Can you tell the difference between Cannon and Mannix?
Can you tell these tough 1970s detectives apart?
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In the early Seventies, no television detectives were tougher than Joe Mannix and Frank Cannon. They both took on crooks with cool cars and karate chops. They could also take a licking.
Mike Connors (Mannix) and William Conrad (Cannon) were also both beloved veterans of the small screen. The shows might have a lot in common, but they do not have everything in common.
Let's see if you can tell these characters apart!
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Who drove a Lincoln Continental Mark IV?
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Who had a phone in his car?
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Who worked for an agency called Intertect?
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Who had a boss named Lew Wickersham?
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Who lived in Los Angeles?
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Who lived in the historic Art Deco styled apartment building Sunset Tower in West Hollywood?
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Who was fluent in Armenian?
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Who had a crossover with Barnaby Jones?
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Who lost his wife and son in a tragic accident?
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Who grew up in a town called Summer Grove?
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Who appeared in an episode of 'Diagnosis: Murder' in 1997?
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Who returned to television for a made-for-TV movie special in 1980?
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Who once took a case for a payment of bottles of rare wine?
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Who had the middle initial "R."?
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Can you tell the difference between Cannon and Mannix?
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That would have been at minimum unlikely on Cannon, so the bad guys would cut his brake lines, right before he had to drive down a steep winding mountain road. Cue closeup of foot repeatedly futilely pressing brake pedal...
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Never liked Mannix, even though the cars were better. Cannon was one of the few shows that really got around Southern California, rather than just being in Los Angeles the whole time, which was great for scenery but must have upped the production budget considerably.
JERRY: Oh my God!
KRAMER: It's the Merv Griffin set
JERRY: How did you get this in here?
KRAMER: Oh, you just bring it in sideways and hook it.
JERRY: So where are you gonna sleep?
KRAMER: Yeah ... backstage.
ELAINE: Phew! This chair smells like garbage.
KRAMER: Oh, well a lot of the stars from the 70's - they were not as hygienic as they appeared on TV, yeah, you can take Mannix for example.
Both great shows in my book. I love to look back at the cars and style back then.
audience member interacting with a magician in a night club. Filmed in 1971, I wonder if this might be
his earliest TV role?