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"Banacek" The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack (1973)
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"Banacek" (1972)Original Air Date:
7 February 1973 (Season 1, Episode 8)Plot:
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. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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"A typical American success story" moreCast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | George Peppard | ... | Thomas Banacek |
 | Jessica Walter | ... | Erica Osburn |
 | Andrew Duggan | ... | Cap'n Jack Osburn |
| Linden Chiles | ... | Henry DeWitt |
| Murray Matheson | ... | Felix Mulholland |
| David White | ... | W. Crawford Morgan |
| Jason Evers | ... | Roger Sloan |
| Ralph Manza | ... | Jay Drury |
| William Schallert | ... | Leo Osburn |
| Wally Taylor | ... | Ed Spencer |
 | Fredd Wayne | ... | Stein |
| Gregory Sierra | ... | Norman Esposito |
| Liam Dunn | ... | Howard Hanrahan |
| Joan Pringle | ... | Ann Spencer |
 | Michael Delano | ... | Simson (as Michael DeLano) |
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Thomas Banacek: Did I ask to get in your chopper?Erica Osburn: You could've.
Thomas Banacek: Next time.
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A blistering attack on the business world, where pint-sized blowfish hit it big and get swallowed up by whales.
The bones are spat up on the beach ("in other words," says Banacek, "a typical American success story"), and who would want to interfere with these lordly natural processes? Cap'n Jack is "a short order cook who got lucky" in clam chowder, now the United Foods Company wants to buy him out. Stock certificates (or more precisely the plates they're printed with) vanish from the engraving plant. No end of trouble in view.
Cap'n Jack's daughter is a pistol and a weather girl who puts the moves on Banacek. "There's an old Polish proverb that says, 'When an owl comes to a mouse picnic, it's not there for the sack races.'" She's on the rebound from the head of UFC.
"There's an old Polish proverb that says, 'Even a thousand-zloty note can't tap dance.'" Cap'n Jack's brother Leo is a firm believer that money can't buy happiness. He's against the merger, and tends an experimental vegetable garden.
The plates disappear in a security elevator en route from floor to floor. This central apparatus of the work illustrates the buyout defense of what you might call downward stock distribution, and is a riot.
Heffron plays this with great reserve, letting his camera do all the talking. No escape from the elevator shaft? The camera shows nothing.