Word: mannix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JOSEPH MANNIX Washington...
Savalas' Kojak is far less violent and ready for the chase than CBS'S Mannix. He solves crimes with his head, like a Polish Sherlock Holmes. In last week's episode, fragments from a dead man's glasses ultimately led him to the heart of a crooked urban-renewal scheme. This week he pieces together clues from a drug addict that set him on the trail of a fellow detective turned criminal...
...uniform (Adam-12, The Rookies), in disguise (Toma), in court (Perry Mason, Owen Marshall) and in hayseed (Lawyer Hawkins, McCloud). They are black (Shaft, Tenafly), elderly (The Snoop Sisters), bald (Kojak), Polish (Banacek), portly (Cannon), paralytic (Ironside) and partly computer (The Six Million Dollar Man). They work alone (Mannix), in pairs (The Streets of San Francisco, Faraday and Company, McMillan & Wife), and in precision-movement teams (Chase, Hawaii Five...
Indeed, NBC has already announced that the start of its new season will be postponed for at least two weeks; the other networks could be forced to follow suit. Such favorites as The Odd Couple, Mannix and Mission: Impossible are likely to be affected. Others, however, will not be, since they are produced by independent production companies. Some 150 independents- which produce from 25% to 50% of prime- time programming - have settled with the writers. As a result, such shows as All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Maude will be ready to start the fall season...
Rock Requiem, by Lalo Schifrin (Verve, $5.98). An adept, well-intended tribute to the victims of Viet Nam, unfortunately lacking the snap and originality that Schifrin brings to his commercial Hollywood scores (Mission: Impossible, Mannix...