Mannix is coming!

Are there any music edits with any of the episodes in the 3rd season set?

i order my copy and i should have it next week. I am looking forward to this show.

Haven't seen them all, but the back cover just says the usual thing, that some episodes may be edited from their original network versions.

 every episode is around 51 minutes

i watch a few episodes the other night and i was quite impress with the quality. This was a very good show and i hope they plan to release more of the show.

Tested out my copy of the Season 3 set yesterday. A really good boxset (shame again about there being no episode intros by Mike Connors and no interview with him), and of what I watched (I tested out a few chapters of each episode) the print quality is great, with strong colour in most episodes.

Below is some of the ratings information for Mannix during it's eight season run. The source is the book "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows (1946-99)" by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh:


Season 1 (1967-68) - finished outside the Top 30

Season 2 (1968-69) - finished outside the Top 30

Season 3 (1969-70) - # 30 (with a 19.9 rating)

Season 4 (1970-71) - # 17 (with a 21.3 rating)

Season 5 (1971-72) - # 7 (with a 24.8 rating )

Season 6 (1972-73) - finished outside the Top 30

Season 7 (1973-74) - finished outside the Top 30

Season 8 (1974-75) - joint 20th place with Cannon (with a 21.6 rating).


Where did Mannix come in the 1967-68, 1968-69, 1972-73 and 1973-74 US TV seasons and what rating did it get for those seasons? And was the show cancelled after it's eighth season, or did the show's makers decide to frinish the show?

In an interview I had with Mike Connors, he said CBS wanted a 9th season, but Paramount wanted it to go into syndication. so the studio pulled the plug

That's interesting. In one way I can understand it if Paramount wanted the show to go into syndication (the one example I knew of before, was with CBS and the TV series Early Edition. They made enough episodes with it's fourth and last season for syndication). But on the other hand it sounds like the show's ratings were still good (the show finishing 20th for the 1974-75 season) and the show didn't get cancelled. When the show finished they were a few episodes short of the 200th episode milestone (same with Ironside). I feel the show could have run and run. From your reply it also sounds like Mike Connors wasn't tired with the role (did Peggy Fisher do any interviews while the show was on the air? (*) Still, Mannix is one of the longest running US detective shows.

(*) I doubt it now, as the second and third season sets had no extras, but I would have liked to have seen CBS DVD include any possible radio and TV interviews for Mannix for future DVD boxsets.

Were there ever any plans for crossovers with other CBS shows?

Oh and thanks for your reply.

*****

With there being 24 episodes for each of the remaining five seasons of Mannix there should be 4 episodes each on 6 discs, so there shouldn't be a repeat of there being five episodes on one or more discs (in the third season boxset disc 6 had five episodes on it. Although the quality of the episodes didn't seem affected). Does it affect the picture or sound quality much when the total running time of one disc goes to over 240 minutes (four hours)? I'm sure I read somewhere on a film/TV/DVD forum that there are or could be problems when there are more than four episodes of an hour long show on one DVD disc.

Edited by WaveCrest - Yesterday at 3:33 pm