Route 66 Two on the House (1960–1964) watch online HD

Zoom! We're back in Cleveland, where the boys are working on a tour boat. A kid falls over board. Or jumps. Or was, as he claims, pushed. Tod throws him a line and Buz jumps in to rescue him. His father, (Ralph Meeker) isn't very grateful: he's been receiving letters using newspaper clippings threatening his son. He has Tod and Buz investigated. Then the kid disappears. It turns out kidnappers aren't the problem. It's tycoon father's work schedule.

A minor episode but not a bad one. I again wish they could have kept some geographic continuity in the broadcast schedule, When is this supposed to have taken place? Before or after they were in Texas and California? Did it take place last season when they were in town for Incident on a Bridge" and "First Class Mouliak"?

They keep meeting key characters in the water. Dan Duryea in "Don't Count Stars", Macha Meril in "Mon Petit Chou", the kid (Brad Herrmann, who they previously ran into in a somewhat similar situation in "Like a Motherless Child"- here he's more fatherless) and Joanna Moore in the next one, easily the best of this bunch.

Brad Herrmann on his IMDb page, comments that the quality of the river water was a good deal less than pure. Could this have contributed to George Maharis' hepatitis? Or was he in that water a long time before he got to Catalina?

The entry starts off well enough. Ten-year old Richie (Herrman) is neglected by his hard- driving businessman father (Meeker) and is feeling lonely. One day he boards the Lake Erie tour boat that Buzz and Tod work on. Under mysterious circumstances, he falls overboard only to be rescued by Buzz. Later, Dad receives a threatening note stating that Richie was pushed overboard and that further attempts will be made. Tellingly, no money is demanded. To this point the storyline manages some suspense, while providing a good look at lakefront Cleveland. However, the resolution is a real stretch along with a super-pat turnaround.

The 60-minutes focuses mainly on Richie's lonely meanderings around town. Actor Herrman is appropriately downbeat (count the smiles). Meeker, however, is largely wasted in a role a hundred lesser actors could handle (earlier in his career, he was compared with Brando). Also, as the boat captain, eccentric (e.g. The Bad Seed {1956}) actor Henry Jones picks up an easy payday. All in all, it's an uneven episode, with an unusually spotty screenplay for a superior series.