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The Worst Episodes of Mannix

Every episode of Mannix ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Mannix!

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...
Genres:Action & AdventureCrimeMysteryDrama
Network:CBS

Worst Episodes Summary

"A Gathering of Ghosts" is the worst rated episode of "Mannix". It scored 6.2/10 based on 136 votes. Directed by Reza Badiyi and written by John Meredyth Lucas, it aired on 2/6/1971. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Color of Murder".

  • A Gathering of Ghosts
    6.2/10136 votes
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    #1 - A Gathering of Ghosts

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1971

    Ross and Alex are members of Mannix's college football team who put together an unconventional reunion in a ghost town. The reunion ends in murder and reveals years of deceit and jealousy that come to light in a series of bizarre and morbid.

    Director: Reza Badiyi

    Writer: John Meredyth Lucas

  • The Color of Murder
    6.4/10131 votes
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    #2 - The Color of Murder

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1971

    An heiress suspects foul play.

    Director: Barry Crane

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gang's All Here
    6.4/10110 votes
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    #3 - The Gang's All Here

    Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1973

    A street gang plots to do Mannix in to make a name for itself.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Portrait in Blues
    6.4/10121 votes
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    #4 - Portrait in Blues

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1974

    Murder on the rock circuit.

    Director: Alf Kjellin

    Writer: N/A

  • Race Against Time (1) (a.k.a.) A Matter of the Heart
    6.5/1099 votes
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    #5 - Race Against Time (1) (a.k.a.) A Matter of the Heart

    Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1974

    A patriot in a dictatorship needs medical help.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ben Roberts, Ivan Goff

  • Race Against Time (2) (a.k.a.) A Matter of the Heart
    6.5/1092 votes
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    #6 - Race Against Time (2) (a.k.a.) A Matter of the Heart

    Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1974

    The patriotic resistance finds a traitor amongst them.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Odds Against Donald Jordan
    6.7/10127 votes
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    #7 - The Odds Against Donald Jordan

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1969

    A missing contractor leads to mixed motives and a doubtful case.

    Director: Stuart Hagmann

    Writer: N/A

  • The Solid Gold Web
    6.9/10122 votes
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    #8 - The Solid Gold Web

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/22/1969

    A newspaper publisher's daughter is implicated in the death of a mobster.

    Director: Sutton Roley

    Writer: N/A

  • Figures in a Landscape
    6.9/10121 votes
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    #9 - Figures in a Landscape

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1970

    Someone keeps missing Mannix, but who's the real target?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Scapegoat
    6.9/10100 votes
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    #10 - Scapegoat

    Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/1/1972

    Mannix transports jewels from London, or is that his double?

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • The Man Who Wasn't There
    6.9/10109 votes
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    #11 - The Man Who Wasn't There

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1973

    A boastful nemesis takes Peggy for bait.

    Director: Sutton Roley

    Writer: N/A

  • Death Has No Face
    6.9/1093 votes
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    #12 - Death Has No Face

    Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1974

    The vortex of the paranoid: Mannix is threatened and framed.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cost of a Vacation
    7.0/10181 votes
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    #13 - The Cost of a Vacation

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1967

    A threatened suicide.

    Director: John Meredyth Lucas

    Writer: Chester Krumholz

  • To Catch a Rabbit
    7.0/10114 votes
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    #14 - To Catch a Rabbit

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 4/12/1969

    Mannix cooperates in a police investigation.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Shimon Wincelberg

  • Only One Death to a Customer
    7.0/10127 votes
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    #15 - Only One Death to a Customer

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1970

    Mannix has an enemy who seems to be dead.

    Director: Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer: John Meredyth Lucas

  • Fly, Little One
    7.0/10118 votes
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    #16 - Fly, Little One

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1970

    The strange utterances of a disturbed young girl are clues in a case of robbery and murder.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Walk on the Blind Side
    7.0/1099 votes
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    #17 - Walk on the Blind Side

    Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1974

    Peggy gets mistaken for a stool pigeon.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Shadow Play
    7.1/10106 votes
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    #18 - Shadow Play

    Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/20/1971

    Joe Mannix receives an urgent letter from a woman named Lynn Sargent asking him to fly to Arizona. She meets him at the airport and hands him a check for $1,000 and a small sealed package, telling him the money is his fee to take the package to the Los Angeles Police Department. Just as she does so, two men try to take the package, but Mannix manages to retain it after a scuffle. But the mystery deepens when the package turns out to contain nothing but blank sheets of paper -- and the police chief in the town tells Mannix that Lynn Sargent died a month earlier in a hit-and-run accident.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Open Web
    7.1/10112 votes
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    #19 - The Open Web

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1972

    A gang boss engineers a deceptive getaway.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Search for Darrell Andrews
    7.2/1098 votes
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    #20 - The Search for Darrell Andrews

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1970

    A colleague's death leaves Mannix with the evidence he was murdered for.

    Director: Seymour Robbie

    Writer: N/A

  • To Cage a Sea Gull
    7.2/10116 votes
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    #21 - To Cage a Sea Gull

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1970

    A Nazi Party figure turns up in the routine investigation of a helicopter crash.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • To Kill a Memory
    7.2/10107 votes
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    #22 - To Kill a Memory

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1972

    A amnesiac veteran is up to his stripes in mischief.

    Director: Sutton Roley

    Writer: N/A

  • See No Evil
    7.2/1095 votes
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    #23 - See No Evil

    Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1972

    A trail of evidence indicates a friend of Peggy's.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Shimon Wincelberg

  • Nothing Ever Works Twice
    7.3/10197 votes
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    #24 - Nothing Ever Works Twice

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1967

    Mannix is set up for the murder of an old girlfriend's husband.

    Director: Murray Golden

    Writer: Chester Krumholz

  • Beyond the Shadow of a Dream
    7.3/10165 votes
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    #25 - Beyond the Shadow of a Dream

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1967

    Mannix is hired to vet a prospective bridegroom.

    Director: Leonard Horn

    Writer: Laurence Heath