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- Mannix's dying friend's words give him a clue as to why he accidentally killed another man, took a woman hostage, and what organization he was involved in.
- Against his better judgment, Mannix agrees to look into the case of a young man who twice robbed the same pharmacy seeking drugs. The second time, he shot one of the employees, but even though the police had the pharmacy staked out, he managed to escape. The accused man's wife hires Mannix, insisting that her husband was incapable of committing such a crime. Mannix initially finds little to encourage him, but as he delves into the background of the man who was shot, he finds that the police account of what supposedly happened doesn't add up.
- Peggy is kidnapped under orders of a crime boss to force Mannix to find an undercover man in his organization, whom he intends to have killed.
- It's not Hooray For Hollywood when Joe must solve the murder of a wealthy businessman and protect his wife, who was performing in a charity show and may have been the intended victim.
- An author, preparing a book about a well-publicized murder case in a small California city, is killed when his yacht blows up. The author's publisher hires Mannix to find the book's last chapter, which is said to solve the murder case. Mannix encounters a hostile police chief who wants to chase him off and an oil-company executive wanting to buy him off. Mannix refuses the bribe and endures a beating by the corrupt police chief but remains committed to finding the missing chapter.
- Joe Mannix is hired by a secretive businessman named Alton K. Moore, who wants Mannix to look for his son Cal, a college basketball player who has been missing for several days. Although the case takes Mannix back to his alma mater, he has his doubts about Moore, who insists on meeting in remote places instead of at his office. His concerns about the elder Moore -- and the serious trouble that Cal may be in -- begin to seem justified when several thugs begin shadowing Mannix during his search.
- A woman awakens from a year long coma only to discover that someone wants to kill her. The reason why is a complete mystery and Mannix takes her case, which puts him in the middle of two feuding organized crime families.
- The head of an electronics firm arrives home to find his wife drowned at the bottom of their pool, just as one of his rising young associates flees the scene. It looks like an open-and-shut case to the police, but the missing man's girlfriend insists that he is innocent, and asks Mannix to find the man and assist him. Mannix reluctantly takes the case, but the mystery soon deepens as Mannix discovers that the man may have had other identities -- and secrets aplenty in his past.
- Mannix is at his college football team's reunion in a ghost town when members start getting murdered and a teammate that did not show up, is suspected.
- Joe Mannix is visited by Portia and Penelope Penhaven, two elderly, eccentric sisters who insist that Mannix investigate a hit-and-run earlier that day, which damaged one of the headlights on their ancient automobile. Amused by their request, and overborne by Portia's forceful personality, Mannix agrees to look into the matter, but discovers that the vehicle that hit them was taken from a rental lot, apparently without the knowledge of the lot's owner. Digging deeper, however, Mannix soon discovers that the hit-and-run might be related to a murder committed nor far away on that same day.
- Confirmed bachelor Art Malcolm gets married, but his bride is soon killed in a drive-by shooting. Joe comes to his aid when Art is suspected of the murder of her accused killer.
- Three thugs hold Mannix, Peggy, and a woman hostage, claiming they want the $312,000 she has in a briefcase at home, but they may be after something even more valuable.
- A woman enters an apartment, is attacked and then thrown over a balcony to her death. The police conclude it is suicide, thanks in part to a phony suicide note. Friends of the woman's family hire Mannix to prove it's really a murder case so the woman can be buried in accordance with her faith. Despite his own doubts, Mannix becomes convinced it is a murder case. Yet the woman's father doesn't want the detective to pursue the case and then his clients abruptly terminate his services. Mannix, however, is determined to pursue the case.
- William Avery is released after serving a prison sentence for embezzlement, but almost immediately dies in a car accident. Someone nevertheless begins to stalk his daughter, apparently believing that she knows where the missing money is hidden. Though Avery's daughter insists that her father was innocent, she hires Joe Mannix to protect her -- and Mannix concludes that the best way to help her is to re-open an investigation of the theft, to find out who from Avery's past would still want to find the missing funds.
- Joe Mannix refers four cases to down-on-his-luck fellow private eye Jerry Henderson. But when Henderson is murdered, Mannix suspects that it was because of one of the four cases he referred -- an extortion case, a divorce involving infidelity, a drug overdose victim's father, and a man being pressured by a loan shark. Feeling responsible for Henderson's death, Mannix decides to look into each case himself to find out whether one of them resulted in his friend's death.
- Benjamin Holland, a former physician, runs a general store in a small town up the coast from Los Angeles. Holland lost his medical license two years earlier when he reported the wrong lab results to a surgeon and then disappeared from the hospital without permission. Now he is being prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license because he administered life-saving treatment to a young boy. His girlfriend, a woman named Andrea, is an old friend of Joe Mannix from their college days, when she was "queen of the freshman ball." She believes that the solution to Holland's current troubles is to clear his name in the incident that led to the revocation of his medical license. Despite Holland's refusal to cooperate, Mannix agrees to look into the matter for Andrea.
- A down-and-out boxer is rundown by a hit-and-run driver. His only fan, a young boy, hires Joe to prove it was murder.
- A suddenly demanded ransom of $250,000, leads to Mannix to becoming involved in an unsolved and closed case regarding a kidnapped boy....which took place over 5 years ago.
- A widow hires Mannix to try and prove murder when two scuba divers drown her husband and make it look like an accident.
- After spending three weeks incommunicado on a fishing trip, Mannix returns to Los Angeles to learn that his buddy from the Korean War, Harry Endicott, has apparently been killed in a plane crash. Finding a letter from Endicott appealing for help that was mailed the day before the crash, Mannix decides to run down some leads in Endicott's hometown of San Francisco. But upon his arrival, Mannix finds the mystery much deeper than he suspected - when first several people claim to have seen Mannix in the past few days, and then he locates an apartment where everything seems to confirm that Mannix has been living in San Francisco for a lengthy period of time.
- Mannix can't find the lady who he saw being attacked in her yard by 2 men, but he does find out that a woman was murdered there under the same scenario a year before.
- The lovely niece of a Korean War veteran is killed with a blow to her neck, and Mannix looks at evidence that suggests an ex-member of his old army unit murdered her.
- While on a helicopter Mannix sees a woman with a man choking her. When he gets to the place, they deny anything has happened. Mannix has few leads and no police cooperation (they don't believe him) until a woman appears with her own story.
- A man named Tom Farnon suspects his wife of having an affair, and follows her to his boat where she is to meet her lover. But a shot rings out, the other man flees, the boat explodes, and Farnon finds himself a suspect in her murder. Farnon approaches Joe Mannix and asks Mannix to learn the identity of the man she met. The best lead Mannix has is Phil Rand, another private investigator who once worked for Farnon -- but Rand insists that Mrs. Farnon never had an affair.
- Joe is trying to find a missing teenage boy who was acquitted of murder on a technicality. The boy's small town is convinced he did it and Chief Harry Decken is not helpful.