Banacek

Season 1

1972 · 8 episodes · 9h 20m in all · 5.9/10

Episodes

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   1. Let's Hear It for a Living Legend

   13 Sept 1972 · 70 min · 8.0/10

   When a football player vanishes from the field in full view of network cameras and a live audience, it's up to Banacek to figure out how his kidnappers spirited him away without a trace.

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   2. Project Phoenix

   27 Sept 1972 · 70 min · 9.0/10

   The multi-million dollar Phoenix, prototype for a revolutionary new car, disappears from a non-stop train en route to Boston - flat-car included. Banacek is called in to find the missing vehicle before a huge insurance claim must be paid.

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   3. No Sign of the Cross

   11 Oct 1972 · 70 min · 3.3/10

   A golden cross, on its way from a Mexican church to an American gangster anxious to reform his image, turns into worthless junk without ever leaving the possession of the couriers sent to deliver it. Banacek must figure out where and how the switch was pulled off.

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   4. A Million the Hard Way

   1 Nov 1972 · 70 min · 3.3/10

   Banacek must figure out who stole a million dollars from a supposedly tamper-proof display case.

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   5. To Steal a King

   15 Nov 1972 · 70 min

   A king's ransom in precious coins vanishes from a hotel-suite vault while the owners sleep only a few feet away. Banacek arrives to figure out how the impossible to open vault was so easily breached without a sign left behind.

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   6. Ten Thousand Dollars a Page

   10 Jan 1973 · 70 min

   When a priceless book vanishes from a sealed display case in a room that no thief could possibly escape, it's up to Banacek to show how someone beat the supposedly foolproof alarms to make off with the artifact.

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   7. The Greatest Collection of Them All

   24 Jan 1973 · 70 min

   Banacek figures out how $23 million worth of paintings vanished from a moving truck transporting them from New York to Boston.

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   8. The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack

   7 Feb 1973 · 70 min

   Just before Cap'n Jack's seafood restaurant franchise is set to go public, millions of dollars in stock certificates are stolen from a non-stop elevator, leaving Banacek to find them before someone walks through walls with a fortune.