He played the title detective on the long-running series "Mannix"
... he can expect to be shot at from another car, run off the road by another car, .... 
Mike Connors played Mannix in a 1971 episode of Here's Lucy, "Lucy and... [DOC] [TLE] Mike Connors: I didn't want to just walk through the part of Mannix ... [PAR] Dec 22, 2015 ... ... he was playing detective Joe Mannix in the long-running TV series ... Mr. 
Connors: He was the first one who asked me whether I wanted to be an actor or 
not.