Mission: Impossible - Episode Guide

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.

 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.

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.

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

Rollin manages to avoid the guards and get to the roof but is arrested before he can rescue Vossek.

Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war, the IMF team must stop him before its too late.

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

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.

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.

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

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

 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.

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.

 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. 

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.

 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. 

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The IMF team must rescue a U.S. intelligence operative who has top secret military plans on a microcircuit chip.

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.

The team must trick a crooked investment promoter into endorsing $80 million in stolen stocks and then getting them back from him.

The Impossible Missions Force is asked to destroy an international narcotics ring operated by Alex Cresnic and his partner Mark Walters.

The Impossible Missions Force matches wits with a hijacker and a disloyal prison commandant.

A grave threat to national security is posed when an enemy agent kidnaps two of the three key scientists who collectively know the formula for the cobalt bomb.

The Impossible Missions Force is dispatched to Berlin's East Zone.

The IMF is called upon to end an inhuman situation which the United Nations has been unable to abolish: slave trade in the country of Elkabar, ruled by King Ibn Borca.

The IMF continues to battle slave-trading in a Middle Eastern country by eliminating De Groot, one of the principal suppliers of victims for King Borca's slave market.

 The IMF races against time to convince the president of a small country that his chief of secret police plans to overthrow the government and seize power. 

The economy of the small African country of Ghalea is threatened by a mass counterfeiting scheme directed by Walter DuBruis, one of the country's richest financiers.

America's relations with Kuala Rokat, a small neutral country on the China-India border, are threatened when a priceless national treasure, a carved jade seal, is stolen and bought by American art collector, J. Richard Taggart.

The fraudulent international activities of Gerald and Catherine Hagar, professional fund raisers for charity, take the IMF to an estate on the French-Italian border.

Jim Phelps leads the IMF on an assignment to destroy the syndicate, a criminal empire headed by Frank Wayne.

The IMF continues its fight against organized crime.

The IMF accepts a critical mission to rescue Nikolai Kurzon, the leader-in-exile of the Baltic state of Veyska who has been kidnapped by Col. Stahl, head of the secret police.

The resurgence of neo-Nazism in Germany takes the IMF to Bavaria, where Marcus von Frank threatens to become a second Hitler.

The imagination of the IMF is put to the test when a massive spy ring in the U.S. headed by fashion photographer, David Redding, threatens to cripple the country with a deadly pneumonic plague.

NATO's missile defense system plans, mapped on two separate overlays for security reasons, are the target of a Central European spy organization.

 Recovering a million dollars in gold bullion is the job of the IMF. 

The IMF is assigned to recover microfilm plans for manipulating international gold reserves.

Jim Phelps comes to the aid of a personal friend.

Destroying a drug ring is the task of the IMF.

IMF leader Jim Phelps is marked for murder.

The IMF sets out to destroy a murder-for-hire organization.

The IMF foils the attempts of a once-powerful communist to regain power.

The IMF goes to the aid of a friendly South American government which has been overthrown by revolutionaries.

The IMF takes the task of recovering a secret fail-safe device.

Cinnamon must pose as a long-lost princess to trick a scheming general into using her to try and take over his country.

The Impossible Missions Force is assigned to knock out a boxing syndicate which fixes fights to create favorable odds for a bookmaking operation, in the first half of a two-part story.

Barney poses as a fighter making his comeback, who boxes his way to a title bout with Staczek in the second half of a two-part episode.

The Impossible Missions Force, led by Jim Phelps enters Equatorial Africa to crush an army of mercenaries, led by a self-styled colonel, and to return plundered gold to its rightful owners.

Not knowing when, where or how a dangerous adversary will strike, Jim Phelps and Cinnamon use themselves as human quarries.

An army commander plots to become dictator by imprisoning an influential cardinal and using a look-alike actor for a public endorsement.

The Impossible Missions Force offers a "fountain of youth" to the vain and dictatorial widow of the late president of a small South American country in order to depose her.

Guest star Fernando Lamas portrays a diplomat-playboy who romances another diplomat's wife, played by Lee Grant.

With Phelps and Rollin as the leading men, the Impossible Missions Force stages an anti-American play which could prove to be a strong propaganda device for the enemy.

The former dictator of a Caribbean island is made to have hallucinatory visions in which he sees his ominous destiny as part of an ingenious plot designed by the Impossible Missions Force.

Before a statute of limitations expires on a 10-million dollar robbery, the Impossible Missions Force must spring the suspect from prison and dupe him into leading police to the hiding place of the money.

Cinnamon is captured and the enemy discovers the one thing that would unmask her identity and expose the Impossible Mission Force.

The team must convince the Other Side's top intelligence officer, Stefan Miklos, that his legitimate contact is feeding him accurate information that is actually false... by convincing him that they're feeding him false information.

The Impossible Missions Force must end the murderous career of a bacteriologist working for the enemy, who has succeeded in developing a mutant strain of a deadly bacteria which could be used as a practical battlefield weapon.

The Impossible Missions Force led by Jim Phelps sets out to persuade the trusted henchman of a crime syndicate leader to testify against his boss.

An electronically guarded prison confronts the Impossible Missions Force when it tries to free a political prisoner from an escape-proof glass cell.

When an unscrupulous manufacturer risks World War III by offering a hydrogen bomb for sale, the Impossible Missions Force enters the bidding with a dangerous plan to keep the weapon out of enemy hands.

The Impossible Missions Force invades the intricate world of spies to protect an American double agent and comes up against a human time bomb.

The IMF races a paid killer who is stalking a nuclear scientist forced by the enemy to work on a device that could upset the world power balance in the first of a two-part episode.

While trying to free a nuclear scientist and his wife from enemy hands, the IMF is trapped when a would-be assassin takes over one of Rollin's disguises in Part 2.

The IMF find themselves only a second away from eternity when they intercept a nitroglycerine expert who plans to blow up the government house of a small country, thus provoking war with its neighbor nation.

Guest star Joan Collins, as a seductive double agent, endangers a vital IMF project when Jim Phelps falls in love with her.

Guest star Nehemiah Persoff as a corrupt Latin American official plots to loot his own country of $40,000,000 with the connivance of the IMF.

Cinnamon and Rollin become cabaret performers in a plot to get a deranged man to fall in love with Cinnamon, then kill her.

In a bold experiment with a man's mind, the IMF blanks out an enemy agent's memory, then sets out to make him think he is someone else.

Leonard Nimoy becomes a member of the Impossible Missions Force and, as Paris of the IMF, helps crack a vital code by hijacking a plane so the enemy can capture one of the passengers.

Guest star Mai (cq) Britt is a dangerous obstacle when the IMF sets out to learn the number of her husband's Swiss hank account by convincing him World War III has started.

Leonard Nimoy, formerly of the "Star Trek" series, and guest star Dina Merrill join the Impossible Missions Force to fight a mind-destroying drug that could enslave the free world in the first of a two-part episode.

Jim Phelps lets himself be framed for murder in a scheme to discredit a scientist who has developed a mind-destroying drug in the second of a two-part episode.

Musical comedy star Sally Ann Howes plays a dramatic role as a guest member of the IMF when it sets out to foil a plot to ruin a friendly country with counterfeit money.

To free an imprisoned priest whose life is at stake, Jim Phelps poses as a missionary, Paris becomes a Chinese general and Barney builds a helicopter.

Guest star Anne Francis joins the IMF when it sets out to prevent destruction of a secret formula vital to America's missile defense system.

To locate a hoard of stolen money, the IMF takes the one man who knows its hiding place on a bizarre submarine voyage.

Lee Meriwether and Malachi Throne are guest stars in an IMF plot involving doubles and double-dealing, with Paris playing five different roles and Jim Phelps turning magician.

In a battle with organized crime, the IMF sets up a bizarre mind-transfer experiment to convince a syndicate leader he is being double-crossed.

The IMF turns itself into a surgical team to operate on a tyrannical ruler who has imprisoned the rightful king, his twin brother.

To head off a threatened atomic blast, Jim Phelps gains entry to a top secret nuclear plant by posing as a temperamental artist with guest star Barbara Luna as his model.

As a doctor with a startling new treatment for amnesia, Jim Phelps forces Paris to relive another man's past when the IMF pushes a search for stolen nuclear material.

Guest stars Noel Harrison and Diane Baker are drawn into a daring IMF charade that uses a trained falcon to help in a crown jewel theft in the first of a three-part episode.

Barney is blinded in an accident, a bride-to-be is buried alive and Paris poses as a man he is unaware is marked for death in the second of a three-part episode.

A trained falcon is summoned in a last-ditch rescue attempt when Jim Phelps finds his IMF endangered by a traitor's assassination plot in the last of a three-part episode.

A dog that collects rare stamps -- on command from the IMF -- figures in a perilous journey to the stronghold of a narcotics kingpin.

The IMF hides a young prince from assassins by disguising him as a gypsy girl, then Paris sets out to betray the boy to his pursuers.

To fight an aging dictator's purge of young artists, an IMF member becomes a ghost and Paris assumes the guise of a man long dead.

To calm a Middle East trouble spot, the IMF tries to keep a man in prison long enough to make it look as though he is trying to break out.

In the midst of delicate operations to identify the chief of an espionage ring, Jim Phelps realizes that Paris has fallen in love with an enemy agent.

Jim Phelps assumes a risky pose as a drug addict with information to sell to get behind the Iron Curtain where he seeks to stop an unknown assassin from killing an unknown victim.

After rescuing a prisoner from execution by a dictator, the IMF has to find a hiding place so conspicuous it will be overlooked by police hunting the fugitive.

Jim Phelps leads the IMF to aid one of its own members when Barney is arrested and marked for execution by a sadistic police chief.

Paris is marked for execution when he impersonates a power-mad mystic trying to win control of a friendly country by hypnotizing its woman ruler.

To keep a student congress from being used as a rubber stamp by a repressive premier, the IMF sets Phelps up for capture so he can betray Paris as a turncoat student leader.

Robert Conrad guest stars as a professional assassin whom the Impossible Missions Force must prevent from Carrying out his assignment without knowing the identity of his target.

 Sal Mineo guest stars as a ruthless young operator who heads up an international narcotics ring which the IMF attempts to break up. 

Christopher Connelly guest stars as a non-cooperative young computer genius who has "dropped-out" of society, but is desperately needed by the IMF to complete their assignment.

 Phelps re-turns to his hometown on personal business, only to find his once happy surroundings in a state of panic caused by a mysterious series of deaths of the young townswomen. 

John Colicos guest stars as a rebellious Caribbean government official, who plans to take over his country by having his president assassinated while in the United States to speak before a joint session of Congress.

Paris is caught by enemy agents who had recognised as an IFM team member. The operatives implant a device in Paris' brain to control him and force him to get rid of Jim.

The IMF attempts to clear an American businessman in Japan of false charges that he murdered his Japanese wife in "Butterfly".

Phelps falls in love with a woman that the IMF have been assigned to bring out of an iron curtain country over the seemingly insurmountable obstacles set in their way by the country's secret police.

Before the IMF can get the prototype of an Iron Curtain country's secret weapon to the United States, part of the weapon falls into the hands of an unscrupulous, greedy nightclub owner.

While rescuing an imprisoned patriot, Barney is critically wounded and must be left behind in order for the IMF to complete their mission.

Phelps poses as an archeology professor and Dana as one of his graduate students, as the IMF goes to the aid of a group of young guerilla fighters in an effort to obtain from them a notebook containing vital scientific information in "The Rebel".

A leading illegal supplier of heroin is dying of cancer and is about to designate a successor and turn over to him the only known list containing all the vital information about the entire drug operation.

Paris, still in his cover from a completed mission, is kidnapped and held hostage by a group of treacherous revolutionists.

A political boss hires a professional provocateur to stage a violent protest, in a maneuver to discredit his state's governor and elevate his puppet, the mayor, to the governorship.

Hari Rhodes guest stars as George Corley, an underworld leader whose link with a police precinct chief is the object of Barney's brother's newspaper crusade.

The team's efforts to palm off a fake guidance system on an enemy agent are threatened when a psychotic killer abducts Dana.

The IMF is assigned to destroy a satellite containing thermonuclear bombs that have been launched by a hostile power as a means for international blackmail.

 Henry Darrow guest stars as Gregory Tolan, the local leader of a revolutionist group specializing in robberies for the financing of a movement to overthrow the United States government 

With the threat of another off-shore missile crisis and perhaps a confrontation that could lead to war, the IMF is called upon to expose a nuclear arms treaty secretly signed by a previously friendly country and a hostile power.

The IMF is called upon to free John Darcy, the leader of a liberation movement in West Africa, and end the tyrannical rule of his captor, Colonel Alex Kohler, a ruthless segregationist.

Andrew Duggan guest stars as Justin Bainbridge, a multimillionaire paranoid militarist, whose son, Howard, defected behind the Iron Curtain with the formula to a lethal nerve-gas he had developed.

The whereabouts of a list of enemy agents operating in the United States is locked in the memory of a captured spy, Col. Vanin, and no one, including the spy, can penetrate his mind.

George Sanders guest stars as Armand Anderssarian, one of the world's largest dealers in illegal arms, who is about to complete a deal involving the purchase and resale of millions of dollars worth of American arms to guerilla groups in North Africa and the Middle East.

An F.B.I. man is blinded while investigating a crime syndicate attempting to take over a large chemical plant. Jim Phelps undergoes a delicate eye operation so as to appear convincingly blind when he poses as the sightless man.

William Shatner, star of "Star Trek", guest stars and is seen in the role of an aging hoodlum who is artificially transplanted back to the 1930s and the scene of his unsolved crime.

The leaders of two underworld factions call a top-level meeting at a ski resort to set up a financial holding company capable, of creating chaos within the national economy.

 To help the IMF team break up a crime syndicate that specializes in brainwashing ex-convicts into committing political assassinations, Barney substitutes for a former prisoner looking for an operation to give himself a new appearance. 

Guest stars Gerald S. O'Loughlin and Christopher Stone portray crime syndicate bosses in charge of the waterfront who extort huge sums of money from every ship docking at a west coast port.

An undercover agent is murdered while trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment in the Pacific Northwest, and the IMF team is called to take over and put the dealer and his chief executioner out of business.

Guest star Elizabeth Ashley plays the alcoholic wife of a crime syndicate leader whose involvement in an intimidation racket and the cold-blooded murder of an employee puts the IMF team on his trail.

Stolen gems worth seventy-five million dollars, scheduled to be fenced to an underworld figure, suddenly disappear and the ship on which they were being transported is blown up at sea, bringing the IMF team into the picture.

Guest star Kevin McCarthy plays the role of a highly-placed Defense Department advisor who has murdered an Air Force official and sold vital top-secret material about America's nuclear defenses to foreign powers.

Barney poses as a prospective rock-music recording artist to get evidence linking an organized crime figurehead played by guest star William Windom to the sudden death of a beautiful recording star who was being blackmailed by the syndicate.

Guest star Steve Forrest plays the role of a millionaire publisher and communications tycoon who has sold fifty-one percent of his empire to an underworld crime syndicate which gives them a powerful influence over state politics.

Christopher George, star of Paramount TV's "The Immortal" series and husband of Lynda Day George, joins his wife in the role of a psychotic ex-convict determined to wreak vengeance on society.

Guest stars Richard Jaeckel and Herbert Edelman play gangsters who try to get control of all the illegal betting parlors in the country as well as a virtual takeover of all thoroughbred horse racing.

Jim Phelps and his IMF team are given the assignment of breaking an underworld ring attempting to set up one of the world's largest drug manufacturing plants off the coast of Africa.

Casey poses as a young peasant girl from Europe imported to be the bride of Joe Corvin, the top man at getting underworld millions into Swiss banks.

Guest star Bradford Dillman plays Edison, a former private detective turned extortionist, who is blackmailing a powerful crime chief with a roll of film linking him to murder.

Barney assumes the identity of a powerful psychic from a Caribbean island kingdom in order to hypnotize a defecting crime syndicate leader into revealing his super secret list of government officials on the take.

Nora Dawson, a witness to a murder, is committed to an asylum and is being systematically driven out of her mind with drugs when the IMF team is given twenty-four hours to save her life.

Posing as a "bag woman" for a crooked politician, Casey unknowingly carries an attached case locked to her wrist filled with both money and a bomb set to explode upon opening.

Gangsters running a loan-shark racket in Hawaii short-circuit the IMF team's investigation when they capture Willy and feed him gigantic doses of truth serum.

 Guest star Jack Cassidy is Orin Kerr, an ex-hoodlum who now controls the largest gambling resort in the western hemisphere as a front for the underworld crime syndicate. 

Jim Phelps is struck on the head and loses his memory while trying to intercept an eight-million-dollar smuggling operation.

Emmy winner Carl Betz and Barbara Anderson, and Robert Conrad are the guest stars as Jim Phelps, with the aid of Barney's electronic wizardry, takes in the guise of a hot-shot pool hustler to break up an illegal gambling operation.

Vic Morrow guest stars as Joe Collins, a nuclear scientist who is made to believe that he is a prisoner in the year 2000 and is about to be executed as part of the IMF's plans to learn where he has hidden enough plutonium to construct a dozen atomic bombs.

Robert Webber guest stars as Charles Rogan, a syndicate leader with the key to the five million dollar bankroll that will finance the overthrow the government of Camagua.

Robert Goulet guest stars as Joe Epic, a syndicate crime leader and key figure in an IMF plan to free a captured undercover agent.

To locate a terrorist ring called Alpha Group, the IMF convinces turncoat intelligence agent Gordon Holt, played by guest star Peter Haskell, that he's been exposed to the stolen biological weapon he's been hired to deliver.

William Shatner guest stars as Joe Conrad, a drug dealer who becomes the unwitting dupe of the Impossible Missions Force in their plan to capture the largest shipment of cocaine ever brought into the country.

To locate several hundred million dollars in illegal gambling funds, Phelps poses as a murderer to infiltrate a gang that specializes in spiriting wanted men out of the country after first brainwashing them to learn the whereabouts of their vast sums of money.

Phelps poses as the head of a Hollywood movie studio intent on making a motion picture that parallels exactly the unsolved murder committed by one of the studio's executives as part of the IMF plan to prevent a crime syndicate's takeover of the studio.

Phelps poses as a government investigator who must work through a crooked district attorney to prove that a crime syndicate boss killed his girlfriend.

Phelps and Mimi take on the guises of fugitives to invade the home of Jerome Cooper, a nuclear scientist, played by guest star Murray Hamilton, who is threatening to destroy a major American city with a fifty megaton hydrogen bomb.

Jim Phelps is kidnapped and held for ransom until Barney, Casey and Willy can steal an incriminating letter from a safe deposit box and turn it over to crime syndicate boss Andrew Metzger, played by guest star John Ireland.

Alex Cord, Marlyn Mason and Peter Breck are the guest stars as Jim Phelps poses as a master chess champion to trap a criminal with a near genius mentality and his mysterious boss.

Roddy McDowall guest stars as Leo Ostro, a brilliant crime syndicate boss who becomes the target of the IMF when he launches a mysterious one hundred million dollar scheme.

Kim Hunter guest stars as Hannah O'Connel, a brilliant but superstitious criminal who escapes to a Caribbean country and is drawn into a voodoo ceremony by the IMF to locate a cache of stolen gold she has hidden away.

Laraine Stephens guest stars as the beautiful wife of a crime syndicate boss who becomes the target of both the underworld and the Impossible Missions Force when she has her husband killed and steals his records of the syndicate's operations.

Elizabeth Ashley guest stars as a beautiful IMF agent who becomes the key to determining if Gary Lockwood, as enemy agent Nicholai Varsi, is telling the truth when he claims he's defecting to the United States.

George Maharis guest stars as John Bachman, an underworld figure with access to the syndicate's top secret computerized records, who is convinced by the IMF that he has found the fountain of youth.

William Windom guest stars as Paul Mitchell, a boxing promoter tied to a crime syndicate who becomes a target of the IMF when one of his fighters is killed before he can talk to the police.

A breathtaking motorcycle chase over the hills of San Francisco figures prominently in the IMF's plan to recover three tons of the drug commonly known as "speed" from Sam Hibbing's illegal drug operation.

Dean Stockwell guest stars as Gunnar Malstrom, one of the leaders of Pendulum, a secret terrorist organization with a plan involving a major attack on the government that the Impossible Missions Force is assigned to uncover.

Ed Nelson guest stars as Van Cleve, a brilliant thief who is convinced by the IMF that he has the power of precognition as part of its plan to recover the more than five million dollars worth of art treasures that he has stolen.

Singer Barbara McNair guest stars as Jena Cole, the beautiful leader of a band of jewel thieves who falls in love with Barney, who has infiltrated her operation to recover the stolen crown jewels of a foreign nation.