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[[Once an Episode|Good morning, Mr./Ms. Troper.]]
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The show you're looking at is ''Mission: Impossible'', a unique [[Spy Drama]] based around a semi-ad hoc covert operations team employed by the US Government for dicey missions needing [[Plausible Deniability|maximum deniability]]. The television series lasted from September, 1966 to March, 1973; a total of 171 episodes were filmed over the seven season run. It was the longest-surviving of the "spy-fi" genre of US and UK-made TV series of the 1960s (''The Avengers'' aired over a 9-year period but fewer seasons and episodes were produced).
The show you're looking at is ''Mission: Impossible'', a unique [[Spy Drama]] based around a semi-ad hoc covert operations team employed by the US Government for dicey missions needing [[Plausible Deniability|maximum deniability]]. The television series lasted from September, 1966 to March, 1973; a total of 171 episodes were filmed over the seven season run. It was the longest-surviving of the "spy-fi" genre of US and UK-made TV series of the 1960s (''The Avengers'' aired over a 9-year period but fewer seasons and episodes were produced).
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* [[Hologram]]: The IMF has had hologram projectors since the 60s ("Phantoms", "A Ghost Story"). The 80s revival even had a episode named after the trope ("Holograms") and improved the tech to the point where it works underwater ("The Golden Serpent: Part 2", which also featured a holographic computer screen).
* [[Hologram]]: The IMF has had hologram projectors since the 60s ("Phantoms", "A Ghost Story"). The 80s revival even had a episode named after the trope ("Holograms") and improved the tech to the point where it works underwater ("The Golden Serpent: Part 2", which also featured a holographic computer screen).
* [[Hot Gypsy Woman]]: The IMF employed hot gypsy acrobat Crystal Walker in the two-parter "Old Man Out".
* [[Hot Gypsy Woman]]: The IMF employed hot gypsy acrobat Crystal Walker in the two-parter "Old Man Out".
* [[Trope Workshop:Impossible Mission]]: Trope-namer.
* [[Impossible Mission]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Indy Ploy]]: When Bruce Geller first came up with the show's concept, he imagined ''every'' IMF plan to go wrong at some point, forcing the team to improvise from that point on. Luckily in practice this was not established as it most like would get A) repetitive, and B) Make Briggs/Phelps look like he doesn't know what he's doing. Indy ploys did appear occasionally, usually in the [[It's Personal|'personal']] episodes.
* [[Indy Ploy]]: When Bruce Geller first came up with the show's concept, he imagined ''every'' IMF plan to go wrong at some point, forcing the team to improvise from that point on. Luckily in practice this was not established as it most like would get A) repetitive, and B) Make Briggs/Phelps look like he doesn't know what he's doing. Indy ploys did appear occasionally, usually in the [[It's Personal|'personal']] episodes.
* [[I Never Said It Was Poison]]: "Elena".
* [[I Never Said It Was Poison]]: "Elena".
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