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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HART SHARP VIDEO
EAN: 0829567042823
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Hart Sharp Video
Manufacturer: Hart Sharp Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Hart Sharp Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Running Time: 576 minutes
Sales Rank: 18057
Studio: Hart Sharp Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 13, 1972
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Description:
Sauve,sophisticated, and wealthy...Thomas Banacek is Boston's leading freelance investigator. When a crime proves too difficult for insurance investigators to solve, Banacek is called in.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Better than nothing, but barely
A lot has been said about this low quality presentation of one of the better Mystery movie series, but a few things have been missed.
First, these are not made from the original masters. They are not even made from the prints used in the later run on late night television or the prints used when A&E ran the series in the mid 90s. These seem to be made from the edited prints the Hallmark network used a few years back.
This is a slap in the face to all fans of the series as Hallmark edited in more commercials (the fade to black then back to the same scene some reviewers have noticed) and removed content to make way for those additional adds. The commercial cuts are a small irritation, but whole scenes are edited or missing from this edition. For example, one of Penny Marshal's earliest TV appearances was on Banacek. She had a wonderful scene that help establish her as a star, and here it is cut to a few lines. There is no excuse for that.
Maybe someday Universal will see the error of its ways a produce a real set of this fine series. Until then fans will have to contend with this, abridged, paperback edition of a classic show.
Rating:  - Banacek, First Season
Excellent....For those who wish to watch a program that reminds us of yesterday, this is it....It also brought back some mighty nice memories....George Peppard is right on in the title role....He describes himself as a womanizer, that would be putting it lightly....The filming on location lets us see how our cities have changed over the past 35 years....I wish it had the pilot on this set....I had to buy the second season to get the pilot....It was well worth the price....red....
Rating: - As my old Polish grandmother used to tell me....
"Just because the Horse runs with the Bull doesn't make the Series shoot on Location."
Great reviews all, but the numerous citations of the show having been shot "on location in Boston" just ain't necessarily so. A few days worth of shooting was done for the opening credits and some establishing shots (notably the stuff of Peppard rowing on the river) in Boston, but the rest of the show was done either on the Universal back lot and soundstages or various local Southern California spots, such as the Norton Simon art museum, Cal Arts university, etc. etc. True--getting L.A. to look like Boston is no easy feat, but that's why they call it movie magic.
Meanwhile, the show is a delight of course, and for fans of the classic "locked room" mystery format, a treasure trove of such "impossible" crimes, all unraveled by the cerebral, cool, clever Banacek.
By the way, a trivia note: The show was picked up for a third season, but Peppard decided to quit because a divorce settlement with his ex-wife actress Elizabeth Ashley would have made most of his income from the show go into her pockets, not his, because he'd begun the series during the marriage. So ratings are not, in fact, the only factor in such decisions.
I agree with others that the one series still "MIA" from that really golden age of Universal-for-NBC TV series re. DVD release is "The Name Of The Game", but surely it'll come out sooner or later. It's also interesting that the "Banacek" pilot is not ... Read More
Rating: - Banacek Season I & II
When they took Banacek off the air after the second season II was really upset back in the mid-seventies. Out of the four detective series Banacek was the best and Columbo ranked second in my opition with McCloud and McMillian and wife a real distant third and forth. If you never seen the series you are missing one of the best detective series that ever hit the air.
Rating: - Banacek- The First Season
I like the murder mysteries from this era. Columbo, McMillan & Wife, etc. Just entertainment. I don't have to worry what the grandkids will see or hear. No gore, bad language or too much skin showing. This is a great set.
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