Box set: Mission: impossible Impossible: The Original Television Series
Barcode 032429349927

Mission: Impossible: Season 4
Desilu Productions (1969)
TV Series  /  Drama, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Action
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IMDB   7.9
1550 mins USA / English
DVD    US - TV-PG
Leonard Nimoy Paris
Peter Graves James Phelps
Peter Lupus Willy Armitage
Greg Morris Barney Collier
Bob Johnson Person on Tape
Tony Dante Guard
Al Roberts Soldier
Vic Perrin Checkpoint Guard
Lee Meriwether Tracey
Frank da Vinci Otto Silff
Jonathan Brooks Martyn
Tony Giorgio First Man
Charles Cirillo Bellhop
Tom McDonough Guard
John Vernon General Ramon Sabattini
Diane Baker Francesca
Jack Donner Buccaro
Monty O'Grady Cashier
Jack Berle Reporter
Hans Moebus Reporter
Director
Reza Badiyi
Barry Crane
Paul Krasny
Murray Golden
Producer Barry Crane
Bruce Geller
Stanley Kallis
Bruce Lansbury
Writer Bruce Geller
Laurence Heath
Ken Pettus
Paul Playdon
Cinematography Keith C. Smith
Paul Uhl
Robert F. Sparks
Al Francis
Musician Richard Markowitz
Lalo Schifrin
Jerry Fielding
Richard Hazard


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.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/28/1969  1.  The Code
Paris poses as a legendary and colorful revolutionary leader to get close to two conspirators planning an invasion and takeover of the democratic nation of San Cristobal and turn them against each other. Meanwhile, the rest of the IMF team hurries to obtain the invasion plans, decode them and relay the plans to the San Cristobal defense forces before the invasion begins.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/5/1969  2.  The Numbers Game
The IMF stages World War III complete with a nuclear holocaust, all for the benefit of one man, a former dictator who plans to return to power through an invasion funded by $600,000,000 he secreted away. With his invasion made pointless by the fictitious war, will he give up his booty to save his skin?
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/12/1969  3.  The Controllers: Part 1
An Eastern Bloc nation is trying to develop a mind-controlling drug, a project led by Dr. Karl Turek. Phelps devises a plan to play Turek off against a rival, Colonel Borodin. Phelps and Meredyth pose as a pair of defecting U.S. scientists, who supposedly have developed an alternative drug to the one that Turek is working on. The IMF's scheme calls for Turek to try to kill Borodin, which will result in a trial where Turek will be discredited. But the complicated plan goes awry and the episode ends with Phelps under fire by guards.
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    10/19/1969  4.  The Controllers: Part 2
Phelps escapes but Borodin, who had been unconscious in the trunk of the car driven by the IMF driver, is killed by a shot fired by guards. This is a major setback to the IMF because Phelps' plan called for Borodin to denounce Turek at a trial. Now, Phelps & Co. must scramble to get the plan back on track. Meanwhile, Turek continues to make progress in perfecting his mind-controlling drug.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/26/1969  5.  Fool's Gold
To thwart a counterfeiter who has printed enough currency to claim a pro-western democracy's entire gold reserve and thus topple the government, Paris must penetrate a lethal security system to substitute defective printing plates. Meanwhile Barney and Willy must subtly destroy a vault filled with currency and substitute easily detectable counterfeits made with the substituted plates to catch the counterfeiter red-handed.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/2/1969  6.  Commandante
An enemy nation has hijacked a US supported revolutionary movement trying to overturn a dictatorship. The IMF posses as a religious organization seeking the release of the priest who is the true leader of the revolution. But the enemy sees through this cover and demands a shipment of guns in exchange. Further they plan to manipulate the IMF to provide an excuse to kill the priest without alienating the revolutionaries. But what's that Barney is building in an isolated location? Did Jim anticipate a double cross and plan an escape route?
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/16/1969  7.  Submarine
Kruger Schtelman an ex-SS officer serving time in a communist prison is kidnapped by the IMF and made to believe he is on board a submarine. The team must get Schtelman to reveal the location of funds stolen by the Nazis before the military police close in on the IMF operation.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/23/1969  8.  Mastermind
The team is sent to stop a criminal who has obtained information on high ranking government officials that the Syndicate can use to coerce them. So they use the man's eagerness to be the new head of the Syndicate and a rival's dislike for him to get him.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/30/1969  9.  Robot
Premier Pavel Zagov's death has been covered up by Deputy Premier Gregor Kamirov. He is using an actor to take Zagov's place, and endorse Kamirov as his successor. The team convinces Kamirov that another official is planning a similar coup with the help of a lookalike mechanical Zagov. Led to believe that his co-conspirators are unreliable, Kamirov takes over the alternate (IMF provided) plan which ends with him exposing his deception on national television.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/7/1969  10.  The Double Circle
The IMF team tempts an art lover, who stole a secret missile fuel formula, to return the formula in exchange for a one of a kind art object. But he declines. So Jim begins a complex deception to convince his partner he has been double crossed. But the formula is still locked in a safe rigged to explode when enemy agents arrive.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/14/1969  11.  The Brothers
The IMF team is charged with the overthrow of the leader of an oil rich Arab nation to be replaced by his twin brother being held captive in an unknown location. The IMFs team of crack medical pretenders stages an emergency organ transplant to create an opportunity to switch the brothers. But the ruthless head of the nation's military sees an opportunity to dispose of both brothers and seize power for himself.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/21/1969  12.  Time Bomb
Anton Malek is a mole sent years ago to monitor the nuclear program of an Iron Curtain nation. Suffering from a terminal illness, Malek has become a rogue agent and rigged a nuclear reactor to explode. Convinced by the team that his illness can be cured, Malek (unknowingly) disassembles an IMF replica of the bomb while Barney mimics his procedure on the real device. But, Phelps suddenly realizes that Malek has discovered the deception; forcing the team to rely on intuition alone in disarming the bomb.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/28/1969  13.  The Amnesiac
Two years earlier, a rare metal isotope important in nuclear weapons development was stolen from the U.S. and hidden in the United People's Republic. Otto Silff, one of three men involved in the theft, was killed by his co-conspirator, Major Paul Johan. Johan is planning to sell the isotope to an Asian nation that is also an enemy of the U.S. To recover the isotope before the sale takes place, Paris poses as Silff, supposedly having had a disfiguring injury coupled with plastic surgery, and suffering from amnesia -- but "unconsciously" displaying characteristics of the missing Otto Silff.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/4/1970  14.  The Falcon: Part 1
Prince Stephan's death has been faked by General Sabattini; leaving Stephan's childlike cousin Nicolai as sovereign. Sabattini is forcing Stefan's fiancée Francesca into marrying him, placing him in line to the throne. Phelps joins a group of Dutch tourists while the rest of the team infiltrate the royal palace as a magic act led by Paris. Before the show begins Barney loots the royal vault. It's the beginning of a complex scheme to rescue Stephan, Nicolai, Francesca and simultaneously eliminate Sabatini.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/11/1970  15.  The Falcon: Part 2
Paris switches identities with Nicolai during a magic show and the real sovereign is taken to safety. Francesca, cooperating with the IMF plan, fakes her own suicide cutting off Sabattini's route to power. The theft of the royal vault is discovered, and Phelps contacts Sabattini as a former partner of Stephan's claiming that he can force the prince to reveal the location of the royal treasure.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/18/1970  16.  The Falcon: Part 3
Barney and Phelps use an optical illusion to help them free Stephan from his cell. But, everything goes haywire when an assassination attempt against Sabattini fails and unmasks Paris in the process. Sabattini and his men begin to figure out the plan. Phelps must stay one step ahead if he's to get everyone out alive.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/25/1970  17.  Chico
The IMF must rely on a trained terrier, named Chico, to retrieve a list of undercover agents from a drug lord's underground vault.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/1/1970  18.  Gitano
The teen-aged king of a small central European principality has been convinced, falsely, that his regent intends to harm him, and so he has taken refuge in a neighboring country where he is under the "protection" of strongman General Aragas. But Aragas in fact is the one who intends to kill the young ruler. The IMF arranges for an attempted "kidnapping" of the boy during a journey, and then to have him be "found" by a traveling group of gypsies -- putting him temporarily out of Gen. Aragas' hands, so that the IMF can show the boy that Aragas in fact intends to kill him.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/8/1970  19.  Phantoms
Leo Vorka, the aging Stalin-like dictator of a Communist nation, is about to begin another purge, led by the infamous head of his secret police Georgi Kull. Phelps posing as a writer, Barney's technical know-how, and Paris' make-up skills convince Vorka's aides, that the dictator's murderous past has finally driven him mad; it's time for him to retire.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/15/1970  20.  Terror
A notorious terrorist serving a life sentence has used a secret supporter within his nation's government to secure a pardon. The IMF must prevent his release and expose the traitor.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/22/1970  21.  Lover's Knot
In the midst of delicate operations to identify the chief of an espionage ring, Jim Phelps realizes that Paris has fallen in love with an enemy agent on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/1/1970  22.  Orpheus
In order to expose an assassin who will strike an unknown target within 48 hours, Phelps poses as a drug addicted intelligence officer who wants to sell information to the assassin's contact: Bergman. Meanwhile, IMF operative Valerie, approaches Bergman as an investigator sent to look for a traitor inside his organization.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/8/1970  23.  The Crane
The team finds inspiration from Poe's "The Purloined Letter" in their plan to rescue a resistance fighter, and sow discord among the leaders of the military junta hunting him.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/15/1970  24.  Death Squad
Jim and Barney vacation together in a Latin American country. While there, Barney falls in love with artist Alma Ross. But the brother of the local police chief obsesses over Alma and is enraged that she and Barney are dating. He goes into her room with a knife. Barney defends Alma but in the process sidesteps the jealous man, who lunges through the window, landing on the knife. Barney is now arrested and ticketed for execution by the police chief, who is operating a secret death squad. Phelps summons Paris and Willy and the IMF must act fast before Barney becomes the death squad's latest victim.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/22/1970  25.  The Choice
The Grand Duchess Theresa of the European duchy of Trent has come under the sway of a self-proclaimed mystic, the Rasputin-like Emile Vautrain. The IMF's assignment is to prevent Vautrain from using his influence over the Grand Duchess to make himself ruler of Trent, turning it into a dictatorship that will ally itself with the enemies of the U.S. To stop Vautrain, the IMF relies on Vautrain's amazing resemblance to the IMF's agent, Paris, in order to reveal Vautrain's true nature to the Grand Duchess.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/29/1970  26.  The Martyr
Premier Anton Rojek, the anti-Western head of an East Bloc state, plans to hold a "youth congress," hoping to get the young people of his country to endorse his repressive regime. The IMF's plan to prevent this involves the talents of folk singer Roxy, as well as having Paris pose as the missing son of the country's late President, Eduard Malik, whom many young people there still idolize.
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Series Mission: Impossible
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