MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ‘Illusion’ - Season 3, Episode 24 (aired April 13, 1969)
Here’s the latest artwork and article on “What’s a Rerun?”, my TV blog with my brother, writer C.J. Arellano. This week, we cover one of the best in classic spy genre: Mission: Impossible. Enjoy!
art by Aireen Arellano (to view larger version, click here)
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The Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible movies get an undue bad rap from students of the 1960s TV show. Certainly, no points were won among longtime diehards when the makers of the first film disgraced the iconic Mr. Phelps in favor of a new out-of-nowhere entity, Ethan Hunt, and fans do have a legitimate gripe that the show was never about extended gunplay or CGI chase scenes.
But most of the movies, including the fantastic if goofily named Ghost Protocol, do retain two key aspects that have been entwined in the Mission: Impossible franchise since creator Bruce Geller lit the first fuse back in 1966: the sexy high-wire thrill of seeing a team of professionals act as a single villain-thwarting organism, and the disturbing implications of protagonists who merrily play geopolitical chess with no serious sense of accountability or consequence. Season Three’s “Illusion” (available on Netflix Instant Play) has both on display and in abundance.
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