Route 66: Season 1, Vol. 2
by Arthur Hiller, George Sherman
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Actor: George MaharisDirector: Arthur Hiller, George Sherman
Brand: INFINITY RESOURCES
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 780 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: IEG2031
Studio: Infinity Entertainment Group
Movie Reviews of Route 66: Season 1, Vol. 2
Movie Review: Tod & Buz travel to AZ, CA, NV, NM, KS, OH.
Summary: 5 Stars
February 10 -- June 16, 1961 (Episodes 16-30).
Tod (Martin Milner) and Buz (George Maharis) are still traveling around Route 66 in their brown 1960 Corvette on their own free will looking for jobs and a place to fit in. They help people along the way, but trouble seems to find them. They don't always stay on Route 66, they like to go to a major city for a vacation too.
Episodes are filmed in the actual town or city the story is about. That is something that television production companies rarely do these days as it is too costly now.
Locations: Episode 16 & 17: Phoenix, Arizona.
Episode 18 & 19: Hollywood, California.
Episode 20: Carson City, Fallon, Reno, Nevada. Squaw Valley California.
Episode 21: Squaw Valley, California.
Episode 22: Broken Knee, Reno, Nevada, Squaw Valley, California.
Episode 23: Los Angeles, California.
Episode 24: San Diego, California.
Episode 25 & 26: Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Episode 27: Concordia, Kansas.
Episode 28: Youngstown, Ohio.
Episode 29: Amity, Ohio.
Episode 30: Cleveland, Ohio.
Many guest stars: Cathy Lewis, Dorothy Malone, Bert Remsen, Jenny Maxwell, Penny Santon, John Beradino, Rin Tin Tin, Joe Ruskin, Sylvia Sidney, Jack Weston, Ben Johnson, Jeanne Bal, Guy Raymond, Edward Andrews, Walter Matthau, Royal Dano, Beatrice Straight, John A. Alonzo, Dan Duryea, Mary Jackson, Robert DuVall, Arline Sax (Martel), Denver Pyle, Harold J. Stone, Bobby Jordan, Richard Keith (Keith Thibodeaux) Tony Maxwell, Al Lewis, Ed Asner, Lois Nettleton, Darren McGavin, Susan Oliver, Logan Ramsey, Luke Halpin, Martha Scott, Nehemiah Persoff, Allan Melvin.
As in Route 66 - Season 1, Vol. 1, every episode has been digitally remastered to give you the best high quality print of film.
Some episodes are in widescreen or full-screen because it was a 35mm film they used.
All episodes are in crystal clear black & white as CBS had not converted to color yet. Each episode is approx. 51 minutes long.
To get to Disc Two, the plastic disc holder will side over from right to left. Disc 4, the plastic disc holder will slide from left to right.
Bonus Features: If their is an actor's face you recognize, but can't place the name, even if it's on the tip of your tongue, go to Cast Bios of that episode and you can find out the name of the actor and see a brief film clip and find out some of the other work the actor has done.
Also seperatly are 14 commercials total of automobiles, Bayer Aspirin and Milk of Magnesia.
Maybe George Maharis could have been a good "James Bond" or been a character opposite Terry Thomss. I say that with a smile.
The Route 66 theme was conducted by Nelson Riddle.
The adventures continues in:
Route 66 - The Complete Second Season
Route 66: Season Three, Vol. 1
Route 66: Season 3 Volume 1
Route 66: Season Three, Vol. 2
Route 66: Complete Third Season
Route 66: Season Four is not available yet.
Summary of Route 66: Season 1, Vol. 2
ROUTE 66 is a classic American TV series that only gets better with time. The first season alone boasts appearances by Lee Marvin Leslie Nielsen and E.G. Marshal as well as tough thought provoking storylines penned by Academy Award-winner Sterling Silliphant. The series follows the experiences of the poor boy/rich boy duo of Buzz and Todd as they hit the road in the 1960s' spirit of self-discovery. While everyone can whistle the Nelson Riddle tune about "getting their kicks" this show has much more to offer than trivial pop-culture references.System Requirements:Running Time: 810 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC Rating: NR UPC: 617742203196 Manufacturer No: IEG2031The irresistible call of Route 66, the classic TV anthology series and the venerable Mother Road herself, is best summed up in a bit of dialogue in the episode, "Welcome to Amity," one of the 15 episodes that concluded Season One contained on this four-disc set. Yet another stranger in distress urges self-proclaimed "searchers and look-arounders" Tod Stiles (Martin Milner) and Buz Murdoch (George Maharis) to help her. "Where are we going?" Tod asks, as she bids them to follow her. "Let?s find out," Buzz replies. Viewers happily followed Tod and Buz for four seasons on their cross-country odyssey in search of roots. Each week brought a new location, a new job, and new personal dramas in which they found themselves involved. In the gripping "An Absence of Tears," they unwittingly help a vengeful blind woman buy the exact brand of gun and bullets that thugs used to kill her husband during a botched gas station robbery. In "Most Vanquished, Most Victorious," they have 24 hours to find the daughter of Tod?s dying aunt. In "The Newborn," they help an expectant Pueblo woman escape the clutches of the wealthy and powerful rancher whose late son impregnated her. No wonder that in the more lighthearted "Eleven the Hard Way," Tod suggests to Buz that they take "a 48 hour furlough from other people?s problems" (no such luck; they no sooner find themselves in Reno helping two men win enough at the crap tables to save their dying town). Compelling stories, a vivid sense of place, and literate scripts were signposts of Route 66. While Tod and Buz "give lumps to some well-deserving people" (a climactic encounter with a street gang in "Most Vanquished, Most Victorious" is a great rumble), the show (and the cast) truly shine in the more emotional and dramatic moments. In "Like a Motherless Child," orphaned Buz bonds with a lonely woman who fronts as a shill. While Tod is the studied one, it is Buz who gets the bulk of the scripts? great, glorious riffs, as in "The Opponent," when he and Tod visit a once-legendary figure from Buz?s Hell Kitchen neighborhood ("Would you take a detour to see Caesar or Napoleon? Those are the big boys you met in books. I met my own kings, face to face, in the back alleys"). Along for the ride are some great character actors, many in their earliest screen appearances, including Robert Duvall as "a trigger-happy kook" in "The Newborn," Darrin McGavin as a boxer on his last legs in "The Opponent," featuring Ed Asner (with hair!) as his trainer and Al Lewis (Grandpa from The Munsters) as a gym owner, and Walter Matthau at his schlubby best as a disreputable gambler in "Eleven the Hard Way." As in Volume 1 there are no commentaries or interviews, but vintage TV and classic car buffs will cruise through nearly 20 minutes of commercials for Chevrolet and Bayer Asprin. --Donald Liebenson
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