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* [[Girl of the Week]] |
* [[Girl of the Week]] |
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Harry Mudd and Proconsul Claudius]] are brothers. {{spoiler|And crooks too... who'd a thought?}} |
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Harry Mudd and Proconsul Claudius]] are brothers. {{spoiler|And crooks too... who'd a thought?}} |
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** Others just from that series: Spock's fiancee T'Pring is marrying a Middle Eastern ruler, Commodore Decker built an advanced automobile, Nilz Baris has retired to gardening, Gary Mitchell is a sculptor, and the list goes on.... |
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** [[M*A*S*H (television)|B.J. Hunnicutt]], [[Hart to Hart|Jennifer Hart]], [[Batman (TV series)|The Joker]], [[Bonanza|Adam Cartwright]], [[The Hollywood Squares|Peter Marshall]].... |
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* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Girl of the Week Margot Kidder, six years before she played [[Superman (film)|Lois Lane]] for the first of four times. When Banacek introduced himself, giving only his last name, she responded quizzically, "One name? Like Superman?" |
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* [[Insurance Fraud]]: The only type of crime investigated. |
* [[Insurance Fraud]]: The only type of crime investigated. |
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* [[Locked Room Mystery]] |
* [[Locked Room Mystery]] |
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Revision as of 12:09, 9 August 2016
Banacek (one of the rotating elements of The NBC Mystery Movie) is a 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.
Banacek was part of the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie lineup, and was the only spoke of this Wheel Program to run in both seasons.
- Cool Car: The AMX-400 from the second episode.
- Girl of the Week
- Hey, It's That Guy!: Harry Mudd and Proconsul Claudius are brothers. And crooks too... who'd a thought?
- Others just from that series: Spock's fiancee T'Pring is marrying a Middle Eastern ruler, Commodore Decker built an advanced automobile, Nilz Baris has retired to gardening, Gary Mitchell is a sculptor, and the list goes on....
- B.J. Hunnicutt, Jennifer Hart, The Joker, Adam Cartwright, Peter Marshall....
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Girl of the Week Margot Kidder, six years before she played Lois Lane for the first of four times. When Banacek introduced himself, giving only his last name, she responded quizzically, "One name? Like Superman?"
- Insurance Fraud: The only type of crime investigated.
- Locked Room Mystery
- Mile-High Club: "A Million the Hard Way"
- No Pronunciation Guide: 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.")
- Once an Episode: Jay suggests a solution to the mystery, which Banacek immediatly finds a flaw with.
- Running Gag: Banacek's Polish proverbs, Jay suggests his solution to the mystery.
- Wheel Program