TV series

Mission: Impossible

Name: Mission: Impossible
Released: 1966
Cast: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Lynda Day George, Bob Johnson

1966–1973· 7 seasonsTV-PG★ 7.6Ended

On CBS — From Desilu Productions · Paramount Television

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Synopsis

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.

Themes

secret agent disguises foreign intrigue teamwork elaborate deception

Episodes

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E1 PilotNext upSep 17, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.5
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Wally Cox (Terry Targo), Harry Davis (Alisio), Paul Micale (Desk Clerk), Patrick Campbell (Day Vault Clerk), Fred Villani (Night Vault Clerk), Joseph Breen (Loft Manager)
E2 MemorySep 24, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.1
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Gene Dynarski (Sgt. of Guard), Albert Paulsen (Joseph Baresh), Leonard Stone (Dimitri Soska), William Keene (Janos Karq), Eddie Carroll (Street Photographer), Harry Davis (Alisio)
E3 Operation RogoshOct 1, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.5
Synopsis
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. When Rogosh "wakes up" he is in a cell in a prison in his own country, three years later, and ready to be executed as an American agent.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Fritz Weaver (Imre Rogosh), Charles Maxwell (Lazloff), James Lanphier (Klimi), Allen Joseph (Doctor), Svea Grunfeld (Judge)
E4 Old Man Out (1)Oct 8, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
Synopsis
The IMF team goes in as a circus team to rescue Anton Cardinal Vossek, who is being held in the impregnable Seravno Prison. Vossek is the leader of the country's freedom movement, in rebellion against Colonel Scutari, and is awaiting a fake trial before execution.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Mary Ann Mobley (Crystal Walker), Oscar Beregi Jr. (The Commandant), Cyril Delevanti (Cardinal Vossek), Monte Markham (Tosk), Joseph Ruskin (Colonel Scutari), William Wintersole (The Captain)
E5 Old Man Out (2)Oct 15, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
Synopsis
Rollin manages to avoid the guards and escape, but Vossek is moved to a new cell in solitary confinement. Briggs comes up with a new plan and manages to relay it to the imprisoned Rollin.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Mary Ann Mobley (Crystal Walker), Oscar Beregi Jr. (The Commandant), Cyril Delevanti (Cardinal Vossek), Monte Markham (Tosk), Joseph Ruskin (Colonel Scutari), William Wintersole (The Captain)
E6 Odds on EvilOct 22, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.4
Synopsis
Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Nico Minardos (Carlos Empori), Nehemiah Persoff (Prince Iben Kostas), Vincent Van Lynn (Oliver Borgman), Lawrence Montaigne (Kostas's Aide), Owen Orr (Karl), Alex Bookston (Man in Arcade), Joe E. Tata (Roulette Croupier)
E7 WheelsOct 29, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
Synopsis
In the country of Valeria, the IMF must assure that the corrupt Nationalist party's rigged voting machine doesn't give them the election.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Perry Lopez (Priest), Joe Lo Presti (Mechanic (uncredited)), Percy Rodriguez (Captain Trez), Mark Lenard (Felipe Mora), Jonathan Kidd (The Registrar), David Fresco (The Libertadist), Edmund Tontini (The Nationalist)
E8 The RansomNov 5, 1966 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Don Marshall (The Police Officer), Vic Tayback (Egan's Goon), Lin McCarthy (George Forrester), William Smithers (Frank Egan), Joe Mantell (Augie Gorman), Jack Donner (Driver), Ted Jordan (Gunman)
E9 A Spool There WasNov 12, 1966 · 60 min · ★ 7.2
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Richard Devon (Inspector Gulik), Warren Vanders (Holbeck), Michael Shea (Pieter Stakovar), Curt Lowens (Daglieri), Eric Lord (The Concessionaire), Lynn Wood (The Mother), Todd Martin (The Father)
E10 The CarriersNov 19, 1966 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
Synopsis
Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bacteriological warfare.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), George Takei (Roger Lee), Arthur Hill (Janos Passik), Phil Posner (Portisch), Barry Russo (Tiso Kastner), Barry Cahill (Guard), Rick Traeger (Instructor)
E11 Zubrovnik's GhostNov 26, 1966 · 45 min · ★ 6.8
Synopsis
The wife of a deceased scientist, Kurt Zubrovnik, is being pressured by Eastern forces to work for them. They are using a phony psychic to convince the wife her dead husband wants to defect!
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Martine Bartlett (Ariana Domi), Beatrice Straight (Dr. Martha Richards Zubrovnik), Donald Davis (Sigismund Poljac), Frank Oberschall (Kroger)
E12 FakeoutDec 3, 1966 · 45 min · ★ 7.4
Synopsis
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 without kidnapping him (to avoid the publicity).
Guest stars: Dehl Berti (Young Zookeeper), Lloyd Bridges (Anastas Poltroni aka Ted Carson), Sid Haig (Hidalgo), Alberto Monte (The Attendant), Ken Renard (The Assistant Manager), Richard Angarola (The Policeman)
E13 ElenaDec 10, 1966 · 45 min · ★ 5.7
Synopsis
Double-agent Elena Del Barra is acting bizarrely, sending a microfilm of defense secrets from her own country. Rollin is sent in to investigate, and return the microfilm without its theft ever being detected. Complicating matters is that an assassin, Callao, has been sent to kill her if Rollin can't figure things out in two days.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Abraham Sofaer (Tomas de Cuarto), Renzo Cesana (Gustavo Fortuna), BarBara Luna (Elena Maria Del Barra), Barry Atwater (Dr. Carlos Enero), Ben Hammer (Callao), Ann Ayars (Señora Del Barra), Valentin de Vargas (Miguel de Ramos)
E14 The Short Tail SpyDec 17, 1966 · 45 min · ★ 6.7
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Albert Dekker (Colonel Shtemenko), Eric Braeden (Andrei Fetyakov), Joseph Sirola (Suverin), Edward Colmans (Professor Napolsky)
E15 The LegacyJan 7, 1967 · 45 min · ★ 6.0
Synopsis
The IMF must get hold of a horde 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.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Donald Harron (Ernst Graff), Lee Bergere (Alfred Kuderlee), Richard Peel (Guide), John Crawford (Dr. Lubell), Bill Fletcher (Brucker), Claude Woolman (Paul von Schneer), Patrick Horgan (Wolfe)
E16 The Reluctant DragonJan 14, 1967 · 45 min
Synopsis
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. Unfortunately, they find out that Cherlotov doesn't wasn't to defect: he merely wants to convince his superiors he is loyal and live out his life.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Joseph Campanella (Dr. Helmut Cherlotov), Michael Forest (Lupesh), Norbert Schiller (Lauchek), John Colicos (Commissioner Taal Jankowski), Mala Powers (Dr. Karen Cherlotov), Elisa Ingram (Sophia), Alex Rodine (Duchinoff)
E17 The FrameJan 21, 1967 · 45 min · ★ 6.0
Synopsis
Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with men more sympathetic to the Syndicate.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Simon Oakland (Jack Wellman), Arthur Batanides (Tino), Joe Maross (Frank Bates), Joe De Santis (Vito Scalisi), Mort Mills (Al Souchek)
E18 The TrialJan 28, 1967 · 45 min · ★ 6.3
Synopsis
Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Carroll O'Connor (Josef Varsh), Michael Strong (Barsky), David Opatoshu (Deputy Premiere Anton Kudnov), Gail Kobe (Lisa Goren), Don Keefer (Zubin), Ivan Triesault (Plantinov), Paul Lukather (Moisev)
E19 The DiamondFeb 4, 1967 · 45 min · ★ 5.7
Synopsis
Henrik Durvard has taken over the country of Lombounda 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.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), John van Dreelen (Prime Minister Henrik Durvard), Harry Davis (Hans Van Meer), Woodrow Parfrey (Henks), Peter Bourne (Peters), Ivor Barry (Ian McCloud)
E20 The LegendFeb 11, 1967 · 45 min · ★ 6.2
Synopsis
An imprisoned member of the Nazi party, Herbert Raynor, is released from prison and is being flown (along with his daughter) to Puerto Huberra in South America, along with other Nazis. All of them are being flown there by an unknown benefactor.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Gunnar Hellström (Frederick Rudd), Gene Roth (General von Cramm), Paul Genge (Frick), Larry J. Blake (Eckhart), Ben Wright (Kleister)
E21 Snowball in HellFeb 18, 1967 · 45 min · ★ 6.3
Synopsis
A former prison guard, Sefra, has got hold of a supply of cesium 138, which explodes at temperatures above 70 degrees. Sefra plans to sell the sample and the formula from the closed-down prison base where he once worked.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Émile Genest (Dr. Kronen), Ricardo Montalban (Gerard Sefra), Warren J. Kemmerling (Raff), Steven Marlo (Faud)
E22 The ConfessionFeb 25, 1967 · 45 min · ★ 5.8
Synopsis
Andreas Solowiechek, a member of a Communist trade delegation, is arrested after assassinating a U.S. Senator, Townsend. Townsend's backer, McMillan, is rallying his supporters for the U.S. to break off all trade talks with the Russians.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Kent Smith (Senator William Townsend), David Sheiner (James Reed), Pat Hingle (R.J. McMillan), James Gavin (Deputy), Biff Elliot (Guard), Robert B. Williams (Proprietor)
E23 Action!Mar 4, 1967 · 45 min · ★ 5.7
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), J.D. Cannon (Miklos Klaar), Helen Boll (Nurse / First Floor Guard), Eric Feldary (Assistant Director), Alfred Shelly (Gate Guard), Tom Troupe (David Day), Julian Burton (Petyov), Arline Anderson (Receptionist)
E24 The TrainMar 18, 1967 · 45 min
Synopsis
Prime Minister Larya of Svardia is working to establish democracy, but is unaware that his personal protégé, Deputy Premier Pavel, plans to set up a dictatorship. The team must persuade Larya of Pavel's plans.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), William Windom (Deputy Premier Milos Pavel), Rhys Williams (Prime Minister Ferenc Larya), William Schallert (Dr. Harrison Selby), Noah Keen (Gen. Androv), Richard Bull (Oliver Donovan), Booth Colman (Dr. Huss)
E25 ShockMar 25, 1967 · 45 min
Synopsis
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 have to rescue Wilson and foil the impersonation before Kiri kills Wilson.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), James Daly (Carl Wilson / Josef Gort), Sorrell Booke (Peter Kiri), Stanley Waxman (Jonathan Davis), Pat Michenaud (Duv), Jean-Michel Michenaud (Fydor), Vic Perrin (Dr. Ira Drake)
E26 A Cube of SugarApr 1, 1967 · 45 min
Synopsis
Vincent Deane is a jazz musician and undercover U.S. intelligence operative who has memorized the plans to a microcircuit code but was then captured and imprisoned. The IMF must get him out.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Francis Lederer (Senko Brobin), Jack Denbo (Deane), Kurt Kreuger (Polya), Lou Robb (The Doctor), Max Kleven (The Attendant), Joyce Easton (The Clerk)
E27 The TraitorApr 15, 1967 · 45 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Malachi Throne (Ambassador Brazneck), Eartha Kitt (Tina Mara), Lonny Chapman (Edward Hughes), Frank Marth (Koler), Paul Sorensen (First Floor Guard), Socrates Ballis (Maintenance Man), Ed McCready (Teletype Clerk)
E28 The PsychicApr 22, 1967 · 45 min
Synopsis
An investment promoter, Alex Lowell, gained control of NATO top-secret defense hardware and absconded to South America to sell them to enemy powers. The IMF needs to recover the stock documents worth $80 mil.
Guest stars: Martin Landau (Rollin Hand), Barry Sullivan (Alex Lowell), Milton Selzer (January Vornitz), Richard Anderson (Judge Wilson Chase), Paul Mantee (Byron Miller), Michael Pataki (Ed), Rita D'Amico (Girl at Party), Ernesto Macias (Man at Party)