There is currently one other review for this episode. MarkTeacher01 describes this as a very good show even though it has a glaring mistake- -and they are correct. Had the man been murdered long before (and he must have been), the autopsy would have determined this and undermined the episode's premise. Still, if you can ignore this, it's a dandy one.
The show begins with an obnoxious TV host, Ted Hackett (Don Defore), doing his muckraking show. He's like a combination of Walter Winchell, Morton Downey Jr. and Nancy Grace--a bottom-feeder who likes to right wrongs...or at least get himself lots of publicity. With his latest stunt, he phones a man Hackett declares to be guilty of a crime and cover-up and you hear the accused man doing a brief interview. I say brief because you hear gunshots and the guy on the phone is soon discovered to be dead! When a woman is almost instantly accused of the crime, Mannix comes to the rescue.
The best thing going for this one is originality. It does NOT remind me of earlier "Mannix" episodes and was quite exciting.
The show begins with an obnoxious TV host, Ted Hackett (Don Defore), doing his muckraking show. He's like a combination of Walter Winchell, Morton Downey Jr. and Nancy Grace--a bottom-feeder who likes to right wrongs...or at least get himself lots of publicity. With his latest stunt, he phones a man Hackett declares to be guilty of a crime and cover-up and you hear the accused man doing a brief interview. I say brief because you hear gunshots and the guy on the phone is soon discovered to be dead! When a woman is almost instantly accused of the crime, Mannix comes to the rescue.
The best thing going for this one is originality. It does NOT remind me of earlier "Mannix" episodes and was quite exciting.