Mission: Impossible
Season 1
28 episodes
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S01E01 Pilot
IMF team leader Dan Briggs assembles his team for the first time. His team includes a master of disguise, a femme fatale, an electronics whiz, an incredibly strong man and a safecracker. Briggs will need all their skills to steal two atomic bombs from a hostile South American country.
Pilot note — From the desk: Mission: Impossible opens its catalog run with “Pilot” (1966-09-17). Team procedural template that movies later turned into a global brand. Cast turnover and the music rights lore are pure industry folklore.
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S01E02 Memory
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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S01E03 Operation Rogosh
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.
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S01E04 Old Man Out (1)
The IMF team goes in as a circus team to rescue Anton Cardinal Vossek, who is being held in the impregnable Seravno Prison.
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S01E05 Old Man Out (2)
Rollin manages to avoid the guards and get to the roof but is arrested before he can rescue Vossek.
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S01E06 Odds on Evil
Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war, the IMF team must stop him before its too late.
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S01E07 Wheels
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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S01E08 The Ransom
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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S01E09 A Spool There Was
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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S01E10 The Carriers
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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S01E11 Zubrovnik's Ghost
The wife of a deceased scientist, Kurt Zubrovnik, is being pressured by Eastern forces to work for them.
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S01E12 Fakeout
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.
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S01E13 Elena
Double-agent Elena Del Barra is acting bizarrely, sending a microfilm of defense secrets from her own country. Rollin is sent into investigate, and return the microfilm without its theft ever being detected.
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S01E14 The Short Tail Spy
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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S01E15 The Legacy
The IMF must get hold of a hoard 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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S01E16 The Reluctant Dragon
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.
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S01E17 The Frame
Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with men more sympathetic to the Syndicate. To stop him, Briggs and his team must discredit Wellman in the eyes of the Syndicate by making it appear that he's skimming funds from them.
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S01E18 The Trial
Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power.
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S01E19 The Diamond
Henrik Durvard has taken over the country of Lombuanada 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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S01E20 The Legend
An imprisoned member of the Nazi party, Herbert Raynor, is released from prison and is being flown to Puerto Huberra in South America, along with other Nazis
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S01E21 Snowball in Hell
A former prison guard, Sefra, has acquired a supply of cesium 138, which explodes at temperatures above 70 degrees. Rollin and Barney go in as a photographer and model respectively, and Sefra "learns" that Barney is a former prisoner returning for revenge.
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S01E22 The Confession
To determine who hired a Soviet assassin to kill an American Senator, Rollin plays an escaped convict who takes the killer with him in the hopes that he'll reveal his paymaster.
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S01E23 Action!
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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S01E24 The Train
Prime Minister Larya of Svardia is working to establish democracy, but is unaware that his personal protege, Deputy Premier Pavel, plans to set up a dictatorship. The team must persuade Larya of Pavel's plans.
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S01E25 Shock
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 must rescue Wilson and foil the impersonation before Kiri kills Wilson.
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S01E26 A Cube of Sugar
The IMF team must rescue a U.S. intelligence operative who has top secret military plans on a microcircuit chip.
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S01E27 The Traitor
An American intelligence officer, Hughes, has defected to the enemy with the only copy of an encoded top-secret message. The IMF must get to him, get him out, discredit him, and recover the message before the enemy can get a cryptographer.
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S01E28 The Psychic
The team must trick a crooked investment promoter into endorsing $80 million in stolen stocks and then getting them back from him.
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