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Banacek
Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating "NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie" anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows, but was the only one of them to last beyond its first season.
Premise.
Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston, who solved seemingly impossible thefts (see locked room mystery). He then collected from
Of all the wheel series, only the original three — "Columbo", "McCloud" and "McMillan & Wife" — survived for the entire run of the "Mystery Movie". Most of the others were very short-lived, and, with the exception of "Hec Ramsey" and "Banacek", were all only on the air for one season. "Quincy, M.E.", which was the next to last new "Mystery Movie" series to premiere, ended up outlasting the