The head of the "Impossible Missions Force", a top-secret government group of operatives, starts a tape recorder and finds out about his latest assignment. Throughout most of the series, they would have to stop some petty dictator or powerful bad guy from whatever evil plot they had against the U.S. or Democracy in general. The elaborate use of electronic gadgetry, masters of disguise and detailed plans that require split-second timing made this tv show an "on the edge of your seater"!
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Mission Impossible tv season 4Nov 22, 2008 This set is great for the collector or for someone just starting to enjoy the era that these were filmed it.
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Mission: Impossible Goes In New DirectionsOct 29, 2008 Season Three of Mission Impossible had major upheavals in which the main writers of the series abruptly quit. The show survived this by brining in Paul Playdon as lead writer and Stanley Kallis as Producer. Season Four began with even more potentially damaging changes as Martin Landau and Barbara Bain also abruptly left the show. To replace Landau's "Rollin Hand" character who wore masks and impersonated other people, Leonard Nimoy was brought in as "Paris" (we never learn his first name). Nimoy is not the actor Landau is, and he complained later that he was not given enough challenging roles, but he was adequate. His best performances were in the episodes "Gitano" and "The Code" which otherwise were not among the best stories. Later in the season, lead writer Paul Playdon left the show due to exhaustion, along with Producer Stanley Kallis. In spite of this, the show continued to make fine entertaining episodes, in spite of the fact that no single leading lady actress was brought in to replace Barbara Bain's "Cinnamon Carter" character.
In two especially good episodes, "The Crane" and "The Submarine", the IM Force has to race the clock as intensive police cordons are zeroing in on them while they have to deceive a leader of a police state or break an "unbreakable" prisoner. On the whole, this season has as many fine episodes as do the preceding seaons, in spite of the difficulties the cast and crew faced. Highly recommended.
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Mission Impossilbe 4 Great !!Oct 17, 2008 HI EVERYONE TO READ THIS SECTION, I LIKE TO SHARE ABOUT THIS TV SERIES FROM THE 60s and 70s. IN MY PERSONAL OPINION IN THIS FOURTH SEASON IS UNBELIEVABLE, THIS TIME I MISS ROLLIN HAND, HIS DO A GREAT JOB BEFORE THIS SEASON, BUT MR SPOKE IS EXCELLENT ( PARIS ) LEONARD NIMOY, AND CINNAMON CARTER (BARBARA BAIN) TOO. THE CHANGING IN THIS SEASON IS GOOD, ALWAYS THE SAME SOMETIMES IS BOURING. I CAN REMEMBER TO WATCH ALL THIS EPISODES FROM THIS 4TH SEASON, BUT ALREADY I HAVE TO WATCH Y ENJOY THIS SEASON AND I RECOMMENDED THIS TV SERIE, THIS IS MY MISION IMPOSIBLE FOR YOU.
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Mission Impossible 4Oct 12, 2008 I just love the old MI series and they keep getting better. The stories were so much better as the years went by and the acting in this set was superb.
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New cast, more impossible missionsOct 06, 2008 Season 4 of Mission: Impossible continues the intricate missions and cerebral plots of the previous seasons. With the departure of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain after season 3, there's some new blood in the IMF this year: Leonard Nimoy joins the cast as new master of disguise Paris, while various guest stars are recruited to fill the female agent role.
Watching this series for the first time, I find the introduction of Paris to be a nice change of pace. While none of the agents are ever developed much and Paris is pretty much Rollin Hand, a fresh face does draw attention from what are the increasingly noticeable flaws in the series - the repeated use of the same backlot sets and California locations, stories that strain believability with the IMF predicting every thought and action of their targets, and cliffhangers that are resolved almost immediately. The fun is still there, and the payoff at the end of each episode is still worth it, but the show isn't quite as fresh as it was a few seasons back.
Still the addition of Paris works, and the rotating female agents mix things up too (since it makes more sense to change agents as needed by the mission, and it also brings some relevance back to the dossier selection scene that precedes most of the stories). Notable is Lee Meriwether, who appears in a handful of episodes, and you end up wishing if they'd selected a permanent female agent this season, it would've been her. She certainly matches Bain in style and beauty. Standout episodes this season include a faked submarine voyage in "The Submarne," "Lover's Knot" and "Death Squad" which break the usual story mold, and "The Falcon" which is a well-paced 3-parter with some genuine twists. If you're in the mood for more classy 60's spy action that takes itself seriously, season 4 of Mission: Impossible still delivers the goods.
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