Mission Impossible: Pilot

Holy crap.  Impeccably written, perfectly costumed, photographed in lush analog color, this is the shit.  A dictator has two nuclear weapons, and intelligence suggests their use is imminent.  The Impossible Missions Force must intervene.

Briefcase potentially compromises confidentiality - don't care, want three

They're inserted into the country, with leader Daniel Briggs (Phelps does not show up until season two) posing as a Swiss watch salesman.  As their car passes the camera pauses and lingers on an exterminator's truck, then pans up to reveal:

One of my many skills

Then pans down to show that he's on lookout duty:

They get into the hotel where the dictator (and the nuclear weapons) are hanging out.  This guy has night duty at the safe, and a sweet, sweet magazine.

The colors here are pure pornography, and I mean that in a good way

Inside the safe, a safecracker emerges from one of the sample cases.  Hello Wally Cox, who works feverishly to solve the mechanism:

You might have guessed the ending already, but we were on the edge of our seats right up until the Learjet got out of range of the machine guns of the pursuing soldiers.

Whew.  This is not one of those shows where they figured it out in season three.  It was pure awesome from Day One.  More more more more...!

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