Saturday, August 26, 2017

Friday, August 25 - Route 66: Who in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl

Route 66 (1960–1964): Who in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl (Season 4 | Episode 18 - aired 7 February 1964)

Lee Philiips returns, this time as a murderer on the lam, (no he didn't kill his wife: he dumped an aged couple overboard after agreeing to take them on a motor boat trip and they drown). He holes up in, of all things, a mobile library annex run by Lois Smith, (making her third appearance in the series), a lonely, impressionable librarian. The boys show up and Linc senses something is wrong and decides to hang around. Tod, as usual is detached and doesn't want to get involved. Phillips romances the impressionable Smith, (although he seems to see the possibilities of another life with her), and convinces her to help him out. Linc tries to convince her to break away from him. The police eventually catch up and Phillips is killed in a shoot- out. She's back to her lonely life.

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