Route 66: The Quick and the Dead (1961)
Season 1, Episode 13
Roxy Dozy, Not Roxy Music
26 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I don't get the appeal of driving an automobile around in circles. Okay, you're trying to drive it real fast. Big deal. I'm more impressed by human beings trying to run as fast as possible using their legs than those who try to go fast by using the combustible engine. I do get the appeal of driving around the U. S. Of A in a cool car. I used to be a valet car parker and it was tempting to drive off into the fantasy land of Route 66 whenever I got in a Corvette.

That being said I do tend to enjoy race car driven (get it?) plots for tv shows and movies. I liked Ford vs. Ferrari a lot. People are walking contradictions and I am no exception.

I liked how Tod came in third (not second, but third) in this race car story. Here's to third place!

I liked how Buz (like myself) was indifferent to the whole race car thing. And his romantic interest, Roxy Dozy, might be the most interestingly named character of the entire series.

I also think this episode might have the most clever bits of dialogue sprinkled throughout it.

I always feel sad when I see Frank Overton in something because he died way too young. In this episode he played a 53 year old but in real life he died at 49.
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