History Series / Mannix

* CharacterTitle: The series takes its name from the name of its protagoist, Joe Mannix.

From the second season on, Mannix works on his own with the assistance of his loyal secretary Peggy Fair (Gail Fisher – one of the first African American actresses to have a regular series role), a police officer's widow. He also receives help from the Los Angeles police department, the two most prominent officers being Lieutenant Art Malcolm (Ward Wood) and Lieutenant Adam Tobias (Robert Reed). Other police contacts are Lieutenant George Kramer (Larry Linville), who had been the partner of Peggy's late husband, and Lieutenant Dan Ives (Jack Ging). In the second season, he also employs the services of a competitive private investigator, Albie Loos (Joe Mantell), as a sort of investigative gofer.

* InstrumentalThemeTune: A {{jazz}}y, up-tempo number composed by Lalo Schifrin of ''Series/MissionImpossible'' fame.

* OneWordTitle: The series itself, and eight of its episodes ("Huntdown", "Deadfall", "Sunburst", "Overkill", "Catspaw", "Lifeline", "Scapegoat", "Hardball").

''Mannix'' is an American DetectiveDrama television series starring Mike Connors as PrivateDetective Joe Mannix. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link (also known for ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' and ''Series/MurderSheWrote'') and developed by Bruce Geller (''Series/MissionImpossible''), it was the last show produced by Creator/DesiluStudios before its acquisition by Creator/{{Paramount}}. It ran from 1967 to 1975.

During the first season of the series, Mannix works for a large UsefulNotes/LosAngeles detective agency called INTERTECT, that utilized state-of-the-art (for its time) computer equipment to solve crimes. As opposed to the other employees who must wear dark suits and sit in rows of desks with only one piece of paper allowed to be on their desks at one time, Mannix belongs to the classic American detective archetype, thus he usually ignores the computers' solutions, disobeys his boss's orders, and sets out to do things his own way, all the while outsmarting and mocking his superior, Lew Wickersham (Joseph Campanella).

* CoolCar: Mannix drove a 1968 Oldsmobile Toronado convertible that was modified by famous car customizer George Barris. The Toronado was popular enough that it got its own model kit.

* CharacterTitle

* FramedFaceOpening: The main character appears in a square rectangle surrounded by smaller rectangles and squares representing computer punch card patterns.

* UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar: Part of Mannix's BackStory is that he was a POW during the conflict.

From the second season on, Mannix works on his own with the assistance of his loyal secretary Peggy Fair (Gail Fisher – one of the first African American actresses to have a regular series role), a police officer's widow. He also receives help from the Los Angeles police department, the two most prominent officers being Lieutenant Art Malcolm (Ward Wood) and Lieutenant Adam Tobias (Robert Reed). Other police contacts are Lieutenant George Kramer (Larry Linville), who had been the partner of Peggy's late husband, and Lieutenant Dan Ives (Jack Ging). In the 1969 season, he also employs the services of a competitive private investigator, Albie Loos (Joe Mantell), as a sort of investigative gofer.

''Mannix'' is an American DetectiveDrama television series starring Mike Connors as PrivateDetective Joe Mannix. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link (aalso known for ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' and ''Series/MurderSheWrote'') and developed by Bruce Geller (''Series/MissionImpossible''), it was the last show produced by Creator/DesiluStudios before its acquisition by Creator/{{Paramount}}. It ran from 1967 to 1975.

* CoolCar: Mannix drove a 1968 Oldsmobile Toronado convertible that was modified by famous car customizer George Barris. The car was popular enough that it got its own model kit.

* EveryCarIsAPinto: It was routine for a car to explode into flame after it drove off a cliff... ''even before impact, while still in mid-air''. Someone apparently liked this so much that an example showed up in the TitleSequence so we could [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM3vxbesg1A&feature=related=related see it every week!]] (it's about 6 seconds in).

* InstrumentalThemeTune: A jazzy, up-tempo number composed by Lalo Schifrin of ''Series/MissionImpossible'' fame.

* CoolCar: Mannix drove a 1968 Oldsmobile Toronado that was modified by famous car customizer George Barris. The car was popular enough that it got its own model kit.
* DrugsAreBad: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5MTJv63wgg Warning: Live Blueberries]]", there's a Timothy Leary {{Expy}}, Prof. Wilson (Phil Leeds), who runs a meditation center where people "turn on". The blonde chick of the week is shown pleading with a friend to return with her to "the center of the earth" to experience "the taste of blue and the colors of twelve." (Yes, that's Buffalo Springfield of Music/NeilYoung and Stephen Stills fame playing in the nightclub scene.)

* CoolCar: Mannix drove a 1968 Oldsmobile Toronado that was modified by famous car customizer George Barris. The car was popular enough tat it got its own model kit.
* DrugsAreBad: In the episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5MTJv63wgg Warning: Live Blueberries]]", there's a Timothy Leary {{Expy}}, Prof. Wilson (Phil Leeds), who runs a meditation center where people "turn on". The blonde chick of the week is shown pleading with a friend to return with her to "the center of the earth" to experience "the taste of blue and the colors of twelve." (Yes, that's Buffalo Springfield of Music/NeilYoung and Stephen Stills fame playing in the nightclub scene.)

* TemporaryBlindness: In the episode "The Sound of Darkness" Mannix is hired by a man who was shot at, but not harmed, by a hired killer. While shadowing his client into a derelict building, Mannix is shot at by the hitman, and the bullet grazes Mannix' temple, causing a bout of psychosomatic blindness. Mannix then has to learn how to survive in the world of blindness to prepare himself for the hitman's return to finish the job of silencing him.

''Mannix'' is an American DetectiveDrama television series starring Mike Connors as PrivateDetective Joe Mannix. It ran from 1967 to 1975.

To improve the ratings of the show, Creator/DesiluStudios head Creator/LucilleBall made some changes, making the show similar to other private-eye shows. Ball thought the computers were too high-tech and beyond the comprehension of the average viewer of the time and had them removed.

* EveryCarIsAPinto: It was routine for a car to explode into flame after it drove off a cliff... ''even before impact, while still in mid-air''. Someone apparently liked this so much that an example showed up in the opening title sequence so we could [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM3vxbesg1A&feature=related=related see it every week!]] (it's about 6 seconds in).

''Mannix'' is an American television series that ran from 1967 to 1975.

During the first season of the series, Joe Mannix (Mike Connors) works for a large Los Angeles detective agency called INTERTECT, that utilized state-of-the-art (for its time) computer equipment to solve crimes. As opposed to the other employees who must wear dark suits and sit in rows of desks with only one piece of paper allowed to be on their desks at one time, Mannix belongs to the classic American detective archetype, thus he usually ignores the computers' solutions, disobeys his boss's orders, and sets out to do things his own way, all the while outsmarting and mocking his superior, Lew Wickersham (Joseph Campanella).

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