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"Mission: Impossible" The Short Tail Spy (1966)
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17 December 1966
(Season 1, Episode 14)
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The IMF must protect a scientist, who had defected from the Eastern Bloc, who is to appear at a conference in the U.S...
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Worst episode I've ever seen.
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(Episode Credited cast) | Steven Hill | ... | Daniel Briggs |
| Barbara Bain | ... | Cinnamon Carter |
| Greg Morris | ... | Barney Collier |
 | Peter Lupus | ... | Willy Armitage (credit only) |
| Albert Dekker | ... | Colonel Shtemenko |
| Eric Braeden | ... | Andrei Fetyakov (as Hans Gudegast) |
 | Joseph Sirola | ... | Suverin (as Joe Sirola) |
| Edward Colmans | ... | Professor Napolsky |
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60 min
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This episode re-uses a previous intro. The only difference is that during Dan Briggs briefings, a different message is heard and different photos are displayed. (Done through a series of cut away shots to Briggs hands, or facial reactions.) These re-uses, were done to accommodate Steven Hill's refusal to work on certain religious holidays.
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
I love the original Mission: Impossible, but this episode is the worst one I've ever seen. The opening scene (where Briggs gets his mission) is a reuse of footage of the opening scene of the episode Old Man Out. The to the embassy ball, where we get a lot of clumsy hand held camera shots that seem to be stalling for time. The ending of the episode was very stupid. *** SPOILER ALERT *** In the ending, the bad guy stands there with a gun, threatening the whole IMF team. Cinamon walks toward the guy, who says he will shoot. Then click, click. Gun empty. Cinamon unloaded the gun. What if he reloaded? No professional hit-man would take for granted that the gun was loaded. First thing you do when you pick up a gun is check it's status. So he WOULD have reloaded! *** END SPOILER ***