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Whistle Stopper - Mission Impossible - The Fourth TV Season
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List Price: $49.99
Our Price: $28.98
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Manufacturer: CBS Paramount Domestic Television
Starring: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Barbara Anderson
Directed By: Max Hodge, Reza Badiyi, Barry Crane, Leonard Horn, Paul Krasny
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097361326344
Format: AC-3
Label: CBS Paramount Domestic Television
Manufacturer: CBS Paramount Domestic Television
Number Of Items: 7
Publisher: CBS Paramount Domestic Television
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-05-13
Running Time: 1314
Studio: CBS Paramount Domestic Television
Theatrical Release Date: 1966-09-17
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: M I the t-v series
Comment: Interesting to see dial phones, lots of smoking and occasional drinking and of course all vehicles had no seat belts. But the extremely dated technology was overshadowed by the clever plots and were geographically usually in places you can't find on a map, Polonia? Costa Verde? looked like California to me
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Summary: Mission Imp Seas IV
Comment: As with the other 3 seasons, this DVD set arrived in perfect condition and played every episode with out a glitch. One thing I wish -- a commentary on a few of the episodes, I realize it has been nearly 40 years, but most of the crew is still alive. Unlike Hogan's Heroes, where only Helga and LeBeau are able to discuss their memories of making the show. Even without, it is a great series to watch and watch again.
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Summary: Definately some diamonds in the rough
Comment: Having been spoiled by the great Martin Landou the first three seasons, Leonard Nimoy doesn't bring that same wonderment to the show. Barbara Bains is definately missed as well.
The writing also seems to get a little sloppy as the writers try and think of new and creative ways to merely open a safe or to expose to coup.
However, some episodes do remain clever and holds my suspension just for a little while, such as "Submarine, "Numbers Game," and "Timebomb."
I still am the biggest fan of the first season, so you may not like my review!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not bad at all
Comment: Quality season...I think the first that has Leonard Nimoy (Dr. Spok from the old Star Treks) therein.
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Summary: Unhappy customer
Comment: I was very disappointed with the fourth TV season.
The second disk of original purchase and replacement had color lines in the middle of the show, stops and then got frosen.
I had to retern both of these sets.
Until this problem exist I will skip this season
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Editorial Reviews:
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Foil the invasion of a democratic country? No problem. Rescue members of a royal family from their would-be usurper? Piece of cake. Replace the irreplaceable Martin Landau and thrice-Emmy-winner Barbara Bain, who departed Mission after its third season? Now that's impossible! But in this classic series' fourth season, the veteran and rookie members of the Impossible Mission Force still put on a good show. The most prominent new addition to the IMF dossier is Leonard Nimoy as Paris, magician and master of disguise. Lee "Catwoman" Meriwether appears in several episodes as Tracey. Other guest stars make less of an impression; Alexandra Hay makes her only appearance on the show in the season opener as Lynn, who, in the course of an elaborate plot to shatter an alliance between two would-be dictators is caught, strip-searched, and thrown into prison (she disappears mid-episode and is never seen again; viewers never do get to see her sprung). An unintentionally hilarious moment that would have made Mad magazine proud comes in the three-parter, "The Falcon," in which IMF leader Jim Phelps' (Peter Graves) dossier of agents at his disposal includes the eponymous trained animal! Lending Mission: Impossible its international intrigue are the villains from such exotic sounding countries as Nueva Tierra. Great character actors, including John "Dean Wormer" Vernon, Harold Gould and Pernell Roberts portray accented bad guys to the hilt. Each bafflingly complex mission unfolds precisely to plan. Everything must go like clockwork, and usually does, even a lame bit in "The Falcon" in which strongman Willy (Peter Lupus) disguised as a peasant, delays a priest from a coronation by transporting him via horse-driven cart in a roundabout route. Like the previous season's "The Exchange," one mission hits closer to home. In "Death Squad" electronics expert Barney (Greg Morris) is arrested by a brutal and corrupt police chief who also happens to be the brother of the man who was killed while attacking Barney's girlfriend (Cicely Tyson, by the way). Mission: Impossible has yet to self-destruct, but this season doesn't exactly deliver on Paris's promise to his audience to deliver "excitement you haven't seen before." We have seen this before, but watching the IMF in episode after episode pull off the impossible is still smart and suspenseful fun. --Donald Liebenson
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