RIP.
There goes another part of my youth. RIP Mike Connors. Thank you for all that fun on TV in the 60s and 70s.
What ever happened to Peggy? Good looking woman, and faithful assistant?
Jerry: We're doing sixty miles an hour!
George: So we jump and roll, you won't get hurt.
Jerry: Who are you, Mannix?
RIP
On “Mannix”, he drove an Olds Toronado convertible that was custom made for the show(It may have been one of car customizer George Barris’ designs.)
BTW, in the first season (running right now), he worked for a (then) futuristic detective agency called Intertech. His "boss" was a character played by the actor Joseph Campanella.
Had a boyfriend that looked just like him. He was a P.I. and “carried” as I found out.
He played basketball for John Wooden at UCLA.
Mannix was pistol whipped in every show. As a kid I would yell, “Mannix don’t walk down that dark path.” But Mannix would always walk down that dark path with his very small pistol out, in front of him about belt high. Then bam! Someone behind him would pistol whip him and Mannix would be left on the ground, out cold. Break for commercial. Then the scene would open again, the police would be there, Mannix would be nursing a bad headache with a bump. He would say something like, “I guess I was getting too close to the answers of this crime.” But Joe was not thwarted in any way. He was back on the case. A little pistol whipping was not going to stop Joe Mannix. We know that because it happened every show.
Mannix is on at 1am Central time on MeTV. I just watched one last night and meant to look up Mike Conners to see if he was still alive.
Mannix opening credits:
https://youtu.be/XXRCqjMri2Y
He was a handsome character.
Ever notice how many Armenians have black hair and blue eyes?
The thing I’ve always remembered about Mannix was the brush on the cymbals as he was out investigating...”tch-tch-tch-a-ch...tch-tch-tch-a-ch”
I remember his signature move in his car. He’d take off and then spin it 180 and be going the same direction but facing the opposite way. Years later I learned this was accomplished by slamming on and then releasing the parking brake.
Loved that show.......RIP “Joe”
The undercover cop played by Connors carried a small revolver in the small of his back. The bad guys never found it when they frisked him.
I just watched episode 1. I recognized a line that probably appears in most of the episodes: "In all the excitement, one man got away."