I have been watching all the "Mannix" episodes on DVD and was shocked at how terrible this episode was. Aside from some nifty underwater cinematography, there really is nothing to recommend this dopey episode...nothing!
The episode begins with a couple aboard a fancy sailboat down around Cabo San Lucas. When the husband disappears below to make drinks, he returns to find no trace of his wife! He soon contacts Mannix to look into the case and almost as soon as this happens, the wife turns up safe--explaining how she'd escaped from kidnappers who had used scuba equipment to capture her from the boat. However, who they are is a mystery and Mannix stays on the case to discover who they are. Of course, folks start dying and the story gets interesting (a code for really, really stupid). Why stupid? Well here are only a few reasons: a guy calls Mannix and says to meet him so he can tell Mannix what REALLY is going on and naturally the guy is killed just as he's making a confession (cliche #3 from detective shows), the real leader of the kidnapping ring is the wife's EVIL TWIN that she never knew about (I am not kidding...an honest-to- goodness evil twin!) and the evil twin is shot and dies just AFTER she and her sister meet for the first time! It's all very contrived and silly and it's the only episode I can recall that just felt embarrassing to watch. Yecch!
The episode begins with a couple aboard a fancy sailboat down around Cabo San Lucas. When the husband disappears below to make drinks, he returns to find no trace of his wife! He soon contacts Mannix to look into the case and almost as soon as this happens, the wife turns up safe--explaining how she'd escaped from kidnappers who had used scuba equipment to capture her from the boat. However, who they are is a mystery and Mannix stays on the case to discover who they are. Of course, folks start dying and the story gets interesting (a code for really, really stupid). Why stupid? Well here are only a few reasons: a guy calls Mannix and says to meet him so he can tell Mannix what REALLY is going on and naturally the guy is killed just as he's making a confession (cliche #3 from detective shows), the real leader of the kidnapping ring is the wife's EVIL TWIN that she never knew about (I am not kidding...an honest-to- goodness evil twin!) and the evil twin is shot and dies just AFTER she and her sister meet for the first time! It's all very contrived and silly and it's the only episode I can recall that just felt embarrassing to watch. Yecch!