james.doherty@gsa.gov
18 Oct 99 09:48:00 -0400
Strictly speaking,
Huggins did not write a "novelization" of
*77 Sunset Strip*.
The PI character, Stu Bailey, played by E.
Zimbalist, Jr., was
introduced in the novel *The Double Take*,
then used in
several short stories by Huggins published in
various slick
magazines in the early '50s. These stories were
cobbled together as
a episodic "novel" and published by Dell
under the title *77
Sunset Strip* to coincide with the series
basd on Huggins
character. Ironically, it is little-remembered
now that Bailey,
who made the smoothest an most successful
transition of all
PI characters from prose fiction to TV,
actually was
created in a novel that pre-dated the TV series by
at least 10 years.
- Jim Doherty
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