Crime / Drama / Mystery
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The…

Solo private eye Stu Bailey tries to locate a missing singer before a professional killer does.
Stu Bailey's infatuation with a beautiful woman leads him into blackmail and suspicion of murder.
Stu Bailey is hired by a government agent to keep a Latin playboy under surveillance while he's in Hollywood, but the playboy turns out to be on the run from a killer.
Jeff Spencer uncovers an insurance scam when he is hired by a woman who swears that the husband she thought dead is still alive.
Stu Bailey is hired to find ot who is passing counterfeit chips in a Las Vegas casino.
Jeff Spencer is hired by a fashion designer to protect her ex-con husband, who has evidence that would convict a man engaged in revenge killings.
Stu Bailey is hired by the greedy relatives of a silent film star to prove her incompetent so that they can get their hands on the money she is spending to finance a remake of her old hit ""Foolish Girl"".
Jeff Spencer is hired by a woman to get divorce evidence against her husband, but her real plan is to murder him and frame Jeff for the crime.
Stu Bailey is hired to rescue a newspaper correspondent who is being held captive in an East German hospital.
Jeff Spencer is hired by the lawyer son of a former gangster to prevent his wrathful father from taking vengeance on the crminals who kidnapped him.
Bailey & Spencer are hired by a Washington attorney to protect his wife after a man on a plane trip suggests they swap murders.
Jeff Spencer is hired by a military cadet's mother to find out if he is really guilty of stealing from a student fund, but someone seems willing to kill to prevent the truth from coming out.
Stu Bailey loans his convertible to Kookie for a date, only to find that the young man has been arrested for reckless driving.
Jeff Spencer searches for Suzanne's missing brother but discovers a murder-for-insurance plot.
Stu Bailey is hired to recover a seemingly worthless vase but is then kidnapped and taken to Algeria.
Jeff Spencer is hired by a pretty amnesiac with lots of money in her purse, who turns out to be a murder witness with a killer on her trail.
Stu Bailey becomes a target for murder when he agrees to help a newsman's crusade against the narcotics racketeers who blinded him.
Jeff Spencer is hired to protect his client's student daughter from a killer.
Stu Bailey is hired by an 8-year-old boy to prove that he's not making up stories when he says he witnessed a bear being killed. What he actually saw was the killing of a woman wearing a fur coat.
Stu Bailey helps exonerate a framed and suspended policeman and prove a racketeer guilty of murder.
Stu Bailey is hired by a publisher to find out why someone keeps faking reports of his death.
Jeff Spencer becomes the subject of a husband's jealous suspicions and is not only approached by a blackmailer but is charged with murder.
Stu Bailey, hired to find an elderly woman's missing son who was heavily insured, becomes suspicious when the body he dredges out of the bay is too decomposed to identify.
Jeff Spencer takes off for Hong Kong when a note from an army pilot puts him on the trail of a woman named Candy and a fortune in diamonds.
Stu Bailey is hired to go to Paris to rescue a kidnapped American schoolgirl and save a valuable painting.
The firm is hired by a wealty family to watch out for their eccentric grandmother, who has embarked on a crime spree.
Stu Bailey becomes involved after an ancient Russian tapestry donated to a Beverly Hills restaurant leads to multiple murder.
Jeff Spencer goes undercover as a prospective victim of a murder-for-insurance racket.
Stu Bailey goes to Rome in search of a missing heiress and finds an archaeology student helping loot a tomb.
Jeff Spencer is hired by a sexy widow to find out if her husband's apparent suicide was actually murder.
Stu Bailey, though acquitted of the crime of sedition for lack of evidence, has his private investigator's license revoked and goes on a drinking spree. He is then recruited by a former friend to conduct business with Communists. At the end it is revealed that Bailey had been working undercover for the U.S. government all along.
Jeff Spencer becomes involved when stolen rubies are hidden in the collar of a wayward poodle belonging to a French starlet being pursued by Kookie.
Stu Bailey is hired by a wealthy man's relatives to investigate the leader of a mysterious cult he has been lured into joining.
Jeff Spencer tries to protect a young woman who witnessed a murder in a nightclub.

Stuart Bailey

Gerald Lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III

Jeff Spencer

Suzanne Fabray

Roscoe

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