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* IncrediblyObviousBug: One is planted in Banacek's home in "Rocket to Oblivion".
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* ALadyOnEachArm: In "Rocket to Oblivion", Art Gallagher arrives at the exposition with a girl on each arm. He later brings both of them with him to the SummationGathering.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Carlie Kirkland is afraid of heights.
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* PrettyInMink: The girl Banacek brings back to his house at the start of "Horse Of A Slightly Different Color" is wearing a fur coat, which she takes off as she she drapes herself seductively in front of the fireplace.
* RunningGag: Banacek's Polishproverbs, proverbs; Jay suggests his solution to the mystery.mystery; Jay being handed multiple tickets while protesting "but officer..."
* RunningGag: Banacek's Polish
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* BellyDancer: Little Egypt shakes her hips in "[[http://gorillavid.in/rpw75snxy856 The Vanishing Chalice]]".
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* TapOnTheHead: Banacek gets floored by a tap on the head in "Horse Of A Slightly Different Color".
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* AnimalAssassin: In "Horse Of A Slightly Different Color", a jockey is murdered by being knocked unconscious and dumped in a stall with a wild stallion that tramples him to death.
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* AHandfulForAnEye: In "Horse Of A Slightly Different Color", Banacek is able to disarm a gunman by flinging a soapy cloth into his eyes.
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* AnachronisticClue: In "The Vanishing Chalice", one of the clues to the solution of the mystery is that a figure of a Greek soldier in the display is holding a sling, despite no soldiers of that period being armed with slings. [[spoiler:The thief planted it there so he would have access to a rock.]]
* CasinoEpisode: One episode is "A Million The Hard Way" in which a casino put $1 million in cash in a display case forpatron patrons to pose beside. The money disappears while an elderly couple are being photographed beside it.
* CasinoEpisode: One episode is "A Million The Hard Way" in which a casino put $1 million in cash in a display case for
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* KnowledgeBroker: Antique book dealer Felix Muholland fills this role; tracking down whatever esoteric piece of information Banacek needs to crack a particular case. Interestingly, he is the only character who ever refers to Banacek by his first name.
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* CymbalBangingMonkey: In "The Three Million Dollar Piracy", a scene opens with a cymbal banging monkey when Banacek visits the office of the president of a toy company. The monkey has no bearing on the plot whatsoever.
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* SecretOtherFamily: In "The Three Million Dollar Piracy", Banacek discovers that one of the suspects is married to two different women. A ship's officer, he maintains the charade by telling one wife that he is shipping out a couple of weeks before he actually does, and telling the other that he is returning two weeks after he actually does.
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* ForkliftFu: A thief uses a forklift to kill Banacek on the docks in "The Three Million Dollar Piracy".
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* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: In "If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?", various flunkies are preventing Banacek from getting into a hospital room to talk to the owner of the stolen supercomputer. Banacek dons a white coat, picks up two bunches of flowers and waltzes into her room unnoticed. Bonus points for him proceeding to arrange the flowers in a vase while conducting his interrogation.
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* ComputerEqualsTapedrive: In "If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?", the object stolen is Max; a 1970s supercomputer with spinning tape drives and blinking lights that takes up half a room.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: A RunningGag in the series is Jay turning up somewhere to deliver a message to Banacek, only to be distracted by the plethora of scantily clad women in the area to the point that he forgets why he is there till Banacek presses him on it.
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* MileHighClub: Banacek and his GirlOfTheWeek get it on in a light plane in "A Million the Hard Way"Way".
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* FilmTheHand: In "No Stone Unturned", the crane operator does this as the documentary film maker tries to film inside the crane cab as he is loading the sculpture. [[spoiler:Banacek later wonders exactly what it was he didn't want the camera to see.]]
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* TechnologyMatchesOn: The room sized computer in "If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't HE Tell Us Where He Is?"; Banacek's car phone.
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* TechnologyMatchesOn: TechnologyMarchesOn: The room sized computer in "If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't HE Tell Us Where He Is?"; Banacek's car phone.
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* [[BaseballEpisode Football Episode]]: "Lets Hear It For a Living Legend"
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* TechnologyMatchesOn: The room sized computer in "If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't HE Tell Us Where He Is?"; Banacek's car phone.
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Banacek (one of the [[WheelProgram rotating]] elements of ''Series/TheNBCMysteryMovie'') is a [[TooGoodToLast short-lived]], light-hearted detective TV series starring George Peppard which aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974. Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston, who solved seemingly impossible thefts. He then collected from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property.
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Banacek (one of the [[WheelProgram rotating]] elements of ''Series/TheNBCMysteryMovie'') is a [[TooGoodToLast short-lived]], short-lived, light-hearted detective TV series starring George Peppard which aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974. Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston, who solved seemingly impossible thefts. He then collected from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Harry Mudd and Cyrano Jones]] are brothers. [[spoiler:And crooks too... who'd a thought?]]
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Banacek (one of the [[WheelProgram rotating]] elements of ''TheNBCMysteryMovie'') is a [[TooGoodToLast short-lived]], light-hearted detective TV series starring George Peppard which aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974. Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston, who solved seemingly impossible thefts. He then collected from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property.
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Banacek (one of the [[WheelProgram rotating]] elements of ''TheNBCMysteryMovie'') ''Series/TheNBCMysteryMovie'') is a [[TooGoodToLast short-lived]], light-hearted detective TV series starring George Peppard which aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974. Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston, who solved seemingly impossible thefts. He then collected from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Harry Mudd and Cyrano Jones]] are brothers. [[spoiler:And crooks too... who'd a thought?]]
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* HoYay: Banacek's driver Jay apparently lives at his house and accompanies him everywhere. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLbnqJfRKA Apparently someone did some Shipping as well.]]
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Banacek (one of the [[WheelProgram rotating]] elements of ''TheNBC Mystery Movie'') ''TheNBCMysteryMovie'') is a [[TooGoodToLast short-lived]], light-hearted detective TV series starring George Peppard which aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974. Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston, who solved seemingly impossible thefts. He then collected from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property.
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Banacek (one of the rotating [[WheelProgram NBC rotating]] elements of ''TheNBC Mystery Movie series]]) Movie'') is a [[TooGoodToLast short-lived]], light-hearted detective TV series starring George Peppard which aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974. Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston, who solved seemingly impossible thefts. He then collected from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property.
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Banacek (one of the rotating [[WheelProgram NBC Mystery Movie series]]) is a [[TooGoodToLast short-lived]], light-hearted detective TV series starring George Peppard which aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974. Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston, who solved seemingly impossible thefts. He then collected from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property.
Also featured were Ralph Manza as Banacek's chauffeur Jay Drury, Murray Matheson as rare-bookstore owner and information source Felix Mulholland and Christine Belford as Carlie Kirkland, Banacek's sometime-lover and always-rival.
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!!''Banacek'' provides examples of:
* CoolCar: The AMX-400 from the second episode.
* GirlOfTheWeek
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Harry Mudd and Cyrano Jones]] are brothers. [[spoiler:And crooks too... who'd a thought?]]
* HoYay: Banacek's driver Jay apparently lives at his house and accompanies him everywhere. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLbnqJfRKA Apparently someone did some Shipping as well.]]
* InsuranceFraud: The only type of crime investigated.
* LockedRoomMystery
* MileHighClub: "A Million the Hard Way"
* NoPronunciationGuide: Banacek has to correct someone's pronunciation of his name in ''every'' episode. Not Banna-seck but Banna-check. (And sometimes he corrects the spelling: "B-A-N-A-C-E-K, just like it sounds.")
* OnceAnEpisode: Jay suggests a solution to the mystery, which Banacek immediatly finds a flaw with.
* RunningGag: Banacek's Polish proverbs, Jay suggests his solution to the mystery.
* WheelProgram
Also featured were Ralph Manza as Banacek's chauffeur Jay Drury, Murray Matheson as rare-bookstore owner and information source Felix Mulholland and Christine Belford as Carlie Kirkland, Banacek's sometime-lover and always-rival.
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!!''Banacek'' provides examples of:
* CoolCar: The AMX-400 from the second episode.
* GirlOfTheWeek
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Harry Mudd and Cyrano Jones]] are brothers. [[spoiler:And crooks too... who'd a thought?]]
* HoYay: Banacek's driver Jay apparently lives at his house and accompanies him everywhere. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLbnqJfRKA Apparently someone did some Shipping as well.]]
* InsuranceFraud: The only type of crime investigated.
* LockedRoomMystery
* MileHighClub: "A Million the Hard Way"
* NoPronunciationGuide: Banacek has to correct someone's pronunciation of his name in ''every'' episode. Not Banna-seck but Banna-check. (And sometimes he corrects the spelling: "B-A-N-A-C-E-K, just like it sounds.")
* OnceAnEpisode: Jay suggests a solution to the mystery, which Banacek immediatly finds a flaw with.
* RunningGag: Banacek's Polish proverbs, Jay suggests his solution to the mystery.
* WheelProgram
