Back in 1965, Desilu Productions gave the green light for the pilot of a TV series where a group of very talented spies would foil plans of others around the world that might be doing harm to the balance of power around them.
Wow! Who wouldn’t enjoy that series?
Well, it seems that Desi Arnez didn’t.
The first pilot of Mission Impossible featured Chainsaw Chicken as the team leader along with what would be a regular crew of Martin Landau (the only actor to survive the pilot and continue into the series), a puffed up Candice Bergen (she was dropped after the second pilot was accepted) and a rotation of TV personalities who could act as either a team member or the bad guy that the team is working against.
The pilot started with Chainsaw entering a theater with the movie running and sits next to a gentleman isolated in the back row. There he would receive instructions of a secret mission.
As Chainsaw appears to be disinterested in his contact, he reaches over and runs his hand into the man’s popcorn container. His hand returned with a miniature reel-to-reel tape player and a View Master slide shower. He continues to view the stereo vision slides while listening to the tape player as the movie ran in the background.
In screening the pilot, Desi said “This is crap! Why is he reaching in that guys lap? And that chicken! He’s GONE! I never want to see him on celluloid again!”
As the writers began scripting the revised pilot, Chainsaw was escorted from the lot and given a trespassing notice. The security guard told Chainsaw that CBS was looking for unique bad guys on the new western ‘The Wild, Wild, West’.
Chainsaw gave the “okay” hand sign and headed for his parked Corvair convertible.
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