Route 66-Ten Drops of Water

Originally aired November 11, 1960.

[@johnallen2771]

As a fan of the show since the first week it was on TV, I found this episode particularly epic because it hit on so many important points. For one, her last words, "promises are for the living." Too often we hold on to things that we need to let go of. And that applies to letting go of the land. Yes, land is a sacred thing, but you can always buy different land. It's not worth dying over. And finally, the one that hit me the most was the lack of water. I live in the desert near the Sacramento River in Northern California. Water is becoming a bigger and bigger concern out West and there have been ripple effects. Cities come to Lake Shasta and want to buy their water in advance at a fixed rate. Water could be the next oil crisis. Oh, and I almost forgot the love of a boy for his animal. This brought tears to my eyes as I lost a dog when I was a boy his age. Never forgot that feeling of what it was like to love a pet that much.

[@steveanacorteswa3979]

They are saying now Cali is in for a big water crisis but they don't seem to have a problem bringing in millions from south america, those people running the west coast are morons, lets build a bullet train to nowhere instead of a desalinization plant

[@seashepherds4959]

@@steveanacorteswa3979 The show pointed out something that a lot of Californians forget- water for pools! The most asinine use of water in a desert! THAT and grass lawns and trees IN A DESERT! Natives lived in the desert for thousands of years yet "White Man" comes and can't do it for 200 years without destroying the environment. Desalination plants use fossil fuels or the expense of reverse osmosis. The simple way is live within your means. You want pools and grass move to a place where it's part of the landscape- like the characters in the show did- KISS. nothing personal.

[@steveanacorteswa3979]

@@seashepherds4959 I totally agree, can't believe Pelosi and Gavin haven't already removed the rights to a swimming pools for those with under 5 acre property (they don't want to lose theirs)

[@hana.the.writer5074]

@@seashepherds4959 ☺️ You can’t expect a whole population to simply give up on their region.. it’s home. Other challenging regions on the world map have made significant successes through agriculture and turned deserts to rich fertile lands. Yields may not be enough to ship overseas but local-wise they’re satisfied! The situation in California may be worrisome but not impossible! May be costly but fixable. The thing is many will yet probably leave for financial causes! Water will be costly.

[@badvideo169]

@@steveanacorteswa3979 she doesnt have one FOOL

[@johanneslundie]

A great TV anthology series, with great stars, great guest stars, great writing, great theme music. A one of a kind series. A centerpiece of American television history as an art form.

[@studiobencivengamarcusbenc5272]

True watched an episode for the first time and my verdict is : real photography , real acting , real conflict

[@jennifersiagian]

These Ep's are so sweet. Just think how we would be today if TV stayed on this "route" .. compare to Netflix.. 1964 to today 2021 smh

[@blueridgepics]

Makes you wish for the return of the All Terrain Corvette.

[@nolopa20]

I love this serie. Not like all the crap on tv today.

[@americanitalianisrael4008]

I love all these Route 66 episodes.Great story,great meaning of family .Plus G. Maharis is beautiful especially in a swimsuit.M.Milner is a hottie.Great show.

[@mrblwats]

I enjoy all the Route 66 series...Love them! Love Martin Milner!

[@bassincharlie]

wow thanks I was a kid back then, these old but very great shows still got that charm. Better than any TV show of today, that I think are tasteless and boring Thank you

[@garystpierre4446]

bassincharlie l.p. p

[@stevengill1736]

So many decades ago, this episode....yet this spring our spring dried up for the first time... Yup, California... drought is no joke to farmers, ranchers, heck, anyone! Very grateful we are for this blessed rain...

[@seashepherds4959]

California was, is and always shall be a desert in most places. Problem is the water you get comes now from other states AND had you seen Hetch Hetchy before the dam went up to give SF it's water you would cry like John Muir did when it disappeared in a reservoir. Too many people, too many foolish wooden homes with swimming pools and greenery. Pump out that ground water and what will be left for future generations? It took millions of years for that water to get down there and now- well, you reap what you sow. It's heart-breaking to see people build a house on sand and more so when the tide comes in and washes that castle away. Teach your children well.

[@mikesnyder1788]

My buddy and I used to pretend/fantasize that we were those guys... hitting the road for adventure in our own Corvettes! Almost 60 years later I am driving a Chevrolet alright... a Chevy Cruze! Have loved the theme song by the great Nelson Riddle ever since!!!!

[@gadsdonflag4289]

As a kid I loved this show.....but the Corvette was the major draw for me. I often dreamed of owning one some day and it finally happened. I've owned 10 in the past 40 years and loved them all. And I still have one today. ;-)

[@mikesnyder1788]

@@gadsdonflag4289 Living the dream! Kind regards...

[@axiomist4488]

Another great story by Stirling Sylliphant . That 60 Vette is really good looking . RIP Oberjack .

[@johnnyk8825]

Shades of 'Ol' Yeller'. A boy and his beloved pet.

[@mjfinne7]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for sharing this episode. I Love Martin Milner! God bless you always, dear Marty.

[@bluegent7]

There was a time, in real life, when bankers were ruled by morality, told the truth, were responsible and knew the people. The whole world came to suffer when American banks gave risky loans for private housing and the bubble burst. The politically driven idea was to make people without the proper outlook have their own houses, and the property wasn't sufficient collateral. It was terribly irresponsible and multitudes had to leave their homes in the end. Chicago is a telling example with huge graveyards of deteriorating, empty houses. A depressing sight unworthy of Western civilization.

[@seashepherds4959]

Western Civilisation? No, Civilisation. Western has nothing to do with it. People all over the world reach out to use the things in their grasp. Your 'Western Civilisation' over-reaches and sometimes it's great and sometimes more trouble than it's worth. Like a drunken sailor ashore flush with cash and spending on pointless frills: Cows, horses, swimming pools, wooden mansions on lawns of grass surrounded by trees IN A DESERT! That's depressing! Civilisations disappear quickly under such foolishness. "The Worth of Water is Known when the Well runs dry!" Let that be a lesson for "Civilisations".

[@robertrocca6595]

"...There was a time, in real life, when bankers were ruled by morality, told the truth, were responsible and knew the people." Name the time??

[@robertrocca6595]

@@seashepherds4959 Western Civilisation has been high jacked by the zionist civilisation.

[@thompsonmarkjohn]

A few years ago I determined that my memory of the first run of this episode indicated I was age 4 1/2 when I first saw this episode

[@joemannix7471]

I was 5 years old. My sister was 11. She loved this show.

[@simon5005]

Route 66 is THE definition of "cool"!!!

[@sallywest3143]

Another great episode - many thanks!

[@r082751]

Please more! I'm in Europe and can't get the episodes. Wonderful writing, acting, old stars from the studio era, and new ones coming up.

[@herrp8765]

I knew the sister looked familiar. Deborah Walley, of Gidget Goes Hawaiian and Beach movies of the 60s. Think I had a crush on her back in the day. Anyone remember the Mothers in Law? Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard. Pretty funny sitcom.

[@Scott-ly2nk]

A newyork boy who just happens to know all about horse riding

[@Scott-ly2nk]

That ol vette is might handy

[@herrp8765]

@@Scott-ly2nk I was a kid from Philly and the only thing I knew about horses was from watching Mr Ed.

[@GeneRogers-xl9um]

Remember “ I Married Joan”?

[@herrp8765]

@@GeneRogers-xl9um Barely. But never watched... a little before my time.

[@reach4thestars67]

Thank you for uploading this episode.

[@edholohan]

Made me cry

[@mrblwats]

Martin Milner always hot, cute smile, gorgeous eyes and always a gentleman.

[@olivercrangle7160]

Real people with real problems.

[@charlesbromberick4247]

A great story, buy I sure wish they had found a way for the mule to make it.

[@jamescalifornia2964]

The 1961 _Chevrolet Corvette_ takes a beating on the old dirt road ... 👌

[@Scott-ly2nk]

And they never have to put the hard top on

[@RjBenjamin353]

So sad that Apple Jack passed on to that mule heaven in the sky.

[@elnafinn]

Or Mac Donalds

[@frankfarago2825]

Ranchers are farmers have been complaining about this, that, and the other since day immemorial.

[@dontaylor7315]

This is painful to watch. The drought that devastated Texas for more than half of the 1950s was a feature of my childhood. It wasn't as cruel in my part of the state (the Rio Grande brush country) but in West Texas ranches that had grown cattle for generations had to convert to sheep and then goats, and even then some of those ranches didn't survive.

[@JamesSmith-ru9ci]

This is the only episode I remember from back then, and all I saw was the first few minutes.

[@morrisman64]

Great show thanks for the post

[@garypiont6114]

Dadgum good episode. Thanks

[@tessaducek5601]

I saw many mistakes with drilling that would have been a huge oops . but TV shows were not intended to be analyzed. If so. Gilligans Island would have been in trouble! Fun program. Too bad we can't have his type of TV today.

[@Scott-ly2nk]

Yes really akl the different clothes they wore would have filled up that trunk and then some them ol boys changed clothes alot

[@MrMakemyday3]

and today george is about 94

[@raysmusic49]

Great show!

[@WitchidWitchid]

Life was no simpler then than now.

[@itsgleneaton4883]

Good actors and a story about human beings. Today they use people as props to highlight the CGI for unessesary gory effects and the photography which puts me to sleep. Today they try to act so subtle their not even reacting. The whole business is nothing but crap. The very sight of any picture puts me in daisy land. But shows of the past like these wakes me up. Thank you

[@ThreePhaseHigh]

I got news for them it wasn't the leathers. When they took the drop pipe apart there was no pull rod. Which means the rod came apart at the top and the cylinder came loose at the bottom. Best thing they can do is go get himself a submersible pump and fast!

[@seashepherds4959]

"Ya, Ya, Ya, technicalities- the writers are from Los Angeles and New York what did they know about pumping water! ha ha ha

[@madJedi1]

got no water & offers coffee.. classic tv thank you!

[@V8_screw_electric_cars]

Perhaps it was espresso

[@edholohan]

Water-less coffee?

[@Scott-ly2nk]

And overheated the vette somking the rings and the head gasgets

[@drdon196]

Nothing like treating a Corvette like its a Jeep

[@m.oriley7700]

I am impressed with Tony Haig's (Homer) acting.

[@thomasmadden5657]

I love this episode!

[@garystpierre4446]

Thomas Madden

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

And the next year, the new owners struck oil, but the boy grew up to be president.

[@frankfarago2825]

Ayy. First season, 1st episode -- "Black September." They turn off the main road. They turn onto a dirt road. Car troubles and all other troubles soon follow. Fast forward too this episode: ditto. Some people just never learn about shortcuts, I suppose. Also, just how much ultraviolet Type A and Type B radiation does one's skull and the human body absorb -- while traveling in an open top roadster for 4-years in the United States? What? That much? Yayy.

[@garypiont6114]

You adulterated hick

[@Scott-ly2nk]

I like this show and all but they never show them on route 66

[@johnathandouglas007]

I like how everything is like fine next door....

[@richardburriesci7723]

DEBORAH WALLY WAS THE PRINCESS OF THE EARLY SIXTIES

[@gplunk]

She fit those denim blues oh so nice!

[@chuckwagon5518]

They really mistreated that early Vette!

[@ilovemartinmilner]

They really did! No way that car would have lasted 4 years. Fortunately, they got a new one every year.

[@frankfarago2825]

"Dang, old buddy, look at our suitcases drowning in sand and dirt. Maybe we should have traded in this inheritance to a car with an actual trunk." Our boys have a brand new super-pricy 'Vette each year, and plenty of dough for food, fuel, lodging. Why on Earth then are they hanging around at this miserable dusbowl? Instead of being on some palm tree laden seaside resort -- or at least lounging by a swimming pool among bikini-clad young ladies?

[@deniseharris4631]

Hoping someone reading this can help. I used to have nightmares from the credits of Route 66 and Big G - which was the rename in the UK of a programme originally called Empire in the US ! I thought I was 4 at the time but found out in April I was not quite 3! There was a scene that used to appear at the end of the credits of both programmes, I think with a shouty word. A long word was displayed at the bottom of the screen and I think a man, woman and dog crossing the road left to right of the screen diagonally above! I remembered the theme tune of Route 66 and the advert break picture for Big G! I think Big G was shouted out at the beginning of the programme! Too young to remember the actual programmes! But I would like to face what frightened me! Thanks to KZbin have been able to face other credits, tunes on shows that gave me nightmares! Would appreciate any enlightenment on the startling extra end credit above! Was it only in the UK or only for a while?! Also would really appreciate seeing opening and closing credits for Big G as it was in the UK! Have already messaged the people who have put Empire on KZbin about these! But if anyone can help on this also, it wd be fantastic!

[@rowenajohnson9173]

Very rare Corvette to have Dayton wire wheels

[@blackdogslivesmatter1568]

I love the series but hated this episode. I really felt for the boy and his donkey/mule. I also have a white donkey named Jaxson who looks just like this one and twice as stubborn. I have had to shut my water off to fix it and have given my animals water before I had any. I also live in a place where the wind blows like that...like today we had and are still having a severe windstorm. I could never watch my donkey die like this. I noticed no one offered him water at any time...I know its a tv show but I feel bad for yelling at jaxson today for breaking some flower pots and eating the chicken food. Donkeys think they are human.

[@jamescalifornia2964]

They made a few duds - this was one. 👎

[@ctranger]

FWIW, I did not like the ending of this particular episode either.

[@jamescalifornia2964]

@@ctranger - Seems this episode would fit better in _'The Twilight Zone'_ ... 😥

[@hana.the.writer5074]

🤧 Tough decision to make.. sometimes failure overpowers and forces one to pick up the pieces and search for greener pastures. It was a land.. and Lord knows land is precious but crops don’t grow out of rocks. If it wasn’t for the birtth and development of water desalination machinery lots of towns, big cities even wouldn’t have had the chance to still be existing up to this very date. The battle is still on in some regions.. not necessarily an environmental variability if you catch ny drift but hopefully it all turns to the other way around.. someday.

[@garypiont6114]

Nice shot of a dirty vette. Yes!

[@garypiont6114]

Using the vette like a ford model t was cool

[@garypiont6114]

Deep, very deep.

[@frankfarago2825]

Well, at least at episode's end, these folks got a pretty good price for their land.... 75 cents an acre.

[@JPER-cv2lq]

Great stuff, but I wouldn't drive my Corvette on any dirt back roads, they belong on the highway.

[@garypiont6114]

Hogwash! Vettes were and are adaptable from swamp buggies to dragsters.

[@billynoshoes1354]

yup

[@kingalexander2704]

They could've saved the boy's mule by simply returning him to the old man who bought him! The boy could have visited him whenever he wanted too. Why make things sadder than they need to be?

[@jamescalifornia2964]

Those idiots Tod & Buz ... 😥

[@giles422]

more please! thank you for this!

[@zardozyou]

when i was a kid

[@blackdogslivesmatter1568]

Its pretty horrible what they subject the calves to just for a tv show. It didnt add a damn thing to the show. I live next to feeder lots and the way they treat the animals should be beyond illegal.

[@calcrappie8507]

And the humans in the dust? You don't give a crap about them.

[@seashepherds4959]

@@calcrappie8507 nope- they have a choice-

[@weedme4932]

HAVE SOME COFFEE snyxxxxxx😊 WATER IS SCARCE HERE BUT WE'LL BOIL UP SOME WATER FOR COFFEE snyxxxxxxx😊 Weed Me

[@jamescalifornia2964]

😁 And water the lawn !

[@garypiont6114]

Be great to remake with a 89 vette

[@nealgold8017]

Jeez, ya just shouldn't treat a beautiful '61 Corvette like that! 8:55

[@peterrech9563]

Yup- Sinful treating a 61 like an SUV !!! I never treated mine like that. Also, they never put the top up with all that dust haha. One of my fav episodes. Using the rear drive as a pump drive.

[@michaelwertzy9808]

Great make-up for that there 2-seater!

[@garypiont6114]

Back then men didn't treat cars as gods

[@garypiont6114]

Me like the peasant kid and mule.

[@oluhamilton2121]

Hmmmm.... the closing theme was a little different.

[@robertrocca6595]

3/4 in. pipe for a well? no way. Need a 11/2" pipe for that well to work properly.

[@bandini22221]

I'm not a plumber but that's only 1/6 of an inch difference.

[@robertrocca6595]

@@bandini22221 Thank god you're not a plumber!

[@bandini22221]

@@robertrocca6595 jejeje

[@garypiont6114]

Hogwash

[@robertrocca6595]

Solution to the problem...... * Sell all livestock. * The male gets a job with the farmer that purchased the mule. * The female and boy maintain the farm.

[@bandini22221]

The sister could've done lap dances in town.

[@johnjarou2357]

deborah walley!!!

[@joeepps9209]

I'm pissed off about Oberjack ! a gallon would neither make make or brake the situation , cruelty through ignorance. the story left me unsettled. Do You really know what it feels like to thirst really thirst?

[@bandini22221]

You did catch the name of the title, right? Ten drops of water.

[@bruceschneider6649]

Bah Humbug Peter

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

The late Deborah Walley was top totty in those days. RIP.

[@drbonesshow1]

+Peter Burnett Use the proper word contraction: You're as in "you are" an idiot.

[@drbonesshow1]

+Khayyam1048 More a cutie than a hotty.

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

+Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. Dr Don, I intend "totty" with a T. Indubitably a cutie, though.

[@johnjarou2357]

+Khayyam1048 yes, deborah walley was a pretty big star in those days. hard to figure how you can't find much of her on youtube.

[@johnjarou2357]

+Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. umm, i'd say she was both!

[@jamescalifornia2964]

Go to Oregon. There's water there! ☔💦👌

[@davidcouch6514]

I read somewhere there’s a desert in Oregon.

[@edholohan]

Where is this dry place?

[@ilovemartinmilner]

Utah.

[@robertjacob6674]

wonder where that car is today

[@bandini22221]

Best episode yet but I agree with Virgil. I would've died on that land before I sold my ancestors out. Poor Overjack.

[@RjBenjamin353]

THEM GODDAMN BANKS!!

[@edholohan]

I hear ya, bro

[@johnrogan9420]

What a morbid episode!

[@garypiont6114]

Alot of the 50s early 60 were depressing. Why? Me not know. Commies?

[@greenfoot5000]

This can't be 1960 - they are driving 1962 Vette!

[@edholohan]

Whoops

[@ctranger]

That is a 1961 Corvette (first year with the four round tail-lamps). Although this show premiered in the fall of 1960, an actual 1960 was used only in the first episode, Black November. As the pilot, it was filmed much earlier in the year, before the new models were introduced.

[@-oiiio-3993]

Season 1, episode 6, first aired November 11, 1960

[@michaeldanello3966]

The 1961 models went on sale in September 1960. This episode first aired November 11, 1960

[@thadonmel5352]

I get Buzz and Tod's whole thing is helping others but what right do they have? The boy obviously gave up the mule for a reason and they bring it back without knowing the circumstances. Tv shows like this, The Fugitive and many others alike I guess the 60s weren't a time to mind your own business. Or maybe that's the problem today? No one willing to help others. Suppose I'm conditioned that way myself because I didn't like them for butting in where they weren't asked. I'm just thinking I'd hate for strangers to come around and insert themselves in our personal family drama.

[@gene19431]

How come the guy has a hat on when he is working on the well at 29:12, How does it stay on in the dust storm. If looks like he would have to glue it on.It reminds me of the old westerns when a cowboy got into a fight and fell over boulders and rolled down a hill and fell into a river and his hat stayed on. Thanks for the uploads.This was a good series.

[@edholohan]

Get a life

[@seashepherds4959]

Ya, they don't make ten-gallon hats like the good-ole'-days. Had me a 61 corvette in them days and drove it down the Oregon Trail East to West and only broke the steering shaft- don't make them like they used to! ;^)

[@drbonesshow1]

Where are all the black people? No McDonald's commercials?

[@drbonesshow1]

+James California Still the best TV intro song.

[@drbonesshow1]

+Mark Richardson As Archie Bunker tells it you can blame it all on Eleanor Roosevelt: "Eleanor was always out on the loose. Running around with the coloreds. Tellin' 'em they was gettin' the short end of the stick. She was the one who discovered the coloreds in this country; we never knew they was there!"

[@garypiont6114]

Who cares?

[@drbonesshow1]

@@garypiont6114 Who cares that you are BLduMb?

[@antoniorubio5741]

It's a shame.that George Maharis had to ruin the show's run because of greed and vanity.

[@michaeldanello3966]

I'm curious where you got that from. He had hepatitis and liver damage and that was the reason he left the show. When asked if he was holding out for more money he replied that they could give me $4,000,000 but it's not worth much if it destroys my liver

[@bandini22221]

He also got into a little hot water from an incident in a public men's room.

[@davidcouch6514]

He did Summer Stock in a show that played in Atlanta about 1976 and looked about the same. So did David McCallum; both are still around in 2022.

[@garypiont6114]

​@@davidcouch6514yikes

[@badvideo169]

not on a stage , in the real windstorm!

[@badvideo169]

Gidget was married 3 times and then single? why

[@badvideo169]

how did people survive in such land? not realistic