List of Route 66 episodes

Tod Stiles and Buz Murdock stop in the remote town of Garth, whose residents are determined to hide a terrible secret. George Kennedy is the first heavy to get into a fight with the boys.^[1]

Tod and Buz work as deck hands on a shrimp boat where they deal with a hurricane and their employer (Janice Rule)'s jealous suitor (Nico Minardos).

Tod and Buz arrive in New Orleans where they encounter a waspish woman (Betty Field), a band of smugglers and a parrot-fever epidemic.

A concentration-camp victim finds his Nazi tormentor at an offshore-drilling barge where Tod and Buz happen to be working. Actors Ed Asner, Lew Ayres, Roger C. Carmel, Michael Conrad, Bruce Dern, Barnard Hughes, and Alfred Ryder all appear in this episode.

Tod and Buz attempt to stop a sheriff from getting revenge on the woman who murdered his brother.

Tod and Buz try to help a beleaguered brother (Burt Brinckerhoff) and sister (Deborah Walley) save their drought-ridden Utah ranch.

Tod and Buz come to the aid of a wealthy Oregon rancher (E.G. Marshall) whose irresponsible children are wreaking havoc in his life and on his lands. Location: Grants Pass, OR

A Sicilian woman (Arlene Martel) arrives in Oregon to sell the "deed" to the state given to her by a GI during World War II so she can raise money for her church.

Buz and Tod are assigned to guard a group of models.^[2]

An elderly prospector (Edgar Buchanan)'s luck changes – for the worse – when he strikes a rich ore vein.

A scientist (Leslie Nielsen) declares his intention to stay in the Carisbad Caverns until a nuclear war is over.

Tod and Buz help a widow (Whitney Blake) who's been framed for theft by a ruthless cattleman (Lee Marvin).

Tod and Buz head to Riverside Raceway and get involved with a family on opposite sides of the father's future as a race-car driver.

A jazz trumpeter (Jack Lord) is accused of trying to murder his wife (Anne Francis).

A date farmer (Jack Warden)'s ward (Anne Helm) is planning to leave him and a new road is about to cut through his property.

A pilot (Michael Rennie) who believes he's a jinx attempts to help a widow and her daughter save their crop-dusting business from financial trouble.

Summers (Michael Rennie) accepts a dangerous crop-dusting job in order to save the company for which he works from having to close down.

Tod and Buz stop in Los Angeles where they encounter a teenager (Patty McCormack) who claims to be on the run from the mob.

Tod and Buz meet a blind woman (Martha Hyer) bent on killing the people who murdered her husband.

Buz deals with long-suppressed memories of living in an orphanage when he and Tod cross paths with a runaway orphan (played by Benedict Herrman) in Nevada. Sylvia Sidney and Jack Weston appear in prominent roles in a separate storyline.

A deranged killer (Scott Marlowe) terrorizes a ski lodge in Squaw Valley.

Tod 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 to fund a project that could save their town. Edward Andrews and Walter Matthau guest star.

Tod's Aunt Kitty (Beatrice Straight) wants to see her long-lost daughter before she dies, sending him and Buz on a depressing search through the slums of Los Angeles.

A drunk is wasting his young ward's inheritance.

Tod and Buz encounter a pregnant Indian girl on the run from her tyrannical father-in-law.

Tod and Buz face the wrath of a trucking tycoon (Gene Evans) determined to expand his business.

Tod and Buz are convicted of a violating a local law in a small New Mexico town where they're sentenced to teach a year of school.

Buz's boyhood idol, a one-time boxing champ, is now barely ekeing out a career as a washed-up, easy-to-defeat "opponent". Featuring Darren McGavin, Ed Asner, and Lois Nettleton.

The residents of small town band together to stop a young woman (Susan Oliver) from burying her despised mother in the local cemetery. Location: Amity, Ohio.

Tod and Buz watch as a pair of violent, quick-tempered men compete for the hand of their landlord's mute daughter.

Buz courts an actress (Anne Francis), unaware that she only has three weeks to live.

A wild stallion is the prime suspect in series of brutal murders.

Tod and Buz go coast-to-coast to find a dying singer (Ethel Waters)'s old band.

Tod tries to rehabilitate a hostile drug addict (Robert Duvall).

A Cleveland girl's death sets off a search for her boyfriend (Robert Redford), who must explain that her death was an accident before he pays the ultimate price at the hands of the girl's father (Martin Balsam). Location: Cleveland, OH

A globe-trotting heiress on the run falls in love with Tod.

Buz thinks he may have found his mother when he and Tod stop in a small Maryland town. George Maharais’s real-life siblings – brothers Mark and Hank and sister Cleopatra appear as the Colby clan.

Tod and Buz befriend a woman (Nina Foch) who has just been released from a mental institute.

Tod takes action when an impresario, haunted by the memory of his cheating wife, mistreats his protégée.

Max Coyle promises a movie role to the winner of a beauty contest.

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

Tod and Buz get caught up in a gang war as they try to help a harried social worker.

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

Tod and Buz help an FBI agent stop a madman from setting off a bomb in Boston.

Tod and Buz come to the aid of a rodeo clown whom no one takes seriously, especially the woman he loves.

An ex-con convinces a small-town to organise the trial of the man who was responsible for wrongly putting him in jail.

A beautiful woman tries to help a paraplegic out of self-pity and frustration.

Tod falls for a flaky female motorcyclist (Julie Newmar).

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

Buz is promoted to an executive position at a large construction factory.

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

Tod helps an old girlfriend whose dancing career is in jeopardy.

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

Buz loses his sight in an accident at a construction company where he's working.

The arrival of a masked girl in a small Texas town sets off a series of chaotic events.

An embezzler (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) returns from his sanctuary abroad to stop his daughter (Zina Bethune) from becoming a nun.

A construction tycoon has no time for his 12-year-old son, even when he receives a letter threatening the boy's life.

Buz tries to rescue a girl trapped between two rocks off the coast of Catalina Island.

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

A wrestling promoter is in love with the wife of the wrestler he's attempting to free from a Hungarian prison.

The owner of an animal exhibition (Peter Graves) plots to avenge the death of his first wife.

Tod tries to reconcile a successful dentist with her husband.

Tod and Buz clash with a fisherman whose wartime experiences have turned him against mankind.

Buz and Tod arrive in Harleyville, Missouri, where they deal with the town jinx (Buster Keaton).

An ex-gangster (Luther Adler) believes there's a price on his head as soon as he's released from jail.

Buz is tricked into challenging a surfing champ to a dangerous ride that got another youth killed.

Buz helps a shy man prepare to meet a girl he only knows over the phone.

Buz gets a job overseeing a secretaries' convention, while Tod has to moderate a meeting between Lon Chaney Jr., Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.

Tod and Buz meet a struggling businesswoman (Nina Foch) who attends daily seances to solve her problems.

A sociopath murderer (Rod Steiger) who says he has no feelings and has never known remorse takes Tod hostage at gunpoint to hunt for hidden loot.

Buz falls for a girl (Madlyn Rhue) caught between her overprotective father (Jack Kruschen) and self-righteous brother (Robert Drivas).

A doctor hires Buz and Tod to capture sharks for his cholesterol research.

Tod and Buz try to help a teenager deal with his father's alcoholism.

Tod tries to disprove a spiritualist (Lois Smith)'s prediction that he will kill Buz.

Tod tries to find a fast-talking strip teaser he unknowingly helped escape from a surly bail bondsman.

A persistent policeman helps Tod stay just one step behind Vicki Russell.

Tod investigates the murder of a man who was supposedly unfaithful to his wife.

A country girl falls for a man who's broken a lot of hearts.

A young German sailor sets out to find his father and kill him.

Tod looks for a girl (Lois Nettleton) who uses a different alias every time he sees her.

Tod befriends a 13-year-old boy and inadvertently worsens the boy's troubled relationship with his foster parents.

Tod joins a posse when he witnesses a brutal murder.

After 27 years in prison, a woman (Ruth Roman) returns to a village in the Gulf Coast to find her son while facing continuing hostility in the village.

Maria Cardenas (Elizabeth Ashley) intends to commit suicide when she finds herself caught between her amorous stepfather (Mario Alcalde), her invalid mother (Beatrice Straight), and Tod.

Vietnam War hero Linc Case has trouble living up to his reputation, especially when he gets into a brawl with a youth.

Linc falls for a woman (Anne Helm) with periodic journeys into an imaginary world.

A mysterious show swimmer (Diane Baker) falls for Tod. She's reluctant to talk about her past and Tod can't believe some of what she does reveal. Location: Weeki Wachee, FL

A Cuban supports Castro's government, while his brothers oppose it.

Linc attempts to help his former Army platoon leader Lt. School (Dick York), whose war injuries have left him permanently with the mind of a seven-year-old.

Tod hunts down the speedboat driver who wrecked his dinghy then he and Linc get mixed up with two rich spoiled women (Janice Rule and Susan Kohner). Location: Tierra Verde, FL

Linc is suspected of being a thief when a pair of hoodlums (Albert Salmi and Rip Torn) force him at gunpoint to drive their getaway car.

In a small Florida town, Linc is thrown in jail on a false charge of hurting a dog, whose life he actually saved.

An epidemic breaks out in a Midwestern town where Tod, Linc and a drifter (Chester Morris) are working – and one of them is suspected of being the carrier. Locations: Highland, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri.

A Japanese man (Sessue Hayakawa) joins the search for a pilot who crashed in the Everglades, their lives somehow connected. Location: Cape Coral, FL

A distraught woman (Joan Crawford) is on the run from her deranged ex-husband whom she believes is bent on murdering her. Location: Poland Spring, ME

Tod prepares for the worst when Linc falls for a fickle French-Canadian girl (Diane Baker).

Linc gets ready to judge a beauty contest, while Tod attempts to keep up with a tireless acoustical engineer (Tammy Grimes) who lacks some important social skills. Location: Minneapolis, MN

Ted and Linc get caught in the middle of a feud between a fisherman (Pat Hingle) and his son (William Shatner). Location: Portland, ME

A stubborn farmer (J. Carrol Naish) constantly clashes with his rebellious son (Lou Antonio).

In Colorado, an opera troupe's production of Don Giovanni is topped by an off-stage affair between a philandering miner (Lee Philips) and a lonely woman (Jo Van Fleet).

Tod and Linc work for an elderly New England farmer (Parker Fennelly) trying to make a living. Location: Newfane, VT

An elderly uncaught bank robber wants to bestow his illicit fortune on a dicey woman (Stefanie Powers) who is on the run from her fellow cardsharp boyfriend (Alex Cord). Location: Denver & Golden, CO

Linc tries to help five women who've been sent out into the cold by an unfeeling hotel manager. Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Tod and Linc compete for the attentions of physical culturist Greta Inger Gruenchaffen (Tammy Grimes). Location: Mt. Snow, VT

After years of nomadic living in a mobile home due to their father (Albert Salmi)'s inability to satisfactorily provide for his family, two children decide to give their baby brother a better life in an empty house.

Linc is sent on a mission to deliver $38,000 to a dying man (Herschel Bernardi)'s child. Location: Savannah, GA. Daniel J. Travanti, early in his career, plays Marty Johnson.

Simon Devereaux (Geoffrey Horne) returns home from his humiliating experiences in the Army and sets out to shield his father Amos (Crahan Denton) and sister Olivia (E. J. Peaker) from "city folks". Olivia is bored with small-town life and wants to experience the rest of the world. Location: Nevils (Bulloch County), GA

Linc ruins a coward (Larry Blyden)'s attempts at burying his past. Location: Savannah, GA

Linc falls for a woman (Barbara Mattes) seeking to be independent of her possessive brother (James Coburn). Location: Minneapolis, MN

A third-rate fighter throws fits of depression and violent outbursts after years of alcoholism.

A murderer (Lee Philips) wants a librarian (Lois Smith) to help him escape the authorities. Location: Daytona Beach, FL

Several "desperately sick" women plot to exploit a millionaire's weakness for ill people. Location: The Ponce de Leon Hotel, St. Augustine, FL

A disturbed teenager (Lee Kinsolving) kills his only friend by accident and becomes the target of an angry posse. Location: St. Augustine, FL

Tod must get married in order to receive $100,000. Location: Tampa Bay area, FL

Now that Tod is married to Margo Tiffin (Barbara Eden) his life is endangered by his greedy new in-laws. Location: Tampa Bay area, FL

A hired assassin bears a remarkable resemblance to Tod. Location: Niagara Falls, NY