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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)

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@mechajutaro said:

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

I'd still put her first scene in the first episode, wherein she appears clad only in a towel, above the very obvious gag that is "Has she been turned?" Especially during the decade that this was filmed. TV was nowhere near that daring in the 60s, to answer that question with a resounding yes

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.

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.

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!!

It's obvious that the winner is Cinnamon and her 15 costume changes in The Short Tailed Spy!

Nice ... shoving this thread to the bottom of the heap. :-(

Huh? No comprende?

@cinna_mini_me said:

Nice ... shoving this thread to the bottom of the heap. :-(

Ha ha ha ha, Cinni. I thought it was just me. Point proven. Pushed to the top again, huh?

And the losers are ...

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?

This is a great thread. I'll have to give this some more thought and look through the episodes

Me too.

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.

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.

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