The key to this particular Banacek episode is that there are two simultaneous attempts to steal a wedding coach that has been studded with precious jewels. The rather stupid and clumsy attempt is actually what uncovers the fact that the whole coach has been lifted in a very clever robbery. Had an alert Christine Belford not decided to take a last minute look in the cargo hold of Captain Titos Vandis's ship the really good thieves would have gotten away with it.
There's a little more humor in this Banacek episode than others. Belford has decided to actually marry uptight insurance drip Linden Chiles who George Peppard takes a laconic delight in upstaging and earning another big finder's fee from Chiles's company.
Besides those already mentioned there's both an amorous jeweler and first mate of the freighter played by Dick Gautier and Don Knight. Both are key to solving the mystery. Also Arlene Martel as the B picture actress who is set to marry an Mid-Eastern potentate is for whom the coach is intended. If Charles and Diana could have a royal wedding coach than she was certainly entitled to one.
And by God she got one and Martel sails with the coach as Banacek uncovers the solution before Vandis sails.
There's a little more humor in this Banacek episode than others. Belford has decided to actually marry uptight insurance drip Linden Chiles who George Peppard takes a laconic delight in upstaging and earning another big finder's fee from Chiles's company.
Besides those already mentioned there's both an amorous jeweler and first mate of the freighter played by Dick Gautier and Don Knight. Both are key to solving the mystery. Also Arlene Martel as the B picture actress who is set to marry an Mid-Eastern potentate is for whom the coach is intended. If Charles and Diana could have a royal wedding coach than she was certainly entitled to one.
And by God she got one and Martel sails with the coach as Banacek uncovers the solution before Vandis sails.