We had two TVs when I was growing up: one in our den and one in our parents' bedroom. On Sunday nights, we kids fought over who got the bed and who got the chair to watch Mannix, a detective series that ran from 1967 to 1975. Dad doled out bowls of popcorn drenched in melted margarine and salt.
Joe Mannix, the series' protagonist, was a little old for me to swoon over but I did like his convertibles and the kind way he treated his secretary and even his cadre of enemies. And the show seemed so modern, fleshing out the decades' themes of racism, returning Vietnam vets, addiction and other emotional and physical disabilities. The Heroes & Icons TV network airs the series now and it looks even more modern.
Heroes. Icons.
Joe Mannix, the series' protagonist, was a little old for me to swoon over but I did like his convertibles and the kind way he treated his secretary and even his cadre of enemies. And the show seemed so modern, fleshing out the decades' themes of racism, returning Vietnam vets, addiction and other emotional and physical disabilities. The Heroes & Icons TV network airs the series now and it looks even more modern.
Heroes. Icons.
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