A Million the Hard Way

Episode aired Nov 1, 1972
TV-PG
1h 13m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

207

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Crime Drama Mystery

Right in the middle of a busy casino, surrounded by guards, a million dollars on display sealed under a glass dome mysteriously disappears without a trace.Right in the middle of a busy casino, surrounded by guards, a million dollars on display sealed under a glass dome mysteriously disappears without a trace.Right in the middle of a busy casino, surrounded by guards, a million dollars on display sealed under a glass dome mysteriously disappears without a trace.

Director
- Bernard L. Kowalski
Writers
- Anthony Wilson
- Stanley Ralph Ross
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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

207

YOUR RATING

Director
- Bernard L. Kowalski
Writers
- Anthony Wilson
- Stanley Ralph Ross
Stars

5User reviews

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Trivia
Larry Fields, the hotel marketing/advertising manager is played by episode writer Stanley Ralph Ross - who began his career as a marketing/advertising man.

Goofs
When Banacek and Linda are flying to L.A., the close up of them in the plane shows a window divider in the middle of the front window of the plane. But after landing in L.A. the view of the plane shows that the front window is a single window with no divider in the middle.

Quotes
Linda Carsini: What did you say your name was?
Thomas Banacek: Banacek.
Linda Carsini: One name, like... uh... Superman.
Thomas Banacek: You're getting warm.
Linda Carsini: Liberace?
Thomas Banacek: Uh, colder.

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Featured review

7/10

Banacek solves yet another unsolvable robbery!

The story begins in Las Vegas. At the precise moment a giant slot machine pays off $10,000 and throwing the casino floor into confusion, a display case which appeared to have $1,000,000 in it suddenly becomes empty! How could this be?!

Banacek manages to untangle the mystery and along the way he strikes up a relationship with a photographer (Margot Kidder). I mention this relationship because for a 1972 TV show, the program was surprisingly frank about sex....such as when they are on a private flight to LA and Banacek asks her if she'd like to join the 'mile high club'....to which she agrees and she places the plane on autopilot! All in all, an interesting episode....Kidder and all. Worth seeing and interesting.

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