Just in case you hadn’t noticed, Five US is now airing the infrequently seen first season of Mission: Impossible, every day at 4pm. I didn’t notice at first because they started airing it last Thursday. Brilliant, huh? Who starts a new daily show on a Thursday? Five, of course…
Incidentally, the first season didn’t feature Jim Phelps, but had Dan Briggs (Steven Hill) leading up the Impossible Missions Force. Given the characterisation in the scripts, you’ll probably not notice much of a difference. But then it was the plots and the stupid “East European” accents and locations we all watched it for, wasn’t it?
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
