Mannix: Eagles Sometimes Can't Fly (1969)
Season 3, Episode 1
5/10
Peggy needs better friends
1 December 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The other reviewer covered things pretty well. Sure enough, the two friends are idiots. They are idiots in the liquor store and idiots for running. There is enough evidence at the scene to clear them. Plus, they left their suitcases at the scene so the police have their names. They run to Peggy's place and she calls Joe. Great! Joe is working for free again. Our two idiots lock Joe and Peg in the closet and there is a cheap sliding bolt on the outside of the closet. Who has a lock on the outside of the hall closet? Joe breaks out in five seconds. For a wounded man, Jimmy Whitewing can get the adrenaline pumping and manages to escape the police by going out a window and later gets in a fight and runs from Mannix. Joe gets knocked out again. The two idiot friends have a falling out. One, Brad (Georg Stanford Brown) tries to commit suicide for no real reason and then escapes jail. At the end the two friends reunite just in time to fight each other as Whitewing accuses Brad of selling him out. There is the chase and Jimmy almost falls to his death. This last part is after the case has already been solved. Robert Reed is better here than his last time out. Celeste Yarnell is always pretty. The acting is fine but the many lapses in logic makes for a mediocre episode.
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