BANACEK SEASON 1ONLINE SERIES

Some TV series pilots differ significantly from the series that follows. So here are my mini-reviews of the first half of Season One:

Still, you probably wonвЂ™t always beat Banacek to the solution, and even if you do, working out the вЂњhowвЂќ will usually be a lot of fun. So how do those endings stack up? Well, as with certain classic impossible-crime stories from decades ago, the mysteries may not be as baffling to experienced detective-story readers as they were to the average NBC viewer when the shows were first broadcast. The insurance company, standing to lose a lot of money, hires freelance detective Banacek to investigate, and after the requisite number of suspect interviews and fistfights, he recovers the item and explains who stole it and how (usually in a voice-over as we see the crime being pulled off in a silent flashback.) The 75 minutes or so between the crime and the explanation offer clues, guest stars who were famous in the seventies, and BanacekвЂ™s chauffeur inevitably coming up with a wrong solution, but of course itвЂ™s the ending that makes or breaks an episode. Of course, you can also opt not to watch it at all.ДЄnyway! The shows always had the same pattern: at the start of the episode, something valuable disappears under apparently impossible circumstances. No need to go into the details here, but if youвЂ™re going to watch the show, you just have to accept BanacekвЂ™s misogyny as part of the package. made up)вЂ¦ but mostly it was his sexist attitudes towards women. Partly it was the silly вЂњPolish proverbsвЂќ he quoted (i.e.

Partly it was that he usually seemed a little smug, even if as a brilliant detective he had good reason. I agree with Dawidziak, except IвЂ™d take it further: even as a pre-teen boy watching in 1972, I found Banacek hard to take. (As an aside, this theory would also explain why Levinson and LinkвЂ™s Murder, She Wrote did so much better than their Ellery Queen series that preceded it by a few years.) (I guess I now need to specify the original Magnum P.I.), which didnвЂ™t have particularly distinguished plots, but had a lead with charisma coming out of his ears. In The Columbo Phile, Mark Dawidziak speculates that the show didnвЂ™t stick around longer because while the puzzles were often first-rate, Banacek himself was a little bland compared to Columbo. Sam Hawthorne.Д«anacek only lasted two years on the air (1972-74), with 17 episodes in all including the pilot. Banacek, another NBC mystery-movie series from the 1970s, isnвЂ™t the finest series of impossible-crime mysteries ever, but insurance investigator Thomas Banacek is still well entitled to hoist a glass of his preferred beverage in DetectivesвЂ™ Valhalla with Dr. Flicker, Shirl Hendryx, Pat Fielder, Richard M.A while back I said that the Columbo TV show was the finest series of inverted-detective mysteries ever. Kowalski, Lou Antonio, George McCowan Producers: George Eckstein, Howie Horwitz Creators: Anthony Wilson Writers: Anthony Wilson, David Moessinger, Del Reisman, Robert Presnell Jr., Howard Browne, Stanley Ralph Ross, Stephen Kandel, Paul Playdon, Theodore J. Pat O'Malley, Gene Dynarski, Mario Machado, Larry Burrell, Dee Gardner, Lonny Chapman, Craig Chudy, Leo Grillo Directors: Jack Smight, Richard T. Actors: George Peppard, Christine Belford, Don Dubbins, Murray Matheson, Russell Wiggins, Charles Robinson, Ralph Manza, George Murdock, Ed Nelson, Bill Vint, Victor Mohica, Lou Frizzell, J. Using logic and with the aid of his chauffeur, his chess-playing associate and a bevy of beautiful women, Banacek launches intricate investigations to reveal, like a magician, the solution to inexplainable crimes. Banacek is called in to investigate the most baffling and ingenious of crimes which have exhausted the minds of all others. High class and high mystery is the world of suave, Polish-American Thomas Banacek (George Peppard), Boston's leading insurance investigator.

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