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The Worst Episodes of Mannix

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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Mannix Season 4 Episode 19 - A Gathering of Ghosts
    6.2/10(147 votes)

    #1 - A Gathering of Ghosts

    S4:E19

    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

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  2. Mannix Season 8 Episode 1 - Portrait in Blues
    6.3/10(141 votes)

    #2 - Portrait in Blues

    S8:E1

    Murder on the rock circuit.

    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Mannix Season 7 Episode 14 - Race Against Time (1) (a.k.a.) A Matter of the Heart
    6.4/10(111 votes)

    #3 - Race Against Time (1) (a.k.a.) A Matter of the Heart

    S7:E14

    A patriot in a dictatorship needs medical help.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts

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  4. Mannix Season 4 Episode 22 - The Color of Murder
    6.5/10(139 votes)

    #4 - The Color of Murder

    S4:E22

    An heiress suspects foul play.

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Mannix Season 7 Episode 15 - Race Against Time (2) (a.k.a.) A Matter of the Heart
    6.5/10(100 votes)

    #5 - Race Against Time (2) (a.k.a.) A Matter of the Heart

    S7:E15

    The patriotic resistance finds a traitor amongst them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Mannix Season 2 Episode 21 - The Odds Against Donald Jordan
    6.7/10(136 votes)

    #6 - The Odds Against Donald Jordan

    S2:E21

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

    Director:Stuart Hagmann
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Mannix Season 7 Episode 5 - The Gang's All Here
    6.8/10(125 votes)

    #7 - The Gang's All Here

    S7:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Mannix Season 2 Episode 23 - The Solid Gold Web
    6.9/10(138 votes)

    #8 - The Solid Gold Web

    S2:E23

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

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Mannix Season 2 Episode 25 - To Catch a Rabbit
    6.9/10(125 votes)

    #9 - To Catch a Rabbit

    S2:E25

    Mannix cooperates in a police investigation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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  10. Mannix Season 4 Episode 4 - Figures in a Landscape
    6.9/10(131 votes)

    #10 - Figures in a Landscape

    S4:E4

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Mannix Season 6 Episode 1 - The Open Web
    6.9/10(124 votes)

    #11 - The Open Web

    S6:E1

    A gang boss engineers a deceptive getaway.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Mannix Season 3 Episode 20 - Only One Death to a Customer
    7.0/10(135 votes)

    #12 - Only One Death to a Customer

    S3:E20

    Mannix has an enemy who seems to be dead.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  13. Mannix Season 8 Episode 6 - Death Has No Face
    7.0/10(108 votes)

    #13 - Death Has No Face

    S8:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Mannix Season 1 Episode 6 - The Cost of a Vacation
    7.1/10(200 votes)

    #14 - The Cost of a Vacation

    S1:E6

    A threatened suicide.

    Director:John Meredyth Lucas
    Writer:Chester Krumholz

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  15. Mannix Season 3 Episode 21 - Fly, Little One
    7.1/10(131 votes)

    #15 - Fly, Little One

    S3:E21

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Mannix Season 5 Episode 23 - Scapegoat
    7.1/10(109 votes)

    #16 - Scapegoat

    S5:E23

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

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Mannix Season 6 Episode 16 - The Man Who Wasn't There
    7.1/10(120 votes)

    #17 - The Man Who Wasn't There

    S6:E16

    A boastful nemesis takes Peggy for bait.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Mannix Season 3 Episode 25 - Once Upon a Saturday
    7.2/10(128 votes)

    #18 - Once Upon a Saturday

    S3:E25

    Carnival mishaps may be aimed at the proprietor.

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Barry Crane

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  19. Mannix Season 4 Episode 10 - To Cage a Sea Gull
    7.2/10(124 votes)

    #19 - To Cage a Sea Gull

    S4:E10

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Mannix Season 4 Episode 23 - Shadow Play
    7.2/10(113 votes)

    #20 - Shadow Play

    S4:E23

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Mannix Season 6 Episode 7 - To Kill a Memory
    7.2/10(121 votes)

    #21 - To Kill a Memory

    S6:E7

    A amnesiac veteran is up to his stripes in mischief.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Mannix Season 8 Episode 4 - Walk on the Blind Side
    7.2/10(110 votes)

    #22 - Walk on the Blind Side

    S8:E4

    Peggy gets mistaken for a stool pigeon.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Mannix Season 1 Episode 3 - Nothing Ever Works Twice
    7.3/10(219 votes)

    #23 - Nothing Ever Works Twice

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Murray Golden
    Writer:Chester Krumholz

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  24. Mannix Season 1 Episode 8 - Beyond the Shadow of a Dream
    7.3/10(181 votes)

    #24 - Beyond the Shadow of a Dream

    S1:E8

    Mannix is hired to vet a prospective bridegroom.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  25. Mannix Season 1 Episode 15 - The Falling Star
    7.3/10(175 votes)

    #25 - The Falling Star

    S1:E15

    Mannix checks out an actress with an enemy.

    Director:Denis Sanders
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"A Gathering of Ghosts" is the worst rated episode of "Mannix". It scored 6.2/10 based on 147 votes. Directed by Reza Badiyi and written by John Meredyth Lucas, it aired on 2/6/1971. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Portrait in Blues".