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Mission: Impossible Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1971 - 1972
Episode 1
Blind
Sat, Sep 18, 197150 mins
The team's mission is to ensure that an undercover fed who infiltrated the mob and has gained the trust of the leader is not discovered by another one of the leader's confidants who doesn't trust the fed. To do this Jim assumes the identity of an agent who was trying to get evidence against the leader but was blinded in an accident. Jim pretends to be blind. Which is not easy.
Episode 2
Encore
Sat, Sep 25, 197150 mins
The team's mission is to try and get the proof needed to convict two mobsters who have managed to avoid that for over 30 years. So Jim decides to make one of them think it's 1937 when he and the other mobster killed someone and buried him. So they drug him and then make him look as he was in 1937, and take him to a movie studio that's been made to look like the area where the crime took place so he could lead them to where the body is. But when something that he supposedly has with him at all times is not on him, Jim goes to his place to find it. And he finds it but someone sees him and calls the other mobster who then sets out to find him. So they have to get the mobster to lead them to the body before the other guy finds them.
Episode 3
The Tram
Sat, Oct 2, 197150 mins
Organized crime bosses from across the country are meeting at a secluded mountain lodge to form an off shore corporation that will launder their money, and allow them to make legitimate investments. The IMF have an afternoon to turn the crooks against each other, and get the number of the Swiss bank account containing $50 million in mob cash.
Episode 4
Mindbend
Sat, Oct 9, 197150 mins
Criminal mastermind Pierson employs Dr. Burke who brainwashes fugitives to carry out political assassinations. Barney takes the place of the next fugitive to be used by Burke. But, when he can't take the drug to counteract Burke's procedure Barney succumbs to the brainwashing. In addition to completing the assigned mission, the IMF must now find their colleague who's somewhere in the city searching for his target.
Episode 5
Shape-Up
Sat, Oct 16, 197150 mins
It's time to take back the docks from a hard-nosed gangster. Jim throws everything in the book at him and a few things that aren't; pressure from the cops, pressure from "the family", a little sabotage, the long lost daughter of his partner who talks to her father's ghost who he just happens to have murdered and, what the heck, the ghost ship on which he murdered his partner. Will that be enough to break him? Probably not. But the "family" may not agree.
Episode 6
The Miracle
Sat, Oct 23, 197150 mins
It won't be easy to turn a highly proficient and well-rewarded hit man against his boss. But let's give this a try. After he's gunned down, arrange for a world renowned surgeon, Barney, to give him a heart transplant. Then have his newbie girlfriend, Lisa, provide some not so subtle hints that the new heart has changed his personality and he's all washed up as a hit man. Then have a gangster, Jim, who's trying to muscle in on his boss's operation, make him an offer he can't refuse.
Episode 7
Encounter
Sat, Oct 30, 197150 mins
Lisa impersonates a mobster's alcoholic wife to raise her prestige from embarrassment to dangerous informant. That puts Lisa as well as her husband at risk of a mob hit which Jim expects to force the mobster into a rash decision to turn against the mob.
Episode 8
Underwater
Sat, Nov 6, 197150 mins
The mission: intercept an exchange of smuggled diamonds for $75 million cash. Capture the crooks, the cash and the diamonds. A simple job for the IMF except one of the crooks stole the diamonds. Now Jim has to convince a multi-millionaire diamond thief to give up his retirement plan.
Episode 9
Invasion
Sat, Nov 13, 197150 mins
Defense Department analyst Whitmore Channing has stolen microfilm detailing temporary blind spots in the nation's Defense Early Warning system. The information will be picked up from an unknown dead drop in less than 24 hours. In order to locate the drop, the IMF convinces Channing that the enemy attack has already begun. But, they don't know about an assassin being sent to kill the spy before he can talk.
Episode 10
Blues
Sat, Nov 20, 197150 mins
The IMF team is charged with getting the goods on a corrupt music producer who murdered a singer he had under contract. After five years of thwarting cold war spies, this one should be easy; especially since the producer has an equally disreputable partner that that can be manipulated to turn against him. So why don't we let Barney and Willy have the fun of playing the mind games this time while Jim coordinates in the background.
Episode 11
The Visitors
Sat, Nov 27, 197150 mins
Bad guys with eccentric ideas are just too easy. The IMF's next victim believes aliens are visiting the earth. So Jim, Lisa and Willy become aliens to convince him that he is their "chosen one" so he will expose candidates running for office that are in the pocket of organized crime.
Episode 12
Nerves
Sat, Dec 4, 197150 mins
To get close to a vindictive and paranoid criminal who stole a canister of nerve gas, Lisa poses as a career criminal in a jailbreak. A new IMF member, Bill Williams, impersonates the villain's brother to get close to him. Unknown to the criminal the canister is corroding, and will leak if it's not recovered in time. But that would suit him just fine.
Episode 13
Run for the Money
Sat, Dec 11, 197150 mins
The IMF team play the sport of kings in order to stop a ruthless syndicate. The syndicate is looking to corner the 'off track betting' market by violently disposing of their competitors, and any customers who happen to be in the way. But, with Jim's plan, the IMF is betting on his dark horse to win and there's no horse named Sure Thing.
Episode 14
The Connection
Sat, Dec 18, 197150 mins
The IMF becomes a heroin manufacturer to sabotage a major drug deal and leave the dealers holding the cellophane bag when the police move in.
Episode 15
The Bride
Sat, Jan 1, 197250 mins
Lisa plays mail-order corpse bride to frame a money launderer. But if Jim's timing isn't perfect she may find herself embalmed or cremated.
Episode 16
Stone Pillow
Sat, Jan 8, 197250 mins
A seedy private detective inadvertently filmed a known criminal when he killed someone. He then decides to extort the man. Jim's mission is to get the detective to reveal where he hid the film. Now the man is in jail so Jim's plan has him going into the prison and being placed in the same cell as him. He then lets the man know that he's going to break out. The guy goes with him. Casey assumes the identity of girlfriend who died recently, whom he entrusted with part of the location of the film.
Episode 17
Image
Sat, Jan 15, 197250 mins
Crime boss Emil Gadsen is about to leave the country with a list of corrupt politicians and law enforcement officers in his pay. Barney poses as a mystic who convinces Gadsen that his partner is out to eliminate him. However, he must also deal with Emil's practical minded son, Tony, who doesn't believe any of this nonsense.
Episode 18
Committed
Sat, Jan 22, 197250 mins
Nora Dawson is the only person willing to testify against underworld boss Leon Chandler. Chandler has used his political connections to have Dawson committed to a corrupt mental institution where she is being drugged to destroy her credibility. The team must rescue Dawson in time for her to testify against Chandler.
Episode 19
Bag Woman
Sat, Jan 29, 197250 mins
Murphy's Law catches up with the IMF: Casey's handcuffed to a suitcase full of TNT meant to kill her and a politician on the take, and Barney is wounded when his cover is blown. Phelps must quickly improvise a scenario that will give him Casey's location.
Episode 20
Double Dead
Sat, Feb 12, 197250 mins
The IMF is charged with discouraging the mob's expansion plans. But Murphy's Law makes another unexpected appearance and Willy is captured. Now Jim has to improvise a plan that includes rescuing Willy. Never has Jim so confused his adversaries, but will that make them predictable or just create more chaos?
Episode 21
Casino
Sat, Feb 19, 197250 mins
To persuade a casino operator to expose mob connections within the gambling industry, Jim frames him so the mob's rivalries and lethal management methods will do his talking. To get "inside" Willy plays a crooked Black Jack dealer for Jim and Casey, a pair of gambling addicts, while Barney heists the take with a collection of gadgets to die for.
Episode 22
Trapped
Sat, Feb 26, 197250 mins
The impossible mission this time is to recover the multi-million dollar booty stolen by a family of smugglers. But when the action gets hot, Jim sustains a head injury and wakes up with amnesia and nothing but a fake ID to tell him who he is.
