Mission Impossible - The Complete First TV Season (1966)

You Gotta love em!

This first series of Mission Impossible from the 60's is great. Personally I enjoy Peter Graves more as the head of the IM team but Steven Hill also does a great job. In this first season all the characters are a bit more relaxed and layed back, even joking with each other as they do their jobs. But, hey, we are hooked on Mission Impossible so we enjoy all of them. October 23, 2008

If you liked the original Mission Impossible series you should buy this

I can still remember watching this series on Sunday night as a family the first season it aired. I was in elementary school at the time. Today I still enjoy it, and my children enjoy it as well. It is not as sophisticated as programs today, but given the budgets, technology, and viewers of that time I believe that it was a great program for what it was intended to be. I especially like the actors in the first season. For some interesting history of the program go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Impossible. The only downside is that it would have been nice if the video had been digitally re-mastered. I would recommend this to any fan of the original television series, and will conclude by saying that I liked it enough that I am going to purchase the second season soon. September 1, 2008

Way ahead of it's time

What made this show great was that the missions were designed to use gile, misdirection and slide of hand. Getting the bad guys to kill each other is better than explosions and car chases.

My favorite episode is where they made this guy believe there'd been a nuclear holocaust, that he was in a bomb shelter and it was the future. Doing that they made him tell them the details of where to find something to prevent disaster. He tells them and then at the end he makes his way out of the little submarine he'd been in as they drive away and he has this perplexed look on his face. THAT is classic Mission Impossible.

This show was about thinking. I wish the movies would at least try to recreate this. And the outrageous idea that Jim Phelps was a traitor (in the 1996 movie) was such sacrilege that it makes you want to march to Paramount Pictures holding pitchforks and torches! August 31, 2008

Great Series...!!!

I'm a really big fan of the first season of MI especially because of Steven Hill's portrayal of Dan Briggs. The series was just starting out and it tended to have greatly varied plots during the first season which made it exciting to watch. Dan Briggs seemed to be the perfect character to lead the IMF and I was not sure why he was replaced by Peter Graves until I read the write-up on his religious background. His no-nonsense approach was just what you would expect of someone in his position and he also had the added benefit of not being as well known as Peter Graves at the time, anonimity being a necessary part of undercover activities, which made him seem all the more real. I don't mean to demean Mr. Graves' contributions to the series...he was there for the remainder of its successful run; however, I often wonder what the show's personality would have been if Steven had continued on. As with all other reviewers I believe this was a great series and am happy that it is being released. Seasons 1 and 2 are safely in my possession as will be all that are released. August 30, 2008

Living in the past.

Watching these take me back to a more innocent time of tv viewing. The quality of the dvds is very good. Though the plots of each show are interchangeable, it's still fun watching the heroes use what was then "state-of-the-art" equipment to con the bad guys. And you never see people get seriously hurt. July 26, 2008

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