Mission Impossible's influence
How many TV shows can you think of that were influenced by Mission Impossible?
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How many TV shows can you think of that were influenced by Mission Impossible?
P.S. And the orchestra's performance was top notch!
When you stop to think about it, you don't really think about it sufficiently.
Nikita and Covert Affairs.
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Actually James Bond was the inspiration for all the spy shows, Man From Uncle, I Spy, even the comedy Get Smart. And yes a western called Wild,Wild West. So MI might have influenced other tv shows, it's still a branch off the Bond tree.
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MI might have influenced other tv shows, it's still a branch off the Bond tree.I would have to disagree on two counts. First because Bond was a loner and Mission is about a team. And second because Bond wasn't a con artist, and Mission was based on a book called The Big Con. It's all in the Mission Dossier, available at Amazon.
MI and James Bond were inspired by several/novels movies preceding them.
The 1928 film Spies by Fritz Lang is the original spy film, and created many of the standard tropes used in the genre to this day.
Films that had MI's same "team" concept of spying operations that predate Bond:
13 Rue Madeleine
Guns of Navarone--this film was definitely a huge influence for MI.
Hell and High Water
O.S.S.
The Man Who Never Was
Several Hitchcock films precede Bonds, often by more than two decades, such as:
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The 39 Steps
Foreign Correspondent
Secret Agent
Sabotage
The Lady Vanishes
Notorious
North by Northwest
Cary Grant was in many of these films, and there's definitely a
case to be made that he and his work for Hitchcock are the
primary inspirations for how the Bond character has been
portrayed on film since 1962.
Graham Greene, an actual MI6 agent, wrote several critically-acclaimed and bestselling spy novels that either predate Fleming's first Bond novel or predate the Bond film franchise:
The Confidential Agent
The Ministry of Fear
The Heart of the Matter
The Third Man
The Quiet American
Our Man in Havana
The only Greene spy novel in the list above that didn't get a film
adaptation was The Heart of the Matter. All of the other books
made it to the silver screen--and all of them did so at least 3
years before Dr. No.
Other famous spy films that precede either the Bond novels or the film franchise:
5 Fingers
Hangmen Also Die
The House on 92nd Street
Iron Curtain (sometimes titled Behind the Iron Curtain)
The Mask of Dimitrios
Mata Hari
Pickup on South Street
Saboteur
The Spy in Black
Actually James Bond was the inspiration for all the spy shows, Man From Uncle, I Spy, even the comedy Get Smart. Actually James Bond was the inspiration for all the spy shows, Man From Uncle, I Spy, even the comedy Get Smart.
I think cind5 has a valid point. Bond did came first and paved the way to the whole espionage genre, which lead to a whole bunch of spy movies and tv series.
Without Bond, there wouldn't be "Mission: Impossible" or, say, surrealistic show like "The Prisoner". The fact that shows like these doesn't resemble Bond is irrelevant. They're all secret agents and that's the craze Bond started.
Of course Mission: Impossible is still highly influental show on its own.
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Anyone ever see episodes of "21 Beacon Street"? I've seen only two episodes of this short-lived show that aired in 1959-60. Dennis Morgan was a private eye who led a team of four that carried out "missions" against criminals that were too unorthodox for regular police departments and government agencies to undertake. Of course the two capers I saw weren't as elaborate as the IMF stories, but there was a foundation of sorts.
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The 21 Beacon Street show has intrigued me, but I have been unable to find any episodes to view. You indicated that you have seen two of these episodes, I would be curious to know where you found them. Thanks.
shareA former colleague of mine had them on on a VHS tape along with episodes of other TV shows like PAUL SAND IN FRIENDS & LOVERS and ST. ELSEWHERE. The common denominator was that they all took place in Boston, I guess. If I could get ahold of the guy, I'll try to find out where he got the BEACON STREET shows.
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Thank You Bradford-1, you are very kind . I appreciate it.
The following link is for a site where there are SEVERAL episodes of "21 Beacon Street" that can be downloaded. Apparently some kind of account has to be opened. I'm at work, so can't do it right now.
http://www.tubeplus.is/player/661826/21_Beacon_Street/
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Thanks again Bradford-1. I appreciate it.
shareI would say that the first season of MacGyver was somewhat influenced by this series... until Mac became a glorified social worker who wanted to solve all of society's problems and lecture everybody.
shareYou said better than I could....about MacGyver,..If it was less preachy it would have lasted longer and had better ratings and I would be more apt to watch the reruns now but some of the episodes make me change the channel.
share7 seasons is a good run, no matter how good or bad a show is. I don't think MacGyver should have gone any longer than that either way.
shareYou're correct of course for some reason I remembered incorrectly and thought it only ran 4 or 5 seasons, but still it would have been better if it wasn't so preachy.
shareThe USA show Burn Notice -- somewhat similar to M:I in that you have a trio of operatives that frequently play different roles (undercover) in most shows; it's a team effort, there is often a "con" aspect to the trio's plans, and they often use electronics and gimmickry to "expedite" their missions. Factor in the factoid that the central character Michael is a spy on the outs; his pal/sidekick Sam used to be a Navy SEAL and Fiona balances beauty, brains, and well, violence. Sometimes they go up against mobsters and con men, other times against enemy agents and maverick/rogue spies. Rollin/Cinnamon-era M:I went up against a phony children's charity, the BN posse went up against a bunch of creeps running medical scams on seriously ill people.
shareMy choice for a TV show that was influenced by MI is the British spy series Spooks (known in the U.S. as MI5.)
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Leverage and the MacGyver reboot (which makes it more about a team than a solo operative like James Bond).
shareApparently everyone has forgotten The A-Team!
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