
Farewell Martin & Barbara
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The third season of Mission:Impossible reveals the same cast from the previous year. Sadly it marks the last year of then husband and wife, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. To me this is the last of the best episodes of the series (don't get me wrong, I enjoyed all seven seasons).
There are some great guest stars this season, boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson, in the two-parter: "The Contenders", Parnell Roberts (Bonanza, Trapper John MD) and Vic Tayback (Alice) in the "Mercenaries" and Ed Asner and Steven Ihnat in "The Mind of Stefan Miklos" which is, in my opinion, one of the finest MI episodes.
This release marks the best quality I have seen of these old episodes. The picture has been cleaned up and the dust and debris you usually get on syndicated TV is gone. The soundtrack is mixed here in 5.1 sound and sounds incredible. The set consists of 7 discs (3 or 4 episodes each) and they are in slim-line cases. The shows are in order of their original release dates.
I must say that, once again, Paramount has deserted any extras for this set. No Bonus Features, No Liner Notes, No airdates, NO commentaries. Please give the fans a little something extra. The Wild, Wild West, Season 3, which is a Paramount release also and released the same day at least has the original airdates.
Other than that I have no complaints. The box says that "some episodes may be edited from their original network versions". This must be due to music rights, as I can see no distinct differences from the episodes I have seen here and the few that were released on video earlier. The slip-case design is nice and the slim line cases have nice graphics. There is a one or two sentence synopsis per episode, but hardly qualifies as liner notes.
These shows still hold-up in today's world and are fair superior in writing than some of today's crap.
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