ROUTE 66: LIZARD'S LEG AND OWLET'S WING (TV)

Summary

One in this series of dramas about the adventures of two young men who travel across the country in a Corvette. In this episode, Tod and Buz get jobs as convention liaisons for a Chicago-area inn. Buz is assigned to assist a group of young women, members of an executive secretary's association, while Tod must make arrangements for a mysterious group of men trying in vain to go incognito: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, and Lon Chaney, Jr. Buz immediately falls for a beautiful but slightly dim secretary, who is completely preoccupied with her love for another man. Meanwhile, Tod learns that the three actors are meeting to discuss plans to form a production company that will make TV horror movies in which they will star. However, there is one problem: Karloff feels that these new films should be different from the old ones -- more sophisticated and cerebral -- while Lorre and Chaney believe that old-fashioned monster movies are just as effective as ever. Tod helps Lorre and Chaney prove their point to Karloff, terrifying the inn's guests in the process; and the insightful Karloff helps unite the pining secretary with the man she loves. Commercials deleted.

Details

NETWORK: CBS
DATE: October 26, 1962 8:30 PM
RUNNING TIME: 0:50:10
COLOR/B&W: B&W
CATALOG ID: T:06130
GENRE: Drama, action/adventure
SUBJECT HEADING: N/A
SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1960-1964
COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

Herbert B. Leonard … Executive Producer, Created by
Leo Davis … Supervising Producer
Mort Abrahams … Producer
Robert Gist … Director
Stirling Silliphant … Created by, Writer
Nelson Riddle … Theme Music by
Martin Milner … Cast, Tod Stiles
George Maharis … Cast, Buz Murdock
Peter Lorre … Cast, Himself
Boris Karloff … Cast, Himself
Martita Hunt … Cast, Mrs. Baxter
Lon Chaney … Cast, Himself
Conrad Nagel … Cast, Mr. Pavis
Sally Gracie … Cast, Beth
Bill Berger … Cast, Mr. Stevenson
Jeannine Riley … Cast, Molly Cross
Ralph Stantley … Cast, Lt. Collins
Betsy Jones-Moreland … Cast, Lila Bain