Bill C wrote:
"Joe Mannix was a TV 'tec, but didn't he work for a large
agency?"
I remembered Mannix as having an office with his secretary
Peggy Fair. However, I looked up Mannix in Max Allan
Collins's and John Javna's The Best of Crime & Detective
TV and found out that you were right, Bill, for one
season:
"During the first season Mannix worked for a Pinkerton-size
agency called Intertect, run by one Lew Wickersham, crisply
played by Joseph Campanella. The central notion was a good
one: Traditional tough private eye hires on with an
ultramodern, computerized security outfit. Just as good was
the central conflict between white-collar corporate
Campanella and blue-collar individualist Mannix. The
chemistry between the two actors was tangible and made for
compelling viewing. Unfortunately, this format lasted only
for the first season, and subsequently Joe Mannix, operating
out of a one-man LA agency, became a conentional television
private eye."
As for books, I'm having trouble thinking of even small
agencies, just Gores's DKA and the one in Stanley Ellin's The
Eighth Circle.
Mark
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