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The Best Episodes of Route 66 Season 2

Every episode of Route 66 Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Route 66 Season 2!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Route 66 Season 2 Episode 3 - Good Night, Sweet Blues
    9.0/10(211 votes)

    S2:E3

    Ethel Waters is a dying blues singer who asks Tod and Buz to locate her old jazz band for one last show. Filming Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 7 - The Mud Nest
    8.5/10(153 votes)

    S2:E7

    In the small Maryland town of Hester, Buz meets some people who physically resemble him (played by Maharis' relatives). He has been looking for his mother and thinks she may be in the town. Filming Location: Near Baltimore, Maryland

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  3. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 24 - Even Stones Have Eyes
    8.5/10(105 votes)

    S2:E24

    Buz is blinded in an accident. At a school for the blind he falls for a blind girl (Celia). His sight returns and he has to leave her. Filming Location: Austin and Kerrville, Texas

    Director:Robert Gist
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 25 - Love is a Skinny Kid
    8.4/10(137 votes)

    S2:E25

    Tod and Buz encounter Miriam, who steps off a bus wearing a mask. Filming Location: Lewisville, Texas.

    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  5. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 1 - A Month of Sundays
    8.3/10(146 votes)

    S2:E1

    Buz falls in love with actress Arlene Sims who has a fatal disease and has returned to her home town to die. Filming Location: Butte, Montana

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  6. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 11 - The Thin White Line
    8.2/10(137 votes)

    S2:E11

    While at a party, Tod is accidentally given a powerful psychosis-producing drug. Buz tries to keep him from killing himself. Filming Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Leonard Freeman

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  7. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 17 - A City of Wheels
    8.2/10(106 votes)

    S2:E17

    Tod and Buz work with wheel chair patients at a veteran's hospital. Nurse Lori Barton falls in love with patient Frank Madera. Filming Location: Long Beach (Veterans Hospital), California

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 4 - Birdcage on My Foot
    8.1/10(134 votes)

    S2:E4

    Buz uses his experience as a former drug addict in an attempt to rehabilitate heroin addict Arnie. Filming Location: Boston, Massachusetts

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  9. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 15 - A Long Piece of Mischief
    8.1/10(113 votes)

    S2:E15

    Ollie Crump is a rodeo clown who is in love with Babe Hunter. Filming Location: Mesquite, Texas

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  10. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 18 - How Much a Pound is Albatross
    8.0/10(115 votes)

    S2:E18

    Tod and Buz meet Vicki Russell who is cruising around on her motorcycle. Vicki doesn't have a driver's license and the bike hasn't got plates. Filming Location: Tucson, Arizona

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  11. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 21 - Shoulder the Sky My Lad
    8.0/10(101 votes)

    S2:E21

    Tod and Buz befriend a Jewish boy whose family is a victim of anti-Semitism. Filming Location: Phoenix, Arizona

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 27 - Two on the House
    7.9/10(98 votes)

    S2:E27

    Several school children are touring Lake Erie aboard an excursion boat when ""poor little rich boy"" Ritchie McIntyre falls overboard. When Ritchie is brought back onboard the boat, he claims that he was pushed. Filming Location: Cleveland and Lake Erie, Ohio

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Gilbert Ralston

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  13. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 6 - Once to Every Man
    7.8/10(108 votes)

    S2:E6

    Tod and Buz are working on a fishing boat. The owner Leigh Adams is killed in an accident and his wandering daughter Prudence returns for the funeral. She takes over the boat and falls in love with Tod. Filming Location: Gloucester, Massachusetts

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 20 - You Never Had It So Good
    7.8/10(84 votes)

    S2:E20

    Tod and Buz are working in building construction. Tod's attempt to pick up Terry involves the boys in a corporate executive training program. Filming Location: Phoenix, Arizona

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  15. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 8 - A Bridge Across Five Days
    7.7/10(112 votes)

    S2:E8

    Tod and Buz are working at a shipyard. They meet Lillian Aldrich, another employee. Lillian has been released from a mental hospital. Filming Location: Baltimore, Maryland

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Howard Rodman

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  16. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 13 - Burning for Burning
    7.7/10(96 votes)

    S2:E13

    Tod and Buz are working on a chicken farm. They meet Agnes Brack who doesn't like her son's widow Julie. Agnes tries to cause trouble for Julie. Filming Location: Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  17. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 22 - Blues for a Left Foot
    7.7/10(98 votes)

    S2:E22

    Tod and Buz work with a former Broadway show dancer Rosemarie Brown who is trying to make a comeback in a television show. Filming Location: Hollywood, California

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Leonard Freeman

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  18. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 28 - There I am, There I Always Am
    7.7/10(103 votes)

    S2:E28

    Tod and Buz visit Santa Catalina Island. A woman on the beach has caught her foot in a rock and the tide is coming in. Filming Location: Santa Catalina Island, California

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  19. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 12 - And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon
    7.6/10(118 votes)

    S2:E12

    Johnny quits a juvenile gang. Packy takes over and also claims Johnny's girlfriend Marva. Filming Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  20. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 19 - Aren't You Surprised to See Me?
    7.5/10(90 votes)

    S2:E19

    In Dallas, Tod and Buz are delighted to be staying at a hotel hosting a secretary's convention. Then Caine, a religious serial killer armed with nerve gas kidnaps Buz. He plans to kill Buz unless the city ""repents"". Filming Location: Dallas, Texas

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  21. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 2 - Blue Murder
    7.4/10(121 votes)

    S2:E2

    Tod and Buz deliver ""Blue Murder"", a wild rodeo stallion, to Jim Bludge's ranch. Later Bludge is found dead with the mark of a horse hoof on him. Filming Location: Butte, Montana

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  22. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 10 - Some of the People, Some of the Time
    7.4/10(113 votes)

    S2:E10

    Maximillian Coyne is running a beauty contest. He claims to have connections with Hollywood and that the winner will get into pictures. Tod and Buz discover that Max is a fraud. Filming Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania

    Directors:Robert Altman, Sam Peckinpah
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  23. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 14 - To Walk with the Serpent
    7.4/10(122 votes)

    S2:E14

    In Boston, Tod and Buz encounter right-wing nuts armed with plastic explosives. Filming Location: Boston, Massachusetts

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 29 - Between Hello and Goodbye
    7.4/10(100 votes)

    S2:E29

    Tod and Buz visit Pacific Ocean Park, a Southern California amusement park. While there they encounter a woman with two identities. Filming Location: Pacific Ocean Park, California

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  25. Route 66 Season 2 Episode 23 - Go Read the River
    7.3/10(95 votes)

    S2:E23

    Tod is working as a high-speed boat test driver. He gets to pilot a boat whose new engine is developed by Tod's boss Sandy Mason. Filming Location: Colorado River (?)

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Good Night, Sweet Blues" is the best rated episode of Route 66 season 2. It scored 9.0/10 from 211 votes. Directed by Jack Smight and written by Unknown, it aired on October 6, 1961. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Mud Nest".