77 Sunset Strip Season 5, Episode 34: Your Fortune for a Penny

1

The Reluctant Spy

Stu searches for the reasons behind an old friend's hit-and-run death in Austria.

60 min

2

Leap, My Lovely

A con man hypnotizes an actress into jumping out a window, then blackmails a film's producer with threats of doing the same to his leading man.

60 min

3

Terror in a Small Town

After a rash of practical jokes at the office, Kookie can't convince his partners that he really has been arrested for a serious crime.

60 min

4

The Raiders

Stu arrives in the corrupt small town where an old friend is chief of police and with the help of a senaor's wife uncovers a murder and a blackmail scheme.

60 min

5

The Floating Man

Jeff becomes a bodyguard for a judge who says that if he's killed, he wants Jeff to find his murderer.

60 min

6

The Catspaw Caper

Suzanne and Stu help her Hungarian friend find her mother, who fled the Communists in Budapest.

60 min

7

Wolf, Cried the Blonde

An actress cons the detectives into helping her pull off a publicity stunt, but gets more than she bargained for when a man from her past shows up with his hand out.

60 min

8

The Dark Wood

Stu reunites with an old flame, a recent widow, and investigates her daughter's belief that her father's death was no accident.

60 min

9

Shadow on Your Shoulder

Stu teams up with private detectives from Hawaii and French and English police to discover how a pair of criminals steal from their victims and leave them physical wrecks. Folk singers Peter, Paul & Mary perform.

60 min

10

Adventure in San Dede

Jeff and J.R. deliver an attache case to Latin American clients.

60 min

11

The Odds on Odette

An astrologer hires Jeff when he begins receiving threatening phone calls, but Jeff discovers his secretary may be the real target.

60 min

12

The Snow Job Caper

Jeff teams up with an insurance adjuster to recover an armored truck's lost shipment.

60 min

13

Falling Stars

Stu becomes involved in film society when a suicide, a murder, and subseuqent attempted murders disrupt the entertainment world.

60 min

14

The Tarnished Idol

Suzanne finds love when she posses as an heiress to investigate the person who's suing a client.

60 min

15

Scream Softly, Dear

A borrowed car with sabotaged brakes leads to murder, and Kookie's quest to find the killer leads him into a tangle of romantic triangles and blackmail.

60 min

16

Terror in Silence

Stu helps a deaf librarian who ""overheard"" a a death threat in the reading room.

60 min

17

Crashout

Jeff and Roscoe go undercover in prison to help a thief break out, in hopes he'll lead them to his hidden stash. But the man's cronies have their own plans for the escape and the cash.

60 min

18

The Night Was Six Years Long

The detectives' former secretary walks back in after six years, suffering from amnesia.

60 min

19

Six Feet Under

Gang boss Marco Deederman was reported killed in an automobile accident. But after the funeral, a series of fur and jewels thefts show the unmistakable hand of the old master—while Jeff falls for Deederman's girlfriend.

60 min

20

Escape to Freedom

Stu is asked to rescue scientist Marie Harben's son, being held hostage by East German Communists to prevent her defecting to the West.

60 min

21

Dial S for Spencer

Sandra Keene fears that someone may try to prevent her brother Michael, a skid-row bum, from collecting his inheritance.

60 min

22

Nine to Five

Stu is called to New York to find a missing Hollywood wife.

60 min

23

Stranger from the Sea

Kookie helps a Japanese friend find his uncle, who vanished with $50,000.

60 min

24

The Man Who Wasn't There

Jeff investigates a former G.I.'s story of seeing a man who was reported killed in Korea.

60 min

25

Flight 307

Stu's flight to Hawaii is stalled by a busy airline official trying to cope with a murder, a fleeing thief, a messy love triangle, and a sick pilot in the air.

60 min

26

Target Island

J.R. seaches for his date's missing brother, a sailor.

60 min

27

Reunion at Balboa

Kookie and J.R. are on assignment at the beach when a hit-and-run accident injures a girl they've been watching.

60 min

28

Walk Among Tigers

Stu finds a trap when he goes to collect the belongings of an industrialist and humanitarian killed in a train wreck.

60 min

29

The Left Field Caper

An unhappy little boy on a Little League team is the clue to a murder.

60 min

30

The Heartbeat Caper

Visiting professor Stu stumbles across a real mystery while teaching criminology.

60 min

31

To Catch a Mink

Stu attends a charity auction and spots an old flame—who promptly robs the place.

60 min

32

Lady in the Sun

Stu goes after a dangerous lady thief who's stolen a realtor's books.

60 min

33

Our Man in Switzerland

Con men take $1 million in securities from under Kookie's nose, and Stu gives chase to restore the firm's reputation.

60 min

34

Your Fortune for a Penny

A millionaire hires Stu to protect his daughter from her rogue lover, a suspected swindler recently returned to the U.S. from an overseas hideaway.

60 min

35

The Checkmate Caper

Stu ends up holding the bag when he's hired to help fake a robbery for the heir to a criminal family.

60 min

36

Never to Have Loved

An agent hires Stu and Kookie to protect a client from a charismatic director with a Svengali-like hold over her.

60 min