With millions of dollars at stake in a robbery, Joe has work to do... and the bodies start to pile up. Fasten your seatbelts.
Robert Friend directed this red hot to trot adventure, who worked on many westerns and in a few years would direct a popular Tarzan movie, TARZANS DEADLY SILENCE, starring Ron Ely. Joe gets bounced around a lot and all because he followed a hunch? That alone will be a common theme in the series. The question is why was an ex-con killed, and was he about to contact Joe?
I agree with the last reviewer. Joe gets beat up and where are the bandaids and arm slings? Actually, when we were kids, we never really paid attention to that angle because Mannix was like a mini battleship anyway.
Special guest star is Kathryn Hays, playing Betsy. In a few years, she would be cast on AS THE WORLD TURNS, and would remain with the show until its final episode in 2010. Hays passed in 2022.
Actress/singer Marti Stevens plays Mrs. O'Farrell. Stevens sang around the world and her claim to fame was when she ACTUALLY hid the Queen of Greece in her home who was being chased by protestors and gave her a drink! She co-starred in many episodes of the classic British soap opera EMERGENCY WARD before coming back to Hollywood. There should have been a tv movie about Marti, ya think?
Look for Telly Savalas' brother, George in a bit as a cop, a prelude to KOJAK.
To answer the notes stating there was no windshield in the Chrysler. That's because of reflection in many cases, and removing a windshield is a lot of work. It could also be done by just adjusting the angle of the car. If you watch closely, mostly older tv shows, every so often you can catch a missing windshield.
For all of us travel addicts, parts of this episode were filmed at the famous King Gillette Ranch at Calabasas, California, near Malibu. The wildlife habitat features 75,000 acres of land that includes winding roads, caves and even old missle sites! The irony behind it all is that King Gillette, who invented disposal razor blades, nearly went broke putting all his millions into real estate. But, the ranch was a WISE investment.
Recommended for thrill seekers. SEASON 2 EPISODE 5 remastered dvd box set.