"Route 66" (1960) TV series 1960-1964

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Creators:

Herbert B. Leonard
Stirling Silliphant

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Release Date:

7 October 1960 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure

Plot:

Only fiction series written & shot all over North America. 2 young adventurers in a Corvette explore early 60's social problems and changing mores...

Plot Keywords:

Route 66 | Corvette | Highway | Traveling | Number In Title

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys.

Cast

Martin Milner	...	Tod Stiles / ... (116 episodes, 1960-1964)
George Maharis	...	Buz Murdock / ... (71 episodes, 1960-1963)
Glenn Corbett	...	Lincoln Case / ... (32 episodes, 1963-1964)

Runtime:

60 min | 60 min (116 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Corriganville, Ray Corrigan Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA

Company:

Lancer-Edling Productions

Trivia:

One memorable episode featured Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr. and Peter Lorre. Karloff and Chaney were given the chance to don their famous Universal Frankenstein Monster and Wolf Man make-up for the first time in decades.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Alien Nation: Gimme, Gimme (#1.19)" (1990)

An excellent series, unjustly neglected

Simply one of the finest shows from American t.v.This is an undeservedly "lost" show ,amazingly neglected when so many inferior 60's series are wildly overpraised.If you have never seen "Route 66" try to,it's a rare gem.The scripts are not just highly literate,but often close to poetic(no wonder Jim Aubrey,downmarketeer boss at CBS TV disliked it!).There's a great deal of acting talent in the guest roles-Boris Karloff,Lee Marvin,Robert Duvall,Warren Stevens,Lew Ayers,Michael Rennie,Martin Sheen,Dorothy Malone,Ed Asner,Walter Matthau,Edward Andrews,Leslie Nielson,Anne Francis,Jack Lord,William Shatner and Dan Duryea are just a few to look out for.The two part story "Fly away home" has a haunting tortured performance by Michael Rennie as a doomed pilot;"Welcome to Amity"featuring Susan Oliver is both uplifting and truly moving; in "A month of Sundays" the "Route 66" camera captures Anne Francis at the peak of her stunning beauty and series regular Martin Milner gives the performance of his life as a drug crazed Tod Stiles in "A thin white line".These are just some of the highlights in "Route 66".The location filming (unusual then and now),provides a marvellous time capsule of a now vanished America.