The WORST episodes of Mannix

Every episode of Mannix ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Mannix!

Tough, no-nonsense private eye Joe Mannix investigates in this tense and violent detective series. Originally employed by an ultra-computerized organization, he later set up his own shop. But mayhem always predominated.

Last Updated: 12/21/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
One Step to Midnight
star
6.30
10 votes

#1 - One Step to Midnight

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1972

Return of a gang boss with indeterminate friends and enemies.

Directors: Don McDougall
Writer: Warren Duff
Murder Times Three
star
6.54
13 votes

#2 - Murder Times Three

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1971

Hired and fired, Mannix pursues a missing person.

Directors: Leonard J. Horn
Eight to Five, It's a Miracle
star
6.55
11 votes

#3 - Eight to Five, It's a Miracle

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1968

A faith healer gets blackmailed.

Directors: Harry Harvey Jr.
Writer: Arthur Dales
The Solid Gold Web
star
6.60
15 votes

#4 - The Solid Gold Web

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/22/1969

A newspaper publisher's daughter is implicated in the death of a mobster.

Directors: Sutton Roley
The Search for Darrell Andrews
star
6.70
10 votes

#5 - The Search for Darrell Andrews

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1970

A colleague's death leaves Mannix with the evidence he was murdered for.

Directors: Seymour Robbie
Quartet for Blunt Instrument
star
6.71
7 votes

#6 - Quartet for Blunt Instrument

Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/1975

The death of an inventor raises questions of motive.

Directors: Reza Badiyi
A Day Filled with Shadows
star
6.73
11 votes

#7 - A Day Filled with Shadows

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1971

A varsity basketball player vanishes strangely, and is sought curiously.

Directors: Paul Krasny
The Open Web
star
6.75
12 votes

#8 - The Open Web

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1972

A gang boss engineers a deceptive getaway.

Directors: Arnold Laven
To Save a Dead Man
star
6.77
13 votes

#9 - To Save a Dead Man

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1971

Evidence rules out one confession, indicates another.

Directors: Paul Krasny
Color Her Missing
star
6.88
16 votes

#10 - Color Her Missing

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1969

A colleague's death leads Mannix into a dubious investigation.

Directors: Michael Caffey
Light and Shadow
star
6.88
8 votes

#11 - Light and Shadow

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1972

A murder investigation bumps up against hard evidence.

Directors: Sutton Roley
Cold Trail
star
6.88
17 votes

#12 - Cold Trail

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1971

A big kidnapping plot and an insignificant victim.

Directors: Barry Crane
Writer: Ed Waters
Cry Pigeon
star
6.89
9 votes

#13 - Cry Pigeon

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1972

Mannix in the middle of a gang war.

Directors: Reza Badiyi
The Faces of Murder
star
6.90
10 votes

#14 - The Faces of Murder

Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1973

Conflicting confessions have to be sifted.

Directors: Jeffrey Hayden
To Kill a Memory
star
6.90
10 votes

#15 - To Kill a Memory

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1972

A amnesiac veteran is up to his stripes in mischief.

Directors: Sutton Roley
Writer: Arthur Weiss
Tooth of the Serpent
star
6.92
12 votes

#16 - Tooth of the Serpent

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1969

A policeman's son is suspected in a robbery.

Directors: Paul Krasny
Writer: Robert Lewin
Edge of the Web
star
7.00
2 votes

#17 - Edge of the Web

Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1975

A triangle in academia.

Directors: John Peyser
Nightshade
star
7.00
14 votes

#18 - Nightshade

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1971

Disappearing enemies and friends force Mannix into a blackmail investigation.

Directors: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Martin Roth
Once Upon a Saturday
star
7.00
12 votes

#19 - Once Upon a Saturday

Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/21/1970

Carnival mishaps may be aimed at the proprietor.

Directors: Barry Crane
Run, Sheep, Run
star
7.02
47 votes

#20 - Run, Sheep, Run

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1967

An undercover cop's murder exposes a vice operation.

Directors: Gene Reynolds
Edge of the Knife
star
7.02
45 votes

#21 - Edge of the Knife

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1968

A doctor's son is kidnapped to force a failed surgery.

Directors: Stuart Hagmann
Night Out of Time
star
7.02
42 votes

#22 - Night Out of Time

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1968

A young heir wakes up bloodied and minus a grlfriend.

A Pittance of Faith
star
7.07
43 votes

#23 - A Pittance of Faith

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1969

A model's suicide proves doubtful.

Directors: Gerald Mayer
Another Final Exit
star
7.07
42 votes

#24 - Another Final Exit

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1968

A missing million leads Mannix out of Intertect as bait for a drug ring.

Directors: Ralph Senensky
Missing: Sun and Sky
star
7.07
14 votes

#25 - Missing: Sun and Sky

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1969

A stolen thoroughbred has Mannix buffaloed.

Directors: Sutton Roley