Pilot episode

I purchase a 5 DVD set yesterday of "Lost TV Shows". This set episodes of many TV shows from the 50s and 60s that are not available yet on DVD. In it is the pilot episode of Mannix. The second episode of the show is also on this DVD set.

I have never seen this episode before and only vaguely remember the first year of the show. The reruns on TV Land did not include the first year, if I recall. So this made this very interesting to me. The episode didn't devote much at all to character development. It pretty much showed Mannix in action on a kidnapping case and that was it. There were long sequences in which no words were spoken at all. Mannix was on a tram with one of the kidnappers. They stared at each other for what seemed like 5 minutes before they spoke. The only words spoken in this scene was the tram operator pointing out the scenery! Later, on a chase, no words were spoken for a long period of time.

The show could've been edited to a half hour without missing anything. Still, it was interesting to finally see the beginning of the long running Mannix series.