YMMV / Mannix

• Awesome Music: Lalo Schifrin's jazzy theme music.
• Broken Base: Some fans of the show claim the first season with Mannix at INTERTECT made the show truly unique and broke the mold in a bold move for its era by going with a sci-fi cop crime drama, and that it got downgraded into a run-of-the-mill crime drama with too much seventies flair when it was changed under the idea that the computer concept would go over viewers' heads, while you have the other camp that insists the changes were for the benefit of the action of the show and helped it become more riveting, and that the INTERTECT angle was much cheesier than what the show ultimately turned out to be.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Diane Keaton appeared in the 1971 episode "The Color of Murder."
  • Veronica Cartwright (aka Lambert) and Eve Plumb (aka Jan Brady) appeared in "Edge of the Knife."
  • Sam Elliott in "Little Girl Lost".
  • Martin Sheen in "To Kill a Memory".
  • Tom Selleck in "Design For Dying".
  • Meg Foster in "A Game of Shadows".
  • Jonathan Goldsmith in "A Sleep In the Deep", "Run Till Dark" and "To Quote a Dead Man".
  • Gerald McRaney in "Edge of the Web".
  • Daniel J. Travanti in "Murder Times Three".
  • John Ritter in "Hardball".
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A case in which the change led to It's the Same, Now It Sucks!, as contradictory as it may sound: There are certain fans of the show out there who claim the first season with Mannix at INTERTECT made the show truly unique and broke the mold in a bold move for its era by going with a sci-fi cop crime drama, and that it got downgraded into a run-of-the-mill crime drama with too much seventies flair when it was changed under the idea that the computer concept would go over viewers' heads. Unfortunately, computers back then were a fairly new and less viable commodity than the present day and age where technology is a quintessential part of society, so of course people wouldn't get the concept back then. Had the concept of Mannix as it was been pitched today, it probably would have survived in original form without reverting to generic cop show aspects. If someone decides to do a reboot/remake, INTERTECT as a plot device could be much more promising.

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