Mike Connors and Gail Fisher starred in “Mannix”[The Classic TV Preservation Society][Author’s Note: This article is based on entertainment postings and accredited media reports. Some information within this article is attributed to the following outlets HollywoodReporter.com, and Wikipedia.com. Unless otherwise noted, all quotes and commentary that appear in this article were culled from interviews the author conducted with those individuals mentioned.] Mike Connors was an actor and producer, known for Mannix, Tightrope, and The Ten Commandments.Connors, who died of leukemia in 2017 (only one week after he was diagnosed), played private-detective Joe Mannix in what became one of the longest-running police crime dramas in TV history and stood out because it was the first to feature an Armenian male lead.Along with NBC’s Star Trek (with Nichelle Nichols as communications officer Lt. Uhura) and that same network’s Julia sitcom (starring Diahann Carrol as a nurse), Mannix was also one of the first shows to feature an African-American actress on a weekly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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