Cannon is hired to investigate two fatal dog attacks on former Vietnam combat unit members, and to stop another attack.Cannon is hired to investigate two fatal dog attacks on former Vietnam combat unit members, and to stop another attack.Cannon is hired to investigate two fatal dog attacks on former Vietnam combat unit members, and to stop another attack.
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REVENGE AND THE DOBERMANS!
Number one: the acting is excellent. Number two: not a bad script, but extremely violent.
Dobermans were featured in quite a few dramas at this time. Writers "borrowing" ideas from other shows? Comes to mind a controversial ABC movie of the week called TRAPPED, where poor James Brolin was locked in a department store, having to fend off a pack of skilled Doberman security dogs. More over, there was an incredibly violent episode of COLUMBO where a victim was mauled to death in his house. Actually, that episode is one in the series that is NOT frequently re-run, perhaps due to the content.
This episode begins as a man is hunting in a remote area and attacked and killed by a Doberman. It's not for the squeamish, and the camera cuts to his thermos spilling all his coffee instead of blood. Jack Turley wrote this one, who at the time was also writing for the F. B. I, later for GENERAL HOSPITAL.
The dog attacks tie into a tale of revenge with a war angle. Mannix had a lot of these encounters, where either Joe or one of his clients were the subject of some maniac trying to even the score, due to a past incident on the battlefield in Korea. Jack Turley probably ran with the idea for this story. In this case, members of a Vietnam combat unit are being savagely killed, blamed for their commander being paralyzed in a botched attack.
Geoffrey Duel (who resembled his late actor brother) plays the care giver for his brother (Jim McMullan), a wheelchair bound victim, and naturally one of the suspects. Duel was a very good actor and fits perfectly in this cat and mouse game. Also look for Ford Rainey as a grizzled rancher who bumps heads with Cannon (and also has snarling dogs). Rainey bounced back and forth between this show and Mannix, usually playing someone's dad or grandpa. McMullan is best known for playing Senator Dowling on DALLAS.
There's a lot of emotions at play here, and you really have to feel sorry for the victim. There's a clever bit as McMullan taps out codes to Cannon; he's unable to talk, which is not all that fictional. There were vets who had no choice but communicate in this fashion. It's commendable light was shed on the thousands of Vietnam vets (in the early 70s as the war was nearing an end) who dealt with traumatic injuries.
9 Stars.
Yes, I agree with the last reviewer. Just for a second, I also thought McMullan was NOT paralyzed and playing some sort of a game.
One to see, but going in a far different direction, if you can take the violence. SEASON 3 EPISODE 4 remastered CBS dvd box set. 6 dvd box series/ 20 hrs 2012. The dvds are colored in blue.
Dobermans were featured in quite a few dramas at this time. Writers "borrowing" ideas from other shows? Comes to mind a controversial ABC movie of the week called TRAPPED, where poor James Brolin was locked in a department store, having to fend off a pack of skilled Doberman security dogs. More over, there was an incredibly violent episode of COLUMBO where a victim was mauled to death in his house. Actually, that episode is one in the series that is NOT frequently re-run, perhaps due to the content.
This episode begins as a man is hunting in a remote area and attacked and killed by a Doberman. It's not for the squeamish, and the camera cuts to his thermos spilling all his coffee instead of blood. Jack Turley wrote this one, who at the time was also writing for the F. B. I, later for GENERAL HOSPITAL.
The dog attacks tie into a tale of revenge with a war angle. Mannix had a lot of these encounters, where either Joe or one of his clients were the subject of some maniac trying to even the score, due to a past incident on the battlefield in Korea. Jack Turley probably ran with the idea for this story. In this case, members of a Vietnam combat unit are being savagely killed, blamed for their commander being paralyzed in a botched attack.
Geoffrey Duel (who resembled his late actor brother) plays the care giver for his brother (Jim McMullan), a wheelchair bound victim, and naturally one of the suspects. Duel was a very good actor and fits perfectly in this cat and mouse game. Also look for Ford Rainey as a grizzled rancher who bumps heads with Cannon (and also has snarling dogs). Rainey bounced back and forth between this show and Mannix, usually playing someone's dad or grandpa. McMullan is best known for playing Senator Dowling on DALLAS.
There's a lot of emotions at play here, and you really have to feel sorry for the victim. There's a clever bit as McMullan taps out codes to Cannon; he's unable to talk, which is not all that fictional. There were vets who had no choice but communicate in this fashion. It's commendable light was shed on the thousands of Vietnam vets (in the early 70s as the war was nearing an end) who dealt with traumatic injuries.
9 Stars.
Yes, I agree with the last reviewer. Just for a second, I also thought McMullan was NOT paralyzed and playing some sort of a game.
One to see, but going in a far different direction, if you can take the violence. SEASON 3 EPISODE 4 remastered CBS dvd box set. 6 dvd box series/ 20 hrs 2012. The dvds are colored in blue.
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