Mannix

Peggy calls Mannix when her young black male friend and his wounded partner show up, as innocent bystanders from a deadly liquor store robbery.

A shady lawyer suspected of throwing Joe's friend from a high-rise, hires him to look for a woman he claims he nearly ran over during the time of the crime.

Jean McBride, an old flame of Joe Mannix' who still lives in his hometown of Summer Grove, appears in his office one evening. Jean is married to Troy McBride, who once quarterbacked the Summer Grove football team on which Mannix also played. But now a double-tragedy has befallen Troy -- he is in an iron lung as a result of an accident, and has also been charged with murder.

Mannix is hired to look into who's trying to kill a movie studio's popular, but non-believing, arrogant male star.

Benjamin Holland, a former physician, runs a general store in a small town up the coast from Los Angeles. Holland lost his medical license two years earlier when he reported the wrong lab results to a surgeon and then disappeared from the hospital without permission.

Three thugs hold Mannix, Peggy, and a woman hostage, claiming they want the $312,000 she has in a briefcase at home, but they may be after something even more valuable.

Maggie Wells, the secretary of a private investigator who was murdered, is on her way to see Joe Mannix. The cab driver taking her there fails to follow the route to Mannix' office, and then attempts to shoot her, but she is able to escape.

A husband is driving his wife home after their anniversary celebration when he apparently runs down a man on a darkened street. The couple returns to the scene but can find no evidence of the man they thought they hit.

Mannix is grazed by a bullet which causes his blindness indefinitely, and then he's conditioned by an ex-marine for a possible return of his would-be killer.

The president of a corporation reported lost at sea, secretly returns to Mannix claiming his small plane was sabotaged and to try to find out who tried to kill him.

Sun and Sky, the horse favored to win the Kentucky Derby and possibly the Triple Crown, is being shipped to Kentucky to participate in the upcoming race. During the flight, however, all four members of the cargo plane's crew are overcome by some kind of drug, though the pilot manages to radio a distress call before losing consciousness.

Peggy has an old friend named Eve Chancellor, whose husband Jim started on the police force at the same time as Peggy's late husband. Eve is concerned about her son Cap, who has dropped out of school and spends much of his time away from home without accounting for his activities.

In a story reminiscent of "Rashomon," Mannix is hired by publishing executive George Diamond to locate Diamond's secretary, Winifred Hill. Hill may -- or may not -- have seen Diamond attempt to push his estranged wife, Stella, into the ocean near his beach house.

Mannix is hired by a bank to search for Paul Gantry, an Australian sailor who stands to inherit a sizable sum of money. To find him, Mannix goes under cover at the waterfront posing as a sailor looking for any of his "shipmates" from a recently sunken freighter, the Harlequin, on which Gantry served as one of the crew.

Three attempts are made on Mannix' life within a short period of time, and the killers were each offered a substantial sum of money to do the job. Mannix concludes that the only man who hated him enough to put out these contracts on his life was Frank Bauer, whom he captured and helped put in jail for a murder and robbery in Nevada.

When Mannix tries to find out what a disturbed little girl knows about her murdered doctor and $150,000 in stolen bonds, they both become marked for assassination.

Peggy and her son are held hostage by men who want the evidence that Mannix has, that proves his detective friend was murdered.

A controversial television interviewer telephones a shadowy figure named Harry Armitage for the "hot seat" segment of his show, accusing Armitage of bribery and influence peddling.

A young woman who has entered a county fair competition in a rural community north of Los Angeles disappears, and her wealthy father hires Joe Mannix to look for her. As Mannix begins his investigation, everyone he interviews claims that the woman never arrived in town.

Mannix helps his carnival owner friend find out if any of the workers are causing accidents that might be attempts on her life.