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Intro:
The head of the "Impossible Missions Force", a top-secret government
group of operatives, starts a tape recorder and finds out about his
latest assignment. Throughout most of the series, they would have to
stop some petty dictator or powerful bad guy from whatever evil plot
they had against the U.S. or Democracy in general. The elaborate use
of electronic gadgetry, masters of disguise and detailed plans that
require split-second timing made this tv show an "on the edge of
your seater"!
Jim Phelps is the head of a
super-secret government agency ("Impossible Missions"), and is often
given secret anonymous covert missions to attempt; quite often they
are unmasking of criminals or the rescuing of hostages. He picks his
team depending on which tasks need to be done. One thing is vital on
an Impossible Mission: the mission must be carried out in entire
secrecy, often relying on high-tech equipment and elaborate
deceptions.
Description:
Season 1:
The first season was 28 episodes (and did NOT have Peter Graves in
the cast yet), and Paramount/CBS will release them on 7 discs (1404
mins).
Review for Mission Impossible Season 1:
With its combination of Cold War villains and James Bond-like
techno-gadgets, Mission: Impossible was an instant hit when it
premiered on September 17, 1966. The series was the brainchild of
creator/producer Bruce Geller, whose formula for seven successful
seasons included a well-chosen ensemble cast, noteworthy guest
stars, and a flexible premise that inspired clever plots twists and
a constant variety of "international" locations (mostly filmed on a
studio backlot). This is the only season to feature Steven Hill as
Dan Briggs, leader of the top-secret counter-intelligence team known
as Impossible Missions Force (IMF). As the no-nonsense Briggs, Hill
(better known for his later role on Law & Order from 1990 to 2000)
began each episode by sneakily retrieving the dossier and recorded
instructions (voiced throughout the entire series by uncredited
actor Bob Johnson) for the IMF's latest assignment. "Your mission,
should you decide to accept it" and "this recording will
self-destruct in five seconds" quickly became pop-cultural
catch-phrases, as Briggs routinely selected his preferred teammates
based on their mastery of practical skills. Your mission--and you
shouldn't hesitate to accept it--is to enjoy this classic series all
over again! --Jeff Shannon
Season 2:
Mission: Impossible - Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) Takes Over The
IMF With 2nd Season DVD Debut!
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, for June 5th is to
purchase Mission: Impossible - The 2nd TV Season. As always, should
you or any of your Impossible Missions Force be caught or killed,
the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape
will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck.
Yes, CBS/Paramount has officially announced the second season DVD
release of the original Mission: Impossible series. Peter Graves
joins the cast without ceremony, as his character - Jim Phelps -
quietly replaces the departed "Dan Briggs" (the actor, Steven Hill,
reportedly left the series due to the show's shooting schedule,
which included Saturdays and therefore was a conflict with Hill's
Jewish religious beliefs).
The 25 episodes during the second season run 1254 minutes (almost 21
hours) on DVD, and include such guest stars as Mark Lenard, Peter
Lorre Jr., Darren McGavin, Vincent Gardenia, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Victor French and Paul Winfield.
Have a look at the cover...the match is lit! Can't you just hear the
theme song in your head right this minute?
Review for Mission impossible Season 2:
Gone was Steven Hill as Dan Briggs, and in his place the supremely
confident and smooth Peter Graves as new team leader Jim Phelps,
whom most viewers identify with the series. Carrying out the
missions assigned from a pre-recorded voice on the self-destroying
tape recorder was magician and master of disguise Rollin Hand
(Martin Landau, who moved up from guest star to regular cast member
with this season), top model Cinnamon Carter (Landau's real-life
spouse Barbara Bain, who won three Emmys for her work on the show),
electronics genius Barney Collier (Greg Morris), and all-purpose
strong man Willie Armitage (body builder-turned-actor Peter Lupus).
Guest stars include Anthony Zerbe, Paul Winfield, Fritz Weaver, and
Sid Haig, but it's the team itself that shines the brightest,
especially Landau and Bain, who exude the breezy charm of the series
itself (though both would depart the show by the following season).
--Paul Gaita
Season 3:
The head of the "Impossible Missions Force", a top-secret government
group of operatives, starts a tape recorder and finds out about his
latest assignment. Throughout most of the series, they would have to
stop some petty dictator or powerful bad guy from whatever evil plot
they had against the U.S. or Democracy in general. The elaborate use
of electronic gadgetry, masters of disguise and detailed plans that
require split-second timing made this TV show an "on the edge of
your seater"!
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to purchase the
third season of Mission: Impossible.
Guest stars in the third season include Robert
Conrad (The Wild Wild West), Sugar Ray Robinson (boxer), Vic Tayback
(Alice), Barbara Babcock (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman), Sid Haig
(Jason of Star Command), Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Martin
Sheen (The West Wing), Lee Meriwether (The Time Tunnel), Joe E. Tata
(Beverly Hills, 90210), and many, many more.
The third season of the original, legendary
Mission: Impossible series saw the show reach heights as Barbara
Bain once again won an Emmy Award for Best Actress, and guest stars
through the season included such names as Ed Asner, Barbara Babcock,
John Colicos, Joan Collins, Robert Conrad, Vincent Gardenia, Lee
Grant, Sid Haig, Mark Lenard, Larry Linville, Lee Meriweather,
Charles Napier, Pernell Roberts, Sugar Ray Robinson, Martin Sheen,
Joe E. Tata, Vic Tayback, and John Vernon.
Review for Mission: Impossible Season 3:
Season 3, should you decide to accept it (and you definitely
should), was Mission's most accomplished. It garnered six Emmy
nominations, and an Emmy for Barbara Bain, her third consecutive
win, probably for "The Exchange," one of her finest hours, in which,
breaking series format, her character is captured and
psychologically tortured to discover for whom she works. As always,
the first five minutes of any Mission: Impossible episode are the
coolest: the lit fuse signalling Lalo Schifrin's indelible theme
song, the opening-credits montage teasing the action in the upcoming
episode, and Jim Phelps (Peter Graves), in some nondescript
location, receiving his covert mission (usually to some
non-existent, but real-sounding country as Povia or Costa Mateo), on
that self-destructing tape. --Donald Liebenson
Season 4:
Mission: Impossible - Leonard Nimoy's 'Paris' Coming to DVD with 4th
Season Set!
4th Season (out of 7) releasing on May 13th 2008
All 26 episodes from the 1969-1970 season are coming home with
Paramount Home Entertainment's release of Mission: Impossible - The
Complete 4th Season! The cold war stakes remain as high as ever,
with Leonard Nimoy joining the cast as "Paris" (hot on the heels of
Star Trek's cancellation, of course).
Other faces you'll see this season include guest stars (some of them
recurring) that include Lee Meriwether, A Martinez, Dina Merrill,
Sid Haig, Larry Linville, Anne Francis, John Aniston, John Vernon,
Barry Williams, John Williams, Jessica Walter, Pernell Roberts,
Cicely Tyson and Ken Swofford.
Review for Mission: Impossible Season 4:
Foil the invasion of a democratic country? No problem. Rescue
members of a royal family from their would-be usurper? Piece of
cake. Replace the irreplaceable Martin Landau and thrice-Emmy-winner
Barbara Bain, who departed Mission after its third season? Now
that’s impossible! But in this classic series’ fourth season, the
veteran and rookie members of the Impossible Mission Force still put
on a good show. --Donald Liebenson
Season 5:
Mission: Impossible
The 5th Season - Lesley Ann Warren & Sam Elliot Join Peter Graves,
Greg Morris & Leonard Nimoy
The hit series Mission: Impossible™ returns to DVD, featuring all 23
Season Five episodes! By the fifth season, the show's changing times
meant changing crimes, as the emerging drug culture forced the IMF
to spend more time in America, battling organized crime and drug
czars.
But the winning formula stayed the same: Jim Phelps (Peter Graves)
gets his assignment, Barney Collier (Greg Morris) makes the required
special effects, and Willy Armitage (Peter Lupus) supplies the
muscle. And while Paris (Leonard Nimoy) has the makeup skills to
become any character required, it's the team's newest member - the
gorgeous Dana Lambert (Lesley Ann Warren) - who gives this season an
added boost, and makes this set of Mission: Impossible™ the most
thrilling DVD experience yet!
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the October 7th release
of Mission: Impossible - The 5th Season on DVD. These 23 missions
will run 19 hours, 15 minutes long and includes new regular team
member Lesley Ann Warren (who's credited in this show without the
"Ann"). You'll also remember Warren from the 1965 production of
Cinderella, as well as her Oscar-nominated role in Victor/Victoria
and her turn as "Miss Scarlet" in the film version of the board game
Clue. She's been most recently seen in Desperate Housewives as being
Susan's mother.
Sam Elliot (Tombstone, The Big Lebowski, The Golden Compass, Ghost
Rider) also appeared as "Lang" (Dr. Doug Robert) during Season 5,
trading off appearances with Peter Lupus ("Willy Armitage") in each
mission. There are also many guest stars in this season, with folks
such as John Colicos, Robert Conrad, Sid Haig, James Hong, Herbert
Jefferson Jr., Mark Lenard, Larry Linville, Marion Ross, James B.
Sikking, Loretta Swit and John Vernon.
Season 6:
The Impossible Mission Force continues to plot subterfuge on the
homefront in this sixth season of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. While
previous years pitted these Cold War warriors against international
goons, the show's later seasons increasingly found the crack squad
of saboteurs using their gadgets and cunning to foil more native
threats: drug cartels hooking Americans on dope and mobsters using
their collective power to evade justice. The result is more time
spent by Jim (Peter Graves), Barney (Greg Morris), and Willie (Peter
Lupus) in the good old U.S.A., staunching the flow of drugs and
busting the Syndicate, bit by bit. All through their daredevil
adventures, the team's skills still prove razor-sharp--especially
with the help of a gorgeous new member, Lisa Casey (Lynda Day
George). This collection presents all 22 episodes of the show's
thrilling sixth series. The clock's ticking.
Season7:
Mission: Impossible - It's All Over for the Impossible Missions
Force: 7th and Final Season DVDs!
The fuse is lit, burning down the the series finale on home video
this November
The classic spy series Mission: Impossible returns for Season Seven,
the most exciting one yet! The action drama about the activities of
the IMF (Impossible Missions Force) was a sensation from the
beginning. The inspired cast, fast-moving plots, neat gadgets,
pre-recorded tapes that self-destruct - all these elements mad this
brilliant show one of television's crowning achievements. For the
final season, Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) continues to focus on
targets outside the reach of conventional law enforcement, as he and
special effects whiz Barney (Greg Morris), muscle man Willy (Peter
Lupus), and the gorgeous Casey (Lynda Day George) help smash
organized crime rings.
CBS DVD and Paramount Home Entertainment bring you the last of the
impossible, with their just-announced DVD release of Mission:
Impossible - The Final Season. This 1115-minute set arrives November
3rd, and presents it's final 22 episodes in full screen video with
English 5.1. Barbara Anderson
joins the IMF as "Mimi Davis" for this last season of the classic
show.
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Season 1:
1 Pilot
2 Memory
3 Operation Rogosh
4 Old Man Out (1)
5 Old Man Out (2)
6 Odds on Evil
7 Wheels
8 The Ransom
9 A Spool There Was
10 The Carriers
11 Zubrovnik's Ghost
12 Fakeout
13 Elena
14 The Short Tail Spy |
15 The Legacy
16 The Reluctant Dragon
17 The Frame
18 The Trial
19 The Diamond
20 The Legend
21 Snowball in Hell
22 The Confession
23 Action!
24 The Train
25 Shock
26 A Cube of Sugar
27 The Traitor
28 The Psychic |
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Season 2:
29 The Widow
30 Trek
31 The Survivors
32 The Bank
33 The Slave (1)
34 The Slave (2)
35 Operation "Heart"
36 The Money Machine
37 The Seal
38 Charity
39 The Council (1)
40 The Council (2)
41 The Astrologer |
42 Echo of Yesterday
43 The Photographer
44 The Spy
45 A Game of Chess
46 The Emerald
47 The Condemned
48 The Counterfeiter
49 The Town
50 The Killing
51 The Phoenix
52 Trial by Fury
53 Recovery
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Season 3:
54 The Heir Apparent
55 The Contenders (Part 1)
56 The Contenders (Part 2)
57 The Mercenaries
58 The Execution
59 The Cardinal
60 The Elixir
61 The Diplomat
62 The Play
63 The Bargain
64 The Freeze
65 The Exchange
66 The Mind of Stefan Miklos |
67 The Test Case
68 The System
69 The Glass Cage
70 Doomsday
71 Live Bait
72 The Bunker (Part 1)
73 The Bunker (Part 2)
74 Nitro
75 Nicole
76 The Vault
77 Illusion
78 The Interrogator
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Season 4:
79 The Code
80 The Numbers Game
81 The Controllers (1)
82 The Controllers (2)
83 Fool's Gold
84 Commandante
85 Submarine
86 Mastermind
87 Robot
88 The Double Circle
89 The Brothers
90 Time Bomb
91 The Amnesiac |
92 The Falcon (1)
93 The Falcon (2)
94 The Falcon (3)
95 Chico
96 Gitano
97 Phantoms
98 Terror
99 Lover's Knot
100 Orpheus
101 The Crane
102 Death Squad
103 The Choice
104 The Martyr
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Season 5:
105 The Killer
106 Flip Side
107 The Innocent
108 Homecoming
109 Flight
110 My Friend, My Enemy
111 Butterfly
112 Decoy
113 The Amateur
114 Hunted
115 The Rebel
116 Squeeze Play |
117 The Hostage
118 Takeover
119 Cat's Paw
120 The Missile
121 The Field
122 Blast
123 The Cataflaque
124 Kitara
125 A Ghost Story
126 The Party
127 The Merchant
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Season 6:
128 Blind
129 Encore
130 The Tram
131 Mindbend
132 Shape-Up
133 The Miracle
134 Encounter
135 Underwater
136 Invasion
137 Blues (aka Hard Rock)
138 The Visitors |
139 Nerves
140 Run for the Money
141 The Connection
142 The Bride
143 Stone Pillow (aka Big House)
144 Image
145 Committed
146 Bag Woman
147 Double Dead
148 Casino (aka Vacuum, Rumble)
149 Trapped
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Season 7:
150 Break!
151 Two Thousand
152 The Deal
153 Leona
154 TOD-5
155 Cocaine
156 Underground
157 Movie
158 Hit
159 Ultimatum
160 Kidnap |
161 Crack-Up
162 The Puppet
163 Incarnate
164 Boomerang
165 The Question
166 The Fountain
167 The Fighter
168 Speed
169 The Pendulum
170 The Western
171 Imitation
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Cast List:
Martin Landau ... Rollin Hand (1966-1969)
Steven Hill ... Daniel Briggs (1966-1967)
Barbara Bain ... Cinnamon Carter (1966-1969)
Peter Graves ... James Phelps (1967-1973)
Leonard Nimoy ... The Amazing Paris (1969-1971)
Bob Johnson ... IMF Voice on Tape (uncredited, 1966-1973)
Sam Elliott ... Dr. Doug Robert (1970-1971)
Lesley Ann Warren ... Dana Lambert (1970-71)
Lynda Day George ... Casey (1971-1973)
Barbara Anderson ... Mimi Davis
(1972-1973)
Greg Morris ... Barney Collier
Peter Lupus ... Willy Armitage |
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Encoding: Region 2 PAL
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Format: Colour, PAL,
Subtitled
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Language: English
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Subtitles: French,
German, Danish, Italian, Swedish
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Dubbed: French, German
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Region: Region 2 (This
DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats below.)
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Number of discs: 47
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Classification: 12
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Studio: Paramount Home
Entertainment
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DVD Release Date: 9
July 2018
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Run Time: 8500 minutes
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