Mannix huntdown
Looking forward to completing that interview on the next disc.
I found both to be very thoughtful in their memories and they still had great rapport. The part 1 interview with Mike and Joe was very interesting to watch. I am finding the music to be used very well so far. I will actually watch season 1 before going off into more familiar episodes. The use of a tracking device for an SOS was interesting. This was true of the conclusion to both episodes. The stories I watched still worked more or less because of the instincts Mannix displays over the use of computerized info.
I find the use of the "big" computers and and oversized printouts date the show more instead of making it more timeless. The computerized angle seems like they might have been trying to "undate" the show as computers were becoming commonplace and useful in all businesses. I always enjoy any appearance by Joe Campanella so his turn as Lew was interesting. I watched the first two episodes last night. From all of the discussion and the big Wal-Mart/CBS-Paramount rereleases, I picked up the first volume with seasons 1 - 4. I remember owning the first season when it was released, didn't watch it and sold it. I am only familiar with Mannix as the PI working out of his home and with Peggy as his secretary. Mayor Glass: "You don't talk much about yourself." I'm finding Mannix to have lots of good ones: This episode has real excitement-there are times in other episodes where he should have the scars to show for the beating he takes but seems relatively unscathed.here he is genuinely beat up, and his survival skills are put to the biggest test yet in the series. What gets somewhat Hitchcock-ian here is the well-choreographed scene where Mannix is chased (with a gimpy leg mind you) by-not a cropduster haha-but two bulldozers on a cattle ranch. In both that film and this "Huntdown" episode, the lead character has a physical impairment and in both, the character is looking for someone and quickly discovers that no one in the town is friendly or willing to help.
The Hitchcock aspect of this I'll get to in a second-this episode may just has well been titled "Bad Day at Grandvale".I'm alluding to the 1955 Spencer Tracy film Bad Day at Black Rock because there are quite a few parallels. Here Mannix goes to a very small town on the only assignment Lew is willing to give him since he has a broken ankle: to obtain a signature and bring it back. Speaking of Hitchcock-like touches, I just watched S1E9, "Huntdown", which I found to be the most intriguing episode so far. So if that's true, it's probably fitting that for Season 1 he switched vehicles, in keeping with the other changes that were made after that season. I hear that car was difficult to maintain and was a real gas guzzler. I also have noticed that Mannix is not driving the Toronado in every episode. Again, this episode didn't grab me either. Tom Skerritt is a guest star and he's so young in this I didn't put two and two together until I saw the credits.
Mannix has been hired to check up on a college-aged girl who lives in this commune where apparently people go to get high. Prior to watching this episode which features a heavy dose of hippies and narcotics, I was naive on the matter. It has no choice."Īs for Number 7, well I learned the urban definition of blueberries. "That's one thing about this computer.you feed lies to it and it's got to believe ya. Number 6 didn't grab me much but I did gather a quote from Joe, who by this point in the season appreciates some of the computing capacity of Intertect but still puts his own instincts first, that still applies today even with all the advances in machine learning, etc: I've also watched episodes 6 ("The Cost of a Vacation") and 7 ("Warning: Live Blueberries") of season 1. Joe and Lew are adorable eating their ice cream.
#Mannix huntdown series
One thing I liked about this episode is that the ending seemed less abrupt than others I have seen in this series so far. I would say Joe has a great rapport with kids and yet takes kid clients just as seriously as the adult clients. Last week I forgot to comment about S1E5, "Make it Like it Never Happened", about a young girl who "rents" a detective (whom of course would be our hero, Joe Mannix) to help exonerate her father who is awaiting execution.