To really understand the impact spy thrillers had on 20th Century society you had to live in the 1960s.
The Cold War was at its height. Things were so bad that the United States and the Soviet Union came within a hairsbreadth of total nuclear annihilation.
When the first James Bond film: Dr. No, premiered it immediately caught on and the spy craze soon went into full swing.
Movies, novels and TV shows began popping up everywhere reedy to capitalize from the Spy Craze.
An impressive amount of TV Spy shows began appearing both domestically and overseas. Among them were the Man From U.N.C.L.E., Secret Agent Man, The Avengers, The Prisoner and dozens more.
One series outlasted them all. It featured a group of highly specialized agents who teamed together to take down foreign powers, domestic crime lords, dictators and the like.
Headed by the mysterious Jim Phelps the team was assembled each week by Phelps to take on certain clandestine assignments.
When the series first began various actors and actresses would guest star as the selected agents.
After the series fell into place the team pretty much consisted of the same team members with a few additions now and them. Look for Steven Hill, Peter Graves, Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Leonard Nimoy, Sam Elliot and Ann Warren in reoccurring roles.
The TV series was Mission: Impossible and it ran on CBS for seven years.
The series inspired a number of movies starring Tom Cruise.
The TV show was cleverly written, edited and produced. Both actresses and actors on the series performed brilliantly, much of them winning various awards, as did the series.
CBS/Paramount presents the entire seven season run of Mission: Impossible The Original TV Series in a boxed Blu-ray set.
All 171 of the episodes from seven seasons come on (for the very first time) 46 Blu-ray discs.
It’s cleverly designed Bu-ray collection with each season disc spotlighting key characters and scenes for the series.
Look for it the first of Decmeber, 2020.
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