Series
Mission: Impossible
“Failure impossible.”
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama
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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Seasons & episodes
S1 · 28 epS2 · 25 epS3 · 25 epS4 · 26 epS5 · 23 epS6 · 22 epS7 · 22 ep
1Pilot17 Sept 1966 · 46m · ★ 7.7IMF 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.
2Memory24 Sept 1966 · 46m · ★ 7.2The 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.
3Operation Rogosh1 Oct 1966 · 46m · ★ 7.6Imry 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.
4Old Man Out (1)8 Oct 1966 · 46m · ★ 7.0The 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.
5Old Man Out (2)15 Oct 1966 · 46m · ★ 7.2Rollin 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.
6Odds on Evil22 Oct 1966 · 46m · ★ 7.5Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work.
7Wheels29 Oct 1966 · 46m · ★ 7.3In the country of Valeria, the IMF must assure that the corrupt Nationalist party's rigged voting machine doesn't give them the election.
8The Ransom5 Nov 1966 · 45m · ★ 7.7Mobster 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.
9A Spool There Was12 Nov 1966 · 60m · ★ 7.0Rollin and Cinnamon go it alone to recover a reel of recording wire containing information on a chemical warfare project aimed at the U.S.
10The Carriers19 Nov 1966 · 45m · ★ 7.5Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bacteriological warfare.
11Zubrovnik's Ghost26 Nov 1966 · 45m · ★ 7.0The 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!
12Fakeout3 Dec 1966 · 45m · ★ 7.5Anastas 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).
13Elena10 Dec 1966 · 45m · ★ 6.0Double-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.
14The Short Tail Spy17 Dec 1966 · 45m · ★ 6.0A 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.
15The Legacy7 Jan 1967 · 45m · ★ 6.0The 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.
16The Reluctant Dragon14 Jan 1967 · 45m · ★ 5.5Dr. 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.
17The Frame21 Jan 1967 · 45m · ★ 5.0Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with men more sympathetic to the Syndicate.
18The Trial28 Jan 1967 · 45m · ★ 5.0Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power.
19The Diamond4 Feb 1967 · 45m · ★ 6.0Henrik 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.
20The Legend11 Feb 1967 · 45m · ★ 6.7An 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.
21Snowball in Hell18 Feb 1967 · 45m · ★ 6.0A 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.
22The Confession25 Feb 1967 · 45m · ★ 6.3Andreas 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.
23Action!4 Mar 1967 · 45m · ★ 6.0Miklos Klaar, an Iron Curtain filmmaker, has film of American soldiers and plans to edit it into an atrocity movie to discredit the U.S.
24The Train18 Mar 1967 · 45m · ★ 6.5Prime 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.
25Shock25 Mar 1967 · 45m · ★ 6.5Enemy 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.
26A Cube of Sugar1 Apr 1967 · 45m · ★ 5.0Vincent 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.
27The Traitor15 Apr 1967 · 45m · ★ 5.0
28The Psychic22 Apr 1967 · 45m · ★ 5.0An 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.
Details
- Created by
- Bruce Geller
- First aired
- 17 Sept 1966
- Last aired
- 30 Mar 1973
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- CBS
- Episodes
- 171
- Votes
- 324 on TMDB
Where to watch (US)
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Cast
Peter GravesJim Phelps
Greg MorrisBarney Collier
Peter LupusWilly Armitage
Lynda Day GeorgeLisa Casey
Bob JohnsonMan on Tape (voice)
