Editing Banacek (section)

==Episodes==

===Pilot: 1972===
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 |Title=Banacek: Detour to Nowhere
 |DirectedBy=[[Jack Smight]]
 |WrittenBy=Anthony Wilson
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1972|3|20|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Banacek finds himself up against his old adversary, corporate insurance investigator McKinney of the National Meridian Insurance Company, when a missing armored truck with $1,600,000 of gold bullion disappears without a trace while under a police escort from Texas to Oklahoma.
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===Season 1: 1972–73===
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 |EpisodeNumber=1
 |EpisodeNumber2=1
 |Title=Let's Hear It for a Living Legend
 |DirectedBy=Jack Smight
 |WrittenBy=[[Del Reisman]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1972|9|13|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Banacek is called in after a football player vanishes on national TV and is held for ransom. Guest stars [[Stefanie Powers]], [[Anitra Ford]] and [[John Brodie]].
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=2
 |EpisodeNumber2=2
 |Title=Project Phoenix
 |DirectedBy=[[Richard T. Heffron]]
 |WrittenBy=David Moessinger
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1972|9|27|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Banacek investigates the disappearance of a prototype automobile from a moving train's flatcar (an idea borrowed from a [[Thorpe Hazell]] short story). Guest stars [[William Windom (actor)|William Windom]], [[Joanna Pettet]], [[Bert Convy]].
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=3
 |EpisodeNumber2=3
 |Title=No Sign of the Cross
 |DirectedBy=[[Daryl Duke]]
 |WrittenBy=Robert Presnell Jr.,<br> [[Howard Browne]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1972|10|11|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Banacek searches for a jewel encrusted, gold cross, donated by a dying Italian mobster, that disappears in transit from Mexico to a Los Angeles parish. Guest stars [[Broderick Crawford]], [[Louise Sorel]]
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=4
 |EpisodeNumber2=4
 |Title=A Million the Hard Way
 |DirectedBy=[[Bernard L. Kowalski]]
 |WrittenBy=[[Stanley Ralph Ross]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1972|11|1|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=A million dollars in $1000 bills seems to vanish from a sealed Las Vegas casino display. Guest star [[Margot Kidder]]; writer [[Stanley Ralph Ross]] appears as Larry Fields.
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=5
 |EpisodeNumber2=5
 |Title=To Steal a King
 |DirectedBy=[[Lou Antonio]]
 |WrittenBy=[[Stephen Kandel]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1972|11|15|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Banacek searches for a $3 million collection of historical coins that vanishes from a Boston hotel-room vault. Guest stars [[Kevin McCarthy (actor)|Kevin McCarthy]], [[Brenda Vaccaro]], [[Pernell Roberts]],  [[Roger C. Carmel]], [[Janis Paige]].
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=6
 |EpisodeNumber2=6
 |Title=Ten Thousand Dollars a Page
 |DirectedBy=Richard T. Heffron
 |WrittenBy=Paul Playdon
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1973|1|10|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=A business tyrant loans his greatest personal treasure, a gift from his dead wife, to a local museum; the $1 million text disappears from a highly secured room. Guest stars [[Stella Stevens]], [[David Doyle (actor)|David Doyle]], [[George Lindsey]], [[David Wayne]], [[Ted Cassidy]].
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=7
 |EpisodeNumber2=7
 |Title=The Greatest Collection of Them All
 |DirectedBy=[[George McCowan]]
 |WrittenBy=[[Theodore J. Flicker]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1973|1|24|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=A $23 million Impressionist charity art-exhibit disappears during shipment back to Boston from NYC via tractor trailer. Guest stars [[Penny Fuller]], [[Mike Farrell]], [[Penny Marshall]], [[Garry Walberg]].
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=8
 |EpisodeNumber2=8
 |Title=The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack
 |DirectedBy=Richard T. Heffron
 |WrittenBy=Stanley Ralph Ross,<br> Shirl Hendryx,<br> Pat Fielder,<br> Richard Bluel
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1973|2|7|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Plates used in the printing of stock certificates vanish. Guest stars [[Andrew Duggan]], [[Jessica Walter]], [[David White (actor)|David White]].
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===Season 2: 1973–74===
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 |EpisodeNumber=9
 |EpisodeNumber2=1
 |Title=No Stone Unturned
 |DirectedBy=Richard T. Heffron
 |WrittenBy=Stephen Lord,<br> Robert Van Scoyk,<br> Lee Santley,<br> George Sheldon Smith
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1973|10|3|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Banacek must locate a three-ton statue that disappeared. Guest stars [[Candy Clark]], [[Scott Brady]], [[Gary Lockwood]].
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 |EpisodeNumber=10
 |EpisodeNumber2=2
 |Title=If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?
 |DirectedBy=Bernard L. Kowalski
 |WrittenBy=Robert Van Scoyk
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1973|11|7|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=A huge medical computer vanishes from its secure building. Guest stars [[Anne Baxter]], [[Richard Jordan]], [[Sabrina Scharf]].
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 |EpisodeNumber=11
 |EpisodeNumber2=3
 |Title=The Three Million Dollar Piracy
 |DirectedBy=[[Andrew McLaglen]]
 |WrittenBy=Stanley Ralph Ross,<br> Robert Van Scoyk,<br> Jack Turley
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1973|11|21|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=An expensive wedding coach is stolen from the hold of a ship. Guest stars [[Christine Belford]], [[Arlene Martel]].
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 |EpisodeNumber=12
 |EpisodeNumber2=4
 |Title=The Vanishing Chalice
 |DirectedBy=Bernard L. Kowalski
 |WrittenBy=Morton Fine
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|1|15|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=An ancient chalice disappears from a museum during the unveiling. Guest stars [[Cesar Romero]], [[John Saxon]].
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 |EpisodeNumber=13
 |EpisodeNumber2=5
 |Title=Horse of a Slightly Different Color
 |DirectedBy=[[Herschel Daugherty]]
 |WrittenBy=Harold Livingston,<br> [[Jimmy Sangster]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|1|22|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=A racehorse disappears from the track. Guest stars [[Anne Francis]], [[Terry Wilson (actor)|Terry Wilson]], Lane Bradbury, [[Harry Carey, Jr.]]
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=14
 |EpisodeNumber2=6
 |Title=Rocket to Oblivion
 |DirectedBy=Andrew McLaglen
 |WrittenBy=Robert Van Scoyk
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|2|12|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=A prototype rocket engine vanishes during a private showing. Guest star [[Linda Evans]].
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=15
 |EpisodeNumber2=7
 |Title=Fly Me — If You Can Find Me
 |DirectedBy=Bernard L. Kowalski
 |WrittenBy=Harold Livingston
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|2|19|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=After an emergency landing, an airliner vanishes. Guest stars [[Sterling Hayden]], [[Victoria Principal]].
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=16
 |EpisodeNumber2=8
 |Title=Now You See Me, Now You Don't
 |DirectedBy=[[Bernard McEveety]]
 |WrittenBy=Stanley Roberts
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|3|12|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=A stage magician, suspected of grand larceny, disappears during his act — but for real. Guest stars [[Gretchen Corbett]], [[Peter Marshall (entertainer)|Peter Marshall]].
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