All were Desilou Productions. Which one do you think was the better show. I say Mannix followed by Star Trek and then Mission Impossible.
I found that Joe Mannix for the lead of the show was the sharpest. He always kept it to himself. Kirk has a big Ego and Jim Phelps was too much in his head.
I would most likely be close to Joe if all the leads were real life people.
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They're different genres, the early episodes of "Mannix" were ahead of their time, using computers to solve crimes, the people dressed basically same, when I saw "Gattaca" the office environment reminded me of the first season of "Mannix", this was scrapped for the standard PI type format. As for one poster talking about spawning movies most PI series faded away in the late 80s and early 90s. There were some PI spoof series like "VIP".
If "Mannix" and "Mission: Impossible" had played in syndication as well as "Star Trek" who knows, almost everyone knows Mr. Spock and Capt. Kirk even if they didn't watch but a few episodes of the series.
When the film version of "Mission: Impossible" started people were asking the question "Wasn't Mr. Phelps a good guy?
Some of them weren't sure, if they had come back years later and made Capt. Kirk a bad guy, it would not have been pretty.
I agree with Martin Landau the films and the series are two entirely different things. I think "Mission: Impossible" holds up well for it's Cold War themes, I don't judge it by today's standards or any other 60s series.
I don't think you would ever see the protagonist on a series slap a woman on television in this day and age, but in the 60s no one batted an eye about seeing a woman get slapped.
If you can find Dr. Douglas Little's academic article linking the TV series to CIA history: "Mission Impossible: The CIA and the Cult of Covert Action in the Middle East" Some of the imaginary coups done on the series during the Cold War and in the Middle East explain a lot of our ongoing foreign policy in the Middle East.
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I'll vote Star Trek for a number of reasons.
But both Mannix and MI are very good.
Star Trek was a little bit out of the norm, more of a risk and covered many topics, mostly moral of course, but I feel it was really well done.
Mannix and MI or more standard formulas. I'd forgotton how well Mannix was done and Mike Connors did a great job.
1 Star Trek
2 Mannix
3 Mission Impossible
I too had forgotten how good a show Mannix is.... holds up pretty well for a dated show... It ran for a long time on CBS...
Obviously Star Trek had longer legs since it eventually spawned so many movies and TV shows after it... MI was real different for its time but watching it now, it doesn't hold up as well... But it too spawned the movie franchise ( the latest of which I think was the best)
Mannix number 1, after all, Mike Connors IS Mannix. Mike Connors was under rated in this show IMHO. He loves kids, justice, decency amd uses his brain as well as his heart.
Star Trek Number 2- a great show, a cultural icon, which spawned many follow ups.
Mission Impossible- 3 - A little too self importantly cerebral for my tastes.
Credit to DESILU productions for having THESE three series to compare against each other. If you had a television set during the years 1966 to 1975.. one or ALL of these three was on it for some period of time. Whether all of them were particularly groundbreaking or not.. those opening themes ALONE defined your television watching experience. Also lots of grumpy guys in their 40s today schlump around their workplace seemingly angry that they don't drive a groovy convertible or have a sexy leggy secretary and are a bit suspicious of the ubiquitous computers that took their place. You can give Mannix credit for that too!
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I am not much into scifi so I have never seen Star Trek( although I like the Star Wars series :) ).
Between Mannix and MI,Mission Impossible, for me, is the better show (at least for the first 3 seasons. This is probably due to the fact that the ensemble cast were all brilliant especially Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. However Mike Connors is a much better lead than Peter Graves imo. I love both shows
As a side note I heard Mike Connors and the MI guys used to play basketball together since they filmed both shows close to each other.
The Dude: Jesus.
Jesus Quintana: You said it, man. Nobody *beep* with the Jesus.
I know that Mike Connors was friends with Barney Collier from Mission Imposible who was played by Greg Morris.
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