Trivia for
"Mannix" (1967) More at IMDbPro »

• Peggy's husband was a police officer that was killed in the line of duty.
  
  
• In the first season, Mannix worked for a company named Intertech. While the company relied on high-tech methods to solve crimes, Mannix used old-fashioned smarts & intuition. After the first season, the producers decided to dump the "new vs. old" conflict and put Mannix into private practice.
  
  
• During the 1972-73 season Mannix's car (a 1973 Plymouth Cuda convertible) were actually three 1971 models updated (by changing the grill/headlights, hood, and taillights panel) to look like a 1973 Cuda, as Plymouth no longer made the Cuda as a convertible, and driving a convertible had been a Mannix trademark since the show began.
  
  
• Star Mike Connors complained that this show was not very good at showing the consequences of violence. He said Joe Mannix would get thrown down a flight of stairs in one scene and then appear without a scratch in the next.
  
  
• An episode of the series "Diagnosis Murder" (1993) called "Hard-Boiled Murder" (episode # 4.17), was actually a sequel to the "Little Girl Lost" (episode # 7.4) episode of this series. Many of the same guest stars appeared in both episodes.
  
  
• Mannix was of Armenian descent and spoke fluent Armenian and French. In the opening credits, the screen that says "Mike Connors is" features the colors (red, blue, orange) and shape (3 rectangles) of the Armenian flag.
  
  
• Over the eight seasons of the series, Mannix was knocked unconscious 55 times and shot 17 times.
  
  
• The character of Lew Wickersham was modeled after Lew Wasserman, the head of MCA Corp.
  
  

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