77 Sunset Strip: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of 77 Sunset Strip Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Only Zeroes Count
Oct 2, 1959
Stu Bailey goes to Hawaii to help the government uncover a gang producing phony money, by romancing the girlfriend of the girlfriend of an imprisoned counterfeiter. He gets help f
The Kookie Caper
Oct 9, 1959
Kookie befriends a pretty teenager who is kidnapped, making him think that she is a runaway heiress and causing Bailey and Spencer to become involved.
Six Superior Skirts
Oct 16, 1959
Bailey and Kookie, charged with protecting the jewels at a charity bazaar, are outsmarted by a master swindler who replaces the Moorfield Diamond with a replica.
Clay Pigeon
Oct 23, 1959
Stu Bailey, hired to locate some old acquaintances of a disk jockey, finds himself framed for their murder.
Thanks for Tomorrow
Oct 30, 1959
Jeff Spencer tries to help a friend with a gambling problem, who has become an assassin's target after becoming involved in a race-fixing scheme.
Sing Something Simple
Nov 6, 1959
Stu Bailey is hired to protect a temperamental opera diva who has been receiving threats.
The Treehouse Caper
Nov 13, 1959
Jeff Spencer promises a dying convict that he will retrieve a stash of stolen diamonds and give the reward to the man's daughter, but he has to beat out a crooked insurance investi
Out of the Past
Nov 20, 1959
Bailey is asked by the government to go to Germany to purchase top-secret documents and foil the attempted kidnapping of a scientist.
The Widow and the Web
Nov 27, 1959
Jeff Spencer investigates an apparently accidental death and discovers a serial killer, thereby making himself the next victim.
Secret Island
Dec 4, 1959
Stu Bailey and four other survivors of a plane crash at sea reach an isolated island only to discover that it is the target of an H-bomb test.
The Texas Doll
Dec 11, 1959
Jeff Spencer, hired by a Texas oil dynasty to protect their teenage daughter from a fortune-hunting gigolo, must prove her innocent when she is found with his dead body.
Vacation with Pay
Dec 18, 1959
Stu and Kookie are in Paris trying to keep a millionaire's daughter from marrying a fortune hunter who is conspiring with her uncle.
The Jukebox Caper
Dec 25, 1959
Jeff Spencer poses as a singer to expose a jukebox racket that caused another singer's death.
Created He Them
Jan 1, 1960
Stu Bailey is hired by a woman to prove that she is innocent of the mercy killing of her invalid husband.
Collector's Item
Jan 8, 1960
Jeff Spencer discovers that the countess who hired him to deliver a valuable sculpture to New York is actually part of a ring of spies.
Switchburg
Jan 15, 1960
Stu Bailey finds that the supposedly deserted hotel a client is looking to buy is currently occupied -- by a gang of counterfeiters.
The One That Got Away
Jan 22, 1960
Jeff Spencer goes to Mexico to track down a photographer whose insurance company is reluctant to pay out $200,000 for his supposed death.
Ten Cents a Death
Jan 29, 1960
Stu Bailey's agency is hired to go undercover at a dance hall after two hostesses are murdered by an unknown assailant.
Who Killed Cock Robin?
Feb 5, 1960
Jeff Spencer is hired by a blind director to take part in a winner-take-all hunt for a dead movie producer's fortune.
Condor's Lair
Feb 12, 1960
Stu Bailey is hired by a teen novelist to find the person trying to blackmail her.
The Starlet
Feb 26, 1960
Jeff Spencer is hired to prove that the apparent suicide of a despondent actress was actually murder.
Safari
Mar 4, 1960
Stu Bailey is hired to protect the life of an eccentric tycoon on a safari.
Blackout
Mar 11, 1960
Jeff Spencer pursues robbers who kidnap Suzanne in the course of a jewel heist.
Return to San Dede: The Desert Story (1)
Mar 18, 1960
Stu Bailey is waylaid while escorting a Latin American politician's daughter back to her homeland.
Return to San Dede: The Capital City (2)
Mar 25, 1960
The wounded Bailey finally manages to get the girl to San Dede's capital city, only to find that the government is now in the hands of her father's enemies.
Publicity Brat
Apr 1, 1960
Stu Bailey's efforts to find a woman's missing necklace are hampered by the well-meaning efforts of her scatterbrained mother and her bratty daughter, both of whom are actresses wi
The Fix
Apr 8, 1960
Jeff Spencer is nearly killed himself while investigating the death of a boxer involved in a fight that was fixed.
Legend of Crystal Dart
Apr 15, 1960
Stu Bailey is hired by a glamourous former dancer to evict her estranged husband from their remote mountain cabin, but murder intervenes.
Stranger Than Fiction
Apr 22, 1960
The firm tries to solve the murder of a former chorus girl who faked her own kidnapping and collected $200,000 from her elderly husband.
Genesis of Treason
Apr 29, 1960
A woman hires Stu Bailey to clear her boyfriend, an Air Force lieutenant who was convicted of espionage.
Fraternity of Fear
May 6, 1960
Jeff Spencer is hired to pose as a college student to investigate the death of his client's son in a fraternity hazing incident.
Spark of Freedom
May 13, 1960
On an intelligence mission in Budapest, Stu Bailey dons a series of disguises to try to rescue a young political prisoner and recover his scientific data.
Perfect Setup
May 20, 1960
Trailing a fugitive to a small island off Hawaii, Jeff Spencer finds that his cover as a beachcomber gets him into trouble when the man and his girlfriend decide to kill Jeff and p
Sierra
May 27, 1960
Summoned to a friend's mountain home to help discover the reason for his daughter's strange behavior, Stu Bailey must overcome both a gang of outlaws and a man-killing animal.
The Silent Caper
Jun 3, 1960
Jeff's attempts to rescue a kidnapped mob witness lead to a lethal game of tag.
Family Skeleton
Jun 10, 1960
Stu Bailey is in a race with time as he investigates the kidnapping of Philip Stanton, a businessman with a rare disease that will kill him unless he's supplied with daily medicati