Banacek

I enjoy the nostalgia of watching television shows that I loved way back when.

One of those was a short-lived series called Banacek, in which George Peppard played a brilliant, suave, rich, arrogantly charming insurance investigator, collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in each episode for recovering insured items worth millions for their insurers and their hapless investigators.

I ate that stuff up as a young man. But as a not-so-young woman…