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77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip is an American television private detective drama series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Roger Smith, Richard Long (from 1960 to 1961) and Edd Byrnes (billed as Edward Byrnes). Each episode was one hour long including commercials. The show ran from 1958 to 1964.
Description.
Description Initial set-up and characters.
Private detective Stuart ("Stu") Bailey was a former government secret agent. Jeff Spencer also was a former government agent,
the actual pilot, which was run second to cheat Huggins out of his creator residuals. Perhaps most famously, Jack L. Warner deliberately had the pilot to "77 Sunset Strip", entitled "Girl on the Run", screened briefly at movie theatres in the Caribbean to legally establish that the television series derived from a film, rather than, as was actually the case, several books and novellas Huggins had written in the 1940s. Since these were not the only occasions on which Warner had found a way to circumvent Huggins