77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) The Fix (1960) User Reviews

Threats and Intimidation

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 25 March 2017]

In this 77 Sunset Strip episode Roger Smith is investigating a fixed fight where the fix did not come off. The loser who went the distance when he was supposed to dive much earlier was murdered and that is what Jeff Spencer is looking into.

Everywhere he goes Roger Smith gets threats and intimidation, so does Louis Quinn for whom sports betting is the world he lives in. Roscoe has a scene while on a massage table where he's told in no uncertain terms to stop asking questions. The masseur in the scene is former heavyweight contender Lou Nova.

Rhodes Reason plays the former boxer who was the winner of that fight who's feeling heat from all directions. Mary Tyler Moore is his wife. The performance to watch out for is that of middleman Dennis Patrick, a highly nervous sort with reason to be.

Nice shootout at the end, what more could you ask for.

Bland stuff. Not sure why 77 SS was so popular

[LaoagMikey · 5/10 · 6 April 2016]

This, like many of the 77 Sunset Strip shows was OK but not great. Maybe it was the time, maybe it was the newness (then) of the show but it seems to not hold up too well into 2016.

Continuity error (can't put it on the page for some reason I don't get).

From the outside, the lieutenant's door sign reads: LIEUT. GILMORE

But seen from the inside, it reads: LT. ROY GILMORE (actually EROMLIG YOR .TL as seen on screen) Not sure how they missed this one or why they prepared two different window glasses with different names.

Another reviewer mentions that there are no known actors in this one. Well, I consider Mary Tyler Moore a star! Dick Van Dyke show and Mary Tyler Moore Show come to mind as examples of her "star" power.

Mikey

Effective story, but not more.

[searchanddestroy-1 · 17 December 2015]

Jeff is needed in a case where a young man is accused of manslaughter, and whose the sister asks for our gumshoe to help her brother to get out of jam. This story takes place in the prizefighting business. And when we speak of boxing, we mean set-ups, fixes, rotten managers. It's not a comedy, but more a drama mixed with a good noir atmosphere where you won't find many surprises, I warn you. No guest stars either, but I recognized Gene Roth as a bar tender. In this tale, Stu Bailey shines with his absence. It seems our lead from now play one at a time, each one in his turn.

Usual stuff that I will forget rapidly.