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 (Originally Aired 3/20/1972)
Season 1 (1972-1973)
8 Episodes In Season 1
Let's Hear It For A Living Legend (Originally Aired 9/13/1972)
Project Phoenix (Originally Aired 9/27/1972)
No Sign Of The Cross (Originally Aired 10/11/1972)
A Million The Hard Way (Originally Aired 11/1/1972)
To Steal A King (Originally Aired 11/15/1972)
Ten Thousand Dollars A Page (Originally Aired 1/10/1973)
The Greatest Collection Of Them All (Originally Aired 1/24/1973)
The Two Million Clams Of Cap'N Jack (Originally Aired 2/7/1973)
Season 2 (1973-1974)
8 Episodes In Season 2
No Stone Unturned (Originally Aired 10/3/1973)
If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is? (Originally Aired 11/7/1973)
The Three Million Dollar Piracy (Originally Aired 11/21/1973)
The Vanishing Chalice (Originally Aired 1/15/1974)
Horse Of A Slightly Different Color (Originally Aired 1/22/1974)
Rocket To Oblivion (Originally Aired 2/12/1974)
Fly Me - If You Can Find Me (Originally Aired 2/19/1974)
Now You See Me, Now You Don't (Originally Aired 3/12/1974)
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.
