The Best Episodes of Banacek Season 2
Every episode of Banacek Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Banacek Season 2!
Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season.
Season 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Banacek" season 2 is "No Stone Unturned", rated 7.6/10 from 172 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "No Stone Unturned" aired on 10/3/1973 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?".
7.6/10 172 votes#1 - No Stone Unturned
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/1973
"Man in Harmony," a 3-ton, 11-foot tall sculpture is missing at its gala unveiling. The 5-foot pedestal to which it was attached is all that remains to mark the theft. A ransom demand threatening to turn the large stone into gravel unless $500,000 is paid further complicates the case. Working, and competing, with a Boston Insurance Company colleague, Banacek has only two days to find the statue and collect his fee.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 169 votes
#2 - If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/7/1973
One morning Max - a huge, complex computer system - is missing from the locked, alarmed and guarded building he filled just the night before. Banacek steps in to find out how tons of computer machinery could be sneaked out leaving only bare walls.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Robert Van Scoyk
- 7.7/10 178 votes
#3 - The Three Million Dollar Piracy
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/1973
A three-million dollar wedding coach, being sent overseas, disappears shortly after being placed into a shipping container and loaded aboard ship, under the watchful eyes of two Boston Insurance Company employees. Enter Banacek, who must figure out the puzzling theft and find the coach before the ship sails to collect his ten percent.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 155 votes
#4 - The Vanishing Chalice
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/15/1974
A one-of-a-kind Greek chalice worth 1.5 million dollars is stolen in front of many witnesses.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10 161 votes
#5 - Horse of a Slightly Different Color
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/22/1974
Thoroughbred-owner Katherine Wells finished an interview at the track, then in confidence tells her horse trainer that she is quitting racing and sold her prized thoroughbred for $5,000,000. That after morning workout, the transfer would be official. Before new owner and camera crew, Oxford Dunn starts his quarter run.. yet a different horse finishes - with no time to switch in the "Horse of a Slightly Different Color." It's another impossible puzzle for Banacek.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: Jimmy Sangster
- 7.2/10 157 votes
#6 - Rocket to Oblivion
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/1974
A small but powerful prototype engine sits sealed in a rotating display case in the middle of a crowded trade-show floor. A power failure turns out the lights for a few seconds, and when the lights return, the rocket engine has vanished. Banacek must beat his competition to the solution before Federal agents step in.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 170 votes
#7 - Fly Me- If You Can Find Me
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/1974
A charter company jetliner makes an emergency landing at a small desert airstrip, blowing all of its tires and leaving a shaken flight crew. The next morning finds the pilot left guarding the plane dead and the airstrip empty of the immovable aircraft. Enter Banacek - in a chauffeur-driven jeep - to sort out the convolutions of pilots, stewardesses, old business partners and more to learn where the crippled plane has gone.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Harold Livingston
- 7.4/10 154 votes
#8 - Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/12/1974
A stage magician vanishes in the middle of his act, as he is about to be arrested on suspicion of a $1,750,000 securities fraud. Banacek is called in to try to recover the missing money and solve the mystery of the disappearing man.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Stanley Roberts