Thu, Oct 1, 1959
Stu is about to leave Hawaii when he is caught up in an investigation of counterfeiters. Dan and Kim from Hawaiian Eye make brief appearances. A woman suspected of being a conduit to the crooks falls for Stu. Things get complicated when the woman's friend is someone Stu wants to get to know better for the case.
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Thu, Oct 8, 1959
Man fleeing a murder scene is unaware a pretty runaway is hiding in his backseat. When they arrive at 77 Sunset Strip, Kookie avidly takes in the teenager to protect her from the killers. But the ginchy Carrie doesn't want to hide, she's come to Hollywood to crash the movies and meet Sugarfoot. Bailey & Spencer's sleazy rival, Shamus Legs Carson weasels in on the case when he hears there's a big reward for finding the starstruck teen.
Thu, Oct 22, 1959
Stu's on the lam for 2 murders committed after he tracked the victims down for an acid-tongued talk radio host who's about to ink a big TV deal. Police chief Happy Happerson hunts Stu, while Kookie & company scramble after the other 2 targets on the shock jock's list, before they take the big sleep too. The scandalmonger's Hollywood agent keeps leaving town. Is she the shooter ?
Thu, Oct 29, 1959
Crime syndicate hires a gambler to layoff racetrack bets to out-of-state bookies to keep the odds from diving. The go-between Lonnie Drew is an old pal of Jeff Spencer, whose help is needed when Drew suspects that he's going to be set up with a briefcase full of hot semolians. It's a boat race scheme, i.e. the other horses' owners are paid to lose to the long-shots backed by the Syndicate.
Thu, Nov 5, 1959
An opera diva is almost sandbagged on stage, but she doesn't want any gendarmes involved, so her manager hires opera-loving Stu to investigate. Posing as her new paramour, Stu flushes her torch-bearing ex-husband and a hot-tempered tenor out of the scenery as suspects. Kookie almost ankles from his square, undercover assignment as a spear-carrier, but a blonde ingénue from the Bronx keeps him on task.
Thu, Nov 26, 1959
Seductive widow suspected of offing her husband via an industrial accident, when she goes after PI Jeff Spencer and almost every available (& unavailable) man at her husband's plant. When an anonymous note alleges the worker was murdered, the factory's insurance company hires Jeff to investigate.
Thu, Jan 14, 1960
Stuart and Jeff's old friend Art Moomey hires Stuart to look into a commercial property, the Switchburg Hotel, he is thinking about buying. He asks Stuart instead of a real estate agent since the hotel is located in Switchburg, a virtual ghost town in the old silver mining region of the Nevada desert about four hundred miles away from Las Vegas. There are no such regular services such as a real estate office in Switchburg let alone a mayor, and Art is unable to find out anything about the hotel on his own. It appeals to the eccentric side of him, he who plans to fix it up if it is worth buying only to sell it to someone even more eccentric than him for a profit. Stopping off in Las Vegas on his way, Stuart ends up having company, at least to Kingsley, fifty miles outside Switchburg, in the form of casino cocktail waitress Nan Polly with who he made a personal connection. In Switchburg, he finds that he seems to be getting some sort of runaround in that the few old timers he meets point him in one direction, only to be pointed back in the opposite direction by the next person to who he speaks. He also finds that the few men he has met in town all carry sidearms for whatever reason. A young couple, Clyde and Dorothy Amboy, have recently moved to town, Clyde, who opened a service station despite there already being one in town that has little business, suspicious of any man who talks to Dorothy, and Dorothy who runs the diner, also that does little business and charges high prices because of the expensive overhead of needing to ship everything into town. And although no one seems to have a key to the hotel with its owner George Silverdale's whereabouts unknown despite he promptly paying his property taxes every year, Clyde reports that he has seen lights on the second floor of the hotel at night. Those lights may provide some answers as to the mysteries of the town and why Stuart has been getting the runaround.
Thu, Apr 14, 1960
Stuart takes the case of legendary bigger-than-life actress/dancer/singer Crystal Dart, she initially making a name for herself in the post-war era as the star of the Folies Bergère in Paris. She wants him to accompany her to a cabin at Lake Arrowhead that was owned by her estranged husband, Swiss national ski instructor and aspiring not too good actor Kurt Weibel, before they married, after which, in his poor financial state, she assumed the mortgage. She wants him evicted from the cabin where he is living - she having legal papers to dispossess him - before she begins divorce proceedings. She wants Stuart along more for protection than anything. Also accompanying them will be her biographer, Ken Dexter, so that Ken and Crystal won't lose any of their work time. Ken not only makes it clear to Stuart in private that he does not want to go, but for undisclosed reasons does not want him to get involved. Stuart also further learns directly from the horse's mouth that Janice Dexter, Ken's wife, believes Crystal has some evil hold over her husband, Janice who wants Crystal out of their lives so that Ken can work on what was supposed to be his first novel after spending his career thus far solely on biographies. Upon arrival at the cabin, Stuart gets a slightly different perspective of the marriage from Kurt. Due to a snowstorm and the only road being blocked, those at the cabin are temporarily cut off from the rest of the world, they who not only include Stuart, Crystal, Ken and Kurt, but out of circumstance Janice and Marie Lang, Kurt's longtime companion who he left when he met and married Crystal. There is an explosive atmosphere in the cabin in their confinement, Stuart who has to find out what is truly going on with this collective in sifting through what is the truth and what are lies among all the stories before something tragic happens.
Thu, Apr 21, 1960
Jeff is hired by a wealthy middle-aged man who wants his missing young wife found. The client refuses to believe she has left him for a younger man but Jeff thinks otherwise. With Roscoe's help, she is quickly spotted but, before her husband can be contacted, a new situation has developed - she is being held for ransom.
Thu, May 19, 1960
Jeff goes to capture a thief sneaking back via a remote corner of the Islands. PI Jeff poses as a wandering gigolo, signing on as a guitar-strumming lounge act to attract lonely women to a struggling resort. Cricket Blake chirps along with him, but the new competition brings out the worst in a scheming philanderer and a torch-bearing local police chief.
Thu, May 26, 1960
Man-eating cat stalks the Sierras, making Stu's inquiry about a friend's daughter a low priority with frazzled mountain residents. Stu's old buddy suspects his daughter is rebelling against his strict single-parenting by getting mixed-up with shady characters. A mild-mannered geology professor boarding at the buddy's house, packing heat on his wilderness sabbatical makes Stu wary too.
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Thu, Jun 2, 1960
Stripper Jingle Bells, key witness in a mob trial, is kidnapped to keep her from testifying. Jeff spots her being held in an apartment, then identifies her when he finds one of her trademark "jingle bell" earrings on the sidewalk. Jeff pursues when the kidnapper moves her to a mountain ranch off Route 66.