I love Mannix and bought all eight seasons of the series. This is probably the worst episode I've seen. Lou and Peggy address Joe in the same rude manner, offer the same apology, and continue as if they'd never apologized. It's obvious there's a new writer here (Shimon Wincelberg) who's making the characters sound like him instead of themselves. Add a kid you know is innocent who does everything imaginable to obscure that fact, and you have a fanfic where Mike Connors and Gail Fisher struggle to be Joe and Peggy. OK social commentary, but none of it feels real.