77 Sunset Strip/Scream Softly, Dear

Scream Softly, Dear
Season 5, Episode 15
Airdate	January 18, 1963
Written by	Donn Mullally
Directed by	Jeffrey Hayden
Produced by	Fenton Earnshaw
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77 Sunset Strip — Season Five

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Scream Softly, Dear is the fifteenth episode of the fifth season of 77 Sunset Strip, and the one hundred sixty-fifth episode overall.

Starring: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (Stuart Bailey), Roger Smith (Jeff Spencer) (credit only), Edward Byrnes (Gerald "Kookie" Kookson III)

Co-Starring: Louis Quinn (Roscoe) (credit only), Jacqueline Beer (Suzanne Fabray) (credit only)

and Robert Logan (J.R. Hale)

Additional Cast: Elinor Donahue (Laura Holt), Simon Scott (Warren Collins), Joan Taylor (Beth Collins), Rhodes Reason (Hank Stone), Byron Keith (Lt. Gilmore), Peter Marshall (Charles Bell), Julie Van Zandt (Monica Travis), Brad Johnson (Lee Travis)

Plot Overview

A woman is killed when she borrows her neighbor's car, on which the brakes were tampered with. Kookie becomes involved as the car owner's husband is a friend and former client. He's thrown into a complicated mess involving possible adultery (on the part of both his friend, his friend's wife, the dead woman's husband and an attractive advertising executive) and a blackmailing Lothario of a mechanic.

Trivia

The Show

Elinor Donahue plays a character named Laura Holt in this episode. Twenty years later, Laura Holt would be the name of one of the principal characters in Remington Steele, played by Stephanie Zimbalist, daughter of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.! (Efrem would turn up eventually in a recurring role on Remington Steele.)