Route 66 (Season 3, Closing)

[@revueguy]

I do beleive the voice-over in the end credits was that of Hal Gibney, who had been a radio announcer for NBC, and was also heard in the radio-TV versions of Dragnet.

[@TheCatgirl6]

Oh, my goodness I just watched this episode tonight on DVD! Love this show--and Nelson Riddle's evocative theme just stays in your head...

[@truebootsyes]

I was addicted to this show in my teens....

[@ESARNALDO]

Will ONE of the hundreds of Sattelite/Cable channels PLEASE, PLEASE show these again????? A QUALITY television show, the like of which we will not see again in this jaded, dark culture.

[@denny906]

A reverse trip out to Illinois has always been a dream of mine.

[@apolloniaaskew9487]

Route 66 was filmed in different cities in the U.S. and Chevrolet was the major sponsor. In 1963 they filmed 3 episodes, one in Memphis TN, the second in Hernando, Mississippi and the third in Northeast Arkansas.

[@desertrat1111]

That theme song takes me back to when I was a little boy. Great time to be alive.

[@BuckieBear]

So cool, and differently arranged from the 'standard' arrangement! Nice! Thank u so much for posting it!

[@Juliaflo]

Actually, 'the open highway'. The song was sung by one Teri Thornton.

[@TheCatgirl6]

@paullubliner I love animals, cats especially. And I loved Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman in "Batman Returns" if that means anything. Love what you wrote there: "I have had a life of saving strays." There's poetry in those words, even if you were just stating a fact.

[@ANICON2006]

..screen gems is right, why can't we get shows like this today?!

[@John80220]

Season 4 end credits include the 1963-64 Screen Gems "dancing sticks", but the end voiceover remains the same, and includes Herbert B. Leonard's executive producer credit during the end title animation.

[@TheCatgirl6]

@paullubliner Oh, that's wonderful. Everyone should have memories like that!

[@harponercam]

So west the theme= it musta been great back then- I didn't make it out to California until 1978 and later, and much had changed I'm certain...

[@jb20092009]

@John80220 Yes, that was, believe it or not, Harry Cohn's voice, left over from Circus Boy and Fury - since HC died in '58. Boy, where did the actor playing him in The Three Stooges get that Brooklyn accent? He looked and sounded NOTHING like Harry Cohn.

[@revueguy]

I've read that Cohn died in 1958, but his voice was unsuitable for announcing because he talked Yiddish.

[@rocksmeller99]

music goes millions of miles per hour

[@o1kric]

this music haunted me for years - anyone know when the series was first broadcast in the UK please? in retrospect you can see the Kerouac link loud and clear :) thanks.

[@CJODell12]

This has been a Screen Gems film presentation. Herbert B. Leonard, Executive Producer.