Route 66 TV Show - Season 1 - 15 episodes - Vol 1.

4 DVDs / Appr. Run Time: 15 hours

Wow! Route 66 on DVD. Finally, we get to cruise America with Todd (Martin Milner) and Buzz (George Maharis).

What can I say to convince you it's a `60s B&W series worth watching? Well, the corvette is one thing, but it never overshadows the stories. Despite all the adventure, travelogue, drama and poetry this duo gets into, the real subject of the series was the human condition. Todd and Buzz acted as observers and mentors to broken-down prizefighters and rodeo clowns, sadists and iron-willed matrons, surfers and heiresses, runaway kids and people from all walks of life, forced by circumstances to confront their demons.

While we may only get Route 66 Season 1 in Volumes 1 and 2 as some reviewers have indicated, this is what we have to look forward to in the first year (October 1960 to June 1961):

Episode 1 -- "Black November" -- Car trouble strands Tod and Buz in a small town with a terrible secret.

Episode 2 -- "A Lance of Straw" -- Todd and Buzz sign on to crew a shrimp boat, despite the objections of the female captain's boyfriend.

Episode 3 -- "The Swan Bed" -- Todd and Buzz meet a girl in New Orleans during a parrot fever epidemic.

Episode 4 -- "The Man on the Monkey Board" -- Todd and Buzz meet a Nazi-hunter and his quarry on an offshore oil rig.

Episode 5 -- "The Strengthening Angels" -- Todd and Buzz try to help a migrant worker who is in trouble with the local sheriff.

Episode 6 -- "Ten Drops of Water" -- Devastated by drought, three orphaned ranchers need Todd, Buzz and the Corvette.

Episode 7 -- "Three Sides" (aka Three Sides of a Coin) -- Todd and Buzz get involved in family strife while working for an Oregon hop farmer.

Episode 8 -- "Legacy for Lucia" -- While working at a logging camp, Todd and Buzz meet a girl from Italy, who insists she has inherited the state of Oregon from a local man.

Episode 9 -- "Layout at Glen Canyon" -- Todd and Buzz act as bodyguards to fashion models at the Glen Canyon Dam construction site.

Episode 10 -- "The Beryllium Eater" -- Todd and Buzz help an old prospector stake his claim after he finds beryllium ore.

Episode 11 -- "A Fury Slinging Flame" -- Todd and Buzz meet a scientist (Leslie Nielsen) who intends to hide in Carlsbad Caverns with friends until an expected nuclear holocaust is over.

Episode 12 -- "Sheba" -- Todd and Buzz work as cowboys for Woody Biggs (Lee Marvin), who isn't done with the woman he sent to prison.

Episode 13 -- "The Quick and the Dead" -- Todd becomes a race car driver as he and Buzz get involved in a family controversy over whether an aging driver should retire.

Episode 14 -- "Play It Glissando" --Todd and Buzz try to protect a woman from her jazz musician husband.

Episode 15 -- "The Clover Throne" -- Todd and Buzz work for a date farmer (Jack Warden) who fights the highway department while he "waits out" his sexy ward, hoping she will marry him.

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