Mission: Impossible: The Original TV Series

Martin Landau and Barbara Bain are great in the true Mission: Impossible. Not the Tom Cruise cheesy interpretation, this is the real Impossible Mission Force. IMF

Thank you for this awesome goodness dvd set! It’s perfect! The episodes i watched on my dvd player brought me back to my nostalgic days ! The case came in flawless and delivered pretty fast! Thank you to the company I definitely will be buying more dvds from you guys! Thank you very much!

La mejor serie de la historia, en mi humilde opinion

complete and comes in easy to use case. videos all worked well well so far.

This is great series, As a kid I was not permitted to watch this program because it was aired to late for a kid to be up. My parents watched it all the time, and every now and then we (kids) would get a peek of it. I have since seen a few episodes of it and decided I wanted to view the entire series. I like what I have seen so far. This did not come with a listing of the episodes which seems weird and this is the first time I purchased a series and it did not list the episodes. I had to find a list on line.For that reason I give it 4 stars.

I *loved* Mission Impossible as a kid, esp Barney, the electronics guy. All that stuff that Barney, and the rest of the team did, was pure magic, like those early Bond movies, back before the internet pulled back the curtain and ruined it all. I mean, movies and shows today can be good, but that magic of analog futuristic spy craft gadgetry viewed from a 60s/70s lens just isn't there any more.Because MI was shot on 35 mm film, the hi-def transfer to Blu-Ray is quite excellent, indeed. MI never looked half this good on broadcast television when it originally aired.There's a color and tone of time time that Star Trek (The Original Series) also had.Unfortunately, that would end in mid 70s when studios started shooting TV shows on video tape. Those transfers are awful.

Blu-ray HD video quality is great. It's a huge improvement from DVD editions. I also own Mission: Impossible - The Complete Series DVD and I watched these episodes many times on DVD. Today, I opened the Blu-ray box set, watched the Season 1, Disc 1 episodes and here's my thoughts:Pros: HD video quality is a huge improvement from DVD edition (you should ignore the reviewers who say blu-ray video is the same as DVD; they either have bad eyesight or bad TV). Is the HD video quality immaculate? No. There are some damages to the print but they are very negligible. Those types of minor print damages exist in pretty much any TV series converted to blu ray and I own tons of them so I know (Charlie's Angels, Miami Vice, etc.).Original TV Series DVD Season 1 did not have subtitles. Blu-ray disc does have subtitles, and not just English (French and Deutch as well)Cons: I don't particularly have a problem with the packaging design. Actually, I like this kind of packaging where the sleeves are half-cut and it's easy to slide the disc in and out of the sleeves (I attached some pictures as reference). I have no problem with the folded design either. Some reviewers complain about them being too loose. I say it's better too loose than too tight. My only complaint is that the some of the sleeves were damaged and slightly torn off (I also added photos to show those damages). This is brand new purchase so they must have happened during manufacturing or maybe during the process of inserting the discs which, I suspect, were hand-inserted.One other minor grievance is that the way the bundles are stacked, you won't be able to have access to all 7 seasons at once. You will have to remove each season to get to the bottom of the stack for other seasons. This is a very minor inconvenience.There are no special features either but then again there were no special features on the DVD editions either.If you own the Complete TV Series DVD box set for which I provided the link, it also included 88 and 89 seasons of the show. This is only the original TV series that ran for 7 seasons and does not include the 88 and 89 seasons (since they are not considered "original"). So this won't be a truly complete Mission Impossible TV Series for the completists fans.

In response to R. Young's review which states there are episodes missing: This is not true. I have done a careful comparison of episodes listed on Wikipedia and IMDB.com and the product listings as well as the discs themselves: ALL EPISODES ARE INCLUDED. The one specific episode mentioned, Season 1 episode 5, is not missing. This is Part 2 of a 2-part episode. Part 1 is the last episode on Disc 1 and Part 2 is the first episode on Disc 2. I'm not sure why someone would post this misinformation before double checking but that seems to be the case. As mentioned in many other reviews, the picture and audio quality are great, a big improvement over the DVDs. The packaging doesn't matter to me as I put all discs in CD cases and recycle the packaging. My only quibble: Why so many discs? There are 6 or 7 discs per season when 4 would have sufficed. The Star Trek series on Blu-ray are the same but there is a lot of bonus material there that is missing on the MI set. Seems like an unnecessary expense that is passed on to us.