Mannix
Season 8
24 listed hours · 1967–1975 · CBS
From the desk
How this season is filed
Joe Mannix took punches, climbed fire escapes, and ignored doctor's orders — Bruce Geller's private-eye engine of pure physical stubbornness. Mike Connors made the bruised P.I. a weekly ritual; Gail Fisher's Peggy Fair was a landmark Black woman regular in detective drama. No whisper-soft neo-noir — just motion.
TV Flash files Season 8 of Mannix (1967–1975) on CBS as the last listed season of 8 — 24 listed hours, 1974-09-22–1975-04-13 from “Portrait in Blues” (S08E01) to “Hardball” (S08E24). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S08E24 Hardball
Hardball closes eight CBS seasons of fire-escape stubbornness — catalog tail of a detective who treated the body as plot.
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S08E01 Portrait in Blues
Mannix looks into the near-death of a musician who was almost electrocuted while performing on stage.
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S08E02 Game Plan
Mannix comes to Albuquerque to help his goddaughter.
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S08E03 A Fine Day for Dying
A girl comes out of a coma after a year, but finds that her problems are only beginning when unknown killers try to take her life.
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S08E04 Walk on the Blind Side
The Syndicate abducts Peggy, mistakenly believing that she's an informant against them, and Mannix goes all-out to find her.
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S08E05 The Green Man
Mannix joins in the search for a missing counterfeiter with plates that both the Feds and the mob want.
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S08E06 Death Has No Face
Mannix investigates anonymous death threats against him that turn serious when someone takes a shot at him.
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S08E07 A Small Favor for an Old Friend
While investigating the death of an old friend from the Korean War, Mannix discovers that someone claiming to be him has been living in San Francisco for the last three weeks while Mannix was on a fishing trip.
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S08E08 Enter Tami Okada
A Japanese PI comes to Mannix looking for help tracking down a missing Japanese courier.
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S08E09 Picture of a Shadow
Mannix is hired to look into the death of one photographer and gets romantically involved with another.
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S08E10 Desert Sun
Mannix looks into an Indian's death in a small New Mexico town ruled by fear, intimidation, and prejudice.
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S08E11 The Survivor Who Wasn't
The survivor of a plane crash undergoes plastic surgery, and his wife hires Mannix to find out if he's really her husband.
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S08E12 A Choice of Victims
A wife hires Mannix to discover who killed her husband during a charity show rehearsal... when she may have been the target.
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S08E13 A Word Called Courage
A former soldier who broke under torture and who Mannix helped court-martial set out to get revenge on the PI by putting him through the same ordeal.
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S08E14 Man in a Trap
An older PI is shot while working a case, and the man's wife asks Mannix to find the shooter.
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S08E15 Chance Meeting
An Army deserter kills Peggy's cousin's husband, and Mannix tracks down the man responsible.
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S08E16 Edge of the Web
A former student is accused of killing his former professor, and hires Mannix to find the real killer.
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S08E17 A Ransom for Yesterday
A kidnapper demands a ransom from his victim's mother... six years after the boy was kidnapped.
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S08E18 The Empty Tower
Mannix and a friend are locked in an office building by three thieves looting the place.
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S08E19 Quartet for Blunt Instrument
A hitchhiker Mannnix picks up is accused of murder, and the PI tries to clear the man's name.
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S08E20 Bird of Prey (1)
Mannix travels to a tropical island country to take a case to find a man, but is soon embroiled in a plot to kill the country's president.
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S08E21 Bird of Prey (2)
Mannix goes on the run after he's framed for the murder of a country's president.
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S08E22 Design for Dying
A newspaper publisher hires Mannix to acquire evidence that his wife Rebekah is having an affair and convince her to break it off. But after Mannix does so, he suspects that the entire thing was a set-up.
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S08E23 Search for a Dead Man
A hit man kills a mob boss but the body disappears, so the killer hires Mannix to find the dead man.
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S08E24 Hardball
Mannix and the police bust up a drug ring, but a dealer escapes and takes six people hostage to force the authorities to hand over the man who betrayed them to the cops.
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