The show overdid the Polish theme somewhat.
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The Three Investigators series started in 1964, a few years before Banacek, so it’s possible that the Banacek people may have copied the idea. The standard format is that something is stolen, in a way that makes the method of the theft seem impossible to figure out, and whilst all the others involved are scratching their heads, wondering how the heist happened, Banacek arrives in his chauffeur-driven limousine and solves the crime.Īctually, the afore-mentioned format is pretty much that used for the Three Investigators books, except that Jupiter Jones didn’t have pretty women falling at his feet (Jupiter, if you are reading this, I have a club you can borrow if you like). Taken in single doses, the episodes are quite good.
Could just be jealousy, of course the only times I have women falling at my feet is when I knock them on the head with my club and drag them back to my cave (although the judge said I wasn’t allowed to do that any more).
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So, as he looks into lots of thefts of items worth millions of dollars, he is quite well-off very rich, in fact – and that would be a second reason for the smugness.Īs a TV production appearing once a month or so (as apparently it did in its heyday), it would have been quite a good show but, after viewing about one and a half seasons of Banacek, watching the always-present smugness, and almost every woman falling at his feet, it all started to get a bit old. In one episode, he is described as arrogant and lecherous – maybe that wasn’t too far from the truth.Īs an independent insurance investigator, Banacek gets 10% of an item’s worth if he can locate it usually after said item has been stolen by some nefarious evil-doer. In the role of a “ladies’ man”, Banacek stays on the right side of the sleazy border, although sometimes he does climb up onto the dividing wall and totters about a bit I thought he was about to fall off into no-man’s land a few times, but he seemed to save himself. George Peppard plays the lead role of Thomas Banacek (pronounced BannerCheck), a sort of insurance investigator cum James Bond type, who strolls around looking smug, puffing on cigars, and having at least one good-looking woman fall for him per episode – hence the smugness, I guess. Been watching seasons 1 and 2 of Banacek, the 1970s TV series.