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In short, I’ve limited myself to the original series only, the real deal. 3) Two- or three-part episodes count as one episode. 2) The 1980s revival series doesn’t count. In keeping with Hoffman’s piece, I’ve established my own set of rules. But Mission: Impossible matters to me, and I’ve loved it ever since I first saw the lighting of the match. Yes, many of its episodes are flawed, unrealistic, even flat-out terrible. Watching it was ritualistic, and for good or ill, its influence is stamped indelibly on me. The theme song used to raise the hackles on the back of my neck. I still recall staying up until midnight to watch the reruns every night as a teenager. Nothing else looked, sounded, or felt like it.
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Especially compared to the stagy, talky fare of its era, Mission was a mini-movie every week, full of rapid cuts, insert shots, dialogue-free visual storytelling, complex, intertwining storylines, and innovative sound editing, all backed by the iconic music of the legendary Lalo Schifrin, among others. (Television history’s mission-of-the-week landscape is littered with popular shows that owe a debt to Mission, from cagey, comedic imitators like The A-Team and Leverage to sprawling, serialized spy dramas like 24 and Alias.) Mission: Impossible is influential TV in general it changed the way television was made, bringing cinematic techniques to the small screen. But I do think, in its own clandestine way, it’s one of TV’s most influential series, and not just on the spy shows that followed in its wake. The original Mission: Impossible ran from 1966-1973 on CBS, and in light of all the amazing television that’s been produced since then, one would be hard pressed to call it one of the best shows of all time. Wouldn’t it be nice, I thought, if my favorite television show had a similar list? But the very audacity of tackling such a project spoke to the obsessive completist in me. Not enough to actually read every review, mind you that’s an exercise for the converted.
That said, I have to say I was impressed by Jordan Hoffman’s article at Playboy ranking every Star Trek episode ever made. While my SF writer friends were immersed in that universe, I was busy watching (and re-watching, and re-re-watching) the original Mission: Impossible, thereby ensuring that, somehow, I was out of step even with my own tribe. It’s probably blasphemy for a science fiction writer to admit this, but I’ve never been a Star Trek fan.
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