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Martin Landau | Rollin Hand | |
Peter Graves | James Phelps | |
Barbara Bain | Cinnamon Carter | |
Peter Lupus | Willy Armitage | |
Greg Morris | Barney Collier | |
Bob Johnson | Person on Tape | |
Robert Board | Chess Match Spectator | |
John Breen | Chess Match Spectator | |
Nick Borgani | Patient | |
Albert Cavens | Guard | |
Michael Jeffers | Chess Match Spectator | |
Rudy Doucette | Chess Match Spectator | |
George Sawaya | Poker Player | |
Richard LaMarr | Chess Match Spectator | |
Leon Alton | Party Guest | |
Sid Haig | Musha | |
Hans Moebus | Party Guest | |
John Arndt | Surgical Orderly | |
Joseph Ruskin | King Ibn Borca | |
Steve Franken | Akim Hadramut |
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Producer |
Joseph Gantman
Bruce Geller John W. Rogers Robert F. O'Neill |
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Bruce Geller
William Read Woodfield Allan Balter Barney Slater |
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Cinematography |
Michel Hugo
Fred J. Koenekamp |
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Musician |
Gerald Fried
Walter Scharf Jerry Fielding Robert Drasnin |
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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 9/10/1967 1. The Widow | |
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Jim Phelps is the new leader of the Impossible Missions Force, with no explanation, or even reference made, about the departure of predecessor Dan Briggs. First up for Phelps is a mission involving the drug trade. Cresnik and Walters have cornered the heroin market and sell it at a handsome profit to gangs around the world. Phelps devises an operation which will drive a wedge between the heroin dealers and their customers.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 9/17/1967 2. Trek | |
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Jack Cole was arrested and imprisoned for stealing art treasures of a Latin nation. The mission for Phelps and the IM team is to get the objects back. But that won't be easy. Cole's being tortured by the colonel who heads the prison -- and the colonel's a traitor who wants the treasure for himself. The IMF plans calls for playing the 2 men, each deadly, off each other.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 9/24/1967 3. The Survivors | |
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An enemy agent's kidnapped 2 scientists and their wives and is holding them in San Francisco. He wants a third scientist, who can help develop an ultimate weapon. Phelps devises a plan where he'll pose as the scientist being sought, whilst the rest of the IM force fakes an earthquake.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/1/1967 4. The Bank | |
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Belzig, head of a bank in East Berlin, tricks unwary people anxious to escape to the West that he can help them. Instead, he steals their money and kills them. He's amassing a fortune to launch a new Nazi movement. The mission for the IM force iis to put him out of business.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/8/1967 5. The Slave: Part 1 | |
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The Impossible Missions Force takes on the absolute ruler of a Middle East nation who is running a secret slave market. Barney poses as a slave, part of an effort to construct a replica of the slave cells, before escaping. Phelps poses as a slave trader and Rollin as an Interpol investigator. Finally, Cinnamon will be the bait for the trap. The ruler of the country has a brother who married a British wife, Amara. The brother, if he assumed power, would abolish slavery in the country -- but he has accepted assurances that slavery doesn't exist there. As part of the plan, Willy abducts Amara and she is put in the IMF replica of the slave cell.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/15/1967 6. The Slave: Part 2 | |
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Phelps & Co. continue their plan to smash the renegade slavery operation of the absolute ruler of a Middle Eastern nation. Phelps, posing as a slave trader, works his way into the confidence of the ruler. In that role, Phelps "sells" Cinnamon into slavery. Meanwhile, the rest of the IMF team is preparing to pull a switch that will force the ruler's brother to confront the situation and force the end of slavery in his nation.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/22/1967 7. Operation 'Heart' | |
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Cinnamon poses as the wife of an archaeologist with a serious heart condition. He needs to be rescued, and an assassination plot needs to be foiled.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/29/1967 8. The Money Machine | |
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The economy of the small African country of Ghalea is threatened by a mass counterfeiting scheme directed by Walter DuBruis, one of the country's richest financiers in "The Money Machine" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/5/1967 9. The Seal | |
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Taggert, a U.S. industrialist, has acquired a jade figure, which has great religious significance to Kuala Rokat. That nation is a small but strategically located nation which borders China. Taggert's acquisition threatens to undo years of sensitive U.S. diplomacy but there is no legal way to force him to give the figure back. Phelps devises a plan which, among other things, calls for causing havoc with Taggert's mainframe computer, Rollin impersonating an academic from Kuala Rokat and using a highly trained cat in getting the jade away from Taggert.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/12/1967 10. Sweet Charity | |
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The Hagars, a married couple, collect money for charity, but keep it for themselves in the form of platinum bars they keep hidden under their pool table. Phelps and his "Impossible Mission Force" must retrieve the platinum and put an end to the Hagars' scam once and for all.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/19/1967 11. The Council: Part 1 | |
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A top mob leader, Frank Wayne, is endangering the U.S. economy. Phelps's plan attacks Wayne on various fronts. First the IMF watches as Jimmy Bibo, one of Wayne's associates is forced to dig his own grave. The IMF has a doctor ready to revive Bibo -- if Wayne's killer leaves the scene in time. Second, Phelps has a cover as an ambitious prosecutor on Wayne's trail. Finally, Rollin is ready to take Wayne's place. But once Rollin has made the switch, other mob bosses want "Wayne" to leave the country -- which will ruin the complicated plan.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/26/1967 12. The Council: Part 2 | |
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IMF agent Rollin Hand, impersonating mobster Frank Wayne, has a counter-proposal for the other mob bosses. He says he'll undergo plastic surgery to look like a different man. In comes Cinnamon. In reality, she is undoing Rollin's makeup; she can afford no mistakes because the other mob bosses are watching the entire time. Meanwhile, a doctor working for the IMF is performing plastic surgery on the real Wayne -- making him to look like Rollin. All of this is part of Phelps's plan aimed at getting access to Wayne's records. But Phelps himself will face an attempted hit before the mission can be concluded.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/3/1967 13. The Astrologer | |
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An opposition leader of an Eastern Bloc nation has been captured by the chief of the country's secret police. Also seized was microfilm with a list of people who secretly support the opposition. Phelps develops a plan that plays upon the astrology obsession the nation's leader has. Cinnamon poses as a famous astrologer while Barney and Rollin will have to operate from the cargo compartment of a plane transporting the captured opposition leader.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/10/1967 14. Echo of Yesterday | |
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Cinnamon works to stop a munitions magnate who is supplying arms to neo-nazis. She reawakens memories of his late wife, who was murdered by Hitler.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/17/1967 15. The Photographer | |
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The team's latest mission has them trying to root out a network of spies, who were brought in by an American photographer. The problem is the code that he and his handlers communicate with is unbreakable. So they devise a plan to get him to reveal the method of decoding his communications. And their plan has him asking for Cinnamon to pose for him. During their photo shoot she displays knowledge of bio chemistry which the photographer decides to exploit.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/7/1968 16. The Spy | |
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The exact rendering of a map is duplicated in order to fool a female spy. It's the second part of an overlay that details NATO's missile defense system.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/14/1968 17. A Game of Chess | |
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The IMF's target is an international chess grandmaster who also is planning to steal gold seized from the opposition movement of an unnamed Soviet Bloc country. Rollin poses as an amateur chess player, helped by a computer Barney is running that is unbeatable at chess. The plan, devised by Phelps, also calls for a devious way of snatching the gold from both the chess player and the authorities.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/21/1968 18. The Emerald | |
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An emerald, with vital U.S. security information attached and hidden on it, has fallen into the hands of an arms dealer. What's more, a Soviet Bloc agent is determined to secure the emerald. Both will be on a cruise ship. Phelps and the IMF must both get the emerald and neutralize the opposition agent. Phelps' plan involves a high stakes poker game utilizing Barney's technology and Rollin's sleight of hand. But that's only the beginning.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/28/1968 19. The Condemned | |
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A childhood friend of Phelps' is on death row in a Latin American country. He asks the "Impossible Mission Force" to help him spring him. Even though this is a personal mission, the "Force" agrees.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/4/1968 20. The Counterfeiter | |
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Halder, who runs respectable medical clinics, is really a counterfeiter of drugs responsible for many deaths. The Impossible Missions Force aims to prove Halder's involvement in the production of the counterfeit drugs. As part of the plan, Phelps will pose as a federal drug enforcement agent who's willing to go on the take.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/18/1968 21. The Town | |
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Jim Phelps is kidnapped by townspeople after learning they are part of an assassination network. The clock is ticking as a pair of assassins are en route to a perform a hit. The 'Force' must find and save Jim, then try to stop the impending assassination.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/25/1968 22. The Killing | |
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Bert Gordon has created a criminal organization that will get rid of anyone, anywhere -- no bodies are ever found. Gordon is untouchable through conventional means of investigation and prosecution. Phelps devises a plan that takes advantage of Gordon's superstitions. Phelps and Cinnamon pose as a bickering couple, where the wife is eager to employ Gordon's services. The IMF will also make it appear that the dead are trying to reach people in the world of the living. The goal is to manipulate Gordon into a fix where even he cannot escape from the law.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/3/1968 23. The Phoenix | |
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When the curator of a museum plans to turn an experimental alloy over to a foreign power, the IMF creates a diversion - an attempt on his life.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/10/1968 24. Trial by Fury | |
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The IMF goes to a prison camp inside a totalitarian Latin American country. At the camp, an opposition leader is kept in isolation. One of his followers arranged to be arrested and has become a trustee, helping to get the opposition leader's messages out to his countrymen. Prisoners believe the trustee to be an informer. Phelps and Barney arrive as prisoners, aiming to expose the real informer. They're aided by Cinnamon (posing as a Red Cross official) and Rollin (as a guard). The question is whether Phelps can work fast enough to save an innocent man's life.
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Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/17/1968 25. Recovery | |
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A U.S. bomber crashes behind the Iron Curtain. Its Fail-Safe device, however, failed to self destruct. A brilliant U.S. scientist who defected to the unnamed country is supervising efforts to take the device apart, which will yield valuable information about the entire U.S. defense system. The IMF must recover the Fail-Safe device and abduct the scientist. As part of the plan devised by Phelps, Rollin and Cinnamon will pose as U.S. scientists on a tour.
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