Season One | Part One (16 Episodes on 4 Extended Discs)
Warner Bros Television series (1958-1964) 206 episodes throughout seven seasons

directors: Richard L. Bare · Douglas Heyes · James V. Kern · Boris Sagal · Montgomery Pittman
starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr · Roger Smith · Edward (Edd) Byrnes · Jacqueline Beer · Louis Quinn
guest stars within these 16 episodes: Connie Stevens · Ray Danton · Adam West · John Carradine · Richard Long

    

In the original days of network television, a season would routinely consist of 36 episodes (not the 8 or 10 today). This special package includes the first 16 episodes of Season One [on 4 extended discs]. 77 SUNSET STRIP is the influential, remarkably stylish detective series that brought "hip" to television screens across America in 1958. Two cool private detectives, Stu Bailey (Efrem Zimbalist Jr) and Jeff Spencer (Roger Smith) provide the adult-oriented action and intrigue. They are often assisted by be-bop Gerald [Kookie] Kookson.

Edd Byrnes plays Kookie, a hip-talking parking-lot attendant next to the detective office at 77 Sunset Strip. He was not originally intended to be a regular character. But public reaction was so strong that Byrnes was given a recurring role [in fact, as seen in these first 16 episodes, his transformation quickly developed, moving from an incidental part to a more significant presence [in #10 VICIOUS CIRCLE] to a lead role by #13 HIT AND RUN.

Besides the obvious chemistry of the leading actors and the impressive guest stars, the series also benefits from a fine team of writers (including Raymond Chandler, among others), and the superior production techniques of Warner Film Studios which provide the sublime crime-noir cinematography and the brash-n-sexy music score.

      

   

Here is a list of the 16 'hour' episodes:

1 GIRL ON THE RUN (90 minute pilot) (10/10/1958)

2 LOVELY LADY, PITY ME (10/17/1958)

3 A NICE SOCIAL EVENING (10/24/1958)
guest star Ray Danton

4 CASUALTY (10/31/1958)

5 THE BOUNCING CHIP (11/7/1958)
guest star Ruta Lee

6 TWO AND TWO MAKE SIX (11/14/1958)
guest star Adam West

7 ALL OUR YESTERDAYS (11/21/1958)
guest stars Francis Bushman and John Carradine

8 THE WELL-SELECTED FRAME (11/18/1958)

       

9 THE IRON CURTAIN CAPER (12/5/1958)

10 VICIOUS CIRCLE (12/12/1958)
guest stars Harold J Stone and Bert Convoy

11 ONE FALSE STEP (12/19/1958)
guest stars Connie Stevens and Richard Long

12 COURT MARTIAL OF JOHNY MURDO (12/26/1958)

13 HIT AND RUN (1/2/1959)
guest star Sue Randall

14 NOT AN ENEMY IN THE WORLD (1/9/1959)

15 SECRET OF ADAM CAIN (1/16/1959)

16 THE GIRL WHO COULDN'T REMEMBER (1/23/1959)
guest star Nancy Gates