Banacek

The adventures of proud Polish-American freelance insurance investigator Thomas Banacek.

Cast:George Peppard , Ralph Manza , Murray Matheson , Christine Belford , George Murdock , Linden Chiles , Gene Dynarski , David Spielberg , Alan Fudge , Peggy Walton-Walker , John Finnegan , Byron Morrow , Rudy Challenger , Margot Kidder , Stefanie Powers , Brenda Vaccaro , Joanna Pettet , Broderick Crawford

0Season 1

S1.E0 ∙ Detour to Nowhere

Mon, Mar 20, 1972

An insurance investigator tries to find an armored car carrying gold bullion that disappeared in the middle of a deserted Texas highway.

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Let's Hear It for a Living Legend

Wed, Sep 13, 1972

When a football player vanishes from the field in full view of network cameras and a live audience, it's up to Banacek to figure out how his kidnappers spirited him away without a trace.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Project Phoenix

Wed, Sep 27, 1972

The multi-million dollar Phoenix, prototype for a revolutionary new car, disappears from a non-stop train en route to Boston - flat-car included. Banacek is called in to find the missing vehicle before a huge insurance claim must be paid.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ No Sign of the Cross

Wed, Oct 11, 1972

A miraculous mystery: a priceless gold crucifix seemingly transforms into worthless iron while en route from a retired gangster in Mexico to a church in LA.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ A Million the Hard Way

Wed, Nov 1, 1972

Right in the middle of a busy casino, surrounded by guards, a million dollars on display sealed under a glass dome mysteriously disappears without a trace.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ To Steal a King

Wed, Nov 15, 1972

A king's ransom in precious coins vanishes from a hotel suite vault while the owners sleep only a few feet away. Banacek arrives to figure out how the impossible-to-open vault was so easily breached without a sign left behind.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Ten Thousand Dollars a Page

Wed, Jan 10, 1973

When a priceless book vanishes from a sealed display case in a room that no thief could possibly escape, it's up to Banacek to show how someone beat the supposedly foolproof alarms to make off with the artifact.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ The Greatest Collection of Them All

Wed, Jan 24, 1973

Banacek figures out how $23 million worth of paintings vanished from a moving truck transporting them from New York to Boston.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack

Wed, Feb 7, 1973

Just before Cap'n Jack's seafood restaurant franchise is set to go public, millions of dollars in stock certificates are stolen from a non-stop elevator, leaving Banacek to find them before someone walks through walls with a fortune.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ No Stone Unturned

Wed, Oct 3, 1973

Discord at a museum when Man in Harmony, an 11' tall, 3-ton stone sculpture, disappears at its own unveiling. Banacek has two days to find out who walked off with it.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?

Wed, Nov 7, 1973

A rich hypochondriac boils over when her multi-million dollar, custom-designed, diagnostic hospital computer disappears behind its electric fence overnight.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Three Million Dollar Piracy

Wed, Nov 21, 1973

A $3,000,000 royal wedding coach disappears from its shipping container, leaving only an approximate 12" square hole behind. Enter Banacek to make sense of it.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Vanishing Chalice

Tue, Jan 15, 1974

When a priceless Greek chalice vanishes at a special preview before a select crowd, Cavanaugh hires Banacek to retrieve it, but with one string attached: Carlie Kirkland becomes his aide.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Horse of a Slightly Different Color

Tue, Jan 22, 1974

Oxford Don - currently THE most valuable race horse in the country - returns from his pre-race morning run a completely different horse. His new owner demands Banacek.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Rocket to Oblivion

Tue, Feb 12, 1974

The little prototype rocket engine that could outperform standard, larger engines disappears while exhibited in a science and industry expo. Tempers, already burning, flair.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Fly Me- If You Can Find Me

Tue, Feb 19, 1974

A jetliner blows its tires as it emergency lands in a middle-of-nowhere kind of small Nevada town. Through crippled, by dawn it's completely gone, and the pilot on guard duty dead. Banacek flies out to find the missing plane.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Now You See Me, Now You Don't

Tue, Mar 12, 1974

A stage magician vanishes in the middle of his act, as he is about to be arrested on suspicion of a $1,750,000 securities fraud. Banacek is called in to try to recover the missing money and solve the mystery of the disappearing man.