Mannix is asked to sneak a famous heart doctor into a repressive country to perform surgery on a revolutionary.Mannix is asked to sneak a famous heart doctor into a repressive country to perform surgery on a revolutionary.Mannix is asked to sneak a famous heart doctor into a repressive country to perform surgery on a revolutionary.
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- TriviaThe Beechcraft A55 Baron (N9750Y) used in this episode was destroyed in a mid-air collision with a Cessna 180 (N42695) on 24Aug1989 near Tracy, California. It was also the airplane that crashed into a 747 in the movie 'Airport.'
- GoofsDuring the car chase a Jaguar XKE is seen with a California license plate, speed limit 8 MPH studio back lot signs can be seen, a "Bang the Drum Slowly" billboard can be seen in Mannix's rear view mirror. All wording in English and MPH instead of KPH, even though this is supposed to be a foreign country.
- Quotes
Colonel Alan DuPar: [interrogating the waiter who talked to Dr. Considine and Joe after Dr. Waldo left their hotel room] The two Americans, where did they go?
Room Service Waiter: How should I know?
Colonel Alan DuPar: [slaps the waiter] You're lying! We have information that you were the last person who in touch with them before they left that hotel. Now, where did you send them?
Room Service Waiter: I brought them their lunch, that's all. I was their waiter.
Colonel Alan DuPar: You mean their contact! Admit it!
Room Service Waiter: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a waiter, and that's all I am.
Colonel Alan DuPar: When you're not working for the Victor Lucas movement! That's more like it, isn't it?
[grabs the waiter by the shirt]
Colonel Alan DuPar: You're working for it, the two Americans are working for it. They leave you, they meet others, and all of them viciously attack government forces. You're all in it together.
Room Service Waiter: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a waiter. I told you that before.
Colonel Alan DuPar: Take him downstairs. Make him talk. I WANT TO KNOW WHERE VICTOR LUCAS IS HIDING!
[one of DuPar's guards leaves with the waiter]
Colonel Alan DuPar: The two Americans are connected with the movement. They must be.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Yes, of course. But the vital question is, how? For what purpose?
Colonel Alan DuPar: Well, we have means of knowing soon enough. He'll talk.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Two of your best men lie dead in the morgue, a third critically wounded. I'm sure you're not simply waiting.
Colonel Alan DuPar: Needless to say, a city-wide dragnet for the entire group is already underway.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: I would have thought nationwide.
Colonel Alan DuPar: I'm extending it to that, of course.
The show begins with Mannix getting a mission...not from a tap recorder but from some odd man from an unnamed secret government agency! This NEVER happened on the show before...nor did anyone ever ask Mannix to go on a covert mission abroad. Perhaps all their spies were on sick leave or perhaps they were out on strike!! All I know is that having a California-based private eye involved made zero sense. After all, the mission is to sneak a world famous into a country where there is a totalitarian military dictatorship in order to do what seems to be a relatively simple heart operation on the head of the resistance. That is another huge problem...why sneak a Nobel Prize-winning doctor in to install a pacemaker?! That's NOT a super-specialized sort of heart surgery...even for 1974. Yet, they say that this doctor (John Colicos in a rare appearance as a good guy) is the ONLY one who can do it!! Is it starting to sound as if none of this makes sense?
Once in the country, the pair of undercover guys find that the place indeed sucks. There are secret police and military thugs (with very non-military haircuts) everywhere and by the end of the episode, Mannix and the Doc are with the resistance ('Libra') but they've just discovered that the pacemaker they brought in was destroyed by some unknown person...perhaps by someone with Libra!
Other than some tense chases, there really isn't a lot that is good about the show because it not only makes no sense but seems like you're not even watching "Mannix". I agree with the other reviewer...this is a bad episode and the next isn't any better.
- planktonrules
- Mar 29, 2016