As always, should any of IM music be improved or not, the original will disavow any knowledge of its modifications. This original theme will not be self-odsoleted in any future.
One of the greatest tv series of all time. The ratings for the first season weren't great, and CBS wanted to cancel it. But Lucille Ball, who was the president of Desilu, liked it, and insisted it be renewed. By the end of the second season it was one of the top rated tv shows.
One of the best TV theme songs ever. This is what television is missing today. The TV theme song. Mission impossible again, one of the best TV theme songs ever recorded.
1) Mission Impossible 2) The streets of San Francisco 3) I Spy 4) Name of the game 5) The Protectors 6) Starsky and Hutch (closing) 7) The Saint (second score) 8) S.W.A.T Alternates...Get Smart, Hawaii Five 0
@@Fa_Qx2 As I read your list (I agree with many of them!) I forgot about The Persuaders, the show with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. That was a great theme, as was the photo montage at the beginning.
Lalo Schifrin is the coolest music composer ever for films and TV. Mission Impossible, Enter the Dragon, Starsky and Hutch, Dirty Harry, Bullitt, and so many others.
Yes. I also noticed, if it’s not my imagination, that besides the first version, all the other ones are higher pitched, maybe a whole active, I’m not sure. But I agree with you the original is raw and compelling. And that’s a damn long flute note at the beginning!
Yeah but give credit to the drummer on the second one. That's like a drum n bass beat before it was technologically possible! And it's being played by a human being!
The bongos put the coolest accents on this 5/4 time signature and don't forget the claves that help define the "1" (there's a triangle with the flutes in the intro).
The original will always be tight. I remember this music in the 60s, especially during school how the little boys love this music as well as Batman. This tape will disintegrate in 10 seconds
it still gives me chills whenever i watch the original theme song. the intro where jim phelps (peter graves) receives his mission briefings was also a favorite moment of mine. although after seeing Graves in the "airplane" movie, i could never again see him in a serious role. "hey jimmy, have you ever seen a grown man naked?" LOL, such a funny movie!
I wasn't even in America, I (my friend's house ,black and gray screen,,,) watched..... This music makes, my skin not even breathing seconds.. , still remember+ love it .!!!!!
The original TV series is the best! It is all about team work, always detailed planning and professional execution. No frequent set up or betrayal by insiders, missions succeed beautifully but not by luck. Too bad most of these great elements are missing in the movie series.
I loved everything about this show, but the two main reasons I watched it were the title theme 💕 and Martin Landau 😍. It was never the same after he left the show.
@@mikegalvin9801 that was necessary b/c a) Lupus really couldn't act, and b) it was the segregated 60s, there were few opportunities for Morris to interact with the white jet set as an equal, however they gave him more opportunities to do the James Bond thing in Europe and the mobbed-up 70s. Frankly, I always chuckled when the guards waived Greg and Peter along as just the janitors or repair men. Ever since no one has looked at the maintenance man in quite the same way.
A feature of the opening titles during only the first season was that each time the animated "fuse" would revert to the left, the picture behind it would shift to the left as well. This (supposedly) gave the impression that we were "panning" across a multiple wide view of the action. Starting in season 2 the picture did not shift when the fuse did.
The season 5 theme was first heard on episode 5x03, "The Innocent" (October 3, 1970). The original theme was last heard that season on episode 5x07, "Butterfly" (October 31, 1970). For season 6, the original 1966 version of the theme tune was used again, but a much-abridged version of the same was used for the closing credits (which was now 30 seconds instead of 45).
"Good Morning Mr.Phelps... your mission, should you decide to accept...." Watched this as a kid and now am watching again during COVID-19 on Amazon Prime.
I was only 3-years old when the series started. I remember seeing the fuse burn across the television screen many times so my parents must have watched it regularly. I caught an episode a few years ago on MeTV & decided to watch the entire series on Paramount+. Some of the multi-part episodes seemed a bit dry but I loved watching it overall. Just for fun I made a video last summer of my 3 & 6-year old grandchildren watching the opening for S1.E3 Operation Rogosh. When Willy karate chopped the guy with the rifle & they both did a karate chop in unison. Those little ones are characters.
I really like that in the 1988 version Phil Morris played Grant Collier, son of Barney Collier who was played by his dad, Greg Morris in the original series.
Bruce Lee used to train to this music. So the person who did the music to Enter the Dragon kept it in mind. So Lalo Schifrin, the composer of Mission Impossible after meeting Lee, created the theme to Enter the Dragon.
Here's why I think the first season theme was superior: Perfect balance of stealthy flutes, cool and laid back rhythm section driving the track, but sweetly counter-balanced by the tension built by the bongos and released by the horns. The other iterations sound like a mere attempt to out-class the original, but to no avail. Just my opinion.
The newer versions sound "cheap" compared to the original. Trying to change with the times I guess, and make what they thought that people wanted. The newer ones' stripped down, fast tempo, electronic sounding cheapies do not stand up to the full instrumentation of the original, in my ears.
every 6-10 year old had that same problem when it was on Sunday nite (school was the next day). My parents never knew it but I watched it on the tv in their bedroom from the bedroom door.
Brilliant stuff, one of the greatest TV themes ever. As an aside, I had forgotten about that eighties revival of M:I, costarring Phil "Son of Greg" Morris and Jane Badler (woof!).
I also like the 90's version of the theme song. That version of the theme would give the season 1 version of Mission Impossible a run for its money. But the original is the best. Also, the Mission Impossible movies are completely different than the original series. The closest Mission Impossible film that would be closest to the series is the first one. If they did not have the Phelps character as a traitor and have Phelps retire, then that film would have been improved.
I love the use of the odd time signature (5/4). Kinda rare outside of jazz, progressive rock, and experimental music. Of course for the movies they rewrote it to be in 4/4, I assume for Modern Audiences.
That A-List Cast tho👍Great Memories waiting for the new episodes to come on. Peter Graves the OG!!! Original theme always got me as a kid! STILL DOES. TC taking it to the Big Screen was Awesome. Can't wait for the Newest one Mission impossible Fallout.
Snoopy Peanuts Steven Hill have been IMF leader for season one, but his Dan Briggs was pretty good too. Briggs was more of a behind the scenes kind of leader, Phelps more of an extrovert type. I liked them both.
The Original Mission: Impossible Debut on CBS the same year Desilu and Paramount Debut The Original Star Trek on NBC The only difference was MI lasted 7 years while Trek lasted 3 years and in the 80's, Paramount Television brought both shows back to life Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987 on syndication and The NEW Mission: Impossible on abc The only difference was that TNG lasted 7 years and The NEW MI lasted only 2 seasons due to bad time slots, especially on Thursday Nights against The Cosby Show and its spin-off A Different World
On TOP for me as the best TV theme song. The 1st variation, with the crisp, perfectly tuned bongos, is what made me want to become a bongocero to this day! Unbeatable theme from Lalo Schifrin!
Both this and Star Trek were created by Lucille Ball's Desilu studios which became Paramount Television, so when Star Trek finished he went to work at the same lot. So two of Paramount/CBS's biggest franchises today were developed by Lucille Ball.
Many of the crews on Mission also did Star Trek at the same time. The Executive in charge of production was Herbert F. Solow Both on mission and Star Trek.
😁 I found this, coz I recently saw a TikTok video of it playing to some monkey sliding down some power lines to cross between buildings. It is great! ~ Althea - 15Mar2021
Fantastica Banda Sonora y Por favor que Hermosos Super Repartos, esos Guapisimos Phil Morris y ese Super Bombonazo Rubio Tony Hamilton el veteranisimo y Fabuloso Peter Graves esa Bellisimas Mujeres Yo Amo, Yo Adoro esta Legendaria Serie y Espectacular Banda Sonora.
I loved me some Peter Lupus! I was only 6 when the show first aired. We only had one tv, so this was on. Lupus was quiet strength which I must had figured out!
Willy was kind of scary, I think the higher-ups kept him around for "clean-up" in case the mission went sour or a team member strayed from the reservation.
