For 10% of the insured value, he will recover the stolen item, saving the insurance company millions – though of course they are all resentful over having to have him large chunks of money (naturally, he doesn’t bother looking for anything worth less than a million) for doing what their agents can’t. Polish-American Banacek is a freelance insurance investigator who only takes on the toughest cases – thefts that seem impossible.
It’s not entirely successful in doing so. Peppard plays the title character, Thomas Banacek (in keeping with the times, hardly anyone uses his first name) in a show that attempts to make insurance investigation as glamorous and exciting as the life of James Bond. Banacek, ironically, was the only popular strand of the Wednesday movies.ĭesigned to fit a feature film slot, each episode of Banacek runs 70 minutes without ads, and there are only eight episodes per season (plus the initial pilot). However, this proved less successful, with the likes of Cool Million, Madigan, The Snoop Sisters and Tenafly only lasting a single season each.
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This ‘wheel’ series began life in 1971 with Columbo, McCloud and McMillan and Wife taking turns to appear, and was successful enough for the initial strand to be moved to Sunday mights and a second wheel started on Wednesdays.
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I guess he really hated her.īanacek first appeared in 1972 as part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie slot.
That, however, is the reason that early Seventies series Banacek ended after two seasons, with star George Peppard happily cutting off his nose to spite his wife Elizabeth Ashley’s face. There are all sorts of reasons why a TV show might get cancelled, but ‘to stop my ex-wife from getting a bigger cut of my earnings in our divorce settlement’ is possibly unique.
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