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Developed by ''), the title character played by Mike Connors (an actor of Armenian heritage) is an Armenian-American Private Investigator . During the first season of the series Joe Mannix worked for a large Detective agency, Intertect. His superior was Lew Wickersham, played by Joseph Campanella . Mannix belonged to the classic American Detective Archetype and thus usually disobeyed his boss's orders. From the second season on, Mannix worked on his own, with the assistance of his loyal secretary Peggy Fair, played by Gail Fisher (one of the first African-American actresses to have a regular series role). Joe Mannix was a regular guy, without pretense, who had a store of Armenian proverbs to rely upon in conversation. What demons he had mostly came from his having fought with the U.S. Army during the Korean War . Unfortunately a large percentage of his old Army buddies turned out to have homicidal impulses against him. Joe Mannix was notable for taking a lot of punishment. During the course of the series he was shot and wounded any number of times and knocked unconscious far more. Whenever Mannix got into one of his Convertible s he could expect to be shot at from another car, run off the road by another car, or find his vehicle sabotaged. Nevertheless he kept his cool and persevered until his antagonists were brought down. ''Mannix'' featured a dynamic split-screen opening credits sequence set to theme music from noted composer Lalo Schifrin . For his work on ''Mannix'', Mike Connors was nominated for four Golden Globe Award s, winning once, and for four Emmy Award s. Gail Fisher was nominated for four Emmy Awards, winning once, and for three Golden Globe Awards, winning twice. The series itself was twice nominated for the Emmy Award for best dramatic series, and four times for the Golden Globe Award, winning once. In 1997, Mike Connors reprised the character on an episode of ''''. Paramount Television , which gained ownership of Mannix in 1967 following Gulf + Western's purchase of Desilu Productions , syndicates the program. However, Paramount does not release episodes from the series' first and last seasons into syndication. The reasons for these episodes being omitted from Paramount's syndication packages is not known. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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