Description	Show Description
Banacek  premiered on the NBC on March 20, 1972. Banacek was part of NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie Theatre which rotated several shows, a different one each week. These were Cool Million and Madigan, and was a spin off from Sunday's mystery theatre which had a similar format showing Columbo, McCloud and McMillan and Wife. A couple of these shows went on to get their own time slot, but unfortunately Banacek didn't. Thomas Banacek is a freelance insurance investigator who lives in the ritzy Beacon Hill section of Boston. He gets paid ten percent of the insured value for the stolen object or a million dollars minanum. This occurs whether if he recovers the object or causes it to be found. He has help from a chauffeur who always thinks he has it solved before his boss and an owner of a rare bookshop with a photographic memory. Banacek is a polish name and the character is always spouting polish probverbs. Each episode usually has an object stolen in mysterious way and he has to put together how it was done and presents it at the end in a typical mystery ending where the investigator wraps it all up! The Show was also loosly based on the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair" starring steve McQueen.
Cast	Show Cast
Character Actor Tom Banacek George Peppard Jay Drury Ralph Manza Felix Mulholland Murray Matheson Carlie Kirkland Christina Belford
Episodes	Show Episodes
Pilot Banacek (Original Air Date 3/20/1972) Season 1 (1972-1973) 8 Episodes In Season 1 Let's Hear It For A Living Legend (Original Air Date 9/13/1972) Project Phoenix (Original Air Date 9/27/1972) No Sign Of The Cross (Original Air Date 10/11/1972) A Million The Hard Way (Original Air Date 11/1/1972) To Steal A King (Original Air Date 11/15/1972) Ten Thousand Dollars A Page (Original Air Date 1/10/1973) The Greatest Collection Of Them All (Original Air Date 1/24/1973) The Two Million Clams Of Cap'N Jack (Original Air Date 2/7/1973) Season 2 (1973-1974) 8 Episodes In Season 2 No Stone Unturned (Original Air Date 10/3/1973) If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is? (Original Air Date 11/7/1973) The Three Million Dollar Piracy (Original Air Date 11/21/1973) The Vanishing Chalice (Original Air Date 1/15/1974) Horse Of A Slightly Different Color (Original Air Date 1/22/1974) Rocket To Oblivion (Original Air Date 2/12/1974) Fly Me - If You Can Find Me (Original Air Date 2/19/1974) Now You See Me, Now You Don't (Original Air Date 3/12/1974)
DVDs
The links below have #CommissionsEarned. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Banacek: The Complete Series Box Set On DVD Banacek: The First Season On DVD Banacek: The Second Season On DVD
Site Sponsors	Check this out!