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The Checkmate Caper
77 Sunset Strip - S5 - E35
Stu ends up holding the bag when he's hired to help fake a robbery for the heir to a criminal family.
77 Sunset Strip: Season 5 - 36 Episode s
5x1 - The Reluctant Spy
October 12, 1962
Stu searches for the reasons behind an old friend's hit-and-run death in Austria.
5x2 - Leap, My Lovely
October 19, 1962
A con man hypnotizes an actress into jumping out a window, then blackmails a film's producer with threats of doing the same to his leading man.
5x3 - Terror in a Small Town
October 26, 1962
After a rash of practical jokes at the office, Kookie can't convince his partners that he really has been arrested for a serious crime.
5x4 - The Raiders
November 2, 1962
Stu arrives in the corrupt small town where an old friend is chief of police and with the help of a senaor's wife uncovers a murder and a blackmail scheme.
5x5 - The Floating Man
November 9, 1962
Jeff becomes a bodyguard for a judge who says that if he's killed, he wants Jeff to find his murderer.
5x6 - The Catspaw Caper
November 16, 1962
Suzanne and Stu help her Hungarian friend find her mother, who fled the Communists in Budapest.
5x7 - Wolf, Cried the Blonde
November 23, 1962
An actress cons the detectives into helping her pull off a publicity stunt, but gets more than she bargained for when a man from her past shows up with his hand out.
5x8 - The Dark Wood
November 30, 1962
Stu reunites with an old flame, a recent widow, and investigates her daughter's belief that her father's death was no accident.
5x9 - Shadow on Your Shoulder
December 7, 1962
Stu teams up with private detectives from Hawaii and French and English police to discover how a pair of criminals steal from their victims and leave them physical wrecks. Folk singers Peter, Paul & Mary perform.
5x10 - Adventure in San Dede
December 14, 1962
Jeff and J.R. deliver an attache case to Latin American clients.
5x11 - The Odds on Odette
December 21, 1962
An astrologer hires Jeff when he begins receiving threatening phone calls, but Jeff discovers his secretary may be the real target.
5x12 - The Snow Job Caper
December 28, 1962
Jeff teams up with an insurance adjuster to recover an armored truck's lost shipment.
5x13 - Falling Stars
January 4, 1963
Stu becomes involved in film society when a suicide, a murder, and subseuqent attempted murders disrupt the entertainment world.
5x14 - The Tarnished Idol
January 11, 1963
Suzanne finds love when she posses as an heiress to investigate the person who's suing a client.
5x15 - Scream Softly, Dear
January 18, 1963
A borrowed car with sabotaged brakes leads to murder, and Kookie's quest to find the killer leads him into a tangle of romantic triangles and blackmail.
5x16 - Terror in Silence
January 25, 1963
Stu helps a deaf librarian who ""overheard"" a a death threat in the reading room.
5x17 - Crashout
February 1, 1963
Jeff and Roscoe go undercover in prison to help a thief break out, in hopes he'll lead them to his hidden stash. But the man's cronies have their own plans for the escape and the cash.
5x18 - The Night Was Six Years Long
February 8, 1963
The detectives' former secretary walks back in after six years, suffering from amnesia.
5x19 - Six Feet Under
February 15, 1963
Gang boss Marco Deederman was reported killed in an automobile accident. But after the funeral, a series of fur and jewels thefts show the unmistakable hand of the old master—while Jeff falls for Deederman's girlfriend.
5x20 - Escape to Freedom
February 22, 1963
Stu is asked to rescue scientist Marie Harben's son, being held hostage by East German Communists to prevent her defecting to the West.
5x21 - Dial S for Spencer
March 1, 1963
Sandra Keene fears that someone may try to prevent her brother Michael, a skid-row bum, from collecting his inheritance.
5x22 - Nine to Five
March 8, 1963
Stu is called to New York to find a missing Hollywood wife.
5x23 - Stranger from the Sea
March 15, 1963
Kookie helps a Japanese friend find his uncle, who vanished with ,000.
5x24 - The Man Who Wasn't There
March 22, 1963
Jeff investigates a former G.I.'s story of seeing a man who was reported killed in Korea.
5x25 - Flight 307
March 29, 1963
Stu's flight to Hawaii is stalled by a busy airline official trying to cope with a murder, a fleeing thief, a messy love triangle, and a sick pilot in the air.
5x26 - Target Island
April 5, 1963
J.R. seaches for his date's missing brother, a sailor.
5x27 - Reunion at Balboa
April 12, 1963
Kookie and J.R. are on assignment at the beach when a hit-and-run accident injures a girl they've been watching.
5x28 - Walk Among Tigers
April 19, 1963
Stu finds a trap when he goes to collect the belongings of an industrialist and humanitarian killed in a train wreck.
5x29 - The Left Field Caper
April 26, 1963
An unhappy little boy on a Little League team is the clue to a murder.
5x30 - The Heartbeat Caper
May 3, 1963
Visiting professor Stu stumbles across a real mystery while teaching criminology.
5x31 - To Catch a Mink
May 10, 1963
Stu attends a charity auction and spots an old flame—who promptly robs the place.
5x32 - Lady in the Sun
May 17, 1963
Stu goes after a dangerous lady thief who's stolen a realtor's books.
5x33 - Our Man in Switzerland
May 24, 1963
Con men take million in securities from under Kookie's nose, and Stu gives chase to restore the firm's reputation.
5x34 - Your Fortune for a Penny
May 31, 1963
A millionaire hires Stu to protect his daughter from her rogue lover, a suspected swindler recently returned to the U.S. from an overseas hideaway.
5x35 - The Checkmate Caper
June 7, 1963
Stu ends up holding the bag when he's hired to help fake a robbery for the heir to a criminal family.
5x36 - Never to Have Loved
June 14, 1963
An agent hires Stu and Kookie to protect a client from a charismatic director with a Svengali-like hold over her.