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77 Sunset Strip Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1960 - 1961
Episode 1
Attic
Fri, Sep 16, 196047 mins
Jeff sees enticing wanted robber Vetta Nygood, tails her to a remote mountain hideout, but her accomplices nab him. The ice-cold gang leader Hammett panics, so he ties & gags Jeff up in the abandoned house's attic. Then the 3 robbers flee after divvying up the loot, before the 4th thug, the menacing Deek arrives to claim his cut. Who gets to Jeff first: a chummy rattlesnake, the cops or the vengeful Deek ?
Episode 2
The Fanatics
Fri, Sep 23, 196050 mins
Stuart is asked by his friend, Political Science Professor Marcus Raymond, to act as his bodyguard at a Northern Africa peace summit. Asked by the UN, Professor Raymond is one of the few people who can broker such a peace deal. Two attempts have already been made on his life in some factions not wanting Professor Raymond to attend. The leading suspect is Mustafa Caleb who leads a nationalistic party looking for independence. There are other nationalistic groups and politicians who however realize that the geopolitical situation does not make independence a viable option at this time. Arriving in North Africa, Stuart quickly comes to the conclusion that there is a mole working somewhere in Professor Raymond's camp, probably working for Caleb. He not only has to discover the identity of the mole, but unaware, has to stop what Caleb and his factions are planning, a more catastrophic move to achieve their end goal under the circumstances.
Episode 3
The President's Daughter
Fri, Sep 30, 196047 mins
Jeff and new Bailey and Spencer investigator Rex Randolph are on assignment in the Latin American island republic of Piñacaro. Its former President, Alonso, was overthrown in a military takeover by the current President, Romero. Before he could escape from the island, Alonso had to leave his seventeen year old daughter, Nina Alonso, behind for medical reasons. Dropped off on the island the hard way and to be picked up in exactly twenty-four hours at the drop off point, Jeff and Rex have what is the supposedly straightforward task of retrieving a now well Nina from the hospital, and bringing her to the mainland to be reunited with her father. In the process of their mission, they learn that Romero, through his army, has ordered all of Alonso's associates, including his family members, be executed. As such, Nina has been moved by Alonso supporters to an unknown location for her safety. While evading Romero's army led by Captain Soto, Jeff and Rex not only have to locate Nina and convince her and Alonso's supporters that they are working for her father, but do so within twenty-four hours to make their one and only way off the island.
Episode 4
The Office Caper
Fri, Oct 7, 196047 mins
Just before Stu sings lead in a mob trial, a toy manufacturer moves into 77 Sunset Strip, with no furniture but lots of ammo and suspicious visitors, especially a sinister couple who rub everybody the wrong way. Roscoe knows the head of the assassins, who hires Roscoe to courier a secret toy design from San Diego.
Episode 5
The Widescreen Caper
Fri, Oct 14, 196046 mins
Astrologer predicts murder will strike the same film fest again, once more claiming someone close to super-agent Shelly Blair. Bailey & Spencer have no trouble mobilizing all their young male ops to protect Shelly's 4 starlet clients (MM, Lotus Lee, Sprite Simpson, Helga Haller), while Roscoe draws an ex-silent film diva, and Suzanne shields an ego-maniacal French heartthrob.
Episode 6
The Negotiable Blonde
Fri, Oct 21, 196047 mins
A duplicitous blonde swipes $500,000 from her employer/fiancé, after he hired Jeff Spencer to accompany her and a satchel of negotiable bonds from San Francisco to L.A. She gives Jeff the slip, along with another, much younger fiancé. When Jeff suspects she's fled to Acapulco, fiancé number II joins the chase.
Episode 7
The Laurel Canyon Caper
Fri, Oct 28, 196047 mins
Crooner, who's finally cracked the big screen, is suspected of rubbing out scandal sheet publisher Ransome, for threatening to expose the singer's rap sheet. Bailey & Spencer's new gumshoe Rex Randolph sets out to nab the killer, to prove the golden throat's innocence. High on Rex's checklist of suspects is comic Chick Little, who may be another of Ransome's blackmail pigeons.
Episode 8
Double Trouble
Fri, Nov 4, 196048 mins
Is Stu moonlighting as a Mafia hit man or could he just be an exact double for Sandy the Executioner? Kefauver's G-Men summon ex-CIA spook Stu Bailey inside the Beltway, to find out before New York's Silk Cipriano has his contract fulfilled on rival narcotics dealer California Baldy Mike Hannigan, sparking a bi-coastal gang war.
Episode 9
Trouble in the Middle East
Fri, Nov 11, 196047 mins
While vacationing in the small Middle Eastern Emirate of Scathia, Jeff gets caught in the middle of a revolution, a relatively harmless one for tourists like Jeff if one knows the routine. Kassite, the head of the revolutionaries, and his men storm the city first thing in the morning, some merchants engage in gunfire just to protect their property, and then Kassite and his men run off once the army arrives on the scene. It isn't obvious to Jeff, even after speaking to some Scathians, which side is in the right. And despite being on vacation, Jeff is nonetheless taken in for questioning by the army. He is also offered a lucrative job which, in his consideration factors in the nature of the job itself and the compensation in light of it interrupting his vacation. In accepting the job, Jeff truly does get caught up in the revolution, placing his life and that of the person he has been hired to protect at risk.
Episode 10
The Duncan Shrine
Fri, Nov 18, 196046 mins
The funeral of a revered old Western star gets surreal when his huge statue is stolen. The embarrassed Hollywood cemetery hires Rex Randolph to get the statue back, but gets way more they expect. Rex's investigation uncovers sex, lies, blackmail, decaying nitrate film, and murder suspects galore.
Episode 11
The Double Death of Benny Markham
Fri, Nov 25, 196047 mins
While in England, Jeff is asked by his light-fingered friend, Benny, to help him find who hired him for a job in Liverpool. Unknown to Benny he stole a radioactive isotope. He was not warned of the danger of coming in contact with it. They only have two weeks to find who did this to Benny before he dies from the radiation poisoning.
Episode 12
The Antwerp Caper
Fri, Dec 2, 196046 mins
Manet the magician schemes to pay off his gambling debts by reuniting his assistant with her wealthy parents, back in California. To verify that the beautiful young woman's really the daughter who disappeared in World War II Europe, the parents hire Stu Bailey to fly to Antwerp to investigate.
Episode 13
The Affairs of Adam Gallante
Fri, Dec 9, 196047 mins
Newlywed Adam Gallante disappears, then someone keeps trying to kill his naive bride Alice. Bloodhounds Spencer and Kookie find out that the meek-looking Gallante, a traveling women's clothing salesman, had paramours all over, including Sheila Storm, seer Karma Onyx, and Peaches Schultz.
Episode 14
The Valley Caper
Fri, Dec 16, 196048 mins
Stuart and Jeff's friend Carl Hillman, an executive at Globe Pictures Studios, wants them to help him with one of his starring contract players, Abigail Allen, who he believes may be in trouble. A proverbial good girl, widowed Abby has been dating Jimmy Cook for a year, he who is suspected to have gangster connections. Abby placed her nine year old son, Pete, in a military boarding school when she and Jimmy started dating. In addition, an east coast gangster named Fred Miller, who no one knew was in town, was shot in front of Abby when she was out with Jimmy. Without she knowing the reason, Carl wants them to befriend Abby and get into her confidence to find out what is going on. As Abby knows both Stuart and Jeff casually, well enough to know who they are, Stuart and Jeff hand the assignment to Rex, who Carl is able to arrange to be undercover as east coast aspiring actor, Zach Bennett. In merely being around Abby, Rex may be placed into danger without knowing it in not knowing what Abby is mixed up in. And in truly befriending Abby, Rex may not be able to view evidence which may incriminate Abby for what it is.
Episode 15
The Dresden Doll
Fri, Dec 23, 196060 mins
Spencer is to be the Stewart's bodyguard, a couple where the husband is an older man married to the attractive Dolly. She makes a play for Jeff and he discovers her ex-con old boyfriend which puts several lives at risk.
Episode 16
The Rice Estate
Fri, Dec 30, 196048 mins
Stuart is hired by reclusive and mysterious twenty-eight year old Eunice Rice, who has just completed the one year mourning in almost total solitude of her much older husband, Colton Rice, the mourning despite his abusive nature, she believing it just the proper thing to do. Among the many unusual aspects is that she wants him to take the job on credit as she, penniless, will come into money once she sells what is the Rice Estate - a mansion and its vast property - which Colton brought into the marriage. The job is to find who and why someone is anonymously threatening her not to sell the property. Her brother-in-law, Carl Rice, has offered to buy it if only so that the Rice Estate will remain as such. While she and Carl do not get along, she does with Colton Rice Jr., Colton Sr.'s adult son from his first marriage. As Stuart spends much time with Eunice at Rice Estate in trying to acclimatize her back to socialization after her year of solitude in mourning on what is a dark and stormy day turning into night, the mansion has aspects of being haunted. Or are the bumps in the night the human form of the threats?
Episode 17
The Hamlet Caper
Fri, Jan 6, 196148 mins
Egomaniacal Derek Fielding is directing himself in the title role in a national touring company of Hamlet, the company currently in Los Angeles preparing for a two week run. Many people associated with the company would figuratively like to kill Derek. He is constantly needling supporting player Farley Cabot who may not be able to take much more. What Farley is unaware of is that his girlfriend, Derek's ex-wife Gretchen Jervis, made a deal with Derek to give Farley the role in exchange for not marrying Farley during the course of the show's run. Someone else who Derek does not treat well is Max Eberhard, the elderly stage manager who seems quietly to take Derek's ill treatment. And Derek's girlfriend, Darlene Wells, who has the role of Ophelia, believes Derek's bad treatment of her is not because he may not love her as much as she loves him, but because of the stress associated with everything he has to do for the production. Derek however believes that someone is literally trying to kill him as he is beset by one close call after another. Although he thinks Derek is just manifesting his divo self in these beliefs, Jerry Branford, the show's producer who is as much a target of Derek's ire as anyone else, hires Rex to be a watchful eye over the production. Rex's investigation in determining if Jerry's theory is correct or if someone really is trying to kill Derek is made all the more difficult by one fundamental aspect.
Episode 18
The Man in the Mirror
Fri, Jan 13, 196160 mins
A man with split personality hires Bailey and Spencer to protect him from his would-be murderer--his own alter ego.
Episode 19
The College Caper
Fri, Jan 20, 196148 mins
Using his usual means of muscle and intimidation, gangster Frankie Arnold wants to retain Stuart's services as protection against Frankie's former partner Rick Ganzel, who has just been released from prison and who wants revenge in Frankie having been the one who gave him up. Frankie himself is evading the authorities as a wanted man, the authorities who believe he is either out of the country or dead. Regardless of the means to retain his services, Stuart accepts the case if only because of Ganzel's intended target: all-American fullback Mark Adams, Frankie's biological son who knows nothing about the true nature of his father, Frankie's ex-wife who told Mark that he long ago died. Besides Frankie and his ex-wife, Ganzel is the only person who knows that Mark is Frankie's son. Frankie stipulates that Mark is not to be told about any of what is going on, including that Frankie is his father. As such, Stuart has to go undercover at Hansen College where Mark attends school, the only open position that would keep him close to Mark being as a Geology professor, Stuart believing he able to stay one class ahead of his students. As extra insurance, Stuart enlists Kookie's help, he also undercover as a transfer student and fellow football player who Stuart is able to arrange as Mark's new dorm roommate. With no recent photos of Ganzel, Stuart is walking into the case somewhat blind, he believing Ganzel one of the three people who have recently been hired as staff at the college. If Stuart us unable to determine if any of the three is Ganzel, he may be forced to tell Mark the truth before the next big game, the risk to Mark too great in such an exposed venue, and despite Frankie's threat that he will kill Stuart if Mark discovers the truth. Adding to the complications is Mark himself, who likes Kookie but may think that too much Kookie, who is only doing his job, is too much if a good thing.
Episode 20
Mr. Goldilocks
Fri, Jan 27, 196147 mins
Jeff is shot in the arm while driving through the desert and holds up at the isolated Hanks. Jeff is following up on a valuable jewel theft and his life is at stake as Polly Willis has dreams of a better future as she's connected to the robbery.
Episode 21
The Corsican Caper
Fri, Feb 3, 196148 mins
Wealthy Abel Price, a dispassionate man in needing no one to succeed in life including business or personal partners, hires Rex to discover why his fiancée, Eve Martell, broke off their engagement. Never before having asked him for money, she asked and he gave her $1,000, he subsequently learning that she wrote a check in that amount to a Dean Emery. Price believes that Eve may be in some sort of trouble in needing to give Emery that money. What Rex is unaware of is that the $1,000 will be indirectly tied to Suzanne, who, newly in love, will also soon write a check for $1,000. In the process, Suzanne becomes implicated in a murder on circumstantial evidence. As such, Rex works harder not only on the case but to clear Suzanne's name in discovering if the murderer was one of a number of others who too recently wrote a check in the amount of $1,000.
Episode 22
Once Upon a Caper
Fri, Feb 10, 196148 mins
Jeff recounts how he took in struggling nerd Stu as junior partner, after Jeff rescued a beauty from a kidnapping plus nabbed a car ring single-handed, after bow-tied, all-thumbs Stu botched the car theft investigation. Jeff's princely version of the origin of 77 Sunset Strip is in response to Rex making a rash mistake by asking Jeff how their agency started. As a true detective, Rex needs all the facts to close a case, so he grills Stu for his version of the events.
Episode 23
Strange Bedfellows
Fri, Feb 17, 196148 mins
Celebrity Maritza Vedar is known for not doing much for that celebrity except be glamorous, although she has long worked with German Holtz Von Ulrich to direct her in a seven hour epic film, which would be her first and which they need financing to produce. She is not above a little fraud - although she doesn't see it as such - to get the money when she wants to retain Jeff's services, he who she chose because of Bailey and Spencer's sterling reputation, to help her "steal" her own jewels for the insurance money, about which Jeff is obviously incensed in turning her down. But what happens is that a thief does manage to get her to open her safe to steal the jewels. In the process, what the robber also steals, that were also in her safe, were love letters written by various men, which if the letters came into public light could be very damaging to the reputation of those men. Although she would also not characterize it as such, she kept those letters to blackmail the men into providing for the way she is accustomed to living. Using the media i.e. the gossip columns at her disposal among other means, Maritza is able to get Jeff to investigate the jewel and letter theft despite his disdain for her and uncertainty in who will actually pay for his services. With Roscoe helping him on the jewel theft end checking with an acquaintance that the thief would probably use as a fence for the jewels, Jeff begins to suspect that one of the three letter writers was actually behind the theft, he who would have been after his letters to get out from under Maritza's control. The three letter writing suspects are: cowboy actor Drew Dekker, the letters which would be against his public persona; tough guy actor Race Shawn, who is in much the same predicament as Dekker; and gigolo gold digger Nicky Kinares, the last letter which would ruin his marriage to wealthy older socialite Caroline Kinares, his latest meal ticket, in that letter having been written after he and Caroline were married.
Episode 24
Face in the Window
Fri, Feb 24, 196160 mins
A starlet is being stalked-until she shoots him. Rex finds that though she says she has no idea who he was, he was connected to an upcoming film she and her western star husband are invested in.
Episode 25
Tiger by the Tail
Fri, Mar 3, 196147 mins
Not wanting the government involved due to the circumstances, the Padi Shah of Benar hires Stuart to act as bodyguard and tour guide for him and his entourage - which includes many of his wives, his offspring, his harem, his own security detail such as former English Major Forester, and his favorite pet tiger - while they are all in the Los Angeles area. Those circumstances are that there have been recent attempts on his life, the people behind those attempts unknown. Stuart enlists Kookie's help to entertain the Padi Shah's eldest and favorite daughter, Sari, who is bored of hanging around with people in her parents' generation, and Roscoe's help, he who has the unenviable initial task of sitting with the tiger. After the Padi Shah takes a meeting with him, Stuart suspects that a man named Igor acting as a representative of an Eastern European power may be behind those assassination attempts. While another unsuccessful attempt is made on the Padi Shah's life under Stuart's care, the people behind it may take another tact in achieving their end goal of overthrowing the Padi Shah by hurting him through the ones he loves. If Stuart is able to discover who is behind the attempts, he will find they are a little closer to the Padi Shah than he himself would have imagined.
Episode 26
The Space Caper
Fri, Mar 10, 196148 mins
It has just been reported in the media that Jeff's friend, Dr. Alex Conley, has just resigned as one of the chief scientists at Point Sill Missile Base. This news follows earlier news that Alex's friend and colleague, Dr. Brand, was killed by a bomb blast, the scuttlebutt being that it was not accidental in he providing classified information regarding the fuel testing program to the enemies. With Alex's wife Helen worried, Alex eventually admits to both her and Jeff that he did not resign but was fired for being a security risk, perhaps in the vein of Dr. Brand. In the process of what is happening to Alex, Jeff has to go undercover at the request of the government as a fuel scientist at Point Sill to uncover a mole who has been planted inside the facility - despite Jeff having no background in the sciences, he being told he can get away with it purportedly knowing more about the top secret experiments than anyone else - with the chief suspects being fellow fuel scientists Drs. Joseph Durek and Roger Middlesmith, and the scientific teams' two assistants, Jim Brecker and Dorothy Cooper.
Episode 27
Open and Close in One
Fri, Mar 17, 196147 mins
Elderly dancer/comic/mime Baxter Kellogg, whose fame peaked when he appeared in silent pictures, has always been able to make a living in show business, he currently preparing for an appearance at the San Fernando Fair in an act using all three skills where he, fifty feet above the ground, is pretending time after time to be on the verge of falling off the scaffolding. The risks are real, however, as there are no guide wires or net if he indeed does fall. A highly superstitious man, he hires Stuart when his lucky medallion, which he truly does believe protects him, goes missing, he pretty sure it stolen as it went missing after he had it displayed at a party. Unwilling to cancel the appearance if the medallion isn't recovered - canceling something he's never done, as well as success at the fair being a factor in whether he gets signed for a television show - he, in his heart, truly does believe he will fall to his death during the show. The suspects who Stuart will be investigating are the party attendees: Baxter's nephew Joey Kellogg who wants to follow in his uncle's footsteps, he blaming his lack of success for being in the Kellogg shadow rather than his lack of talent; aspiring actress Judy Rogers, Joey's date; Wally Raye, an old vaudeville rival; Allan Joyce, a magician working at the fair; and Rochelle Adrian, Raye's disgruntled assistant in his act. But it's the last attendee that Baxter does not consider that Stuart comes to put at the top of the suspect list: Baxter's much younger wife, Norma Kellogg, who may be trying to pull off the perfect murder, the missing medallion which is just enough for Baxter to doubt himself fifty feet above the ground.
Episode 28
The Legend of Leckonby
Fri, Mar 24, 196148 mins
Jeff is asked by Lt. Gilmore to look into the disappearance of $85,000 hidden by gambler Stanley, recently out of prison. Jeff gets nowhere as his fiancée Francie and friends claim ignorance. But a murder changes the investigation's course.
Episode 29
Old Card Sharps Never Die
Fri, Mar 31, 196147 mins
Rex heads to an old mining town, hired by the local boss Henning. After he turns down the job he's prevented from leaving. He becomes involved with Notch who holds the deed to a valuable claim that several of the locals want their hands on.
Episode 30
Vamp 'til Ready
Fri, Apr 7, 196147 mins
Stu is hired to find a missing husband, David Todd a once well known pianist who left the spotlight. Stu finds him playing at out of the way club where David insists his wife wants him back to murder him. Events unfold that the investigator must untangle.
Episode 31
The Common Denominator
Fri, Apr 14, 196150 mins
Gil is getting pressure from the chief and feels like he could be the sacrificial lamb if he doesn't solve the recent swath of murders, the two victims thus far beautiful, well off Beverly Hills women - Nic Jones and Louise Langford - who were stabbed to death in their own homes with no signs of forcible entry, they both stabbed by some sharp wooden instrument. Both murders occurred in the evening when their respective husbands were out of town, and sneaker footprints were found outside in both cases. Gil and the media speculate that the murders are thrill kills making the case more difficult in having little rhyme or reason. It isn't until there is a third victim, single Renee Dumont, that Gil reaches out for help, specifically to Jeff as Miss Dumont had called Jeff for the first time that night for an appointment the following morning. The M.O. for the Dumont case is the same as the first two murders, with the only change in the victimology being Miss Dumont being divorced. Initially frustrated in turning up no substantial evidence, Jeff and Gil eventually do discover a few different ties between some of the murders. Following the leads, Jeff employs the assistance of Roscoe and Suzanne, ultimately deciding to use Suzanne as potential bait in front of some keys suspects. Jeff doesn't realize the danger he is placing single Suzanne with she possessing the key attributes the target of the murderer, those attributes not on Jeff's radar as the reason for the murders.
Episode 32
The 6 Out of 8 Caper
Fri, Apr 21, 196151 mins
Meek bookkeeper Wilmer Zaleski picks 6 of 8 winners every day at the track, attracting the attention of hoods Flip & Schoolboy plus a statuesque billionaire track dilettante. Babs hires Stu to find out Zaleski's secret, while the strong-arms pummel Wilmer and kidnap his daughter. Maverick's a sure bet to win, but Roscoe has to pull an all-nighter to pick the other 5, to draw the kidnappers out in the open.
Episode 33
The Celluloid Cowboy
Fri, Apr 28, 196150 mins
Jeff is hired by Fay Dakota to protect her estranged husband Flint on the set of his comeback western. A series of mishaps have plagued the film plus Flint's interest in starlet Rhonda creates complications as Jeff and Roscoe work as extras.
Episode 34
The Eyes of Love
Fri, May 5, 196150 mins
Stuart's friend, helicopter pilot Harold Colson - Hal in more familiar circumstances - is the traffic reporter for KRWC Radio in Los Angeles. He hires Stuart after he gets fired, one part of the reason for his firing which he wants Stuart to investigate. A womanizer, Hal, after his shift, was flying up into the Hollywood Hills to pay a visit to a lady friend when he spotted who he knows was a dead woman slumped in the passenger seat of a car, he being able to see the large blood stain on her back. After reporting the sighting to the radio station who informed the police, the police arrived on the scene to find no car and no dead body. While he was fired in part because this was just the latest complaint of he using the helicopter to dip his proverbial blade in a lady friend's proverbial pool, it is the false report of the dead body which may lead to him losing his license altogether. In Stuart taking the case, Kookie is able to discover the owner of the probable car involved, a blue Austin Healey with a white racing stripe: newspaper columnist Amanda Strong, who answers letters from people looking for relationship advice, although it is her much younger newlywed husband, Tony Bowman, for who she bought the car. In meeting Strong and Bowman, Stuart can sense that he is a little too slick for his own good, and while Stuart has no concrete evidence tying him to the murder of a yet undiscovered woman, Stuart has to try and find the holes in Bowman's story, which may be more difficult in Strong's devotion, seemingly unwarranted, to her newlywed husband.
Episode 35
Designing Eye
Fri, May 12, 196151 mins
On behalf of himself and his two business partners, Mark Fulton of Surf 'n Sun, a women's beach and resort wear company, hires Jeff regarding a case of industrial piracy. Every season for the past three years, their main competitor in town, Rainbow Modes, has introduced a line a few days ahead of Surf 'n Sun, Rainbow Mode's designs the exact same as Surf 'n Sun's barring a few minor tweaks. Mark and his partners have taken increasing security measures to protect their designs each successive season, those measures not able to stop Rainbow Modes from getting and releasing their designs ahead of time. The most recent measure has been to keep the designs not in a safe but in a vault with only the partners having access. Jeff goes undercover as an efficiency expert allowing him access to all areas of the company, with only Mark, the head of sales, and his two partners knowing his true identity: Pop Halliday, the company founder who is the chief administrative officer; and Ellen Martone, the chief designer. Even Pop's son, Eddie Halliday, who works in accounting, is not to know who Jeff really is. Needing extra eyes, Jeff gets Kookie a job in the shipping department, while he assigns Suzanne to get a job at Rainbow Modes as a model. What Jeff learns is that the start of the piracy coincided with Linda Gates, the chief designer at Rainbow Modes, getting a new partner in all aspects of her life, Cliff Jarrett, who, if his business practices match his personal practices with women, is behind the piracy. Rainbow Modes had little success as a company until the piracy started occurring. Even if Linda and/or Cliff are behind the piracy, Jeff still has to discover how they get access to the vault, which means that Pop, Mark and Ellen are also key suspects, that inside person for whatever reason stealing from his/her own company. Meanwhile, Roscoe is preoccupied with his latest constant companion, Genevieve, who he met at the race track.
Episode 36
Caper in E Flat
Fri, May 19, 196152 mins
Billy Boy Baines, a successful, young country singer whose target demographic is the subteen nine to fourteen year old age category, is currently in Los Angeles on tour, he traveling with his manager 'Deacon' Morton P. Franklin, a good ol' Oklahoma boy, and the Deacon's wife, Vicki Franklin, a southern belle who has probably never met a man or alcoholic beverage she didn't like. The Deacon, who prefers to be labeled as a builder or creator of talent in abhorring the ten percent connotation associated with the terms manager or agent, hires Rex, who has no idea who Billy Boy is in not being the target market, as Billy Boy has been receiving anonymous typewritten death threats, and a bullet just missed hitting him while he was in the Franklins' Los Angeles apartment. The Deacon refuses to get the police involved in not wanting the publicity. Initially not wanting to implicate him in their past association, the Deacon eventually divulges to Rex that he believes the perpetrator is George Tishman, another singer who the Deacon used to manage and who became jealous of Billy Boy. While regular investigative channels uncover nothing in addition, Rex, with Kookie, who he has asked to befriend Billy Boy in having someone closer to his own age on the case, and Roscoe by his side, may find that the biggest clue to what is going on may be discovering that Billy Boy is nothing in private like he is in public, he just plain Bill Baines from Chicago, Illinois.
Episode 37
Hot Tamale Caper: Part I
Sat, May 27, 196152 mins
While Stuart is away on business, Jeff and Roscoe on a weekend fishing trip, and Kookie and Suzanne off for lunch, Rex is conveniently alone when a potential client comes into the office looking to hire the firm to locate her brother missing in Las Vegas, the client able to convince Rex to take the case despite any Vegas firm able to handle such. Later, Stuart, Jeff, Roscoe, Kookie and Suzanne individually learn at various times that Rex was killed in a mid-air plane explosion, none except Kookie even knowing he was on a case until they hear the short message he left for Stuart before heading off on the case, part of that message being the name of the client, Maria Rodriguez. As Rex's grieving sister Marlene Randolph flies in for his service, the gang starts to believe that the burned beyond recognition body that they are about to bury is not Rex, and that Rex is still alive, with the explosion all meant to make them only believe Rex is dead. As they start to investigate, the two key pieces as to why this hoax was perpetrated seem to be who Maria Rodriguez is, and who the dead man is.
Episode 38
Hot Tamale Caper: Part II
Fri, Jun 2, 196151 mins
Randolph awakens from a drugged state to find he has been kidnapped by a banana republic's crooked politicos, and forced to impersonate a dead leader the people trust. Bailey and Spencer enlist Kookie and Roscoe to help in a rescue mission.
Episode 39
The Positive Negative
Fri, Jun 9, 1961
Rex is engaged by Gunnar Isis, a ruthless international tycoon, to guard a priceless diamond tiara. When it is stolen from his mistress, lovely ballerina Amanda Sant, Rex is thrown into a maze of murderers, blackmailers and Nazis.
