The Mouse That Died
Mannix is hired by the sister of Geoffrey Paradine, a college student who has disappeared. As the episode opens, Mannix is taken off the case because she claims to have found him. Then she admits that although Paradine has contact...
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""The Mouse That Died" is an episode of "Mannix" that was strongly inspired by the old Edmund O'Brien film noir thriller, "DOA". In the film, SOMEONE has somehow poisoned O'Brien and he spends the entire film looking for that person before he ultimately dies from the poison. In this case, obviously someone wants Mannix off a case and somehow they slip poison into his system. It will kill him unless they can figure out what it is and the doctor (Robert Ito--who played Sam on "Quincy") is stumped. For most of the film, Mannix is heavily impaired..."
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The plot would later be revisited in A Coffin for Starsky (1976) of Starsky and Hutch (1975), where Starsky is the one poisoned and an antidote must be found. This was a popular theme among '70s TV shows.
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Mannix is hired by the sister of Geoffrey Paradine, a college student who has disappeared. As the episode opens, Mannix is taken off the case because she claims to have found him. Then she admits that although Paradine has contact...