Race Against Time: Part 2

Episode aired Jan 13, 1974
TV-PG
52m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

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John Colicos and Mike Connors in Mannix (1967)

Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Mannix and Dr. Considine are in danger, but so is the patient: someone in his camp is a traitor.Mannix and Dr. Considine are in danger, but so is the patient: someone in his camp is a traitor.Mannix and Dr. Considine are in danger, but so is the patient: someone in his camp is a traitor.

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6.5/10

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When Joe's stuntman vaults down the hospital staircase to tackle one of his pursuers, his hat falls off in the process. He then stands up, still without his hat on, and gets ready to punch the man. The camera then switches to a closeup shot of Joe with a hat on punching the man. Then the camera switches back to the wide shot again where the stuntman picks up his hat and puts it on and then runs up the stairs.

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Dr. Ernestine Waldo: [talking to Dr. Breem on the phone, about Joe and Dr. Considine escaping with the hospital with a pacemaker] You saw them take it?
Dr. Green: Two men. They're here now.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: I'll get back to you, Doctor.
[hangs up]
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Pacemaker. They stole the pacemaker. We've wondered why we've heard so little action from Victor Lucas lately. It's his heart. For whom else would they go to such trouble?
[the phone rings]
Colonel Alan DuPar: [answers the phone] Yes?
[an indistinct voice talks over the phone]
Colonel Alan DuPar: What?
[turns to Dr. Waldo]
Colonel Alan DuPar: We've lost them on the radar screen. They must have dropped to tree level.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Their course until then?
Colonel Alan DuPar: Uh, north by northwest.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Well, aren't you going to do something? I went an immediate concentration of aerial reconnaissance on the northeast sectors.
Colonel Alan DuPar: [turns back to the phone where the indistinct voice continues] Well, if you heard what she said, then do it!
[hangs up]
Colonel Alan DuPar: Well, at least give me credit for one thing.
Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Of course, Albert.
Colonel Alan DuPar: I've got a man in their camp right now. He can do more than all your reconnaissance planes.

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1/10

One of the worst episodes of the entire series

This is the second part of a two-part episode and it is simply appalling.

The first problem is how were the rebels suddenly and magically able to get a helicopter within a minute or two in a country controlled by a military dictatorship? Impossible.

Then in the fight scene on the hospital staircase, there's a HUGE continuity mistake. When Joe's stuntman leaps down the hospital staircase to tackle one of the guys chasing him, his hat falls off in the process, and is still off when he stands up and gets ready to punch the guy. Then the camera switches to a closeup shot of Joe WHO HAS A HAT ON as he proceeds to punch him. Then if that wasn't bad enough, the camera then switches to the wide shot again where the stuntman then PICKS UP HIS HAT AND PUTS IT ON and then runs up the staircase. Wow. Very, very sloppy and unforgivable, and one of the worst mistakes I've seen on this show yet.

Then it gets even uglier during the operation scene where on display is the unfortunate spectacle of most of Joe's face covered up with a ridiculous-looking surgical mask. Then in the final scene, Joe puts on a disguise for the very first time, which is just laughable. At the same time, though, it's also sad to see that the series has descended to this level.

I think Joe himself sums up this episode best during the operation scene when most of his face (except for his eyes) is covered with the surgical mask. When you look at the expression in his eyes in a couple of the closeup shots, even HE seems to be wondering what he's doing there and perhaps thinking about how silly this whole episode is and how low the show has fallen. What he should have done at that point is throw the surgical mask down and run out of the scene and out of the entire episode so that it could never have been completed at all. We all would have been much better off if he had.