77 Sunset Strip
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr.: Stuart Bailey
- Roger Smith: Jeff Spencer
- Edward Byrnes: Gerald Lloyd " Kookie " Kookson III
- Louis Quinn: Roscoe
- Richard Long: Rex Randolph
- Jacqueline Beer: Suzanne Fabray
- Byron Keith: Lt. Roy Gilmore
77 Sunset Strip is an American classic series by the same name in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard be relocated detective agency.
Action
The former secret agents, Stuart Bailey and Jeff Spencer operate a detective agency in Los Angeles. Later, the parking attendant Kookie advance to the guard of detectives and gets its own office in the detective agency. They are supported by Roscoe, an avid weather in horse racing and by the secretary Suzanne Fabray, who was responsible with her French accent for the exoticism in the series. In the third season (1960/1961) also Rex Randolph was one of the investigators. On the police side, the detectives got the support of Lt.. Gilmore.
Background
The cool appearance of the protagonists of the zeitgeist of the young generation and Edward Byrnes became a teen idol. In 1958 he landed, accompanied by Connie Stevens, a chart hit with Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb, which was heard in the second episode. That goal was certainly much to ensure that the series could work your way up to sixth place of the Nielsen ratings at the end of this year. The song made reference to the fact that Kookie in the series constantly with a pocket comb, combed their hair. He was voiced in the German version of Hans Clarin with kieksender voice who made his breakthrough as a voice actor in this role. Gitta Lind sang in 1962 to the music of Martin Böttcher and a text by Hans Hee title Kookie to the Clarin with his distinctive voice various objections in the text " Kookie " sound contributed.
Therefore Byrnes asked for the second season of a higher salary and a more significant role part in the series. Previously, he had helped to resolve the cases except snap of the fingers and cool, put forward with kieksender voice sayings not too much. He was subsequently removed from the production company Warner Bros. Television for this season of the cast list, but had from the third season due to stormy protests audience again be occupied.
Series creator Roy Huggins was known by another series creations such as The Fugitive, The Rockford Files - Just call and Maverick. A special feature of the result set A case without words dar. In the exciting result not a single word was spoken. What the images could not explain alone, replaced a few short notes that appeared at the appropriate place. The investigating detective was Jeff Spencer.
77 Sunset Strip was one of a series at the same time produced by Warner Bros. crime series. By means of action overlaps were the figures of 77 on the Sunset Strip in Surfside 6 and Hawaiian Eye. The character of Rex Randolph has already been introduced in the series New Orleans, Bourbon Street.
Of the 61 produced 1958-1964 205 episodes came in a dubbed version in German television.
Media
On the CD 77 Sunset Strip, WB 936247762-2 to 13 instrumental tracks are in stereo from the series of 1959.