I love Mannix but the problem the show ran into (most blatantly in its seventh season) was the time allotted by CBS. Once the teaser was eliminated before the opening titles, the stories suffered from a time crunch. Stories never entirely wrapped up in any safisfactory sense and budgets even seemed to be trimmed. Early Mannix episodes had quite a "lush" (for lack of a better word) look about them while later episodes seem to have been dictated by bean-counters. Once Mannix's dark green Barracuda convertible was replaced with an uncharacteristic hardtop, so was the rich look of the series along with fully fleshed-out plots. The series deserved much better.
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