1966

S1.E1 ∙ Pilot

Fri, Sep 16, 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. Jim and Willy sneak safe-cracker Terry Targo into the vault, who figures out how to get out. The team then captures Dominguez but Targo's fingers are broken in the attempt. With no other alternative, Briggs has himself and Dominguez put into the vault, and Briggs threatens to enter a random combination if Alicio doesn't tell him the code. Dominguez breaks. With the bombs defused, Willy takes the warheads out of the vault. Briggs remains behind and uses the information Targo gathered earlier to get out during a fireworks distraction set off by Barney. Briggs and the rest of the team make a desperate race for safety and get onto a plane heading to safety seconds before the military can catch up to them.

7.7 /10

S1.E2 ∙ Memory

Fri, Sep 23, 1966

IMF is tasked with defamation of Janos Karq, a dangerous politician from the Eastern Block who intends to start a war with the West. Joseph Baresh will be placed in the military prison Lubjanka, where his testimonies shall implicate Karq.

7.3 /10

S1.E3 ∙ Operation Rogosh

Fri, Sep 30, 1966

Rogosh is an operative for a country hostile to the United States. When he strikes, he typically leaves dozens, if not hundreds, of bodies in his wake. Rogosh has been spotted in Los Angeles. But he will not crack under normal interrogation methods. Briggs comes up with an unusual plan. The IMF stages an accident where pedestrian Rogosh is struck by a car. When he awakes, he appears to be in a prison in his home country -- three years later.

8.2 /10

S1.E4 ∙ Old Man Out: Part 1

Fri, Oct 07, 1966

An elderly cardinal has been taken prisoner in a fictional Eastern European country because the clergyman is the leader of the political opposition. The IMF force is tasked with freeing him from the "inescapable" prison.

7.3 /10

S1.E5 ∙ Old Man Out: Part 2

Fri, Oct 14, 1966

When the IMF's original scheme to free an elderly cardinal from an "inescapable" prison in a fictional Eastern European country goes awry, the team must concoct a new plan to get him out of solitary confinement.

7.3 /10

S1.E6 ∙ Odds on Evil

Fri, Oct 21, 1966

A prince, the absolute ruler of a principality, has $1.5 million which he plans to use for arms to wage war on a neighboring, oil-rich country. Briggs devises a scheme that involves breaking the bank of the prince's casino. First, the IMF will utilize a computer to take $200,000 at roulette. That will provide the stake the IMF needs to take the prince at a high-stakes game of baccarat.

7.7 /10

S1.E7 ∙ Wheels

Fri, Oct 28, 1966

The IM force is tasked to prevent a rigged election in a small Latin American nation from happening, and enabling the results to be genuine.

6.8 /10

S1.E8 ∙ The Ransom

Fri, Nov 04, 1966

In a rare episode of the series in which the IM Force isn't sent on a government-sanctioned mission, they're forced by a criminal named Egan, who's kidnapped the daughter of a friend of Briggs, to capture a heavily guarded witness in a trial against him. They know Egan plans to kill the witness, but Briggs is put in a tight spot, and is determined that Egan won't get a chance to kill the witness.

7.6 /10

S1.E9 ∙ A Spool There Was

Fri, Nov 11, 1966

Rollin and Cinnamon are sent on a mission to locate and retrieve a wire recording, which was hidden by an agent fleeing from guards in such a way, no one's been able to find it.

7.3 /10

S1.E10 ∙ The Carriers

Fri, Nov 18, 1966

The foreign inhabitants of a replica American small town are being used as unknowing carriers of a deadly plague in a sinister plot to infect most of America. The IMF must stop this from happening and expose the parties responsible.

8 /10

S1.E11 ∙ Zubrovnik's Ghost

Fri, Nov 25, 1966

Rollin and Barney are sent to investigate the case of a scientist who believes her dead husband's ghost is giving her orders on how to complete her important work.

6.1 /10

S1.E12 ∙ Fakeout

Fri, Dec 02, 1966

The IMF's target is Poltroni, an international drug dealer. Poltroni, alias Ted Carson, is in a country with no extradition treaty with the United States. Briggs devises a plan to lure Poltroni to a neighboring country where he can be arrested and sent to the U.S. To execute the scheme, Barney will have to fight for his life against one of Poltroni's thugs while Cinammon will be bait for Poltroni. Also, getting Poltroni to the border won't be easy. It's about 100 miles away.

6.9 /10

S1.E13 ∙ Elena

Fri, Dec 09, 1966

Rollin's sent to investigate the case of a beautiful Latin American spy who's suddenly started acting suspiciously. the IM force must find out if she's still on the right side - or if she's losing her sanity?

6.4 /10

S1.E14 ∙ The Short Tail Spy

Fri, Dec 16, 1966

Cinnamon does her job all too well when the latest mission requires her to feign love for a vain assassin. Meanwhile, Briggs and Barney work to get an over-the-hill terrorist out of the way.

7.2 /10

S1.E15 ∙ The Legacy

Fri, Jan 06, 1967

The IMF must thwart four young Nazis from claiming Hitler's fortune, which they plan to use to finance a Fourth Reich.

7.9 /10

S1.E16 ∙ The Reluctant Dragon

Fri, Jan 13, 1967

The IM force seeks to smuggle an valuable scientist, with the help of his wife, out from behind the iron curtain. Soon, they discover he doesn't want to leave, and have to change plans to convince him otherwise.

7.2 /10

S1.E17 ∙ The Frame

Fri, Jan 20, 1967

The Impossible Missions Force mixes dinner and danger at a crime czar's private party. Jack Wellman has arranged the deaths of four Government officials so he can fill the vacancies with men he controls.

7.6 /10

S1.E18 ∙ The Trial

Fri, Jan 27, 1967

Briggs poses as an American tourist and subjects himself to a show trial in order to discredit a public prosecutor attempting to seize absolute power in his country.

7.5 /10

S1.E19 ∙ The Diamond

Fri, Feb 03, 1967

Briggs and company pretend to have found a means of synthesizing diamonds in order to con a dictator out of a priceless uncut diamond that will finance his government and secure his power.

7.4 /10

S1.E20 ∙ The Legend

Fri, Feb 10, 1967

The IMF team infiltrates a top-secret meeting of Nazis in South America, and are shocked to learn that their leader is war criminal Martin Bormann.

7.4 /10

S1.E21 ∙ Snowball in Hell

Fri, Feb 17, 1967

Barney faces the cat o' nine tails and a cruel ex-guard at a former penal colony as the other IM members work to trick the man out of a cheap substance which could be used for nuclear weapons.

7.5 /10

S1.E22 ∙ The Confession

Fri, Feb 24, 1967

A Communist Bloc operative has been arrested for the assassination of U.S. Senator William Townsend. Briggs and Co.'s mission is to prove the operative did NOT kill the senator on behalf of his government. The prime suspect is businessman R.J. McMillian, Townsend's primary backer. The secretary believes McMillian killed Townsend to create a martyr and to create momentum for a preemptive war with the Soviet Bloc. Briggs concocts an elaborate scheme which calls for Rollin to play the role of a con who springs the operative from jail, Cinammon to pretend to be a journalist and Briggs himself to pose as a painter. But, at the climactic moment, there's a twist that even Briggs doesn't anticipate.

7.4 /10

S1.E23 ∙ Action!

Fri, Mar 03, 1967

Miklos Klaar runs a movie studio in the Communist Bloc. He is preparing a film, combining documentary footage with scenes he has shot on a sound stage, to make it appear U.S. troops have committed an atrocity. The Impossible Missions Force -- minus Dan Briggs, who is absent this episode -- runs a typically complicated operation. First, the IMF will ruin Klaar's existing film and negative, forcing him to do a re-shoot. Next, the IMF's plan calls for publicly ruining Klaar just as he's at his moment of triumph.

7.2 /10

S1.E24 ∙ The Train

Fri, Mar 17, 1967

The protégé of the dying prime minister of a fictional European nation is readying himself to assume power. Upon taking over, he plans to restrict freedoms as an absolute dictator. The IMF must step in to prevent this from happening.

8.1 /10

S1.E25 ∙ Shock

Fri, Mar 24, 1967

Wilson, a U.S. ambassador stationed in a neutral country, has been abducted by an intelligence operative of an Eastern Bloc nation. An impostor has been put in Wilson's place. Briggs & Co. have a short amount of time to get Wilson back and foil whatever plot is underway. The IMF, in turn, abducts the impostor. A disguised Briggs takes his place. The impostor, Josef Gord, awakens to find himself in an IMF-manufactured mental hospital. The question is whether the IMF can break him in time to save Wilson.

7.5 /10

S1.E26 ∙ A Cube of Sugar

Fri, Mar 31, 1967

An American agent in possession of advanced computer chip. has been captured behind the Iron Curtain. He's hidden the chip in a sugar cube; one of 7 soaked in LSD. The IMF must get the agent out, as well as the chip - which are both in a facility under strict observation.

7.4 /10

S1.E27 ∙ The Traitor

Fri, Apr 14, 1967

A U.S. intelligence operative has defected to an Eastern Bloc country and is currently housed at that nation's embassy in Washington. Briggs devises a plan in which a contortionist is needed to navigate through the ventilation system of the embassy and break into a top-security portion of the facility. What's more, Rollin will pose as an official of the nation while Barney, Willy and Cinnamon also play key roles.

7.8 /10

S1.E28 ∙ The Psychic

Fri, Apr 21, 1967

Cinnamon poses as a psychic as part of a typically complicated plan devised by Briggs. The IMF's target is a U.S. businessman who has fled to South America, where he can't be touched legally. He has taken control of a company that holds patents vital to U.S. security interests. The businessman intends to sell the patents to an intelligence operative of an Eastern Bloc nation. The IMF intends to get control of the company back from the businessman. The plan calls for Rollin to impersonate a gangster, Barney to use sleight of hand and the help of a respected judge.

7.5 /10