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The third season is released next tuesday. Thoughts on the episodes, Stefan?
About season 3, there's one episode I want to watch again: "The Playground", guest starring Robert Conrad and his "Wild Wild West" stunt team. It's in that episode that actor Conrad meets director Paul Krasny who will work with him again on the season 5 ("The Killer") and the season 7 ("Break!") of "Mission: Impossible".
Directors-wise, check out these ones with gifted MISSION artisans:
"Eagles Sometimes Don't Fly" (Stuart Hagmann)
"A Question of Midnight" (Sutton Roley)
"The Nowhere Victim" (Sutton Roley)
"Missing: Sun and Sky" (Sutton Roley)
"Who Is Sylvia?" (Reza Badiyi)
Soundtracks-wise, check these ones:
"Eagles Sometimes Can't Fly" (Richard Hazard)
"Color Her Missing" (Robert Drasnin)
"Return to Summer Grove" (Luchi De Jesus)
"The Playground" (Fred Steiner)
"Question of Midnight" (Richard Markowitz)
"Penny for the Peepshow" (Robert Drasnin)
"A Sleep in the Deep" (Gerald Fried)
"Memory: Zero" (Robert Prince)
"The Sound of Darkness" (Jerry Fielding)
"Missing: Sun and Sky" (Richard Markowitz)
"The Playground" (October 18, 1969)
Directed by Paul Krasny
Written by Ed Adamson
Guest starring:
Robert Conrad as Western film actor Mitch Cantrell
Leslie Parrish as Cantrell's secretary Mona
Paul Comi as the producer, Mannix's friend
Ben Cooper as Pete, Cantrell's stuntman
Richard Cangey and Tom Huff as Cantrell's stuntmen
Summary:
Movie star Mitch Cantrell refuses to believe Mannix's contention that someone is out to kill him. The private eye's investigation turns up a number of prime suspects, including Cantrell's girlfriend Mona and his sidekick Pete.
Review:
Find a MANNIX episode that is a pure Paramount Studios tour--we see the sets of many MISSION episodes: "The Code", "The Missile", "Encore", etc ... Paul Krasny is a former MISSION's film editor and director. As in MISSION's season 6 ("Encore"), Paramount is now the Majestic Studios. As in the two-parter MISSION's season 3 titled "The Contender", Robert Conrad practices boxing. Notice this bunch of "Wild Wild West" alumni: Conrad, Parrish, Cangey and Huff--the show was canceled in 1969, by the way! For the anecdote, Conrad (carrying orange sunglasses reminiscent of MISSION's colourful foes) drives a buggy car at full speed all around the Studios' sets! We can see footages from a western film (starring rider Mitch Cantrell) inside a film theatre. The prologue remind a typical MISSION plot a la "The Interrogator": the victim drives a cross-country motorcycle on a steep road when an unknown man tightens a metallic wire to make him fall and then he leaves inside a delivery van (from the Majestic Studios).
PS: Duning's "Edge of the Knife" from "Mannix" is reminiscent of his "Metamorphosis" from the season 2 of "Star Trek".
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About season 3, there's one episode I want to watch again
Just one???
Many, many...
I pre-ordered my set so you'll be the first to know my prize list.
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Calling 17 Paseo Verde!
I received my DVD set of "Mannix" season 3 and I advise you urgently to watch:
"The Sound of Darkness", music composed by Jerry Fielding.
The prologue (01:49) is top-notch paramilitary snare drum style: a hit man on wheels chases his victim in a parking lot at night!
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Do you dig Mannix's Persol sunglasses? (see the image below)
He carries them in "To the Switest, Death" (chapter 4) and "Night Out of Time" (chapter 5).
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Favourite MANNIX's season 3 episodes (in broadcast order):
1. "Eagles Sometimes Don't Fly"
2. "Color Her Missing"
3. "The Playground": with Robert Conrad!
4. "A Question of Midnight"
5. "A Penny for the Peepshow"
6. "Memory: Zero"
7. "The Nowhere Victim"
8. "The Sound of Darkness"
9. "Who Killed Me?"
10. "Walk With A Dead Man"
11. "A Chance at the Roses"
12. "Blind Mirror"
13. "Who is Sylvia?"
14. "The Search for Darrell Andrews"
15. "War of Nerves"
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BTW, where exactly is 17 Paseo Verde located? A shopping complex? A strip mall? A buisness district? I see people walking about like they're shopping or something.
The backlot behind the Paramount building offices.
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BTW, where exactly is 17 Paseo Verde located? A shopping complex? A strip mall? A buisness district? I see people walking about like they're shopping or something.
The backlot behind the the Paramount building offices.
That I already knew. I was wondering what it was within the realm of fiction, was it ever explained what the area was.
Happy New Year, Chum. 
Happy new year! I think you nail it correctly. And please post your favourite season 3.
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Interesting, artsy direction from Paul Krasny and a solid score from Fred Steiner.