Banacek was the only one of those to limp along to a second season. When the NBC mystery wheel moved the three hits of its first season – Columbo, McCloud, and McMillan and Wife – to Sunday, the network launched three completely new properties in the original Wednesday time slot.
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The only series I tackled this weekend that was completely new to me was Banacek, one of the NBC Mystery Movie franchise shows produced by Universal. It’s one of the most over-the-top showdowns between narcissistic ham actors that I’ve ever seen. Ryan as an ex-con out to get Kojak for putting him away. (I’m pretty sure I’ve added Kojak to the reject list, but I will offer a parting, backhanded recommendation for the tenth episode, “Cop in a Cage,” which pits Savalas against cult movie villain John P. Maybe it was because Telly Savalas (one of television’s unlikeliest stars) was so intent on looking cool that he didn’t want anything but the most generic cop-show cliches cluttering up his periphery. Kojak is almost completely ordinary, despite having been managed by a succession of writer-producers of impeccable reputation (Abby Mann, Matthew Rapf, Jack Laird).
Harry O, for example, slid almost immediately into a rote action/mystery formula that had bore little resemblance to the quirky, off-tempo character drama launched by its brilliant creator, Howard Rodman. Often that seems to have been an insurmountable task. Detective shows were the lingua franca of’70s television, so I’ve gradually been sampling them all, dropping the ones that bore me ( McMillan and Wife, Quincy) and sticking with those that managed to achieve something creative within the limitations of the genre.
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