On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:05 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > I never warmed up to Linda Day, partly because my pre-pubescent mind could > never forgive her for taking the place of my girlfriend Leslie Ann, and > partly because, as I remember it, the year she joined the cast was the year > MI switched exclusively to missions inside the US, which always seemed to > rob the show of a lot of what made it distinctive. Again based on my > childhood memories, that switch was a response to criticism that MI was > glorifying often illegal US interventionism in third world countries.
The PBS Pioneers of Television covered M:I and they mentioned the changeover from foreign missions to domestic missions against "The Syndicate." My recollection is that they made the changeover because they wanted to sell the show in foreign markets and Europeans would not accept the cartoonish versions of themselves which were on the show. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
