The Best Episodes of Banacek Season 2

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.8/10(213 votes)

   #1 - Fly Me- If You Can Find Me

   S2:E72/19/1974

   A charter company jetliner makes an emergency landing at a small desert airstrip, blowing all of its tires and leaving a shaken flight crew. The next morning finds the pilot left guarding the plane dead and the airstrip empty of the immovable aircraft. Enter Banacek - in a chauffeur-driven jeep - to sort out the convolutions of pilots, stewardesses, old business partners and more to learn where the crippled plane has gone.

   Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

   Writer:Harold Livingston

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   Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

   Writer:Harold Livingston
2. 

   7.6/10(188 votes)

   #2 - No Stone Unturned

   S2:E110/3/1973

   "Man in Harmony," a 3-ton, 11-foot tall sculpture is missing at its gala unveiling. The 5-foot pedestal to which it was attached is all that remains to mark the theft. A ransom demand threatening to turn the large stone into gravel unless $500,000 is paid further complicates the case. Working, and competing, with a Boston Insurance Company colleague, Banacek has only two days to find the statue and collect his fee.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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3. 

   7.6/10(194 votes)

   #3 - The Three Million Dollar Piracy

   S2:E311/21/1973

   A three-million dollar wedding coach, being sent overseas, disappears shortly after being placed into a shipping container and loaded aboard ship, under the watchful eyes of two Boston Insurance Company employees. Enter Banacek, who must figure out the puzzling theft and find the coach before the ship sails to collect his ten percent.

   Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

   Writer:Unknown
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   7.6/10(181 votes)

   #4 - Horse of a Slightly Different Color

   S2:E51/22/1974

   Thoroughbred-owner Katherine Wells finished an interview at the track, then in confidence tells her horse trainer that she is quitting racing and sold her prized thoroughbred for $5,000,000. That after morning workout, the transfer would be official. Before new owner and camera crew, Oxford Dunn starts his quarter run.. yet a different horse finishes - with no time to switch in the "Horse of a Slightly Different Color." It's another impossible puzzle for Banacek.

   Director:Herschel Daugherty

   Writer:Jimmy Sangster

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   Director:Herschel Daugherty

   Writer:Jimmy Sangster
5. 

   7.4/10(192 votes)

   #5 - If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?

   S2:E211/7/1973

   One morning Max - a huge, complex computer system - is missing from the locked, alarmed and guarded building he filled just the night before. Banacek steps in to find out how tons of computer machinery could be sneaked out leaving only bare walls.

   Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

   Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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   Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

   Writer:Robert Van Scoyk
6. 

   7.4/10(177 votes)

   #6 - The Vanishing Chalice

   S2:E41/15/1974

   A one-of-a-kind Greek chalice worth 1.5 million dollars is stolen in front of many witnesses.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.3/10(170 votes)

   #7 - Now You See Me, Now You Don't

   S2:E83/12/1974

   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.

   Director:Bernard McEveety

   Writer:Stanley Roberts

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   Director:Bernard McEveety

   Writer:Stanley Roberts
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   7.2/10(176 votes)

   #8 - Rocket to Oblivion

   S2:E62/12/1974

   A small but powerful prototype engine sits sealed in a rotating display case in the middle of a crowded trade-show floor. A power failure turns out the lights for a few seconds, and when the lights return, the rocket engine has vanished. Banacek must beat his competition to the solution before Federal agents step in.

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   Writer:Unknown

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