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Steven Hill | Daniel Briggs | |
Barbara Bain | Cinnamon Carter | |
Peter Lupus | Willy Armitage | |
Greg Morris | Barney Collier | |
Martin Landau | Rollin Hand | |
Bob Johnson | Person on Tape | |
Robert Board | Guard in Projection Room | |
Nick Borgani | Casino Patron | |
Hans Moebus | Reporter | |
Joseph La Cava | Waiter | |
George Bruggeman | Reporter | |
George DeNormand | Casino Patron | |
Monty O'Grady | Reporter | |
Jerry Rush | Cafe Patron | |
Noble 'Kid' Chissell | Prison Guard | |
Eddie Paskey | Man Taking Suitcase from Safe | |
Michael Jeffers | Crowd Member | |
Paul King | Crew Member | |
Jose Portugal | Waiter | |
Frank Baker | Prisoner |
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This 7-year series chronicled the adventures of the Impossible Mission Taskforce (IMF), a team of government spies and specialists who were assigned "impossible missions" by the unseen "Secretary". Although the cast varied over the years, the main characters included The Team Leader (Dan Briggs the first season, then Jim Phelps the other six), The Techno-Wizard (Barney Collier), The Strongman (Willy Armitage), The Master of Disguise (first Rollin Hand, then The Amazing Paris), and The Femme Fatale (Cinnamon Carter, Casey, Dana Lambert, Mimi Davis). The series is best known for its opening mission assignment (conducted by a pre-recorded tape), the leader's selection of mission agents from a dossier, the opening briefing, the intricate use of disguises and a typical "mask pulloff" scene near the end of most episodes, and the relative lack of characterization of the characters. |
Seen it: Yes 60 mins 9/17/1966 1. Pilot | |
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IMF team leader Dan Briggs assembles his team for the first time. The mission: to recover two nuclear warheads belonging to General Rio Dominguez from a hotel vault in Santa Costa. Jim and Willy sneak safe-cracker Terry Targo into the vault, who figures out how to get out. The team then captures Dominguez but Targo's fingers are broken in the attempt. With no other alternative, Briggs has himself and Dominguez put into the vault, and Briggs threatens to enter a random combination if Alicio doesn't tell him the code. Dominguez breaks. With the bombs defused, Willy takes the warheads out of the vault. Briggs remains behind and uses the information Targo gathered earlier to get out during a fireworks distraction set off by Barney. Briggs and the rest of the team make a desperate race for safety and get onto a plane heading to safety seconds before the military can catch up to them.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 9/24/1966 2. Memory | |
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IMF is tasked with defamation of Janos Karq, a dangerous politician from the Eastern Block who tends to start a war with the West. Joseph Baresh will be placed in the military prison Lubjanka, where his testimonies shall implicate Karq.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/1/1966 3. Operation Rogosh | |
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Rogosh is an operative for a country hostile to the United States. When he strikes, he typically leaves dozens, if not hundreds, of bodies in his wake. Rogosh has been spotted in Los Angeles. But he will not crack under normal interrogation methods. Briggs comes up with an unusual plan. The IMF stages an accident where pedestrian Rogosh is struck by a car. When he awakes, he appears to be in a prison in his home country -- three years later.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/8/1966 4. Old Man Out: Part 1 | |
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An elderly cardinal has been taken prisoner by an Eastern European country because the clergyman is a leader of the political opposition. He is being held in a prison where no escape has ever occurred. Briggs recruits an old flame who is also a trapeze artist. She accompanies Briggs and the IMF, who pose as a small circus. The "circus" has set up in a park that is next to the prison. Rollin, posing as a member of the circus, is arrested after stealing the wallet of an audience member. Rollin is taken to the prison and manages to smuggle in a lock-pick that enables him to exit his cell. The IMF operative manages to get to the cardinal to warn him to expect an escape attempt, with the circus providing a distraction. But, as the escape attempt unfolds, the cardinal is gone from his cell -- he has been taken to solitary confinement and will be executed within a day or two.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/15/1966 5. Old Man Out: Part 2 | |
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The IMF breaks off its attempt to free an elderly cardinal. Now, Briggs & Co. must regroup and Briggs must alter his plans. On top of that, a colonel in the unnamed Eastern European country is becoming suspicious of the IMF's "circus." Briggs manages to use the man's suspicions to the IMF's advantage. Crystal, the trapeze artist recruited by Briggs, performs a dangerous diversion while Briggs and Rollin attempt to free the cardinal.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/22/1966 6. Odds on Evil | |
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A prince, the absolute ruler of a principality, has $1.5 million which he plans to use for arms to wage war on a neighboring, oil-rich country. Briggs devises a scheme that involves breaking the bank of the prince's casino. First, the IMF will utilize a computer to take $200,000 at roulette. That will provide the stake the IMF needs to take the prince at a high-stakes game of baccarat.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/29/1966 7. Wheels | |
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The IM force is tasked to prevent a rigged elevon in a small Latin American nation from happening, and enabling the results to be genuine.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/5/1966 8. The Ransom | |
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In a rare episode of the series in which the IM Force isn't sent on a government-sanctioned mission, they're forced by a criminal named Egan, who's kidnapped the daughter of a friend of Briggs, to capture a heavily guarded witness in a trial against him. They know Egan plans to kill the witness, but Briggs is put in a tight spot, and is determined that Egan won't get a chance to kill the witness.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/12/1966 9. A Spool There Was | |
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Rollin and Cinnamon are sent on a mission to locate and retrieve a wire recording, which was hidden by an agent fleeing from guards in such a way, no one's been able to find it.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/19/1966 10. The Carriers | |
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The inhabitants of a replica American town are being used, themselves, as the unknowing carriers of a deadly plague. The IM force must stop this from happening, and being the party responsible forward.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/26/1966 11. Zubrovnik's Ghost | |
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Rollin and Barney are sent to investigate the case of a scientist who believes her dead husband's ghost is giving her orders on how to complete her important work.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/3/1966 12. Fakeout | |
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The IMF's target is Poltroni, an international drug dealer. Poltroni, alias Ted Carson, is in a country with no extradition treaty with the United States. Briggs devises a plan to lure Poltroni to a neighboring country where he can be arrested and sent to the U.S. To execute the scheme, Barney will have to fight for his life against one of Poltroni's thugs while Cinammon will be bait for Poltroni. Also, getting Poltroni to the border won't be easy. It's about 100 miles away.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/10/1966 13. Elena | |
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Rollin's sent to investigate the case of a beautiful Latin American spy who's suddenly started acting suspiciously. the IM force must find out if she's still on the right side - or if she's losing her sanity?
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/17/1966 14. The Short Tail Spy | |
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Cinnamon does her job all too well when the latest mission requires her to feign love for a vain assassin. Meanwhile, Briggs and Barney work to get an over-the-hill terrorist out of the way.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/7/1967 15. The Legacy | |
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The IMF must thwart four young Nazis from claiming Hitler's fortune, which they plan to use to finance a Fourth Reich.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/14/1967 16. The Reluctant Dragon | |
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The IM force seeks to smuggle an valuable scientist, with the help of his wife, out from behind the iron curtain. Soon, they discover he doesn't want to leave, and have to change plans to convince him otherwise.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/21/1967 17. The Frame | |
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The Impossible Missions Force mixes dinner and danger at a crime czar's private party. Jack Wellman has arranged the deaths of four Government officials so he can fill the vacancies with men he controls.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/28/1967 18. The Trial | |
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Briggs poses as an American tourist and subjects himself to a show trial in order to discredit a public prosecutor attempting to seize absolute power in his country.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/4/1967 19. The Diamond | |
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Briggs and company pretend to have found a means of synthesizing diamonds in order to con a dictator out of a priceless uncut diamond that will finance his government and secure his power.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/11/1967 20. The Legend | |
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The IMF team infiltrates a top-secret meeting of Nazis in South America, and are shocked to learn that their leader is war criminal Martin Bormann.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/18/1967 21. Snowball in Hell | |
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Barney faces the cat o' nine tails and a cruel ex-guard at a former penal colony as the other IM members work to trick the man out of a cheap substance which could be used for nuclear weapons.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/25/1967 22. The Confession | |
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A Communist Bloc operative has been arrested for the assassination of U.S. Senator William Townsend. Briggs and Co.'s mission is to prove the operative did NOT kill the senator on behalf of his government. The prime suspect is businessman R.J. McMillian, Townsend's primary backer. The secretary believes McMillian killed Townsend to create a martyr and to create momentum for a preemptive war with the Soviet Bloc. Briggs concocts an elaborate scheme which calls for Rollin to play the role of a con who springs the operative from jail, Cinammon to pretend to be a journalist and Briggs himself to pose as a painter. But, at the climactic moment, there's a twist that even Briggs doesn't anticipate.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/4/1967 23. Action! | |
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Miklos Klaar runs a movie studio in the Communist Bloc. He is preparing a film, combining documentary footage with scenes he has shot on a sound stage, to make it appear U.S. troops have committed an atrocity. The Impossible Missions Force -- minus Dan Briggs, who is absent this episode -- runs a typically complicated operation. First, the IMF will ruin Klaar's existing film and negative, forcing him to do a re-shoot. Next, the IMF's plan calls for publicly ruining Klaar just as he's at his moment of triumph.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/18/1967 24. The Train | |
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The dying leader of a European nation has a protégé ready to assume power. What the leader doesn't know is his protégé plans to crack down on liberty and become absolute dictator. The IMF must make the leader see his protrude protege for what he really is..
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/25/1967 25. Shock | |
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Wilson, a U.S. ambassador stationed in a neutral country, has been abducted by an intelligence operative of an Eastern Bloc nation. An impostor has been put in Wilson's place. Briggs & Co. have a short amount of time to get Wilson back and foil whatever plot is underway. The IMF, in turn, abducts the impostor. A disguised Briggs takes his place. The impostor, Josef Gord, awakens to find himself in an IMF-manufactured mental hospital. The question is whether the IMF can break him in time to save Wilson.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/1/1967 26. A Cube of Sugar | |
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An American agent in possession of advanced computer chip. has been captured behind the Iron Curtain. He's hidden the chip in a sugar cube; one of 7 soaked in LSD. The IMF must get the agent out, as well as the chip - which are both in a facility under strict observation.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/15/1967 27. The Traitor | |
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A U.S. intelligence operative has defected to an Eastern Bloc country and is currently housed at that nation's embassy in Washington. Briggs devises a plan in which a contortionist is needed to navigate through the ventilation system of the embassy and break into a top-security portion of the facility. What's more, Rollin will pose as an official of the nation while Barney, Willy and Cinnamon also play key roles.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/22/1967 28. The Psychic | |
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Cinnamon poses as a psychic as part of a typically complicated plan devised by Briggs. The IMF's target is a U.S. businessman who has fled to South America, where he can't be touched legally. He has taken control of a company that holds patents vital to U.S. security interests. The businessman intends to sell the patents to an intelligence operative of an Eastern Bloc nation. The IMF intends to get control of the company back from the businessman. The plan calls for Rollin to impersonate a gangster, Barney to use slight of hand and the help of a respected judge.
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