![]() Once again Banacek gets invaluable help from his friend Felix Mulholland (Murray Matheson), rare book dealer and expert in all manner of esoteric subjects. I’m not sure it was an entirely necessary change but their interplay is quite amusing. ![]() And of course there’s an uneasy romantic tension as well. She’s an insurance investigator as well and it was obviously felt that the sometimes friendly, but mostly antagonistic, rivalry between the two would add some interest. In season two Carlie Kirkland (Christine Belford), who had appeared in the pilot episode, was added to the regular cast, at least for the early part of the season. The format was the same as in the first season with each feature-length episode being an impossible crime story (and usually a pretty good one). ![]() It is almost unnecessary to add that Banacek’s idea of the good things of life most certainly includes women. Banacek having been one of the successes of the first year of NBC’s Mystery Movie series it was hardly surprising that a second season of eight episodes followed in late 1973 with George Peppard once again playing the handsome debonair insurance investigator who has a taste for the good things in life, and the money to indulge that taste. ![]()
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