The following weapons were used in Season 1 of the television series Mission: Impossible (1988): Ratings for the series had started out strong, good enough to extend the original order of thirteen episodes to nineteen, but the show wound up tied for 77th in the year-end Nielsen ratings (tied with Tour of Duty.) The show was renewed for a second season, but ABC cancelled plans for a reunion film that would've brought back the original cast. Production costs had plagued the original series, so the revival was shot in Australia to save money, one of the first shows to do so. Jane Badler, late of V, joined the cast at the same time as former broadcast journalist and Secret Service agent (?) Shannon Reed. All of the actors save for Markwell signed extensions, as Markwell as not happy with her role, and she got the honor of being the first (and ultimately, only) series regular to be killed off and disavowed in the twelth episode. ABC extended the first season to nineteen episodes. When the writer's strike ended in August, however, new scripts were commissioned, and only four of the first five episodes wound up being remakes. Since the series had been pitched as temporary workaround for the writer's strike, only thirteen episodes were initially ordered. Within the show, it was revealed that Jim Phelps and Lisa Casey (her name retconned to avoid confusion with Casey Randall) had both retired from the team no more than nine years prior, and that Barney had left sometime after that. Original cast members Greg Morris and Lynda Day George both reprised their roles the original series for one episode each. Bob Johnson, who had played the uncredited "voice on tape" in all seven season of the original series, returned to play the now updated "voice on disc" in the revival.
Terry Markwell, an American actress living in Australia, rounded out the cast as designer Casey Randall.
(Since so little emphasis had been placed on character development in the original show, there weren't any references to Barney having kids or even being married.) Australian actors Thaao Penghis and Antony Hamilton, played acting teacher Nicholas Black and tough guy Max Harte, respectively. Phil Morris played tech wizard Grant Collier, son of Barney Collier, who had been played by Phil's father Greg Morris. Peter Graves returned as Jim Phelps, who was returning to lead an IMF team after the previous leader, his friend and protege, was murdered in the teaser of the series premiere. The original plan was to cast new actors as Jim Phelps, Rollin Hand, Cinnamon Carter, Barney Collier, and Willy Armitage, but with the return of Peter Graves, the show was retooled as a continuation, with Jim Phelps leading a new IMF team, all while still using the original scripts. With no new material being written, Paramount was able to sell the show as a straight remake of the original series, using the original scripts and the original characters, albeit with a few updates. Reunions had been attempted, but nothing had been able to get off the ground, until the Writer's Strike of 1988 finally offered an opening. Mission: Impossible was noticeably absent, although not for lack of trying.
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Throughout the 1970's and 1980's, classic television series which were the contemporaries of Mission: Impossible had been revisited, some either through TV reunion movies ( Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978), The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E (1983)), TV series ( Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)), or feature films ( The Nude Bomb (1980)). The revival of the classic Mission: Impossible series premiered in October of 1988, the culmination of years of effort to resurrect the series.
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