Just like all mid-late 80s cut on tape shows, Mission: Impossible '88 looks perfectly acceptable on a CRT and nothing else. The show itself is pretty terrible as a result of being rushed to air as a means to break the Writer's Strike and there's no incentive to doing a remaster anyway.
"Dumbing down" was basically Bruce Lansbury's contribution to Mission. Instead of the secret crusaders against international injustice that the IMF were durring Stanley Kalis's and Paul Playdon's runs, Lansbury felt the IMF should be more focused on domestic issues. IE: Gangster of the Week...