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And the nominees are ...
posted by lima-2STAFFMOD on January 3, 2022 at 1:20 PM
It's a new year and trying out a new thread. Looking for other opinions. What episodes do you think highlight the best aspects of each character? Not necessarily the acting skills of the performer, but that may play into it. Mine are ... (WITH SPOILERS)
Steven Hill as Dan Briggs in The Pilot. Season 1, Episode 1. Briggs was willing to explode the nuclear warheads in the vault with General Dominguez, rather than see them used against America.
Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter in The Short Tail Spy. Season 1, Episode 14. The viewer wasn't sure if Cinnamon was "turned" until the very end.
Peter Graves as Jim Phelps in The Mind of Stefan Miklos. Season 3, Episode 13. Phelps out-thought and out-planned the brilliant Miklos.
Martin Landau as Rollin Hand in The Interrogator. Season 3, Episode 25. Rollins turned the tables on his interrogator at a key point in the plot.
Other thoughts? Other seasons? To be continued (I hope)
Reply by cinna_mini_me
on January 5, 2022 at 3:01 PM
I have to agree with Lima on The Short Tail Spy. The series was still new. We weren't sure of any of the characters yet. But the scene you mention, mechajutaro, is a classic! That was the TV teaser trailer the network kept showing in the days before the series premiered. I'm sure that piqued the curiosity of a lot of "uncommitted" male viewers from the 1960's.
Reply by klondike6
on January 7, 2022 at 11:54 AM
I nominate: Season Six; Episode Two: Encore Sam Elliott for his final appearance as Dr. Doug Robert. For putting on a good face! And not a mask! LOL
Even though this was the second episode broadcast in Season Six, it was the first episode filmed for that season. It was also the first episode filmed with Lynda Day George. The last episode filmed with Sam Elliott. He has to know it was his last. Why? It was the ONLY episode in which he appeared with Peter Lupus, the actor he was brought in to replace.
It also guest starred William Shatner, the first episode filmed after Leonard Nimoy left the series, the season before.
Reply by mel-boring
on January 13, 2022 at 3:47 PM
Peter Lupus in Memory, Season 1: Not much face time, but his character Willie Armitage talks about growing up in Indiana, where Lupus is actually from!
Season 5: Homecoming. We learn that Jim Phelps comes from the small town of Norville. His parents owned a boat rental business, and that he was a Navy veteran.
A brief glimpse into otherwise very enigmatic characters. A departure from the Geller formula of not revealing too much about any of them!!
Reply by LansingFan
on January 19, 2022 at 4:03 PM
It's obvious that the winner is Cinnamon and her 15 costume changes in The Short Tailed Spy!
Reply by cinna_mini_me
on January 23, 2022 at 7:07 PM
Nice ... shoving this thread to the bottom of the heap. :-(
Reply by LansingFan
on January 23, 2022 at 7:18 PM
Huh? No comprende?
Reply by mel-boring
on January 23, 2022 at 9:56 PM
Ha ha ha ha, Cinni. I thought it was just me. Point proven. Pushed to the top again, huh?
Reply by mel-boring
on January 23, 2022 at 9:59 PM
And the losers are ...
Reply by lima-2
on January 24, 2022 at 7:25 AM
Play nice guys! If no one wants to post here, that's fine. I just thought this might be an interesting thread.
Moving on ... I'm not a big fan of anything past season three. Any thoughts on actors and roles from those episodes? Especially Nimoy or the always-changing female leads?
Reply by Jayhn1111
on January 27, 2022 at 9:36 PM
This is a great thread. I'll have to give this some more thought and look through the episodes
Reply by LansingFan
on January 31, 2022 at 1:27 AM
Me too.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on April 20, 2022 at 2:53 PM
My nominee for Best Performance by a guest star is Elizabeth Ashley in the sixth season episode Encounter. Her performance as the alcoholic wife of one of the bad guys who desperately wants him to give up his life of crime is amazing. And the last scene in the episode always makes me teary-eyed. I truly believe that if the Emmys had a Best Guest Star in a Dramatic Series category when Mission Impossible was on the air Elizabeth Ashley definitely would have won it.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on May 17, 2022 at 10:09 PM
Someone else who should win something is the late, great George Saunders. The first time I saw him in the fifth season finale, I went nuts! He was so awesome, and his performance as Addison DeWitt in All About Eve was epic! He truly deserved the Best Supporting Actor Oscar that he won for that role.