#5 "Mission: Impossible" & "Mannix"

An episode of the Where Hollywood Hides: Television | Movies | Music | Show Business | Writing | Producing | Directing | Acting podcast, hosted by Bob McCullough & Suzanne Herrera McCullough: Hollywood Film and Television, titled "#5 "Mission: Impossible" & "Mannix"" was published on November 9, 2012 and runs 35 minutes.

November 9, 2012 ·35m · Where Hollywood Hides: Television | Movies | Music | Show Business | Writing | Producing | Directing | Acting

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Episode Description

At Suzanne's prodding, Bob McCullough details his first "on the lot"

gig at Paramount Studios and confesses his never-before-revealed

secrets of life on the set of the original "Mission: Impossible".

They talk about the unique production values, Bruce Geller's

perspective on character develpoment, and how Bob befriended

the writer who had killed his wife with a pair of scissors.

It's a revealing conversation about network-studio conflicts

making early caeer moves, all with the ground-level

view of an up-and-coming Hollywood "gopher".

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