77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes. The show was the subject of an ownership battle between Roy Huggins and Warner Brothers, which was the proximate cause of Huggins' departure from the studio. The series was based on novels and short stories written by Huggins prior to his arrival at Warners, but, as a matter of legal record, derived from a brief Caribbean theatrical release of its pilot, Girl on the Run. The show ran from 1958 to 1964. The series revolves around... two Los Angeles private detectives, both former government secret agents: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. played Stuart Bailey, a character Huggins had originated in his 1946 novel The Double Take . Roger Smith played Jeff Spencer, also a former government agent, and a non-practicing attorney.
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