Bus Stop

📊 Series Specifications

Network ABC
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 26
Original Language EN
Creator Roy Huggins

Bus Stop (1961)

Created by Roy Huggins
⭐ 5.0 / 5 (1 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 26 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25, 1962, starring Marilyn Maxwell as Grace Sherwood, the owner of a bus station and diner in the fictitious town of Sunrise in the Colorado Rockies. The program was adapted from William Inge's play, Bus Stop, and Inge was a script consultant for the series, which followed the lives of travelers passing through the bus station and the diner. Maxwell's co-stars were Richard Anderson as District Attorney Glenn Wagner, Rhodes Reason as Sheriff Will Mayberry, Joan Freeman as waitress Elma Gahrigner, Bernard Kates as Ralph the coroner, and Buddy Ebsen as Virge Blessing.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Afternoon of a Cowboy
E2 Success Story
E3 The Resurrection of Annie Ahearn
E4 The Covering Darkness
E5 Portrait of a Hero
E6 The Glass Jungle
E7 Cherie

A naive and over-confident cowboy determines to woo a somewhat blowzy showgirl.

E8 Accessory by Consent
E9 The Man from Bootstrap
E10 A Lion Walks Among Us
E11 Call Back Yesterday

Former resident Katherine Barnes returns to Sunrise following two marriages and seven years in New York. She finds herself headed for matrimony a third time, but cannot choose between two admirers: college professor Max Hendrick or architect Jim Wylie.

E12 ...And the Pursuit of Evil
E13 The Runaways
E14 Jaws of Darkness
E15 Summer Lightning
E16 Cry to Heaven
E17 The Stubborn Stumbos

With their logging business threatened by a busy local highway, the Stumbo brothers of Sunrise discover they own a small section of land on which the highway passes. They challenge the state government by blocking access to the land, resulting in traffic chaos.

E18 Turn Home Again
E19 How Does Charlie Feel?
E20 Put Your Dreams Away
E21 The Opposite Virtues
E22 The Ordeal of Kevin Brooke

When the impecunious Kevin Brooke finds a suitcase full of money, his problems seem to be over - but they're just beginning.

E23 Door Without a Key
E24 Verdict of 12
E25 County General
E26 I Kiss Your Shadow