77 Sunset Strip Season 1, Episode 28: Abra-Cadaver

1

Girl on the Run

Solo private eye Stu Bailey tries to locate a missing singer before a professional killer does.

60 min

2

Lovely Lady, Pity Me

Stu Bailey's infatuation with a beautiful woman leads him into blackmail and suspicion of murder.

60 min

3

A Nice Social Evening

Stu Bailey is hired by a government agent to keep a Latin playboy under surveillance while he's in Hollywood, but the playboy turns out to be on the run from a killer.

60 min

4

Casualty

Jeff Spencer uncovers an insurance scam when he is hired by a woman who swears that the husband she thought dead is still alive.

60 min

5

The Bouncing Chip

Stu Bailey is hired to find ot who is passing counterfeit chips in a Las Vegas casino.

60 min

6

Two and Two Make Six

Jeff Spencer is hired by a fashion designer to protect her ex-con husband, who has evidence that would convict a man engaged in revenge killings.

60 min

7

All Our Yesterdays

Stu Bailey is hired by the greedy relatives of a silent film star to prove her incompetent so that they can get their hands on the money she is spending to finance a remake of her old hit ""Foolish Girl"".

60 min

8

The Well-Selected Frame

Jeff Spencer is hired by a woman to get divorce evidence against her husband, but her real plan is to murder him and frame Jeff for the crime.

60 min

9

Iron Curtain Caper

Stu Bailey is hired to rescue a newspaper correspondent who is being held captive in an East German hospital.

60 min

10

Vicious Circle

Jeff Spencer is hired by the lawyer son of a former gangster to prevent his wrathful father from taking vengeance on the crminals who kidnapped him.

60 min

11

One False Step

Bailey & Spencer are hired by a Washington attorney to protect his wife after a man on a plane trip suggests they swap murders.

60 min

12

The Court Martial of Johnny Murdo

Jeff Spencer is hired by a military cadet's mother to find out if he is really guilty of stealing from a student fund, but someone seems willing to kill to prevent the truth from coming out.

60 min

13

Hit and Run

Stu Bailey loans his convertible to Kookie for a date, only to find that the young man has been arrested for reckless driving.

60 min

14

Not an Enemy in the World

Jeff Spencer searches for Suzanne's missing brother but discovers a murder-for-insurance plot.

60 min

15

The Secret of Adam Cain

Stu Bailey is hired to recover a seemingly worthless vase but is then kidnapped and taken to Algeria.

60 min

16

The Girl Who Couldn't Remember

Jeff Spencer is hired by a pretty amnesiac with lots of money in her purse, who turns out to be a murder witness with a killer on her trail.

60 min

17

Dark Vengeance

Stu Bailey becomes a target for murder when he agrees to help a newsman's crusade against the narcotics racketeers who blinded him.

60 min

18

Conspiracy of Silence

Jeff Spencer is hired to protect his client's student daughter from a killer.

60 min

19

Eyewitness

Stu Bailey is hired by an 8-year-old boy to prove that he's not making up stories when he says he witnessed a bear being killed. What he actually saw was the killing of a woman wearing a fur coat.

60 min

20

Lovely Alibi

Stu Bailey helps exonerate a framed and suspended policeman and prove a racketeer guilty of murder.

60 min

21

In Memoriam

Stu Bailey is hired by a publisher to find out why someone keeps faking reports of his death.

60 min

22

The Fifth Stair

Jeff Spencer becomes the subject of a husband's jealous suspicions and is not only approached by a blackmailer but is charged with murder.

60 min

23

Pasadena Caper

Stu Bailey, hired to find an elderly woman's missing son who was heavily insured, becomes suspicious when the body he dredges out of the bay is too decomposed to identify.

60 min

24

Hong Kong Caper

Jeff Spencer takes off for Hong Kong when a note from an army pilot puts him on the trail of a woman named Candy and a fortune in diamonds.

60 min

25

A Check Will Do Nicely

Stu Bailey is hired to go to Paris to rescue a kidnapped American schoolgirl and save a valuable painting.

60 min

26

The Grandma Caper

The firm is hired by a wealty family to watch out for their eccentric grandmother, who has embarked on a crime spree.

60 min

27

Honey from the Bee

Stu Bailey becomes involved after an ancient Russian tapestry donated to a Beverly Hills restaurant leads to multiple murder.

60 min

28

Abra-Cadaver

Jeff Spencer goes undercover as a prospective victim of a murder-for-insurance racket.

60 min

29

A Bargain in Tombs

Stu Bailey goes to Rome in search of a missing heiress and finds an archaeology student helping loot a tomb.

60 min

30

The Widow Wouldn't Weep

Jeff Spencer is hired by a sexy widow to find out if her husband's apparent suicide was actually murder.

60 min

31

Downbeat

Stu Bailey, though acquitted of the crime of sedition for lack of evidence, has his private investigator's license revoked and goes on a drinking spree. He is then recruited by a former friend to conduct business with Communists. At the end it is revealed that Bailey had been working undercover for the U.S. government all along.

60 min

32

Canine Caper

Jeff Spencer becomes involved when stolen rubies are hidden in the collar of a wayward poodle belonging to a French starlet being pursued by Kookie.

60 min

33

Mr. Paradise

Stu Bailey is hired by a wealthy man's relatives to investigate the leader of a mysterious cult he has been lured into joining.

60 min

34

Strange Girl in Town

Jeff Spencer tries to protect a young woman who witnessed a murder in a nightclub.

60 min