Mannix is asked to sneak a famous heart doctor into a repressive country to perform surgery on a revolutionary.Mannix is asked to sneak a famous heart doctor into a repressive country to perform surgery on a revolutionary.Mannix is asked to sneak a famous heart doctor into a repressive country to perform surgery on a revolutionary.
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- TriviaThe Beechcraft A55 Baron (N9750Y) used in this episode was destroyed in a mid-air collision with a Cessna 180 (N42695) on 24Aug1989 near Tracy, California. It was also the airplane that crashed into a 747 in the movie 'Airport.'
- GoofsDuring the car chase a Jaguar XKE is seen with a California license plate, speed limit 8 MPH studio back lot signs can be seen, a "Bang the Drum Slowly" billboard can be seen in Mannix's rear view mirror. All wording in English and MPH instead of KPH, even though this is supposed to be a foreign country.
- Quotes
Colonel Alan DuPar: [interrogating the waiter who talked to Dr. Considine and Joe after Dr. Waldo left their hotel room] The two Americans, where did they go?
Room Service Waiter: How should I know?
Colonel Alan DuPar: [slaps the waiter] You're lying! We have information that you were the last person who in touch with them before they left that hotel. Now, where did you send them?
Room Service Waiter: I brought them their lunch, that's all. I was their waiter.
Colonel Alan DuPar: You mean their contact! Admit it!
Room Service Waiter: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a waiter, and that's all I am.
Colonel Alan DuPar: When you're not working for the Victor Lucas movement! That's more like it, isn't it?
[grabs the waiter by the shirt]
Colonel Alan DuPar: You're working for it, the two Americans are working for it. They leave you, they meet others, and all of them viciously attack government forces. You're all in it together.
Room Service Waiter: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a waiter. I told you that before.
Colonel Alan DuPar: Take him downstairs. Make him talk. I WANT TO KNOW WHERE VICTOR LUCAS IS HIDING!
[one of DuPar's guards leaves with the waiter]
Colonel Alan DuPar: The two Americans are connected with the movement. They must be.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Yes, of course. But the vital question is, how? For what purpose?
Colonel Alan DuPar: Well, we have means of knowing soon enough. He'll talk.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Two of your best men lie dead in the morgue, a third critically wounded. I'm sure you're not simply waiting.
Colonel Alan DuPar: Needless to say, a city-wide dragnet for the entire group is already underway.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: I would have thought nationwide.
Colonel Alan DuPar: I'm extending it to that, of course.
1. Unrealistic. My response, so freaking what. Most of the show was unrealistic. Joe would have been killed a 100 times by now if realism mattered. Heck, he even rose from the dead once. And escaped an entire house of top tier hitmen after having been drugged. I could go on.
2. Poor acting. The others thought Joe looked disinterested and the doctor was too over the top. I thought they played their parts well. I saw Joe as being more under control and on alert than disinterested and the doctor's shifting emotions worked for me. I also thought the female buddy was terrific, but her husband the general was wrong for his part. And the actor playing Victor did not have the charismatic presence needed.
3. Not a typical Mannix. That is true, but I liked the change of direction. Much better than another small town with dark secrets and a crooked sheriff. I do agree with the reviewer that said they should have had a better backstory for using Joe. I also agree that the pacemaker angle was disappointing. It would have been better if Victor just needed some vaguely defined complicated surgery.
4. Continuity errors. You reviewers that get all worked up about them, have a drink, smoke a blunt, get laid more, something. They are just not worth obsessing over,
- raypierce-48543
- Feb 2, 2022