> I was a huge Mannix fan as a kid. I don't remember being drawn to his > emotional involvement, but I do remember how striking it was to have an > African American actress in a pretty important role, and for the most part > how matter of factly they treated it.
Mission:Impossible, which was also produced by Bruce Geller, was equally matter-of-fact about the greatest engineer in the history of fiction being black. (Barney Collier, played by Greg Morris.) I was particularly impressed by how they were willing to have him portray a soldier in an Eastern European country without anybody batting an eye. > A few years ago I caught a few episodes - yikes! The show does not age > well -a lot of really cheap looking backlot exteriors, and clunky writing, acting > and editing. MeTV currently shows it overnight. Your description is accurate. (Right now, they're still in the first season, when Mannix worked in a computerized agency run by Joe Campanella. It wasn't until season 2 that he went out on his own and hired Peggy.) > The death of MTM had many of us thinking of those classic CBS Saturday > night schedules (when Saturday night was a prime night for network TV) and > I want to say that Mannix was the 10:00 pm closer in the early years of > those great CBS Comedies, though at some point I think it became Carol > Burnett. According to Wiki, Mannix was on at 10:00 Saturdays from when it went on the air in 1967 until 1971. It moved to Wednesdays at 10 in '71-72, and then to Sundays for the rest of its run. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
