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Banyon Season 1 Episode 0

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AIRED: 3/15/71

Banyon's client, a young woman, is found dead in Banyon's office, shot with Banyon's gun.

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Robert Forster

Miles C. Banyon

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José Ferrer	Lee Jennings	Guest Star
Anjanette Comer	Diane Jennings	Guest Star
Herb Edelman	Harry Sprague	Guest Star

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QUOTES (13)
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- McNeil: Your tie's undone.
  Banyon: I'm not a cop anymore. I can wear it anyway I want.
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- Dr. Greenbaum (about the body): This all you got?
  McNeil: How many you want?
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- Sprague: What do you want me to do?
  Banyon: For openers, you can go home.
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- McNeil: Why did you lie to me?
  Banyon: Well, you were so scary. My memory just jumped out on me.
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- Jennings: Wanna dance with my wife?
  Banyon: Some other time.
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- Jennings: Everybody likes Diane and Diane likes everybody.
  Diane: Why not? I'm Mrs. Lee Jennings and everybody's nice to me.
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- Diane: Do you mind?
  Banyon: Not if your husband doesn't?
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- Diane: Friend in trouble?
  Banyon: All my friends are in trouble.
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- Banyon (about Sprague): He's sleeping like a baby.
  Ruth: He always does.
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- Peggy: Mr. Banyon, sometimes you worry me. This fixation for a woman my age.
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- Banyon:Know what's wrong with you, Harry?
  Sprague: What?
  Banyon: I need you.
  Sprague: I love you too.
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- McNeil: This might come as a surprise to you, Banyon, but we still have laws in this country.
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- Peggy: You're a disturbed man, Mr. Banyon.
  Banyon: You'll never know, Miss Revere.
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NOTES (4)
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- Banyon's living quarters are seen in this pilot episode. They would not be seen again once the show was picked up as a regular series.
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- Banyon provides no voiceover narration in the pilot like he would do in the regular series.
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- Banyon reveals that he voted for FDR in the 1936 presidential election.
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- Hermione Gingold and Darren McGavin play Peggy Revere and Lt. Pete McNeill in this pilot episode. When the show was picked up as a regular series the roles would be played by Joan Blondell and Richard Jaeckel.
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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- The character of Lee Jennings appears to be based upon Walter Winchell, a newspaper gossip columnist and radio commentator during the period in which Banyon is set.
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