Mannix Cry Danger (1967–1975) watch online HD

I loved seeing the San Francisco locale for this episode and it really added to the ambiance of the show. However, apart from that the story seemed to have a lot of plot holes.

When the show begins, Mannix is in the San Francisco airport. He sees a lady who he knows from LA and is surprised...as he hasn't seen her since she stood him up on a date a couple months earlier (and NOBODY does that to Joe!). He's confused and she's not especially happy to see him and then tells him she thinks men are following her. Soon a couple of the guys take Mannix to an old fort (the Presidio, I think). There they work him over in front of their boss but eventually Mannix is able to escape before they kill him.

Joe goes to the police and the detective's reaction is curious indeed. He acts much like Mannix is lying and wasting his time when he tells them about being kidnapped...and this makes no sense at all. Nor does it make much sense later in the show then this same detective and his partner capture two of these same guys and then just let them run away!!! Huh?!?! This never is explained...nor are things like people somehow knowing where Mannix will be from one scene to the next. Yes, it IS sloppy. Fortunately, the story itself isn't too bad and at least it's entertaining.

While Cry Danger is not one of the great Mannix episodes, it isn't nearly as bad as the review below from April 2015 asserts.

To address several of that reviewer's criticisms, A) In the opening scene Mannix expressly tells Jan Holloway that he is staying at the Carlyle so her calling him there was not a mistake. B) His different attitudes toward her are easily explained by the fact that she first stood him up, then told him she was married, which was also a lie, then of course Mannix realizes she was a victim, so Joe's differing moods toward the lady were clearly justified by the script, C) When he gets ready to search the dock area he tells his detective friend to call the police after half an hour so its no mystery why the police show up. Of course this is "TV Time" we are dealing with but Mannix was hardly alone in time bending. D) Finally, while much of the police activity obviously takes place off camera, the viewer is shown that the police lieutenant possessed a picture of the lady and clearly was aware that Carter Elliott was a bad guy, so his actions are not difficult to understand. Furthermore while skeptical, he was never overtly antagonistic toward Mannix and in fact provided Joe with the address of Carter Elliott in the first scene they had together.

Yes, the story was confusing, and there were way too many bad guys chasing around, and why was there a recording of "Harry" uttering the perfect words handy for use two years after he died? Mannix as usual made poor decisions which lead to him having to unleash his super human powers to escape, but that is standard detective show television. The San Francisco location scenes are great, and there is a bunch of familiar character actors. This is a middling episode but not terrible by the standards of the medium.

This episode features a nice change of pace as it's filmed in San Francisco, and also has some new up-tempo music that's used during the action sequences which is pretty good, but that's about all it has going for it as this is one of the worst episodes of the season. The plot is way too complicated and there are too many characters, plot holes, and loose ends, and in the end none of it makes any sense.

The episode starts off in the San Francisco airport where Joe runs into a woman who stood him up a few weeks ago. Joe then proceeds to insult her several times but instead of either slapping him or simply walking off, she inexplicably just stands there and takes his abuse. Then as Joe is getting ready to leave the airport, he gets kidnapped and beaten up by several thugs who saw him talking with the woman at the airport and thought he was trying to interfere with a deal they had with her. After taking several roundhouse punches to his back and stomach, Joe is suddenly able to miraculously fight off his attackers and escape, which is one of many problems in this episode.

Then when Joe is checking in at his hotel, the front desk gets a call from the woman asking for Joe even though she had NO WAY OF KNOWING he was there.

Then when Joe and the woman are at the airport with the suitcase, two of the thugs who attacked Joe previously steal the suitcase from the woman and are promptly stopped by the police chief and a deputy. The thugs then throw the suitcase at the police chief and run off, and as the deputy begins to chase them, he is STOPPED from doing so by the police chief and they simply LET THEM GET AWAY. Joe is also there and he also does nothing to try to stop them, and in the end they're never caught as this plot point is never followed up on and it's also never explained who these thugs are or who they're working for and why they want the suitcase and what their relationship is to the other group of thugs who also want the suitcase. Just appalling. What is equally appalling is the police had no reason to be at the airport in the first place because they had NO WAY OF KNOWING Joe and the woman were there.

Then at the end when Joe is on the docks, the police of course rush in to wrap everything up even though once again they had no way of knowing Joe was there. Also, Joe is shot at several times throughout the episode, but of course all of the bullets miss him.

Then there's the problem with changing attitudes. At the beginning of the show, the police chief is completely hostile towards Joe and refuses to cooperate with him or help him out in any way, but then at the end, it's as if they're best friends. The same is true about Joe's attitude towards the woman. At the beginning, as previously mentioned, Joe insults the woman numerous times, but at the end, they're in love with each other. Totally unrealistic.

At one point during the show, Joe even says "It doesn't add up" and he could have easily been referring to this episode because none of it adds up. He even tries to explain to the woman at the end what was going on, but he does it very quickly and adds even more confusion because none of it makes any sense. In fact, this plot is so complicated I'm not sure if HE even knows what's going on. Yikes. This one is ugly. Stay away!