#Mannix huntdown tv
The fact is, I loved "Mannix." It was my favorite TV show, hands down. I tell you all this not just because I know a lot of trivia. It also, by the way, had one of the best-ever opening title sequences and musical themes on TV, composed as a waltz by Lalo Schifrin (who also did the "Mission: Impossible" and Bullitt themes). (The Hollywood Reporter notes in its obit that "by one count, Mannix was shot 17 times and knocked unconscious 55 times on the show.") While the show was criticized at the time for its violence, these days it looks tame. (He lived and worked at 17 Paseo Verde in Los Angeles, and had a great secretary named Peggy Fair, played by the luminous Gail Fisher.)Īnd then, for seven seasons, "Mannix" got terrific ratings, and Connors became one of the best-paid stars on television. which produced not just her show, but also a couple of other shows you may have heard of called "Star Trek" and "Mission: Impossible." Lucy liked "Mannix"and thought that Connors had the makings of a major TV star, and so it was decided that "Mannix" would be renewed and reformatted, with Joe now off working on his own. That person was Lucille Ball, and the studio was Desilu. The ratings during that first season were mediocre, and CBS was about to cancel the show when the person who ran the studio that produced it intervened. Too bad it ended much too soon.KC's View: "Mannix" started out with a premise that was revolutionary, even prescient for the mid-sixties - Joe worked for a big corporate detective firm called Intertect, where most of the detecting was done by enormous mainframe computers Joe, however, was a two-fisted private eye in the classic tradition, which brought him into constant conflict with his boss, Lew Wickersham. He did a memorable Star Trek and a couple of excellent Mission Impossible outings.
Next season we'll see Ihnet go after Joe in one of the many ol' Korean War buddy stories. I wonder why she dropped out of the profession. Her career ends abruptly in 1975 and she is still alive as of this writing. Sandra Smith, forever linked with Star Trek, is making her only appearance. Paul Stevens will be seen again as will Ford Rainey. Steve Ihnet is making the first of three appearances. The sheriff turns out not to be as bad as we all thought. Hard to believe Amos died yesterday, as stated by the sheriff, as there was already a gravestone in place. But noooo, they have to gum it up with some elaborate plan with no apparent goal in mind. Why didn't the locals just direct Joe to Violet (Sandra Smith) as Amos's cousin for the signature on papers and then send him on his way? He would be in town about an hour at most. As always, you don't want to think too much about the logic here. As often happens in TV land, killing someone is of only mild passing interest. At the end, the fact Joe killed someone seems to be of little import to Wickersham as he orders Joe to get home now. At least it was a reasonable shot and not one of those fantastic shots that Joe will become famous for. A couple of their comments are quite germane. This might be the best of the "small town with a bad secret" outings. Perhaps the network insisted on more, I don't know. Interestingly, in the next episode, Mannix increases his body count. It's also interesting because it's one of the few episodes up to that point where Joe Mannix actually kills someone.in self-defense, of course.
Exciting, clever and the payoff at the end was quite good. It's well written and different from the style show so far seen in "Mannix".
Why?! What is going on here? Why are folks so hostile?! "Huntdown" is a very good episode. Eventually, he's tossed into jail on trumped up charges and isn't allowed to call anyone. In fact, when he asks about this guy's whereabouts, folks are rude, evasive and threatening. But, it turns out to be anything but routine. So, he's given a VERY simple task-one that should have been strictly routine. But he's too bored just sitting around and begs his boss for a case.ANYTHING to keep him busy. In fact, it soon appears that someone might kill them unless they go home now! This program begins with Mannix having his foot in a cast-he'd gotten it shot in a recent case. In both cases, the leading character comes to a rural town and is greeted VERY inhospitably by the locals. "Huntdown" is a bit similar to an episode of "Quincy" ("Visitors in Paradise", season two episode four).