Most of the Banacek mysteries were very clever thefts where the plots that accomplished the theft stand up pretty well.
Not so much with this one, which would have involved everyone involved missing that a shipping container was still sitting in the spot it was supposed to have been moved from. And LOTS of people could have seen the "trick" that accomplished the theft. Plus, a later view of the pier didn't match the scene when the theft occurred.
It just didn't hold up. Possibly this is because the year was 1973 -- the year of the writers' strike. There were a LOT of very thin plots in TV shows that season, and a few of the Season 2 Banacek shows sadly suffer from that situation.
Not so much with this one, which would have involved everyone involved missing that a shipping container was still sitting in the spot it was supposed to have been moved from. And LOTS of people could have seen the "trick" that accomplished the theft. Plus, a later view of the pier didn't match the scene when the theft occurred.
It just didn't hold up. Possibly this is because the year was 1973 -- the year of the writers' strike. There were a LOT of very thin plots in TV shows that season, and a few of the Season 2 Banacek shows sadly suffer from that situation.
