Mission: Impossible

1966–1973 · Ended · 7 seasons · 171 episodes · Action & Adventure, Crime · United States

Creator Bruce Geller · Channel CBS · Starring Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bob Johnson

Failure impossible.

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
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Episodes

28 episodes · September 1966 – April 1967
  1. Episode 1: 1. PilotSeptember 17, 1966 · 46 min
    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.
  2. Episode 2: 2. MemorySeptember 24, 1966 · 46 min
    The IMF must undermine "the Butcher of the Balkans", Janos Karq, by having his head of security capture an agent, Sparrow, who will then incriminate Karq.
  3. Episode 3: 3. Operation RogoshOctober 1, 1966 · 46 min
    Imry Rogosh is a mass murderer who kills to forment political upheaval. He is targeting Los Angeles, so the IMF knock him out in a car accident. When Rogosh "wakes up" he is in a cell in a prison in his own country, three years later, and ready to be executed as an American agent.
  4. Episode 4: 4. Old Man Out (1)October 8, 1966 · 46 min
    The IMF team goes in as a circus team to rescue Anton Cardinal Vossek, who is being held in the impregnable Seravno Prison. Vossek is the leader of the country's freedom movement, in rebellion against Colonel Scutari, and is awaiting a fake trial before execution.
  5. Episode 5: 5. Old Man Out (2)October 15, 1966 · 46 min
    Rollin manages to avoid the guards and escape, but Vossek is moved to a new cell in solitary confinement. Briggs comes up with a new plan and manages to relay it to the imprisoned Rollin.
  6. Episode 6: 6. Odds on EvilOctober 22, 1966 · 46 min
    Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work.
Show 22 more episodes
  1. Episode 7: 7. WheelsOctober 29, 1966 · 46 min
    In the country of Valeria, the IMF must assure that the corrupt Nationalist party's rigged voting machine doesn't give them the election.
  2. Episode 8: 8. The RansomNovember 5, 1966 · 45 min
    Mobster Frank Egan kidnaps the daughter of Dan's friend and uses her as a hostage to force Dan and the team to break out a key witness, Augie Gorman, against him.
  3. Episode 9: 9. A Spool There WasNovember 12, 1966 · 60 min
    Rollin and Cinnamon go it alone to recover a reel of recording wire containing information on a chemical warfare project aimed at the U.S.
  4. Episode 10: 10. The CarriersNovember 19, 1966 · 45 min
    Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bacteriological warfare.
  5. Episode 11: 11. Zubrovnik's GhostNovember 26, 1966 · 45 min
    The wife of a deceased scientist, Kurt Zubrovnik, is being pressured by Eastern forces to work for them. They are using a phony psychic to convince the wife her dead husband wants to defect!
  6. Episode 12: 12. FakeoutDecember 3, 1966 · 45 min
    Anastas Poltroni is the head of an international narcotics syndicate, and has taken refuge in a country with no extradition treaty. The IM Force is assigned to lure him out without kidnapping him (to avoid the publicity).
  7. Episode 13: 13. ElenaDecember 10, 1966 · 45 min
    Double-agent Elena Del Barra is acting bizarrely, sending a microfilm of defense secrets from her own country. Rollin is sent in to investigate, and return the microfilm without its theft ever being detected. Complicating matters is that an assassin, Callao, has been sent to kill her if Rollin can't figure things out in two days.
  8. Episode 14: 14. The Short Tail SpyDecember 17, 1966 · 45 min
    A defector has been targeted by two rival groups from the same foreign country. The team is to discredit the younger group, so that the U.S. can more easily handle the old-line group.
  9. Episode 15: 15. The LegacyJanuary 7, 1967 · 45 min
    The IMF must get hold of a horde of Nazi gold through four young men, sons of Hitler's top aides, who are sent to Switzerland to meet for the first time and pool their parts of the "puzzle" together.
  10. Episode 16: 16. The Reluctant DragonJanuary 14, 1967 · 45 min
    Dr. Cherlotov, a scientist of an enemy power, failed to defect to the West when his wife did. Now that he has developed a cheap, effective anti-ballistic system, the IMF are ordered to get him out. Unfortunately, they find out that Cherlotov doesn't wasn't to defect: he merely wants to convince his superiors he is loyal and live out his life.
  11. Episode 17: 17. The FrameJanuary 21, 1967 · 45 min
    Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with men more sympathetic to the Syndicate.
  12. Episode 18: 18. The TrialJanuary 28, 1967 · 45 min
    Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power.
  13. Episode 19: 19. The DiamondFebruary 4, 1967 · 45 min
    Henrik Durvard has taken over the country of Lombounda by military coup, and holds the natives in terror. He has obtained a diamond from the native miners, and the IMF are assigned to take it away from him.
  14. Episode 20: 20. The LegendFebruary 11, 1967 · 45 min
    An imprisoned member of the Nazi party, Herbert Raynor, is released from prison and is being flown (along with his daughter) to Puerto Huberra in South America, along with other Nazis. All of them are being flown there by an unknown benefactor.
  15. Episode 21: 21. Snowball in HellFebruary 18, 1967 · 45 min
    A former prison guard, Sefra, has got hold of a supply of cesium 138, which explodes at temperatures above 70 degrees. Sefra plans to sell the sample and the formula from the closed-down prison base where he once worked.
  16. Episode 22: 22. The ConfessionFebruary 25, 1967 · 45 min
    Andreas Solowiechek, a member of a Communist trade delegation, is arrested after assassinating a U.S. Senator, Townsend. Townsend's backer, McMillan, is rallying his supporters for the U.S. to break off all trade talks with the Russians.
  17. Episode 23: 23. Action!March 4, 1967 · 45 min
    Miklos Klaar, an Iron Curtain filmmaker, has film of American soldiers and plans to edit it into an atrocity movie to discredit the U.S.
  18. Episode 24: 24. The TrainMarch 18, 1967 · 45 min
    Prime Minister Larya of Svardia is working to establish democracy, but is unaware that his personal protégé, Deputy Premier Pavel, plans to set up a dictatorship. The team must persuade Larya of Pavel's plans.
  19. Episode 25: 25. ShockMarch 25, 1967 · 45 min
    Enemy operative Kiri has kidnapped U.S. envoy Carl Wilson and has an imposter, Gort, who is impersonating him to discredit a U.S. trade agreement. The team have to rescue Wilson and foil the impersonation before Kiri kills Wilson.
  20. Episode 26: 26. A Cube of SugarApril 1, 1967 · 45 min
    Vincent Deane is a jazz musician and undercover U.S. intelligence operative who has memorized the plans to a microcircuit code but was then captured and imprisoned. The IMF must get him out.
  21. Episode 27: 27. The TraitorApril 15, 1967 · 45 min
  22. Episode 28: 28. The PsychicApril 22, 1967 · 45 min
    An investment promoter, Alex Lowell, gained control of NATO top-secret defense hardware and absconded to South America to sell them to enemy powers. The IMF needs to recover the stock documents worth $80 mil.

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FIRST AIRED
September 17, 1966
LAST AIRED
March 30, 1973
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Desilu Productions, Paramount Television

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