Tod and Buzz agree to help fulfill a dying jazz singer's last wish to reunite with her old band.
Tod and Buz are in Austin, Texas employed as construction workers. On the job, Buz is hit on the head and nearly killed. He recovers but with a problem - he is totally blind. After initially having ...
Tod and Buz, in Butte, Montana working as laborers in a copper mine, meet a beautiful girl at their rooming house. She is a local girl who has made it big and has mysteriously come home despite being...
Title: Route 66 (1960–1964)
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| Complete series cast summary: | |||
| Martin Milner | ... | Tod Stiles / ... 116 episodes, 1960-1964 | |
| George Maharis | ... | Buz Murdock 82 episodes, 1960-1963 | |
| Glenn Corbett | ... | Linc Case 32 episodes, 1963-1964 | |
Only fiction series written & shot all over North America. Two young adventurers in a Corvette explore early 60's social problems and changing mores, looking for the right place to settle down while seeking themselves. Debuting 3 years after "On the Road" transformed modern literature, while such newly available fast cars dominated the new teenage culture, Tod, an Ivy Leaguer, and Buz, an orphan from Hell's Kitchen, cruise the U.S.A. coping with shifting relationships and lifestyles. The FCC's Newton Minow characterized U.S. TV as a "vast wasteland," in 1961, but "Route 66" found important, compelling stories all over. Sterling Silliphant who won an Oscar for writing "In the Heat of the Night," traveled around the U.S. and Canada scouting locales, while writing ¾ of the very dark, literate show's episodes - a feat only Rod Serling matched with The Twilight Zone. Soon, a crew of 50 arrived at the location. Shows were filmed in 40 States. Tod, from a once-wealthy family, inherited only ... Written by David Stevens
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I have been living in Asia for the past 32 years so I don't know if
reruns of "Route 66" have ever been running on television in the States
over the past 3 decades. But 20 years ago when I read Alvin Toffler's
prediction in The Third Wave that the future would see professionals
not loyal to any one company but working with an honest fervor at a
given task and then moving on to the next worthy challenge, my
impression was, "this guy is describing the world of Buz and Tod on
'Route 66'." In an era when America was composed of white collar
office workers and blue collar union members, all working towards a
pension, 'Route 66' was a breath of fresh air, an escape, and a
challenge to try something different as well as a reminder that one
should move on not with a sense of despair but with a feeling of
jubilation and wonder at what is over the next hill. Against the
current economic climate in both Japan and the U.S.A., such a reminder
is especially needed today. Let's move on with a sense of jubilation
and wonder. And to help us do it, bring back the "Route 66" series.