Route 66 NOT Filmed On Route 66?

[Bob Boze Bell]

February 7, 2013

   Do any of you remember the old TV show "Route 66"? I believe it ran from 1961 thru 1966, and featured two cool dues driving a baby-blue Corvette and having adventures on the Mother Road. I think some 116 episodes were filmed. Anyway, I read recently that very few of the episodes were actually filmed on 66. I do know that one episode I saw back in the day featured Site 6 (which became Lake Havasu City) and which is about 35 miles south of Route 66. Someone said another Arizona episode featured The Safari Resort in Scottsdale, which is 175 miles south of Route 66. Are there other examples of episodes being filmed off the highway? I'm especially interested in the Arizona ones.

   Meanwhile, hung the big Seligman poster last night at the end of the hallway going into the living room. Check it out.

This morning I sat for artist Marless Fellows of Saddle Up Gallery in Cave Creek. She is doing a series of oil paintings on Cave Creek characters and she wants to paint me. So it was a bit odd being on the back side of the canvas.  She is having a show of these portraits on March 16 and you are invited.

"I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there."

—Jack Kerouac, "On The Road"

[Gay Mathis]

Arizona Daily Sun--Sept 7, 1960--New TV Show "Route 66" On The Road (Excerpt from one of the stars Martin Milner)

The series is based on the adventures of two young men driving across the country, Route 66, in truth is a highway running west from Chicago to the Pacific Ocean and it seemed strange that the first two episodes were made in spots far off the beaten track of the title.

"That's the beauty of the show," explained Milner. "We can go anywhere. We're not tied to the highway because the title is just a symbol of the heartline of a nation.
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Scroll down the page on website link and the 3rd column suppose to be filming locations..

http://martinmilner.hollywood.com/Route66page.html

[Bob Boze Bell]

Gay, once again you nailed it. Thankyou very much Can you send me your mailing address, please?

[Eric James]

My very first TV appearance was on Route 66. Episode 65, "Man Out of Time" was shot in Chicago in the fall of 1962. Luther Adler of the famous Group Theater was the guest star. I was already acting in professional theater, putting myself through college. I auditioned for the episode, but didn't get a part. But the group of professional actors I studied with were all hired as extras for two days. Six weeks later when the program was aired, I think I spotted myself in the background a couple of scenes. My mother asked, "Where's your face?" Later Morris Carnovsky, another great from the Group Theatre, came to Chicago's Goodman Theatre to perform his seminal King Lear. This time I got cast in the juicy role of Edgar, with some nice reviews to boot. It would be several years before I got a speaking role on Ironsides.

[Mundo Osterberg]

[Bob Boze Bell]

Mundo, as you know I've done this myself when you and I were driving somewhere and you passed gas.

[Margaret-Anne Moore]

I understand that quite a few episodes were planned to be filmed in the Los Angeles area but they were unable to obtain the support services they needed from the city so the moved a part of their production to Central and Southern Texas.  P.S.  Times have changed.  A number of productions have been filmed in, or are now being filmed in, Los Angeles City Hall.  In an episode of Monk, City Hall filled in for the San Francisco City Hall--remember the episode where the city hall's rotunda had a  "whispering corner"  where a whisper could be clearly heard all over the place?