The Best of Mission Impossible

Although the best thing about the original Mission Impossible series is still, in my book, the funky Lalo Schiffrin score, the series pilot I watched definitely rang bells as the Impossible Mission Forces (IMF) under the direction of Steven Hill (the first Jim Phelps) rescued a pair of nuclear birds from a wacko Latin American dictator. Six double-episodes are being offered by Paramount, but libraries will have to decide whether they want to purchase EP/SLP recorded videos--which are a little hardier than the tape which self-destructs at the beginning of Mission Impossible episodes, but still substandard. An optional purchase. Aud: P. (R. Pitman)