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See No Evil (S6 E13)
The screen capture view is from Hollywood High School (1521 North Highland Avenue, Hollywood).
Off in the distance is a beautiful old building on the right side of the screen. What building is that? IMDb doesn't list it among filming locations.
The episode itself rates a 5 out of 10.
First National Bank 6777 Hollywood Blvd. A fellow FSMer who doesn't post anymore answered my query in seconds flat.
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Just out of curiosity on whether AI could id that building, I just had Google search for that building on my phone. And it came up with just what A & C said - fascinating to me when this newfangled AI stuff works!
Um, ok, back to Mannix and so on.
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Just out of curiosity on whether AI could id that building, I just had Google search for that building on my phone. And it came up with just what A & C said - fascinating to me when this newfangled AI stuff works!
Um, ok, back to Mannix and so on.
Art history degree in this case.
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Thank you, gents! I know next-to-nothing about Los Angeles except as a terrifying locale for countless detective stories.
I don't understand A&C's reference to an art history degree, but then I never understand anything FSM's great intellects discuss.
In this case, the art history degree trumped AI.
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Apr 18, 2025 - 1:41 AM
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A Game of Shadows (S6 E15)
Plot: The head of an electronics firm arrives home to find his wife drowned at the bottom of their pool, just as one of his rising young associates flees the scene.
A convoluted plot that I just accepted and watched to see what Mannix would have to endure as he navigated it all.
A wild and varied cast: Meg Foster, Paul Stevens (who's NOT the villain for a change), Natalie Schafer, Marta Kristen, and an eccentric, wide-eyed performance from Alan Bergmann, a Desilu Trifecta alumnus (Mannix, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek).
The finale takes place at Marina Del Rey's Undersea Gardens.
The episode has an 8.1 IMDb rating.
My Rating: 7 out of 10.
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Apr 19, 2025 - 4:17 AM
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Jim Phelps
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The Man Who Wasn't There (S6 E16)
Bumping my review for what is my favorite episode of Mannix. Sure, the "Korean War psycho retuurns to kill Joe" had already been done a few times before, but it was perfected here. I am also declaring the murky flashback in the communist P.O.W. camp my all-time favorite scene from the series. Joe's line, "We sort of sat around watching hell freeze over" and the way he delivers it is perfection.
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Lyle Foster (Clu Gulager) is another of Joe’s Korean War POW “colleagues” who tries to kill him. Sure, this plot has been done numerous times, but director Sutton Roley has every scene—they really feel like setpieces—blocked and lit in his typically interesting way. I particularly enjoyed the silhouette of Gulager in his motel room as he menacingly cackles at Joe over the phone.
The first quarter of the episode is effectively eerie, as Joe tries to determine who is stalking him. The music score is probably reused from other episodes, but a superb cue heard in a scene in Joe’s office sounds like Schifrin.
There’s a decent fight in a nautically-themed restaurant. In this scene, Arthur Batanides resembles his character actor counterpart Richard “Carmine Ricca” Devon. Curse those early ‘70s sideburns and pasted comb overs.
This episode has a blink-and-you’ll-miss-him cameo by Ken Lynch. Robert Middleton has a standout performance. Middleton plays Jake Coryell, a hefty organized crime figure getting a workout at the gym.
Mannix has a good line when remembering his time spent in a North Korean POW camp: “We sort of sat around watching hell freeze over.”
The POW camp scene is blurrily yet strikingly shot in white and icy-blue with what appears to be some sort of snowfall effect. North Korean brutality is shown—unlike on episodes of M*A*S*H—as Joe gets smashed with a rifle butt.
Foster is not mentioned as having been in Mannix’s platoon, so it’s unclear as to whether Foster and he met in the camp. Mannix, however, is a “Screw continuity!” show, so it doesn’t matter. The finale and Foster’s demise are a little disappointing, but the highly-entertaining journey makes up for it.
My Rating 10/10
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