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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
Episodes
194
Avg. Rating
7.7
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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 137 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, "The Color of Murder".

  • A Gathering of Ghosts
    6.2/10(137)
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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
    6.3/10(132)
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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
    6.4/10(112)
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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
    6.4/10(121)
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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
    6.5/10(98)
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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
    6.5/10(91)
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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
    6.7/10(127)
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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
    6.9/10(123)
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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
    6.9/10(121)
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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

  • The Man Who Wasn't There
    6.9/10(112)
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    #10 - 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
    6.9/10(93)
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    #11 - 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
    7.0/10(182)
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    #12 - 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
    7.0/10(114)
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    #13 - 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
    7.0/10(127)
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    #14 - 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
    7.0/10(120)
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    #15 - 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
    7.0/10(98)
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    #16 - 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
    7.1/10(107)
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    #17 - 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

  • Scapegoat
    7.1/10(104)
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    #18 - 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 Open Web
    7.1/10(118)
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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
    7.2/10(98)
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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
    7.2/10(116)
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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

  • Desert Run
    7.2/10(102)
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    #22 - Desert Run

    Season 7 Episode 6

    Aired 10/21/1973

    A search inquiry proves hazardous, and Mannix finds his client is a ringer.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: John Meredyth Lucas

  • Bird of Prey (2)
    7.2/10(79)
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    #23 - Bird of Prey (2)

    Season 8 Episode 21

    Aired 3/9/1975

    An assassination plot is revealed in the course of Mannix's investigation.

    Director: Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer: N/A

  • Nothing Ever Works Twice
    7.3/10(197)
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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
    7.3/10(166)
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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