I've lived in this house on Tierra Verde for 16 years and recently found out that this episode existed. Was pretty excited seeing all what the island looked like in 1963. Was totally shocked when they showed the front of my house then proceeded inside! Actually writing this from the living room where Martin Milner (RIP) was showing prospective buyers the interior features.
I worked at the resort and was a busboy at Porto Call during this episode. Was in a scene as an extra but looks as though it didn’t make the final broadcast. Anyway a great look at St. Pete before Bayway was fully developed. also unreal to watch beautiful stars SMOKING cigarettes on air!
My wife and I stopped down there on our trip 5 years ago with our 2000 Corvette roadster to see how much it changed since then ! We always try to take in one of their filming locations when we cruise the USA !
Maharis became ill with hepatitis right at the end of the 2nd season and was in the hospital for a month . He came back way too soon for the 3rd season and got sick again and left. The producers thought he was faking it and wanted out of the series. Maharis claimed his health was more important than a tv series and never returned. Glenn Corbett never clicked as milner's partner and the series was basically done.
Janice Rule was SO beautiful. It's ironic that around 6:00 her character spouts psychology, because after she left acting, she became a highly respected psychotherapist in Manhattan.
Martin MIllner was always great, still one of my favs. Route 66 was my favorite show as a kid. I tried to comb my hair like him and used a tape recorder to record episodes and memorize the lines. I still love this show.
I was born in Tampa in '62 and my grandparents lived on the water in Gulfport. We used to boat in the area and a favorite destination was the Port 'O Call, where we'd eat dinner and swim in the pool. The folks used to go see Guy Lombardo's band play, which I would love to have seen as a long-time swing dancer, but I was always left with a babysitter. :-) I saw what was left of the POC just before they razed it and it made me sad. Anyway, loved the scenes of them installing the seawalls and hanging out at Fort Desoto. Good memories!
I grew up in St Petersburg and remember this area very well the two octagon buildings were built at the same time as the Tierra Verde resort...the stage and auditorium are small by today's standards I was quite surprised they had a beautiful blue light blue tile effect all around... In the seventies they made it as an entertainment center called Le Club They would book musical acts and people would go there on dates...the building was pretty well worn out by the time they tore it down but the metal sign and its signature shape stayed for a very very long time.
This story is similar to the life of my father in law, who was an amateur boat racer in Long Island, NY in the 1950's. He raced with Guy Lombard and when he moved to Florida in 1959, raced in the the St. Pete Grand Prix. He eventually got into real estate in Sarasota, FL selling new condos and homes for US Homes. My favorite episode of Route 66...
This is still one of my favorite shows. Reminds me of when my best friend and I drove to magical Florida back in 1976 in her Ford Pinto, stayed at my grandparents and went to the beach every day on Anna Maria Island. Back then Florida was a magical and dreamy place of sunshine, palm trees and adventure. It still exists, you just have to look for it in small places. I love this episode and seeing St. Pete back then.
My sister and I did the same thing. Drove to Florida in a Ford Pinto, stayed with our grandparents and went to the beach every day. I haven't thought about that in years. Thanks for bringing back the memory.
I like the way their little boat gets swamped in the beginning with no actual wave hitting it. Suspension of disbelief... LOL. I like Glenn Corbett well enough, but I personally don't think the show ever recovered from the loss of George Maharis. And although I've heard the illness story, somewhere back when it was happening we heard he was demanding more money. I thought he was one of the first televison stars to get dropped like a hot rock by the network. Thanks for posting this episode.
I agree about the salary issue. I loved the show so much and enjoyed both Buzz and Linc with their own characters. Nothing short of a masterpiece in every aspect.
Silliphant hit the jackpot with this series- going on location for every episode, and using some non-actors who resided in the various locales. The episode in Memphis especially is compelling. (and educational)
When I was in high school, I watched the filming at Port-O-Call and watched some of the filming at Weeki Watchee for the previous episode involving a real mermaid :)
+Kelt4ever I remember seeing the commercials for Weeki Watchee on UHF TV when I was growing up in Central NJ. The mermaids, the attractions. I thought it was another world. Back then Florida was so tropical and far off distant. I live in FLA now. Great memories. I feel bad for the kids growing up today. The world has gotten way to small - nothing left for the imagination.
Watching, March 1st 2021....great series....enjoyed these same episodes during their prime run...thank you so much for its upload...BCM'...great time in life...😊
Airdate May 3rd, 1963. Stars Janice Rule & Susan Kohner. Writer Sterling Silliphant. Guy Lombardo as himself. 9:00 Susan talking about "old war pictures", i.e. WW1. In 1963 the only 'old" World War 2 films were contemporaneous. 24:30 "TV cables"...they didn't have cable TV back then! I think it must've been a special cable that went to an antenna. 36:45 "True or false; reality or illusion". Sterling Silliphant obviously was fresh from seeing the new play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which opened on Broadway Oct. 1962.
the unsung heroine of "Route 66" (as she was in "Naked City" ) was casting associate Manon Donnelly, who gave many up and coming stars like Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Peter Fonds and others their first exposure on televison, as well as breathing new life into some veterans and lesser-knoer-known talents (Joan Crawford, Susan Kohner and Ethel Waters, who snared an emmy nomination or her guest role in the series' sev=cond-season opener).
Loved Susan Kohner in "Imitation of Life" and hated Troy Donahue for slapping her around. Good actress. She looks a lot like Natalie Wood and sounds like Jasmine Guy.
Susan Kohner! I remember her in "Imitation of Life" with Lana Turner, Sandra Dee. John Gavin and Juanita Moore. She was the daughter of Juanita and tried to pass for white when she fell for Troy Donahue. A definite "chick flick." Sad movie
Born in 1953 I was too young to enjoy the Route 66 TV show my mom and dad watched at that time. I am enjoying them now on RU-vid. I liked how I read they actually travelled the country to film the episodes on site. Now I realize they filmed all over the country and not just along the route 66 route that went through my city, St. Louis. I remember the large route 66 road signs as the route went right through the city following a path we frequently rode and saw plenty of cars with car license plates from all over. This was in the 1960s prior to all the interstate building being completed. Otherwise, the only part of route 66 I frequently rode was to Chicago to visit my grandparents once a year in Ohio. I preferred the northern turnpikes going east from there that were already completed over the slower riding and lane changes needed on route 66.
All those 150s I flew in the 70s, 310 was always my fav, flew a king air and v35 but that is about as close as I got, good ol Sky King was the first impression.
Glenn Corbett has a totally different chemistry with Milner than Maharis did. He's not broody; he's more like Milner, a charmer, a good guy. Is that better or is it worse? Don't know.
The important thing is that they didn't try to replace Buz with a carbon copy. They went with the best available actor and wrote scripts that emphasized Corbett's best qualities.
The two little girls are both named Leonard. Daughters of Herbert Leonard. And his wife draws a salary as assistant to the producer. Ain't nepotism grand?
Maharis himself told the story in a 2008 interview, when Route 66 finally came out on DVD: it happened in Texas, he took ill filming a water scene with Barbara Bain, when his wet suit jacket froze, and they poured hot water over him, and the producers sent him a doctor who gave him a vitamin shot with a non-disposable needle.
Well, so far, I'm impressed with the two hot women drinking about 3 martinis during the day. Don Draper would fit right in. Also, who knew Guy Lombardo had acting chops? Bill Evans was in his prime, but the heroine might have been an issue. But is heroine worse than the elevator music version of "Down Mexico Way"? Bill would have done the love theme from Spartacus. A $150M company? Apparently retail. 66 liked Cash McCall. Peter Graves in helicopters. Janice Rule ruling (the sweetheart). We were in the adolescence of the conglomerate. But Corbett had negative charisma. He leached on to John Wayne later. He was sort of the semi-handsome, semi-wholesome factotum. A bit bulky. I appreciate Maharis all the more. Guy Lombardo. Milner as the charismatic one. Elevator drama. But Janice rule saves the day.
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Considering route 66 was over 2200 miles away they sure filmed in Florida a lot.....😮
Man, what a beautiful woman Janice Rule was. She seemed extremely intelligent, which was undoubtedly part of her attraction. Ben Gazzara didn't seem to have too much to say about her in his somewhat less than imagined autobiography..
There is video of famous stars at Roddy Mcdowell's on RU-vid. Ben and Janice are in one. They definitely stand out in it. The little kids also are attracted to her. She seems special.
IF SOMEONE HAD ASKED ME, WHICH DECADE OF TELEVISION WOULD I PREFER? IT WOULD DEFINITELY BE THE 1950'S. OF COURSE I LIKE THE 1940'S AND 1960'S TOO! THERE IS JUST SOMETHING SO AWESOME ABOUT THE 1950'S. HOT STARS!!!!!!!
Susan Kohner. Pretty attractive. Played a black woman "passing" in Imitation of Life(1959). A real soap opera sudser w/Lana Turner. Stupid too. Ms Kohner will be 85 on 11/11. 24:00>Milner wearing a tie on the golf course like it's the Bobby Jones era. No glove, hat and a wristwatch. Also didn't plant his feet like a golfer wood. Pretty good out, though.
@@shogunMR Maharis said that the show's travel schedule was too much for his health.It must have worked as he's still around while Milner and Corbett are gone.
Maharis had hepatitis all right, but it had nothing to do with the story of him getting infected during filming in the waters of New Orleans. He got it the most common way that gay men do.
While the concept of Route 66 Is interesting, sometimes the plots are ponderous and the gimmicks gratuitous. They clank along often with little or no dialog drowned out by dense, repetitive background music. Other episodes - like the surfing one filmed in Huntington Beach - trade supposedly pithy, meaningful philosophy to the point of sheer agony. It is almost as if they dramatized the Playboy magazines of the time with that wretched Hefner ethos (but without the nudity) and a blithe assumption that any pair of slobs with a 'Vette and two sleeping bags could nail haughty millionaire-esses (played by Janice Rule, of course) with a deciding coin flip.
I think it is unfair for some of the comments saying maharis was gay. The fact of the matter he was married early once in his life and had a son. Actually I know a gal who dated maharis in the early 70's and said he didn't show that side of him'. Bisexual better description
If that young man ever did the same thing we saw him do around 5 minutes he would be in sooooo much trouble : socking a man in the face which makes him fall in the water, thus endangering his life if he is unconscious when he goes in, touching a woman by the butt and throwing her in ... You are talking about a few years of prison not to mention the damages.
