Mannix: Walk on the Blind Side (1974)
Season 8, Episode 4
8/10
Well, I liked it.
25 May 2021
When I was a kid, I knew Mannix to be a very boring show. I didn't understand anything but one thing I knew: Peggy was a very pretty lady and I liked her. She is the star of the show here. The bad guy who abducts her is charming enough and they had a moment where I thought they were going to kiss, but then he pushed her off onto the couch.

Peggy is wearing coral lipstick. Bright coral. Mannix often worse a touch of pale coral in the center and towards the inside of his bottom lip. In fact, even many of his female scene co-stars wore it in the same fashion, from the same tube. It looked odd. But Peggy pulls off the coral lipstick well. It matches her coral coat. Now, Mannix is in the 10 min from the end scene, and he is wearing that pale coral lipstick on his bottom lip: it matches the pale orange squares of his dreadfully checkered jacket.

The scene where Mannix checks out th bad guy's place (Lonny's) is weird; why would the bad guy have a for sale sign outside, if he's doing bad guy things, like abducting Peggy inside the house? Hmm...

I have no idea how the episode ends, but I hope Peggy and Lonny get married and he becomes Mannix second banana. The guy has too much style and class not to be in every Mannix episode. At least, it would make it watchable for me. He looks great in a pale blue itchy linen suit.

I'm giving it 8 stars because Mannix is still a boring show. I mean when Peggy drops a can, why do the bad guys look that way? Couldn't it be a cat or a ghost? Or the ghost of a cat? The actress who played Peggy became a cocaine addict and that put a damper on my liking her as a kid. Actors who worked as P. I.'s cops or secretaries for Mannix ought never mess with the drugs. The end.
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