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Mannix Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1971 - 1972
Episode 1
Dark So Early, Dark So Long
Wed, Sep 15, 1971 60 mins
Blackmail and murder are the ingredients of this whodunit. Mannix: Mike Connors. Leslie Fielding: Rosemary Forsyth. Tobias: Robert Reed. Glen Fielding: Guy Stockwell. Mrs. Oliver: Josephine Hutchinson. Ogilvy: Sam Melville. Peggy: Gail Fisher.
Episode 2
Cold Trail
Wed, Sep 22, 1971 60 mins
A gang of murderers with a mysterious motive keep a young woman on the run. Marie: Heidi Vaughn. Mannix: Mike Connors. Niles: George Voskovec. Prof. Fenlon: Gregory Morton. Mrs. Corot: Patricia Medina. Peggy: Gail Fisher. Frank Viola: Paul Mantee. Gilbert: Nicholas Cortland.
Episode 3
A Step in Time
Wed, Sep 29, 1971 60 mins
A year-old murder case, a widower in a catatonic stupor and eerie plot twists. Mannix: Mike Connors. Karl: Dean Stockwell. Gwen: Shelley Fabares. Charlotte: Hildy Brooks. Hanlon: Laurence Haddon. Peggy: Gail Fisher. Malcolm: Ward Wood. Sheriff: Neil Russell.
Episode 4
Wine from These Grapes
Wed, Oct 6, 1971 60 mins
A mystery involving murder in a California grape-growing region. Mannix: Mike Connors. Sheriff Madeiros: Perry Lopez. Charlie Appelini: Anthony Caruso. Juan Esparza: Frank Ramirez. Stephan: Victor Jory. Harry Nelson: James Daris. Jose: Fabian Gregory. Helen: Francine York.
Episode 5
Woman in the Shadows
Wed, Oct 13, 1971 60 mins
Ina Balin plays the elusive central figure in a hunt for Karl Marx's handwritten first chapter of "Das Kapital." Grunyev: Eric Braeden. Mannix: Mike Connors. Tobias: Robert Reed. Don Ralph: John Considine.
Episode 6
Days Beyond Recall
Wed, Oct 20, 1971 60 mins
Mannix combs skid row for a former crime exposé writer who presumably drowned. Mannix: Mike Connors. Haley Latimer: Vic Morrow. Westy: Elizabeth Allen. Crane: Doug Henderson. Mace: Geoffrey Lewis. Rennick: Don McGovern. Malcolm: Ward Wood.
Episode 7
Run Till Dark
Wed, Oct 27, 1971 60 mins
A dirty syndicate game involving the disappearance of a youngsters' baseball coach. Lee Thomas: Jonathan Lippe. Barbara Joyce: Charlotte Stewart. Mannix: Mike Connors. Coley: Val Avery. Malcolm: Ward Wood.
Episode 8
The Glass Trap
Wed, Nov 3, 1971 60 mins
Robert Foxworth as a New York policeman troubled over extraditing a suspected cop killer. Tobias: Robert Reed. Mannix: Mike Connors. Lt. Tom Wall: H.M. Wynant. Brastow: Frank Christi.
Episode 9
A Choice of Evils
Wed, Nov 10, 1971 60 mins
Stephen McNally as a racketeer who makes Mannix his reluctant employee. Thomas: Georg Stanford Brown. Scanlon: Paul Carr. Mannix: Mike Connors. Phillips: Robert Colbert. Malcolm: Ward Wood.
Episode 10
A Button for General D
Wed, Nov 17, 1971 60 mins
A dying man's words trigger a hunt for treasure. Mannix: Mike Connors. Cindy: Joanna Pettet. Sara: Irene Tedrow. Krebs: Ross Hagen. Sanford: David Sheiner. Lt. Malcolm: Ward Wood.
Episode 11
The Man Outside
Wed, Nov 24, 1971 60 mins
Andrew Duggan as a retired Army general victimized by a blackmailer. Liz Holt: Coleen Gray. Carol Barr: Kathie Browne. Mannix: Mike Connors. Paul Glydor: Tom Drake. First Man: Roy Jenson. Peggy: Gail Fisher.
Episode 12
Murder Times Three
Wed, Dec 1, 1971 60 mins
Mannix wonders why he has been simultaneously fired from separate cases. Tom Stabler: Dan Travanty. Barden: Joe Maross. Barbara: Pippa Scott. Dan: Gene Evans. Lisa: Pamela Payton-Wright.
Episode 13
Catspaw
Wed, Dec 8, 1971 60 mins
An extortion case puts Mannix on the death-strewn trail of a missing letter. Malcolm: Ward Wood. Sergeant Rivas: Armando Silvestre. Mannix: Mike Connors. Frankie West: Vincent Beck. Mansfield: Peter Donat. Marty Davis: Woodrow Parfrey. Stark: Vic Tayback. Eddie Mixus: Joseph Perry. Peggy: Gail Fisher.
Episode 14
To Save a Dead Man
Wed, Dec 15, 1971 60 mins
A dying man begs Mannix to save a convicted murderer who admits he's guilty. Ted Kilgore: Jeremy Slate. Sister Meg: Brooke Bundy. Mannix: Mike Connors. Father Fain: Arthur Franz. Nobel: Robert Mandan. Lt. Malcolm: Ward Wood. Grandt: Leonard Stone. Peggy: Gail Fisher. Adrianne: Melendy Britt. Kay Kilgore: Maggie Malooly.
Episode 15
Nightshade
Wed, Dec 29, 1971 60 mins
Milton Berle portrays a comedian tied in with a private eye's murder. Sam Westlake: Jesse White. Mannix: Mike Connors. Ella: Mary Nancy Burnett. Ceil: Patricia McAneny. Joey Brite: Joseph Reale.
Episode 16
Babe in the Woods
Wed, Jan 5, 1972 60 mins
Murder on the golf course endangers Mannix, who's looking for plans hidden by the victim. Sharon Carter: Melodie Johnson. Mannix: Mike Connors. Lawrence Martin: Paul Stevens. Joan Martin: Nita Talbot. Sheriff: William Mims. Lt. Malcolm: Ward Wood.
Episode 17
The Sound of Murder
Wed, Jan 12, 1972 60 mins
An tape recording ties a missing philanderer with a beautiful model, blackmail and murder. Marcia Innman: Madlyn Rhue. Mannix: Mike Connors. Clarissa Colburn: Jane Merrow. Lomax: Jon Cypher. Lt. Daniel Ives: Jack Ging. Grant Bailey: Byron Webster.
Episode 18
Moving Target
Wed, Jan 19, 1972 60 mins
About a silent partner who seems anxious to silence his partner. Art Buchwald has a cameo. Ken Mitchell: Charles Aidman. Mannix: Mike Connors. Althea: Jessica Walter. Lt. Malcolm: Ward Wood. Peggy: Gail Fisher.
Episode 19
Cry Pigeon
Wed, Jan 26, 1972 60 mins
Barry Sullivan plays the patriarch of a racketeer family in the story of a possible gang war. Duke Benedict: John Colicos. Mannix: Mike Connors. Maria Fortune: Corinne Camacho. Mark Fortune: Joseph Hindy.
Episode 20
A Walk in the Shadows
Wed, Feb 9, 1972 60 mins
Jealousy and blackmail shade this drama of a man charged with murdering his wife. Tom Farnon: Ed Flanders. Mannix: Mike Connors. Blake: Robert Colbert. Phil Rand: Lonny Chapman. Emma Rand: Jeanne Cooper. Ellen: Mary Wilcox.
Episode 21
Lifeline
Wed, Feb 16, 1972 60 mins
Lou Rawls as a singer involved in a dope pusher's murder---and now a target himself. Lou sings "His Song Shall Be Sung." Mannix: Mike Connors. Gloria: Ta-Tanisha. Lt. Dan Ives: Jack Ging. Juanita Logan: Florence St. Peter. Bolo: William Marshall.
Episode 22
To Draw the Lightning
Wed, Feb 23, 1972 60 mins
Steve Ihnat as a cop accused of a murder, but strangely uncooperative in helping prove it was a frame. Irene Gifford: Joan Hotchkis. Mannix: Mike Connors. Deedrich: Fred Beir. Ellen: Julie Parrish. Greer: Michael Bell. Lou: J. Pat O'Malley.
Episode 23
Scapegoat
Wed, Mar 1, 1972 60 mins
While the detective is stranded in the desert, his lookalike pulls off an $8 million jewel swindle.
Episode 24
Death Is the Fifth Gear
Wed, Mar 8, 1972 60 mins
Elsa Lanchester as a somewhat dotty patient in a case that has Mannix engulfed in paranoia and hallucinations. Mannix: Mike Connors. Nurse Cara Guild: Mariette Hartley. Martin: Jason Evers. Dr. Kenbrook: Charles Bateman. Mike Fisher: Eddie Ryder. Peggy: Gail Fisher. Lt. Malcolm: Ward Wood.