Blind Item #15 - Reader Blind Item
This action/adventure TV show with immediately recognizable title theme music also had a short lived reboot in a later decade and currently has a movie franchise bearing its name featuring a permanent A list actor which has been disowned by the original cast and creators. An interesting fact about the original show. The set was often visited by representatives of various intelligence agencies who were fascinated by the gadgets and twisty plots. Whether or not they actually tried to use them in the field is not known.
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Star Trek/Shatner
Mission Impossible
Ah maybe eh?
+1 Loved the first movie
It's Mission Impossible. It's impossible NOT to recognize the first five seconds of the theme song.
Yeah I'm pretty sure the original cast wants nothing to do with Tommy Girls movies. Especially Martin Landau when he was still alive.
To be fair, the *first* Mission: Impossible movie was actually pretty decent. I don't know what the hell happened after that.
Oh, right. Tommy jumped the sofa. And he's crazy.
Easiest blind ever? Certainly not close to "Impossible."
Actually the 4th and 5th movies are the best, then the first one. 2 is bad, 3 is laughably bad (despite PSH). I'm looking forward to the new one.
Love him, hate him, think he's absolutely crazy and probably even dangerous (and not in a good way), Tom Cruise is a full-blown Big Screen Movie Star, maybe the last of his kind.
Yeah Mission Impossible was originally all about the team working together, not just one agent. But there are moneys to be made with star vehicles.
The first Mission Impossible was really great.
When I started reading the blind I thought of Robin Hood (yes I'm crap at this) which made the last couple of sentences an amusing thought.
Summary:
Mission Impossible tv show set was visited by fans who might have worked for agencies. The rest of the blind makes as much sense as NASA visiting the Lost in Space set for tips on going to the moon. The End.
I agree with 'Mission Impossible' but my first thought was 'The A Team.'
Ah, just spotted 'movie franchise' so yes, Mission Impossible. After the first television series here in the UK, the TV network announced they were cancelling showing it here. I wrote to the company begging them to re-consider and they replied, thanking me and saying that I was one of many thousands of viewers who had written, so they re-commissioned it. This would have been in the 1970s I think, when I was a teen. I loved it so much, and thought that Barbara Bain especially was so cool and beautiful.
Mission Impossible
Like the series, liked the movies - despite the miniature star.
I find Tommy Girl's acting very wooden and one dimensional. But I haven't watched any of his movies all the way thru in years, maybe I just caught the bad parts?
A team
I would happily watch the MI movies if only Cruise wasn't in them. But he is, and I will therefore never have the patience to sit through one.
Star Trek/Shatner
Nothing unusual at all about this. Beginning as early as 40s, the federal government has used both media & entertainment to shape whatever narratives they wanted.
Declassified documents about Operation Mockingbird, an early Cold War effort to infiltrate the media with government propaganda, continues to this day.
All throughout WW2, A list celebrities were used to promote the war effort, and push the public to give up using certain items, to enlist, to buy war bonds, etc.
Elvis Presley's enlistment was HEAVILY pushed in the media/entertainment press.
Star Trek was a project that the CIA used by teaming up w/Roddenberry to drive up excitement and support for NASA & the space race against Russia, & to a smaller degree, China.
None of this is a secret if you read widely available, long declassified government documents.
My first thought was Get Smart lol. My daughters favorite show ever.
S.W.A.T.?
I was thinking more x files. But not its Star Trek
Peter Graves hated the first film. His character, Phelps, was played by Jon Voight and turned out to be the bad guy and dies. Graves thought it was twisted and he had spent many seasons on that show making his character a pillar of decency.
Also possibly the best theme music in the history of television. I almost soiled myself everytime I heard it as a kid.
There are no pillars of decency in spying
+1
Star Trek is sci-fi and its theme is recognizable, but not immediately recognizable. Not only that, but Star Trek doesn't have a reboot series - they're all either prequels, sequels, or spin-offs (including the animated series)...all of which lasted longer than the original. Plus, ST had nothing to do with intelligence/espionage - only scientists & astronauts have been special guests.
Definitely Mission: Impossible.
I agree it's Mission: Impossible, but just because I am that kind of nerd: The J.J. Abrams Star Trek films are a reboot, and I suppose there is now a series of them...
Too many days off, I guess.
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