Mission: Impossible
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Mission: Impossible

"Failure impossible."

7.6/10 1966 7 Seasons 171 Episodes Ended

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.

Season: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Season 1 Episodes

S1E1
E1
Pilot
46 min 1966

IMF team leader Dan Briggs assembles his team for the first time. The mission: to recover two nuclear warheads belonging…

S1E2
E2
Memory
46 min 1966

The IMF must undermine ""the Butcher of the Balkans"", Janos Karq, by having his head of security capture an agent, Spar…

S1E3
E3
Operation Rogosh
46 min 1966

Imry Rogosh is a mass murderer who kills to forment political upheaval. He is targeting Los Angeles, so the IMF knock hi…

S1E4
E4
Old Man Out (1)
46 min 1966

The IMF team goes in as a circus team to rescue Anton Cardinal Vossek, who is being held in the impregnable Seravno Pris…

S1E5
E5
Old Man Out (2)
46 min 1966

Rollin manages to avoid the guards and escape, but Vossek is moved to a new cell in solitary confinement. Briggs comes u…

S1E6
E6
Odds on Evil
46 min 1966

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

S1E7
E7
Wheels
46 min 1966

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

S1E8
E8
The Ransom
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…

S1E9
E9
A Spool There Was
60 min 1966

Rollin and Cinnamon go it alone to recover a reel of recording wire containing information on a chemical warfare project…

S1E10
E10
The Carriers
1966

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

S1E11
E11
Zubrovnik's Ghost
1966

The wife of a deceased scientist, Kurt Zubrovnik, is being pressured by Eastern forces to work for them. They are using …

S1E12
E12
Fakeout
1966

Anastas Poltroni is the head of an international narcotics syndicate, and has taken refuge in a country with no extradit…

S1E13
E13
Elena
1966

Double-agent Elena Del Barra is acting bizarrely, sending a microfilm of defense secrets from her own country. Rollin is…

S1E14
E14
The Short Tail Spy
1966

A defector has been targeted by two rival groups from the same foreign country. The team is to discredit the younger gro…

S1E15
E15
The Legacy
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 Switze…

S1E16
E16
The Reluctant Dragon
1967

Dr. Cherlotov, a scientist of an enemy power, failed to defect to the West when his wife did. Now that he has developed …

S1E17
E17
The Frame
1967

Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with …

S1E18
E18
The Trial
1967

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

S1E19
E19
The Diamond
1967

Henrik Durvard has taken over the country of Lombounda by military coup, and holds the natives in terror. He has obtaine…

S1E20
E20
The Legend
1967

An imprisoned member of the Nazi party, Herbert Raynor, is released from prison and is being flown (along with his daugh…

S1E21
E21
Snowball in Hell
1967

A former prison guard, Sefra, has got hold of a supply of cesium 138, which explodes at temperatures above 70 degrees. S…

S1E22
E22
The Confession
1967

Andreas Solowiechek, a member of a Communist trade delegation, is arrested after assassinating a U.S. Senator, Townsend.…

S1E23
E23
Action!
1967

Miklos Klaar, an Iron Curtain filmmaker, has film of American soldiers and plans to edit it into an atrocity movie to di…

S1E24
E24
The Train
1967

Prime Minister Larya of Svardia is working to establish democracy, but is unaware that his personal protege, Deputy Prem…

S1E25
E25
Shock
1967

Enemy operative Kiri has kidnapped U.S. envoy Carl Wilson and has an imposter, Gort, who is impersonating him to discred…

S1E26
E26
A Cube of Sugar
1967

Vincent Deane is a jazz musician and undercover U.S. intelligence operative who has memorized the plans to a microcircui…

S1E27
E27
The Traitor
1967

An American intelligence officer, Hughes, has defected to the enemy with the only copy of an encoded top-secret message.…

S1E28
E28
The Psychic
1967

An investment promoter, Alex Lowell, gained control of manufacturer of NATO top-secret defense hardware and absconded t…

Cast

Peter Graves
Peter Graves
Jim Phelps
Greg Morris
Greg Morris
Barney Collier
Peter Lupus
Peter Lupus
Willy Armitage
Lynda Day George
Lynda Day George
Dana Lambert
Bob Johnson
Bob Johnson
Man on Tape (voice)

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