October 10, 1958 –
The private-eye series 77 Sunset Strip starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes, first aired on ABC-TV on this date.
The building in which the detectives’ offices were located was, in real life, the home of the Mary Webb Davis modelling agency. The front of the building, the Dino’s Lodge driveway, and part of Dino’s, were reproduced on a Warner Brothers soundstage, which is where most of the scenes that took place in that area were filmed.
