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I'm going to order Season 4 soon and I noticed Leonard Nimoy on the cover. Please, please don't tell me that Season 3 is Landau and Bain's last season? Please say it isn't true.
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I'm going to order Season 4 soon and I noticed Leonard Nimoy on the cover. Please, please don't tell me that Season 3 is Landau and Bain's last season? Please say it isn't true.
The Secretary got rid of these two agents because they asked too much money.
Paris (Nimoy) was free so they hired him as a replacement.
Don't worry season 4 is good enough and you won't be disappointed.
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I'm going to order Season 4 soon and I noticed Leonard Nimoy on the cover. Please, please don't tell me that Season 3 is Landau and Bain's last season? Please say it isn't true.
The Secretary got rid of these two agents because they asked too much money.
Paris (Nimoy) was free so they hired him as a replacement.
Don't worry season 4 is good enough and you won't be disappointed.
Damn. I only have 9 episodes left of season 3, then no more Rollin and no more Cinnamon. I'm depressed. But I'll get over it eventually. 
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Strange to think that Mr. Graves died this weekend probably within minutes or hours of when I had just watched a couple episodes of Mission: Impossible. Also, I watched THEM! on TCM this weekend, and not having seen a lot of James Arness, I was struck by how similar their voices were, something I hadn't noticed before.
Clearly, Mr. Phelps has decided to accept a new unearthly mission. All the best...
And to OUR Mr. Phelps, I saw you in another recent thread. About time you came back here! Your absence was noticed by a few of us.
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A guilty pleasure of mine is the wholesome family show called 7th Heaven. Graves was wonderful on it as "The Colonel", the grandfather of the clan. If I didn't know better, I'd swear he really was Stephen Collins' father!
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A guilty pleasure of mine is the wholesome family show called 7th Heaven. Graves was wonderful on it as "The Colonel", the grandfather of the clan. If I didn't know better, I'd swear he really was Stephen Collins' father!
Having never watched 7th Heaven before, I stumbled upon an episode that had Graves in it and perhaps it's just nostalgia and seeing the old boy again, but he had such star power and charisma in the role. Kind of like when our parents or grandparents would see a Golden Age star on COLUMBO or some such show. The presence these old time stars have is just amazing.
Exactly right! The Columbo comparison is a good one. In 7th Heaven whenever Graves appears, you can almost hear trumpets and the sound of a red carpet being unrolled. He brings such a strong screen presence, and you get the sense that all of the other actors on the show are in awe of him. It was a primo role for him and he did more than just waltz through the show; he really made the character.
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Mar 23, 2010 - 10:19 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Obit from the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald:
Straight as a die and perfect at lampooning his own style
Peter Graves, 1926-2010
Despite his long career as a serious actor in dozens of films and TV shows, Peter Graves might be remembered most for a role that lampooned his square-jawed, stolid screen persona.
As the captain of a plane heading for disaster in the 1980 spoof movie Airplane! (released in Australia as Flying High), Graves got laughs by playing it as straight as his other roles.
Audiences were also familiar with Graves as the tall, gruff, deep-voiced, silver-haired Jim Phelps, head of the IMF (Impossible Missions Force), an elite US espionage group, in the TV series Mission: Impossible (1967-73). He won a Golden Globe for the role in 1971. The show famously opened with the words: 'Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is … '
Born Peter Aurness in Minnesota, of Norwegian-German stock, he was the son of Rolf Cirkler Aurness, a businessman, and Ruth Duesler, a journalist. After two years in the air force, Graves studied drama at the University of Minnesota. He adopted his grandfather's last name to avoid confusion with his older brother, the actor James Arness, who dropped the 'u' from the family name.
His first credited film roles were as a confused youngster in Rogue River (1951) and as Dane Clark's blind brother in the western Fort Defiance (1951).
In 1952, Graves was in The Congregation, produced by the Protestant Film Commission, an evangelical organisation, and had the leading role in Red Planet Mars, a McCarthyite tract in the guise of a Christian science fiction film.
Graves's first TV series was a children's show, Fury, about an orphan and his untamed black stallion. It was filmed in Australia and lasted six years.
Graves's blond, rather bland good looks were brilliantly used by Billy Wilder in Stalag 17 (1953), revolving around a German informer masquerading as an American PoW.
In 1955 Graves worked in four excellent films, though in minor roles. In Jacques Tourneur's Wichita he played Morgan Earp, brother of Wyatt, and he appeared as military men in John Ford's The Long Gray Line and Otto Preminger's The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell. He also had a small but key role in Charles Laughton's haunting The Night of the Hunter.
In the 1960s, Graves's stern face was seldom off the TV screen. He started the decade with 34 episodes of an Australian western series, Whiplash, in which he played an American, Christopher Cobb, who established the first stagecoach line in Australia in the 1850s.
He continued mostly in TV westerns until he hit the jackpot with Mission: Impossible.
Jim Abrahams, who wrote, directed and produced Airplane! thought Mission: Impossible 'was just so stupid and was great to send up'. He had the wit to cast the straight-as-a-die Graves as Captain Oveur, who at one point is seen at the helm with a young boy, Joey, of whom he asks questions such as: 'You ever seen a grown man naked?'; 'Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?'; and 'Have you ever been to a Turkish prison?'
It is hard to believe audiences ever took Graves seriously again but they did, and he returned to a new series of Mission: Impossible from 1988 to 1990.
From 1997 to 2007, Graves made a number of guest appearances as John 'The Colonel' Camden, the grandfather in the squeaky-clean Christian family in the TV series 7th Heaven.
A devout Christian, Graves is survived by Joan, his wife since 1950, and three daughters.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/straight-as-a-die-and-perfect-at-lampooning-his-own-style-20100316-qcfc.html
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