The Two Million Dollar Hit

Episode aired Feb 24, 1974
1h

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7.9/10

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Henry Silva in The Two Million Dollar Hit (1974)

Crime Drama Mystery

Erskine and Daniels are on the trail of a gang that has stolen $20 million in travelers checks. The gang has been promised 10 percent, or $2 million, upon delivery to a fence. The fence, how... Read allErskine and Daniels are on the trail of a gang that has stolen $20 million in travelers checks. The gang has been promised 10 percent, or $2 million, upon delivery to a fence. The fence, however, will now only pay $500,000. The gang's leader has other ideas. The FBI tries to catc... Read allErskine and Daniels are on the trail of a gang that has stolen $20 million in travelers checks. The gang has been promised 10 percent, or $2 million, upon delivery to a fence. The fence, however, will now only pay $500,000. The gang's leader has other ideas. The FBI tries to catch up to the gang before the travelers checks can be transported to Hong Kong.

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What a cast!

I love to watch old TV shows from the 1960s-70s and I especially love the character actors you see again and again. In "The Two Million Dollar Hit", you get more villainous guest stars than usual...a virtual who's who of evil! You have Henry Silva (who ALWAYS plays evil characters), Burr DeBenning (who always plays evil...sometimes very weasely evil guys), Walter Burke and Khigh Dhiegh ('Wo Fat' from "Hawaii Five-O"). You also have Norman Alden who often (but not always) plays evil folks...though in this one he's just an innocent guy who stands in the gang's way.

The story begins with a transport plane leaving an airport. Surprisingly, minutes later the sole passenger (Alden) is told he's leaving! And, so two of the guys strap a parachute on the guy and toss him out...and they thought it was pretty funny. Why?? Well, it turns out this is NOT the actual crew and the three have just stolen the plane and its contents...in this case, traveler's checks. However, things don't continue to go smoothly for the gang...see how.

This is interesting because so often the baddies in this episode are fighting each other MORE than they're fighting the law! Overall a very good episode but also one hindered like so many in the later episodes...there's lots of shooting but folks don't die...which seems VERY unrealistic.

Trivia
Guest stars Jack Ging and Henry Silva would die five days apart, on September 9 and 14, 2022, respectively--Ging at age 90 and Silva just a day short of his 94th birthday. Ging had also appeared in two other episodes of the show working with series regular William Reynolds, whose last episode of the series was the one immediately preceding this episode. Reynolds died at age 90 two weeks before Ging's passing.