TV Series · 1960 · TV Series · 1960s
Route 66
Scored from 28 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 1960s (154 peers).
Summary
Tod Stiles, left with nothing but a Corvette when his father dies and the family shipping business collapses, takes to the road with Buz Murdock, a tough New Yorker who had worked on those docks; each week they arrive somewhere new, hire on for a job, and are pulled into the lives they find. The CBS drama shot on location around the country — shrimp ports, steel towns, desert mining camps, often nowhere near the highway of the title — with Stirling Silliphant writing most of the scripts. Its near-anthology format handed episodes to guest players from Robert Redford and Lee Marvin to Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney Jr. Late in the third season Buz is replaced by Linc Case, a Vietnam veteran.
Route 66 (1960) is a television series IMDb files under the adventure, crime and drama genres. Episodes run about 1h. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 153 1960s television series, not against the whole corpus. Only 28 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 29 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1 of whom clear the calibration test.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Route 66 lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 1960s (154 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 28.
Cohort: TV Series · 1960s
