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Mission: Impossible

Season 1 · 28 episodes · Sep 17, 1966

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    Episode 1

    Pilot

    Sep 17, 1966

    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.

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    Episode 2

    Memory

    Sep 24, 1966

    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.

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    Episode 3

    Operation Rogosh

    Oct 1, 1966

    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.

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    Episode 4

    Old Man Out (1)

    Oct 8, 1966

    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.

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    Episode 5

    Old Man Out (2)

    Oct 15, 1966

    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.

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    Episode 6

    Odds on Evil

    Oct 22, 1966

    Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work.

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    Episode 7

    Wheels

    Oct 29, 1966

    In the country of Valeria, the IMF must assure that the corrupt Nationalist party's rigged voting machine doesn't give them the election.

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    Episode 8

    The Ransom

    Nov 5, 1966

    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.

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    Episode 9

    A Spool There Was

    Nov 12, 1966

    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.

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    Episode 10

    The Carriers

    Nov 19, 1966

    Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bacteriological warfare.

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    Episode 11

    Zubrovnik's Ghost

    Nov 26, 1966

    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!

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    Episode 12

    Fakeout

    Dec 3, 1966

    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).

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    Episode 13

    Elena

    Dec 10, 1966

    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.

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    Episode 14

    The Short Tail Spy

    Dec 17, 1966

    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.

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    Episode 15

    The Legacy

    Jan 7, 1967

    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.

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    Episode 16

    The Reluctant Dragon

    Jan 14, 1967

    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.

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    Episode 17

    The Frame

    Jan 21, 1967

    Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with men more sympathetic to the Syndicate.

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    Episode 18

    The Trial

    Jan 28, 1967

    Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power.

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    Episode 19

    The Diamond

    Feb 4, 1967

    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.

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    Episode 20

    The Legend

    Feb 11, 1967

    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.

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    Episode 21

    Snowball in Hell

    Feb 18, 1967

    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.

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    Episode 22

    The Confession

    Feb 25, 1967

    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.

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    Episode 23

    Action!

    Mar 4, 1967

    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.

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    Episode 24

    The Train

    Mar 18, 1967

    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.

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    Episode 25

    Shock

    Mar 25, 1967

    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.

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    Episode 26

    A Cube of Sugar

    Apr 1, 1967

    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.

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    Episode 27

    The Traitor

    Apr 15, 1967

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    Episode 28

    The Psychic

    Apr 22, 1967

    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.