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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
    6.1/10(161 votes)

    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 4 Episode 22 - The Color of Murder
    6.4/10(146 votes)

    S4:E22

    An heiress suspects foul play.

    Director:Barry Crane
    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(118 votes)

    S7:E14

    A patriot in a dictatorship needs medical help.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Ben Roberts, Ivan Goff

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  4. Mannix Season 7 Episode 15 - Race Against Time (2) (a.k.a.) A Matter of the Heart
    6.4/10(106 votes)

    S7:E15

    The patriotic resistance finds a traitor amongst them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Mannix Season 8 Episode 1 - Portrait in Blues
    6.4/10(153 votes)

    S8:E1

    A singer is nearly electrocuted during a performance. Mannix is hired to find out if it was just an accident or if someone is out to get him.

    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:James L. Henderson

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  6. Mannix Season 2 Episode 21 - The Odds Against Donald Jordan
    6.6/10(145 votes)

    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 2 Episode 23 - The Solid Gold Web
    6.8/10(148 votes)

    S2:E23

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

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Mannix Season 2 Episode 25 - To Catch a Rabbit
    6.8/10(132 votes)

    S2:E25

    Mannix cooperates in a police investigation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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  9. Mannix Season 7 Episode 5 - The Gang's All Here
    6.8/10(133 votes)

    S7:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Mannix Season 4 Episode 4 - Figures in a Landscape
    6.9/10(144 votes)

    S4:E4

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

    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writer:Donn Mullally

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  11. Mannix Season 6 Episode 1 - The Open Web
    6.9/10(134 votes)

    S6:E1

    A gang boss engineers a deceptive getaway.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Mannix Season 6 Episode 16 - The Man Who Wasn't There
    6.9/10(132 votes)

    S6:E16

    A boastful nemesis takes Peggy for bait.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Mannix Season 3 Episode 20 - Only One Death to a Customer
    7.0/10(148 votes)

    S3:E20

    Mannix has an enemy who seems to be dead.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  14. Mannix Season 3 Episode 21 - Fly, Little One
    7.0/10(140 votes)

    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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  15. Mannix Season 5 Episode 23 - Scapegoat
    7.0/10(123 votes)

    S5:E23

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

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Mannix Season 8 Episode 6 - Death Has No Face
    7.0/10(118 votes)

    S8:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Mannix Season 1 Episode 6 - The Cost of a Vacation
    7.1/10(220 votes)

    S1:E6

    A threatened suicide.

    Director:John Meredyth Lucas
    Writer:Chester Krumholz

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  18. Mannix Season 3 Episode 25 - Once Upon a Saturday
    7.1/10(139 votes)

    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
    7.1/10(134 votes)

    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 12 - Deja Vu
    7.1/10(125 votes)

    S4:E12

    A seer foretells the end of Mannix, and it looks as if she may be right.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Mannix Season 7 Episode 9 - Sing a Song of Murder
    7.1/10(124 votes)

    S7:E9

    An opera diva emerges from retirement and is met with inexplicable attempts on her life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Ben Roberts, Ivan Goff

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  22. Mannix Season 2 Episode 9 - In Need of a Friend
    7.2/10(163 votes)

    S2:E9

    Mannix finds new evidence in the case of an embezzler he sent up the river.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Mannix Season 4 Episode 3 - Time Out of Mind
    7.2/10(120 votes)

    S4:E3

    A boxer's on the lam after a fixer's murder.

    Director:Corey Allen
    Writer:Robert Pirosh

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  24. Mannix Season 4 Episode 8 - The World Between
    7.2/10(148 votes)

    S4:E8

    An African Premier is in the hospital incognito, where Peggy is laid up with on-the-job injuries.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ben Roberts

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  25. Mannix Season 4 Episode 23 - Shadow Play
    7.2/10(122 votes)

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"A Gathering of Ghosts" is the worst rated episode of "Mannix". It scored 6.1/10 based on 161 votes. Directed by Reza Badiyi and written by John Meredyth Lucas, it aired on 2/6/1971. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Color of Murder".