"Let's Hear It for a Living Legend" is the first regular episode of "Banacek".....following a TV movie the previous Spring.
When the story begins, Banacek is in a pretty lady's apartment. But instead of paying attention to her, he wants to watch the football game on TV....indication that Banacek might just be crazy! Anyway, on the telecast Banacek and thousands of others see the seemingly impossible....a player disappears after he is tackled!! What makes this Banacek's business is that there is an insurance policy on the player who disappeared....and he STILL is missing. And unlike most private eye type TV characters, Banacek makes his fortune finding lost things for insurance companies.
I liked this premier episode. Banacek not only was an interesting character, but they were able to actually make this impossible crime seem possible. Well executed and worth seeing.
By the way, a tiny part of the show involves having an expert try to read the lips of some folks caught on film. Unlike some shows and movies where they make it look simple, here the expert is only able to get pieces of the conversation....a very realistic thing. My daughter happens to be deaf and folks assume, wrongly, that folks can learn to easily read lips (also called speech reading)....but this really is not possible and the results are far from perfect.