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The actor who played the chauffeur, Ralph Manza, has appeared in other shows, but I donвЂ™t remember seeing him in anything else if I was him I would hate to be remembered mainly as the dumb Italian driver in Banacek. Just as the Polish sayings werenвЂ™t much chop nor was the role of the short Italian chauffeur with the big nose, who was used to come up with theories of how the crimes were committed вЂ“ his ideas were supposedly вЂњhumourousвЂќ in that they made him look stupid. The whole Polish thing seemed pretty much irrelevant to the show maybe one of the creators of the production was Polish and wanted to have it there as a bit of personal gratification вЂ“ who knows? Every episode had references to Banacek being of Polish stock and had him quoting made-up Polish sayings вЂ“ I think the sayings were supposed to be funny, but they werenвЂ™t, they just got more and more painful to listen to. A little bit would have been alright, but they went overboard with it.

The show overdid the Polish theme somewhat.

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The Three Investigators series started in 1964, a few years before Banacek, so itвЂ™s possible that the Banacek people may have copied the idea. The standard format is that something is stolen, in a way that makes the method of the theft seem impossible to figure out, and whilst all the others involved are scratching their heads, wondering how the heist happened, Banacek arrives in his chauffeur-driven limousine and solves the crime.ДЄctually, the afore-mentioned format is pretty much that used for the Three Investigators books, except that Jupiter Jones didnвЂ™t have pretty women falling at his feet (Jupiter, if you are reading this, I have a club you can borrow if you like). Taken in single doses, the episodes are quite good. Could just be jealousy, of course the only times I have women falling at my feet is when I knock them on the head with my club and drag them back to my cave (although the judge said I wasnвЂ™t allowed to do that any more).

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So, as he looks into lots of thefts of items worth millions of dollars, he is quite well-off very rich, in fact вЂ“ and that would be a second reason for the smugness.ДЄs a TV production appearing once a month or so (as apparently it did in its heyday), it would have been quite a good show but, after viewing about one and a half seasons of Banacek, watching the always-present smugness, and almost every woman falling at his feet, it all started to get a bit old. In one episode, he is described as arrogant and lecherous вЂ“ maybe that wasnвЂ™t too far from the truth.ДЄs an independent insurance investigator, Banacek gets 10% of an itemвЂ™s worth if he can locate it usually after said item has been stolen by some nefarious evil-doer. In the role of a вЂњladiesвЂ™ manвЂќ, Banacek stays on the right side of the sleazy border, although sometimes he does climb up onto the dividing wall and totters about a bit I thought he was about to fall off into no-manвЂ™s land a few times, but he seemed to save himself. George Peppard plays the lead role of Thomas Banacek (pronounced BannerCheck), a sort of insurance investigator cum James Bond type, who strolls around looking smug, puffing on cigars, and having at least one good-looking woman fall for him per episode вЂ“ hence the smugness, I guess.

Been watching seasons 1 and 2 of Banacek, the 1970s TV series.

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