![]() First, George Peppard was just superb as the title character: a self-confident, smart, tough, worldly, and, perhaps most interesting of all, truly independent freelance private investigator who specialized in recovering lost or stolen objects, for a fee of 10 percent of the total value of the item.īanacek worked mainly for insurance companies, who were eager to engage his services in hopes of saving 90 percent of the dollar value of the object in question. ![]() It enabled producers to pay more attention to both the writing and the production values, and some of these series ended up becoming TV classics, such as Columbo, McMillan and Wife, McCloud, and The Snoop Sisters.īanacek is my personal favorite of these. The mystery movie “wheel” was a great concept: a new mystery movie each week in a ninety-minute time slot, rotating among three or four series. For two seasons, in 1972-1974, Banacek ran as part of the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology program. I’ve just discovered that several (and possibly all) episodes of the great 1970s TV series Banacek are now available for free viewing on YouTube.
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