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"You little worm! I'm not some clerk. You're dealing with Imry Rogosh."
---Imry Rogosh from "Operation Rogosh".
Barney: "I'm sorry we had to let a man like Imry Rogosh live."
Briggs: (Pause) "We didn't."
I like the shots of L.A.(?) streets when Rogosh is run down by the car, with the Chevron station in the background. Where exactly was that filmed? Shows like Dragnet and ADAM-12 also used locations to great effect, even the scenes filmed on the lot!
First, I should mention that my 16 year-old daughter and I have been going through MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE from episode one at the rate of about one episode every night or two. We are now in the middle of the fourth season and will continue until we finish up in the seventh year of the show.
Some observations I've made regarding the casting seems to indicate a sort of "family" approach as many guests are invited back in later episodes or seasons. For instance, Fritz Weaver has been in at least 2 (or is it 3?), Jason Evers in 2, Eric Braeden in 2, Vic Perrin (the OUTER LIMITS control voice) in at least 2, and Sid Haig, so far, in 6 (!) installments. Several other actors and minor characters return for encore appearances.
Just by chance my daughter and I happened to visit L.A. while on a 5,000 mile road trip earlier this year. She is a huge movie buff and part of our trip was finding movie locations. We saw The Last Picture Show, James Stewart's Vertigo apartment (and other VERTIGO locations), Steve McQueen's BULLITT apartment (and other locations), found James Dean's "Little Reata," etc. When we returned home we began watching M:I. During the scene you cite I noticed the Capitol Records building in the background. I recognized the locations and with a little googling we were able to determine the exact intersection where this was shot, Ivar and Yucca.
Fritz Weaver leaves the Knickerbocker Hotel (now apartments) and heads in a northerly direction up the street, moves to the other side of the street (though we don't see him do this -- he's just suddenly on the other side) and then is hit by the car while crossing Yucca. If he had continued uninterrupted he would have walked up a hill. At the crest he would have been standing in front of the Aldo Nito apartments at 1851 N. Ivar St., home to William Holden's Joe Gillis character in the movie SUNSET BLVD.
I had wondered what Joe Gillis would have seen if he'd walked to the bottom of the hill on which he lived. While we were there I walked to the bottom of the hill and stood on the corner of the Ivar and Yucca intersection where the accident occurred. Looking in a southerly direction during the scene you can see the Cinerama Dome shining in the bright sunlight in the distance. Similarly, if you look to the left then you'll see the Capitol Records building and if you watch very carefully, maybe freeze framing, you can see it in the background while they're loading Weaver into the ambulance.
In a later episode (sorry, don't have the title right now but I think it was the 3rd season), I was surprised to see Peter Graves on top of the Knickerbocker receiving information about the next mission. Again, the Capitol Records building can be seen. As the camera pans left, the Aldo Nito apartments can be seen in the background at the top of a small hill. The intersection at the bottom is where Weaver had his "accident."
One last note. I wonder where Weaver was going as it appears he intended to continue up Ivar. The trick is that when you reach the top of the block the street pretty much just ends as the ground drops away to the freeway below it. It's possible to take a right hand turn but it doesn't really lead to anywhere significant. Of course, in the show it doesn't matter, just as we don't really need to see him cross Ivar to the other side. These are irrelevancies that generally go unnoticed by audiences.
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Some observations I've made regarding the casting seems to indicate a sort of "family" approach as many guests are invited back in later episodes or seasons. For instance, Fritz Weaver has been in at least 2 (or is it 3?), Jason Evers in 2, Eric Braeden in 2, Vic Perrin (the OUTER LIMITS control voice) in at least 2, and Sid Haig, so far, in 6 (!) installments. Several other actors and minor characters return for encore appearances.
You can add John Colicos, Robert Donner, Steve Ihnat, Allen Joseph, Mark Lenard, Joe Maross, Albert Paulsen, Nehemiah Persoff, Pernell Roberts, Paul Stevens, Michael Strong, John Vernon, William Windom, Anthony Zerbe.
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I checked out season 2 of Mission: Impossible the other day at the library. As a big fan of such 1960s spy shows as The Avengers, UNCLE, and I Spy, I thought I should give M:I a try. So far it's okay, although not the immediate grabber that the aforementioned shows have been for me.
One question for you guys on this entertaining and informative thread: Every episode I've seen so far has a scene after Phelps gets the tape message in which he takes his time to choose which agents in his dossier he'll use for this particular mission. But, of course, it's always the same four: Cinnamon, Rollin, Barney, and Willy. I'm finding this amusing and frustrating - what is the point of this sequence when it's always the same four people we already know will be chosen! Will there be any variation to this absurdity? 
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