Mission: Impossible
TV Show • 1966
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Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin.
The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
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Often. IM force agents are tortured and they torture villains.
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Men that Cinnamon seduces are sometimes violent with her. Not often, but it does happen.
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Occasionally there's a suddenish loud noise but I'm very sensitive to jump scares and have not had issues.
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Cinnamon regularly flirts with and/or seduces people, however nothing explicit is shown and usually nothing very explicit is even implied
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Minimal and the blood is very very fake
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Nudity is neither shown nor implied
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I am sensitive to audio gore and there's minimal, effectively none
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Sometimes they simulate storms or moving vehicles and there are flashing lights, but I don't *think* they'd trigger photosensitivity.
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Cinnamon is regularly objectified
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Cinnamon regularly has to flirt with/seduce much older men, however she is an actress in her mid-30s so may or may not be triggering.
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There are episodes where the IM force sets up elaborate scenarios to get villains to talk. This sometimes involves convincing them that what they believe isn't true.
Characters, especially Rollin, often disguises himself as other people in order to lie to people.
Cinnamon pretends to be interested in male characters in order to manipulate them
Characters, especially Rollin, often disguises himself as other people in order to lie to people.
Cinnamon pretends to be interested in male characters in order to manipulate them
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Somewhat regularly. Most common is the use of sedatives and/or truth serum.
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There is minimal gun violence in season 1, but it escalated from there. Characters are shot at - or shot - regularly. Often with blanks as part of a ruse, but sometimes characters are killed.
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Very often, probably a majority of episodes. Many episodes are set in fictional Eastern European, South and Central American countries, Asian, and African countries. There are made-up languages, phony accents, black, brown, and yellow face.
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A number of characters struggle to breathe and become unconscious. I found it really stressful.
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There are a number of episodes where the IM force (including Jewish actors) infiltrates n*zi organizations. N*zi imagery is shown, characters salute and chant.
While it's never ever portrayed as anything but extremely bad/cruel/evil, it can be extremely disturbing.
While it's never ever portrayed as anything but extremely bad/cruel/evil, it can be extremely disturbing.
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In some episodes characters are terminally ill
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Both villains and IM force agents are routinely followed. Sometimes a subject is the target of stalking and the IM force is sent to intervene.
Not in every episode, but a semi-common theme
Not in every episode, but a semi-common theme
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There's a two-part episode in the first season that's set at a carnival
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Drug use is not really shown but is occasionally heavily implied. More often there are drug smugglers/"kingpins"
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It's a US network TV series from the '60s and '70s so no
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Sometimes the IM force stages séances and convinces villains there are ghosts
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Characters often use almost cartoonish moves to knock each other out. Happens almost every episode.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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There is an episode in season 1 or 2 where the IM force convinces a man that he's in a mental institution. We watch him slowly unravel throughout the episode. It's very disturbing.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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There's an episode with Eartha Kitt as a guest star and she spends almost the whole episode in a vent system
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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A character struggles to breathe and is panicking
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Is someone restrained?
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Very often and in many different ways and contexts
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