
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.



A former mob boss turned state senator hires Interdict to find his kidnapped illegitimate daughter, and they assign Mannix to the case.
Politician Adam Pierson hires Interdict to dig up any dirt in his background to make sure that his opponents can't find anything. However, Mannix finds something.
Mannix is framed for the murder of an ex-girlfriend's husband.
Mannix gets involved with a scientist's daughter when Intertect is hired to find the scientist by a group of businessmen who aren't what they seem.
A little girl hires Mannix to prove that her father is innocent of murder.
Joyce Loman, one of Mannix's ex-girlfriends, hires him to track down a man she met on vacation and fled from her back in the States when she saw him. But the man has secrets that Joyce doesn't know.
An old friend of Mannix's hires him to track down his daughter at a commune.
A woman asks Interdict to check on her boyfriend, and Mannix discovers that someone is trying to force a nervous breakdown on her.
A routine assignment for Mannix--recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg--becomes anything but when he tracks down a man to a small town.
Mannix is caught in the middle while handling a child-custody case: the mother wants her son back, and killers are targeting the father.
A psychiatrist's files are stolen, and one of the patients hires Interdict to deal with the subsequent blackmail request.
An editor hires Interdict to track down an informant who has disappeared who supposedly had evidence against a crooked sate legislator
The police hire Interdict to protect a female informer, and Interdict sends Mannix. But it turns out that the informer is an undercover cop, and crooked caps want her dead.
Mannix goes undercover as an alcoholic at a Mexican rehab center to protect a man whose daughter believes is being swindled.
A bomber tries to take out a fading movie star, who hires Interdict to find the would-be killer.
Mannix and Intertect try to clear an innocent man, but the police and the real killer have other ideas.
Wickersham is acting erratically because of medication, complicating Mannnix's investigation into the death of an Intertect security chief.
Still under the effects of the medication, Wikersham fires Mannix from Intertect, complicating Mannix's investigation of the Intertect head of security.
Mannix resigns when Intertect takes a case involving a mobster, but soon gets involved in the case anyway when he strikes out on his own.
Intertect helps down-on-his-luck slob Bernie when a box he's holding for his brother-in-law mobster turns out to be empty.
A miracle apparently occurs on a mobster's property, and Mannix tries to determine if it's authentic.
A man Mannix has never met is injured and goes to the hospital, and asks for Mannix by name.
A mystery writer finds his suicide note... that he didn't write. He hires Interdict, who send Mannix, but the writer wants to help solve the case.
An art collector hires Intertect to discover if the woman in his rare Renoir painting is also the model he glimpsed in the present day.
After leaving Intertect to start his own agency, Mannnix's first case involves a deaf woman who "overhears" an assassin's phone call by reading his lips, and tries to tell the police what she knows.
A former cop turned airport security guard who saved Mannix's life years before hires the PI to find his missing wife Rose, but then changes his mind. Despite that, Mannix probes further to find out why.
Hoods abduct a young man who comes to Mannix for help, then try to buy the PI off... all as part of a scheme to influence a judge.
While participating in an amateur auto race, Mannix witnesses a competitor's death. The driver's widow subsequently hires Mannix to confirm the death was a homicide.
Mannix tries to determine why an ex-con on parole was coming to see him.
A publisher hires Mannix to find the missing last chapter that an author was working on before his boat was blown up.
Kidnappers promise to kill a doctor's son unless he lets a patient die on the operating table.
A millionaire's ex-wife is supposedly dead, but he claims that he saw her alive and hires Mannix to find her.
The first crook that Mannix put away asks for his help to prove his innocence seven years later.
Cliff Ross, Jr. awakens in big trouble. A girl is dead, there's evidence he was in some kind of fight and he can't remember what actually happened. Unless Mannix can help him reconstruct events, he's likely to go to prison.
While on a helicopter ride to Santa Barbara, Mannix witnesses a man strangling a woman on a penthouse terrace. However, when he investigates, the occupants of the penthouse say that there has been no foul play.
Mannix is brought to a small town in New Mexico under false pretenses, where he is then served a subpoena and must testify as an expert witness for the prosecution in a murder trial; he stays on the trial as the aid to the defense.
The owner of a jewelry shop is murdered. When Mannix arrives at the crime scene, he runs into an old friend from his days in the Korean War who asks him to visit a small mountain town where he can gain information on the situation.
A woman is attacked in her apartment and thrown out her balcony to her death, and the police conclude that it is a suicide thanks to a forged suicide note Mannix believe she was murdered and investigates the death.
A tennis pro turns up dead after trying to blackmail a gubernatorial candidate, and Mannix is hired to find the killer.
Mannix investigates the death of a businessman who tried to kill the PI and then went berserk, claiming he was having dreams of his time in the Korean War.
Mannix suspects an attorney of making three murders look like suicides to cover up the attorney's own guilt.
Peggy asks Mannix to help find her new boyfriend, who fled a music club without a word when he saw a particular man in the audience.
A Korean War vet takes Lt. Malcolm hostage and booby-traps an entire building to lure Mannix to him.
A neighbor drops in via a window, asks Mannix to release a man in his office, and then runs off with men in pursuit, and Mannix discovers that the neighbor's business is a front.
Mannix is hired to track down a compulsive gambler hunted by loan sharks.
Mannix almost loses Peggy when he tells her that he suspects her new boyfriend, Floyd Brown, of being the key man in the theft of forty-five cartons of morphine. Caught between her loyalty to Mannix and her love for Brown, Peggy refuses to listen to Mannix but later places her life in danger when she confronts Brown with the accusation.
Mannix becomes involved in murder and political intrigue when he helps newspaper publisher Jason Walker finds out the reasons for the strange behavior of his daughter Diana. The case rekindles a romance between Mannix and Diana, as he tries to prove that she is being framed in the hit-and-run death of an underworld figure.
Mannix is left holding the bag when he's hired by Pete Neal, a man he knows, to protect a man with $25,000 that they both claim isn't stolen. Neal is killed, and Neal's body, the man, and the money disappear.
Mannix works with a police detective to find the reasons behind the death of Peter Martin. When Mannix accuses Carlos Valera, the private eye takes on more trouble than he bargained for. After Valera's arrest, Mannix begins to have doubts about his guilt and begins digging further into the case despite hostility from Valera's neighbors as well as Martin's sister.
Mannix launches a double-edged search for Brad Turner and Jimmy Whitewing, two friends of Peggy's, who are wrongly accused of murder, and for the real killer who can only be linked to the crime by a dancer. Brad and Jimmy seek refuge in Peggy's apartment, but flee when Mannix offers to help them under the condition they tell their story to the police.
Mannix's mentor is thrown to his death from a high-rise apartment, and the primary suspect asks Mannix to find a woman who can clear his name.
Joe's old flame Jean McBride asks Mannix to return to their hometown and clear her husband of a murder charge.
A studio exec hires Mannix to protect an obnoxious movie star who isn't taking murder attempts against him seriously.
An old friend from Mannix' college days asks him to clear the name of a doctor who lost his medical license... and who actively fights Mannix's efforts to clear him.
Three men claiming to be escaped convicts come after Mannix's new client, claiming that they want the money in a briefcase she has. But Mannix figures there's more going on.
Ellen Barton hires Mannix to determine that her husband's death in a scuba-diving accident was no accident.
The private secretary of a murdered PI comes to Mannix for help. She doesn't remember much about her boss' cases, but men are trying to kill her anyway.
A man hires Mannix to track down a pedestrian he may have ran over with his car. But the only witness claims nothing happened, and men threaten Mannix figuring that he killed the pedestrian.
An assassin's bullet grazes Mannix and renders him blind, and he trains to overcome his condition and defend himself for the killer's return.
A supposedly murdered man lets his killer belief that he's dead... and hires Mannix to find the person responsible.
A horse owner hires Mannix to find his prize race horse... which apparently went down in a plane crash.
Peggy asks Mannix to help her old friend, whose son Cap is turning to crime.
Mannix claims that Gail's son Toby is his client to investigate her dead ex-husband, who has been implicated in a series of robberies.
An executive hires Mannix to track down a blackmailer preying on the executive's wife.. and then denies ever talking to Mannix.
A pharmacy robber's wife hires Mannix to clear her husband after he robs the same pharmacy twice.
Mannix hunts down a secretary who claims that her boss attempted to kill his estranged wife. The boss says that she misinterpreted what she saw, and the PI has to figure out the truth.
Mannix goes undercover as a sailor when a bank hires him to find a missing man.
An executive's wife hires Mannix to find out who is trying to kill her. The only clue: a locket with the word "Sylvia" written on it.
Someone hires three unrelated hitmen to take out Mannix. He survives the attempts and travels to Nevada to find the person responsible.
Mannix must decipher the fantasies of an emotionally-disturbed 9-year-old girl who witnesses the death of her doctor and the theft of $150,000 in bearer bonds.
A private eye and friend of Mannix's turn up dead, apparently drowned. But Mannix believes there's more involved... as do the two men who abduct Peggy and Toby and demand Mannix turn the evidence over to him.
An alleged crook, Armitage, is murdered on air while participating in a telephone interview. A woman is caught fleeing the scene and arrested, and her twin sister hires Mannix to prove her innocent.
A young horsewoman disappears, and everyone Mannix talks to say that she never arrived at the country fair where she supposedly disappeared.
Mannix helps out a friend who works at a carnival and whose life has been threatened several times.
Mannix investigates the murder of the niece of one of his old Army buddies, and figures out that another member of his squad is responsible.
After apparently killing a burglar and taking the stolen goods for himself, Mannix loses his PI license and takes a job for a mob widow.
Mannix tries to clear the name of a boxer accused of murdering a fight fixer.
Someone takes shots at Mannix, but he suspects that a magazine photographer is the real target.
Mannix is searching for a missing brother, and injected with a slow-acting poison.
A group of death-row prisoners take a guard hostage and demand\that Mannix prove one of their own innocent.
A widow hires Mannix to find her industrialist husband... who she says is still alive and has faked his death to avoid gambling debts.
While in the hospital for a gunshot wound, Peggy falls in love with a neighboring patient... who is the new leader of an African country who is dodging assassins.
Mannix stops at a desert cafe on his way to a fishing trip, and runs afoul of three thugs holding the couple owning the place hostage. The PI escapes, but when he returns with the police, the couple claim nothing happened.
Mannix' helicopter reporter friend dies in a crash, and the PI suspects foul play.
An attempt on a little girl's life convinces Mannix that she's telling the truth about witnessing killers plot their next murder.
A woman who claims to have precognitive powers tells Mannix that he'll soon be murdered. The PI is initially skeptical but soon comes to believe.
Ellen Grey hires Mannix to investigate what her recently suicided husband was involved with that drove him to his death. Mannix discovers that the people involved want Ellen dead as well.
George Hewitt hires Mannix to determine who is harassing his wife, and then dies in a car crash. Mannix talks to the widow, who denies anything about what her late husband claimed happened.
Mannix wakes up with amnesia of what happened on the previous, and he and Peggy try to recreate where the PI was from the few belongings on his person.
Mannix's friend Paul Parrish goes to prison for a crime that Mannix doesn't believe he committed, and then kills his former cellmate after he's released.
A police detective's wife hires Mannix to find out who wants to kill her husband... but doesn't want the PI to tell her husband who hired him.
A young boy hires Mannix to protect his parents, who saw a gangster run over his girlfriend in a parking garage.
Mannix's high school football team lures him to a ghost town on false pretenses for their reunion... but someone intends to kill them.
A mysterious businessman hires Mannix to find his missing son, a college basketball player.
A woman whose legs were paralyzed in a car accident receives death threats and hires Mannix to investigate.
Heiress Cindy Conrad claims that she's receiving calls from someone claiming they have information on the death of her father years ago.
A woman hires Mannix to fly to Arizona and pick up a package to deliver to the LAPD. But it turns out the woman has supposedly been dead for a month, and the package contains nothing but blank papers.
A serial killer dubbed "Overkill" murders Mannix's old friend, but Mannix soon learns that the crime isn't as simple as the police believe.
A woman kills an intruder who she claims is blackmailing her, and hires Mannix to prove it.
While on vacation, Mannix befriends two young women. One turns up dead, but Mannix figures the other one was the intended target.
Mannix is jogging on the beach and sees two men attack a women at her home. The problem is that the crime Mannix describes happened a year ago.
Mannix returns to his hometown and finds himself embroiled in a murder case.
A woman hires Mannix to protect her and the manuscript she inherited from her father, but the PI soon has doubts when the woman disappears.
A woman hires Mannix under false pretenses claiming that a missing man is her brother.... when he's actually a journalist who someone wants dead.
A boys' baseball team coach goes missing, and the boys hire Mannix to find him.
Mannix suspects that an old friend, now a New York detective, is involved with attempts on the life of a fugitive in his custody.
A mobster has his men kidnap Peggy and gives Mannix 72 hours to find a stool pigeon in his organization... or Peggy dies.
A friend of Mannix's dies after killing another man and holding a woman hostage. The PI tries to unravel his friend's dying words about "button" and "General D".
Mannix's former commanding officer asks him to buy blackmail of him with his mistress. But the PI soon suspects that there's more to the story.
Mannix wonders why he has been simultaneously fired from separate cases.
Before he's murdered, a PI sends a letter to Mannix, and criminals will do anything to get it.
A dying man confesses to a nun that an inmate is innocent, but the inmate insists that he's guilty.
A comedian is tied in with a private eye's murder.
A CEO hires Mannix to find the plans for a miniature computer... but doesn't tell the PI that a letter with the plans has damaging information against him, and he plans to have Mannix killed once the detective finds them.
A woman hires Mannix to find her missing husband. But when the PI does and the man is dead, the wife says that he's not her husband.
A toy manufacturer hires Mannix to quietly find out who tried to kill him.
A young mobster hires Mannix to track his unfaithful wife. When someone guns down the mobster, his family figures that Mannix set him up.
A man is accused of killing his wife when he tracked her down with the man he claims that she was having an affair with. But another PI who was working the case tells Mannix that the wife never had an affair.
Mannix tries to determine why Vince Logan, a singer and friend of Peggy's, fled the police when they tried to question him about a property damage claim and was subsequently shot trying to flee.
Lt. Larry Gifford hires Mannix to clear his name when he accidentally shoots and kills the man who killed Gifford's partner years before.
Crooks hire an imposter to pose as Mannix, who ends up kidnapped while the imposter takes his place.
During a car race, Mannix crashes due to hallucinations. He's taken to a private hospital where his condition worsens... and a nurse tells him that the doctor is drugging him.
A criminal who Mannix once helped capture kills a young officer who takes the bullet meant for the PI. The criminal, Victor Roarke, offers to take the police to the body of a missing judge, and things get more complicated from there.
A former penitent comes after a retired priest who he confessed a murder to, believing his secret is no longer safe.
Mannix is hired to find out who is threatening a surgeon's life.
An industrialist's wife disappears off of their sailboat, and the industrialist hires Mannix to find her. But when Mannix finds her, the mystery truly begins.
Mannix investigates the death of a war buddy who married into a wealthy family, and was killed by a hand grenade tossed into his elevator.
Mannix goes undercover to find an informant in a mobster's organization... and falls in love with the head mobster's girlfriend.
Dan Turner claims that he's Alex Lachlan, an Army Ranger who was presumed dead in Vietnam and now has amnesia. His family has doubts that "Alex" is who he says he is, and hire Mannix to find out.
A young boy hires Mannix to investigate the theft of his stamp album... which may be more valuable than it appears.
Mannix is caught between an exiled mob boss and his successors, who think the PI is working for the man they hope to depose... permanently.
Mannx ends up in the middle of a feud between Armenian farm workers and a land owner who they claim cheated them .
When a PI friend is murdered, Mannix investigates the four cases he referred to the man, figuring one of them led to the killing.
Mannix is jailed while investigating whether a young man's death was murder or accidental death... and two deputies plot to make sure the PI doesn't leave jail alive.
Mannix investigates a woman's murder, and uncovers evidence that the son of one of Peggy's friends may be responsible.
A wealthy man hires Mannix to clear his wife of murder, but it turns out that the man--and many others--also wanted the playboy victim dead.
A man disappears after apparently drowning the wife of an electronics company's head. The man hires Mannix to find the killer, but the PI soon discovers facts that suggest the accused killer is innocent.
While attending a boxing match, Mannix witnesses someone take a shot at one of the boxers... but soon realizes that the shot was meant for him.
Two elderly sisters ask Mannix to investigate a hit-and-run, and he discovers that the driver may have been involved in a murder.
Peggy goes undercover to try to get the goods on a narcotics dealer selling dope to school kids, but the crooks soon get wise to her and send a man to romance her and find out if she's working with the police.
Mannix's ex-girlfriend Carol turns up dead on a beach, apparently the victim of an accidental drowning. However, the facts don't add up and Mannix figures that Carol was murdered.
A woman hires Mannix to prove that she killed a witness she was having an affair with, although her brother is accused of the murder.
Politician Adam Langer hires Mannix to investigate Langer's own background to make sure there's no blackmail material that can be used against him. However, the people that Mannix checks with are murdered one by one.
A hobo asks Mannix to find out why people are trying to kill him.
The daughter of a recently murdered ex-con hires Mannix to recover the missing money her father supposedly stole... and bring in the killers that are now after her.
Mannix gets involved in a case of blackmail against a prospective governor... and learns that the blackmailer died years ago.
Mannix travels to a hostile small town to look for a teenager on trial for murder and released on a technicality, who subsequently disappeared.
Mannix's plane is hit by lightning and goes down in the mountains. Escaped convict Luke Whitney rescues him, but three prison guards on Luke's trail want them both dead.
Tina Reynolds witnesses her father Lou's murder at the hands of a hitman at a zoo, and claims that she's responsible.
Mannix faces off against a street gang after he's forced to kill a former member in a shootout.
Mannix discovers that a small town hides a big secret when he's hired to find the pilot of a crashed airplane.
Mannix falls in with bad company when he stumbles across a murder-for-hire ring during a fishing trip.
A mobster sends a hitman after his former girlfriend when she links up with an ex-quarterback, and Mannix steps in to protect them.
Mannix becomes romantically involved with a client: an opera singer who plans to go on despite two attempts on her life.
A blind crook will do anything to get his hands on a priceless diamond collection.
An actress trying to make a comeback after a year in a mental sanitarium hires Mannix to find how who is trying to drive her insane.
Mannix runs into an old girlfriend while in San Francisco to wrap up a case, and soon gets involved in a financial scam for $14 million.
The survivors of an airplane crash are murdered one by one.
A client hires Mannix to smuggle heart surgeon Dr. Myles Considine into a dictatorially-run country to operate on a revolutionary.
Mannix and Carradine try to save Victor, but a traitor in the rebel camp threatens their efforts.
After an attack leaves Mannix near death, he tries to solve the case from his hospital bed while recovering from his injuries.
Mannix's friend Lt. Malcolm takes a double blow when he's framed for the murder of his fiance.
Mannix tries to clear a client who is accused of murder in a locked-room mystery where no one else could have killed the victim.
Mannix tries to identify a little girl who was killed when a parade stand collapsed. No one can identify the body, but someone anonymously sends $500 for the girl's burial.
A psychiatrist apparently kills himself, but the wife suspects one of his clients is responsible.
A cop accused of murder asks Mannix to help clear his name, even though multiple witnesses swear the cop was responsible.
A young boy asks Mannix to investigate the death of his hero: a boxer killed in a hit-and-run.
A mobster hires Mannix to find a stolen package for him.
Mannix turns up missing after 17 days, hooked on heroin by a brother seeking revenge.
Mannix looks into the near-death of a musician who was almost electrocuted while performing on stage.
Mannix comes to Albuquerque to help his goddaughter.
A girl comes out of a coma after a year, but finds that her problems are only beginning when unknown killers try to take her life.
The Syndicate abducts Peggy, mistakenly believing that she's an informant against them, and Mannix goes all-out to find her.
Mannix joins in the search for a missing counterfeiter with plates that both the Feds and the mob want.
Mannix investigates anonymous death threats against him that turn serious when someone takes a shot at him.
While investigating the death of an old friend from the Korean War, Mannix discovers that someone claiming to be him has been living in San Francisco for the last three weeks while Mannix was on a fishing trip.
A Japanese PI comes to Mannix looking for help tracking down a missing Japanese courier.
Mannix is hired to look into the death of one photographer and gets romantically involved with another.
Mannix looks into an Indian's death in a small New Mexico town ruled by fear, intimidation, and prejudice.
The survivor of a plane crash undergoes plastic surgery, and his wife hires Mannix to find out if he's really her husband.
A wife hires Mannix to discover who killed her husband during a charity show rehearsal... when she may have been the target.
A former soldier who broke under torture and who Mannix helped court-martial set out to get revenge on the PI by putting him through the same ordeal.
An older PI is shot while working a case, and the man's wife asks Mannix to find the shooter.
An Army deserter kills Peggy's cousin's husband, and Mannix tracks down the man responsible.
A former student is accused of killing his former professor, and hires Mannix to find the real killer.
A kidnapper demands a ransom from his victim's mother... six years after the boy was kidnapped.
Mannix and a friend are locked in an office building by three thieves looting the place.
A hitchhiker Mannnix picks up is accused of murder, and the PI tries to clear the man's name.
Mannix travels to a tropical island country to take a case to find a man, but is soon embroiled in a plot to kill the country's president.
Mannix goes on the run after he's framed for the murder of a country's president.
A newspaper publisher hires Mannix to acquire evidence that his wife Rebekah is having an affair and convince her to break it off. But after Mannix does so, he suspects that the entire thing was a set-up.
A hit man kills a mob boss but the body disappears, so the killer hires Mannix to find the dead man.
Mannix and the police bust up a drug ring, but a dealer escapes and takes six people hostage to force the authorities to hand over the man who betrayed them to the cops.