Good writers...... Remember, the people who wrote this show (some) were in WW2, were educated and well read. They had real world/life experience. They were trained, professional writers. Writers today are trained in how to be activists, not how to write stories. "THE MESSAGE" is the most important thing about an activist's work. Plot, character development, story telling, narrative style, dialogue are all secondary. Look at any of the new series coming out (Rings of Power for example). It's crap writing.
No offense, but why does every comment on something more than three weeks old go, “I can’t believe this ancient thing is still good”. Anything that was good in the first place holds up indefinitely.
First Season had those GREAT portfolio shots... Each member is someone. A real person, like the record store manager. I wish they did this in the whole seven seasons ... but this bit is only in the first. My man has an electronics thing going... look that’s his pamphlet. So cool.
Steven Hill's character is like a 'working man James Bond...getting paid an hourly salary'. 😂😂 no suave...no expensive suit/tuxedo...no fancy 'state of the art car' either...but he is very serious in getting the job done regardless.
Steve Hill (listed as Steven Hill) was the original star, but had to bow out, because he refused to work during the sabbath. He was a great character actor with the looks of a leading man. He often played tortured characters, such as a 1963 guest appearance on Naked City, and a supporting role in the 1986 picture, On Valentine’s Day. On Naked City, he played a man driven to be a hero, who had flunked the NYPD’s psychological exam. And so, he went around doing good deeds while impersonating a policeman. It gets him shot by a real bad guy, but he survives, and the real cops salute him. (I saw this episode about 50 years ago as a rerun, but it was that powerful.) In On Valentine’s Day, he plays a desperate, suicidal uncle of the protagonist. He’s a sympathetic character, but you see it coming, and when it comes, he breaks your heart. Many people reading this will have seen an aging, balding Hill as the original DA on Law & Order, beginning in 1991. He was excellent, though in a very limited and underwritten role. Steve Hill lived to be 94.
Just one thing to add, when he signed the contract for mission impossible he made it very very clear that he couldn't work on the Sabbath. The producers agreed but apparently didn't take him seriously, leading them to later diminish his role and then let him go. It's one thing to not support someone religious, but to actually agree to his terms and not take him seriously... Kind of disgusting.
Catch Mr. Hill's wonderful performance as the highly emotional father of a mentally challenged boy in Stanley Kramer and John Cassavete's 1963 United Artists film A Child Is Waiting. Steven's work is second to none in this provocative and poignant movie alongside the performances of Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster and Gena Rowlands.
Two things stood out for me: the vinyl records rather than the reel to reel tape later used, and Wally Cox (who played Mr. Peepers in the 1950s, was the voice of Underdog, and a regular on the Hollywood Squares) as a part of the IMF!
I was to young to remember Steven Hill when he was a young actor. I remember him from law and order and on Thirty something. The guy was an exceptional actor, one of the best!!
Yeah my experience with him was his time on Law and Order as the DA and then seeing him when he was much younger here on Mission Impossible threw me off at first but he still had the same voice.
Absolutely! I watched and loved this show when I was a little girl in the 60s, and even moreso now as a older lady in my 60s...i have the box set of all the original episodes that I binge watch sometimes 😊
Chris McWilliams ah yes, my early experiences watching the show were similar. I started watching parts of episodes of the show when I was 13. I was intrigued, but couldn't figure out what it was about. I decided to watch an entire episode from start to finish to figure this out. It was "The Heir Apparent" where they pass off Cinnamon as a princess coming back to reclaim her throne. After she got the throne and passed it to the Archbishop she and the rest of the team drove away as if to vanish into thin air. That was over 41 years ago, and from that point on I was hooked.
@@cessaly100 I was amazed because I had never seen it before and never realized not only the cast changes the show went under but WHO was on it. A young, pre beard, Sam Elliot. Lenard Nemoy (I guess straight off the end of "Star Trek"), Leslie Ann Warren (who will always be Miss Scarlett to me). I never knew these actors were on this show. I just knew the classic cast everyone tends to think of. Hell Peter Graves wasn't even in it until the second season when the original leader had to quit due to conflicts with his religion (I think he was Jewish and the filming conflicted with his religious practices).
I was surprised (having forgotten in the ensuing 53 years since this was first shown) that the instructions regarding the mission in this first episode were on an LP record instead of tape, which was the standard in later years.
"Mission:Impossible" ran for seven seasons on CBS-TV. From September 17,1966 until March 30,1973,producing 171 episodes,all in color. When this Emmy-winning series went off the air in 1973,it was basically the last of the great espionage shows that exploded all over the place during the 1960's. Steven Hill (Dan Briggs),lasted one season before actor Peter Graves(Jim Phelps) took over as head of the IMF force for the next six seasons.
It's gone through some archiving and digital restoration to eliminate jitter, judder, gate weave and scratches, as well as to adjust brightness and contrast.
Stephen Hill always looked more like a genius to me than Peter Graves. I think it's the beedy eyes and wry smile along with his tight-lipped quiet style.
Love this tv series used to watch it back when I was12 years old and I still watch it to theses days 👍👍👍They don’t make series like that no more sad Good 👍 old days
Best dressed man to emerge from a storage locker tiny house that I've seen all year. He hid the kermode, the bucket and the wash towel in the shadowed area of the home to the left of you.
These are not normal "secret agents"-- just people with certain extraordinary talents that Briggs (and later Phelps) recruited. The whole idea behind using the IMF was plausible deniability. "Hey, they don't work for the US government. Why would a supermodel and a professional impersonator be on OUR payroll?"
You could make the case for Rolland - he probably never worked acting jobs "in his own face", and both Willie and Barney did jobs that were fairly specialized, unless you were an electronics buff or a weightlifting fan. But Cinnamon? "Model of the Year"? Guys wouldn't forget her picture.
This is the first scene ever of Mission Impossible, but this has been edited. This episode, when originally presented in 1966, had no theme song. However, when Steven Hill drops the dossier of each member, the actor`s name appeared in yellow on the screen. Steven Hill`s name appeared first, at 2:49. I believe when the episodes were digitalized for syndication in the 80`s, the pilot`s beginning was edited, and an opening theme complete with episode clips, which was originally unused, was added in.
I don't think so, Richard... I visited the museum of television history in Chicago, and literally checked out the first episode and watch it in it's entirety. I recall the theme song playing from the beginning. The first episode was in black and white, by the way, not in color.
I find it surprising that the guy on this recording sounds very laid-back as opposed to the stern approach on later recordings. And the instructions here were very brief unlike the later long, drawn out ones.
I remember an episode where a gangster tried to mess up with Mr. Briggs ('The Ransom' if i'm not mistaken), but he end up being screwed big time!! Yeah, don't mess with Mr. Briggs!!!!
Briggs apparently had a falling out with the secretary of state and was back only after a long absence. I think he wanted more control over which assignments he would take. The stress of having to take missions even IMF couldn't handle, not to mention the blame, and guilt over captured or dead colleagues must have gotten to him. Even so he seems to have one foot out the door. I guess he rage quitted leaving Phelps to take over. By then, the job was easier to deal with thanks to Briggs. Phelps was also more willing to take full responsibility while the government would hide behind plausible deniability. So much depth of story telling compared to the Tom Cruise ego fest we have today. Really miss this show.😮😢
@brickmann2002 I like Peter Graves but I always perferred Steven Hill as the head of the IMF. He looked more bookish, more like someone who would put together a complex plan. I always felt that if his other famous TV character, Adam Schiff, got one of those recordings, he would probably just say "Make a deal"!!!
The audio technology was more advanced than today. Immune to hacking, impervious to electronic jamming but a bit of fluff on the needle could be a problem.
I deliberately never watched any of the new MI movies with Tom Cruise, since I got the impression pretty quick, they are mostly about the special effects and stunts, and not the tension and story intrigue.
I never saw this one. I recognize this as the (old guy without hair) from law & order. What a trip. His look back then & persona is so domestic & standard l guarantee I would've totally ignored and forgotten him as quickly as he exited the camera's lens. don't remember him at all. I only remember Peter Graves and the crew. And the little mini reel-to-reel recorder. Maybe I was too little for this one. ? I know I was just graduating from diapers when Outer Limits was on & I never saw that back then 'cause I was too little. The early-early '60s was something I missed & that used to piss me off as a kid.
You'd think, on a mission, someone would recognize one of the agents: Hey! You're Cinnamon Carter! You were "Model of the Year!" Hey! You're Rollin Hand, the famous impersonator! Hey! You're Willie Armitage, world record weight lifter!
For a while the only good shows on television besides sports was mission impossible Knight Rider and Star Trek. Oh and I won't forget airwolf and The A-Team also Magnum pi.
I loved the series because it was all about a TEAM sticking to a PLAN, unlike the one-man army Tom Cruise films which barely have any resemblance to the show.
Steven Hill gave an absolutely WOODEN performance. No wonder he was replaced after one season. The guy can act. I've seen him in other parts and he's good. I think he either got some bad advice on how to play the character or he just couldn't get it right. Anyway, Peter Graves was bloody perfect casting.
He wasn't replaced. He left on his own volition, because he did not want to work on Saturday, as he was an observant Jew. His principles were more important to him than success in his acting career.
@599ferrari Agreed. According to Wikipedia. He was relucant to get his hands dirty and was problematic. Hard to believe. He didn't look like the type. I loved Season 1 too!
That, and he was just a general pain in the ass from what Bruce Geller and several other members of the cast and crew said of him as the season progressed.
Mission Impossible (the original series, not the late 80's series) is coming to ME-TV on 11/28/2011, in some area it will start around 2:00 AM; check ME -TV's website for times in your area.
As a Gen-Xer I wasn't old enough to see this in prime time, but it was ubiquitous in syndicated reruns starting in the early 70s. I guess because he was only on the first season they didn't include any of the Steven Hill episodes in the reruns back then. It wasn't until much later, the 90s when he was on L&O, that I saw an early MI episode with him in it. Had no idea who he was! Nice to see Greg Morris was in it from the beginning, he was always great. Also as a kid, I never understood the line, "..the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions". I thought, 'Who's secretary? Who's gonna care what someone's secretary says?!' 🤣
Adoro essa maravilhosa serie quase não ha vi não passava na RBTV uma pena não passa mais não como sempre fizeram aquela genérica muito ruim e ainda tem a coragem d usar o nome dessa maravilha série d ouro essa sim faz gosto d v lá sempre completa e dublada
@Satnick2000 Steven Hill is an Orthodox Jew and stopped work after sundown. The producers replaced him with Peter Graves for Season 2 who could be around to film scenes after sundown. That was why the role of Adam Schiff on "Law & Order" was perfect for Steven Hill...making short appearances in every episode to advise the ADA's with effective quiet acting.
@@frankdenardo8684 My reply was intended to clarify the comment from artytoons, which appears to say he stopped work at sundown every day of the week. He stopped work at sundown on Friday, because that is when the Sabbath begins.
O Senhor é a minha força e o meu escudo; nele confiou o meu coração, e fui socorrido; assim o meu coração salta de prazer, e com o meu canto o louvarei. Salmos 27:8 🩶
@@Gwenesis I used to watch MI with my Dad when I was a kid sitting on his knee and I remember asking my Dad what happened to the other man - that was of course when Peter Graves took over from Steven Hill. My Dad didnt know the answer of course. Nowadays he would be able to go online to find out. :o)
@@starcruiser75r12 yep, Google it! LOL, I know what you mean. But that is no substitution for sitting on dad's knee, or in my case, sitting with mom watching with her and asking questions too. ☺
How do they pass the word on that they don't want to accept the mission? And what happens of they dont? Theyve already heard what the mission is, do they get shot and buried in a ditch somewhere?
Well, only Briggs would (or Phelps). He was the only one the government had any contact with. As to how Briggs signaled his acceptance of a given mission, maybe he lowered a windowshade at a particular hour.
That blessed nation of Saint Coast (now annexed by Twitter). This record will self-destruct as it rotates, after you smash the needle arm against it with your fists.
I can remember watching this episode on Saturday night television as a young boy. I always preferred Steven Hill's character Dan Briggs to Jim Phelps. I recently learned that Steven Hill, an Orthodox Jew, felt that M:I's production schedule interfered with his religious observance.
I guess it's a matter of taste. I think the first season was rather boring as far as missions go. The show later became more of a suspense action thriller where the cast were in life and death situations almost constantly.
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I watched this just now, and I can't get over how it is still so entertaining today. It ages gracefully.
Good writers...... Remember, the people who wrote this show (some) were in WW2, were educated and well read. They had real world/life experience. They were trained, professional writers.
Writers today are trained in how to be activists, not how to write stories. "THE MESSAGE" is the most important thing about an activist's work. Plot, character development, story telling, narrative style, dialogue are all secondary.
Look at any of the new series coming out (Rings of Power for example). It's crap writing.
No offense, but why does every comment on something more than three weeks old go, “I can’t believe this ancient thing is still good”. Anything that was good in the first place holds up indefinitely.
@@joksal9108yes, but not everything DEEMED good at first is good in the first place. Hence, how well things age.
The 1988 reboot is good, too.
First Season had those GREAT portfolio shots... Each member is someone. A real person, like the record store manager. I wish they did this in the whole seven seasons ... but this bit is only in the first. My man has an electronics thing going... look that’s his pamphlet. So cool.
Steven Hill's character is like a 'working man James Bond...getting paid an hourly salary'. 😂😂 no suave...no expensive suit/tuxedo...no fancy 'state of the art car' either...but he is very serious in getting the job done regardless.
He had an aura of gravitas that impressed me, even though I was only nine years old. So serious.
Still the best ever series, so ahead of it's time!!
Gerard Kijak "so ahead of it's time!!" Fake compliment alert!
And now, look where it’s at. Practically every film in the series is a continuation episode of the television series!
@@nstix2009xitsn Yes, folks, it is time.
If only Jack McCoy knew Adam was once a spy before becoming a DA
I can't believe how young he looks here!!!
@@kazamshah4543 same
Steve Hill (listed as Steven Hill) was the original star, but had to bow out, because he refused to work during the sabbath. He was a great character actor with the looks of a leading man. He often played tortured characters, such as a 1963 guest appearance on Naked City, and a supporting role in the 1986 picture, On Valentine’s Day.
On Naked City, he played a man driven to be a hero, who had flunked the NYPD’s psychological exam. And so, he went around doing good deeds while impersonating a policeman. It gets him shot by a real bad guy, but he survives, and the real cops salute him. (I saw this episode about 50 years ago as a rerun, but it was that powerful.)
In On Valentine’s Day, he plays a desperate, suicidal uncle of the protagonist. He’s a sympathetic character, but you see it coming, and when it comes, he breaks your heart.
Many people reading this will have seen an aging, balding Hill as the original DA on Law & Order, beginning in 1991. He was excellent, though in a very limited and underwritten role.
Steve Hill lived to be 94.
Also Stephen Hill played in The Untouchables the Tv series back in the 1960's and he played The Mobster Legs Diamond in a Episode.
Just one thing to add, when he signed the contract for mission impossible he made it very very clear that he couldn't work on the Sabbath. The producers agreed but apparently didn't take him seriously, leading them to later diminish his role and then let him go.
It's one thing to not support someone religious, but to actually agree to his terms and not take him seriously... Kind of disgusting.
@@captainamerica9353 I never heard such a thing so it would be interesting to see that documented
Catch Mr. Hill's wonderful performance as the highly emotional father of a mentally challenged boy in Stanley Kramer and John Cassavete's 1963 United Artists film A Child Is Waiting. Steven's work is second to none in this provocative and poignant movie alongside the performances of Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster and Gena Rowlands.
@@Lonette Thanks for the heads-up! I'll look for it.
RIP Steven Hill - a truly great actor
Lived to be 94, died in 2016!
Two things stood out for me: the vinyl records rather than the reel to reel tape later used, and Wally Cox (who played Mr. Peepers in the 1950s, was the voice of Underdog, and a regular on the Hollywood Squares) as a part of the IMF!
L Green He was also best friends and roommate of Marlon Brando. They are buried side by side.
I was to young to remember Steven Hill when he was a young actor. I remember him from law and order and on Thirty something. The guy was an exceptional actor, one of the best!!
Yeah my experience with him was his time on Law and Order as the DA and then seeing him when he was much younger here on Mission Impossible threw me off at first but he still had the same voice.
Also was in "The Firm" w/ Tom Cruise
RIP Steven Hill, Peter Graves, Peter Lupus, Greg Morris, Martin Landau
Peter Lupus is still alive, 88 years old..!
Genuine Stars of talent....
@@ericeric.d.8963 and I heard he is still doing weightlifting competitions at his age.
Add Tony Hamilton from the 88 version. He was great too.
Also Leonard nimoy.Nicole. peace and long life.
Rest in Peace Steven Hill. I always enjoyed the characters!
Loved this series. THIS was TV worth watching.
Absolutely! I watched and loved this show when I was a little girl in the 60s, and even moreso now as a older lady in my 60s...i have the box set of all the original episodes that I binge watch sometimes 😊
I have the entire series and the show is a hell of a lot better than the movies.
I remember watching the entire series one summer on a local independent station. Such an amazing show.
Chris McWilliams ah yes, my early experiences watching the show were similar. I started watching parts of episodes of the show when I was 13. I was intrigued, but couldn't figure out what it was about. I decided to watch an entire episode from start to finish to figure this out. It was "The Heir Apparent" where they pass off Cinnamon as a princess coming back to reclaim her throne. After she got the throne and passed it to the Archbishop she and the rest of the team drove away as if to vanish into thin air. That was over 41 years ago, and from that point on I was hooked.
Yep! I loved it as a little preteen in DC! Spellbinding!
@@cessaly100 I was amazed because I had never seen it before and never realized not only the cast changes the show went under but WHO was on it.
A young, pre beard, Sam Elliot. Lenard Nemoy (I guess straight off the end of "Star Trek"), Leslie Ann Warren (who will always be Miss Scarlett to me).
I never knew these actors were on this show. I just knew the classic cast everyone tends to think of. Hell Peter Graves wasn't even in it until the second season when the original leader had to quit due to conflicts with his religion (I think he was Jewish and the filming conflicted with his religious practices).
That is ONE thing that I miss from the movies: The Selection of the team.
But he always picked the same damn team!
@@dreamquesttv On occasion he'd pick somebody else for just the episode. Tonight's special Guest Star....
It was Lalo Schifrin's magnificent muscial underscoring of the selection segment that made it so intriguing.
The leader was also the strategist and did little grunt work.
@@shaidorsai4834also love the way he’d disregard a bunch of people who we’d never get to see in action.
I was surprised (having forgotten in the ensuing 53 years since this was first shown) that the instructions regarding the mission in this first episode were on an LP record instead of tape, which was the standard in later years.
I liked Steven Hill as Daniel Briggs. Rest In Peace.
Steven Hill was a great actor!
"Mission:Impossible" ran for seven seasons on CBS-TV.
From September 17,1966 until March 30,1973,producing 171 episodes,all in color. When this Emmy-winning series went off the air in 1973,it was basically the last of the great espionage shows that exploded all over the place during the 1960's.
Steven Hill (Dan Briggs),lasted one season before actor
Peter Graves(Jim Phelps) took over as head of the IMF force for the next six seasons.
And this series only got its chance because, like with Star Trek, Lucille Ball ignored the concerns of her board and advisors to give it one.
R.I.P. Martin Landu (1928-2017).
I miss steven hill!!! Season 1 episodes always get me of my chair!!
Best serie, I like all the actors, their play is juste.The intro is so good
I just loved Steven Hill
Happy Birthday to the late Francis Gregory Alan Morris aka Barney Collier.9-27-33.Cleveland.
If TV was this good nowadays - I'd buy a TV !
Wow....this is an old film, but the picture is very clear.
It's gone through some archiving and digital restoration to eliminate jitter, judder, gate weave and scratches, as well as to adjust brightness and contrast.
Stephen Hill always looked more like a genius to me than Peter Graves. I think it's the beedy eyes and wry smile along with his tight-lipped quiet style.
Peter Graves was a brain. Hill seemed more like a brute. I'd be afraid of Jim Phelps, a lot more than Dan Briggs, if I was a foreign national.
The intensity. So damn serious. I like that.
Love this tv series used to watch it back when I was12 years old and I still watch it to theses days 👍👍👍They don’t make series like that no more sad Good 👍 old days
RIP Martin landau
Cool scene. A great 📺 show. Mission Impossible was awesome. Thank you for the video. 🖖
The cool thing about this series was that you had to watch it. Unlike a lot of tv, it wasn’t just a radio script with pictures.
The pilot episode was filmed in December 1965, and first shown on September 17, 1966.
Great video. It's a piece of television history!
I love Briggs 😂
Best dressed man to emerge from a storage locker tiny house that I've seen all year. He hid the kermode, the bucket and the wash towel in the shadowed area of the home to the left of you.
I like how secret agents who are celebrities and world famous supermodels have their faces on the front page of magazines
These are not normal "secret agents"-- just people with certain extraordinary talents that Briggs (and later Phelps) recruited. The whole idea behind using the IMF was plausible deniability. "Hey, they don't work for the US government. Why would a supermodel and a professional impersonator be on OUR payroll?"
You could make the case for Rolland - he probably never worked acting jobs "in his own face", and both Willie and Barney did jobs that were fairly specialized, unless you were an electronics buff or a weightlifting fan.
But Cinnamon? "Model of the Year"?
Guys wouldn't forget her picture.
@@kenle2 well, there was an episode where Rollin was on a magazine cover. Rollin Hand, Man of a Million Faces
How it all began.
That intro was just timeless.
This is the first scene ever of Mission Impossible, but this has been edited.
This episode, when originally presented in 1966, had no theme song.
However, when Steven Hill drops the dossier of each member, the actor`s name appeared in yellow on the screen.
Steven Hill`s name appeared first, at 2:49.
I believe when the episodes were digitalized for syndication in the 80`s, the pilot`s beginning was edited, and an opening theme complete with episode clips, which was originally unused, was added in.
I don't think so, Richard... I visited the museum of television history in Chicago, and literally checked out the first episode and watch it in it's entirety. I recall the theme song playing from the beginning.
The first episode was in black and white, by the way, not in color.
There will be a marathon of Mission Impossible on 1/14/16 on Decades TV network, starting at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time and we don't even need cable.
For a show that is over 50 years old, it holds up.
I find it surprising that the guy on this recording sounds very laid-back as opposed to the stern approach on later recordings. And the instructions here were very brief unlike the later long, drawn out ones.
The voice on the recording sounds a bit like Peter Graves.
It's so great to see that the first Mission Impossible had more concerns about the environment with recording set to decompose instead of destruct.
Good point
I remember an episode where a gangster tried to mess up with Mr. Briggs ('The Ransom' if i'm not mistaken), but he end up being screwed big time!! Yeah, don't mess with Mr. Briggs!!!!
Briggs apparently had a falling out with the secretary of state and was back only after a long absence. I think he wanted more control over which assignments he would take. The stress of having to take missions even IMF couldn't handle, not to mention the blame, and guilt over captured or dead colleagues must have gotten to him. Even so he seems to have one foot out the door. I guess he rage quitted leaving Phelps to take over. By then, the job was easier to deal with thanks to Briggs. Phelps was also more willing to take full responsibility while the government would hide behind plausible deniability.
So much depth of story telling compared to the Tom Cruise ego fest we have today. Really miss this show.😮😢
The selection of mission members took up screen time. Glad they dropped it.
RIP...Steven Hill
It was a shame that they stopped the portfolio selection, and that it was aways the same ones selected. That was one of the best parts
@brickmann2002 I like Peter Graves but I always perferred Steven Hill as the head of the IMF. He looked more bookish, more like someone who would put together a complex plan. I always felt that if his other famous TV character, Adam Schiff, got one of those recordings, he would probably just say "Make a deal"!!!
@ZoneFighter1
Then you would think they'd have know that being orthodox he wouldnt work after sunset and had to replace him
Hi, my favorite TV. program.
I’d forgotten that before there was Mr Phelps there was Dan Briggs. I was in high school then and my parents and I never missed M:I!
RIP Martin Landau
The audio technology was more advanced than today. Immune to hacking, impervious to electronic jamming but a bit of fluff on the needle could be a problem.
Greatest TV theme song
I deliberately never watched any of the new MI movies with Tom Cruise, since I got the impression pretty quick, they are mostly about the special effects and stunts, and not the tension and story intrigue.
I never saw this one. I recognize this as the (old guy without hair) from law & order. What a trip. His look back then & persona is so domestic & standard l guarantee I would've totally ignored and forgotten him as quickly as he exited the camera's lens. don't remember him at all. I only remember Peter Graves and the crew. And the little mini reel-to-reel recorder. Maybe I was too little for this one. ? I know I was just graduating from diapers when Outer Limits was on & I never saw that back then 'cause I was too little. The early-early '60s was something I missed & that used to piss me off as a kid.
You'd think, on a mission, someone would recognize one of the agents:
Hey! You're Cinnamon Carter! You were "Model of the Year!"
Hey! You're Rollin Hand, the famous impersonator!
Hey! You're Willie Armitage, world record weight lifter!
James Funk Not really, the archived photos were camouflaged with the agents characterized in different occupations, since the archive was also secret.
The identities were unknown because they didn't like smart phones and social media apps.
@@ReR7474 Their identities were unknown because they didn't have smartphones and apps back in the 60's and 70's.
Rollin won't be a problem in this episode as the dictator looks just as him XD
@@jeffreyweaver9854 sArCaSm!
For a while the only good shows on television besides sports was mission impossible Knight Rider and Star Trek. Oh and I won't forget airwolf and The A-Team also Magnum pi.
Happy 94th Birthday, Steven Hill!
Dug that show, always watched it.
The first three seasons are my favorite. Once Barbara and Martin left it wasn’t the same. 😢
I would like to see full episodes of mission impossible on CZcams videos. if we could.
I love the apartment
good to see this classic any more
FEBRUARY 2021 STILL TUBE WITH THIS GUYS. I KISS THIS CLASSIC SERIES.
I loved the series because it was all about a TEAM sticking to a PLAN, unlike the one-man army Tom Cruise films which barely have any resemblance to the show.
Steven Hill gave an absolutely WOODEN performance. No wonder he was replaced after one season. The guy can act. I've seen him in other parts and he's good. I think he either got some bad advice on how to play the character or he just couldn't get it right. Anyway, Peter Graves was bloody perfect casting.
He wasn't replaced. He left on his own volition, because he did not want to work on Saturday, as he was an observant Jew. His principles were more important to him than success in his acting career.
@@jlmurrel No sale.
@@jlmurrel His religion also prevented him from working after sunset which put a big strain on the production.
Never saw the pilot. Interesting!
Goegeous Cimamon Carter especially in her knit outfits. A most heavy and seductive smoker; sexy smoker's voice too!
@599ferrari Agreed. According to Wikipedia. He was relucant to get his hands dirty and was problematic. Hard to believe. He didn't look like the type. I loved Season 1 too!
That, and he was just a general pain in the ass from what Bruce Geller and several other members of the cast and crew said of him as the season progressed.
Mission Impossible (the original series, not the late 80's series) is coming to ME-TV on 11/28/2011, in some area it will start around 2:00 AM; check ME -TV's website for times in your area.
Still on METV in 2023! Mondays at 3am Eastern
As a Gen-Xer I wasn't old enough to see this in prime time, but it was ubiquitous in syndicated reruns starting in the early 70s.
I guess because he was only on the first season they didn't include any of the Steven Hill episodes in the reruns back then. It wasn't until much later, the 90s when he was on L&O, that I saw an early MI episode with him in it. Had no idea who he was!
Nice to see Greg Morris was in it from the beginning, he was always great.
Also as a kid, I never understood the line, "..the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions". I thought, 'Who's secretary? Who's gonna care what someone's secretary says?!' 🤣
I remember Dan Briggs. Must be a sign of my age.
RIP Messrs. Hill, Graves, Landau and Morris.
Man of a million faces, that's must be ethan hunt 😂
Adoro essa maravilhosa serie quase não ha vi não passava na RBTV uma pena não passa mais não como sempre fizeram aquela genérica muito ruim e ainda tem a coragem d usar o nome dessa maravilha série d ouro essa sim faz gosto d v lá sempre completa e dublada
Finally the actual beginning of the original group headed by Steven Hill, Peter Graves came along later, good but later…
@Satnick2000
Steven Hill is an Orthodox Jew and stopped work after sundown. The producers replaced him with Peter Graves for Season 2 who could be around to film scenes after sundown.
That was why the role of Adam Schiff on "Law & Order" was perfect for Steven Hill...making short appearances in every episode to advise the ADA's with effective quiet acting.
He stopped work at sundown on Friday.
@@jamesfunk7614 Friday is the Sabbath.
@RitterVonBek68 He later played District Attorney Adam Schiff in The original Law & Order TV show.
@@frankdenardo8684 My reply was intended to clarify the comment from artytoons, which appears to say he stopped work at sundown every day of the week. He stopped work at sundown on Friday, because that is when the Sabbath begins.
A forever classic
O Senhor é a minha força e o meu escudo; nele confiou o meu coração, e fui socorrido; assim o meu coração salta de prazer, e com o meu canto o louvarei.
Salmos 27:8 🩶
Mr. Hill gave off a more ruthless vibe as the team leader than Peter Graves (good though the later was).
1958Shemp that's a good point. Dan was an angry, confrontational tough guy. Jim was a smooth, charming con man with the gift of gab.
Jim Phelps MIGHT shoot you. Dan Briggs WOULD shoot you.
I never knew Stephen Hill was the 1st one. Now I need to watch the pilot and the seasons he played in.
@@Gwenesis I used to watch MI with my Dad when I was a kid sitting on his knee and I remember asking my Dad what happened to the other man - that was of course when Peter Graves took over from Steven Hill. My Dad didnt know the answer of course. Nowadays he would be able to go online to find out. :o)
@@starcruiser75r12 yep, Google it! LOL, I know what you mean. But that is no substitution for sitting on dad's knee, or in my case, sitting with mom watching with her and asking questions too. ☺
Steven Hill! He'll forever be Adam Schiff from Law & Order, to me.
this series was ahead of its time , a lot better than the garbage thats on tv today
I have always liked this Mission Impossible better not the stubbed Tom Cruise Mission Impossible.
Which is one unfunny joke
The Record LP Forgot to Say " Good Luck Dan" (smile)
The music was very simple, drums and symbol
Wonderful technology!! ;-)
...hell with Tom Swift...Cruise...these guys were the best...
Is that a record player ? Always wondered what one of those looked like !
(Joking)
Shalom, Steven Hill!
How do they pass the word on that they don't want to accept the mission? And what happens of they dont? Theyve already heard what the mission is, do they get shot and buried in a ditch somewhere?
Well, only Briggs would (or Phelps). He was the only one the government had any contact with. As to how Briggs signaled his acceptance of a given mission, maybe he lowered a windowshade at a particular hour.
Collier Electronics! Who knew Barney was this super successful businessman?
Dale Pidcoe DuBoistown, Pa.
Will there ever be a second "Mission: Impossible" tv show reboot on ABC on September 2023? 🎉😮😊❤❤❤
The reboot if any will be on CBS only
That blessed nation of Saint Coast (now annexed by Twitter). This record will self-destruct as it rotates, after you smash the needle arm against it with your fists.
Peter Graves was #1 in these Series🇺🇸👍
rip peter graves
The Original Jim Phelps from Law&Order
I didn't realise the first series didn't have the same cast as subsequent series.
Live and learn...😮
I can remember watching this episode on Saturday night television as a young boy. I always preferred Steven Hill's character Dan Briggs to Jim Phelps. I recently learned that Steven Hill, an Orthodox Jew, felt that M:I's production schedule interfered with his religious observance.
“Please dispose of this message in the usual manner.”
I prefer Steven Hill in the role of MI leader rather Peter Graves.
I guess it's a matter of taste. I think the first season was rather boring as far as missions go. The show later became more of a suspense action thriller where the cast were in life and death situations almost constantly.