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Mannix: Murder Revisited (1970)
GREAT Episode .............. One Glaring Flaw !!
Overall, this is an OUTSTANDING episode !! One of the best !! It flows, has great continuity, and is entertaining. It's a "Who dun it" episode, where Mannix finally see's through the killer's alibi of having been on TV, in front of 2 million viewers, when the killing takes place. Mannix figures out that the killer (a television "bombastic" talk show host named Ted Hackett, played very nicely by Don DeFore) rigged a playback of the "killing", which he played via a telephone answering machine, when he called his home phone, from on the air. The "killing" was rigged using actual edited phone conversations from the victim, with gunshots added. The premise is GREAT, but there is ONE glaring flaw ..... after the playback of the "rigged" killing, when Hackett calls the police, and tells them to go to the victims house, an autopsy on the body would CLEARLY show that the victim was NOT recently murdered, but, in fact, was dead for some time !! But, none the less, this, obvious, fact, does NOT detract much from an, otherwise, outstanding episode.
Star Trek: For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (1968)
Unprevoked Attack !!
The part that I STILL don't understand, about this episode, is the very first opening scene !! The crew of the Enterprise is readying for an attack of missiles, that have been launched by the asteroid Yonada. They unceremoniously phaser and destroy the missiles, and then back-track their course, to their point of origin. WHY the unprovoked attack !! ?? It's never revealed !! Later, the people of Yonada end up being peaceful and benevolent, VERY uncharacteristic of a race that would launch missiles at a passing spacecraft !!
It seems that this missile attack was used as a means of getting the Enterprise to pay a visit to Yonada, to investigate the reason for the attack. I just think it would have been easier, and more in line with the Yonada races character, to have the Enterprise discover they were being PROBED by the asteroid, and hence, to investigate why.