• 1966
  • TV-PG
  • 50m
Mission: Impossible

Summary An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death or capture. View more details

  • 1966
  • TV-PG
  • 50m

Mission: Impossible

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Peter Graves Barbara Bain Greg Morris Peter Lupus

All cast & crew

7.9

Details

Genres : Action Thriller Adventure Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 16, 1966

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Desilu Productions

Summary An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death or capture. View more details

Details

Genres : Action Thriller Adventure Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 16, 1966

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Desilu Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 16, 1966
Pilot
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.
Episode 2 • Sep 23, 1966
Memory
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.
Episode 3 • Sep 30, 1966
Operation Rogosh
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.
Episode 4 • Oct 07, 1966
Old Man Out: Part 1
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.
Episode 5 • Oct 14, 1966
Old Man Out: Part 2
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.
Episode 6 • Oct 21, 1966
Odds on Evil
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.
Episode 7 • Oct 28, 1966
Wheels
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.
Episode 8 • Nov 04, 1966
The Ransom
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.
Episode 9 • Nov 11, 1966
A Spool There Was
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.
Episode 10 • Nov 18, 1966
The Carriers
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.
Episode 11 • Nov 25, 1966
Zubrovnik's Ghost
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.
Episode 12 • Dec 02, 1966
Fakeout
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.
Episode 13 • Dec 09, 1966
Elena
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?
Episode 14 • Dec 16, 1966
The Short Tail Spy
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.
Episode 15 • Jan 06, 1967
The Legacy
The IMF must thwart four young Nazis from claiming Hitler's fortune, which they plan to use to finance a Fourth Reich.
Episode 16 • Jan 13, 1967
The Reluctant Dragon
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.
Episode 17 • Jan 20, 1967
The Frame
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.
Episode 18 • Jan 27, 1967
The Trial
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.
Episode 19 • Feb 03, 1967
The Diamond
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.
Episode 20 • Feb 10, 1967
The Legend
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.
Episode 21 • Feb 17, 1967
Snowball in Hell
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.
Episode 22 • Feb 24, 1967
The Confession
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.
Episode 23 • Mar 03, 1967
Action!
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.
Episode 24 • Mar 17, 1967
The Train
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.
Episode 25 • Mar 24, 1967
Shock
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.
Episode 26 • Mar 31, 1967
A Cube of Sugar
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.
Episode 27 • Apr 14, 1967
The Traitor
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.
Episode 28 • Apr 21, 1967
The Psychic
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.
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