Banacek

I really like this series. It was very good overall.

I have always liked the show, and I was curious as to why it was canceled, because it seemed like it was very well done. To my surprise I see that the network actually renewed it for season 3, but George Peppard quit so that he did not have to give his wife Elizabeth Ashley whom he was divorcing, anymore money....

I enjoy rediscovering many of the old detective series now being offered on television as I originally watched them in my childhood.I enjoy a good mystery but I prefer almost any show over Banacek.

Banacek is a series from the early 1970's, I was just a baby when it came out and didn't even know existed until 2019. I came across it while watching COSI TV, a channel that has old TV shows from the 60's, 70's 80's E.

I enjoy rediscovering many of the old detective series now being offered on television as I originally watched them in my childhood.I enjoy a good mystery but I prefer almost any show over Banacek.

A great look back at TV show history and the times. Classic list of actors in every episode.

"Banacek" has also been aired in polish TV during seventies. Polish people were partly proud, partly disappointed watching these series.

As I gather it - Back in the early 1970s - TV's "Banacek" was a fairly popular "Freelance Insurance-Investigator" show whose title character, Thomas Banacek (an outspoken, cigar-chomping, football jock) really appealed to the macho-man mentality of the guys in the audience.What really killed me the most about Thomas Banacek was that (since he was so wealthy) he was doing his insurance investigating simply as a hobby (out of sheer boredom) in order to fill up all those empty hours in his life.

George Peppard starred as Thomas Banacek, a private insurance investigator of Polish descent based in Boston who became involved in various insurance fraud cases involving art, books, coins, horses, etc. He demanded and received a big fee for his services, which made him a very wealthy man, and enabled him to live well indeed, and he was quite the natural ladies man, in just about every episode!