Route 66 Intro

Two young men drive around the US working at odd jobs, helping people, and searching for adventure. Ironically, the show was filmed on location all across the USA, but rarely near the real Route 66.

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Entertainment

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• Martin
• Milner
• George
• Maharis
• Glenn
• Corbett

[mobydoug]

Fascinating opening scene. Here was a show with a social conscience.....actually trying to engage with serious social problems. How many other TV shows from the era dared deal with the anger and frustration of wounded Korean War vets? It presages the anger of Viet vets in the war to come, and looks back to groundbreaking movies like Kazan's The Men, starring Brando, about paralyzed WWII vets. Most of the population prefers to forget warehoused wounded vets of Nam...or Iraq and Afghanistan.

[ilovemartinmilner]

"Everybody here is paid in full" They sure are.

[Notebookwriter1]

@cudaj2 : IMO, the golden age of TV is from the late 90s to now. So many great serial dramas out there. I suggest you watch The Wire.

[mrstevehartman]

Wheres 1 Adam 12 ??

[dokokai]

@cutandpaste1 You make a good point except for forgetting one fact~ TV was still a fairly new medium at the time this show was on & they were creating the hour long drama genre with shows like Route 66. Over a decade passed by the time MASH aired & show creators, writers, etc had time to develop & refine their craft by the time shows like MASH were on. They just got better at what they did. Surely you are better at your job now than you were 15yrs ago. Cut this era of show some slack. Great chat

[dokokai]

@cutandpaste1 Calm down... they only had an hour each week to tell the story. Character development has to happen fast. Even today if you watch a show like Law & Order & it's spinoffs, they go from crime to investigation to trial & closure in an hour also. You know in reality, that process can take months or years to wrap up. It's the story and writing that counts, not the natural length of time it takes for events to unfold.

[dokokai]

@lennhart You're absolutely spot on.... however, not only did these types of TV shows disappear, but the actual opportunity to do what they represented went away too. The idea that this country was wide open to explore different lifestyles such as these two seekers are doing here. Now it's a corporate, sterile, soulless, generic regurgitation of those ideas... sold back to us in big box stores and chain restaurants. To hell with that!!

[polemeros]

beautiful fella. great show. I watched it faithfully when I was a kid.

[YehiaYMishriki]

Brings back memories; good memories.

[mrstevehartman]

Well, it used to be easy to get a job !

[903davesharonpoky]

One of my all time favorite tv shows. MASH and the Fugitive are the other two dramas I love. Hope for a complete dvd box set of the series.

[bionicledude567]

this show was a bit weird... i mean, two guys chasing after a half-naked woman in a blast area? LMAO! still like it tho