I’ve never bet too heated up about Science Fiction, but
Mannix and Mission Impossible were Must See TV in my household. One of the few prime time shows my parents both liked. We watched Mannix on Friday nights, right after Wild, Wild, West and That Girl on a different network.
Lalo Schifrin wrote the theme songs for both Mannix and Mission Impossible. Those themes paved the way for the excited of the episode. In Mannix, it started with a frantic brass section, moving quickly into a commanding trombone solo.
One of Lalo’s American influences was Dizzy Gillespie.
Mission Impossible was on Sunday night correct?
Gawd it seemed Mannix got shot or bashed over the heads every week.
MI has given birth to a long string of hits for Tom Cruise. I preferred Stephen Hill to Peter Graves (aka James Arnese’ brother).
Poor Donald always frustrated by a chaste Marlo Thomas.
The Invaders was great and so was the outer limits.
Oddly enough, the same composer scored the first season of the Outer Limits, and The invaders pilot/1st episode. Invaders was a QM production, and Quinn Martin earned his hollywood creds at Desilu. So Lucy is responsible for more scifi in a way.
Mannix was one of the first detective shows I watched as a kid. He aged quite gracefully,
https://pagesix.com/2017/01/27/mannix-star-mike-connors-dies-at-91/