Peter Haskell is famous ex-QB Marty Hatch. He's mixed up with a mobster's girl friend and Joe has to save them from a hit man.Peter Haskell is famous ex-QB Marty Hatch. He's mixed up with a mobster's girl friend and Joe has to save them from a hit man.Peter Haskell is famous ex-QB Marty Hatch. He's mixed up with a mobster's girl friend and Joe has to save them from a hit man.
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- (as Claudio Martinez)
- Joanna
- (as Peggy Walton)
- Bud Tolan
- (as Alan R. Gibbs)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe sports car Marty drives is a (Ferrari) Dino 246. Although built and sold by Ferrari it was not allowed to carry the Ferrari name, as it had only a six cylinder engine, and "real" Ferraris had 12 cylinder engines. Buyers of these "economy" models would often buy Ferrari name tags from third party sources and apply them to the car themselves.
- GoofsWhen Mannix is talking to Marty on the football field, in the wide shot, Mannix's hair is being blown around by the wind and is clearly out of place as a clump of it is sticking up in the air. But when the camera switches to a closeup shot of Mannix, his hair is neatly combed with none of it being blown around or out of place. The sequence is then repeated - the camera switches to a wide shot again where his hair is being blown around and is out of place and then switches to the closeup again where is hair is neatly combed and none of it is out of place.
- Quotes
Marty Hatch: Can I get you a drink, Joe?
Joe Mannix: No thanks. I got a big day ahead of me.
Marty Hatch: Well, I don't have to watch the clock anymore. What brings you here?
Joe Mannix: I understand you know Cathy Lawson.
Marty Hatch: Mm, yeah. Yeah. Bumped into her in Vegas last night, as a matter of fact.
Joe Mannix: Did she drive back with you from Las Vegas?
Marty Hatch: Why all the questions? Something wrong?
Joe Mannix: She's missing.
Marty Hatch: No kidding.
Joe Mannix: Her roommate hired me to look for her.
Marty Hatch: Joanna? That, uh... that's her name, isn't it?
Joe Mannix: Yeah.
Marty Hatch: Well, uh... Joe, Joanna can't afford a private investigator, and I can. So this one's, uh... this one's on me, okay?
Joe Mannix: Okay. Did Cathy drive back with you?
Marty Hatch: Well, now you're working for me, right?
Joe Mannix: Right.
Marty Hatch: And that means that anything I say to you is, uh...
Joe Mannix: Privileged.
Marty Hatch: That's the word I was looking for. Yeah, she rode down with me. We ran out of gas on the way. I left her in the car; went back to a filling station. Highway Patrolman picked me up, and, uh, when we got back to the car, she was gone.
Joe Mannix: Did you tell the Highway Patrol?
Marty Hatch: You've, uh... heard of Ben Kessler, haven't you, Joe?
Joe Mannix: Owns the Caravan and a string of bookie joints.
Marty Hatch: He owns Cathy, too.
Joe Mannix: "Owns"?
Marty Hatch: Mm-hmm. And the penalty for trespassing is sudden death.
Joe Mannix: I take it Kessler didn't know she was driving back with you?
Marty Hatch: No, he was out of town. New Orleans.
[sighs]
Marty Hatch: But if it ever got into the newspaper that is given his girl a lift...
[wry chuckle]
Marty Hatch: ... good-bye, Marty Hatch.
[the phone rings]
Marty Hatch: If that's for me, Dave, I'm not here. All right, Joe, it was stupid. I... I thought that she got scared and started to walk. Got a lift to L.A. I didn't know what to do.
Dave Tremble: Hey, Marty, this call you better take.
Marty Hatch: Who is it?
Dave Tremble: It's from a hospital in San Bernardino. Woman they brought in early this morning. She keeps asking for you.
10 Stars anyway.
Peter Haskall plays Marty, a former star quaterback who hooks up with a beautiful lady named Cathy (played by Tiffany Bolling), who happens to have ties to a gangster. The powers that put a hit on both of them, requiring Joe's expertise -- a loaded gun. Don't y'all love it.
Tiffany is quite good in this role, and was famous at the time, having posed for Playboy in April 72. However, as she put it, it only lead to her being cast in low grade, exploitation films, and the magazine didn't pay her. She moved on to tv and began a new career, perfectly cast opposite Peter Haskell. Haskell was everywhere on tv at the time, usually cast as slick villains. He later began a new career on the soap opera, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW.
I agree with the last reviewer; Michael Conrad (as Dave) may have been slipped into the mix as a red herring. Conrad played many tough guy roles, before HILL STREET BLUES fame. That said, he will always be fondly remembered as Polish Uncle Cass on ALL IN THE FAMILY. Look for Joe E. Tata, another fun tough guy.
The story, to note, is familiar to an earlier episode --only it was Joe who fell for the gangster's girlfriend, played by Nancy Kovack.
For all us car buffs, the producers hit the jackpot here. Marty drives a sleek, new Ferrari Dino 246, comparable to a Porsche at the time, valued today at about a half million dollars. Wow.
An all around super episode, and the acting is always spot on. Kudos to Robert Pirosh for yet another memorable title, "A World Without Sundays." Partly filmed at beautiful Marina del Rey, about five miles south of Santa Monica. What a view.
SESAON 7 EPISODE 8 remastered color CBS/Paramount dvd box set.
- tcchelsey
- Jul 20, 2023