I can't recall the first MI episode I saw or even how old I was although I was still a pre-teen when I first encountered the series in the 1970s. The show made a big general impression on me but it's hard to pinpoint specific stories that stand out to me.
As I've been doing a casual re-watch over the past few years, I think that may be because MI is so formulaic, with a delivery template that can be fashioned to fit a variety of premises but that generally follows a similar framework. That's not necessarily a criticism because I think that experiences and expectations of both producers and audiences were much different 40 and 50 years ago than they are now, where a show such as Lost will go to extreme lengths of misdirection to try to hoodwink an audience that has grown up having watched countless stories played out in films and TV programs and are quite sophisticated about plotting as a result of it. (And I'm a big Lost fan.)
I don't care for Barbara Bain at all, never have. I love Space:1999, but don't really care for her. She's not sexy to me at all. Her character on Space:1999 was ok, and we will see how well she does on MI.
I hadn't seen any
Space: 1999 since the late 1970s, and a few years ago I threw it into my Netflix queue, but after watching a disc or two from the first season I stopped because it . . . was . . . so . . . ponderous . . . and . . . slow. And Bain was wooden in those early episodes. (And, yes, I've been told that the series gets better as it goes on, but it hasn't been high on my interest list since.)
However, Bain is much better as Cinnamon Carter, with some key performances throughout her stint on MI. I don't think it's an injustice that she never became a bigger star because I think she's a competent actress in the right role but nothing spectacular. Still, her role as the IMF honeytrap is a good one for her, and I do think she is gorgeous, a patrician beauty with an air of mystery about her--quite appropriate for a spy series.
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"The past is never dead. It isn't even past." -- William Faulkner
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mariakelly-04164
8 years ago
I can't remember the name of the episode, but the season six episode where Jim and Casey have to get into the trunk of a car to sneak past security instead of Barney is one of my favorites.
Good Morning, Mr. BRIGGS.
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lima-2
8 years ago
I watched it from the beginning. I saw The Pilot when it was first broadcast in 1966. I was a sophomore in high school at the time.
It was the first TV series I actually got my dad to watch. He was hooked immediately, too. He needed something as interesting to watch on Saturday night after his favorite show, Perry Mason, was cancelled on CBS.
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mariakelly-04164
8 years ago
From 2004 through 2006, I was in nursing home in Duarte, California recovering from a ten day coma due to kidney failure.
While I was there, one of the nurses who knew that I was a Mission Impossible fan let me know that Jonnie Burke who as you know handled the series special effects was in the same facility. Unfortunately, I never got to meet him, but I thought that it was so awesome to be in the same facility as he was.
I'll just do what comes naturally
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