I was about today years old when...

[TheOtherTed]

... I found out that the original theme for Mission:Impossible is based on the Morse code for M I.  Now I can only hear "dash dash dot dot" when I watch it.

[Techwright]

2 hours ago, TheOtherTed said:

... I found out that the original theme for Mission:Impossible is based on the Morse code for M I.  Now I can only hear "dash dash dot dot" when I watch it.

And if you play it backwards, you'll hear "Tom Cruise wronged Jim Phelps."  😁

 

The Morse code bit was a fact I'd forgotten.  I think I learned it about 25 years ago when my gang of friends would assemble Friday nights to binge-watch TV shows via VHS tapes, and the first several seasons of the 1960s Mission: Impossible was one of those.  The first season was a real surprise as we'd always thought Jim Phelps was the team lead.  He wasn't.  Daniel Briggs was the character leading the team for the first 28 episodes.  He was replaced by Jim Phelps.  Since then, I've always felt that Jon Voight should have played Daniel Briggs in the first movie, leaving Jim Phelps unscathed. 

[TheOtherTed]

12 hours ago, Techwright said:

He was replaced by Jim Phelps

Yeah, it's too bad that Hill got squeezed out of the show because he wouldn't work Saturdays (he was an Orthodox Jew).  IMO he was capable of projecting an intensity that Phelps never really could - though Hill didn't really capitalize on that much in the show.  This isn't a knock on Phelps - he was as iconic for me as he was for you.  I just found Hill interesting and different.

 

Never liked the M:I movies.  Probably because I couldn't stand Tom Cruise.  At the height of his popularity, I felt like you couldn't swing a cinematic cat by the tail without hitting a Tom Cruise.

 

 

Edited January 12 by TheOtherTed
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