Mannix is notable for taking physical punishment. During the course of the series, he is shot and wounded over a dozen separate times, and knocked unconscious around 55 times.^[23] He frequently takes brutal beatings to the abdomen; some of these went on quite a long time, particularly by the television standards of the era. Whenever he gets into one of his convertibles, he can expect to be shot at or run off the road by another car or find his vehicle sabotaged. Nevertheless, he keeps his cool and perseveres until his antagonists are brought down. While making the television pilot "The Name is Mannix", Connors dislocated his shoulder running away from a From Russia with Love-type pursuit from a helicopter,^[1] and broke his left wrist punching a stuntman who happened to be wearing a steel plate on his back.