THE COOLEST ADDRESS IN TOWN
77 SUNSET STRIP IT’S KOOKIE, MAN!
Click your fingers and comb your hair as Allan Bryce remembers 77 Sunset Strip, the 1960s private eye TV show that was too cool for school…
Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Edd Byrnes and Roger Smith
The regular cast, including our three cool cat heroes, Richard Long, Jacqueline Beer and Louis Quinn gather for a photo opportunity for the ‘Girl on the Run’ episode
One of the great things about being the editor of a mag like this is that it enables me to celebrate forgotten childhood favourites, and I couldn’t resist the opportunity to revisit the address of my favourite private detective agency of the early 1960s. If you were lucky enough to encounter this great TV show when it first aired in 1962 then you will already be singing its catchy theme tune from the accomplished team of Mack David and Jerry Livingston:
“Seventy Seven Sunset Strip. Seventy Seven Sunset Strip. Seventy Seven Sunset Strip.
“The street that wears a fancy label. That’s glorified in song and fable.
“The most exciting people pass you by Including a private eye.
“Seventy Seven Sunset Strip Seventy Seven Sunset Strip Seventy Seven Sunset Strip.
“You’ll meet the high brow and the hipster. The starlet and the phony tipster.