"Mission: Impossible" Detour - The 60s TV show with guest Bill Koenig Part 2

The James Bond Complex

Hello dear listeners,

We’re back this week to continue our very special Detour mission, a deep dive into the Mission: Impossible 60s tv show with special agent Bill Koenig from the Spy Command blog.

There was simply too much suspense, too much action, too many twists and turns, too many masks for the conversation to be limited to a single episode, and so here we go with Part 2.

And there’s no question that when Bill is on the show, no stone is left unturned. If you thought we couldn’t come up with any more topics to dissect with unfathomable minutia, get ready for: quality directing flourishes, sustaining tension over 2-part episodes (how “meta”!), the spy craze of the 60s being the comic book movie domination of its time, Emmy glory for M:I, Mad Magazine and Get Smart parodies, and a bold new technology by which people rolling in their graves serve as perpetual motion energy sources (just listen to the show).

So sit back, relax, play the tape and make sure to open the window when the message self-destructs and produces that annoying little bit of thick smoke. Really bad for one’s health.