Banacek (TV Series)

If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is? (1973)

George Peppard: Thomas Banacek

Quotes 

• Thomas Banacek : [to Ed McKay]  Yes, but there's an old Polish proverb that says, "No matter how warm the smile on the face of the sun, the cat still has her kittens under the porch."

• Thomas Banacek : How much power that fence have when it's on?

  Ed McKay : Enough to stun a horse.

  Thomas Banacek : Do you have any horses through here?

• Thomas Banacek : How long has it been, McKay?

  Ed McKay : I wondered when you'd remember me.

  Thomas Banacek : I never forget somebody who pushes me around, and you were a cop.

  Ed McKay : You were snotty. You needed pushing.

  Thomas Banacek : I was a kid. I needed a hand - and not the kind YOU gave me.

• Dr. Richard Ketner : Now, Miss Lyle, I suggest that you take the insurance company's money and let it go at that.

  Thomas Banacek : Spoken like a true beneficiary.

• Wanda : If you're lost, you certainly came to the right place.

  Thomas Banacek : Well, if I'm lost, I hope they don't send out a search party.

• Thomas Banacek : You sure it wasn't just a dream?

  Wanda : It couldn't have been. Burt Reynolds wasn't in it.

• Thomas Banacek : Ow!

  Ed McKay : Hurt yourself?

  Thomas Banacek : Would it bother ya?

  Ed McKay : Oh, I think I could, uh, get over it.

• Leslie Lyle : Mr. Banacek, what do you weigh dripping wet?

  Thomas Banacek : Miss Lyle, that is none of your business.

• Ed McKay : You going in the lab?

  Thomas Banacek : Any objections?

  Ed McKay : I guess not. Just lock up when you come out.

  Thomas Banacek : Sure. I wouldn't want anybody to steal the building.

• Thomas Banacek : It's not lunacy to want to extend your life.

• Felix Mulholland : You know, someday when books have lost their considerable charm, I shall purchase a trench coat and go into the private eye business. I've always wanted to lead a life of lurid fascination. You know...

  Thomas Banacek : So have I, but I found out the insurance business pays better.

• Felix Mulholland : Look, I have better things to do than to play Bud Abbott to your Frank Costello.

  Thomas Banacek : "Lou" Costello.

  Felix Mulholland : Well, that depends on one's point of view, doesn't it? Goodbye, dear boy.

• Thomas Banacek : Lois, look familiar?

  Lois : [removing glasses]  The big, black, shiny dog!

• Thomas Banacek : Your only problem may just be that you refuse to accept the grim diagnosis that you're in pretty good health.