CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

jc-osms Weren't the 60's great for escapist entertainment? I mean on both sides of the Atlantic. Here in the UK we had "The Avengers", "Department S", "The Champions" and many others from the ITC stable, while imported from the States we had "Star Trek", "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and this, perhaps my most favourite.Blame it on the delectable Barbara Bain as agent Cinammon Carter, or on the best TV theme tune ever, but most of all blame it on the ingenious plotting and cohesive acting of the whole cast.I take great pleasure from being able to re-watch such great TV from my childhood in the here and now and spend more time watching re-runs of classic series like this than from most current TV.Mission accomplished!

DKosty123 This show was at the top of the heap when it ran on CBS. As the number 1 show in the ratings, it was the crown Jewel of CBS prime-time line up starting in 1966 & moving on into the late 1960's. There actually is an obscure factual basis the series was based upon which did not come out until years later.The Impossible Mission Force (IMF) team concept was actually based upon a real team which was operating prior to the series. Amazingly, this is another of the top shows(including Star Trek)produced originally by Desilu in the 1960's. I discovered in the 1990's that as members of CREEP (The Committee to Re-Elect The President) started to die, in their obituaries were references to the fact they had started working for their boss (Richard M Nixon) in 1952.It is from this team that the concept of the IMF was created. To use a little more imagination, before this bungled Watergate caper in 1972, it is very possible that they pull off the JFK caper in 1963. The facts around Kennedy's death read very much like an IMF job. Especially all the loose ends that were left in Dallas in 1963.Steven Hill's Daniel Briggs started this show strong. The story goes that he quit the show after the first season because his religion required him to be off one day a week. Bruce Geller & the production team arrived at an impasse with Hill & he left the show. Purists of the IMF think this first season is the best one because of Hill.Peter Graves took over as Jim Phelps leading the team in 1967 & until the series ended years later. The show didn't lose much. The folks who composed the team most of the time, Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, & Peter Lupus were very believable in their roles. Nice thing about the format is they could slip in guest stars on the IMF team to keep it from getting boring.This show was very high tech as it had lots of gadgets. Most plots center around brutal dictators doing bad things & the IMF going in to set things right in a variety of ways. Sometimes the plots would go for more than 1 episode.The trademark of every show is the burning fuse on the screen with little teasers of the action in the episode to come. Then the tape with the mission, the black & white rooms where Briggs/Phelps would select that week's team. Another hallmark of the show were the complexity of the plots & how split second timing was required to make each mission a success."As always, if any of your team are caught or killed, the secretary will dis-avow any knowledge of their actions." Good Luck Impossible Mission team fans.

klmp3947 I have been looking at this TV series with two of my boys the last months. It is one of the best ever sent TV shows during the sixties and seventies. All episodes are not real good, but most episodes are real classics!! I am thru these shows, together with The Saint and Columbo "going back" to my youth time of my life. They are of course in many ways very different to the modern "realistic shows" with many times too much blood and violation, and death. But to meet the old stars as Martin Landau, Barbara Bain and the others is worth all minutes of the shows. The idea, spirit and soul of the show is wonderful and even if you know how every show begins, it just need to begin in that way! If not - it is not any Mission: Impossible.I look forward to sit together with my boys on Friday evenings to look at Mission Impossible. We have decided to have one evening a week for the show! But the problem is now that the first season is soon coming to an end, and I cannot see any date for the release of the second season in the Old World yet. I really hope that it is soon coming, and that Paramount/CBS speed up the schedule for season 3 to 7.

Enrique Sanchez Growing up in the 60s and 70s makes me feel rather smug about certain things. I really DO think I live in the best times for a lot of things. Mission: Impossible was one of those things.How many kids watched this and dreamed of participating in one of these IMF missions when we grew up! They were so were planned. No stone in any possible angle was left unturned. Of course, as a kid, we didn't realize that these were carefully scripted to delight the most complicated recesses of our minds! The IMF teams may have changed a bit through the years, but the utter fascination with their ploys never let up.Of course, at the center of this was the impossibly wonderful LALO SCHIFRIN theme! Ever since I can remember high school bands have kept this in their repertoire.It really is kind of sad that the whole IMF thing transformed itself into the Tom Cruise vehicle it has. Sure, it's an homage of sorts. But I challenge any of you to compare the original with the Cruise aberrations (sorry, I meant "franchises"....) One of the finer things about this series was the utter prestige of the guest list who visited us in our homes weekly. Where are there any actors like these nowadays? I dare say they are nowhere. Actors of this caliber are no longer sought after. They can hardly make a living while abominations like Tom Cruise wallow in the wild excesses of the most unimaginable luxuries.Why do I have anything against Tom Cruise? Probably like everyone else I am rather tired of the guy and his bombastic publicity machine or is it machines? He also practically runs the whole phony cult nowadays doesn't he? Anyway, enough of my rants! M:I (1966) remains to this day one of the most engaging, intelligent programs every conceived and produced.The new DVD release is a wonderful, welcome trip back into that fascinating world of espionage and international Cold War politics. I cannot wait for the entire run to be released!