Route 66 - Season 3 - Eps 25: The Cruelest Sea of All
The boys get jobs at the Weeki Wachee theme park in Florida. The park show features girls dressed as mermaids performing underwater. A shy girl Elissa emerges from the water and after demonstrating amazing underwater swimming talent is hired for the show. She talks about ""coming from the sea"" and implies that she is a real mermaid. Skeptical Tod falls for her but assumes that she just wants publicity to launch a movie career. Linc has a more open mind and believes her. Tod discovers too late that she was telling the truth. Filming Location: Weeki-Wachee and Crystal River, Florida. Hotel credited: Port Paradise Hotel in Crystal River.
About Route 66
Title: Route 66
First Air Date: 1960-10-07
Last Air Date: 1964-03-20
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.3/10 (from 16 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 4
Total Episodes: 116
Network: CBS
Genres: Drama, Crime
Production Companies: Screen Gems Television, Lancer-Edling Productions, Lancer Productions Limited
Synopsis
After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.
Cast
Glenn Corbett
Linc Case
