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Mannix: Season 5

24 episodes Premiered Sep 15, 1971
Previously on Mannix

Season 5 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Mannix Season 4.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 5 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 5: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (21): Character development & subplots
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S5·E2 Core

Cold Trail

Sep 22, 1971

A big kidnapping plot and an insignificant victim.

S5·E3 Core

A Step in Time

Sep 29, 1971

Mannix is the eyewitness of a murder; reportedly, it occurred a year before.

S5·E5 Core

Woman in the Shadows

Oct 13, 1971

Soviet agents want Marx's manuscript of Das Kapital, and a young woman has just inherited part of it.

S5·E7 Core

Run Till Dark

Oct 27, 1971

A contract is taken out on a Little League manager.

S5·E8 Core

The Glass Trap

Nov 3, 1971

Strange circumstances surround an arrest by Mannix.

S5·E9 Core

A Choice of Evils

Nov 10, 1971

Peggy is kidnapped to force Mannix into an investigation.

S5·E10 Core

A Button for General D

Nov 17, 1971

The Case of the Singing Harp: a singer is kidnapped to reveal hidden loot.

S5·E11 Core

The Man Outside

Nov 24, 1971

Blackmail has its twists and turns.

S5·E12 Core

Murder Times Three

Dec 1, 1971

Hired and fired, Mannix pursues a missing person.

S5·E13 Core

Catspaw

Dec 8, 1971

Blackmail turns to murder and beyond.

S5·E14 Core

To Save a Dead Man

Dec 15, 1971

Evidence rules out one confession, indicates another.

S5·E15 Core

Nightshade

Dec 29, 1971

Disappearing enemies and friends force Mannix into a blackmail investigation.

S5·E16 Core

Babe in the Woods

Jan 5, 1972

Murder on the golf course leads to open season on Mannix, who's looking for valuable microcircuit plans hidden by the victim.

S5·E17 Core

The Sound of Murder

Jan 12, 1972

A dubious client is caught in his own machinations.

S5·E18 Core

Moving Target

Jan 19, 1972

The fictitious name on a partnership contract apparently comes to life.

S5·E19 Core

Cry Pigeon

Jan 26, 1972

Mannix in the middle of a gang war.

S5·E21 Core

Lifeline

Feb 16, 1972

A singer piles into mounting trouble with the law.

S5·E22 Core

To Draw the Lightning

Feb 23, 1972

Was a police shooting premeditated? Mannix is on (and off) the case.

S5·E23 Mytharc

Scapegoat

Mar 1, 1972

Mannix transports jewels from London, or is that his double?

S5·E24 Mytharc

Death in the Fifth Gear

Mar 8, 1972

A racing accident lays Mannix up. While recuperating, he hears threats against him, but are they real?