Mannix

[katmandu38]

i just got in the first seven complete seasons of mannix

[bookandfilmnut]

Originally Posted by katmandu38

i just got in the first seven complete seasons of mannix

I got the entire series myself a few weeks ago. I really like it. Although perhaps it doesn't have the charm of The Rockford Files, nor the noir-ish feel of Peter Gunn or the neo-noir aspects of Harry O, Mannix was responsible for the keeping the Private Eye genre alive in the late 60's and led to the Golden Age of PI shows in the 70's. A good solid action adventure show and I am glad it came out in an entire series set.

Now if they'd just get around to releasing 77 Sunset Strip on DVD, I could complete my own collection of my favorite PI shows. I have Harry O, Rockford, Mannix, Cannon, Remington Steele, Peter Gunn and Honey West.

[HarryWild]

I love Mannix and Joe Mannix more then when I was a teenager. I guess most of the plot and dialog was over my head at my age back then and I was in it for the action only. But now; each episode is so philosophical and kind has a lesson at the end. LOL!

Plus, all the ladies that I was "hot" on are appearing on as guest stars and co-stars. Nancy Kovack, Diana Muldaur, and Nita Talbot and Whitney Blake are the ones that I recently watched. I jump around from season to season but now concentrating on season one and I am up to episode 13!

I was going to buy it completely at Amazon when it was are $121 back a year ago and I hesitated and gamble that it would fall to $89 but it went up now to $170-$200 price range. I think it might be because of the Winter months and holidays.

Really found a brand new interest in Mannix and the show is not old. It more true today then it was back in the 60s. It to bad the master was not digitally enhanced. There is some complaints that the screen resolution was not that good which also brought the hesitation to wait for the price to fall! I am hoping that the new 4K TV screens will also bring in studio production digital enhancing technology to enhance grain picture quality in these old TV episodes. We will see!

It a blast to watch! Really hooked on Mannix especially him working with Joe Campenella as his boss and how "new age computer technology" hardware that Intertect is using as so campy and so cumbersome compare to the notebook computer and the internet! LMAO!

The second season, Mannix is his own man. He self employed.

[HarryWild]

I like season one the best when Mannix had a boss! To bad Lucy Ball change that in season two!

[Babalu]

I used to love Mannix when I was a kid. One of the things that sticks out to me was that Mannix was the world's best driver. He never looked in his rear view mirror unless another car was following him.

[bmasters9]

I'm almost through the lone Intertect season of it, and so far, it seems that my purchase of the lot of this CBS detective series has been very much worth it (once I start really getting going in the remaining seven seasons [those with Gail Fisher; I've seen the first two episodes of those so far from the second season], it will truly pick up steam, IMO).

[tlc38tlc38]

I recently discovered this show on H&I. I really wanted to like it but I just couldn't get into it. It never could hold my attention.

[HarryWild]

Originally Posted by tlc38tlc38

I recently discovered this show on H&I. I really wanted to like it but I just couldn't get into it. It never could hold my attention.

How can you say that! It all action and drama! Almost every 15 minutes Mannix either gets hit, hit someone or is being chased around or threaten!

In the first season; he even has a boss to contend with and is against a computer mainframe like a IBM series 360/370 series. LOL! I just wonder if the FAA has still using this mainframe and software writtten in Cobol instead of a workstation PC? This is a joke for anyone into technology!

I think you just trying to get an reaction! I don't want to insult you either!

[tlc38tlc38]

^I think the main reasons I can't get into Mannix is there is way too much action. I'm not a big action fan. I like mysteries like Murder, She Wrote and Matlock more. The other reason is I simply don't think Mike Connors can act...he never shows emotion...too much of a stone.

[HarryWild]

Originally Posted by tlc38tlc38

^I think the main reasons I can't get into Mannix is there is way too much action. I'm not a big action fan. I like mysteries like Murder, She Wrote and Matlock more. The other reason is I simply don't think Mike Connors can act...he never shows emotion...too much of a stone.

Joe Mannix background might have to do with the emotion part! He was a combat platoon leader in the front line in the Korean War! I think he was a POW too!

Each episode of Mannix, Mannix usually gets an assignment to find or resolve a matter or situation. It always a mystery as to what happens at the end or who done it!

As to acting, Mike Connors been doing it for six decades! Mannix was one of his last gigs! Here is his biography:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Connors

I think you have keep watching to "get use to the flow" of the show! It actually a throw back to David Janssen - Richard Diamond TV series of the 1950s! Here is a link to that:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich...vate_Detective

More on Joe Mannix character:
Joseph R. "Joe" Mannix is a regular guy, without pretense, who has a store of proverbs on which to rely in conversation. What demons he has mostly come from having fought in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, where he was initially listed as MIA[11] while he was a prisoner of war in a brutal POW camp until he escaped.[12] Unfortunately, over the length of the series, a sizable percentage of his old Army comrades turn out to have homicidal impulses against him,[12][13][14][15][16][17] as did his fellow running back from his college football days.[18] During the series, Mannix was also revealed to have worked as a mercenary in Latin America.[19] Like the actor who plays him, Mannix is of Armenian descent. Mannix was shown to speak fluent Armenian during the series,[11][20][21][22] as well as conversational Spanish.[9]

Mannix is notable for taking physical punishment. During the course of the series, he is shot and wounded over a dozen separate times, or is knocked unconscious around 55 times.[23] Mannix frequently took brutal beatings to the abdomen; some of these went on quite a long time, particularly by the television standards of the era. Whenever Mannix gets into one of his convertibles, he can expect to be shot at or run off the road by another car, or find his vehicle sabotaged. Nevertheless, he keeps his cool and perseveres until his antagonists are brought down. While making the television pilot "The Name is Mannix", Connors dislocated his shoulder running away from a From Russia with Love-type pursuit from a helicopter,[1] and broke his left wrist punching a stuntman who happened to be wearing a steel plate on his back.

Starting in season two, Mannix lives at 17 Paseo Verde, West Los Angeles. Mannix grew up in a town called Summer Grove, where he was a star football and basketball player. Summer Grove had a thriving Armenian immigrant community. As of 1969, Mannix's mother had died 10 years earlier, and Mannix had not been back to the town since the funeral. Mannix's estranged father, Stefan, was still alive and still living in Summer Grove, and Mannix and his father would start a reconciliation.[11] When Mannix returned to Summer Grove for a case three years later, his father and he were on good terms.[21] Following military service in the Korean War, Mannix attended Western Pacific University on the GI Bill, graduated in 1955, and obtained his private investigator's license in 1956. He is a black belt in karate. Throughout the series, he appears proficient in a variety of athletic pursuits, including sailing, horseback riding, and skiing. He was an accomplished pool player, he practiced golf regularly, and was also a skilled airplane pilot. In the first season, he carried a Walther PP semiautomatic pistol. From the second season on, Mannix carried a Colt Detective Special snubnosed revolver in .38 Special caliber.

From:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannix