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Route 66 was a hybrid between episodic television drama, which has continuing characters and situations, and the anthology format, in which each week's show has a completely different cast and story.
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Mar 18, 2013 · The reasons for this are many, but foremost is simply that Route 66 represents something of an evolutionary dead end for the TV drama. It was an attempt to blend the closed-off,...
Route 66 was one of the most unique American television dramas of the 1960s, an ostensible adventure series that functioned, in practice, as an anthology of downbeat character studies and psychological dramas.
And its format, which was essentially that of an Anthology with two recurring characters, allowed Silliphant to explore a vast number of topics as he felt like it.
Jun 10, 2012 · Route 66 didn’t fit into any existing genre—it wasn’t an anthology program of independent episodes, like Alfred Hitchcock Presents or The Twilight Zone, nor was it a conventional drama with...
Feb 2, 2010 · Without Tod and Buz, and without the actual physical comings-and-goings of that pair as they traverse the backroads of America, Route 66 is just another dramatic anthology: distinguished at times, to be sure - but not unique.
Route 66: Created by Stirling Silliphant, Herbert B. Leonard. With Martin Milner, George Maharis, Glenn Corbett, James Brown. The adventures of two young drifters across America.
