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Is the correct name "Mission Impossible" or "Mission: Impossible"?
The John Woo page lists "mission: Impossible II" but I'm fairly sure it was a "2" not a "II". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarquin ( talk • contribs) 08:20, 23 May 2002 (UTC)
Actually, I believe it is Mission: Impossible! with the exclaimation point! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.19.164.41 ( talk) 15:56, 19 August 2003 (UTC)
Given the dislike fans of the show have for the movies, they should probably be kept entirely separate. Perhaps a disambiguation page? And to describe the movies as "moderately successful" is a POV understatement. Both films earned hundreds of millions of dollars in the US alone. -- Feitclub 04:57, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)
Is that the same Barbara Anderson of "Ironside" (& a guest spot in "Conscience of the King" from "STTOS"?)? And, if I could source it, I'd mention "M:I" was produced by the same company that did "Mannix" & "STTOS": Desilu. Trekphiler 17:22, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Was there an episode in which Phelps or Briggs, instead of hearing "Your mission, should you decide to accept..." heard "Your mission, which we feel you must accept, ..." ?
There were at least two episodes which were not begun with Phelps receiving a message at a "drop site." In one, Phelps was on vacation in his home town, and there were some deaths. In another, Barny's brother was killed. In both cases, Phelps asked the team to help bring the killer(s) to justice.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.53.197.12 ( talk) 21:45, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Here are the rest: Season 1 - "Memory" (This one only technically qualifies, because Briggs receives the mission on a piece of Styrofoam which he crumples. Unfortunately, when watched in real time, it happens so fast, the audience is unable to read it.)
Season 3: "The Exchange" (see the main article for the details. It's the FIRST episode to begin with the mission already underway.)
Season 4: - "Lover's Knot" -- Jim, Paris and Barney go to London to determine the identity of an enemy agent known as 'K'. It's a fairly standard mission, but there is no tape scene -- and "Death Squad" -- Jim and Barney are on vacation when Barney is framed for murder.
Season 5: "The Innocent" , "My Friend, My Enemy", "The Amateur", "Hunted", "The Rebel" and "The Hostage". All of these episodes begin with the mission already underway with the exception of "My Friend, My Enemy" and "The Hostage". Those two begin after the mission has concluded. (I always thought it would have been very cool to use those as the second part of a two-part episode in which the first part was the mission itself.)
Season 6: "Double Dead" -- begins with the mission already underway.
Season 7: "Kidnap" -- Jim is kidnapped to force the IMF to get an incriminating letter. Midknightryder13 ( talk) 19:58, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
I beleive that the set for the apartment scene used "The Brady Bunch" living room set, minus the staircase, at least in a couple of episodes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.104.136.52 ( talk) 03:59, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
This section should include a reference to the "Inspector Gadget" cartoon TV series. Each episode began with Gadget receiving his mission from a disguised Chief Quimby, on a sheet of paper. The mission outline would always end with the sentence, "This message will self-destruct," and then Gadget would throw the paper away, just as it exploded in Quimby's face. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.57.82.12 ( talk • contribs)
Like many popular TV shows, "Mission: Impossible" has been spoofed:
Does anybody know anything about the theme song?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.141.187.170 ( talk) 18:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
“ | Mission: Impossible III diverges from the format of the other films because it does not end with Hunt receiving another message. | ” |
Is an incorrect statement. Ethan Hunt was not given another assignment at the end of the second film. It will be erased.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Tebor ( talk • contribs) 18:41, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I seem to recall that there was an original M:I novel published in the late 1990s, but I can't remember if it was connected to the TV series or if it was a tie-in with the movie. Anyone remember this? 23skidoo 03:46, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
The infobox should include information about the 1988-90 series as well, but I'm not sure how to add it without messing the formatting up. 23skidoo 16:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Several seasons of the original series were released on LaserDisc. IMHO details of these should be added to the this section.-- ukexpat 17:46, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Is the use of the initials IMF coincidence ? The other IMF, the International Monetary Fund, lend money to countries with a failing economy. LookerOn 08:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)LookerOn
Is it correct to say that in the dossier scene, the photographs of the characters to be chosen for each mission were in colour and those that weren't were in black and white? Alastairward 09:28, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Regarding a content disagreement and reversions: I owned at the time a recorder of the same make and model as that frequently shown on the series. The tape movement on the show looked the same as when my recorder was playing a tape forward at the normal speed, to the best of my recollection. I do not doubt that there were scenes of tape being rewound, especially when the smoke poured out to show the tape and recorder were "being destroyed." It is not worth mentioning that the sound was dubbed, since we would then need to mention that sound effects, sirens, explosions, etc are dubbed in movies and TV shows. Very little of the sound you hear was recorded as the film was shot in studio productions. Even the actors' voices are commonly dubbed in in the looping process. IMDB is not a WP:RS reliable source to prove a claim such as this, since it lacks signed articles and it lacks editorial supervision. Find a reliable source which makes the statement about the tape always being in fast rewing when it was supposed to be playing the message and I will certainly go along with the disputed claim about tape speed and direction. But remember that back at the time viewers knew exactly what a reel-to-reel tape recorder looked like when playing, and it would have been bizarre and surprising to show it playing the tape in a mode where playback was not generally done. The little reels would have turned briskly at 3 3/4 inches per second, and would not have been looked like the machine was playing a message if whirring away in fast rewind. A variety of different audio players were used at various times. Again, this is not to say there was never such a scene. It just does not seem appropriate to add a statement that is both trivial and questionable. Edison 21:37, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
This section's a mess of unverified opinions. (Take special note of the "Reaction" section, although "Change to theme song" needs some work too.) I'm tempted to just strip the "Reaction" section out entirely, but maybe someone can still salvage it.-- Roger McCoy/រ៉ាចើ ( talk) 07:24, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
I have just written in this section making it clear how fans of the TV series feels of the movies. Given the treatment Jim Phelps got in the first film it is an outrage for the films to be lumped together no matter how small with the TV series.-- The Shadow Treasurer ( talk) 03:29, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Those are goofs and not plot holes. -- User:Der_Hans 15 June 2009
Barney disguised as a guard/soldier in the soviet-esque countries without any one batting an eye would be a plot hole, but since the Soviet bloc wasn't explicitly mentioned, we can give it a pass, same thing with east germany, at least germany had the african corp and seen black people before.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.104.78.230 ( talk) 19:35, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
The article states:
This is not true in at least one instance, when Casey ( Lynda Day George) was missing from an episode (1972) and replaced by another female lead, Jim Phelps mentions that she was on assignment deep undercover in Europe and would not return for a while. — Loadmaster ( talk) 22:53, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Although we're allowed to cite sources like Amazon to confirm the release of products such as DVDs, reviews on Amazon are not acceptable under WP:RS so we need a better source for the claim that the Season 3 DVD used the edited versions of the episodes. (Also, remember releases may not be identical from country to country, so an edit in Region 1 may not necessarily be the same as the edit seen in Region 2). 23skidoo ( talk) 19:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
I altered the passage about the opening credits' montage of clips from the episode at hand because it was significantly off the mark. Most, if not all, of the Anderson-produced TV series opened that way and, as a check of its article indicates, Thunderbirds was produced before Mission, although not seen in the States until a couple of years after the spy show launched. The I Spy reference is exactly right—series co-lead Robert Culp lit a cigarette, then used the same light to touch off the fuse to a small, cliché-styled "bomb" which he would toss toward the camera; when the explosion effect cleared, his eyes would occupy the top half of the screen and clips from the episode about to be seen the lower half. They were not edited as tightly as M:I 's, however. I deleted the "production difficulties" statement as, along with the number of programs already doing such a montage, Mission 's was also used as the "next week's episode" trailer—they merely had to lay the fuse animation over it—and it was followed by a conventional sequence of series title & regular cast list. Couldn't have been all that problematical, but please note that I have not said so in the article. I forgot to say in my edit summary that I also fixed a couple of Wikilinks—T-birds went to a disambig. page and Galactica had a redirect; no big deal, just for the record. -- Ted Watson ( talk) 22:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
The title sequence for I Spy did use clips from the upcoming episode for the first season only. After this it became a standardized montage featuring clips from various episodes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Erikemiller ( talk • contribs) 19:55, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
I disagree with the article flatly referring to Lynda Day George's character as "Lisa Casey." That first name comes from the one episode of the revival series in which George guest starred, as a former IMF agent. However, there is no doubt in my mind that the script wasn't written to be Casey, but the actress was shoehorned into it when she agreed to appear. Note that she has a completely different career here—the original Casey was a cosmetologist, hence she supplied a mask whenever one was required for an IMF operation; but here she is a stage director—and she and husband Chris named the baby girl born during her seventh season maternity leave Casey. They certainly thought it was her first name. Furthermore, the revival series began with a female operative named Casey Randall. There must have been some fan backlash about that absurd act, but the imminent return of the original Casey may have been a greater factor in the decision to kill off that character. I submit that this article should not flatly refer to the character as "Lisa Casey" but leave that as being described as a retcon in the revival's own article, which I've fixed up in that direction, but only as far as the White book on M:I allows. -- Ted Watson ( talk) 20:52, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Nice to have it corroborated that I didn't miss something in the book, at least. Reminds me that I must check out the article on the original Get Smart TV show and see if (and I do say "if") the confusion about Agent 99 and "Susan" is messed up there. Thanks for that prompt as well. -- Ted Watson ( talk) 20:26, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
In the sub-section "Fifth season": During the fifth season, White notes, the producers began to phase out international missions, deciding instead to task the IMF with battling organized crime figures.... White's actual statement is decidedly stronger: Beginning in year five...Phelps and company concentrated almost all their attention on a battle with organized crime.... However, his own episode-by-episode tour through the season demonstrates that this is simply not true. The fifth season has only three such operations. One is against the parent Mafia in Sicily (the tape message's "the Syndicate's Mediterranean branch" is ludicruous) and another is a personal mission to avenge the murder of Barney Collier's brother, a newspaperman. The third, with Robert Conrad guest starring as a mob hitman whose target the IMF must identify and protect while uncovering the killer's immediate supervisor, could have just as easily been about an foreign intelligence apparatus' assassin. The season looks different from previous episodes because more scenes were shot on real city streets, the countryside, beaches, airports, with much less work on the Paramount lot (according to new producer Bruce Lansbury, page 337 of White, albeit quoted in the overview for the following season, at which point he was on his way out). Therefore, the article should not say otherwise. -- Ted Watson ( talk) 21:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
PoughkeepsieNative, I just saw the edit you did relevant to this discussion, and the situation really isn't that simple. You seem to be equating "domestic" with "Syndicate" which isn't true. Year Five did indeed constitute a gradual increase of USA-based episodes, but most didn't involve the Mob. What you have reads, During the sixth season, the producers began to phase out the international missions.... That much is true of Year Five, so I'm going to alter it a bit. -- Tbrittreid ( talk) 21:16, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Fair enough...I wasn't trying to "turn over the apple cart", as it were. I've been watching all the episodes in order and, as I watched Season Five, I kept waiting for EXACTLY what I saw in Season Six. Mea Culpa for confusing the focus on domestic missions with the focus on the Syndicate. I was just totally shellshocked by the first four missions of Season Six having the phrase "conventional law enforcement" in the briefing tape. -- PoughkeepsieNative ( talk) 00:10, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I have reverted a unilateral attempt by an editor to move this article to Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series) as I feel consensus should be attempted before moving a major article such as this. I contend that as the original and predominant user of this title, based upon similar precdedent the 1966-73 TV series should have the non-disambiguated version. Also, as the series ran 7 years, it's incorrect to pigeonhole it to a single year. I'm not interested in starting an edit war on this issue, but I feel we should discuss it first. I have invited the editor in question to explain his or her rationale and if consensus agrees, then I'm fine with it. (Please note I am leaving on Christmas holidays in 24 hours and will be offline for the rest of the month, so I may not have an opportunity to comment further from my end; I'll abide by consensus). 23skidoo ( talk) 14:40, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Page | Hits in Dec 2008 |
---|---|
Mission: Impossible | 13,254 |
Mission: Impossible (1988 TV series) | 2,464 |
Mission: Impossible (film) | 19,789 |
Mission: Impossible II | 19,642 |
Mission: Impossible III | 34,784 |
Mission: Impossible (NES) | 746 |
Mission: Impossible (1998 video game) | 1,091 |
Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma | 1,632 |
Mission: Impossible feature films | 5,175 |
according to the
grok about page,
Q: What is the logic for redirects and when a page gets moved do the stats move?
A: It counts the title the page was accessed under, so redirects and moves will unfortunately split the statistics across two different statistics pages.
Page | Hits in Dec 2008 |
---|---|
Mission Impossible [redirect, no punctuation] | 25,924 |
Mission Impossible I [redirect, no punctuation] | 7 |
Mission Impossible II [redirect, no punctuation] | 7,128 |
Mission Impossible III [redirect, no punctuation] | 21,041 |
Mission: Impossible I [redirect] | 6 |
Mission: Impossible 1 [redirect] | 0 |
Mission: Impossible 2 [redirect] | 768 |
Mission: Impossible 3 [redirect] | 385 |
Mission Impossible 1 [redirect, no punctuation] | 247 |
Mission Impossible 2 [redirect, no punctuation] | 4,088 |
Mission Impossible 3 [redirect, no punctuation] | 8,897 |
Mission:Impossible [redirect, no space] | 2,464 |
Mission:Impossible I [redirect, no space] | 0 |
Mission:Impossible II [redirect, no space] | 16 |
Mission:Impossible III [redirect, no space] | 3 |
Combining all the punctuation variants
Page & its Variants | Total Hits in Dec 2008 |
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Mission: Impossible [all variants] | 41,468 |
Mission: Impossible I [all variants] | 260 |
Mission: Impossible II [all variants] | 24,514 |
Mission: Impossible III [all variants] | 65,110 |
Thus, the preference for Mission:Impossible III is somewhat less overwhelming.
This, however, does not say what thepe who typed in "Mission Impossible" were actually looking for. Intuitively, I think that those who were looking for the original film may have just typed it in, and the others used the II or III. But we can not distinguish those who typed something in the search br, fro those who followed a link, nor tell which link it was. I do not know if such statistics for Wikipedia are currently available. DGG ( talk) 19:27, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
"Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics". Didn't even think of redirects. So stats.grok.se gives counts by name used to access the article, which could be the name or redirect name typed in the search box, selected from a list of search results, or used as a link from another article. (There are some other mission impossible articles not in the list, but they do not show high counts).
I checked for all redirects, put it into Excel and came up with the following total (see User:Aymatth2/Impossible Stats for detailed counts):
Page & Redirects | Hits in Dec 2008 | % of total |
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Mission: Impossible | 39,332 | 23.4% |
Mission: Impossible (1988 TV series) | 2,464 | 1.5% |
Mission: Impossible (film) | 20,049 | 11.9% |
Mission: Impossible II | 31,642 | 18.8% |
Mission: Impossible III | 65,110 | 38.7% |
Mission: Impossible (NES) | 980 | 0.6% |
Mission: Impossible (1998 video game) | 1,528 | 0.9% |
Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma | 1,784 | 1.1% |
Mission: Impossible feature films | 5,175 | 3.1% |
The films still seem a lot more popular than the original TV series with 121,976 total page views, but that may not be entirely relevant. If someone types in "mission impossible 3" and goes direct to the article they want, it does not matter to them how the "mission impossible" article is structured.
What we can't see is how many people looked at several of the pages. I suspect the "mission: impossible" (and variants) number is a bit misleading, because people looking for one of the games or movies, particularly the first one, might well type "mission impossible" in the search box, see the original TV series, then navigate off to the movie they want.
I personally have little interest in Mission: Impossible in any of its forms, but considerable interest in using facts to assist in decisions. I see no reason why we should not do an experiment - I am happy to do it. That is, make the moves as suggested, so that "mission impossible" becomes the disambiguation page, leave it for a week and check the result. It will be interesting will be to see the % changes.
The more I think about what search terms people would use, what navigation patterns they would show if they got the "wrong" article, the more I suspect that the current structure is best. But it would be useful to do the experiment to confirm that. My prediction is, looking at percentages:
If the film II and film III percentages stay about the same, and the original TV show continues to get more hits than the first movie plus the games, the name change should be reversed. Makes sense? Sort of interesting in an obscure way. Aymatth2 ( talk) 21:38, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was Withdrawn Parsecboy ( talk) 14:21, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
If nobody watching this page objects in the next week three months, I will go ahead and do the move discussed just above. The new naming will be
This will make it easier for users to get quickly to the article they are interested in. Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:32, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Comments:
Mission: Impossible began as an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). The leader of the team, other than in the first episode, was Jim Phelps, most often played by Peter Graves.
A hallmark of the series shows Phelps receiving his instructions on a tape that then self destructs, accompanied by the theme music, composed by Lalo Schifrin, widely considered to be one of the most iconic television themes.
The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973. It returned to television, as a revival, for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990 and later inspired a popular trio of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise in the 1990s and 2000s, with the role of Phelps played by Jon Voight.
Or just let someone else close it as "withdrawn" if you do not get to it first. 199.125.109.126 ( talk) 15:40, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
I wonder if a mention of the contributions of special effects master Jonnie Burke (imdb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121737/ ) wouldn't be appropriate somewhere. His devices were key to the believability of many episodes. White's book mentions that at one point he built a remote manipulator device for a few hundred dollars; the real thing cost far more money and had less range of motion! Jeh ( talk) 04:42, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
I ran out of room in the edit summary, so I want to admit here that I did quite a lot beyond what I said there. Don't have time now to describe the additional work. Sorry. -- Ted Watson ( talk) 22:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
As it turns out, "gas" utility covere really are labeled "gaz" in Poland; I'm in Warsaw this week and I spotted one ;) Jeh ( talk) 18:20, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
The following was just added to the end of the first paragraph of the section "Dossier scene": "An error occurs in the second episode 'Memory', when Briggs tosses Rollin Hand's picture aside, though he was selected for the mission anyway." Not so. Hand becomes part of the team only once Dan is forced to change plans well along the way. In the first season Martin Landau was billed in the dossier scene (of the episodes in which he actually appeared) instead of the main opening credits because he was not yet officially a regular, so his photo had to be seen in that scene here for him to be billed. (Apparently actors' union regs prevented regulars from being among the discarded photos in episodes where they didn't play, which is a shame.) I could not get this explanation into an edit summary, so intend to link to here when I take it out. -- Tbrittreid ( talk) 22:54, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
“ | According to White, William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, who served as story consultants for the first two seasons and became producers of the third season—but did not last long, dismissed for believing that, in their new capacity, executive producer Geller had no authority over them, relied heavily on The Big Con, written by David W. Maurer, for their inspiration. ... | ” |
Are Woodfield and Balter the subject of relied? If yes, there should be a second dash before relied to balance the first; if no, what's missing? — Tamfang ( talk) 17:07, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
This would be clearer:
— Tamfang ( talk) 17:10, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
References
I did not see on the page an explanation of who they worked for. It was not the CIA or FBI because each of these organizations has a "Director" and the tape always says "the Secretary" will deny, etc. It also could not be the Dept. of Justice otherwise, because the DOJ has an Attorney General, who is refered to as "General Holder" or "General Ashcroft," etc. That leaves the Department of State, the Department of Defense, or the Department of Energy. The Department of Energy concens itself only with nuclear topcis, like Los Alamos, and State has no Impossible Missions capabilities, so it must have been the Department of Defense and the Secretary was the Secretary of Defense. Where should this important topic be added to the main page? It is one of the most fundamental questions about the show that Wikipedians would be concerned with. 173.79.12.166 ( talk) 12:51, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
As noted in White's book and on Peter Graves's wikipedia page, two pilots films were made with the same title "Call to Danger". Who removed them? They were completely in line with this page's chronology. 143.232.210.38 ( talk) 18:27, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm just watching a documentary on Space 1999 and Gerry Anderson wanted Martin Landau and Barbara Bain as lead characters but nearly never got them as they kept demanding more and more and more money to appear in his series (though they had nothing else on at the time). It was touch and go but in the end, Lew Grade gave in to their demands. I wonder if something like this happened here where they wanted too much money so their contracts were not renewed after season 3? ( 130.255.18.180 ( talk) 17:47, 13 November 2012 (UTC))
Hey, does anyone know the track played at the end of "Time Bomb" (when the bomb is disarmed while the clock is shown several times)? I think I heard it quite often when watching the show, but it doesn't appear on the soundtrack CDs I know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.14.198.13 ( talk) 20:47, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
The Mission: Impossible (film series) is proposed to be converted to a franchise article, see talk: Mission: Impossible (film series) for the discussion -- 70.51.203.69 ( talk) 02:17, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
adding {{ dubious}} tag to the claim that the music from the theme song spells out MI in Morse Code. The claim sounds dubious, I couldn't find any reference to it. The "MI" in Morse is - - . . while posts of a [ sheet-music notation] suggests a beat of - . - - .—Preceding unsigned comment added by Otheus ( talk • contribs) 07:52, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Combining the rest with the preceding note, which is how listeners hear the rhythm of the theme, you get dotted-quarter,dotted-quarter,quarter,quarter, which is indeed heard as long,long,short,short. So the claim that the theme is based on Morse Code is plausible.
However, that the 5/4 time is a consequence of this is clearly incorrect. The Morse Code standard is dot = 1 unit; dash = 3 units; and space between parts is 1 unit. Space between letters is 3 units. Converting this to music, and incorporating the space after a dot/dash into the element, you'd get: dot = eighth note (2 units), dash = quarter note (4 units), between letters = eighth rest (2 units, 1 unit having been absorbed into the preceding element).
The theme does not have the correct relationship between dashes and dots and lacks the space between the letters. Playing with a detached style: quarter note, quarter note, eighth rest, eighth note, eighth note, eighth rest would be heard as "MI", and fits into 4/4 time quite neatly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.35.139.96 ( talk) 16:02, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
I sure wish someone could find photos (with proper rights) for each season, especially season 2/3, like these photos. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 08:54, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
Should it be noted in the article that the show displayed a large number of different uniforms? I was excited about the multiple types of uniforms the IMF-team encountered during their missions, later I noticed that many resembled more or less uniforms of the Third Reich and also "eastern" uniforms. -- Exodianecross ( talk) 01:42, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
We seem to be missing a franchise article to cover all the M:I properties. Mission: Impossible (franchise) should eb written to account for the missing coverage, so that the fictional universe of all the TV shows, videogames, novels, and films can be interrelated. A starting point can be the Mission: Impossible (disambiguation) page -- 70.51.200.162 ( talk) 05:11, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
The paragraph in the article noting Geller's edict against character development in the series finally solves the mystery of why I could never really get into the show, something I'd wondered about for over half a century, albeit from a distance. Racing Forward ( talk) 13:12, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved all ( closed by non-admin page mover) DannyS712 ( talk) 01:44, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
– While the 1966 TV series is the primary source all other MI entries derive from, it is not even close to being the most viewed page per a year of page view data (see link below as it was not showing correctly here). The real primary topic should be a franchise article, which currently does not exist, but placing it until that time at the disambiguation page will be the best solution which will cause the lest "disruption" until that time, and also allow finding links leading to incorrect targets. Gonnym ( talk) 08:12, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
The article does not mention why the series was cancelled, and after only 4 seasons. Strange for such a successful TV show. Bad ratings??? (I didn't think it had bad ratings). Too expensive? Disagreements between studio, producer, directors, actors, etc???? Thanks in advance to anybody who knows. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Betathetapi454 ( talk • contribs) 18:15, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
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Is the correct name "Mission Impossible" or "Mission: Impossible"?
The John Woo page lists "mission: Impossible II" but I'm fairly sure it was a "2" not a "II". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarquin ( talk • contribs) 08:20, 23 May 2002 (UTC)
Actually, I believe it is Mission: Impossible! with the exclaimation point! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.19.164.41 ( talk) 15:56, 19 August 2003 (UTC)
Given the dislike fans of the show have for the movies, they should probably be kept entirely separate. Perhaps a disambiguation page? And to describe the movies as "moderately successful" is a POV understatement. Both films earned hundreds of millions of dollars in the US alone. -- Feitclub 04:57, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)
Is that the same Barbara Anderson of "Ironside" (& a guest spot in "Conscience of the King" from "STTOS"?)? And, if I could source it, I'd mention "M:I" was produced by the same company that did "Mannix" & "STTOS": Desilu. Trekphiler 17:22, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Was there an episode in which Phelps or Briggs, instead of hearing "Your mission, should you decide to accept..." heard "Your mission, which we feel you must accept, ..." ?
There were at least two episodes which were not begun with Phelps receiving a message at a "drop site." In one, Phelps was on vacation in his home town, and there were some deaths. In another, Barny's brother was killed. In both cases, Phelps asked the team to help bring the killer(s) to justice.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.53.197.12 ( talk) 21:45, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Here are the rest: Season 1 - "Memory" (This one only technically qualifies, because Briggs receives the mission on a piece of Styrofoam which he crumples. Unfortunately, when watched in real time, it happens so fast, the audience is unable to read it.)
Season 3: "The Exchange" (see the main article for the details. It's the FIRST episode to begin with the mission already underway.)
Season 4: - "Lover's Knot" -- Jim, Paris and Barney go to London to determine the identity of an enemy agent known as 'K'. It's a fairly standard mission, but there is no tape scene -- and "Death Squad" -- Jim and Barney are on vacation when Barney is framed for murder.
Season 5: "The Innocent" , "My Friend, My Enemy", "The Amateur", "Hunted", "The Rebel" and "The Hostage". All of these episodes begin with the mission already underway with the exception of "My Friend, My Enemy" and "The Hostage". Those two begin after the mission has concluded. (I always thought it would have been very cool to use those as the second part of a two-part episode in which the first part was the mission itself.)
Season 6: "Double Dead" -- begins with the mission already underway.
Season 7: "Kidnap" -- Jim is kidnapped to force the IMF to get an incriminating letter. Midknightryder13 ( talk) 19:58, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
I beleive that the set for the apartment scene used "The Brady Bunch" living room set, minus the staircase, at least in a couple of episodes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.104.136.52 ( talk) 03:59, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
This section should include a reference to the "Inspector Gadget" cartoon TV series. Each episode began with Gadget receiving his mission from a disguised Chief Quimby, on a sheet of paper. The mission outline would always end with the sentence, "This message will self-destruct," and then Gadget would throw the paper away, just as it exploded in Quimby's face. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.57.82.12 ( talk • contribs)
Like many popular TV shows, "Mission: Impossible" has been spoofed:
Does anybody know anything about the theme song?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.141.187.170 ( talk) 18:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
“ | Mission: Impossible III diverges from the format of the other films because it does not end with Hunt receiving another message. | ” |
Is an incorrect statement. Ethan Hunt was not given another assignment at the end of the second film. It will be erased.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Tebor ( talk • contribs) 18:41, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I seem to recall that there was an original M:I novel published in the late 1990s, but I can't remember if it was connected to the TV series or if it was a tie-in with the movie. Anyone remember this? 23skidoo 03:46, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
The infobox should include information about the 1988-90 series as well, but I'm not sure how to add it without messing the formatting up. 23skidoo 16:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Several seasons of the original series were released on LaserDisc. IMHO details of these should be added to the this section.-- ukexpat 17:46, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Is the use of the initials IMF coincidence ? The other IMF, the International Monetary Fund, lend money to countries with a failing economy. LookerOn 08:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)LookerOn
Is it correct to say that in the dossier scene, the photographs of the characters to be chosen for each mission were in colour and those that weren't were in black and white? Alastairward 09:28, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Regarding a content disagreement and reversions: I owned at the time a recorder of the same make and model as that frequently shown on the series. The tape movement on the show looked the same as when my recorder was playing a tape forward at the normal speed, to the best of my recollection. I do not doubt that there were scenes of tape being rewound, especially when the smoke poured out to show the tape and recorder were "being destroyed." It is not worth mentioning that the sound was dubbed, since we would then need to mention that sound effects, sirens, explosions, etc are dubbed in movies and TV shows. Very little of the sound you hear was recorded as the film was shot in studio productions. Even the actors' voices are commonly dubbed in in the looping process. IMDB is not a WP:RS reliable source to prove a claim such as this, since it lacks signed articles and it lacks editorial supervision. Find a reliable source which makes the statement about the tape always being in fast rewing when it was supposed to be playing the message and I will certainly go along with the disputed claim about tape speed and direction. But remember that back at the time viewers knew exactly what a reel-to-reel tape recorder looked like when playing, and it would have been bizarre and surprising to show it playing the tape in a mode where playback was not generally done. The little reels would have turned briskly at 3 3/4 inches per second, and would not have been looked like the machine was playing a message if whirring away in fast rewind. A variety of different audio players were used at various times. Again, this is not to say there was never such a scene. It just does not seem appropriate to add a statement that is both trivial and questionable. Edison 21:37, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
This section's a mess of unverified opinions. (Take special note of the "Reaction" section, although "Change to theme song" needs some work too.) I'm tempted to just strip the "Reaction" section out entirely, but maybe someone can still salvage it.-- Roger McCoy/រ៉ាចើ ( talk) 07:24, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
I have just written in this section making it clear how fans of the TV series feels of the movies. Given the treatment Jim Phelps got in the first film it is an outrage for the films to be lumped together no matter how small with the TV series.-- The Shadow Treasurer ( talk) 03:29, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Those are goofs and not plot holes. -- User:Der_Hans 15 June 2009
Barney disguised as a guard/soldier in the soviet-esque countries without any one batting an eye would be a plot hole, but since the Soviet bloc wasn't explicitly mentioned, we can give it a pass, same thing with east germany, at least germany had the african corp and seen black people before.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.104.78.230 ( talk) 19:35, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
The article states:
This is not true in at least one instance, when Casey ( Lynda Day George) was missing from an episode (1972) and replaced by another female lead, Jim Phelps mentions that she was on assignment deep undercover in Europe and would not return for a while. — Loadmaster ( talk) 22:53, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Although we're allowed to cite sources like Amazon to confirm the release of products such as DVDs, reviews on Amazon are not acceptable under WP:RS so we need a better source for the claim that the Season 3 DVD used the edited versions of the episodes. (Also, remember releases may not be identical from country to country, so an edit in Region 1 may not necessarily be the same as the edit seen in Region 2). 23skidoo ( talk) 19:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
I altered the passage about the opening credits' montage of clips from the episode at hand because it was significantly off the mark. Most, if not all, of the Anderson-produced TV series opened that way and, as a check of its article indicates, Thunderbirds was produced before Mission, although not seen in the States until a couple of years after the spy show launched. The I Spy reference is exactly right—series co-lead Robert Culp lit a cigarette, then used the same light to touch off the fuse to a small, cliché-styled "bomb" which he would toss toward the camera; when the explosion effect cleared, his eyes would occupy the top half of the screen and clips from the episode about to be seen the lower half. They were not edited as tightly as M:I 's, however. I deleted the "production difficulties" statement as, along with the number of programs already doing such a montage, Mission 's was also used as the "next week's episode" trailer—they merely had to lay the fuse animation over it—and it was followed by a conventional sequence of series title & regular cast list. Couldn't have been all that problematical, but please note that I have not said so in the article. I forgot to say in my edit summary that I also fixed a couple of Wikilinks—T-birds went to a disambig. page and Galactica had a redirect; no big deal, just for the record. -- Ted Watson ( talk) 22:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
The title sequence for I Spy did use clips from the upcoming episode for the first season only. After this it became a standardized montage featuring clips from various episodes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Erikemiller ( talk • contribs) 19:55, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
I disagree with the article flatly referring to Lynda Day George's character as "Lisa Casey." That first name comes from the one episode of the revival series in which George guest starred, as a former IMF agent. However, there is no doubt in my mind that the script wasn't written to be Casey, but the actress was shoehorned into it when she agreed to appear. Note that she has a completely different career here—the original Casey was a cosmetologist, hence she supplied a mask whenever one was required for an IMF operation; but here she is a stage director—and she and husband Chris named the baby girl born during her seventh season maternity leave Casey. They certainly thought it was her first name. Furthermore, the revival series began with a female operative named Casey Randall. There must have been some fan backlash about that absurd act, but the imminent return of the original Casey may have been a greater factor in the decision to kill off that character. I submit that this article should not flatly refer to the character as "Lisa Casey" but leave that as being described as a retcon in the revival's own article, which I've fixed up in that direction, but only as far as the White book on M:I allows. -- Ted Watson ( talk) 20:52, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Nice to have it corroborated that I didn't miss something in the book, at least. Reminds me that I must check out the article on the original Get Smart TV show and see if (and I do say "if") the confusion about Agent 99 and "Susan" is messed up there. Thanks for that prompt as well. -- Ted Watson ( talk) 20:26, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
In the sub-section "Fifth season": During the fifth season, White notes, the producers began to phase out international missions, deciding instead to task the IMF with battling organized crime figures.... White's actual statement is decidedly stronger: Beginning in year five...Phelps and company concentrated almost all their attention on a battle with organized crime.... However, his own episode-by-episode tour through the season demonstrates that this is simply not true. The fifth season has only three such operations. One is against the parent Mafia in Sicily (the tape message's "the Syndicate's Mediterranean branch" is ludicruous) and another is a personal mission to avenge the murder of Barney Collier's brother, a newspaperman. The third, with Robert Conrad guest starring as a mob hitman whose target the IMF must identify and protect while uncovering the killer's immediate supervisor, could have just as easily been about an foreign intelligence apparatus' assassin. The season looks different from previous episodes because more scenes were shot on real city streets, the countryside, beaches, airports, with much less work on the Paramount lot (according to new producer Bruce Lansbury, page 337 of White, albeit quoted in the overview for the following season, at which point he was on his way out). Therefore, the article should not say otherwise. -- Ted Watson ( talk) 21:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
PoughkeepsieNative, I just saw the edit you did relevant to this discussion, and the situation really isn't that simple. You seem to be equating "domestic" with "Syndicate" which isn't true. Year Five did indeed constitute a gradual increase of USA-based episodes, but most didn't involve the Mob. What you have reads, During the sixth season, the producers began to phase out the international missions.... That much is true of Year Five, so I'm going to alter it a bit. -- Tbrittreid ( talk) 21:16, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Fair enough...I wasn't trying to "turn over the apple cart", as it were. I've been watching all the episodes in order and, as I watched Season Five, I kept waiting for EXACTLY what I saw in Season Six. Mea Culpa for confusing the focus on domestic missions with the focus on the Syndicate. I was just totally shellshocked by the first four missions of Season Six having the phrase "conventional law enforcement" in the briefing tape. -- PoughkeepsieNative ( talk) 00:10, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I have reverted a unilateral attempt by an editor to move this article to Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series) as I feel consensus should be attempted before moving a major article such as this. I contend that as the original and predominant user of this title, based upon similar precdedent the 1966-73 TV series should have the non-disambiguated version. Also, as the series ran 7 years, it's incorrect to pigeonhole it to a single year. I'm not interested in starting an edit war on this issue, but I feel we should discuss it first. I have invited the editor in question to explain his or her rationale and if consensus agrees, then I'm fine with it. (Please note I am leaving on Christmas holidays in 24 hours and will be offline for the rest of the month, so I may not have an opportunity to comment further from my end; I'll abide by consensus). 23skidoo ( talk) 14:40, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Page | Hits in Dec 2008 |
---|---|
Mission: Impossible | 13,254 |
Mission: Impossible (1988 TV series) | 2,464 |
Mission: Impossible (film) | 19,789 |
Mission: Impossible II | 19,642 |
Mission: Impossible III | 34,784 |
Mission: Impossible (NES) | 746 |
Mission: Impossible (1998 video game) | 1,091 |
Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma | 1,632 |
Mission: Impossible feature films | 5,175 |
according to the
grok about page,
Q: What is the logic for redirects and when a page gets moved do the stats move?
A: It counts the title the page was accessed under, so redirects and moves will unfortunately split the statistics across two different statistics pages.
Page | Hits in Dec 2008 |
---|---|
Mission Impossible [redirect, no punctuation] | 25,924 |
Mission Impossible I [redirect, no punctuation] | 7 |
Mission Impossible II [redirect, no punctuation] | 7,128 |
Mission Impossible III [redirect, no punctuation] | 21,041 |
Mission: Impossible I [redirect] | 6 |
Mission: Impossible 1 [redirect] | 0 |
Mission: Impossible 2 [redirect] | 768 |
Mission: Impossible 3 [redirect] | 385 |
Mission Impossible 1 [redirect, no punctuation] | 247 |
Mission Impossible 2 [redirect, no punctuation] | 4,088 |
Mission Impossible 3 [redirect, no punctuation] | 8,897 |
Mission:Impossible [redirect, no space] | 2,464 |
Mission:Impossible I [redirect, no space] | 0 |
Mission:Impossible II [redirect, no space] | 16 |
Mission:Impossible III [redirect, no space] | 3 |
Combining all the punctuation variants
Page & its Variants | Total Hits in Dec 2008 |
---|---|
Mission: Impossible [all variants] | 41,468 |
Mission: Impossible I [all variants] | 260 |
Mission: Impossible II [all variants] | 24,514 |
Mission: Impossible III [all variants] | 65,110 |
Thus, the preference for Mission:Impossible III is somewhat less overwhelming.
This, however, does not say what thepe who typed in "Mission Impossible" were actually looking for. Intuitively, I think that those who were looking for the original film may have just typed it in, and the others used the II or III. But we can not distinguish those who typed something in the search br, fro those who followed a link, nor tell which link it was. I do not know if such statistics for Wikipedia are currently available. DGG ( talk) 19:27, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
"Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics". Didn't even think of redirects. So stats.grok.se gives counts by name used to access the article, which could be the name or redirect name typed in the search box, selected from a list of search results, or used as a link from another article. (There are some other mission impossible articles not in the list, but they do not show high counts).
I checked for all redirects, put it into Excel and came up with the following total (see User:Aymatth2/Impossible Stats for detailed counts):
Page & Redirects | Hits in Dec 2008 | % of total |
---|---|---|
Mission: Impossible | 39,332 | 23.4% |
Mission: Impossible (1988 TV series) | 2,464 | 1.5% |
Mission: Impossible (film) | 20,049 | 11.9% |
Mission: Impossible II | 31,642 | 18.8% |
Mission: Impossible III | 65,110 | 38.7% |
Mission: Impossible (NES) | 980 | 0.6% |
Mission: Impossible (1998 video game) | 1,528 | 0.9% |
Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma | 1,784 | 1.1% |
Mission: Impossible feature films | 5,175 | 3.1% |
The films still seem a lot more popular than the original TV series with 121,976 total page views, but that may not be entirely relevant. If someone types in "mission impossible 3" and goes direct to the article they want, it does not matter to them how the "mission impossible" article is structured.
What we can't see is how many people looked at several of the pages. I suspect the "mission: impossible" (and variants) number is a bit misleading, because people looking for one of the games or movies, particularly the first one, might well type "mission impossible" in the search box, see the original TV series, then navigate off to the movie they want.
I personally have little interest in Mission: Impossible in any of its forms, but considerable interest in using facts to assist in decisions. I see no reason why we should not do an experiment - I am happy to do it. That is, make the moves as suggested, so that "mission impossible" becomes the disambiguation page, leave it for a week and check the result. It will be interesting will be to see the % changes.
The more I think about what search terms people would use, what navigation patterns they would show if they got the "wrong" article, the more I suspect that the current structure is best. But it would be useful to do the experiment to confirm that. My prediction is, looking at percentages:
If the film II and film III percentages stay about the same, and the original TV show continues to get more hits than the first movie plus the games, the name change should be reversed. Makes sense? Sort of interesting in an obscure way. Aymatth2 ( talk) 21:38, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was Withdrawn Parsecboy ( talk) 14:21, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
If nobody watching this page objects in the next week three months, I will go ahead and do the move discussed just above. The new naming will be
This will make it easier for users to get quickly to the article they are interested in. Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:32, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Comments:
Mission: Impossible began as an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). The leader of the team, other than in the first episode, was Jim Phelps, most often played by Peter Graves.
A hallmark of the series shows Phelps receiving his instructions on a tape that then self destructs, accompanied by the theme music, composed by Lalo Schifrin, widely considered to be one of the most iconic television themes.
The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973. It returned to television, as a revival, for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990 and later inspired a popular trio of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise in the 1990s and 2000s, with the role of Phelps played by Jon Voight.
Or just let someone else close it as "withdrawn" if you do not get to it first. 199.125.109.126 ( talk) 15:40, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
I wonder if a mention of the contributions of special effects master Jonnie Burke (imdb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121737/ ) wouldn't be appropriate somewhere. His devices were key to the believability of many episodes. White's book mentions that at one point he built a remote manipulator device for a few hundred dollars; the real thing cost far more money and had less range of motion! Jeh ( talk) 04:42, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
I ran out of room in the edit summary, so I want to admit here that I did quite a lot beyond what I said there. Don't have time now to describe the additional work. Sorry. -- Ted Watson ( talk) 22:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
As it turns out, "gas" utility covere really are labeled "gaz" in Poland; I'm in Warsaw this week and I spotted one ;) Jeh ( talk) 18:20, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
The following was just added to the end of the first paragraph of the section "Dossier scene": "An error occurs in the second episode 'Memory', when Briggs tosses Rollin Hand's picture aside, though he was selected for the mission anyway." Not so. Hand becomes part of the team only once Dan is forced to change plans well along the way. In the first season Martin Landau was billed in the dossier scene (of the episodes in which he actually appeared) instead of the main opening credits because he was not yet officially a regular, so his photo had to be seen in that scene here for him to be billed. (Apparently actors' union regs prevented regulars from being among the discarded photos in episodes where they didn't play, which is a shame.) I could not get this explanation into an edit summary, so intend to link to here when I take it out. -- Tbrittreid ( talk) 22:54, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
“ | According to White, William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, who served as story consultants for the first two seasons and became producers of the third season—but did not last long, dismissed for believing that, in their new capacity, executive producer Geller had no authority over them, relied heavily on The Big Con, written by David W. Maurer, for their inspiration. ... | ” |
Are Woodfield and Balter the subject of relied? If yes, there should be a second dash before relied to balance the first; if no, what's missing? — Tamfang ( talk) 17:07, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
This would be clearer:
— Tamfang ( talk) 17:10, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
References
I did not see on the page an explanation of who they worked for. It was not the CIA or FBI because each of these organizations has a "Director" and the tape always says "the Secretary" will deny, etc. It also could not be the Dept. of Justice otherwise, because the DOJ has an Attorney General, who is refered to as "General Holder" or "General Ashcroft," etc. That leaves the Department of State, the Department of Defense, or the Department of Energy. The Department of Energy concens itself only with nuclear topcis, like Los Alamos, and State has no Impossible Missions capabilities, so it must have been the Department of Defense and the Secretary was the Secretary of Defense. Where should this important topic be added to the main page? It is one of the most fundamental questions about the show that Wikipedians would be concerned with. 173.79.12.166 ( talk) 12:51, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
As noted in White's book and on Peter Graves's wikipedia page, two pilots films were made with the same title "Call to Danger". Who removed them? They were completely in line with this page's chronology. 143.232.210.38 ( talk) 18:27, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm just watching a documentary on Space 1999 and Gerry Anderson wanted Martin Landau and Barbara Bain as lead characters but nearly never got them as they kept demanding more and more and more money to appear in his series (though they had nothing else on at the time). It was touch and go but in the end, Lew Grade gave in to their demands. I wonder if something like this happened here where they wanted too much money so their contracts were not renewed after season 3? ( 130.255.18.180 ( talk) 17:47, 13 November 2012 (UTC))
Hey, does anyone know the track played at the end of "Time Bomb" (when the bomb is disarmed while the clock is shown several times)? I think I heard it quite often when watching the show, but it doesn't appear on the soundtrack CDs I know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.14.198.13 ( talk) 20:47, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
The Mission: Impossible (film series) is proposed to be converted to a franchise article, see talk: Mission: Impossible (film series) for the discussion -- 70.51.203.69 ( talk) 02:17, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
adding {{ dubious}} tag to the claim that the music from the theme song spells out MI in Morse Code. The claim sounds dubious, I couldn't find any reference to it. The "MI" in Morse is - - . . while posts of a [ sheet-music notation] suggests a beat of - . - - .—Preceding unsigned comment added by Otheus ( talk • contribs) 07:52, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Combining the rest with the preceding note, which is how listeners hear the rhythm of the theme, you get dotted-quarter,dotted-quarter,quarter,quarter, which is indeed heard as long,long,short,short. So the claim that the theme is based on Morse Code is plausible.
However, that the 5/4 time is a consequence of this is clearly incorrect. The Morse Code standard is dot = 1 unit; dash = 3 units; and space between parts is 1 unit. Space between letters is 3 units. Converting this to music, and incorporating the space after a dot/dash into the element, you'd get: dot = eighth note (2 units), dash = quarter note (4 units), between letters = eighth rest (2 units, 1 unit having been absorbed into the preceding element).
The theme does not have the correct relationship between dashes and dots and lacks the space between the letters. Playing with a detached style: quarter note, quarter note, eighth rest, eighth note, eighth note, eighth rest would be heard as "MI", and fits into 4/4 time quite neatly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.35.139.96 ( talk) 16:02, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
I sure wish someone could find photos (with proper rights) for each season, especially season 2/3, like these photos. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 08:54, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
Should it be noted in the article that the show displayed a large number of different uniforms? I was excited about the multiple types of uniforms the IMF-team encountered during their missions, later I noticed that many resembled more or less uniforms of the Third Reich and also "eastern" uniforms. -- Exodianecross ( talk) 01:42, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
We seem to be missing a franchise article to cover all the M:I properties. Mission: Impossible (franchise) should eb written to account for the missing coverage, so that the fictional universe of all the TV shows, videogames, novels, and films can be interrelated. A starting point can be the Mission: Impossible (disambiguation) page -- 70.51.200.162 ( talk) 05:11, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
The paragraph in the article noting Geller's edict against character development in the series finally solves the mystery of why I could never really get into the show, something I'd wondered about for over half a century, albeit from a distance. Racing Forward ( talk) 13:12, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved all ( closed by non-admin page mover) DannyS712 ( talk) 01:44, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
– While the 1966 TV series is the primary source all other MI entries derive from, it is not even close to being the most viewed page per a year of page view data (see link below as it was not showing correctly here). The real primary topic should be a franchise article, which currently does not exist, but placing it until that time at the disambiguation page will be the best solution which will cause the lest "disruption" until that time, and also allow finding links leading to incorrect targets. Gonnym ( talk) 08:12, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
The article does not mention why the series was cancelled, and after only 4 seasons. Strange for such a successful TV show. Bad ratings??? (I didn't think it had bad ratings). Too expensive? Disagreements between studio, producer, directors, actors, etc???? Thanks in advance to anybody who knows. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Betathetapi454 ( talk • contribs) 18:15, 13 May 2022 (UTC)