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Mannix Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1973 - 1974
Episode 1
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
Sun, Sep 16, 197352 mins
Joe Mannix is approached by a man claiming to have had a vision of a woman in a polka dot dress being gunned down at a specific time and a specific location. Although skeptical, Mannix follows up on the lead, and finds that the warning was accurate. He begins to investigate the woman's background to learn why she is a target -- and whether the psychic's claims were accurate or some kind of hoax.
Episode 2
A Way to Dusty Death
Sun, Sep 23, 197352 mins
Mannix heads to the small town of Lindero, four hundred miles away, summoned by an old friend, Georgia Durian, seen somewhat as a big city outside element in town, in some circles unwanted in owning and operating the topless bar, she once a stripper herself in Los Angeles and that outsider view despite having been raised in Lindero. She wants him to find her missing son, Danny Durian. Mannix does not learn the entire story until his arrival. A year ago, Danny was charged and convicted of the rape murder of classmate Katie Lopez, the conviction largely on the testimony of fellow classmate, Joyce Ferrero who he also raped. The conviction overturned on a legal technicality and released from prison, Danny, accompanied by his lawyer Noah Harturian, decided en route back to Lindero that he wouldn't return. Georgia not only wants him to find Danny, but to prove that Danny wasn't guilty of the rape murder. Unaware of Georgia's personal life, Mannix learns of her ex-husband Jake Durian, a former veterinarian and an environmentalist whose whereabouts she doesn't know and who Mannix suspects is harboring Danny. Mannix finds that his presence in town is of great interest to the Chief of Police, Harry Decken, who seems to be hiding something in being protective toward a group of young motorcycle riding punks who have been harassing Mannix ever since his arrival, Decken justifying their behavior as kids just being kids.
Episode 3
Climb a Deadly Mountain
Sun, Sep 30, 197352 mins
With only a $5,000 advance in hand, Mannix is off to his next case, no indication of who the client or what the nature of the case are, an advance that size indicative of the secrecy. Traveling from Burbank Airport on a private plane with any information besides the undisclosed destination above the pay grade of the pilot Don Elliot, Mannix informs Peggy that he will telephone his whereabouts when he knows, probably later that night. Elliot and Mannix unexpectedly hit bad weather, the plane crash landing. The next morning with Elliot still in the cockpit killed in the crash, Mannix awakens outside the crashed plane somewhere in the mountains to find not only his injured arm in a tourniquet, but a compass and written directions on how to get off the mountain left for him. He will discover that that help is a mixed blessing as it is from someone who himself is wanted and that anyone with him will be collateral damage. But Mannix can see the big picture about the plight of his helper. Meanwhile, a worried Peggy gets Art's help to find out what happened to Mannix.
Episode 4
Little Girl Lost
Sun, Oct 7, 197352 mins
Investigative journalist Lou Reynolds, who has his own byline newspaper column, divorced his wife Edie Reynolds a few years ago because of her drinking problem, she who frequently turned to a mutual friend, J.B. Kelly, as a platonic drinking buddy. She, now sober but still emotionally fragile, still turns to him for support, especially to stay clean. Lou is on a "special day" outing with his adolescent daughter Tina Reynolds at the zoo, he feeling guilty in not spending enough time with her in being too busy with work, when he is shot dead by an unknown long distance sniper. Beyond the police investigating, Mannix is called by occasional client, Lou's publisher George Fallon, to assist on the case. Mannix's initial belief is that Lou was killed because of a past story or one he was about to write. Lou's research assistant, Bill Saunders, to who George offers the column, thinks it is a story Lou was investigating, that the recent death of prominent business owner Andrew Alferro, which was ruled accidental in he being drunk when he drove off a cliff in his limousine, was really a syndicate assassination, Lou who eventually came to the conclusion that it wasn't the syndicate. As Mannix looks into Lou's investigation of the Alferro matter, the case is complicated by Tina, who has regressed into past memories, and who believes she killed her father and can kill anyone at will at being angry.
Episode 5
The Gang's All Here
Sun, Oct 14, 197352 mins
Mannix shoots Red Dietz, a drug dealer and killer, dead in a shoot-out. Dietz was idolized by a local violent gang of juvenile thugs, the Nomads, who terrorize local business owners. The gang leaders decide to kill Mannix in revenge and as an initiation rite for a new member, whose late policeman father's memory has been unfairly tarnished.
Episode 6
Desert Run
Sun, Oct 21, 197352 mins
Mannix is hired by Mrs. Slocum to find her husband, Mark Slocum, on the small hope that he is still alive, he who presumably crashed in a small plane he was piloting in a storm somewhere in the Rockies south of Denver, the crash site and he not yet found after two weeks. In doing a flyover himself of the last known path of the plane, Mannix decides to check out what he is told is a deserted old mining town, Gopher Flats, to see if he can find some indication of the missing plane, a crash site, or Mark. Mannix will discover anomalies at both ends, namely with the request itself to find Mark and owner of the small plane he was flying at the origin, and at Gopher Flats itself at the destination, it which ends up still being populated by a small number of people who don't seem to take too kindly to strangers. Mannix's quest to find the plane, Mark and the truth places his own life in jeopardy.
Episode 7
Silent Target
Sun, Oct 28, 197352 mins
Mannix is off on a remote and rustic fishing trip to what one person describes at the "end of road", namely Turtle Lake located in the middle of the Nevada desert. Driving en route in the middle of the desert with seemingly nothing around, Mannix runs into car problems. Walking for about a mile, he finds a house behind locked gates. Its owner, J.H. Morrell, states that there currently is no communication, i.e. telephone or a vehicle, for help with the car until his son returns from a trip to Reno, and that the complex, which is filled with young adults, is a hotel of sorts for guests to be able to fulfill the residency requirement for quickie divorces. What Mannix doesn't know is that he has walked into a refuge for hitmen, what one person likens to a secretarial pool where its residents are either cooling off after a job or awaiting information for a next job. One of the hitmen, Harry Tass, knows Mannix and believes he may have been sent by the authorities, Harry who is off to LAX for his next job of a bigwig making a transfer. While Morrell, Tass and the others try to decide what to do about Mannix, Mannix may have an ally in Elena, Tass' girlfriend, who, while knowing that Tass kills people for a living, sees in Mannix a real human being while all Tass' hits are just nameless and bodyless entities.
Episode 8
A World Without Sundays
Sun, Nov 4, 197352 mins
Mannix's latest case is complex in that his clients and his primary goal change over time. The main players include: retired famed quarterback Marty Hatch, the next major league football game which will be "Marty Hatch" Day; fellow retired football player, linebacker Dave Trimble, All Pro eight years running who now works as Marty's assistant; Cathy Lawson, who is well known as the girl of Las Vegas casino owner and bookie Ben Kessler; and Cathy's widowed roommate Joanna Gregg, who moved into Cathy's Los Angeles house following the death of her husband. A key piece to the case starts out being Marty having given Cathy a ride from Las Vegas part way to Los Angeles, something he was initially not wanting to divulge for fear of retribution from Kessler for cavorting with his girl. As the case progresses, someone wants some of the players dead seemingly in the search for something, Mannix, as involved, who is also a target. Mannix has to discover what that something is and its whereabouts to learn exactly what is going on.
Episode 9
Sing a Song of Murder
Sun, Nov 11, 197353 mins
Someone tries to kill world-famous opera diva Barbara Sonderman, who is about to return to the stage after a year's hiatus from performing. She hires Joe Mannix to find out who tried to kill her and why, but Mannix becomes disturbed by evidence suggesting that his client may have withheld information from him. Nevertheless, Mannix pursues a lead involving the death of her father, a policeman in a small town up the coast from Los Angeles -- while also struggling with his own growing feelings for Barbara.
Episode 10
Search in the Dark
Sun, Nov 25, 197352 mins
The morning after a party hosted by Mannix, Malcolm informs him that one of his guests, Terry Graham, who attended the party with her stepmother Lois Graham, was found mugged and drugged in the park, Terry who is now recovering in the hospital. What seems to have been stolen is a brooch Terry was wearing, what she had told Mannix was costume jewelry given to her by her father, Howard Graham, who did not attend the party in being out of town. However, with one of the jewels having popped off the brooch and found next to Terry's body, Malcolm informs Mannix that it is not costume, but a real diamond. Mannix and Malcolm suspect that the brooch actually is part of a $1 million collection called the Auroras that belonged to Howard's former in-laws, Terry's maternal grandparents, who disowned their daughter when she was alive in not agreeing to her marriage to Howard. The Auroras were stolen five years ago, Mannix who was hired then to locate them, which he never could do. They also suspect that Howard was the original thief, whoever mugged Terry knew that the jewels were real, and that the mugger now has the entire collection. Mannix again goes on a quest to locate the Auroras, many people who will seemingly kill for them. The case is only complicated by there being at least one very credible fake collection masquerading as the real things.
Episode 11
The Deadly Madonna
Sun, Dec 2, 197352 mins
Victoria Page is a famous actress making a comeback after a year in a sanitarium. Someone is trying to scare her back into the mental ward. Joe thinks the answers might be related to an unfinished movie she was in called, "The Deadly Madonna."
Episode 12
Cry Danger
Sun, Dec 9, 197352 mins
Mannix travels to San Francisco to wind up a case. At the airport he spots old flame Jan Holloway, who stood him up some time before. She tells Joe she is really married to a man named Carter Elliott. Several hoods then hustle Mannix away, apparently because he spoke to her -- leading him into a deepening mystery involving $14 million and Mrs. Elliott's apparent death shortly thereafter.
Episode 13
All the Dead Were Strangers
Sun, Dec 16, 197352 mins
A group of plane crash survivors shared their deepest secrets with each other on a mountain top and mysterious killer is now targeting them. One of the survivors a woman named Carol, whose friend was accidentally murdered when she tried to move Carol's car and it exploded hires Joe Mannix to find out who it is. Can he stop the killer before he murders Carol?
Episode 14
Race Against Time
Sun, Jan 6, 197452 mins
Mannix is contacted by Hank Pritchard about a matter of some urgency. It concerns a John Doe hit-and-run victim, reported in the newspaper as having been killed in the incident, but who, a Mr. Cramer, is really alive in serious condition and in traction in the hospital. The planted newspaper story for Cramer's protection is because he, secretly in the US, has news that political activist Victor Lucas, who Mannix knows from Korea as the head of a peacekeeping force and considers the most inspiring person he's ever met, is dying from heart failure and requires a pacemaker to survive. The only person with the skill to conduct the operation is Nobel laureate Dr. Miles Considine, who balks at the mission in that Lucas is currently in hiding in a country with a military dictatorship in working with an underground movement against the government that would like Lucas and anyone associated to him dead, but as important does not agree with anyone "with a name" and/or money bypassing the queue of other patients equally as deserving to be alive. Mannix's role is to be the doctor's security detail in ensuring he makes it in and out of the country alive, they to be undercover from start to finish. All they know is that the mission is named Libra, the secret code word used by anyone associated with the mission, most who only know their small part to minimize risk of the it falling apart if any one person is captured.
Episode 15
Race Against Time: Part II
Sun, Jan 13, 197452 mins
Beyond the less than ideal "operating room" conditions, Dr. Considine, who was just about ready to operate on Victor Lucas, faces a bigger challenge as Mannix has discovered that someone has managed to break into the container holding the pacemaker and destroy it. Dr. Turman, however, knows that there is a pacemaker at the national hospital where he used to work, they needing to figure out the logistics to get to and from the hospital and steal the pacemaker without detection. What they are unaware of which will make their task even more difficult is that Dr. Waldo and Colonel DuPar have figured out that Mannix and Dr. Considine truly are working against the government, and have taken steps to inform the country of that fact. Even if Mannix and Dr. Considine are able to get the pacemaker and make it back in time to save Lucas, they have the further problems of needing to discover the mole who sabotaged the original pacemaker, and make it out of the country after all is said and done with the entire country now knowing to be on the lookout for them.
Episode 16
The Dark Hours
Sun, Jan 20, 197452 mins
Entering his dark office late at night, Mannix is ambushed, hauled away by his attackers in a van, shot with his own gun, and dumped down a steep hillside next to the road left for dead. Mannix is eventually found by two young hikers. First indeed thought to be dead by Malcolm and the other first responders, Mannix shows signs of life by the EMT en route to the hospital, he who goes into emergency surgery upon his arrival. Going in and out of semi-consciousness following the surgery, Mannix clings to life while Malcolm and Peggy try to get whatever information they can out of him about what happened, which is little to nothing. In the process, Mannix himself does reflect on what happened, he not knowing the entire story himself. He is certain that it has to do with a woman named Karen Winslow, who hired him in noticing that she was being followed by a man she didn't know, Mannix identifying him to her as enforcer Johnny Sands. That identification brought into the picture two rival gangsters, Al Kordic, who had hired Karen to write the memoirs of the family patriarch, "Don" Vince Kordic, murdered six months ago via a car bomb, and Matt Brandon. Kordic's stepmother, Regina Kordic, had also just been found murdered, Malcolm and the authorities who believe Kordic the murderer in the general knowledge that there was no love lost between them, while Kordic believes Brandon killed both his father and his stepmother in that gangster war. Within this situation, Mannix has to figure out who would have wanted him dead as especially Kordic and Brandon were fighting with each other.
Episode 17
A Night Full of Darkness
Sun, Jan 27, 197452 mins
After a whirlwind few week courtship, Art Malcolm has just married Norma Hayden. Leaving the wedding reception held at Mannix's office, Malcolm is shot and slightly injured, but Norma is dead upon gunshot impact in what looks to be a targeted hit meant for Malcolm by an unknown shooter in a passing car, with Malcolm able to see the license plate. The car belongs to a company owned by drug kingpin Johnny Sato, who Malcolm has been working long and hard to put behind bars. Sato and his second in charge Vic Grant, however, have an alibi for the time of the shooting, which doesn't matter to Malcolm, who is certain Sato was behind what happened and appears to want to exact vigilante justice much to the chagrin of both Mannix and Lt. Bob Naylor, Malcolm's former partner and longtime friend who is leading the official police investigation. But as Naylor and Mannix, who is assisting, proceed in the investigation, Mannix begins to believe that things are falling in place a little too easily, that belief strengthened as time goes on, and that makes it seem that Norma, for whatever reason, truly was the target, and not Malcolm himself.
Episode 18
Walk a Double Line
Sun, Feb 10, 197452 mins
Peggy is able to convince Mannix at least to consider talking to Cathy Walker to take her on as a client in what seems antithetical to what Cathy would want: to find her husband Steve Walker who is wanted for murdering his boss, Victor De Marco. It seems to be an open and shut case in that Steve was the only other person in De Marco's locked office when two gunshots were heard by many in the general vicinity including Cathy, the door was broken down from the outside, Steve was inside holding the murder weapon with De Marco's dead body slumped in his chair, with Steve, himself shot in the process, able to escape and go into hiding. Largely on the faith Cathy has in the innocence of her husband, Mannix does take the case despite he learning she being less than forthright about Steve's criminal past in his youth, and he changing his name a result. Mannix will find that there seems to be a blind loyalty to De Marco by his staff including the second in charge Paul Walker, the security guard Matt Doyle (who is after Steve himself in that loyalty), the staff photographer Dick Harley, and De Marco's personal secretary Julie Miller, although beyond Steve who was in line for a promotion but who Cathy admits had a beef with him, Julie does state that De Marco was generally disliked by those who worked for him. But it may be in speaking to a less than grieving Mrs. De Marco that Mannix may get a better handle on Steve's guilt or innocence, and if the latter who may really have killed De Marco and how the killer could have gotten in and out of the locked office undetected.
Episode 19
The Girl from Nowhere
Sun, Feb 17, 197452 mins
Of the three victims of a parade bleacher collapse, one, a girl, was never identified or thus claimed, even after Malcolm submitted an artist's rendering of her to the media. However, an anonymous $500 donation was made for the girl's burial, and besides the authorities, a woman was at the burial, who Mannix assumes made the donation as no announcement was made about the burial itself. He is able to confirm that she, well off widow Elizabeth Farrell, from out of town, did make the donation for her own personal reasons. Shortly after, Liz ends up hiring Mannix as she is being stalked by someone she knows, Tommy Ryker, with a minor rap sheet at least in Los Angeles, he who had earlier threatened Mannix himself when he saw Mannix speak to Liz. Mannix catches Liz in one small lie after another, he having to sift through the lies to get to the truth and the reasons behind the lies, one of which will hold a small kernel leading to the tie between Liz, Ryker and the unknown girl.
Episode 20
A Rage to Kill
Sun, Feb 24, 197452 mins
Mannix's latest client is Greta Allen, who wants him to find who killed married Dr. Clement Jarrud, a psychiatrist, she the one who found his body dead by a gunshot wound in his office after hours. While the death is officially ruled a suicide, Greta is certain that he was murdered as she claims to know him better than anyone in being his lover, he having no reason to kill himself. She is also certain that the murderer is one of the anonymous people, patients, he wrote about in his just released book, three case studies on who he coins Patients X, Y, and Z, all formerly or potentially homicidal. Is the case as straightforward, but still not easy, as discovering who X, Y, and Z are and fitting their pieces to Jarrud, or is there more to the case than meets the eye?
Episode 21
Mask for a Charade
Sun, Mar 3, 197452 mins
Outside the Club Tempe, loan shark Nick Briscoe is gunned down by a sniper driving a passing car. The driver of the car gets into a fender bender before he is able to drive off. Helen Layton, a singer at the club and the driver of the other vehicle, is able to get a license plate number, the owner of the damaged car brought in. While Helen cannot definitively pick that man out in a lineup, the other two eyewitnesses, Jenny Dobbs, Nick's date that evening, and Dennis Hicks, the club's valet, are able to pick the man out without question. The problem is that he is Al Reardon, a recently divorced (his wife having left him) police sergeant, who feigns innocence despite the overwhelming evidence against him including the damaged vehicle, and asserts that he is being set up. For various reasons, Al believes the person behind the frame is Ellis Varko, who Al helped put behind bars and is working toward getting Al to recant his testimony. Much to Malcolm's chagrin, Mannix, Al's friend, tries to prove the validity of Al's claims which the DA may consider witness tampering. What happens in Mannix's investigation is discovering something, or more precisely someone who Al is hiding in the valley.
Episode 22
A Question of Murder
Sun, Mar 10, 197452 mins
The latest person to walk into Mannix's office wanting to hire him is twelve year old Kevin John Hunter, with $8 and some pocket change to prove that he's serious. His friend, generally well-liked aging boxer Bull Evans, was killed in a hit-and-run after his latest fight as the pair were headed off on their regular post-bout hamburger. While the incident was considered an accident, Kevin John asserts that not only did he see the car deliberately run over Bull in being parked in wait for them to leave the arena, but that Bull's dying words were that he was killed by Larry Gates, who just happens to be his opponent in the ring that night, Larry having won the bout in a knock-out. While Malcolm knows all about Kevin John in he having made the rounds to anyone who would listen, Mannix is the first at least to try and do something for him. Those that know Kevin John, including Martin Johnson, his grocery store where Kevin John works after school, Miss Crawford, his teacher, and his widowed mother, say that he's a good boy who would not tell a lie, but who may be swayed by emotion, in this case in Bull being the missing father figure in his life. Conversely, Gates and his manager, Ralph Lewin, state that Bull's dying words were in reference to the bout, in addition to that they have alibis for the time of the accident. Just as Mannix is about to give up in not finding any evidence to say that the death was murder, the case takes turns in ways he and Kevin John did not foresee and that Kevin John in particular really does not want to believe.
Episode 23
Trap for a Pigeon
Sun, Mar 24, 197452 mins
The latest case Mannix hesitates on taking on is for famed lawyer Mark Prentiss, who wants Mannix to recover some items of his that were taken in a heist from the Bedford Hotel safe deposit vault. While most of the items that were reported in the media as stolen were the higher profile ones such as $150,000 in jewels and bonds, what Prentiss wants back is his briefcase which contained papers, evidence for an imminent trial, those papers meaningless to whoever stole them. The reason for Mannix's reticence is not the papers themselves or the tight timeframe for the trial start, but rather Prentiss' client: gangster Vince Adante. Mannix's change of heart to provide Prentiss with what he states is material that proves Adante's innocence is only heightened when he checks the hotel's safe area itself in seeing the job was done by professionals who knew which boxes to hit. After speaking to snitches and fences who might be used to move the merchandise, Mannix begins to believe that the real target was the briefcase itself, especially after Prentiss confesses the nature of the "papers". What those papers would be used for is the crux of what is happening in this case.
Episode 24
The Ragged Edge
Sun, Mar 31, 197452 mins
Missing for two and a half weeks, Mannix was abducted by Pete Bourne, the brother of Bobby Bourne who Mannix helped put away and has since subsequently died. In retaliation, Pete has now got Mannix hooked on heroin. In his hyped up state, Mannix almost killed a police officer who is clinging to life. As such, the police, including Lt. Malcolm, are after Mannix, but Malcolm wants to help him in any way he can in still being a friend. But seeing Mannix in such a state, others believe they can capitalize on his seeming sole focus of getting his next fix, especially when he is going through withdrawal. Within this situation, there may be a longer game in play for Mannix than just getting his next fix.
