http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/ The New York Apartment of the IMF Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:33:19 GMT erikemiller http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4747 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4747 Yes, this is very interesting. I think that your description of season seven as a hybrid year is very accurate. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:25:21 GMT erikemiller http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4746 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4746 "For a few years back then, in the early seventies, American television reached a cultural high, intelligent television on a level that it almost looked like Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:15:58 GMT erikemiller http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4745 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4745 Another excellent review Thomas. I love Casino. I will be watching it this weekend and posting my thoughts shortly. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:54:02 GMT franciscopedro39 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4744 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4744 The Seal the worst episode of Mission and The Martyr a masterpiece? Am I in Bizarro world? Is that maybe why The Seal is loved by fans as one of the best Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:38:12 GMT erikemiller http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4743 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4743 I forgot to add the funniest line from TNOT Sedgewick Curse, delivered by Arte (of course) after he escapes from the steam death trap, the hotel clerk asks him Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:30:37 GMT erikemiller http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4742 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4742 Hopefully if it's on schedule it will arrive early next week. I plan to enjoy it while eating my Thanksgiving turkey. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:30:21 GMT erikemiller http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4741 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4741 Gothic is the right word for it. Superb stuff! I jumped out of my seat after I finished watching it to tell you about the writer and director. I never noticed Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:27:37 GMT erikemiller http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4740 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4740 Cool! I will try to finish it over the weekend. I'll be free Sunday to work on it. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:15:50 GMT filigrane http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4739 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4739 148-CASINO (produced by Laurence Heath) Prologue: Focus on a roulette of a casino and its players. In the back of the place, Orin Kerr gets down the stairs Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:13:43 GMT John K. Balor http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4738 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4738 Yes, the kept the revisionist formula intact!!!!  AND THAT IS WHAT MAKES SEASON SEVEN SO GOOD!!!!  Magnificent early seventies style in terms of music, Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:35:18 GMT bellerocorp http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4737 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4737 By watching an episode of season 7, I forgot they changed the narrative structure again and it played hybrid. I meant they returned to the template of the Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:21:23 GMT John K. Balor http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4736 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4736 Space 1999 was a wonderful series.  I think Landau and Bain did the right thing in leaving the chidlish Mission Impossible in order to get involved with more Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:15:17 GMT John K. Balor http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4735 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4735 My impression is that the early seasons of Mission Impossible were targeted for the same audience that would watch episodes of Scooby-Doo.  I must have been Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:55:02 GMT John K. Balor http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4734 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4734 The music is one of my favourite aspects of the later seasons of Mission Impossible.  Music, photography and editing.  Often the show works better in terms Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:49:35 GMT John K. Balor http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4733 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Impossible_1966/message/4733 Please tell us when it arrives, Erik.  Season seven is superb!!  Pure joy from beginning to end.  I'm still with the early episodes, still hoping that