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OK, the crime-action shows will always suffer from cheap production values compared to sit-coms. So yes, many scenes in Mannix take place in the Brady household. A lot of the rich people's houses in Columbo also seemed familiar, as did the Rolls-Royces. The Fugitive and the Rockford Files are two action dramas that disguised the cost cutting fairly well, and remain quite watchable. For shows like "Get Smart" and "Batman" the cheese is a featured ingredient. Oddly, an attempt to revive the formula in "Sledgehammer!" in the '80s failed, and I blame the lack of chemistry between the leads. Also, the short-lived Logan's Run TV show also failed as Gregory Hines and Heather Manzies (sp?, RIP) had limited acting chops and les chemistry, unlike Michael York and Jenny Agutter in the big screen version.

Contrast that with the Odd Couple, where I believe Tony Randall/Jack Klugman exceeded the chemistry of Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau and far-surpassed the likeability (which is necessary in a long-running sitcom vs. a 90 minute movie).

Crime-action shows of the 1970s seem cheesy today largely because of the improved production values for TV in the ensuing decades.

Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice far surpassed the cop shows of the previous decade (the former introducing that annoying documentary shaky-cam, and the latter embracing music video aesthetics).

Then David Lynch raised the TV bar (both creatively and production wise) with Twin Peaks, followed by such innovative TV epics as The Sopranos, Lost, and Game of Thrones

Sitcoms didn't evolve so extensively, though after the BBC's The Office, many now also use documentary shaky-cams.