Mission: Impossible Episode Guide

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Episode Guide

Mission: Impossible: Season 7 (1972 - 1973)

  • Season 7 Episode 22: Imitation

    The ringleader of a gang of jewel thieves (Barbara McNair) falls for Barney.

  • Season 7 Episode 21: The Western

    The IMF must make a thief (Ed Nelson) believe he is clairvoyant as part of a scheme to recover $5 million in stolen artworks.

  • Season 7 Episode 20: The Pendulum

    To win the trust of a terrorist leader (Dean Stockwell), the IMF poses as a powerful terror group which wants to join forces.

  • Season 7 Episode 19: Speed

    Casey poses as a dealer's drug-using daughter to recover three tons of illegal amphetamines; guest Claude Akins.

  • Season 7 Episode 18: The Fighter

    Casey poses as a magazine writer to get close to the operations of a fight promoter (William Windom) affiliated with the mob.

  • Season 7 Episode 17: The Fountain

    The IMF team sets out to convince a highly placed underworld figure (George Maharis) he's found the secret of eternal youth.

  • Season 7 Episode 16: The Question

    Only an IMF agent (Elizabeth Ashley) can learn whether a spy (Gary Lockwood) is truly defecting to the West.

  • Season 7 Episode 15: Boomerang

    Both the IMF and the underworld pursue a crime lord's wife who stole her husband's syndicate records after having him killed.

  • Season 7 Episode 14: Incarnate

    The IMF draws a superstitious criminal (Kim Hunter) into a voodoo ritual to learn the location of a hidden fortune in gold.

  • Season 7 Episode 13: The Puppet

    Casey and Phelps infiltrate the operations of a crime kingpin (Roddy McDowall) planning to launch a plan worth $100 million.

  • Season 7 Episode 12: Crack-Up

    To trap an ingenius criminal and his boss, the IMF team must convince a man (Alex Cord) he is going insane.

  • Season 7 Episode 11: Kidnap

    Barney, Casey and Willy must deliver an incriminating letter to a mobster to save kidnapped Phelps. Directed by Peter Graves.

  • Season 7 Episode 10: Ultimatum

    Phelps and Mimi pose as fugitives to break into the home of a nuclear scientist threatening to detonate a huge hydrogen bomb.

  • Season 7 Episode 9: Hit

    Phelps poses as a government agent who works with a corrupt district attorney (Robert Reed) to trap a crime boss.

  • Season 7 Episode 8: Movie

    The IMF agents pose as filmmakers producing a movie about an unsolved murder to prevent syndicate takeover of a film studio.

  • Season 7 Episode 7: Underground

    The IMF loses Phelps' trail after he infiltrates a gang which brainwashes, robs and abducts wanted men.

  • Season 7 Episode 6: Cocaine

    Mimi poses as a waitress to lure a drug dealer (William Shatner) in a plan to snatch a cocaine shipment.

  • Season 7 Episode 5: TOD-5

    The IMF convinces a traitorous agent he has been exposed to a biological weapon to help locate a terrorist ring.

  • Season 7 Episode 4: Leona

    To free an undercover agent, the IMF must convince a mob boss (Robert Goulet) his late wife had an affair with a rival.

  • Season 7 Episode 3: The Deal

    Phelps and Barney pose as foreign military officials to find $5 million earmarked to finance a coup.

  • Season 7 Episode 2: Two Thousand

    The IMF dupes a scientist (Vic Morrow) who stole plutonium into thinking he is a prisoner in the year 2000.

  • Season 7 Episode 1: Break!

    With Barney's electronic help, Phelps poses as a pool hustler to break a gambling operation; guest Robert Conrad.

Mission: Impossible: Season 6 (1971 - 1972)

  • Season 6 Episode 22: Trapped

    Plans to rescue amnesiac Phelps from smugglers go awry when he fails to cooperate; guest Bert Convy.

  • Season 6 Episode 21: Casino

    The IMF is sent to gather sufficient evidence on a former hoodlum (Jack Cassidy) to force him to testify against mobsters.

  • Season 6 Episode 20: Double Dead

    Phelps, Barney and Casey race to intercept $10 million in usurious profits as the loan sharks inject Willy with truth serum.

  • Season 6 Episode 19: Bag Woman

    Casey's pose as a corrupt politician's courier turns deadly when she unknowingly carries a bomb; guest Georg Stanford Brown.

  • Season 6 Episode 18: Committed

    Casey must impersonate an insane-asylum inmate (Susan Howard) to free the woman to testify in court; guest James B. Sikking.

  • Season 6 Episode 17: Image

    Barney poses as a Carribean psychic to hypnotize a defecting mobster into disclosing names of corrupt government officials.

  • Season 6 Episode 16: Stone Pillow

    An imprisoned private detective (Bradford Dillman) knows the location of a film roll that incriminates a mobster in murder.

  • Season 6 Episode 15: The Bride

    Casey poses as an imported European bride as part of an IMF plan to infiltrate a top crime syndicate; guest James Gregory.

  • Season 6 Episode 14: The Connection

    An underworld organization makes plans to establish a drug-manufacturing plant off the African coast; guest Anthony Zerbe.

  • Season 6 Episode 13: Run for the Money

    Two gangsters (Richard Jaeckel, Herbert Edelman) attempt to take over all Thoroughbred-racing and illegal-betting parlors.

  • Season 6 Episode 12: Nerves

    A psychotic ex-convict (Christopher George) plans to get revenge on society with nerve gas; guests Tyne Daly, Rafer Johnson.

  • Season 6 Episode 11: The Visitors

    The team stages an alien visit to influence a communications magnate who has sold a majority of his empire to the underworld.

  • Season 6 Episode 10: Blues

    Barney poses as a prospective singer to probe the death of a performer being blackmailed by gangsters; guest Ed Flanders.

  • Season 6 Episode 9: Invasion

    The IMF must retrieve material on America's nuclear arsenal, which a defense expert (Kevin McCarthy) sold to a foreign power.

  • Season 6 Episode 8: Underwater

    The IMF is called in when $75 million in stolen gems disappear and the ship carrying them explodes; guest Demond Wilson.

  • Season 6 Episode 7: Encounter

    Casey becomes an assassin's target when she attempts to get information from a mobster's alcoholic wife (Elizabeth Ashley).

  • Season 6 Episode 6: The Miracle

    The IMF convinces a mobster he's had a heart transplant as part of a plan to destroy a drug ring; guest Billy Dee Williams.

  • Season 6 Episode 5: Shape Up

    The IMF sets out to stop two crime bosses (Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Christopher Stone) extorting huge sums from docking vessels.

  • Season 6 Episode 4: Mindbend

    Barney impersonates a prisoner seeking plastic surgery in order to infiltrate a crime syndicate specializing in brainwashing.

  • Season 6 Episode 3: The Tram

    The IMF includes sabotage and infiltration in its plans to set two underworld mobs against each other; guest Victor French.

  • Season 6 Episode 2: Encore

    The team must convince an aging mobster (William Shatner) he is back in the 1930s to get evidence to close an unsolved case.

  • Season 6 Episode 1: Blind

    After eye surgery, Phelps poses as a blinded FBI agent to infiltrate a crime syndicate.

Mission: Impossible: Season 5 (1970 - 1971)

  • Season 5 Episode 23: The Merchant

    An arms dealer (George Sanders) concocts a plan to supply American arms to guerrilla groups in Africa and the Middle East.

  • Season 5 Episode 22: The Party

    The IMF uses a captured spy's wife (Antoinette Bower) to release information on a list of enemy agents from the man's memory.

  • Season 5 Episode 21: A Ghost Story

    A deceased defector's body must be recovered since it contains the only sample of a deadly nerve gas; guest Andrew Duggan.

  • Season 5 Episode 20: Kitara

    The IMF is assigned to free the leader of a West African liberation movement, held prisoner by a racist, tyrannical colonel.

  • Season 5 Episode 19: The Catafalque

    The IMF are called in to expose a secret nuclear arms treaty, to soothe stormy waters in an off-shore missile crisis

  • Season 5 Episode 18: Blast

    The IMF team infiltrates a revolutionary group which commits robberies to finance plans to overthrow the American government.

  • Season 5 Episode 17: The Field

    Barney cannot escape a minefield during a mission to sabotage a satellite carrying hydrogen bombs.

  • Season 5 Episode 16: The Missile

    The IMF's plan to have a foreign spy steal a fake missile-guidance system goes awry when Dana is abducted; guest John Beck.

  • Season 5 Episode 15: Cat's Paw

    Barney's brother is murdered after his newspaper begins a crusade against a crime boss (Hari Rhodes) with police connections.

  • Season 5 Episode 14: Takeover

    Barney and Dana go under cover to thwart a political boss's plans to use a student riot to place his man in the state house.

  • Season 5 Episode 13: The Hostage

    Revolutionaries kidnap Paris as a hostage, believing his recent undercover role as an American magnate; guest Lou Antonio.

  • Season 5 Episode 12: Squeeze Play

    A drugs cartel plan to expand their empire : will IMF get their hands on a list of illegal activists before the evil regime begins?

  • Season 5 Episode 11: The Rebel

    Phelps and Dana pose as professor and student to help young rebels obtain vital scientific information; guest Mark Lenard.

  • Season 5 Episode 10: Hunted

    A deaf nurse (Ta-Tanisha) takes in badly injured Barney after he must be left behind by the IMF team; guest John Anderson.

  • Season 5 Episode 9: The Amateur

    The IMF agents fear a mission may have to be aborted when part of a secret weapon they obtained falls into another's hands.

  • Season 5 Episode 8: Decoy

    Phelps falls in love with a dictator's daughter, whom the IMF has been assigned to transport out of an Eastern-bloc country.

  • Season 5 Episode 7: Butterfly

    Dana places her life in danger as the IMF tries to prove an American businessman innocent of the murder of his Japanese wife.

  • Season 5 Episode 6: My Friend, My Enemy

    A glamorous double agent ensnares Paris so a delicate brain operation can be performed that will program him to kill Phelps.

  • Season 5 Episode 5: Flight

    An official (John Colicos) plans to assassinate a Caribbean president set to speak before Congress.

  • Season 5 Episode 4: Homecoming

    Phelps secretly uses his IMF knowledge to help authorities in his home town solve a series of murders; guest Loretta Swit.

  • Season 5 Episode 3: The Innocent

    The IMF must enlist an uncooperative computer genius (Christopher Connelly) when enemy operatives injure and capture Barney.

  • Season 5 Episode 2: Flip Side

    Dana and Paris infiltrate an international drug ring headed by a ruthless man (Sal Mineo); guests Dana Elcar, Robert Alda.

  • Season 5 Episode 1: The Killer

    Without knowing his victim or his employer, the IMF must stop a hired assassin (Robert Conrad).

Mission: Impossible: Season 4 (1969 - 1970)

Mission: Impossible: Season 3 (1968 - 1969)

Mission: Impossible: Season 2 (1967 - 1968)

  • Season 2 Episode 25: Recovery

    The IMF go after a physicist who has been given the task of dissecting a fail-safe device recovered from the wreckage of a bomber, deep inside Russian territory. Classic espionage drama, starring Peter Graves, Martin Landau and Peter Lupus

  • Season 2 Episode 24: Trial by Fury

    The IMF aids a beleaguered South American government overthrown by revolutionaries. Drama, starring Peter Graves and Barbara Bain

  • Season 2 Episode 23: The Phoenix

    A once powerful Communist seeks to regain his position by trading an alloy to an Eastern bloc power.

  • Season 2 Episode 22: The Killing

    In a bid to gather evidence against a deadly organisation, Cinnamon hatches a plan that could have terrible consequences for Jim

  • Season 2 Episode 21: The Town

    IMF agent Jim Phelps uncovers a plot to assassinate a Soviet defector in a sleepy mountain village, but is soon captured and drugged by an enemy agent. Rollin mobilises the team to rescue him and foil the murderous plot. Peter Graves, Martin Landau and Peter Lupus star

  • Season 2 Episode 20: The Counterfeiter

    The IMF team take on the leader of a drug counterfeiting ring, trying to stop him before he can make a potentially deadly copy of a vital new medicine. To ensure success, Cinnamon poses as an employee of a pharmaceutical company to guard the real drugs

  • Season 2 Episode 19: The Condemned

    Jim comes to the aid of a friend who has been sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. Rollin and Willy disguise themselves as priests to help him escape from jail

  • Season 2 Episode 18: The Emerald

    The IMF team are called into action to foil a plot to devalue US currency. To do so, they must retrieve an emerald from the clutches of an international arms dealer before an enemy agent beats them to it. Cult action adventure with Peter Graves, Peter Lupus and Martin Landau

  • Season 2 Episode 17: A Game of Chess

    The IMF team attempt to recover $1million in gold bullion intended for the underground in an Eastern bloc country. Cult action adventure, starring Peter Graves and Martin Landau

  • Season 2 Episode 16: The Spy

    The IMF team spring into action when enemy spy Felicia Vabar procures a document that, when combined with another, provides a map of Nato's missile defence system

  • Season 2 Episode 15: The Photographer

    A spy ring headed by a fashion photographer threatens to cripple the country with a deadly plague, leaving the IMF in a race against time to uncover the identities of the agents

  • Season 2 Episode 14: Echo of Yesterday

    The team travel to Bavaria to prevent neo-Nazi Colonel Marcus von Frank from planning a resurgence of the party, and from becoming the next Hitler. Jim infiltrates the group by posing as an American Nazi leader, while Cinnamon works to manipulate the man who could hand von Frank power

  • Season 2 Episode 13: The Spy

    The IMF team try to rescue the exiled leader of the Baltic state of Veyska, who has been kidnapped by the head of the secret police

  • Season 2 Episode 12: The Council : Part Two

    Part two of two. Rollin faces deportation by the members of the syndicate, who still believe he is crime boss Frank Wayne. However, a radical facelift presents itself as a solution

  • Season 2 Episode 11: The Council : Part One

    Part one of two. The IMF team kidnap crime lord Frank Wayne and replace him with Rollin in order to infiltrate and destroy his syndicate - but danger awaits. Peter Graves and Martin Landau star

  • Season 2 Episode 10: Sweet Charity

    The team investigate the activities of a couple who have been raising money in the name of charity but keeping it for themselves

  • Season 2 Episode 9: The Seal

    The IMF team are assigned to recover a priceless national treasure to prevent relations between the US and a small country from deteriorating

  • Season 2 Episode 8: The Money Machine

    The team attempt to foil the plans of a corrupt financier, whose dealings are threatening the economy of a small African country

  • Season 2 Episode 7: Operation -- Heart

    The IMF uses a complex plan to convince a president (Pernell Roberts) that his chief of secret police wants to seize power.

  • Season 2 Episode 6: The Slave - Part Two

    Part two of two. Jim Phelps and his team devise an elaborate plan to end King Ibn Borca's days as a slave trader by cutting off one of his main suppliers

  • Season 2 Episode 5: The Slave - Part One

    Part one of two. The IMF team set out on the trail of slave traders King Ibn Borca and Karl de Groot, and Barney is forced to undertake a particularly perilous part of the mission. Greg Morris stars

  • Season 2 Episode 4: The Bank

    The IMF try to foil a bank director plotting to take money from people wanting to defect from the East so he can help fund a sinister political party

  • Season 2 Episode 3: The Survivors

    An enemy agent kidnaps two scientists and their spouses, but needs a third couple, prompting Phelps and Cinnamon to allow themselves to be abducted

  • Season 2 Episode 2: Trek

    The team try to find some stolen Incan artefacts in an attempt to expose the treacherous Colonel Cardoza. Adventure, starring Peter Graves, Barbara Bain and Greg Morris

  • Season 2 Episode 1: The Widow

    Villainous pair Alex Cresnic and Mark Walters buy out an entire nation's heroin supply and attempt to smuggle it into Marseille. Jim Phelps joins the IMF team, who must expose the duo's dealings. Peter Graves stars

Mission: Impossible: Season 1 (1966 - 1967)

  • Season 1 Episode 28: The Psychic

    Cinnamon poses as a psychic to lure an industrialist into a poker game to retrieve top-secret NATO information he possesses.

  • Season 1 Episode 27: The Traitor

    A US intelligence officer defects to the enemy and takes with him the only copy of a top-secret message, forcing the team into action to recover it. Eartha Kitt guest stars

  • Season 1 Episode 26: A Cube of Sugar

    A hostile security chief captures an American agent, unaware he carries secret information on a hidden computer microcircuit.

  • Season 1 Episode 25: Shock

    The IMF team launch a rescue mission when diplomatic agent Carl Wilson is kidnapped and replaced by an imposter in an attempt to discredit an American trade agreement

  • Season 1 Episode 24: The Train

    The team intervene when the prime minister of Svardia's plans to establish a democracy are undermined by his deputy's plot to set up a dictatorship

  • Season 1 Episode 23: Action!

    A film-maker plans to edit footage of American soldiers into a film of an atrocity aimed at discrediting the US. Rollin and Barney go undercover to put a stop to the scheme

  • Season 1 Episode 22: The Confession

    The team investigate the assassination of a US senator by a Russian ambassador who claims to have acted under the orders of his government. David Sheiner guest stars

  • Season 1 Episode 21: Snowball in Hell

    The IMF team race against time to avert an international crisis when a highly radioactive substance falls into the hands of the sadistic commander of a remote penal colony

  • Season 1 Episode 20: The Legend

    The IMF attempt to infiltrate a South American stronghold, where a group of Nazis have gathered, hoping to re-establish the Third Reich. Briggs and Rollin have to convince the infamous Martin Bormann they are former members of Hitler's inner circle

  • Season 1 Episode 19: The Diamond

    Briggs and Barney go undercover as the owner and manufacturer of a diamond machine when a ruthless African dictator plans to sell a 27,000-carat gemstone to finance the invasion of a neighbouring country

  • Season 1 Episode 18: The Trial

    An innocent American is arrested on suspicion of spying while visiting an Eastern European nation. Rollin poses as a lawyer to try to save him from the death penalty

  • Season 1 Episode 17: The Frame

    The IMF team head to a crime czar's private party in an attempt to foil a gangster's plan to arrange the deaths of four government officials

  • Season 1 Episode 16: The Reluctant Dragon

    Rollin leads a difficult mission when the IMF team are ordered to convince an unwilling enemy scientist, who has developed an advanced anti-ballistic system, to defect to the West. Martin Landau stars

  • Season 1 Episode 15: The Legacy

    Rollin tries to avert the advent of the Fourth Reich by scuppering the plans of a group of neo-Nazis who are hunting for a long-lost stash of Hitler's gold

  • Season 1 Episode 14: The Short Tail Spy

    The IMF attempt to be in two places at once as they protect defecting scientist Professor Napolsky, while also tackling a dangerous group of spies

  • Season 1 Episode 13: Elena

    Rollin is sent to investigate and return a microfilm stolen by a double agent from her home country. The team suspect something is amiss and use hypnosis to help solve the mystery

  • Season 1 Episode 12: Fakeout

    The IMF team are assigned to lure the head of an international narcotics syndicate out of a country with no extradition treaty, so that he can be arrested. Lloyd Bridges guest stars, with Steven Hill and Barbara Bain

  • Season 1 Episode 11: Zubrovnik's Ghost

    Eastern Bloc agents try to convince a scientist's recently widowed wife to join them. The IMF team are sent to protect her, but a power failure jeopardises the mission

  • Season 1 Episode 10: The Carriers

    The IMF team infiltrate a replica of an American town used to help train spies in the Eastern Bloc to blend into Western society. However, they soon discover espionage is the least of their worries and are soon trying to prevent the release of a deadly virus. Star Trek's George Takei guest stars

  • Season 1 Episode 9: A Spool There Was

    Rollin and Cinnamon accept a mission to recover a reel of recording wire that contains information about plans for a chemical warfare attack on America. The wire was lost when the agent carrying it was killed, so Rollin recreates the agent's last moments to find it. Martin Landau and Barbara Bain star

  • Season 1 Episode 8: The Ransom

    Dan launches a personal crusade to rescue a friend's daughter who has been kidnapped by a mobster and used as blackmail against the team. Action adventure, starring Steven Hill

  • Season 1 Episode 7: Wheels

    The team are sent to the country of Valeria to make sure the corrupt Nationalist Party don't win an election using rigged voting machines. Espionage drama, starring Steven Hill

  • Season 1 Episode 6: Odds on Evil

    Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his wealth to start a war, prompting the IMF team to infiltrate his casino in a bid to stop him in his tracks. Martin Landau stars

  • Season 1 Episode 5: Old Man Out - Part Two

    Part two of two. Rollin avoids the guards following the failure of the original plan, while Vossek is moved to solitary confinement, and Briggs comes up with another strategy

  • Season 1 Episode 4: Old Man Out - Part One

    Part one of two. The team adopt the guise of circus artists to free the leader of a resistance movement being held in a seemingly impregnable prison, while Rollin pretends to be a pickpocket

  • Season 1 Episode 3: Operation Rogosh

    The IMF capture mass murderer Imry Rogosh and stage an elaborate mock trial in an attempt to learn the details of his far-reaching scheme to cause political unrest in Los Angeles. Guest starring Fritz Weaver

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  • Season 1 Episode 2: Memory

    The IMF team take on the task of undermining communist warmonger Janos Karq, and are sent to work with memory expert Joseph Baresh. However, things don't go according to plan

  • Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot

    First episode of the cult spy series, starring Steven Hill. Dan Briggs brings the IMF team together for the first time to recover a pair of nuclear warheads which are being hidden in a hotel vault in Santa Costa