Mission: Impossible: Season 5
The hit series Mission: Impossible returns to DVD, featuring all 23 Season Five episodes! By the fifth season, the show's changing times meant changing crimes, as the emerging drug culture forced the IMF to spend more time in America, battling organized crime and drug czars. But the winning formula stayed the same: Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) gets his assignment, Barney Collier (Greg Morris) makes the required special effects, and Willy Armitage (Peter Lupus) supplies the muscle. And while Paris (Leonard Nimoy) has the makeup skills to become any character required, it's the team's newest member — the gorgeous Dana Lambert (Lesley Ann Warren) — who gives this season an added boost, and makes this set of Mission: Impossible the most thrilling DVD experience yet!
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Not the Best of the Series - Mookie
I always enjoy watching these episodes now and then. Too much in a row and the formula can get repetitive. This season was not the best the series had to offer. While I thought the addition of Leonard Nimoy was strong and Sam Elliot makes a very good addition (although he says little) the addition of Lesley Warren (later Lesley Ann Warren) for Barbra Bains is horrid. They must have been wanting a younger more "seductive" female. What they got was someone with zero charisma and who looks like a 12 year old girl. Every time she tries to be "sexy" I wanted to ralph.
As always, some episodes are better than others. I felt Hunted (which finally gave underused Barney a chance to shine) and "The Catafalque" written by the strongest writer of the series Paul Playdon were two of the stand out episodes.
If you don't like the formula or the dated look/pacing then this series isn't for you. But I still get a blast out of it.Goofy and boring - Gaucho
This show created an inventive formula that started losing steam around this season. Perhaps it's because of the bad acting from Nemoy, who could not successfully fill the shows Landau left. Warren is pretty bad too, but she's atleast better on the eyes. Anywho, the show gets goofy, with bigger leaps in logic and direction.
If memory serves me, the show gets better once Warren and Nemoy are voted off...anxious to see if this is true.
For now, skip.
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Not the Best of the Series - Mookie
I always enjoy watching these episodes now and then. Too much in a row and the formula can get repetitive. This season was not the best the series had to offer. While I thought the addition of Leonard Nimoy was strong and Sam Elliot makes a very good addition ...Goofy and boring - Gaucho
This show created an inventive formula that started losing steam around this season. Perhaps it's because of the bad acting from Nemoy, who could not successfully fill the shows Landau left. Warren is pretty bad too, but she's atleast better on the eyes. ...