Mannix and Dr. Considine are in danger, but so is the patient: someone in his camp is a traitor.Mannix and Dr. Considine are in danger, but so is the patient: someone in his camp is a traitor.Mannix and Dr. Considine are in danger, but so is the patient: someone in his camp is a traitor.
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- Peggy Fair
- (credit only)
- Nurse
- (as Pat Chandler)
Storyline
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- GoofsWhen Joe's stuntman vaults down the hospital staircase to tackle one of his pursuers, his hat falls off in the process. He then stands up, still without his hat on, and gets ready to punch the man. The camera then switches to a closeup shot of Joe with a hat on punching the man. Then the camera switches back to the wide shot again where the stuntman picks up his hat and puts it on and then runs up the stairs.
- Quotes
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: [talking to Dr. Breem on the phone, about Joe and Dr. Considine escaping with the hospital with a pacemaker] You saw them take it?
Dr. Green: Two men. They're here now.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: I'll get back to you, Doctor.
[hangs up]
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Pacemaker. They stole the pacemaker. We've wondered why we've heard so little action from Victor Lucas lately. It's his heart. For whom else would they go to such trouble?
[the phone rings]
Colonel Alan DuPar: [answers the phone] Yes?
[an indistinct voice talks over the phone]
Colonel Alan DuPar: What?
[turns to Dr. Waldo]
Colonel Alan DuPar: We've lost them on the radar screen. They must have dropped to tree level.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Their course until then?
Colonel Alan DuPar: Uh, north by northwest.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Well, aren't you going to do something? I went an immediate concentration of aerial reconnaissance on the northeast sectors.
Colonel Alan DuPar: [turns back to the phone where the indistinct voice continues] Well, if you heard what she said, then do it!
[hangs up]
Colonel Alan DuPar: Well, at least give me credit for one thing.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Of course, Albert.
Colonel Alan DuPar: I've got a man in their camp right now. He can do more than all your reconnaissance planes.
At the end of part one, Mannix and the world-famous heart surgeon (John Colicos) were about to begin surgery on the dying head of the resistance in an unnamed country. But, the Doc finds that someone destroyed the pacemaker Mannix smuggled into the country. So they have to go on a mission to steal one. And, once they have it, the world-famous heart surgeon can do the surgery no other doctor can do (at least that's what they said in the script)...install a pacemaker (not a difficult surgery in 1974). The big problem is that almost nothing else happens in the episode other than the pair sneaking away at the end in disguises...so it's very obviously a super- heavily padded episode. I am not sure if there was enough material to do everything in one episode instead of two...but there clearly wasn't enough for two full episodes. What you are left with is some fighting, an explosion, some serious continuity errors and a show that might have worked fine...had it been "Mission: Impossible". As it is, the show is a nonsensical and silly one...and one I'd just as soon forget.
- planktonrules
- Mar 30, 2016