Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
The Reluctant Spy (Episode 1)
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Air date: 1962-10-12
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu searches for the reasons behind an old friend's hit-and-run death in Austria.
Leap, My Lovely (Episode 2)
Air date: 1962-10-19
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A con man hypnotizes an actress into jumping out a window, then blackmails a film's producer with threats of doing the same to his leading man.
Terror in a Small Town (Episode 3)
Writer: Paul Savage
Air date: 1962-10-26
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: After a rash of practical jokes at the office, Kookie can't convince his partners that he really has been arrested for a serious crime.
The Raiders (Episode 4)
Air date: 1962-11-02
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu arrives in the corrupt small town where an old friend is chief of police and with the help of a senaor's wife uncovers a murder and a blackmail scheme.
The Floating Man (Episode 5)
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Air date: 1962-11-09
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Jeff becomes a bodyguard for a judge who says that if he's killed, he wants Jeff to find his murderer.
The Catspaw Caper (Episode 6)
Writer: John K. Butler
Air date: 1962-11-16
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Suzanne and Stu help her Hungarian friend find her mother, who fled the Communists in Budapest.
Wolf, Cried the Blonde (Episode 7)
Air date: 1962-11-23
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: An actress cons the detectives into helping her pull off a publicity stunt, but gets more than she bargained for when a man from her past shows up with his hand out.
The Dark Wood (Episode 8)
Air date: 1962-11-30
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu reunites with an old flame, a recent widow, and investigates her daughter's belief that her father's death was no accident.
Shadow on Your Shoulder (Episode 9)
Air date: 1962-12-07
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu teams up with private detectives from Hawaii and French and English police to discover how a pair of criminals steal from their victims and leave them physical wrecks. Folk singers Peter, Paul & Mary perform.
Adventure in San Dede (Episode 10)
Air date: 1962-12-14
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Jeff and J.R. deliver an attache case to Latin American clients.
The Odds on Odette (Episode 11)
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Air date: 1962-12-21
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: An astrologer hires Jeff when he begins receiving threatening phone calls, but Jeff discovers his secretary may be the real target.
The Snow Job Caper (Episode 12)
Air date: 1962-12-28
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Jeff teams up with an insurance adjuster to recover an armored truck's lost shipment.
Falling Stars (Episode 13)
Air date: 1963-01-04
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu becomes involved in film society when a suicide, a murder, and subseuqent attempted murders disrupt the entertainment world.
The Tarnished Idol (Episode 14)
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Air date: 1963-01-11
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Suzanne finds love when she posses as an heiress to investigate the person who's suing a client.
Scream Softly, Dear (Episode 15)
Air date: 1963-01-18
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A borrowed car with sabotaged brakes leads to murder, and Kookie's quest to find the killer leads him into a tangle of romantic triangles and blackmail.
Terror in Silence (Episode 16)
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Air date: 1963-01-25
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu helps a deaf librarian who ""overheard"" a a death threat in the reading room.
Crashout (Episode 17)
Writer: Jerry Davis
Air date: 1963-02-01
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Jeff and Roscoe go undercover in prison to help a thief break out, in hopes he'll lead them to his hidden stash. But the man's cronies have their own plans for the escape and the cash.
The Night Was Six Years Long (Episode 18)
Air date: 1963-02-08
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: The detectives' former secretary walks back in after six years, suffering from amnesia.
Six Feet Under (Episode 19)
Air date: 1963-02-15
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Gang boss Marco Deederman was reported killed in an automobile accident. But after the funeral, a series of fur and jewels thefts show the unmistakable hand of the old master—while Jeff falls for Deederman's girlfriend.
Escape to Freedom (Episode 20)
Writer: Paul Savage
Air date: 1963-02-22
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu is asked to rescue scientist Marie Harben's son, being held hostage by East German Communists to prevent her defecting to the West.
Dial S for Spencer (Episode 21)
Air date: 1963-03-01
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Sandra Keene fears that someone may try to prevent her brother Michael, a skid-row bum, from collecting his inheritance.
Nine to Five (Episode 22)
Air date: 1963-03-08
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu is called to New York to find a missing Hollywood wife.
Stranger from the Sea (Episode 23)
Writer: John K. Butler
Air date: 1963-03-15
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Kookie helps a Japanese friend find his uncle, who vanished with $50,000.
The Man Who Wasn't There (Episode 24)
Air date: 1963-03-22
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Jeff investigates a former G.I.'s story of seeing a man who was reported killed in Korea.
Flight 307 (Episode 25)
Air date: 1963-03-29
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu's flight to Hawaii is stalled by a busy airline official trying to cope with a murder, a fleeing thief, a messy love triangle, and a sick pilot in the air.
Target Island (Episode 26)
Air date: 1963-04-05
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: J.R. seaches for his date's missing brother, a sailor.
Reunion at Balboa (Episode 27)
Air date: 1963-04-12
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Kookie and J.R. are on assignment at the beach when a hit-and-run accident injures a girl they've been watching.
Walk Among Tigers (Episode 28)
Air date: 1963-04-19
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu finds a trap when he goes to collect the belongings of an industrialist and humanitarian killed in a train wreck.
The Left Field Caper (Episode 29)
Air date: 1963-04-26
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: An unhappy little boy on a Little League team is the clue to a murder.
The Heartbeat Caper (Episode 30)
Air date: 1963-05-03
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Visiting professor Stu stumbles across a real mystery while teaching criminology.
To Catch a Mink (Episode 31)
Air date: 1963-05-10
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu attends a charity auction and spots an old flame—who promptly robs the place.
Lady in the Sun (Episode 32)
Air date: 1963-05-17
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu goes after a dangerous lady thief who's stolen a realtor's books.
Our Man in Switzerland (Episode 33)
Air date: 1963-05-24
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Con men take $1 million in securities from under Kookie's nose, and Stu gives chase to restore the firm's reputation.
Your Fortune for a Penny (Episode 34)
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Air date: 1963-05-31
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A millionaire hires Stu to protect his daughter from her rogue lover, a suspected swindler recently returned to the U.S. from an overseas hideaway.
The Checkmate Caper (Episode 35)
Air date: 1963-06-07
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Stu ends up holding the bag when he's hired to help fake a robbery for the heir to a criminal family.
Never to Have Loved (Episode 36)
Writer: Roger Smith
Air date: 1963-06-14
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: An agent hires Stu and Kookie to protect a client from a charismatic director with a Svengali-like hold over her.
