Mannix tv show

Just to get the topic back on S&W firearms; in the early seasons Mannix drove a super customized Barris creation based on the Olds Toronado (Floating bull) and carried a Walther PPK in a funky mechanical holster. All the bad guys carried 2" S&W Model 10 6-shot revolvers. In the later seasons he was a lone Private Eye with a a-typical sexytary and he carried a S&W M-10 2" revolver and all the bad guys carried PPKs. Geoff Who remembers a few episodes. Regretfully Shell Scott never made it from the paperbacks to the little screen.
 
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Skeptic 9c said:
Just to get the topic back on S&W firearms; in the early seasons Mannix drove a super customized Barris creation based on the Olds Toronado (Floating bull) and carried a Walther PPK in a funky mechanical holster. All the bad guns carried 2" S&W Model 10 6-shot revolvers. In the later seasons he was a lone Private Eye with a a-typical sexytary and he carried a S&W M-10 2" revolver and all the bad guys carried PPKs. Geoff Who remembers a few episodes. Regretfully Shell Scott never made it from the paperbacks to the little screen.
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Geoff-

He had a Detective Spcl., not a S&W. Look carefully. I may have missed an M-10 episode.
 
Definitely a Colt Detective Special.

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Long ago, I ran into a celebrating Mike Conners/Krekor Ohanian (may he rest in peace) and he bought me and a few friends rounds of drinks at a party he was hosting at Rick's on Westheimer. Seemed like a nice guy, knew how lucky he was, he gave one drunk buddy a (legitimate) ride home.
 
I remember that show and loved it. Been a long time and had forgotten about it. My dad smoked and smoking in the house, office and car were never anything I ever thought about and I don't think many people did. I smoked for years and loved it but quit a number of years ago and glad I did. Thinking back I think you could smoke pretty much anywhere you wanted to.
 
Rockford Files, Cagney & Lacey, NYPD Blue, Mannixx are some of my favs. I record NYPD Blue now during the wee hours and watch them daytime now. Mike Hammer was another pretty good one.
 
The konks on the head would have had him in a nursing home the first season. There used to be a video of all the headshots he took, but it's gone now. Pretty funny.
 
Skeptic 9c said:
Joe Mannix got beat up more than Matt Helm.

Geoff
Who selected a S&W Model 38 because of Donald Hamilton.
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After the M-60 appeared, Helm' s agency switched to those, but his description of earlier guns did indeed seem to be the M-38. Good catch.
 
I love watching those shows again, Dragnet, Combat, Wagon Train, Death Valley days...

Smoking was much more prevalent then, I was in the Coast Guard and was transferred to New York City in 1971. You smoke in movie theaters if you were seated in the loge, lol!
 
MANNIX, with Gail Fisher as Peggy. I think she had a son named Toby. Those old shows always had smokers because tobacco companies sponsored most of them. I always remembered Chuck Connors was a tougher dude than Mike. Were they brothers?
 
Texas Star said:
After the M-60 appeared, Helm' s agency switched to those, but his description of earlier guns did indeed seem to be the M-38. Good catch.
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There was a comment about other agencies getting the Stainless Steel guns and he was still using a blued revolver.

Geoff
Who noted the early references were to the Model 38, but not by name.
 
Skeptic 9c said:
There was a comment about other agencies getting the Stainless Steel guns and he was still using a blued revolver.

Geoff
Who noted the early references were to the Model 38, but not by name.
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Helm's exposure to the M-60 began in the book set in Hawaii. The Betrayers?
 
After watching several seasons worth of this fine show, it appears that the property folks only had Colt DS and Walther PPK's to use on the set.

Either in a shoulder holster, cross draw or small of back.

Uniformed officers all had a 6" Model 10 it seems and Mannix's opponents all used a Walther....wait, one bad guy used a P-38

Still a fun show with very interesting plot lines.

Randy

PS. Where did they find all of those really cool cars anyway?
 
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Let's not forget the Rockford files ;)
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Mannix, Cannon, Baretta, Kojak, Dragnet, Hawaii 5-0, Starsky & Hutch, Police Woman, Hunter, Cagney & Lacey, Columbo, Hill Street Blues, there used to be a lot of good cop shows.
Now, not so much...
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Private investigators are largely a Hollywood invention. Useful for a dramatic story line, but not the best possible career choice.

Standard joke among cops is that "private investigator" is synonymous with "unemployed" or "retired with nothing else to do".

A hundred years ago things were different. There was no FBI and most law enforcement agencies had little in the way of skilled investigative staff. Pinkertons National Detective Agency and a few others were in big demand for the banking and insurance companies. Anything that crossed jurisdictional lines was largely ignored unless the victims were willing to open up the checkbook to safeguard their interests.

In more modern times the Internet has provided more resources for more potential clientele than any private investigation service could possibly compete with. Background investigations, skip-tracing, data mining, all available with a click of the button and payment of a modest fee. The nationwide credit reporting agencies can provide more information about most people than a hundred gum shoe detectives could uncover in years of traditional detective work (employment history, residence history, public records like marriages/divorces/lawsuits), all available to authorized subscribers for a fee.

But reality doesn't sell toothpaste, deodorant, soda pop, or cigarettes.
 
LoboGunLeather said:
In more modern times the Internet has provided more resources for more potential clientele than any private investigation service could possibly compete with. Background investigations, skip-tracing, data mining, all available with a click of the button and payment of a modest fee. The nationwide credit reporting agencies can provide more information about most people than a hundred gum shoe detectives could uncover in years of traditional detective work (employment history, residence history, public records like marriages/divorces/lawsuits), all available to authorized subscribers for a fee.
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Even in pre-Internet days a lot of detective work could be done if you knew where to look. Back in the 1990s, the firm I worked for was a policy writing agent for several title insurance underwriters, and we were hired to track down an heir who back in 1957 inherited a small undivided interest in some real property in Frederick County, MD and then promptly disappeared. So I went to the Register of Wills Office and found estates for some of the older heirs from the 1957 estate, complete with names and addresses for the next tier of heirs. Armed with this information, a Rand McNally atlas to find the towns where the next tier of heirs lived, and a telephone book to find the area codes for these towns, I got telephone numbers from directory assistance and started burning the phone lines. I was referred to a somewhat older lady who supposedly knew everybody in the family. She seemed a little suspicious when I called her, but I played it straight with her and told her who I was looking for and why. She started asking me questions about that family and when I could accurately answer about who was related to who and how, she apparently figured I was legitimate and told me how to find the fellow I was looking for. So we contacted him, paid him some money and he signed a deed for the outstanding interest in the subject property. All done with no computers or internet, just the right paper documents. This probably sounds like ancient history now.
 
I know an ex deputy sheriff that resigned and has gone into full time PI work. She does a lot of insurance fraud investigations for several clients, and also child custody cases. She stays busy and seems to be doing well financially at it.
 
We always thought that Mannix looked like my dad. I know he smoked like him.

In dorm rooms at Air Force tech school we were allow TV's. Since everyone was there right out of basic and transient no on owned one. There was place that rented TV's by the month. Charlie's Angels caused a shortage of rentals available. Also had the classic red swim suit Farrah Fawcett poster.
 
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