In the 1960s, Paramount had two of the best shows on TV: "Mission Impossible" and "Star Trek." Both benefited from good stories, clever scripts, and their theme music are now classic.
As if, the tape just go bust because it's more like preventing anyone can hear it. Like any other secret agent film, like Bourne, sometimes the recording was only a part of a member and not meant to be spreading over.
1:00 I like how they just referred to the second photo as "this man", without any indication the subject is about to change, if the order of photos is placed correctly, or other verification methods.
the agent can always carry a separate tape recorder to record the mission audio. And this tape recorder will not self destruct. So he can listen and listen until he memorizes every details.
Mission Impossible had some of the most absurdly wonderful scenarios dreamt up by the ever fertile and amazing writing talents that Hollywood once was. I remember this as must see TV back in the day where the 5 seconds destruct scene was always followed by the best TV theme tune ever written played over the background of a moving flaming taper introducing micro scenes of the story to come. Memories.
@@colliric I dunno why you're talking about the films. They're vastly different than the show. But even still, the first film was great. And the closest to the show. And features the only character from the show, Jim Phelps, who was a villain in it.
On the TV series I always found it so fascinating how they could destroy an organization or government by causing chaos within--and then just drive away. Viewers may not remember that actor Steven Hill was the first group leader Dan Briggs. He then chose to leave the show, so that was where Peter Graves as Jim Phelps came in. I did not like that he was turned into a villain in the first MI film. 🙁
I think it's rather the tape that self-destructs than the whole recorder (and why should it?). And it's allways a smart idea to interrupt electric circuits before things burn.
maybe he's a little OCD.. he gets satisfaction out of turning it off just before the destruct sequence; Just like the satisfaction he gets from watching movies about gladiators or seeing grown men naked.
The missin briefer failed to acknowledge that even if the audio tape self-destructed, the protagonist was filmed listening to it and millions could witness what was said.
This was my FAVORITE episode! Phelps totally mind f***s the other agent. Not by climbing a building. Not by car chases. Not by shoot outs. He leaves a book of matches for the other guy to find. The matches are removed from the opposite side making the foreign agent say “a left handed person removed these, my guy is right handed”. This makes him believe what Phelps wants him to. Genius. I love the new MI films. But I wish they had just started with a new name. The original MI was all about mind f***ing the bad guys with genius moves.
I like how we can still accept this as a narrative device even today in the newest movies. Phones, email, and other digital messages are convenient but can easily be tapped, hacked, or intercepted. But an in-person delivery of a tape and paper is analog and unhackable.
The tom cruise movies will never top this classic show. One reason is that we had a team of agents all doing what they do best , not all focused on tom.
no rewind possible in this case, if distracted, as you say Mission not just simply impossible, completely Toasted ! But Peter Grave what a great actor ! and very tall , 6, 5 feet at first glance, i am french, and sometimes i see an american or two, visiting us, at the university, here in France, You're giants ! none under 6,4 feet (about 1,95 meter in our way to measure lenghts). You probably start to drink milk as soon as born, and never break until you find your first job at 25 ! but be careful not to touch the ceiling !
1 of my all time favorite tv show it kept me in suspense loved the actor's great casting R.I.P to Peter Graves and Greg Morris also Martin Landau 💪🙏👊👍💯💯😭
I always forgot that Peter Graves is the brother of James Arness. I rewatched season one and I had no idea that Peter Graves came into the show on season 2…season one was lead by Steven Hill( who later was the head prosecutor on Law & Order)
It was always interesting the variations they did every week, I seem to remember one where he went into a movie theater and his “mission” was projected on the screen
Well. They brought back Jim. When writing Rogue Nation, Christopher McQuarrie had initially placed Dan Briggs in the script, who was the leader of the IMF before Jim Phelps (Season 1). I was so upset when I found that out, and then learned that Briggs had been cut out of the script, because I thought that was an amazing avenue to explore, and Briggs was personally my favorite team leader (not member, that was Rollin). But I absolutely love McQuarrie and his movies. Hopefully he reconsiders the idea for M:I-7!
@@aespair Yep, Peter Graves turned down Jim in the first M:I movie because he didn't want to portray him as a traitor, but, Jon Voigt's Jim Phelps is still intended to be the same Jim Phelps from the tv show. And I was not aware of Briggs being in the original script for Rogue Nation, that's too bad he was cut!
@@matthewwhite8882 As much as I love M:I-1, I hate the absolute character assassination that takes place. Anyone who saw the show would know everything that happened in the movie was completely out of character for Jim. Headcanon is that it's just some rogue IMF agent wearing a mask and pretending to be Jim.
Aespair The first M: I will always be my favorite of the movies, but, yes...I hate that Jim was Job. They made a decision for dramatic effect because Kittridge being Job would’ve been too obvious; they felt they needed to break our hearts instead with a major surprise. I still think the movie is fantastic but I would’ve preferred Jim died a hero.
Fabulous series! Comedian Johnny Carson had a hilarious skit where he, as the mission chief, found the tape recorder in the toilet in the men's room. It was so funny!
They only did it a few times, but I liked when the briefing was on a phonograph record. I liked how it looked when the smoke swirled around as the record spun.
It took awhile before Mission: Impossible started doing the "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds" gimmick which became its iconic trademark. In the earlier episodes, Jim had to destroy the recordings himself.
It had to do with the practicality and cost of production. Previously, a real tape had to be destroyed, but the "self-destructing tape" could be used over and over again, all that's needed for the camera was just a puff of smoke.
"Inspector Gadget" later borrowed the "self destruct" routine for every episode in his cartoon, only it was a piece of paper that exploded (usually in Chief Quimby's) face rather than a melting tape recorder.
I like how the tape recorder is picked apart by so many people. It's a plot device that spares the producer's the money for another set to dress and actor to set up the mission, while the regulars just stand around looking at each other.
I always waited for the day Jim would tell them: "Heck no I don't accept this assignment! Last time you sent me to Borneo, and I came home with a butt full of buckshot!"
One of my friends said the same thing too. Tom Cruise was a fan of the Mission: Impossible television series when he was little, he thought it would be a great idea to make a theatrical feature film of Mission: Impossible. He took over and changed the franchise. Making Jim Phelps a traitor or villain, he's not even a villain or a traitor at all, he's a hero since the 1966 television series and the reboot in 1988. Peter Graves refused to reprise his role as Jim Phelps in the 1996 theatrical feature film. This original real Mission: Impossible is better than Tom Cruise ones. The series was already seen in MeTV years ago, it's still airing nowadays right now.
This sequence came from certain declassified files of the Impossible Missions Force, and hence of the United States Special Office, archived under the heading, "(The Mission Into) The Mind Of Stefan Miklos." The late Steve Ihnat, a Paramount Famous Player, impersonated Miklos when the contents of those files were reenacted post-declassification.
" As always, should you or any members or your I.M Force be caught or killed the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions!" Sounds about right.....
What do you want it to do, explode in a Michael Bay fireball? :D The most rational way to create a self-destructing tape is to have some kind of chemical agent on opposite sides of the tape, so that when they roll to the other reel their positions reverse and they contact and set off a reaction that renders the tape unreadable. That's probably an acid reaction, not an explosion, and it'd generate vapors like that
@@droid327 the producers are on record as saying they didn't have the budget for then hi-tech special effects, so they faked a lot of stuff that can be done quite easily today.
Heads up Robot Chicken or SNL. Do a parody of this where Phelps or whoever can’t remember the names OR can’t hear it and needs to rewind which of course, never happens. The sketch’ll write itself. That’s a freebie. 😀
All the tape scenes for a given series were filmed in a batch by a second unit called S & S which stood for Saturday & Sunday. The cast and crew had to keep quiet about this because union rules forbade weekend working. It was necessary because Mission was so expensive to make. It always went over.
It was also one of the reasons Steven Hill only appeared in the 1st season. Besides being difficult to work with, his religious faith forbade him from working past sundown on Friday.
I remember an old cartoon series where, every time the message said "This message will self-destruct in 2 seconds", it exploded without giving chance to the agent to get a safe distance and he always ended with a black face.
Now what if Jim Phelps had said 'No, I will not accept the assignment'. How will his boss handle this rejection? Will they put a 'contract out on his life' for refusing because he know too much already??
Before Tom Cruise and all those M:I movies made lots of money, we mustn’t forget Peter Graves and the M:I TV series. That is an Important Starting Point. Kenneth A Huang 10/1/22.
In real spy work, killing wasn't always a necessity however. which is why Mission impossible was always a cool ass show. They were always meant to be "ghosts" who operated without you knowing they were actually there right with you.
Peter Graves was the real Jim Phelps. The Jon Voight Jim Phelps almost ruined the character. In season one, Steven Hill played the IMF leader Mr. Briggs.
Did anyone except me notice that the posters Mr. Phelps walks by were from a movie in 1961 (Summer and Smoke) and in 1959 (The Jayhawkers!) but this episode was released in 1969? I have never seen movie posters that have been exposed to outside elements last 10 years in such great shape.
There used to be movie theaters that showed second run movies. Usually in the run down parts of town. When I was a kid we would see Kung Fu movies on Saturday.
juan monge Even in the nice part of town there would be theaters that showed previously-run movies, often double or triple features. These were the days before video rentals.
LOL this was the days before home videos and not everybody had a TV... lots of movies never made TV. Films went round, and round and round. I saw the original Jungle Book at about tht same time as Star Wars.
@@prn8330 Also films that were hits typically played over again for years after during the summer. Not everyone had AC so sitting in a dark theatre watching West Side Story or the first 5 Bond films for the 5rd time was not unusual. Then around 1970 networks started bidding on films after their initial theatre run. It was a big deal to land Goldfinger or Dr Zhivago and show it in prime time. Then VCRs came late '70s and the rest is history...
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In the 1960s, Paramount had two of the best shows on TV: "Mission Impossible" and "Star Trek." Both benefited from good stories, clever scripts, and their theme music are now classic.
And the fact both were made into very successful movies as well
I thought star trek wasn't a hit when it First aired?
And both had Leonard Nimoy.
...And both were produced by Desilu Productions...yes, THAT Desilu...
What's Paramount got to do with it?
Tape: Should you accept this assignment-
Phelps: Surely, you're joking! This plan is insane!
Tape: No. It's not insane. And don't call me Shirley.
This is not mission difficult, this is mission impossible.
Lol you guys are cracking me up!
Brilliant!
Roger Clarence, I won't call you Shirley. Oveur and out.
🤦
I love how they always say "should you choose to accept it" like the agent can just go "fuck it, I'm going home"
Obviously, he had the option of refusing.
It's like an RPG. You can refuse the quest but then the game won't progress.
would make for a very short show
@@mja91352 no shit Sherlock
@@ben_dover33 Evidently not, since OP talks as if they can’t.
R.I.P., Peter Graves and Leonard Nimoy. Both of you as well as the others made this show shine. :(
and RIP Greg Morris & Martin Landau
@lesnyk255 Barbara Bain too.
They just don’t make self-destructing tapes like that anymore 😢
Yeah, self destructing MP3s just doesn't have that same smokiness
LMAO! As if ....
I kid you not, there are still tapes that do self destruct, but not like this. Look up Sticky Shed Syndrome and Vinegar Syndrome for the details.
As if, the tape just go bust because it's more like preventing anyone can hear it. Like any other secret agent film, like Bourne, sometimes the recording was only a part of a member and not meant to be spreading over.
@@tonytoponi9910 Huh? What are you saying exactly?
1:00 I like how they just referred to the second photo as "this man", without any indication the subject is about to change, if the order of photos is placed correctly, or other verification methods.
Great show. Secrets are no longer when too many people know. Self destruction tape keeps things tight. RIP Peter Graves.
that and death !
I always wondered what would happen if he didn't catch all the details, and the tape self-destructs
I know, lol.
Then it truly would’ve been an impossible mission
@@jennifersman7990 Mission aborted, lol.
Tape: "selfdestructs itself in 5 seconds"
-Ooh wait, I need a pen and paper to take notices.
Tape: -too late...
the agent can always carry a separate tape recorder to record the mission audio. And this tape recorder will not self destruct. So he can listen and listen until he memorizes every details.
Mission Impossible had some of the most absurdly wonderful scenarios dreamt up by the ever fertile and amazing writing talents that Hollywood once was. I remember this as must see TV back in the day where the 5 seconds destruct scene was always followed by the best TV theme tune ever written played over the background of a moving flaming taper introducing micro scenes of the story to come. Memories.
Took 3 films until the film series finally hit it's stride with Part 4. I'm glad they finally started getting it right with Ghost Protocol.
@@colliric I dunno why you're talking about the films. They're vastly different than the show. But even still, the first film was great. And the closest to the show. And features the only character from the show, Jim Phelps, who was a villain in it.
On the TV series I always found it so fascinating how they could destroy an organization or government by causing chaos within--and then just drive away.
Viewers may not remember that actor Steven Hill was the first group leader Dan Briggs. He then chose to leave the show, so that was where Peter Graves as Jim Phelps came in. I did not like that he was turned into a villain in the first MI film. 🙁
@@suebob16That's why I pretend that's just other guy with the same name. I mean, I've met people with my same name before
Wonder if he ever got the wrong tape & it played Glen Campbell's greatest hits or something.
It would have been "self destructed" after five seconds. But Jim Phelps himself would have "destructed" it with his pistol or an ax or something.
See "Escape from New York".
James Mohr Exactly what I was thinking. American Bandstand music.
LoL
Doctor Craptonicus Lol! Peace!
This show's writers were great. It was for entertainment. The actors and actresses were perfect. Ahead of its time.
Always funny how he makes a point out of switching off the tape device even if the whole thing will self-destruct anyway....
I think it's rather the tape that self-destructs than the whole recorder (and why should it?). And it's allways a smart idea to interrupt electric circuits before things burn.
maybe he's a little OCD.. he gets satisfaction out of turning it off just before the destruct sequence; Just like the satisfaction he gets from watching movies about gladiators or seeing grown men naked.
@@osuna3525 LOL!!! Good one!
always assumed that when he switched off the tap was when the countdown started to self destruct.
For routine practice
If this video is a copyright infringement , i will disavow any knowledge watching it this video will self-destruct 5 seconds
As I will disavow any knowledge of uploading it, and this comment will self-destruct in...
@@matthewwhite8882 t- 5 secends
Good luck Jim!
(Gets out a blast proof shield)
*this comment will self destruct
Glorious! From back when MI was about synchronised teamwork.
The missin briefer failed to acknowledge that even if the audio tape self-destructed, the protagonist was filmed listening to it and millions could witness what was said.
The 4th wall is only transparent in one direction.
😆😆
Not to mention having to produce multiple tapes, in case they needed to do another take.
one of my favourites was when they convinced the bad guy that the Earth had just experienced a nuclear war
This was my FAVORITE episode! Phelps totally mind f***s the other agent. Not by climbing a building. Not by car chases. Not by shoot outs. He leaves a book of matches for the other guy to find. The matches are removed from the opposite side making the foreign agent say “a left handed person removed these, my guy is right handed”. This makes him believe what Phelps wants him to. Genius. I love the new MI films. But I wish they had just started with a new name. The original MI was all about mind f***ing the bad guys with genius moves.
You might start with a ** SPOILER ALERT ** on comments like these.
@@veramae4098 Fair enough. Sorry. I thought that anybody reading comments on a 50+ year old television episode probably already saw it.
I like how we can still accept this as a narrative device even today in the newest movies. Phones, email, and other digital messages are convenient but can easily be tapped, hacked, or intercepted. But an in-person delivery of a tape and paper is analog and unhackable.
Osama bin Laden used USB memory sticks sent by Fedex. That's why it took the CIA 10 years to find him.
The tom cruise movies will never top this classic show. One reason is that we had a team of agents all doing what they do best , not all focused on tom.
" This tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds ". Along with "Go ahead, make my day ", this has been one of my favorite all-time catch phrases.
In the remake in 1988, an agent was killed and was disavowed by the secretary. It was never done in the original series. I guess they were just fired.
Yes! I remember that vividly. It was the resident "femme fatale" of the team. Never did learn the backstory of why they did that. Does anyone know?
That's so bad... if you are distracted for a second or didn't hear it clearly, your mission is TOAST :D
The assumption being that if you're taking these missions, you _don't_ get distracted during the briefing, period. ;)
no rewind possible in this case, if distracted, as you say Mission not just simply impossible, completely Toasted !
But Peter Grave what a great actor ! and very tall , 6, 5 feet at first glance,
i am french, and sometimes i see an american or two, visiting us, at the university, here in France, You're giants ! none under 6,4 feet (about 1,95 meter in our way to measure lenghts).
You probably start to drink milk as soon as born, and never break until you find your first job at 25 ! but be careful not to touch the ceiling !
Thats why they hired they are the best
Then dont accept.
That's why I record all my mission briefs with my iphone.
The coolest way to prevent spies from accessing secret info.
Hillary should have done this instead of email
"The Mind of Stefan Miklos" is one of the series most nail-biting head games. A true classic.
1 of my all time favorite tv show it kept me in suspense loved the actor's great casting R.I.P to Peter Graves and Greg Morris also Martin Landau 💪🙏👊👍💯💯😭
Amazing to see Greg Morris, a black man, in this series.
I'm 70, but I was young once.
We still have Barbara Bain! 😊
I always forgot that Peter Graves is the brother of James Arness.
I rewatched season one and I had no idea that Peter Graves came into the show on season 2…season one was lead by Steven Hill( who later was the head prosecutor on Law & Order)
Always thought that was a cool opening for a show.
please bring back mission to. 📺 please
It was always interesting the variations they did every week, I seem to remember one where he went into a movie theater and his “mission” was projected on the screen
I hated that in the movies they didn't bring back ANY of the old TV team :(
Well. They brought back Jim.
When writing Rogue Nation, Christopher McQuarrie had initially placed Dan Briggs in the script, who was the leader of the IMF before Jim Phelps (Season 1). I was so upset when I found that out, and then learned that Briggs had been cut out of the script, because I thought that was an amazing avenue to explore, and Briggs was personally my favorite team leader (not member, that was Rollin).
But I absolutely love McQuarrie and his movies. Hopefully he reconsiders the idea for M:I-7!
@@aespair Yep, Peter Graves turned down Jim in the first M:I movie because he didn't want to portray him as a traitor, but, Jon Voigt's Jim Phelps is still intended to be the same Jim Phelps from the tv show. And I was not aware of Briggs being in the original script for Rogue Nation, that's too bad he was cut!
@@matthewwhite8882 As much as I love M:I-1, I hate the absolute character assassination that takes place. Anyone who saw the show would know everything that happened in the movie was completely out of character for Jim. Headcanon is that it's just some rogue IMF agent wearing a mask and pretending to be Jim.
Aespair The first M: I will always be my favorite of the movies, but, yes...I hate that Jim was Job. They made a decision for dramatic effect because Kittridge being Job would’ve been too obvious; they felt they needed to break our hearts instead with a major surprise. I still think the movie is fantastic but I would’ve preferred Jim died a hero.
Agreed
Fabulous series!
Comedian Johnny Carson had a hilarious skit where he, as the mission chief, found the tape recorder in the toilet in the men's room. It was so funny!
The gag in it was he had to penetrate a series of increasingly difficult locks on a door and at the end you see it’s the door to a toilet stall
TV’s Mission Impossible was a well made thought out show. The crap in the movies is special effects superhero garbage.
_"The Mind of Stefan Miklos"_ -- one of my all time favorite episodes of M:I
This is one of the best episodes
what is?
The tape scene is from the episode THE MIND OF STEFAN MIKLOS, which originally aired on 1-12-69.
Thank you!
Same day the Jets won the Super Bowl.
Cool
This was one my favorite episodes.
mshow81
whats the name of the actual tv show? ironside?
They only did it a few times, but I liked when the briefing was on a phonograph record. I liked how it looked when the smoke swirled around as the record spun.
Iconic scene from Mission Impossible.
Nostalgia is hot :)
Imagine asking the Secretary to send another tape because you missed out on some of the mission details.
One of my favorite episodes. No matter how many times I watch it, it manages to lose me on some of its twists & turns.
Matt Dillon & Mr. Phelps. Incorruptible. The strong, mostly silent type.
In Real Life They Are Brothers, May They R.I.P.
"Should you decide not to accept this assignment, you're fired."
Aha, that tape recorder is the Concord F-20 Sound Camera! They have put some silver foil over the Volume & Speed controls for some reason...
It took awhile before Mission: Impossible started doing the "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds" gimmick which became its iconic trademark. In the earlier episodes, Jim had to destroy the recordings himself.
It had to do with the practicality and cost of production. Previously, a real tape had to be destroyed, but the "self-destructing tape" could be used over and over again, all that's needed for the camera was just a puff of smoke.
"Inspector Gadget" later borrowed the "self destruct" routine for every episode in his cartoon, only it was a piece of paper that exploded (usually in Chief Quimby's) face rather than a melting tape recorder.
How well I remember this show and Peter Graves!
0:49 "top anime agent"
Peter Graves was just so darn handsome.
"This man, George Simpson, who bears a strong resemblance to the actor Edward Asner, is jealous of Townsend."
Jim Phelps once refused a mission, he was the 6th admittance to The Village.
"Your mission Jim, should you decide to accept it..." - so, did he really have a choice? Elegantly put, anyway! 😉
I like how the tape recorder is picked apart by so many people. It's a plot device that spares the producer's the money for another set to dress and actor to set up the mission, while the regulars just stand around looking at each other.
Billy have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
I really love the words "Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it ..."
This was always my favorite part of the show.
Just yesterday I saw the Doraemon spoof with my niece. Wanted to show him this, but didn't look it up. Now it's on my suggested. Creepy.
I always waited for the day Jim would tell them: "Heck no I don't accept this assignment! Last time you sent me to Borneo, and I came home with a butt full of buckshot!"
"Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?"
This is basically a Concord F20 Sound Camera portable reel-to-reel tape recorder, the one that was used in the show.
I never knew mission impossible was a series in the 60s
One of my friends said the same thing too. Tom Cruise was a fan of the Mission: Impossible television series when he was little, he thought it would be a great idea to make a theatrical feature film of Mission: Impossible. He took over and changed the franchise. Making Jim Phelps a traitor or villain, he's not even a villain or a traitor at all, he's a hero since the 1966 television series and the reboot in 1988. Peter Graves refused to reprise his role as Jim Phelps in the 1996 theatrical feature film. This original real Mission: Impossible is better than Tom Cruise ones. The series was already seen in MeTV years ago, it's still airing nowadays right now.
Peter Graves always sported the perfect manicure
It always happens. Altough I don't search discover somethings, my feeling leads me discover it anyway.
the tape and voice reminds me of my Cambridge English first certificate speaking exam
I always thought it was William Conrad, but seemingly it's Bob Johnson.
Who did the narration for 'The Invaders'?
@@bingola45 Bill Woodson
Why didn't they just erase the tape? They'd save a fortune in tapes & tape recorders..
This sequence came from certain declassified files of the Impossible Missions Force, and hence of the United States Special Office, archived under the heading, "(The Mission Into) The Mind Of Stefan Miklos."
The late Steve Ihnat, a Paramount Famous Player, impersonated Miklos when the contents of those files were reenacted post-declassification.
I wish our government would self destruct in five seconds 😅
All time classic 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
old mission impossible series was thrilling
Tom Cruise, la cago...está serie era lo más!!!
no llores boomer
" As always, should you or any members or your I.M Force be caught or killed the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions!" Sounds about right.....
What if there was a loud car horn and you missed some of the briefing?
That car will self destruct in five seconds.....
rewind?
@@scottstewart5784 No time. Just turn down the mission."Nah, I'll sit this one out. What else ya got?"
there was no way to make the tape actually self-destruct so they just showed smoke. Still, very clever.
What do you want it to do, explode in a Michael Bay fireball? :D
The most rational way to create a self-destructing tape is to have some kind of chemical agent on opposite sides of the tape, so that when they roll to the other reel their positions reverse and they contact and set off a reaction that renders the tape unreadable. That's probably an acid reaction, not an explosion, and it'd generate vapors like that
@@droid327 the producers are on record as saying they didn't have the budget for then hi-tech special effects, so they faked a lot of stuff that can be done quite easily today.
a guy underneath just blowing smoke from a cigarette lol
Brilliant idea. Very slick production..
Heads up Robot Chicken or SNL. Do a parody of this where Phelps or whoever can’t remember the names OR can’t hear it and needs to rewind which of course, never happens. The sketch’ll write itself. That’s a freebie. 😀
Why didn't I think of that? Great idea you have!😃
All the tape scenes for a given series were filmed in a batch by a second unit called S & S which stood for Saturday & Sunday. The cast and crew had to keep quiet about this because union rules forbade weekend working. It was necessary because Mission was so expensive to make. It always went over.
It was also one of the reasons Steven Hill only appeared in the 1st season. Besides being difficult to work with, his religious faith forbade him from working past sundown on Friday.
and now I know why they don't make audio tapes anymore
"The Mind of Stefan Miklos" is probably the best episode of the entire series.
One of my favorites for sure. "Operation Rogash" (season 1) is another.
I remember an old cartoon series where, every time the message said "This message will self-destruct in 2 seconds", it exploded without giving chance to the agent to get a safe distance and he always ended with a black face.
Inspector Gadget.
@@Mokkari77 Yep, correct.👍
An absolutely quality TV programme
My mum always was outraged that the secretary will always disowned them. She loved medals and letters of recommendation.
Now what if Jim Phelps had said 'No, I will not accept the assignment'. How will his boss handle this rejection? Will they put a 'contract out on his life' for refusing because he know too much already??
How did he know how to follow along using the photos?
this man is the real impossible mission force...
Before Tom Cruise and all those M:I movies made lots of money, we mustn’t forget Peter Graves and the M:I TV series. That is an Important Starting Point.
Kenneth A Huang 10/1/22.
Now, you'd have an episode and they'd just kill off all three named individuals and it would be over in 15 minutes.
In real spy work, killing wasn't always a necessity however. which is why Mission impossible was always a cool ass show. They were always meant to be "ghosts" who operated without you knowing they were actually there right with you.
@@MGSBigBoss77 Amazing concept right? A spy show with people doing smart deceptive things. Like how actual spies work.
@@MGSBigBoss77 Just more of a comment on how TV and movie writing has declined over the years and they don't make interesting shows like this one.
Its like the mafia, you can refuse, but, your ticket is up.
How many young people will watch this and say, "What's tape?"
Only the stupid ones. You see the tape right in front of you.
Still better than any TV now.Liked the even older version.
Ian McQuade no
TV really isn't worth watching anymore because there’s nothing but sh*t on nowadays.
That show was a Sunday evening favorite. CBS carried so many winning shows. Still liked The FBI.
We have the mission requirements. Roger roger. And dont call me Shirley
Peter Graves was the real Jim Phelps. The Jon Voight Jim Phelps almost ruined the character. In season one, Steven Hill played the IMF leader Mr. Briggs.
They did the character dirty. That's why none of the surviving cast of the show would agree to do a cameo appearance.
He never turned down an assignment
Get Smart spoofed this scene in an episode. It was hilarious! The video is here some place in UA-cam.
It's here:
ua-cam.com/video/YDa-49WCwx4/v-deo.html
"...should you decide to accept it?" Jim didn't have much of a choice...otherwise, we wouldn't be watching Mission: Impossible!⚘️👀
This was one of their better episodes.
Unbeatable Show 💖💖💖
So this is where Inspector Gadget got the idea when the chief would give assignments 😂
I had the same thought too!😂
Did anyone except me notice that the posters Mr. Phelps walks by were from a movie in 1961 (Summer and Smoke) and in 1959 (The Jayhawkers!) but this episode was released in 1969? I have never seen movie posters that have been exposed to outside elements last 10 years in such great shape.
There used to be movie theaters that showed second run movies. Usually in the run down parts of town. When I was a kid we would see Kung Fu movies on Saturday.
juan monge Even in the nice part of town there would be theaters that showed previously-run movies, often double or triple features. These were the days before video rentals.
LOL this was the days before home videos and not everybody had a TV... lots of movies never made TV. Films went round, and round and round. I saw the original Jungle Book at about tht same time as Star Wars.
@@prn8330 Also films that were hits typically played over again for years after during the summer. Not everyone had AC so sitting in a dark theatre watching West Side Story or the first 5 Bond films for the 5rd time was not unusual.
Then around 1970 networks started bidding on films after their initial theatre run. It was a big deal to land Goldfinger or Dr Zhivago and show it in prime time. Then VCRs came late '70s and the rest is history...
@@ricoz2016 Yup. Those nights when ABC showed James Bond films (Sean Connery) were treats for our family.
I always got a kick out of that part.. 😄😄
I remember that episode. I thought it was one of the best, if not the best of the whole series.
Loved this part!❤❤❤❤
Now they just send an instant encrypted message using Whatsapp. No more tapes. 😥
Phelps...he lived long enough to see himself become a villain
Much better than tom Cruise