Mission: Impossible

Cobra, you ( original title Mission: Impossible ) is an American television series that (later Paramount Television) was produced for CBS by Desilu Productions. Between 1966 and 1973 he made 171 episodes spread over seven seasons.

Only 22 episodes of the series ran 1967-1969 on German television (ARD). 28 more episodes were broadcast them in the years 1976/1977 under the variant titles Impossible job. The remaining 121 episodes were shown only in the early 1990's ProSieben and the cable channel (whose successor kabel eins as well ). Later, the series was shown on Sky nostalgia day on pay- TV.

The saying "Mission: Impossible take over! ", After the ARD consequences have been named, has never fallen in the original English, but was chosen as the title because a German idiomatic equivalent to " mission impossible " is missing.

Action

In the series it comes to the so-called Impossible Missions Force, a team of freelance secret agents who get around the globe, secret orders, which they carry out with the aid of technical toys with which they conducted their opponents astray. Using facial masks the protagonists take on the roles of their opponents. Often the episodes play in fictional countries with dictatorial regimes.

The head of the group is initially given an order, he hears about a tape. At the end of the job description he had to destroy the tape, or it destroyed itself Quote:

Then the squad leader sets up his team, which usually consists of the same members. At a meeting at the home of the chiefs approach is discussed. In the first season the team usually consisted of the Head brig, the beautiful model Carter, the transformation of the artist's hand, the electronics expert Collier and the muscle man Armitage.

During the episode followed the crowd, unfold the complex plan of the team. The end of almost every episode follows a pattern: The team gathers after the successful completion of the order and disappears undetected.

Offshoot

Already 1968/1969 (but not in Germany ) appeared in the world of cinema - movie Mission: Impossible vs.. The Mob. The content was ultimately cut to a theatrical version two-part episode of the series.

In 1988, Paramount tried to order the series from ABC to revive, but the new edition could not build on the success of the original series and was discontinued during the second season after a total of 35 episodes. In this remake starred with Peter Graves, who was also seen in the original version, the American actor Phil Morris, whose father Greg the technical genius Barney Collier embodied in the original.

This television remake ran under the German title secret mission. Some stations beamed the new series also titled Impossible job. After the success of the 1996 movie it was sent under the English title.

Tom Cruise took this substance in the 1990s and brought the building up to the film series Mission: Impossible finally in 1996 in the cinemas. Cruise took over in the lead role as secret agent Ethan Hunt. This film was followed by Mission: Impossible II (2000 ), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol ( 2011). The four modern Mission Impossible movies were playing a 2 billion dollars and be in the list of the most successful film series at No. 16 (January 2014).

Music

The title tune and partly also the background music, the series was written by Lalo Schifrin. It evolved to become a classic TV tunes and was resumed for the later movies.

Exceptional on the title theme is that it was composed in 5/4-Takt what its special appeal mattered. This beat is rarely used because it is extremely difficult for the composer to produce ( the so-called Groove ) in 5/4-Takt a rounded composition. In addition to the theme song for the series " Mission: Impossible take " is the only song that was written in 5/4-Takt and still popular, "Take Five".

The peculiarity of the 5/4-Takts was then not preserved in the composition to the title tune of the movie series. There the melody line was transferred to an ordinary 4/4-time.

Awards (selection)

The TV series has been honored with numerous awards. Lalo Schifrin, composer of the theme music, was awarded in 1968 for his music for the series with the Grammy. In the same year the series won in the categories of Best TV Show and Best TV Star - Male ever a Golden Globe. 1971 Actor Peter Graves was awarded the Golden Globe for Best TV Star. From 1967 to 1973 Cobra could assume you win five Emmys.

Filmography

  • TV series (idea: Bruce Geller ):
  • First series: 1966-1967: 1st Season
  • 1967-1968: Season 2
  • 1968-1969: Season 3
  • 1969-1970: Season 4
  • 1970-1971: Season 5
  • 1971-1972: Season 6
  • 1972-1973: 7th Season

Others

  • The actually existing Operations Command Cobra Austrian Interior Ministry got its name after it was compared by journalists repeated with the fictitious organization Cobra.
  • While the character of Jim Phelps heard in the two series of the good guys, he's in the film version of 1996, the opponent, played by Jon Voight.

Synchronization

The synchronization of Mission: Impossible is divided into different phases, which were given over a period of over 20 years by different television channels in order. Meanwhile, all the episodes are available in a German version.

Getting the synchronous phase - Mission: Impossible take

  • Original Air Date: ARD, from December 1967 to May 1968
  • Nine of the 28 episodes of the first season were broadcast in random order. The selection of the team members has been greatly reduced. Immediately after Briggs opens the folder with the photos, it is closed by a hand again. Then the episode title and details were displayed to the writer and director on the red lid. The episodes were slightly reduced by the ARD. The contract includes deviating from the original with the sentence: " Mission: Impossible You ".

Second phase synchronous - Mission: Impossible take

  • Original Air Date: ARD, June 1969-November 1969
  • Of the 49 episodes of the 2nd and 3rd season was chosen out of 13 episodes that aired one again disordered. The team sequence was completely cut in these episodes, and the episode title is mentioned already in the introduction. These episodes were shortened by several minutes. The job ends different from the original with the sentence: " Mission: Impossible You ".

Third synchronous phase - Impossible job

  • Original Air Date: June 1976 to December 1976
  • 23 episodes from seasons 4-7 were selected and sent in most third party programs. As title " The Impossible Job" in preload was now appear, but the old name still appeared "Mission: Impossible Accept" in parentheses. In addition to the series title is exchanged and all the voice actors. The episodes have been copied to a very bad film, but were in contrast to the ARD episodes mostly full. The leader was different from the original principle laid at the beginning of the sequence. In addition, they resorted partly due to a different from the original theme music. Frequently, the original topic was used, which had been replaced in the source from the 5th season by a newly orchestrated version. The addition of "Mission: Impossible take over! " missing in these episodes.

Fourth synchronous phase - Mission: Impossible take

  • Original Air Date: ProSieben: 61 episodes, from March 1990 to August 1992; Cable 1: 59 episodes, from March 1993 to August 1993
  • From 1990, the missing episodes (up to " Echo of Yesterday" ) in Berlin ( Wenzel Luedecke ) synchronized with other speakers in turn.

The consequences were a total unabridged and thus was also the first time the selection of team members to fully see. The original details of the guest performers, the author and the director were but with a red background, seen on the Germanized insertions were covered. The job ends deviating from the original again with the sentence: " Mission: Impossible You ".

Fifth phase synchronous - DVD - dubbing

  • 2006 saw the series on DVD. Since the ARD were shortened episodes, it was decided in the first two seasons on the missing records with similar sounding speakers nachzusynchronisieren, which did succeed well. However, from the 3rd season to the previously shortened sentences Reserve left in the original, which alternate partially synchronized and original sentences, which becomes very disturbing.

The episode "Echo of Yesterday " was synchronized with the speakers of the fourth synchronous phase for the first time since they had been left out until now. Only the tape had a new voice: Ernst Meincke, as Klaus Miedel had already died.

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