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All I know of MANNIX is that it's Cliff Booth's favorite TV show in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (a film, though, which is not Phelps' favorite).
Also, who is the twirling girl in the opening credits? Was that scene ever in an actual episode?
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Sep 8, 2020 - 10:03 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Also, who is the twirling girl in the opening credits? Was that scene ever in an actual episode?
The twirling girl in the opening credits, along with the also-iconic "Mannix injured by burned toast" scene, does not appear in any actual episode.
Here's something from the other, "proper", Mannix thread that I feel "gets" the appeal of the series:
“After all...who's out there reading these old TV reviews, anyway? Is it all the Pendleton shirts-and-sandals kids who drive around in their hot rods listening to their "hey, baby!" jazz music, hanging out at the malt shop discussing Archer and Justified? Is it the young, crew-cutted technocrats with their slide rulers and rocket fuel tabulating machines, arguing over Tosh.0?
“Is it that college girl on summer break down the street who knows exactly what she's doing to all the guys in the neighborhood when she keeps insisting on washing her new Camaro in her string bikini? Hell, no; they wouldn't know Joe Mannix if he slammed into them with his customized Challenger 360.”
“No, Mannix the show, Mannix the gestalt, Mannix the lifestyle, is strictly for the over 35-set who grew up with aerials on their roofs, nylon underwear, metal lunch boxes, and only three TV networks.
“We already know what Mannix is all about. It's about TV's vision of the American "good life" in whacked-out, sun-bleached SoCal, circa 1974: Motor City muscle cars smashing into each other with abandon; weekend fishing trips that inevitably lead to assassination attempts; polyester sports jackets strong enough to deflect a .38 caliber bullet; women--beautiful women--who are attracted to macho Armenian musk like moths to a flame; old Army/college/casual acquaintance/passers-by on the street, all of whom bear a psychotic, violent grudge against Joe, and of course, vicious daily assaults, perpetrated year after year upon the unyielding body of Joe Mannix--assaults that would cripple a normal man inside a week. That's what Mannix is all about, kids. The particulars of the plots are merely distractions."
https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/55698/mannix-the-seventh-season/
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Sep 10, 2020 - 6:30 AM
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Seeing as I've watched Mannix many times over the past 12 years, and have been immersed in season 8 all week (only 6 more episodes to go), I love that this great show always manages to surprise me with something new--like how Star Trek does for you people.
Anyway, there are an "alarming" number of S8 episodes in which Joe Mannix pours himself a triple Scotch from a lovely-looking crystal decanter by his office desk before, during, and after a case. It is often done for comic relief, or at least as comic as Mannix ever got, or as a way for the character to vent off steam or express grief--not very healthy in this, the most perfect of all possible worlds.
...but then Joe Mannix was one wry (rye?) guy, and he never claimed to be perfect, like all of today's television characters.
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Sep 11, 2020 - 7:41 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Excerpt from The WaPo article, "Mannix was the Man", which IMO led to Mannix finally getting a DVD release:
"Mannix was the last of a certain type of American manhood, circa early '70s. He wore a tie and a wistful smile. He did not know doubt but was a friend of irony. He didn't worry about giving women "their space," and he wasn't "in touch with his feelings." He was kind to small dogs, little old ladies, and femmes fatales in deep trouble and short skirts.
"He drove too fast, drank too much and smoked like he got paid for it. He slugged people and shot guys and never got pulled in by the cops.
"Mannix was great, just great -- one of the last unapologetically masculine and completely unrealistic American icons, at least in the myths we tell ourselves on television. Cops and detectives got cute or complicated later on, and there really hasn't been much on television like it since."
"It debuted at a turbulent time in American culture, 1967, and Joe Mannix was pretty much a modernized Lone Ranger -- no wife, no kids, no pets, no political views, no close friends. He was hip enough to listen to jazz and to mock himself as "a hard- boiled detective in the classical tradition," but traditional enough to wear a coat and tie and to have good manners."
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