This ad appeared in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times on Friday, January 18, 1963.  The episode shown that night would have been the first run of A Gift For A Warrior.

The cast and crew of the “Route 66” television series will not arrive in Corpus Christi until tomorrow at 12 p.m., a spokesman said yesterday.

Lou Weiner, publicity director, said the delay was caused by script revisions.

“Filming of the first two episodes here will probably start at the H.  E.  Butt Tennis Court,” Sam Manners, executive in charge of production, said.

“The time depends on when the rest of the cast gets here,” he said.  

Were Due Today

They were originally scheduled to arrive today.

The group will arrive in costume and go directly to the shooting location.

Martin Milner, one of the two stars on the series, will be on the plane.  The other, George Maharis, has been recuperating in New York from a hepatitis infection.  It was not known whether he will be aboard the charter flight.

The Red Carpet Committee will meet the plane at the airport along with Mayor Ben F.  McDonald and officials of the Convention and Tourist Bureau.

‘Caravan’ Arrives

Manners said a “traveling caravan” housing equipment and studio facilities has already arrived here.  It includes five large vans and five Corvette sports cars.  The sports cars are used to transport the stars and company executives from one location to another.

The cast and crew comprise some sixty people.  They are staying at the Viking Motor Hotel near Portland.

Title for the first episode to be filmed here is “Can You See an Echo Come Back?” It is an original television play by Stirling Silliphant and will be directed by David Lowell Rich.

A number of scenes featuring “Route 66” actors was being shot today in the downtown area, Robert Maharis, casting director, said.

Maharis said Martin Milner, one of the regular stars of the national televised show, and guest star Roger Mobley, 14, will be in most of the scenes.

Shooting will be at Corpus Christi Cathedral at Upper Broadway and Lipan, at a barber shop at Six Points and a laundromat on Ayers.

The cast and crew of the show arrived here from Hollywood yesterday and are expected to remain about two weeks to film possibly two shows.

George Maharis, who co-stars with Milner, did not come.  Production officials said he is in New York City, recuperating from a recent illness.

Filming was done yesterday at H. E. Butt Tennis Center.

“ROUTE 66” has captured the imagination of many a Corpus Christian.

The glamour of nationally-known television personalities and the excitement of filming an episode on location here fascinated hundreds of onlookers yesterday and Friday.

Many of them probably wondered, also, how the production group will ever make a film out of what appeared on the surface to be mass confusion.

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“ROUTE 66” will begin shooting another television episode tomorrow at Port Aransas.

A week ago not a single word of the script had been put on paper.

Stirling Silliphant, co-owner of the Screen Gems production, began writing it Monday and was scheduled to have it completed and ready for shooting yesterday.

Of course, he already had the story in mind when he sat down to his typewriter.  He had been mulling it over several days.

That’s the way Silliphant works.

“I don’t like to spend too much time writing a script,” he said.  “If I do, it becomes labored.”

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MARTIN MILNER RELAXES BETWEEN TAKES
...with David Lowell Rich (L), director of the film

The “Route 66” crew was all smiles this morning.

The sky was clear; the sun was shining – perfect weather for filming outdoor scenes.

Martin Milner, one of the stars of the television series shown here weekly over KZTV, appeared in a jovial mood as the crew shot scenes for the episode at Corn Products Refining Co.  on Upriver Road.

Milner, along with the others, has little time for relaxing on the set, however.  The production schedule is tight – filming of the first episode is due to be completed Saturday – and the crew makes the most of its time.

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Leslye Hunter and Roger Mobley are on the way to making their “high apple pie in the sky hopes” come true.  

Their careers as child stars are only springboards for future plans.  Ten year old Leslye has fond dreams of being a great actress.  Roger, 14, wants to be a minister.

Both children are currently appearing on the Route 66 episode which was filmed in Corpus Christi last week.  

For three years Leslye has appeared in Broadway shows and on television.  

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[Sorry, first few sentences of article are unavailable] ...the children, but in a way it has helped Amy.  She has had to make adjustments to new situations and new children that she would not have made if we had stayed in one city,” she said.

When the company started for St.  Louis in October, Mrs.  Milner and the children went home to North Hollywood, Calif., because “Martin didn’t know what kind of accommodations we could find.”

They stayed at home until January and then started back on the road.  The company had time off for Christmas.  Mrs.  Milner will not go back to Hollywood until May.

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