| Duration: | 50 min |
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| Genres: | Drama, Action |
A group of extraordinary spies, each experts in their own fields, belong to the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) -- first headed up by Daniel Briggs and later overseen by Jim Phelps.
The IMF is a government agency that undertakes only the most hazardous of espionage missions. The beginning of each episode featured the now-famous tape-recorded message outlining the latest task for the group to tackle.
Popular during the Cold War, the group's missions usually centered on overthrowing the government of some small communist country causing problems for the free world.
The IMF crew included disguise expert Rollin Hand, charmer Cinnamon Carter, electronics technician Barney Collier, strong man Willy Armitage and, in later episodes, disguise-master Paris.
The Impossible Missions Force accept a seemingly impossible assignment: "liberating" two nuclear warheads from a hostile Caribbean dictatorship on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
Dan Briggs and his Impossible Missions Force undertake to overthrow a tyrannical political regime in a Balkan country in "Memory" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF learns that an enemy agent, Rogosh (Fritz weaver), has entered the U.S. intent on destroying a major city with a secret device in "Operation Rogosh" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
Dan Briggs is asked to rescue Cardinal Vossek, the leader of a freedom movement in a Balkan country who has information vital to the West, from an impregnable prison in Part 1 of "Old Man Out" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The perfectly planned escape, rehearsed in Part 1, is shattered when Cardinal Vossek is moved to solitary confinement in the final part of "Old Man Out" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
A shipment of arms that could bring war to the Near East sends the IMF into action at a plush gambling casino on the shores of the Aegean in "Odds On Evil" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
Dan Briggs enlists the aid of Rollin Hand to prevent the pro-Eastern elements in a foreign country from rigging a Parliamentary election in "Wheels" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
Egan (William Smithers) , an underworld czar facing a grand jury indictment, forces Briggs into a daring kidnap of the state's prime witness, Gorman (Joe Mantell), by holding the daughter of a close friend captive in "The Ransom" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF accepts the assignment of recovering a reel of recording wire detailing a chemical warfare project being developed against the free world in "A Spool There Was" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF infiltrates a secret training site in a scheme to prevent a hostile regime from killing millions of Americans through germ warfare in "The Carriers" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
Dan Briggs dispatches Rollin Hand, Barney and Ariana, a spiritualist, to Austria to persuade an American scientist, Dr. Martha Zubrovnik, not to give the results of her research to the Russians in "Zubrovnik's Ghost" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
Briggs, Cinnamon and Barney are sent to lure Anastas Poltroni (Lloyd Bridges), head of the International Narcotics Syndicate, from a small country which has no extradition treaty with the U.S. in "Fakeout" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF is called into action when a valuable Latin American informant, the exquisite Elena del Barra (Barbara Luna), violates orders and threatens to create a serious international crisis by her erratic behavior in "Elena" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF moves into action when it learns that a foreign power plans to assassinate Professor Napolsky, a scientist who has defected to the West, in "The Short Tail Spy" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF accepts the mission of finding Hitler's carefully hidden personal fortune before four neo Nazis, sons of Hitler's close aides, intent on forming a Fourth Reich, are able to find it in "The Legacy" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
Dan Briggs sends Rollin Hand and Barney behind the Iron Curtain to help a scientist escape to the West and rejoin his wife, who has recently escaped, in "The Reluctant Dragon" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF sets out to stop an underworld czar responsible for murdering several government officials in "The Frame" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
Dan Briggs and the IMF are asked to discredit Josef Varsh (Carroll O'Connor) the tyrannical head of an East European country's secret police, intent on intensifying the cold war in "The Trial" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF undertake the return of a 27,000 karat diamond to its rightful owners, the starving and deprived natives of a small country, in "The Diamond" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF is assigned the task of infiltrating a clandestine meeting of top-ranking Nazis and disrupting their plans to reestablish the Third Reich in "The Legend" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
An international crisis is threatened when a container of nuclear material, Deuterium 14, and top-secret information on its production fall into the hands of Gerard Sefra (Ricardo Montalban) , the sadistic commandant of an infamous penal colony in "Snowball in Hell" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF draws a delicate assignment when an American senator is assassinated by Andreas Solowiechek (David Sheiner), a member of a Communist Trade Delegation, in "The Confession" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The future of American peace talks on the Vietnam crisis is gravely imperiled by a diabolical scheme devised by Miklos Klaar, head of a motion picture studio behind the Iron Curtain, in "Action" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF employs Hollywood motion picture illusion to prevent a Communist takeover in an Eastern European country in "The Train" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
The IMF is dispatched to a neutral country to prevent a sinister plot which threatens to shatter U.S. prestige in "Shock" on Paramount Television's "Mission: Impossible."
