77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip is a 1958 - 1964 American detective series that aired on the ABC television network. It starred Efram Zimbalist Jr. and Roger Smith as detectives who operate as private eyes in an agency located on the famous Hollywood Sunset Strip (in a building next to Hollywood star Dean Martin's "Dino's Lounge." An early hit for ABC, it spawned a number of spinoffs including Surfside 6 (set in Miami), Hawaiian Eye (set in Hawaii), and Bourbon Street Beat (set in New Orleans).
Leap, My Lovely (Season 5, Episode 2)[edit | edit source]
The shady Ferrini (Robert Ellenstein) gets a job as an extra on a movie set. He hypnotizes an actress into throwing herself out of a window when she hears the word "magnificent." He then reveals that he has also hypnotized the film's lead actress, Nita Maran (Diane McBain) and has programmed her to harm herself unless the studio pays him a generous $10000 a week as a "consultant." The studio hires Stu (Zimbaist) and Jeff (Smith) to watch over Nita and to find a way to break Fellini's hold over her.
On set, Fellini hypnotizes Arlene, a supporting actress
He brings her out of her trance
Seemingly harmless?
Nina thanks him for curing her insomnia
The movie producer meets Arlene
He wants to give her a raise for her "magnificent" work
But the word "magnificent" is a post-hypnotic trigger
She slips into a trance
And is hypnotized
As programmed, she goes to the window
And throws herself to her (relatively minor injury)
Suzanne looks after Nita
Suzanne puts on a record
Nita is triggered by the music
She becomes distraught and panics
Nita tells Jeff that she refuses to be hypnotized again
Jeff reminds her that Ferrini programmed her to say that
Nita asks her guests if they would like a drink
Instead she goes to the bathroom to down a bottle of pills
But has no memory of doing so
Jee pays a visit to the movie set
Nita realizes that she's been hypnotized into being unable to sing
The producer assures her that they'll work it all out
Nita takes a phone call
As everyone conveniently turns their backs...
Nita is hypnotized over the phone
And falls into a trance
In a trance, she walks over to a tiger cage
Probably not a great place to keep a tiger, honestly
She mindlessly opens the cage door
Jeff rescues her
She snaps out of it
Later that night, Nita gets another hypnotic phone call
She goes into a trance
Programmed with instructions
She hangs up the phone just as Suzanne walks in
Now awake, with no memory of the call
Later Suzanne tells the detectives that Nita attacked her
They track Nita to a studio set
Where a hypnotized Nita holds a gun to her head
And Ferrini pulling her strings
Jeff gets an actor friend to play a hypnotist
John calls Ferrini's bluff
Ferrini takes matters into his own hands
He collects his ransom
Orders Nita to stand up
And walks out with her and the money
Outside, he makes a run for it
Chased, he falls to his death (irony!)
Nita is deprogrammed
Suddenly she pauses
And goes into a trance
"One more suggestion"
But she's just joking... (or is she?) (yes, she is)
