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Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
28 Episodes 1966 - 1967
Episode 1
Pilot
Sat, Sep 17, 196660 mins
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
Memory
Sat, Sep 24, 196650 mins
The IMF's target is Janos Karq, a top official of an Eastern bloc country. Briggs and the IM force, (along with the help of Joseph Baresh, an alcoholic performer who's got a photographic memory) plan to have information given from a seemingly credible source that Karq's a traitor.
Episode 3
Operation Rogosh
Sat, Oct 1, 196650 mins
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
Old Man Out: Part 1
Sat, Oct 8, 196650 mins
An elderly cardinal has been taken prisoner in a fictional Eastern European country because the clergyman is a leader of the political opposition. He is being held in a prison where no escape has ever occurred. Briggs recruits an old flame who is also a trapeze artist. She joins Briggs and the IMF (posing as a small circus troupe). The "circus" sets up in a park next to the prison. Rollin, posing as a member of the circus, is arrested after stealing the wallet of an audience member. Rollin is taken to the prison and manages to smuggle in a lock-pick that enables him to exit his cell. The IMF operative manages to get to the cardinal to warn him to expect an escape attempt, with the circus providing a distraction. But, as the escape attempt unfolds, the cardinal has vanished from his cell. He has been taken to solitary confinement and will be executed within a day or two.
Episode 5
Old Man Out: Part 2
Sat, Oct 15, 196650 mins
The IMF breaks off its attempt to free an elderly cardinal from prison. Now, Briggs and the IMF team must regroup while Briggs alters his plan. On top of that, a colonel in the fictional Eastern European country is becoming suspicious of the IMF's "circus." Briggs manages to use the man's suspicions to the IMF's advantage. Crystal, the trapeze artist recruited by Briggs, performs a dangerous diversion while Briggs and Rollin attempt to free the cardinal.
Episode 6
Odds on Evil
Sat, Oct 22, 196650 mins
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
Wheels
Sat, Oct 29, 196650 mins
The IM force is assigned to prevent an attempt to steal an election in an Latin American country. Brigg's plan is complicated when Barney, whose technical knowledge is vital, is wounded. Now, besides having to execute the plan, the IMF must also get Barney medical help.
Episode 8
The Ransom
Sat, Nov 5, 196650 mins
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
A Spool There Was
Sat, Nov 12, 196650 mins
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
The Carriers
Sat, Nov 19, 196660 mins
Somewhere behind the Iron Curtain is a replica of an American town. Agents are trained there. The IM force is sent in to halt a plan to use the unwitting agents as carriers of a deadly plague, and to bring down the man who has organized it.
Episode 11
Zubrovnik's Ghost
Sat, Nov 26, 196650 mins
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
Fakeout
Sat, Dec 3, 196650 mins
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
Elena
Sat, Dec 10, 196650 mins
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
The Short Tail Spy
Sat, Dec 17, 196650 mins
The IMF must protect a scientist, who had defected from the Eastern Bloc, who is to appear at a conference in the U.S. Two enemy operatives are out to assassinate the scientist. Briggs is more concerned with the younger agent, who is responsible for the deaths of 30 people, many of them women agents. Cinnamon, in her own words, is the "cheese" for the trap, while Briggs and Barney protect the scientist and get the older enemy agent out of the way.
Episode 15
The Legacy
Sat, Jan 7, 196760 mins
Four sons of l former Nazi leaders are to meet in Switzerland to take control of Hitler's missing fortune, and lay plans for a fourth Reich. Briggs sends Rollin in place of one of the 4, and plan to overthrow the Reich before it ever begins.
Episode 16
The Reluctant Dragon
Sat, Jan 14, 196760 mins
The IM force are on a mission to get a scientist out from behind the iron curtain. His wife, who's assisting the IMF, had defected earlier but he didn't follow. As the mission unfolds, it's clear the scientist never intended to defect, and is still loyal to his country. Now, the force must shift gears to convince the scientist to join the West.
Episode 17
The Frame
Sat, Jan 21, 196750 mins
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
The Trial
Sat, Jan 28, 196750 mins
In an Eastern bloc country, Josef Varsh, is plotting to seize absolute power. The IM force must prevent this. Varsh plans to frame an American tourist, to further his agenda. The IM team insert Briggs to be the American bait, and plan to bring Varsh's plan to an end.
Episode 19
The Diamond
Sat, Feb 4, 196750 mins
Henrik Durvard, who has seized absolute power of Lumbuanda, small African nation, plans to sell a recently discovered diamond. The diamond's 27,000 carats, and worth $30 million. Durvard intends to sell the diamond, and use the proceeds to financing taking over other independent tribal areas. Briggs and the IM force plan an elaborate con wherein they convince Duvard they've found a way of duplicating diamonds. They'll recover the real diamond, and return it to its founders.
Episode 20
The Legend
Sat, Feb 11, 196750 mins
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
Snowball in Hell
Sat, Feb 18, 196750 mins
The sadistic former chief of a tropical prison has a sample of a substance which could make cheap nuclear weapons possible. He's also memorized its formula and will sell it to the highest bidder. Briggs and the IM force must stop him. They plan for Barney to pose as a former prisoner.
Episode 22
The Confession
Sat, Feb 25, 196750 mins
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
Action!
Sat, Mar 4, 196750 mins
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
The Train
Sat, Mar 18, 196750 mins
The dying leader of a European nation has a protégé ready to assume power. What the leader doesn't know is his protégé plans to crack down on liberty and become absolute dictator. The IMF must make the leader see his protégé for what he really is..
Episode 25
Shock
Sat, Mar 25, 196750 mins
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
A Cube of Sugar
Sat, Apr 1, 196750 mins
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
The Traitor
Sat, Apr 15, 196750 mins
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
The Psychic
Sat, Apr 22, 196750 mins
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.
