Route 66 (1960)

Adventure · Crime · Drama

After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.

IMDb rating: 7.7 (2,234 votes)
Episode average: 7.4 -0.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 4
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Glenn Corbett Linc Case

Seasons

Season 1 (1960)

7.35 avg 30 episodes 7.5 → 8.1 52 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Black November	7.5	338
2	A Lance of Straw	6.7	190
3	The Swan Bed	7.0	175
4	The Man on the Monkey Board	7.5	187
5	The Strengthening Angels	7.5	179
6	Ten Drops of Water	7.5	184
7	Three Sides	7.0	171
8	Legacy for Lucia	7.0	145
9	Layout at Glen Canyon	6.7	153
10	The Beryllium Eater	7.3	138
11	A Fury Slinging Flame	6.7	135
12	Sheba	7.2	146
13	The Quick and the Dead	7.1	132
14	Play It Glissando	7.3	149
15	The Clover Throne	6.4	127
16	Fly Away Home: Part I	7.7	133
17	Fly Away Home: Part II	7.8	117
18	Sleep on Four Pillows	6.5	122
19	An Absence of Tears	7.1	113
20	Like a Motherless Child	8.0	141
21	Effigy in Snow	6.6	123
22	Eleven, the Hard Way	7.9	123
23	Most Vanquished, Most Victorious	8.0	123
24	Don't Count Stars	7.8	122
25	The Newborn	7.6	116
26	A Skill for Hunting	7.8	115
27	Trap at Cordova	7.1	119
28	The Opponent	8.1	124
29	Welcome to Amity	8.0	139
30	Incident on a Bridge	8.1	122

Season 2 (1961)

7.72 avg 32 episodes 8.4 → 7.2 51 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Month of Sundays	8.4	143
2	Blue Murder	7.4	119
3	Goodnight Sweet Blues	9.0	209
4	Birdcage on My Foot	8.1	133
5	First-Class Mouliak	7.2	133
6	Once to Every Man	7.9	106
7	The Mud Nest	8.5	153
8	A Bridge Across Five Days	7.7	111
9	Mon Petit Chou	7.2	145
10	Some of the People, Some of the Time	7.4	112
11	The Thin White Line	8.1	134
12	...And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon	7.6	118
13	Burning for Burning	7.7	96
14	To Walk with the Serpent	7.4	122
15	A Long Piece of Mischief	8.1	112
16	1800 Days to Justice	7.2	94
17	City of Wheels	8.2	105
18	How Much a Pound Is Albatross?	8.0	115
19	Aren't You Surprised to See Me?	7.5	89
20	You Never Had It So Good	7.8	84
21	Shoulder the Sky, My Lad	8.1	99
22	Blues for the Left Foot	7.7	98
23	Go Read the River	7.3	95
24	Even Stones Have Eyes	8.5	105
25	Love Is a Skinny Kid	8.4	137
26	Kiss the Maiden All Forlorn	6.7	87
27	Two on the House	7.9	98
28	There I Am - There I Always Am	7.7	103
29	Between Hello and Goodbye	7.4	99
30	A Feat of Strength	6.6	69
31	Hell Is Empty, All the Devils Are Here	7.1	82
32	From an Enchantress Fleeing	7.2	92

Season 3 (1962)

7.54 avg 31 episodes 8.1 → 7.5 50 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	One Tiger to a Hill	8.1	113
2	Journey to Nineveh	7.6	130
3	Man Out of Time	7.5	86
4	Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?	7.7	96
5	Voice at the End of the Line	8.5	113
6	Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing	7.8	202
7	Across Walnuts and Wine	7.6	100
8	Welcome to the Wedding	8.6	103
9	Every Father's Daughter	7.3	87
10	Poor Little Kangaroo Rat	7.4	90
11	Hey, Moth, Come Eat the Flame	8.1	85
12	Only by Cunning Glimpses	7.0	85
13	Where Is Chick Lorimer, Where Has She Gone?	7.1	91
14	Give the Old Cat a Tender Mouse	6.7	101
15	A Bunch of Lonely Pagliaccis	7.3	82
16	You Can't Pick Cotton in Tahiti	7.6	90
17	A Gift for a Warrior	7.8	77
18	Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain	7.8	104
19	Somehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow	7.7	88
20	...Shall Forfeit His Dog and Ten Shillings to the King	7.2	79
21	In the Closing of a Trunk	7.2	78
22	The Cage Around Maria	6.2	73
23	Fifty Miles from Home	8.0	95
24	Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine	6.7	78
25	The Cruelest Sea of All	7.9	99
26	Peace, Pity, Pardon	7.3	69
27	What a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant	8.0	86
28	But What Do You Do in March?	7.4	86
29	Who Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride	7.1	81
30	Shadows of an Afternoon	8.1	90
31	Soda Pop and Paper Flags	7.5	83

Season 4 (1963)

7.02 avg 23 episodes 7.6 → 7.2 50 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Two Strangers and an Old Enemy	7.6	79
2	Same Picture, Different Frame	6.0	250
3	Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!	6.1	78
4	Where Are the Sounds of Celli Brahms?	6.9	70
5	Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea	7.4	87
6	And Make Thunder His Tribute	7.5	68
7	The Stone Guest	6.6	73
8	I Wouldn't Start from Here	8.6	86
9	A Cage in Search of a Bird	8.1	81
10	A Long Way from St. Louie	7.6	81
11	Come Home Greta Inger Gruenschaffen	5.5	74
12	93 Percent in Smiling	7.1	74
13	Child of a Night	7.3	76
14	Is It True There Are Poxies at the Bottom of Landfair Lake?	6.3	73
15	Like This It Means Father... Like This - Bitter... Like This - Tiger...	7.8	79
16	Kiss the Monster - Make Him Sleep	7.2	73
17	Cries of Persons Close to One	7.2	73
18	Who in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl	6.5	68
19	This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You	6.8	73
20	Follow the White Dove with the Broken Wing	6.9	70
21	Where There's a Will, There's a Way: Part One	7.0	72
22	Part Two: Where There's a Will, There's a Way	6.2	72
23	I'm Here to Kill a King	7.2	79

Route 66 (1960)

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