The other review for this episode and the previous one are pretty much in line with mine. They clearly are bad shows...and as I said about part 1, I am pretty sure this was actually a "Mission: Impossible" episode reworked or perhaps one written for that show but not used. The creators of both shows was Bruce Geller...and yet in this one, Mannix is abroad on a secret espionage mission doing pretty much the same stuff the IM Force would have done. But since that show finished production a year earlier, they just used it here. You can only assume that a private eye and surgeon were sent in on the mission because the real spies were all out sick or on strike!!
At the end of part one, Mannix and the world-famous heart surgeon (John Colicos) were about to begin surgery on the dying head of the resistance in an unnamed country. But, the Doc finds that someone destroyed the pacemaker Mannix smuggled into the country. So they have to go on a mission to steal one. And, once they have it, the world-famous heart surgeon can do the surgery no other doctor can do (at least that's what they said in the script)...install a pacemaker (not a difficult surgery in 1974). The big problem is that almost nothing else happens in the episode other than the pair sneaking away at the end in disguises...so it's very obviously a super- heavily padded episode. I am not sure if there was enough material to do everything in one episode instead of two...but there clearly wasn't enough for two full episodes. What you are left with is some fighting, an explosion, some serious continuity errors and a show that might have worked fine...had it been "Mission: Impossible". As it is, the show is a nonsensical and silly one...and one I'd just as soon forget.
At the end of part one, Mannix and the world-famous heart surgeon (John Colicos) were about to begin surgery on the dying head of the resistance in an unnamed country. But, the Doc finds that someone destroyed the pacemaker Mannix smuggled into the country. So they have to go on a mission to steal one. And, once they have it, the world-famous heart surgeon can do the surgery no other doctor can do (at least that's what they said in the script)...install a pacemaker (not a difficult surgery in 1974). The big problem is that almost nothing else happens in the episode other than the pair sneaking away at the end in disguises...so it's very obviously a super- heavily padded episode. I am not sure if there was enough material to do everything in one episode instead of two...but there clearly wasn't enough for two full episodes. What you are left with is some fighting, an explosion, some serious continuity errors and a show that might have worked fine...had it been "Mission: Impossible". As it is, the show is a nonsensical and silly one...and one I'd just as soon forget.