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Perry Mason: The Case of the Accosted Accountant (1964)
What is coolplanter referring to?
The other reviews are spot on, but I am more curious as to what coolplanter is referring to at the end of his or her review. My only disagreement with the others is that I did not find Dee to be among the hottest girls in the series history.
Mannix: Race Against Time: Part 1 (1974)
I guess I will be the contrarion
I have seen nearly every episode, but somehow had never seen this two parter. I almost skipped it because of the bad reviews, but went ahead anyway. I thought it was terrific. I will state the consensus positions of the other reviewers, and why I saw things differently.
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,
Mannix: Walk on the Blind Side (1974)
Agree with the 2/2019 reviewer
It was strange wasting the potentially great plastic surgery to hide from the mob story and just changing the plot to something completely different. It was like two episodes pasted together.
Mannix: The Mouse That Died (1970)
The mouse could have lived
A small point, but the mouse should have lived and then been an annoying pet for an episode or two. But Mannix had no story arcs from what I can see.