77 Sunset Strip/The Checkmate Caper

The Checkmate Caper
Season 5, Episode 35
Airdate	June 7, 1963
Written by	Robert J. Shaw
Directed by	george waGGner
Produced by	Fenton Earnshaw
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77 Sunset Strip — Season Five

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The Checkmate Caper is the thirty-fifth episode of the fifth season of 77 Sunset Strip, and the one hundred eighty-fifth episode overall.

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

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

and Robert Logan (J.R. Hale)

Additional Cast: William Windom (Cuthbert Carmichael), Kathryn Givney (Lucy Carmichael), Robert Cornthwaite (Marvin Carmichael), Nancy Kulp (Eloise), Byron Keith (Lt. Gilmore), Stephen Chase (Rodney Hamilton), Barbara Wilkin (Girl)

Plot Overview

The scion of a family of con artists hires Stu to fake a jewelry store robbery to appease his overbearing grandmother, the leader of the family, but it turns into a real robbery with the crooks netting a huge profit. With the firm's reputation on the line, as well as his freedom, Stu is given a small amount of time to bring in the crooks.

Trivia

The Show

Last episode of the series for Roger Smith, Louis Quinn, Jacqueline Beer and Robert Logan.

Allusions and References

When Cuthbert Carmichael visits Stu to hire him for the fake robbery, which Stu was supposed to have swept in and thwarted, he mentions that one of the private eye's functions is to prevent crime 'like they do on that show Checkmate'. While the series has made references to other series in the past, this one is unusual for three reasons: one, it's not an ABC series (Checkmate ran on CBS). Two, it's not a Warner Bros. production (Revue Studios was the producer). Three, Checkmate had been off the air for a few months by the time this episode aired.