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TV Guide Magazine cover of July 1961 with Tod & Buz from 'Route 66'

"Route 66" was an innovative hour-long b&w TV series, filmed on location across America and starring Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and George Maharis as Buz Murdock (and later Glenn Corbett as Lincoln Case). The premise was simple, just two guys driving a blue Corvette across America, making their way as they went, meeting a range of people along U.S. Route 66 and finding danger and romance while seeking insights to themselves and the right place to settle down . . .

History of The Series

Days after

"Route 66" TV Series
[Screen Gems/C.B.S. 1960-64]
series credits at Internet Movie Database
series entry at Wikipedia
Wikipedia's list of 'Route 66' episodes

Route 66 TV Series Complete First Season "Route 66 TV Series: The Complete First Season" [1960-61]
Roxbury/Infinity Ent. b&w DVD box set [8/2008] 30 episodes on 8 disks for $44.99
"Route 66 TV Series: The Complete Second Season" [1961-62]
Roxbury/Infinity Ent. b&w DVD box set [11/2008] 32 episodes on 8 disks for $44.99
"Route 66 TV Series: The Complete Third Season" [1962-63]
Roxbury/Infinity Ent. b&w DVD box set [1/2010] 30 episodes on 8 disks for $44.32
"Route 66 TV Series: The Complete Fourth Season" [1963-64] co-starring Glenn Corbett
Roxbury/Infinity Ent. b&w DVD box set [1/2010] 23 episodes on 5 disks for $17.41
"Route 66: The Complete TV Series" [1960-65]
Shout! Factory b&w DVD box set [5/2012] 24 disks for $90.19

Route 66 tv series Producer's Picks on DVD
"Route 66: Producer's Picks" on DVD [2009]
Roxbury/Infinity Ent. b&w DVD [2/2009] 11 episodes on 2 disks for $24.99
which seems to be a reissue of "The Best of Route 66"
Roxbury/Infinity Ent. b&w DVD [5/2007] 11 episodes on 2 disks - out of prodn/used

"Route 66: The Classic Collection" in Embossed Slim Tin [2013] 10 episodes from Season 1
Shout! Factory/Timeless Media b&w DVD set [5/2013] 2 disks for $11.49

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"Route 66" revival/sequel TV miniseries [NBC-TV June-July 1993]
Route 66 TV miniseries of 1993 The illegitimate son of Buz inherits a red & white 1961 Corvette from his father, so he takes to the road and picks up a hitchhiker traveling partner; NBC aired only four 1-hour episodes before cancelling the series due to low ratings; starring Dan Cortese & James Wilder; a pilot featuring different casting was also produced • VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available
bare credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia
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Route 66 Return To The Road TV special "Route 66: Return To The Road with Martin Milner" [1998]
30+ years after the TV series ended, Milner returns to view the changes along Route 66
Produced by Jim Jenner; directed by John Paget; Martin Milner is host & narrator;
featuring Michael Wallis, Bobby Troup
156-minute color DVD [1/2002] for $29.95
bare credits at IMDb
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"Route 66" [in-development] /tt9511748/
all that is known is that the link on IMDb exists (2018)

Route 66 and Other Great TV Themes album "Route 66 Theme - and Other Great TV Themes" on vinyl LP
by Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra
the other shows are: "The Alvin Show", "The Andy Griffith Show", "Ben
Casey", "The Defenders", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "Dr. Kildare",
"My Three Sons", "Naked City", "Sam Benedict", "Sing Along With Mitch",
"The Steve Allen Show", and "The Untouchables"
E.M.I. Records 12" vinyl LP album [9/2003] out of prodn/used
Capitol Records audio cassette [1986] for $9.99

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These two books were reviewed back in 2007 at Route 66 News; the Fletcher book is slim but compiled from many detailed articles published by Route 66 Magazine;
the Rosin book is an insider's view but was fraught with many errors and omissions of fact; it is likely that the 2018 revised edition corrects that problem.

Route 66 TV Series book by Robin Fletcher    "The Route 66 TV Series" [2006]
by Robin Fletcher
Route 66 Magazine pb [2006] out of print - SOLD OUT !

Route 66 Television Series book by James Rosin    "Route 66: The Television Series, 1960-64" [2007]
by James Rosin
The Autumn Road Co. pb [2007] out of print/used

   "Route 66: The Television Series, 1960-64" [rev 2018]
by James Rosin
CreateSpace 9x6 pb [rev 4/2018] for $17.95

Principals

series creator Stirling Silliphant
https://www.amazon.com/Stirling-Silliphant/e/B001KIJD7M/

series creator & executive producer Herbert B. Leonard

actor Martin Milner as Tod Stiles (all four seasons)

actor George Maharis as Buz Murdock (first three seasons)

actor Glenn Corbett as Lincoln Case (fourth season)

series music by Nelson Riddle

Directors included William F. Claxton, William Conrad, Robert Altman, Richard Donner, Walter Grauman,
Arthur Hiller, producer Herbert B. Leonard, Sam Peckinpah, Ted Post, David Lowell Rich (21 episodes)

Writers included Lewis John Carlino, Harlan Ellison, Richard Jessup, Ernest Kinoy, Frank Pierson, Howard Rodman (64 episodes),
Alvin Sargent (4 episodes), Elliot Silverstein

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Guest actors (in 116 episodes) included Alex Cord, Edward Asner, Bert Remsen, Nina Foch, Frank Overton, Guy Raymond, Elizabeth MacRae, Janice Rule, Susan Oliver, Jack Warden, Albert Salmi, Lois Nettleton, Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Duvall, Beatrice Straight, Roger C. Carmel, Conrad Nagel, Frank Campanella, Patrick O'Neal, Al Lewis, Suzanne Pleshette, Lee Marvin, Leslie Nielsen, Inger Stevens, Sylvia Sidney, Dan Duryea, Anne Francis, Nehemiah Persoff, Michael Rennie, Ralph Meeker, Peter Graves, Julie Newmar, Diane Baker, Tammy Grimes, Thomas Gomez, Patty McCormack, Martin Balsam, Susan Kohner, Chester Morris, Bethel Leslie, Pat Hingle, Dorothy Malone, Signe Hasso, Warren Stevens, Zina Bethune, Harold J. Stone, Herschel Bernardi, Bibi Osterwald, Tom Bosley, Barbara Eden, Malcolm Atterbury, DeForest Kelley, Edgar Buchanan, Denver Pyle, Sylvia Miles, Harvey Korman, Joseph Campanella, John Astin, Chill Wills, Barnard Hughes, Ben Johnson, Harold Gould, Lynda Day George, Ford Rainey, Lew Ayres, Elizabeth Ashley, Ed Begley, Burt Brinckerhoff, Jay C. Flippen, E.G. Marshall, Martha Hyer, Walter Matthau, Darren McGavin, Ethel Waters, Keenan Wynn, Luther Adler, Barbara Barrie, Theodore Bikel, Sorrell Booke, Joe E. Brown, Lili Darvas, Harry Guardino, Arthur Hill, David Janssen, Peter Lorre, Vera Miles, Arthur O'Connell, Dan O'Herlihy, Madlyn Rhue, Rod Steiger, David Wayne, Tuesday Weld, Mario Alcalde, Richard Basehart, Steve Cochran, Joan Crawford, Sessue Hayakawa, J. Carrol Naish, Alejandro Rey, Ruth Roman, Barry Sullivan, Rip Torn, Jo Van Fleet, Jessica Walter, James Whitmore, Dick York, James Coburn, Robert Loggia, Michael Parks, Soupy Sales, Henry Hull, Fay Spain, Deborah Walley, Beulah Bondi, Royal Dano, Juano Hernandez, Jack Lord, Rin-Tin-Tin II, Jack Weston, Patricia Barry, Noah Beery Jr., Buster Keaton, Jack Kruschen, Cloris Leachman, Joanne Linville, Simon Oakland, Akim Tamiroff, Audrey Totter, Robert Webber, Kathleen Crowley, Chad Everett, Alan Hale Jr., Miriam Hopkins, Stefanie Powers, William Shatner, Bert Freed, Tina Louise, Keir Dullea, Zohra Lampert, Claude Akins, James Caan, Robert Redford, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Ray Teal, Harry Bellaver, Roland Winters, Whit Bissell, Martin Sheen, Regis Toomey, Ron Howard, Boris Karloff, Harvey Lembeck, Slim Pickens, Robert Walker Jr., Gene Hackman, James Leo Herlihy, L.Q. Jones, Michael J. Pollard, Elena Verdugo, Lee Meriwether, Anthony Zerbe, James Farentino, George Kennedy, Alan Alda, Guy Lombardo, Joanna Pettet, Bruce Dern, Donna Douglas, Burt Reynolds, Joey Heatherton, Veronica Cartwright, Ted de Corsia

Merchandise

Route 66 Travel Game by Transagram "Route 66 Travel Game" [1960s]
"Travel the highway to adventure with Tod and Buz"
made by Transagram; long out of prodn;
not found on Amazon (2018), try Etsy or eBay

Route 66 '62 Corvette Convertible 1:25 scale model kit from Revell
"Route 66 '62 Corvette Convertible" [2014] from Revell
metal body 1:25 scale model kit, with figures of Tod & Buz
Revell scale model kit [2014] for $34.99

Image Gallery

Buz & Tod and the Corvette crossing a river on a wooden ferry boat built-up Revell Route 66 Corvette kit, showing Tod & Buz figures

'Route 66' Links
"Route 66" TV series credits at Internet Movie Database
"Route 66" TV series entry at Wikipedia
Wikipedia's list of 'Route 66' episodes

Route 66 Pulse TV fansite {last update 2012}

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	"The Route 66 TV Series" [2006] by Robin Fletcher Route 66 Magazine pb [2006] out of print - SOLD OUT !
	"Route 66: The Television Series, 1960-64" [2007] by James Rosin The Autumn Road Co. pb [2007] out of print/used
	"Route 66: The Television Series, 1960-64" [rev 2018] by James Rosin CreateSpace 9x6 pb [rev 4/2018] for $17.95

	"Route 66 Travel Game" [1960s] "Travel the highway to adventure with Tod and Buz" made by Transagram; long out of prodn; not found on Amazon (2018), try Etsy or eBay
	"Route 66 '62 Corvette Convertible" [2014] from Revell metal body 1:25 scale model kit, with figures of Tod & Buz Revell scale model kit [2014] for $34.99

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"Route 66" TV Series
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