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I finished watching season 1 of M:I for the second time this month, and I need to make a couple of revisions to my top 10:
The Carriers
The Frame
Memory
Old Man Out
Operation Rogash
The Ransom
The Reluctant Dragon
A Spool There Was
The Train
Zubrovnik's Ghost
Can you elaborate on your top 10 season 1 episodes?
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I finished watching season 1 of M:I for the second time this month, and I need to make a couple of revisions to my top 10:
The Carriers
The Frame
Memory
Old Man Out
Operation Rogash
The Ransom
The Reluctant Dragon
A Spool There Was
The Train
Zubrovnik's Ghost
Can you elaborate on your top 10 season 1 episodes?
I simply chose the episodes that held up as the most interesting and entertaining.
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2nd season favorites (as my re-viewing continues.) In alphabetical order:
The Condemned
Echo of Yesterday
The Emerald
The Phoenix
The Seal
The Slave
The Spy
The Survivors
The Town
Maybe by the time I do an additional rewatch, I'll have decided among The Killing, Operation Heart, and The Photographer for the tenth spot.
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My season 3 top 10 in alphabetical order (as always):
The Bargain
The Diplomat
The Freeze
The Heir Apparent
Illusion
Live Bait
The Mind of Stefan Miklos
The Play
The System
either The Glass Cage or Nicole
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What, no mention of The Interrogator?
Barbara Bain had to do her final show wearing a clumpy butterscotch wig?
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Best of S4:
The Amnesiac
Chico
The Controllers
The Falcon
Fool's Gold
Gitano
Lover's Knot
Mastermind
Orpheus
Submarine
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What no Numbers Game and Submarine? 
Submarine is there; Numbers Game came close.
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Whereas I couldn't get into season 2, I had a great time with s5. Now I'm much more excited about seeing more of this show. I also never realized how James Coburn-ish Leonard Nimoy could be!
My favorite ten episodes (in alphabetical order.)
Butterfly
The Catafalque
Decoy
The Field
A Ghost Story
Hunted
The Killer
My Friend, My Enemy
The Party
Squeeze Play
This holds up fairly well over a year later for me. But I think I'll drop Catafalque and Party from the top 10 and replace them with The Amateur and Blast.
Cat's Paw and The Missile would round out a top 12.
As I move on to the last two seasons, I'll miss Nimoy's stylish Paris and Lesley Ann Warren's lovely Dana. Always a regret is that M:I did not allow Warren to show off her daffy comedic talents.
And I still can't wrap around my head that Doug and The Stranger from The Big Lebowski are one and the same!
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And I still can't wrap around my head that Doug and The Stranger from The Big Lebowski are one and the same!
Dude abides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsKoxi12jbI
We just needed Doug to order a Sioux City Sarsaparilla at some point!
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My season 6 re-watch. A step down from season 5 (I really miss Nimoy's James Coburn-isity), although Lynda Day George is a fine addition and Peter Lupus gets to do more acting-wise. A good group of guest stars - I counted three future Hill Street Blues cast members (Dan Travanti, Jon Cypher, James Sikking) and two actors (Leonard Frey, Richard Jaeckel) who would go on to get their sole Oscar nominations this very season.
My top 10 in alphabetical order:
Bag Woman (more peril than usual e.g. the dog exposing Barney's disguise fairly early in the game.)
Blues (Barney sings! Fun with audiotape manipulating.)
Casino (Jack Cassidy, Jim Phelps posing as an obnoxiously drunk loser gambler.)
Committed (the always welcome Susan Howard. A shout-out to an image from Bergman's Persona!)
The Connection (Zerbe! And one of those elaborate M:I location cons.)
Double Dead (baby leopard, the Caribbean, Willy's most dire predicament - but helped by sympathetic Irene Tsu.)
Encounter (maybe my favorite of the season - I like the group session atmosphere and Elizabeth Ashley has a juicy role [and wearing a shag cut nicely.])
Shape-Up (the docks, a waterfront bar, a ghost - always a colorful combo.)
Stone Pillow (Peter Graves and Bradford Dillman - cell mates!)
Trapped or Blind or Encore
=Member=, do you know who played the knockout vet's assistant in "Bag Woman"?
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Aug 30, 2020 - 2:25 PM
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Jim Phelps
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Started an "Anthony Zerbe on Mission: Impossible" marathon. Zerbe appeared in five episodes.
Today was "The Photographer" from S2. I still have an early draft of the script which I bought from "Script City", which was advertised in Starlog magazine.
The best scene in "The Photographer" is when Zerbe's character, fashion photographer David Henning, bitterly tells the story of his father who was tried, convicted, and executed for treason for giving away atomic secrets. Zerbe completely owns the scene and it's riveting to watch.
Martin Landau gets precious little screen time in this episode, but he does well with the reveal at episode's end.
Not a great episode, but one with some excellent moments. Zerbe is alternately charming, menacing, and even sympathetic.
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Aug 31, 2020 - 3:53 AM
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Jim Phelps
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The Anthony Zerbe on Mission: Impossible marathon rolls on!
Live Bait (S3)
"Live Bait" has one of Mission: Impossible's most complicated plots. Everyone is double crossing everyone else with the IMF double crossing all of the double crossers. The episode is best enjoyed by observing the superb performances and interplay between Anthony Zerbe, Martin Landau, Diana Ewing, John Crawford, and an incredibly young Martin Sheen.
Willy does not appear in "Live Bait", even though the IMF could have used his strength to lug away the imprisoned agent they must rescue. Willy would have also come in handy when the IMF must drag Anthony Zerbe's character, Colonel Helmut Kellerman, chief of internal security for the ubiquitous United People's Republic (UPR). Kellerman meets an ignominious end. Rollin lingers just long enough to hear the fatal gunshot fired by Sheen's character, Lieutenant Albert Brocke.
Lots of crazy camera angles and handheld shots kind of stuff in this one, too, courtesy of director Stuart Hagmann....(sorry if I'm getting too technical).
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Aug 31, 2020 - 6:07 AM
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Rollin Hand
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The Anthony Zerbe on Mission: Impossible marathon rolls on!
Live Bait (S3)
"Live Bait" has one of Mission: Impossible's most complicated plots. Everyone is double crossing everyone else with the IMF double crossing all of those double crossers. The episode is best enjoyed by observing the superb performances and interplay between Anthony Zerbe, Martin Landau, Diana Ewing, John Crawford, and an incredibly young Martin Sheen.
Willy does not appear in "Live Bait", even though the IMF could have used his strength to lug away the imprisoned agent they must rescue. Willy would have also come in handy when the IMF must drag Anthony Zerbe's character, Colonel Helmut Kellerman, chief of internal security for the ubiquitous United People's Republic (UPR). Kellerman meets an ignominious end. Rollin lingers just long enough to hear the fatal gunshot fired by Sheen's character, Lieutenant Albert Brocke.
Lots of crazy camera angles and handheld shots kind of stuff in this one, too, courtesy of director Stuart Hagmann....(sorry if I'm getting too technical).
The DP use a wide angle lens mounted on a hand-held camera
and it tends to come close to the actor or the handgun, creating a monstrous distortion.
Back then it was a brand new trick.
That trick was over-used during the first season of The Outer Limits under DP Conrad Hall.
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