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Mission Impossible debuted in 1966 but bucked the trend of painting the characters and situations with a broad comical brush as you would see on Batman, Man From U.N.C.L.E. or Wild, Wild West. This was a suspenseful and fairly realistic espionage drama played straight which is why Mission Impossible became one of the most popular TV programs in history.

The IMF team didn't use torture to extract information out of enemy agents they set up elaborate stings instead, using every machination at their disposal including elaborate disguises, exquisitely timed fake outs, and (for that time) far-out high tech surveillance equipment.

From the product description: The head of the "Impossible Missions Force", a top-secret government group of operatives, starts a tape recorder and finds out about his latest assignment. Throughout most of the series, they would have to stop some petty dictator or powerful bad guy from whatever evil plot they had against the U.S. or Democracy in general. The elaborate use of electronic gadgetry, masters of disguise and detailed plans that require split-second timing made this tv show an "on the edge of your seater"

The picture and sound clarity on the DVD collection is astonishingly good. Sound is particularly important to Mission Impossible, the seminal music of Lalo Schifrin serves as a melodic undertone that heightens the tension, as integral a part of the overall production as the cast members or script.

The show's key writer left in the middle of this season which allowed the production to move in fresh new directions and the series was ultimately made better for it. As such, season 3 is considered by fans to be the best year of all, the last with Barbra Bain and Martin Landau (Leonard Nimoy replaced them during the next two seasons), they were central to the show and two damn fine actors. Some believe the series never recovered from their departure but the show ran for another 4 years, a testament to the quality of the scripts and the durability of the concept.

Mission Impossible has lost none of its appeal 40 years after the debut - this new set is a hot seller, #1 in Classic TV on DVD as I write this. Highly Recommended!

Studio: Paramount Home Video
DVD Release Date: November 20, 2007
Run Time: 1254 minutes

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Route 66 -
Season One Volume 1

Martin Milner (Tod Stiles) and George Maharis (Buz Murdock) star in this classic television drama about a couple of young guys who set out to see America in a brand new 1961 Corvette drop top.

What makes this show truly unique is that it was filmed in a different U.S. city each week, giving us a stark glance at what living in America looked like in 1960. It was a vastly different landscape, people lived a lot closer to the dirt back then. (I'll bet that decrepit New Orleans dock in episode three is a multi-million dollar condo development if it wasn't washed away by the levy failure.)

No television show had ever attempted anything on this grand a scale before, the technology necessary to make mobile TV production a practical enterprise had just been made available.

Read the entire review of Route 66 on DVD

The Muppet Show - The Complete Second Season

The last of the classic variety shows and one of the finest TV programs of all time, The Muppet Show Season 2 is an unrestrained delight from start to finish. This amazing production lit up the screens when it debuted in 1976 and the second season may be the best of the series' run.

The sing-alongable theme song. The incredible guest stars. The crazy costumes. Pigs in space. The crabby guys in the balcony. The love / hate relationship between Piggy and Kermit. All here to relive or experience for the first time. If you are encountering The Muppet Show for the first time, what a treat you're in for; if you watched the show as a youngster you may find yourself uncontrollably singing along with the bizarrely choreographed Tin Pan Alley tunes.

No question, this is Muppet-mania at its peak, before the many hit movies and Muppets on Ice diluted the product. How wonderful to see the delightful Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy and Miss Piggy trading barbs that could have come right out of radio. (In fact, some of the jokes do harken from Bergen's radio days.)

Read the entire review of The Muppet Show on DVD

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Episodes of Mission Impossible Season 3 found in this new DVD collection:

Episode 1: The Heir Apparent
Original Air Date: 29 September 1968
Episode 2: The Contender: Part 1
Original Air Date: 6 October 1968
Episode 3: The Contender: Part 2
Original Air Date: 13 October 1968
Episode 4: The Mercenaries
Original Air Date: 20 October 1968
Episode 5: The Execution
Original Air Date: 10 November 1968
Episode 6: The Cardinal
Original Air Date: 17 November 1968
Episode 7: The Elixir
Original Air Date: 24 November 1968
Episode 8: The Diplomat
Original Air Date: 1 December 1968
Episode 9: The Play
Original Air Date: 8 December 1968
Episode 10: The Bargain
Original Air Date: 15 December 1968
Episode 11: The Freeze
Original Air Date: 23 December 1968
Episode 12: The Exchange
Original Air Date: 4 January 1969
Episode 13: The Mind of Stefan Miklos
Original Air Date: 12 January 1969
Episode 14: The Test Case
Original Air Date: 19 January 1969
Episode 15: The System
Original Air Date: 26 January 1969
Episode 16: The Glass Cage
Original Air Date: 2 February 1969
Episode 17: Doomsday
Original Air Date: 16 February 1969
Episode 18: Live Bait
Original Air Date: 23 February 1969
Episode 19: The Bunker: Part 1
Original Air Date: 2 March 1969
Episode 20: The Bunker: Part 2
Original Air Date: 9 March 1969
Episode 21: Nitro
Original Air Date: 23 March 1969
Episode 22: Nicole
Original Air Date: 30 March 1969
Episode 23: The Vault
Original Air Date: 6 April 1969
Episode 24: Illusion
Original Air Date: 13 April 1969
Episode 25: The Interrogator
Original Air Date: 20 April 1969

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

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