Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Where's Banacek when we really need him?

 

I am indicating my age with this, but decades ago, George Peppard starred in a rotating TV mystery show named Banacek. He specialized in solving mysterious disappearances and losses of major big things. It rotated with other shows/movies on Wednesday nights. It was good enough to last three seasons; the other ones that premiered with it the first year didn't have subsequent seasons.  The original three:  McCloud, Columbo, and McMillan and Wife, went on for longer, and of course Columbo became a TV legend.

This isn't really about those shows, though. I just happened to think of Banacek when a radio station had its broadcasting antenna stolen.

An Alabama radio station’s 200-foot steel tower is missing, manager says

Like a good mystery, there may be (I say politely) more to the story.


So this tower shown below is missing, but it might be a case of fraud, or several of them. Banacek should have been on this case. (But his finder's fee would probably have been way too high.)



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