Route 66: The Swan Bed

Tod and Buz arrive in swinging New Orleans. They make a date with a nice local girl named Carrie Purcell, unaware of the poverty the girl lives in or the adventures she is about to lead them into involving gangsters and a parrot fever epidemic sweeping the city.

Episode Info

Episode number: 1x3
Production Number: 4
Airdate: Friday October 21st, 1960

Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: Stirling Silliphant

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Guest Stars

Betty Field As Mrs. Purcell Recurring	Elizabeth MacRae (1) As Randy Spring Recurring
Louis Zorich As Bulloch Recurring	Murray Hamilton As Dr. Stafford Recurring
Zina Bethune As Carrie Purcell Recurring	Henry Hull As Amery Grant
Jerome Raphel As Hercules George	Louis Guss As DeSavo

Main Cast

Martin Milner
As Tod Stiles

George Maharis
As Buz Murdock

Recap

Tod and Buz drive into New Orleans in search of their next adventure. The city is currently experiencing a rash of fever outbreaks among its citizenry, threatening an epidemic. The disease seems to be being carried by exotic birds, and a physician named Stafford is in town attempting to trace it to its cause. ..

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Episode Notes

Filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana (August 9-17, 1960).