Mission Impossible Television Series Goofs and Fun Facts

In this video, we look at fun trivia facts and amazing goofs, mistakes, and bloopers of the original Mission Impossible television series and it's stars.

Mission Impossible originally ran from 1966 to 1973. It spawned a TV reboot in the 80s and a major motion picture film series starring Tom Cruise that started in 1996 which the original cast had very strong opinions about over the way the original character Jim Phelps was handled.

Goofs from the original series TV include how Peter Lupus failed as an electrician, continuity errors, actors replaced with obvious stand-ins in the middle of scenes, buildings change right before your very eyes, and much more.

Slow things down to reveal old school special effects like fake rubber hands, fake people, and reveal the real locations of air and sea scenes.

Learn interesting facts surrounding the show and it's stars which included Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Steven Hill, and more. Plus learn about a goof from a Lloyd Bridges episode, and a really interesting episode that starred William Shatner.

We also look at stunts and scenes where actors were clearly replaced with stuntmen. See when effects didn't work so well, especially when it involved using stock footage.

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0:00 Intro
020 Fake rubber hands
1:07 Stuntman
2:38 Episode Fakeout and Greg Morris
3:30 Lloyd Bridges scene goof
6:11 The fake airplane scene
6:42 Peter Lupus blooper
8:21 Martin Landau and wife Barbara Bain's last season
8:46 William Shatner guest appearance
10:01 Fake TV set over actor
10:34 Undersea in an aquarium
11:36 Airplane becomes a helicopter
11:50 End, reboot in the 80s, and Mission Impossible film series