TV series thoughts....

[j_cheney]

NO, this isn't about the current season of Heroes, Pushing Up Daisies, or Dr. Who...

I was thinking last night about Mission: Impossible. As a kid this was my favorite TV series. Came on at 4:00, so I saw it right after I got home from school. It was a wonderful series, all about planning, teamwork, and slipping out quietly after your work is done. It was just wonderful. I have now discovered is out in DVD format---so on my Wish List it goes!

(Do not talk to me about the movies. They stink, precisely because they're not about the team...they're about one person. They also made Jim Phelps look bad, which made me disposed to hate them from the very first.)

Other series I'd like to put on DVD Wish list if only they'd put them out:
Counterstrike
Early Edition
Mysterious Ways

OK, studio execs....now you know what I want!

PS: In other discontinuation news, the stores seem to be dropping Athenos Greek Vinaigrette with Feta Cheese and, aaackk!, Target will no longer carry El Milagro Corn Chips. ::sobbing::

Comments

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

When we moved in September we got a new cable package (and provider). It carries the "American Life" network, which carries Mission: Impossible, so I've been rediscovering the show. Despite the politics being a little dated, as it was a cold war show, it is as good as I remembered it.

The AL network's also showing Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Batman and Green Hornet! I'm loving all this.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

We don't have cable because we can't seem to get a package we'd like at a price we're willing to pay. (You have to get all those other stupid HBO channels just to get the History Channel and SciFi!) How I would love to watch some of those oldies! ::jealous::

[countesslovlace.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I loved the Mission: Impossible TV show. I had a huge crush on Martin Landau, and still do, even tho he is really, really old.

Tom Cruise -- ptui.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I so agree with the Tom Cruise thing...ick!

Husband and I were talking about childhood crushes just yesterday. I only had one that I can remember...Michael York. Who is still pretty good-looking for his age, now that I think about it.... ;o)

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

I never saw Mission: Impossible. I grew up without a TV for the most part, but we had one briefly when we lived near Philadelphia (the man we'd bought the house from left it behind.)

My mother didn't believe in television, so we were only allowed to watch one program and Saturday morning cartoons. Sometimes, when something special was on, we could watch it. Anyway, what we were allowed to watch was Star Trek.
It came on just after Soul Train and just before Mission: Impossible. So I often saw the end of Soul Train and the introduction to Mission: Impossible with "this tape will self-destruct..." If she'd known more about it, she might've let us watch it, but she liked us watching Star Trek because of all the diversity and the messages about peace, love and understanding.
(Yes, she later confessed to me that that was why. She herself didn't enjoy the stories, but she recognized that it espoused values she would rather have her children exposed to than much of what was out there.)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Your mom sounds nice...but she should have let you watch IM.... ;o)

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Probably. She is nice, but she really thought most of
TV was garbage. Turned out, of course, that she hadn't seen nothing yet.

The other day, I was watching M*A*S*H and Col. Potter and Hawkeye were rapidfire pun-trading, and I realized, "This is still better than most of what's on TV, even 30 years later."

I don't feel that way about other Shows that Will Not Die. Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry still leaves me cold, sorry.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Never liked Mayberry either.

Now, MASH? You can't go wrong with that. It's always hilarious, and always pertinent.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed. And saying things no-one seems to dare to, anymore.