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Best Season for Mission:Impossible
Ok,looking at the series objectively, Season 6 is the best season so far released on DVD. The early seasons evoke more nostalgia in some people, and that's ok. However, if you look at the early years of Mission: Impossible it seemed that almost every episode took place in some make-believe east bloc communist country,with phoney accents and uniforms. Season 6 is different and more exciting, it takes place mainly in the USA and brings organized crime into the element. The scripts are tight, more believable, and the cast works together like a fine swiss watch. Great viewing, even thought the episodes are almost 40 yrs old. Highly recommend.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE #6: The Syndicate Strikes!
Good morning. This is the sixth season (1971-1972) of "Mission: Impossible" which is again produced by Bruce Lansbury (from season 4 and 5) and supervised by top writer Laurence Heath who also produces six episodes. The series returns to its genesis (the original theme music, a sophisticated leading lady) and solely focuses on the American gangsters threat also known as the Syndicate: the IMF now does Feds jobs instead of Secret Service operations.

There're substantial changes: find a small crew of four IMF agents, a new and real "glamorous" leading lady named Lisa Casey (played by Lynda Day George) who also replaces the master of disguises Paris, the departure of Dr. Doug Robert (which appears once in "Encore") and character Barney who becomes a major asset for the plots and displays his acting knacks, especially in "Mindbend" as a brainwashed fugitive, "Blues" as a junky soul music performer in which he sings twice: "Judy's Gone Now" and Otis Redding's "Sittin' on the...

Great Series, but Getting Tired
I loved the old Mission Impossible series. It was way better than the Tom Cruise movies, with all the sense of adventure and teamwork which the movies lacked. Unfortunately, by the sixth season, the series seemed to have become a little tired. Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were long gone, and Leonard Nimoy, who provided much of the life in Seasons 4 and 5 was now out of the series as well. The international nature of previous seasons had also departed, with most Season 6 episodes covering activities of the "syndicate" which "conventional law enforcement agencies" had been unable to combat.

Although this classic series is always interesting, and way better than the movies, for anyone who loves the series and doesn't have any of the DVDs, I would recommend seasons 2 through 5 (Season 1 is good, but the series became much better with the arrival of Peter Graves, playing the team leader Jim Phelps, at the beginning of Season 2) over this rather tired effort.

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