
Banacek is a Boston Brahmin who maintains his lifestyle by locating or recovering stolen or missing items that were stolen in an extraordinary or peculiar manner, for insurance companies for 10% of their insured value. He is assisted by his friend, Felix. He is also not liked by Henry Dewitt, the insurance company rep who doesn't like being beholden to him. And during the second season, he had a rival-love interest in Carlie Kirkland, an insurance investigator who works for DeWitt.
Gene DynarskiBen Wheeler (3 episodes, 1972-1974)
George PeppardThomas Banacek (17 episodes, 1972-1974)
Ralph ManzaJay Drury (17 episodes, 1972-1974)
Christine BelfordCarlie Kirkland (6 episodes, 1972-1974)
David SpielbergWendell Church (2 episodes, 1972-1973)The cigars Banacek smoked were actually George Peppard's private stock of panatelas from Club 21 in New York (they were the same cigars he smoked as Hannibal Smith in "The A-Team" (1983)).
Thomas Banacek:
A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn.
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