About the only real “slacking” I did as an undergraduate was to go home (rather than to the library) an afternoon or two a week because one of the local indie channels would re-run MI.
(However, if it was an ep without Peter Graves in it, I’d often pick up and go back to the library).
Do any channels still run it? It seems it would be a reasonable fit for the Sci-Fi channel, but my cheap-o local newspaper doesn’t run channel listings for all the cable channels that the local cable company offers…
It’s not shown on any channel DirecTV carries, which somewhat mystifies me. It was an espionage show, the longest-running espionage show in TV history. It was an intelligent show–half of what they were doing you had to figure out from paying attention, and wasn’t explained beforehand. So why is nobody showing it?
And speaking of Peter Graves, he is James Arness’s brother. Here’s Graves:
And here’s Arness, from Gunsmoke:
Arness was 6′ 7″ tall. Dennis Weaver, his costar, was 6′ 2″. Weaver is on the left, Arness on the right:
Arness, believe it or not, is still alive.
The Florida Masochist says:
The last US channel or network to show MI was FX back in the mid 90’s. Such a shame but the show is coming out of DVD.
May 3, 2007, 8:43 am