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Origin?
[edit]It would be useful to know - was the series English, American or other ?
- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kpjas (talk • contribs). On 12:47, June 12, 2003
- I believe it was from the US - IMDB confirms this. I have a vague memory of it being part of a rotating set of series running in the same time slot, but I could be mistaken (Like the early episodes of Columbo, MacMillan and Wife and McCloud). IMDB page has user comment saying it was part of The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie rotating with Madigan and Cool Million, neither of which I remember much. I always thought Banacek was like Mission: Impossible inside out - the unravelling of how an imposssible seeming heist was pulled off. ~ WCFrancis 01:29, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
- It is an American show. --McTrixie/Mr Accountable 17:46, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- I believe it was from the US - IMDB confirms this. I have a vague memory of it being part of a rotating set of series running in the same time slot, but I could be mistaken (Like the early episodes of Columbo, MacMillan and Wife and McCloud). IMDB page has user comment saying it was part of The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie rotating with Madigan and Cool Million, neither of which I remember much. I always thought Banacek was like Mission: Impossible inside out - the unravelling of how an imposssible seeming heist was pulled off. ~ WCFrancis 01:29, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
Worth including note on theme music?
[edit]http://wn.com/Theme_From_Banacek
I do remember the music being distinctive. FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 21:34, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
"Banaczek" not so rare in Poland...
[edit]The name "Banaczek" ("Banacek" is a corrupted form of this surname) is not so rare in Poland. There are currently 251 people of this name in Poland: . --Barry Kent (talk) 23:58, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
10%?
[edit]The article says Banacek collected 10% of the insured value of the recovered property, but I seem to recall that one of the points of contention with his rival Kirkland was that he actually demanded and got 15%, which she considered excessive. Can anyone with access to the DVDs confirm this? Philip Trueman (talk) 01:28, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Needs clarification
[edit]When I'm typing this, the article contains "It alternated in its time slot with several other shows, but was the only one of them to last beyond its first season". The wheel-series contained a lot of other long-lived shows: "McMillan & Wife", "Columbo", "McCloud" come to mind. "McCloud" escaped to become its own regular weekly series. "Columbo" of course became a legend in pop culture, a slang term for equivalent to the former, and current British, "Sherlock" or "Sherlock Holmes". Research could possibly find more. If the statement I quoted is intended to mean that Banacek was the only show in the series that spanned more than one season, it's just objectively wrong. Maybe greater specifics could make the statement true, such that in some certain year ALL of the other shows in the rotation were those that lasted only one year. But I find that to be extremely doubtful. Actually, I just checked and it's totally wrong. "McCloud" was present in the first season, and lasted six seasons in the wheel and a seventh season as a stand-alone regular weekly series in another timeslot. That six-year run of McCloud would have to include the two seasons when Banacek was in the wheel rotation, according to the dates for Banacek listed in the article.2600:1700:6759:B000:105:CB95:4CA4:899B (talk) 21:07, 27 August 2025 (UTC)Christopher Lawrence Simpson