77 Sunset Strip
A Bargain in Tombs
TV Flash files “A Bargain in Tombs” as a desk essential hour — 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964) on ABC, season 1, episode 29, aired 1959-04-24, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E29: listed hour 29 of 206 in the 77 Sunset Strip guide, hour 29 of 34 in season 1. It aired 1959-04-24 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Abra-Cadaver” (S01E28). Next is “The Widow Wouldn't Weep” (S01E30).
Essential hour: “A Bargain in Tombs”. A Bargain in Tombs — first-season title as noir joke, parking-lot slang still the factory's peak style.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Bailey, vacationing in Paris, is hired by a wealthy lady from Kentucky to find her niece, who has gone missing in Rome.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Bargain in Tombs sit in the 77 Sunset Strip guide?
S01E29 is listed hour 29 of 206 — hour 29 of 34 in season 1, season 1 episode 29.
When did 77 Sunset Strip S01E29 air?
A Bargain in Tombs aired 1959-04-24 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Bailey and Spencer on a Hollywood case with Kookie in the parking lot is the cool contract. Byrnes is the pop phenomenon; Zimbalist and Smith do the detecting.
In the series
Why this series still plays
77 Sunset Strip is Hollywood private-eye cool with a jazz theme and Edd Byrnes's Kookie as a comb-flicking teen idol. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Roger Smith handle the cases; the sidekick became the pop explosion. Warner's detective factory at peak style — parking-lot slang, Sunset neon, and a supporting haircut that outsold the plot.
The sidekick outsold the plot. 77 Sunset Strip is Hollywood private-eye cool with a jazz theme and Edd Byrnes's Kookie as a comb-flicking teen idol — Efrem Zimbalist Jr.'s Stuart Bailey and Roger Smith's Jeff Spencer handling the cases from a Sunset Boulevard office while the parking-lot hipster became the pop explosion. Roy Huggins and Warner Bros. TV, ABC 1958–1964. **Six seasons of detective factory, and the supporting haircut sparked hit records.** Rex will toast the neon as golden-age style. The metric is a…
Filed against
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Stuart Bailey
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.’s Stuart Bailey made 77 Sunset Strip Hollywood-PI cool — jazz theme, parking-lot slang, 1960s catalog detective factory with Kookie in the margins. The F.B.I. and Batman: The Animated Series stretched the same…
- Roger Smith as Jeff Spencer
Roger Smith's Jeff Spencer handled the cases on 77 Sunset Strip while Edd Byrnes's Kookie became the comb-flicking teen idol — Hollywood private-eye cool, jazz theme, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as the other suit. Warner's detective factory at…
- Edd Byrnes as Gerald Lloyd 'Kookie' Kookson III
Edd Byrnes flicked a comb into teen-idol history as Gerald 'Kookie' Kookson on 77 Sunset Strip — Hollywood private-eye cool, a jazz theme, and a parking-lot sidekick who became the pop explosion. Warner's detective factory at peak slang.…