Mannix • CBS
CHARACTER: Ted Kilgore
EPISODE: "To Save a Dead Man" (#5.14)
AIRDATE: 15 December 1971
DIRECTED BY: Paul Krasny

EPISODE SYNOPSIS: A condemned man insists he committed a murder, although the evidence indicates he is innocent. When a dying man confesses to a nun that his testimony sent an innocent man to death row, Mannix is asked to investigate.

Music by Lalo Schifrin

SERIES DESCRIPTION: JOE MANNIX (Mike Conners) is "a hard-boiled private eye, in the classical tradition." Formerly the pride of Intertect, a high-tech detective firm, Joe left to start his own detective agency where he relied less on sophisticated gadgetry and more on his own wits and a wicked right hook. This Korean War veteran is remarkably even-tempered and seems to take fist fights, high-speed car chases and bullet wounds in stride. Although his rugged good looks, snazzy convertible-with a car phone!- and dizzying array of loud sports jackets attract an endless stream of beautiful women, he seems intent on remaining a bachelor. The one woman who's a constant prescence in his life is his ever-faithful secretary, Peggy Fair (Gail Fisher).