Original Mission Impossible TV Series - Mini-Documentary - 2012
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- Great clips interspersed with interviews. Peter Graves, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain discuss heavily accented villains, technological gimmicks, LA filming locations, and the cast's camaraderie. The series premiered 50 years ago this month.
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Hands down, this was the best series in the 60's. And to this day, the episodes are as fresh as ever! Plus, Lalo Schifrin's score and theme stills holds up today 2021
Every episode = Gaslight. Giggles 😎
Lalo was a beast!!!!!!!!!!!
Possibly the best series ever
The legendary TV series "Mission Impossible" will never perish forever unless the WOKE leftist Hollywood and the growing draconian US government will ban, censor, or erase this TV series in the future.
SORRY I DEBATED THIS FOR SO MANY YEARS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF IT WAS THE BEST SERIES EVER AND I FINALLY HAD TO PUT IT AT NUMBER TWO BEHIND HAWAII FIVE-O AND ONLY FOR ONE REASON AND IT'S THE REASON THAT WAS SET IN THE DOCUMENTARY THERE WAS ZERO HUMOR THAT WAS THE DIVIDING LINE , HAWAII FIVE-O PASSED IT WITH THE HUMOR WHICH GAVE IT A FULLY COMPREHENSIVE ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTATION
This show is in the top 5 of all-time best TV shows. It was way ahead of its time. Terrific cast, wonderful characters, tight written scripts. Television will never again b like this. And that's sad.
A place where Every episode = Gaslight. Giggles 😎
One of the best shows. Anywhere. Ever.
My sentiments entirely!
Alot of the shows from the 1960's were the best! Mission Impossible, The Man From Uncle, Star Trek and so many more.
Totally agree 👌👍👍👍
I wholeheartedly agree 4 years later.
Number one Hawaii Five-0 number 2 mission impossible number 3 Twilight zone
Yes one of the best TV series WOW Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, Peter Graves, Greg Morris wow they were amazing together as well!
Yes.yes!!!
You forgot Peter Lupus . . .
The show did something unique and quite ahead of the times. They incorporated the Art of anticipation and psychology and it worked perfectly!
What really made it work was the realism of actors playing actors. Everyone on the team was a con man manipulating the perceptions of a specially selected audience. A dream job for actors!
Great observation! More recently Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell said it was a dream job for them playing KGB spies/ con artists with multiple personas in FX's series "The Americans."
R.I.P Martin Landau and Peter Graves i still love there show on DVD 😎✌🏻😍
- and RIP Greg Morris and Steven Hill.
Actress Barbara Bain who is still alive demonstrated excellence in her role and also being the only woman she held it down for the women.
She wasn't representing the women she was representing herself each person has to make their own way and if you want to prove something to somebody you do something yourself don't look for others to do it for you
my favorite tv show of all time. fast-paced, intricately plotted, first rate acting, always fun to watch how the mission unfolded each week. I loved the way the characters were like a family, but the show never allowed itself to get bogged down in sentiment. And the music was simply the best bar none
Debated if it was the best and favorite it lost out by one position to Hawaii Five-0 which had great music and humor which made it past mission impossible by one point
@@Iambriangregory No way Jose. Mission Impossible is the best TV series of all time. Followed by Columbo.
@@rafanifischer3152 now hold on now, you have very very good taste, but for you to really convince me to change my mind you would have to give me the criteria that you're viewing a great TV show as I have a criteria and even though you don't need one it helps to analyze anything, my criteria is plot number One ,number two good acting, number 3 actions scenes and 4 humor ..even in a drama you can have humor (THINK HAWAII FIVE-O AND YOUR CHOICE COLUMBO) think of it this way if you had an ice cream sundae what would you rate better one that had three toppings or four toppings? Normally you'll be the one that has four toppings for the same price and if a piece of entertainment can give you more dimensions I think it deserves a higher rating I fought over this choice mission impossible for my number one show for years but after seeing Hawaii five-o's plots scenery and the fact they have the element of humor in their drama I had to give it a slight edge it might be a 10 versus a 9.9 or 9.8 that's how close it is to(NOW TO SAY SOMETHING HYPOCRITICAL MAYBE THIS WAS CIRCUMSTANTIAL BUT MISSION IMPOSSIBLE IS THE ONLY SHOW THAT I STOPPED WHAT EVER I WAS DOING WHEN IT CAME ON RERUNS TO WATCH IT ,SO THAT DOES TELL YOU SOMETHING THERE ABOUT HOW HIGHLY I RATE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE) now what's your criteria or is it just your feeling?
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@@rafanifischer3152Nah, Columbo was the greatest show ever!!!
Martin Landau was a great actor our condolences and Prayers are with his family. Great Actors gone but never forgotten. Mr.Greg Morris, Mr.Peter Graves, Mr.Leonard Nimoy , Mr.Steven Hill and Mr. Martin Landau Thank you for your wonderful performance on Mission Impossible. May you all rest in peace.
I could be wrong but, I think Peter Graves was the younger brother to James Arness of "Gunsmoke" fame.
Lesley is still with us, & maybe Peter Lupus. Sad his name sounds like a devastating disease.
Johnnyc drums you're correct
Also RIP Bruce Geller the creator/executive producer of Mission Impossible & Bob Johnson the voice behind the recordings for IMF missions.
Yah but Robert Wagner would been ideal for the part that Greg Morris played. Mission Impossible would have been a way better T.V. Show.
As a huge fan of the show,I wanna to thank you for posting this video,I was really REALLY angry when CBS didnt do anything for the 50 Anniversary,I want it at least an 1 hour long documentary or something.But Im glad to see that we fans remember the show and honored every day.
I don't know why they just let the anniversary pass by either. Thanks for your message.
I think CBS figured people would be more interested in Star Trek's 50th anniversary than Mission Impossible. Both these shows brought out same year only 2 weeks apart and while Star Trek didn't last as long as Mission Impossible did in the original run (3 seasons vs 7), Star Trek has had more TV shows and movies remakes since the original run.
That said, I'm a fan. My first go of Mission Impossible was the 1980s remake. I now own all 7 original seasons, the 2 season 1980s remake, and all 6 movies of Mission Impossible. When I finally saw the original show, I kind of did a double take seeing Martin Landau and Barbara Bain in it as the only thing I had seen both in was Space 1999.
The original series was the best. My dad and I always watched it together.
As a young man in my thirties and aspiring actor i love this show and Tom cruises movies. R.I.P. Landau
@Dan Cooper asshole
@Dan Cooper you have no videos so SHUT THE FUCK UP
My favorite episode was Old Man Out. Rollin was so gentle with the old man they rescued from prison. Also when Rollin was taken to the gas chamber and puts on quite an emotional act.
Great piece. Interesting that Peter Graves remembers the "Nicole" episode with Joan Collins as her being a princess in need of rescue when she was actually a double-agent spy.
I was in love with Martin Landau. I got to meet him in 1988!
MY favorite show!!!...
I used to watch this with my dad in the early 60s...I was 3-4 yrs old.
Dad died 67... I'm 62....still watching💞💞💞
Fantastic having the great cast of actors commenting on their special show, as I too watched as a kid in 1960s, indeed full of anticipation each week!!! Still one of the best T V shows to date after all these decades!!! Basis for movies as well!
RIP all involved that have passed & thank you for doing this recap of insights whilst doing the show after all these years! Bravo & Cheers!!
I loved seeing how they did things, it was such a clever show but especially clever from a technical gadget point of view. The things they used to achieve and it always kept you wondering how they would do something and when they did it was amazing.
With the inflation of action shows over the last decades it may be less obvious but in the early seventies when I was just old enough to watch the early reruns, this was still breathtakingly cool and far ahead of everything else.
Compared to the overly bombastic Tom Cruise movies, the old series reminds me of the old Jaguar slogan: "grace, pace and value for money".
I won't even watch a Tom Cruise mission impossible movie it's a fraudulent title to think it's even close to TV show
A terrific series. Great acting, great story lines.
I wish I could have Peter Graves' voice.....wow....
his silver hair was unforgettable.
there are so many things about this show that I admired, especially the fact that every week they managed to come up with something that kept you glued to the tv for a full hour. The creative energy was amazing. Everything in it is an action cliche today because they have been copied to death but back then it was all brand new. How they set up their marks to the point where they were nearly always killed in the end while never really knowing why is kind of disturbing now but great fun at the time.
Every episode = Gaslight. Giggles 😎
This interview is a masterpiece
these guys and the show transcends perfection. I never missed an episode as a child. I later mixed all my dreams together as a soldier, spy and cop. wouldn't change it for the world.
Having watched the entire show on DVD, it's my feeling that the secret was magic. Which means that each episode involved the team constructing an elaborate magic trick, an illusion. Fascinating.
Wrong even the documentary they didn't say that putting on a nurse's uniform is not magic they were expert on documentation forgeries and looking the part with clothes that's not magic that's intrigue and cleverness get your word straight
The class, dignity and couth of this series is sorely missed and we'll appreciated. May God bless the cast and creators of this wonderful series.
"We liked each other as actors, too."
Just great! A flood of fond memories. This series was the absolute top thing of the week in my childhood.
I like when Martin Landau says in the end , " I always wanted to take a mask off and have the same face underneath" .
I bought the DVD box set a few years ago, and I dip in and out of it, and will continue to for years to come. What a show!!!!
If not the best tv series ever its in the top 5,fantastic story lines and acting and taking into account its what 50 years old even more outstanding,nothing in modern times compares and for me to have all the box sets it must be great as only series I can say that about.
Mission and The Twilight Zone were the best of their time.
It's number two after Hawaii Five-O by the admission of the documentary itself it had no humor Hawaii Five-O gave you everything and mission impossible had plus humor
@@deckofcards87 the y50 was number one mission two twilight 3 based on the document itself that's admission had no humor and that's what Hawaii Five-O had made to make it pass it
Mission Impossible is a dedicated channel on Pluto Tv, it’s free and 24/7
A place where Every episode = Gaslight. Giggles 😎
One of my fav shows of all time!
LOVED, this show!
Me too.
My dad too
Everything was shot on a movie lot.... who knew😂😅😂???? i was an addict to this show. I STILL love it, secrets or not.
this was a great great t.v. show and i love when they show marathons of it i miss it when it is not on .
I always got a kick out of the Mission Impossible Television Sitcom aired as reruns when I was in High School. This was a very innovative way to make changes is the field when needing to. It was always exciting.
We always giggled about the fact that the plot to every episode was some kind of Gaslight operation. Giggles 😎
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.
The best of the best. All members of the cast of this series, and all those associated with its production, in particular Bruce Geller, are simply legends. So straight forward in many ways but brilliant sophistication, gadgets, intellegence, planning, high risk, suspense, handsome men, beautiful women, and great story lines/plots mixed with remarkable acting performances. So wonderful and completely brilliant, it has not been bettered to this day, and I still savour every single episode. What has happened to this level of writing, acting, and story line today? So much over complication in plots and gadgets, long drawn out wishy washy performances, and reliance on stunts. Peter Graves was correct, this show was about planned clever manipulation of everything to achieve the objective, and that was the essence of the series brilliance. It was down to earth and not about long winded performances, stunts, and over complicated gadgetry, but on everything that could be believed by the audience, and about using brain power to solve an issue. The story line is kept simple, but that is key to hooking in the audiences interest from the outset. All great series do this. Bruce had got that down to perfection, and Barbara Bain was right, all the cast were in good hands with Bruce. Mission Impossible shows that the combination of exceptional writing and cast chemistry combined with superb acting works. All the different characters must have been an actors dream come true for the cast, as Martin Landau confirms. God bless Lucille Ball of Desilu for giving the green light to this project. She made a very good choice, and created a legendary series, not to mention Star Trek too.
I take it you're a huge fan!
She also had a hand in the beginnings of "Mannix," before she sold Desilu to Gulf + Western.
The first 3 seasons are the best ever. EP3 Operation Rogosh was the one that really pulled me in. Landua, Graves, Bain, Morris ...an irreplaceable cast!
That was excellent
Barbara Bain was hot...and still is.
her and Diana Rigg, the 2 hottest women on tv in the 60's. Different styles, same results.
Cinnamon Carter.
This was awesome thanks for posting it some many childhood memories are flooding back of this show.
Great Documentary to one of my fav shows of all time, thanks for sharing!
Mine too. You're most welcome Funky Muppet!
Martin Landau and Leonard Nimoy are my favourites of all the regular cast :) The beat episodes in my opinion are from 1966 to about 1971.
Quite true. Landau's Rollin Hand made the series and when he left Leonard Nimoy's Paris filled the gap. Perhaps not as well, but still a fine character.
The cast and crew did a first rate Job of what a team fighting for honor and freedom like
007 -
Thanks for posting for they did a first rate job.
I'm currently rewatching the original series. Peter Graves was with the series for so long as the mission coordinator that many people seem to have forgotten Steven Hill's assocation with the show--and that he was the original "leader" of the missions. I have to say that I preferred his character's leadership style to that of that of Peter Graves, whose character usually seemed to want to make it clear that HE was in charge and everyone else was subordinate to him.
Steve Hill's episodes are often forgotten, but they contain the classic threat line when Dan Briggs threatens villain Egan, played by William Smithers. Nothing else compares in later series for sheer menace.
As you may or may not know, Stevens Departure from the show was due to the shows being taped on Saturdays which, being of Jewish ethnicity, conflicted with his Sabbath observance which was non negotiable with him.
they had different styles. Dan Brigg's plans were less elaborate and more prone to possible failure and he didn't mind killing people, including small fry - a no-no to a true con. However, he was always straight with his team and was not shy in telling them all that they COULD die.
I do believe that Dan Briggs was the only IMF leader because every plan is not perfect and his strength was to elaborate an other solution to the problem. And he is so charismatic. What a shame that producers fired him because of his religious beliefs
That was a wonderful vid!!! *Thank you for posting it!* (7 Years Ago!!!)
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. That was a nice firm, but soothing voice that really caught my attention.
RIP Martin Landau
If I'm not mistaken Mr Landau used to appear in the TV series Space 1999,which was one of my favorites
Anna Camilleri yes he did alongside his wife Barbara Bain, I remember this because I was in second grade at the time
@@dharrell2000 - The last project where they appeared together was the misbegotten "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island." Landau would regain his mojo somewhat - culminating in his 1994 Oscar best supporting actor win as Bela Lugosi in "Ed Wood" - but Ms. Bain's career was more or less hampered after they left "M:I," and she largely did stage work in the subsequent years.
Starting at 3:40 we see a limo pull up to a mansion. Its the Barkley Manor exterior set from The Big Valley.
I'm going to be posting some episode reviews/top 10 lists of the show starting soon. This show, while not meant to be taken too seriously, is still massively underrated.
4:15 - punch-card reader going nuts and the smoke coming out of the computer (tape drives) in the background: "this computer will self destruct in five seconds...."
I adored this series. It was terrific!
For the 1960s - a pretty advanced show for its time. The music, scriptwriting, acting, and the unconventional special effects.
This show was ground breaking. It was an exciting improvement over "Man From Uncle" which was pretty successful itself.
And Get Smart too.
Ground breaking???
Landau was the star of a very good show - shame he left after series 3
Loved how they never actually laid out the plan in detail, so you had to figure a bit what was going to happen
a big part of the show's genius and timelessness.
TV greats that will forever remain in our memories that starred in one of the greatest, if not the greatest television series
One of my mom's favorite shows, she always enjoyed how clever the IMF were.
that was great!! thanks!! my favorite show of all time!!
Man said they never left Los Angeles! You had my 11-year-old brain totally fooled!
awesome thanks for sharing
I loved her on the episode of scarecrow and Mrs king the khusavi list loved this show especially the first three seasons.may all the ones who passed away may they rest in eternal peace.
I was 10 when it started and my dad let me stay up on Sunday night to watch it too. It was a Big Deal.
Now 50+ years later it's still one of my favorites. MI, Columbo, MASH, Carol Burnett Show and The West Wing are my all time top 5.
every grade school kid (like me) was pissed that their parents made them go to bed at 10pm Sunday nite when it came on until it moved back to early Saturday nite. Luckily I was able to watch their tv in secret from my bedroom!
@@MrEab2010 It reminds me of a time when my dad and I were picking up my mom from work at a drugstore - she was running late - so we picked up a Mad Magazine from the rack to look at while we waited. That issue had a spoof of Mission Impossible. (A show knew it made it when Mad Mg. did a spoof of it...). We sat there and laughed with tears running down it was so funny. I'd love to see it again. I just remember the first scene: Jim is going to get the tape to hear the mission... It's in a pop machine. Looking down the pop machine options you see: "Cola" - "Diet Cola" - "Root Beer" - "Orange" - "Mission Impossible Tape"... It went on from there.
@@atlantistdc1976 I remember it. It was 1970 and the person who wrote it was a very young Chevy Chase. Interesting back story behind how he came to write it, you can probably google both. The opening tape recorder scene and picking the team are probably the most lampooned in tv history. And who hasn't pretended to do both with friends as well as do Martin Landau's legendary pulling the face mask off move? ;D
@@MrEab2010 The Chevy Chase spoof was a 1-page lampoon that was hilarious. The one I'm referring to was different. It was a full on spoof. I think I have a link here: spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupParodies.aspx?id=25
@@atlantistdc1976 you found it! I will enjoy re-reading it after all these many years.
I was 7 years old when the show aired in 1966 but i became a fan of the show in the early 1970s. ( *IMF* )
Great to see this - thanks for sharing!
It was a bit of a shame when Martin Landau left "Mission Impossible." He played such an array of characters, as did his successor Leonard Nimoy. The years 1966 to about 1970 produced the best episodes.
And when Mr. Landau left, so did Ms. Bain. The show was never the same after both left.
As for her Cinnamon Carter character - given her backstory, was the character at least loosely based on Candy Jones? (If one saw her bio.)
Hands down one of the greatest shows in television history. Historical fact the united states central intelligence agency has gotten a lot of great ideas from this show.
M:I was the inspiration for the Watergate break-in and the Church Committee investigations into CIA abuses in the 1970's. I always imagine Jim Phelps being called before the committee.
This is great!
My mission, tonight, should I choose to accept, is to do my laundry.
Got to get the complete series...I'm ready to watch them again..:)..The memories!!
Every episode = Gaslight. Giggles 😎
The desert scene (Mexico) had Michael Pate, an Australian as the Mexican cop....
I remember my Dad watching it and he was into it big time and here in Canada Québec played dubbed in french
Mission Impossible was a Fascinating Show.
One of the greatest TV shows ever.
Watched a few episodes on Mobdro, now, I am a big fan!
It would be interesting to be able to see that 1968 series of Mission Impossible again, make the effort and show it again. You would have a lot of audience, thank you.
Opinião democrática!!!
Adorava a série Missão Impossível. Ñ perdia um episódio. Abraços a todos
When the first Tom Cruise MI made agent Phelps the bad guy, I walked out.
Have him being framed by a supervillain... sure. But Jim Phelps would NEVER have betrayed his team.
It's why Peter Graves turned down the roll in the movie and was played by Jon Voight instead.
It dishonored the character and I have a hard time getting over that as canon with the new MI films.
IIRC Morris didn't know and straight up left the premiere after the reveal
Well said. I felt the same way and always suggested to friends who just loved those Tom Cruise movies that they should have called them "Tom Cruise Impossible". Did you ever see the 1988 reboot that starred a very aged Peter Greaves? Campy and below average acting, weaker stories but it was still more faithful to the original and even had Greg Morris make two guest appearances and his real life son, Phil Morris, also played his son on the Tv show.
Me, too. I haven't watched one since.
For Tom Cruise MI films you better start with MI2, though it is the worst in movie franchise at least it doesn't have the original(TV) characters as villain
Ryan Hill Lynda Day George also appeared in the reboot series portraying her Casey character
"I always wanted to take the mask off and have the same face underneath." ROFLMAO
Love Martin Landau. My very first crush as a little girl. I thought Rollin was the most beautiful and fascinating man I'd ever see. That five year old's impression may not have been wrong.
Martin was great in Columbo Double Shock too.
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pretending to pull a mask off your face like Martin Landau was a national sensation back then and for a long time after. Today some people still do that when they want to indicate that someone is two-faced or a liar.
Me, too 🧡 I met him in 1988!
Very nice documentary !!!
I fucking love this show! I watch at least a couple episodes every night.
i have every episode available, by far thee best show in that genre, still cant get enough, id love to hear or see about a remake of this series. so in love with it. anyone know if there is any gag reels to find?
No one will replace the original cast.
For me that's why the remake didn't work, not the fault of the new group. just wasn't the same.
Mark Fielding--what are your favorite episodes? How about that ones that really were not favs? I am enjoying Season 4 now on DVD.
Trouble is though Mark Fielding if this great series was to be recreated nowadays it would be spoiled by all the fake digital crap that most films etc are done...loved the story lines and the acting of the era...brilliant!
Greg morris was great actor.
Love that show
Shatner, you have quite a varied repertoire.
This MI vid was really cool. I'm sure I'll find some other stuff that you've done very interesting.
My favorite all-time TV show...much better than the MI movies. I own the entire series on DVD and just finished rewatching.
*This was the first public introduction to what we now call Social Engineering.*
Still watching in 2021 I love this show. !!! I watch it all day long on Pluto. I’m sure I have watched every episode by now😁 I rather watch this than anything else on television.
other than the news I just watch old episodes of M:I on PlutoTV, it's the only thing I can still stomach on the idiot box. The series is timeless.
Thought I was the only crazy watching MI all day. It's on my ROKU 95% of the time. Never get tired of it. I need therapy. Sorry not Sorry! 😂😂😂
@@paulastokes4803 I'd love to see an M:I prequel series or one that explains what happened to them post-Watergate with the Church Committee revelations. Jim Phelps before a Senate committee!
great show...
:-O Commander Koenig and Dr Helena Russel? oh my gosh :)
Wonder if part of Landau's "Space: 1999" character's name was an homage to the original "Star Trek's" Walter Koenig?
Please upload full episodes
It's on Pluto tv RIP PETER Graves Martin Landau Gregg Morris Steven Hill
Jadi kangen masa lalu. Sekarang lagi nonton tv. MI Fall out..kangen music nya..Film tahun berapa yea aq lupa aq masih kecil jaman ini
Your children must watch this.
Amazing to know that for all the "countries" the IMF "visited", in reality they never even left the Los Angeles city limits !!!!!
The best best show!!
Tom Cruise didn't have the guts to do a true remake.
He doesn't have the talent. Can't stand his MI 🎥s.
@@MightyMoCat I've seen his other roles when he was really acting. He could have done it if he wasn't so self absorbed. He actually auditions his new girlfriends. Can you imagine that crap?
Greg Morris hated the first movie, walked out.
Beliau walau udah tua karisma masih tetap kelihatan.Saya kecil suka sekali nonton film IMF yg luar biasa hebatnya akting beliau2.👍👍👍🤩