; Phil Clarke; Leo Gordon; Freeman Lusk; Lane Nakano; Tom Reese; Elizabeth Allen; Hildy Brooks; Fabián Chávez; Peggy Feury; Anita Gillette; William Gunn; Raymond Guth; Terry Huntingdon; Mary Jackson; James Patterson; Stephen Roberts; Bing Russell; Penny Santon; Nicholas Saunders; Pamela Searle; Nina Vaughn; Mary Webster; Jack Bryan; Biff Elliot; Ruth Enders; Penny Fuller; Jack Hollander; Lisabeth Hush; Ray Hyke; John Lasell; Tony Monaco; Margaret Phillips; Marilyn Rogers; Brenda Scott; Frank Sutton; Richard Thies; Elena Verdugo; James Westmoreland; John Zaccaro; Dell Aldrich; Brooke Bundy; Gary Cockrell; Matt Crowley; Nick Dimitri; Frederic Downs; Olga Fabian; Donald J. Finnie; Richard Hamilton; Patricia Harty; Lyle Latell; Marilyn Lovell; Adrienne Marden; Linda Marsh; Mary Munday; James Olson; Moultrie Patten; William Post Jr.; Coco Ramirez; Sammy Shore; Louise Sorel; Jean Stapleton; Peggy Workinger; Victor Arnold; Jack Dabdoub; Bill Lazarus; Lee Meriwether; E.J. Peaker; Frank Tweddell; Don Beddoe; Anthony D. Call; Dan Sheridan; Hal Smith; William Woodson; John A. Alonzo; Mel Arrighi; Elizabeth Bader; Robert Ball; Tommy Battreall; Sam Capuano; Luke Halpin; Coleman Hawkins; Joyce Horne; Doris Karnes; Tony Maxwell; Denny Niles; Lucy Prentis; Doris Rich; Judith Robinson; William Sargent; Richard X. Slattery; John Benson; Stephen Brooks; Mike Dana; Anthony De Mario; Jean Engstrom; Neal Gay; Sally Gracie; Ted Gunther; Duane Jones; Brandon Maggart; Dean Moray; Zeme North; Harry Raybould; Sindee Ann Richards; Dick Sabol; Mercedes Shirley; Joan Tompkins; H.M. Wynant; Bern Bassey; David Lowell Rich; Arthur Hiller; James Sheldon; Philip Leacock; Elliot Silverstein; Allen H. Miner; Tom Gries; George Sherman; Robert Gist; Robert Ellis Miller; William A. Graham; Walter Grauman; James Goldstone; Ralph Senensky; Jeffrey Hayden; Lewis Allen; Robert Altman; William F. Claxton; William Conrad; Richard Donner; William D. Faralla; Charles F. Haas; Sam Peckinpah; Ted Post; Jack Smight; Paul Wendkos; Herbert B. Leonard; John Newland; Paul Stanley; Leonard Horn; Fred Jackman Jr.; Frank Pierson; John Peyser; Denis Sanders; Stirling Silliphant; Howard Rodman; Leonard Freeman; Lawrence B. Marcus; Alvin Sargent; Will Lorin; Frank L. Moss; Arnold Manoff; Frank Chase; Shimon Wincelberg; Richard Collins; Melvin Levy; Betty Andrews; Charles Beaumont; Jordan Brotman; Milton S. Gelman; George Clayton Johnson; Herb Meadow; Herbert Purdom; Jerry Sohl; Wilbur Daniel Steele; Bill Stine; Jack Turley; John Vlahos; Joseph Vogel; Borden Chase; William R. Cox; Everett DeBaum; Abram S. Ginnes; Bert Lambert; Anthony Lawrence; Jo Pagano; Joseph Petracca; Lester Pine; Gilbert Ralston; Esther Shapiro; Richard Alan Shapiro; Mort Thaw; Barry Trivers; Preston Wood; Anthony Basta; Walter Brough; Lewis John Carlino; Harlan Ellison; Richard Jessup; Ernest Kinoy; John McGreevey; Jesse Sandler; Eric Scott; Jerome B. Thomas; Stanley R. Greenberg; William Kelley
• Director: David Lowell Rich
• Runtime: 0
• Media Format: Series