Peter Haskell is famous ex-QB Marty Hatch. He's mixed up with a mobster's girl friend and Joe has to save them from a hit man.Peter Haskell is famous ex-QB Marty Hatch. He's mixed up with a mobster's girl friend and Joe has to save them from a hit man.Peter Haskell is famous ex-QB Marty Hatch. He's mixed up with a mobster's girl friend and Joe has to save them from a hit man.
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- Bel Air Tiger #23
- (as Claudio Martinez)
- Joanna
- (as Peggy Walton)
- Bud Tolan
- (as Alan R. Gibbs)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe sports car Marty drives is a (Ferrari) Dino 246. Although built and sold by Ferrari it was not allowed to carry the Ferrari name, as it had only a six cylinder engine, and "real" Ferraris had 12 cylinder engines. Buyers of these "economy" models would often buy Ferrari name tags from third party sources and apply them to the car themselves.
- GoofsWhen Mannix is talking to Marty on the football field, in the wide shot, Mannix's hair is being blown around by the wind and is clearly out of place as a clump of it is sticking up in the air. But when the camera switches to a closeup shot of Mannix, his hair is neatly combed with none of it being blown around or out of place. The sequence is then repeated - the camera switches to a wide shot again where his hair is being blown around and is out of place and then switches to the closeup again where is hair is neatly combed and none of it is out of place.
- Quotes
Marty Hatch: Can I get you a drink, Joe?
Joe Mannix: No thanks. I got a big day ahead of me.
Marty Hatch: Well, I don't have to watch the clock anymore. What brings you here?
Joe Mannix: I understand you know Cathy Lawson.
Marty Hatch: Mm, yeah. Yeah. Bumped into her in Vegas last night, as a matter of fact.
Joe Mannix: Did she drive back with you from Las Vegas?
Marty Hatch: Why all the questions? Something wrong?
Joe Mannix: She's missing.
Marty Hatch: No kidding.
Joe Mannix: Her roommate hired me to look for her.
Marty Hatch: Joanna? That, uh... that's her name, isn't it?
Joe Mannix: Yeah.
Marty Hatch: Well, uh... Joe, Joanna can't afford a private investigator, and I can. So this one's, uh... this one's on me, okay?
Joe Mannix: Okay. Did Cathy drive back with you?
Marty Hatch: Well, now you're working for me, right?
Joe Mannix: Right.
Marty Hatch: And that means that anything I say to you is, uh...
Joe Mannix: Privileged.
Marty Hatch: That's the word I was looking for. Yeah, she rode down with me. We ran out of gas on the way. I left her in the car; went back to a filling station. Highway Patrolman picked me up, and, uh, when we got back to the car, she was gone.
Joe Mannix: Did you tell the Highway Patrol?
Marty Hatch: You've, uh... heard of Ben Kessler, haven't you, Joe?
Joe Mannix: Owns the Caravan and a string of bookie joints.
Marty Hatch: He owns Cathy, too.
Joe Mannix: "Owns"?
Marty Hatch: Mm-hmm. And the penalty for trespassing is sudden death.
Joe Mannix: I take it Kessler didn't know she was driving back with you?
Marty Hatch: No, he was out of town. New Orleans.
[sighs]
Marty Hatch: But if it ever got into the newspaper that is given his girl a lift...
[wry chuckle]
Marty Hatch: ... good-bye, Marty Hatch.
[the phone rings]
Marty Hatch: If that's for me, Dave, I'm not here. All right, Joe, it was stupid. I... I thought that she got scared and started to walk. Got a lift to L.A. I didn't know what to do.
Dave Tremble: Hey, Marty, this call you better take.
Marty Hatch: Who is it?
Dave Tremble: It's from a hospital in San Bernardino. Woman they brought in early this morning. She keeps asking for you.
Peter Haskell's performance as Marty Hatch, the retired athlete, is first-rate, as are the peformances from the rest of the cast. Read Morgan's performance as Ben Kessler is especially good even though he only appears in one scene and is only onscreen for a minute or two.
There are a couple of solid action scenes and stunts but no fight scenes.
The red and blue plaid pants Marty is wearing at the beginning are without question the ugliest pants I've seen on this show yet. They are horrific.
As with most of the other episodes so far this season, there are very few clichés. Joe doesn't get clobbered over the head or run off the road by another car and the police don't rush in at the end to arrest everybody. Joe does get shot at but not hit, which is the only cliché, but other than that, this one is excellent.