Editing Banacek (section)

===Season 1: 1972–73===
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 |EpisodeNumber=1
 |EpisodeNumber2=1
 |Title=Let's Hear It for a Living Legend
 |DirectedBy=Jack Smight
 |WrittenBy=[[Del Reisman]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1972|9|13|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Banacek is called in after a football player vanishes on national TV and is held for ransom. Guest stars [[Stefanie Powers]], [[Anitra Ford]] and [[John Brodie]].
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 |EpisodeNumber=2
 |EpisodeNumber2=2
 |Title=Project Phoenix
 |DirectedBy=[[Richard T. Heffron]]
 |WrittenBy=David Moessinger
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1972|9|27|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Banacek investigates the disappearance of a prototype automobile from a moving train's flatcar (an idea borrowed from a [[Thorpe Hazell]] short story). Guest stars [[William Windom (actor)|William Windom]], [[Joanna Pettet]], [[Bert Convy]].
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=3
 |EpisodeNumber2=3
 |Title=No Sign of the Cross
 |DirectedBy=[[Daryl Duke]]
 |WrittenBy=Robert Presnell Jr.,<br> [[Howard Browne]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1972|10|11|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Banacek searches for a jewel encrusted, gold cross, donated by a dying Italian mobster, that disappears in transit from Mexico to a Los Angeles parish. Guest stars [[Broderick Crawford]], [[Louise Sorel]]
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=4
 |EpisodeNumber2=4
 |Title=A Million the Hard Way
 |DirectedBy=[[Bernard L. Kowalski]]
 |WrittenBy=[[Stanley Ralph Ross]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1972|11|1|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=A million dollars in $1000 bills seems to vanish from a sealed Las Vegas casino display. Guest star [[Margot Kidder]]; writer [[Stanley Ralph Ross]] appears as Larry Fields.
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=5
 |EpisodeNumber2=5
 |Title=To Steal a King
 |DirectedBy=[[Lou Antonio]]
 |WrittenBy=[[Stephen Kandel]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1972|11|15|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Banacek searches for a $3 million collection of historical coins that vanishes from a Boston hotel-room vault. Guest stars [[Kevin McCarthy (actor)|Kevin McCarthy]], [[Brenda Vaccaro]], [[Pernell Roberts]],  [[Roger C. Carmel]], [[Janis Paige]].
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=6
 |EpisodeNumber2=6
 |Title=Ten Thousand Dollars a Page
 |DirectedBy=Richard T. Heffron
 |WrittenBy=Paul Playdon
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1973|1|10|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=A business tyrant loans his greatest personal treasure, a gift from his dead wife, to a local museum; the $1 million text disappears from a highly secured room. Guest stars [[Stella Stevens]], [[David Doyle (actor)|David Doyle]], [[George Lindsey]], [[David Wayne]], [[Ted Cassidy]].
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=7
 |EpisodeNumber2=7
 |Title=The Greatest Collection of Them All
 |DirectedBy=[[George McCowan]]
 |WrittenBy=[[Theodore J. Flicker]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1973|1|24|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=A $23 million Impressionist charity art-exhibit disappears during shipment back to Boston from NYC via tractor trailer. Guest stars [[Penny Fuller]], [[Mike Farrell]], [[Penny Marshall]], [[Garry Walberg]].
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=8
 |EpisodeNumber2=8
 |Title=The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack
 |DirectedBy=Richard T. Heffron
 |WrittenBy=Stanley Ralph Ross,<br> Shirl Hendryx,<br> Pat Fielder,<br> Richard Bluel
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1973|2|7|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Plates used in the printing of stock certificates vanish. Guest stars [[Andrew Duggan]], [[Jessica Walter]], [[David White (actor)|David White]].
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