77 Sunset Strip/ Hawaiian Eye/ Surfside Six/ Bourbon Street Beat

If that's true, then I suspect DVD releases should follow shortly.

 

Perhaps. At least some sort of print-on-demand system.

 

Wow,now you're talking..I grew up with these classic Warner Bros. series..Hawiian Eye being my fav with the cool[Anthony Eisley,Robert Conrad,the cute Connie Stevens and Ponce Ponce] and everybody loved[77 Sunset Stripe].

 

That's what Warner Archive does and has been doing for at least a decade.

 

Dino’s Lodge.

Anybody eat there ?

 

Connie Stevens was considered a babe back then.

 

Hawaiian Eye 1959-63.

 

Peyton Place 1964-69.

Barbara Perkins.


Frank Sinatra was a fan of this tv series.

 

"Checkmate" - Doug McClure, Sebastian Cabot, and Anthony George
Private detectives solve cases in San Francisco with the help of a British criminologist.

Lots of great shots of early 60's San Francisco

 

Sunset Strip ..such a catchy theme tune.

 

I watched all these shows when they aired and own most of them now. Remember how everyone's voice had live ambience...no matter where they were, there was a touch of slap reverb. Even with the westerns Sugarfoot etc.

I thought 77 went a little strange...promoting kookie from valet to private detective.

Hawaian Eye surfside, roaring 20s...all interesting. I remember checkmate was on Saturday nights. With the defenders after....I think.

I also liked the short-lived Hong Kong series with lloyd bochner

 

Don’t recall Surfside Six or Bourbon Street Beat.

 

I would love a DVD release Of Hawaiian Eye and Sunset Strip, but at this point it seems highly unlikely. I'm not familiar with the other two shows but I'm sure they have many fans who feel the same about them.

 

Tenderfoot/Sugerfoot.
Sure were a lot of tv western series back in the day.

 

Small Screen Sagebrush: the TV Western thread

 

What about 77 Sunset Strip pilot
Girl On The Run(1958)?

 

I had some vague knowledge of 77 Sunset Strip when I was a kid. My mother told me that Ed Byrnes in Grease had played some character named Kookie back in the day.

Fast forward to around 15 years ago and GoodLife TV showed both it and Hawaiian Eye back to back. I became quite hooked for a while. Both shows were more than implausible, but very entertaining. Love the style of the times: the suits, the cars, the Midcentury and Tiki sets. It also does not take much to notice that they are essentially the same show in different locales. Two suave private eyes, a gushing babe, and the local guy with a simple job and goofy personality who actually knows anything and everything that is going on. Would it be fair to say that Kookie and Kim inspired later characters such as Huggy Bear and Rooster?

In any case, both are a lot of fun and I would love to own them. Also caught Surfside 6 and Bourbon Street, but they did not grab me as much.

 

That is almost exactly my history with these shows. I recorded a few episodes of each off Good Life TV, but I would have done more if I'd thought they would never get released.

 

What cars were featured in Sunset Strip?

 

Roy Huggins - Wikipedia

Jack L. Warner deliberately had the pilot to 77 Sunset Strip, entitled Girl on the Run, screened briefly at movie theatres in the Caribbean to legally establish that the television series derived from a film, rather than, as was actually the case, several books and novellas Huggins had written in the 1940s. Since these were not the only occasions on which Warner had found a way to circumvent Huggins' creative rights, he left the studio soon thereafter.​

 

Of course, Huggins himself was accused of plagiarizing David Goodis' Dark Passage for The Fugitive.

» DAVID GOODIS vs. THE FUGITIVE, by Francis M. Nevins

 

Looks like 77 Sunset Strip's run on MeTV is ending. Effective September 2, it's being replaced in the late-night rotation (3AM Central time) by Barnaby Jones.

MeTV started airing 77 Sunset Strip in January 2017, and since then they've aired all of the episodes in order multiple times, starting over with Season 1 again every time they came to the end of the series.

I 'd love to see an official DVD release, but I'm afraid that ship may have sailed. I have the whole series on DVD-Rs of varying quality that were clearly sourced from multigeneration VHS dubs, and consequently don't look anywhere near as good as the MeTV airings, or the Warner Archive streaming versions that used to be available when that channel was still a going concern. I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one lining up eagerly for a real DVD set...