77 Sunset Strip/Hot Tamale Caper (1)

Hot Tamale Caper (1)
Season 3, Episode 37
Airdate	May 26, 1961
Written by	Fenton Earnshaw
Directed by	george waGGner
Produced by	Fenton Earnshaw
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77 Sunset Strip — Season Three

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Hot Tamale Caper (1) is the thirty-seventh episode of the third season of 77 Sunset Strip, and the one hundred seventh episode overall.

Starring: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (Stuart Bailey), Roger Smith (Jeff Spencer), Edward Byrnes (Kookie)

and Richard Long (Rex Randolph)

Additional Cast: Louis Quinn (Roscoe), Jacqueline Beer (Suzanne), Donna Martell (Maria Rodriquez), Joseph De Santis (Senor Valdez), Carlos Romero (Senor Seradil), George J. Lewis (Doctor Santos), Byron Keith (Lt. Gilmore), Sharon Landa (Marlene Randolph), Harlan Wade (Mr. Hefferman), John Damler (Mr. Lawrence), John Verros (Salazar), Jorge Moreno (Manuel)

and Troy Donahue (Sandy Winfield II), Van Williams (Ken Madison)

Plot Overview

With Jeff and Stu out of the office, Rex takes on a client--a beautiful girl from a rich Dallas family who wants him to travel to Las Vegas to save him from the clutches of a gold-digger. Shortly after leaving L.A., the private plane carrying Rex explodes in mid-air and crashes and he is presumed dead. Jeff and Roscoe curtail their fishing trip and return to the office, as does Stu, and they try to find Rex's mysterious client, while also trying to piece together just what happened on that plane, and come to the conclusion that Rex is alive, wherever he is. They soon discover that he's been shanghaied and taken aboard a boat to South America.

Trivia

The Show

Since they need to find a character in Miami, one who could shed light on Rex's disappearance, Stu puts in a call to Kenny Madison and Sandy Winfield III of the Surfside 6 agency. Van Williams and Troy Donahue appear in those roles, respectively, that they played on Surfside 6.