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Mission: Impossible

Action, Adventure, Espionage · 1966 · Rated 7.8/10

Last aired: S7 E22, Imitation · 1973-03-30

The IMF is a top-secret branch of the U.S. government that takes on missions deemed "impossible" by all other agencies. Each of the team members can be disavowed if necessary. Leading the team is first Daniel Briggs, and then Jim Phelps. Each week they recruit a team of specialists to accomplish the mission, whether it's break into an impenetrable safe, or bring a fugitive to justice, or simply deal with mobsters who are beyond the reach of conventional law enforcement.

Cast

Greg Morris Barney Collier

Peter Lupus Willy Armitage

Peter Graves James Phelps

Martin Landau Rollin Hand

Barbara Bain Cinnamon Carter

Leonard Nimoy Paris

Lynda Day George Lisa Casey

Steven Hill Daniel Briggs

Lesley Ann Warren Dana Lambert

Sam Elliott Doug Robert

Season 7

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E1 Break! 1972-09-16 · 60 min With the aid of Barney's electronic wizardry, Phelps takes on the guise of a hot-shot pool hustler to break up an illegal gambling operation.

E2 Two Thousand 1972-09-23 · 60 min The IMF dupes a scientist who stole plutonium into thinking he is a prisoner in the year 2000.

E3 The Deal 1972-09-30 · 60 min Phelps and Barney pose as foreign military officials to find $5 million earmarked to finance a coup.

E4 Leona 1972-10-07 · 60 min To free an undercover agent, the IMF must convince a mob boss that his late wife had an affair with a rival.

E5 TOD-5 (aka The Carrier) 1972-10-14 · 60 min To locate a terrorist ring called Alpha Group, the IMF convinces turncoat intelligence agent Gordon Holt that he's been exposed to the stolen biological weapon he's been hired to deliver.

E6 Cocaine 1972-10-21 · 60 min A drug dealer becomes the unwitting dupe of the Impossible Missions Force in their plan to capture the largest shipment of cocaine ever brought into the country.

E7 Underground 1972-10-28 · 60 min To locate several hundred million dollars in illegal gambling funds, Phelps poses as a murderer to infiltrate a gang that specializes in spiriting wanted men out of the country after first brainwashing them to learn the whereabouts of their vast sums of money.

E8 Movie 1972-11-04 · 60 min Phelps poses as the head of a Hollywood movie studio intent on making a motion picture that parallels exactly the unsolved murder committed by one of the studio's executives as part of the IMF plan to prevent a crime syndicate's takeover of the studio.

E9 Hit 1972-11-11 · 60 min Phelps poses as a government investigator who must work through a crooked district attorney to prove that a crime syndicate boss killed his girlfriend.

E10 Ultimatum 1972-11-18 · 60 min The IMF must stop a rogue scientist, who has threatened to set off a huge hydrogen bomb unless certain members of Congress step down and foreign policy is changed.

E11 Kidnap 1972-12-02 · 60 min Phelps is kidnapped and held for ransom until Barney, Casey and Willy can steal an incriminating letter from a safe deposit box and turn it over to a crime syndicate boss.

E12 Crack-Up 1972-12-09 · 60 min To trap an ingenious criminal and his boss, the IMF team must convince a man he is going insane.

E13 The Puppet 1972-12-22 · 60 min A crime syndicate boss becomes the target of the IMF when he launches a mysterious one hundred million dollar scheme.

E14 Incarnate 1973-01-05 · 60 min A superstitious criminal escapes to a Caribbean country and is drawn into a voodoo ceremony by the IMF to locate a cache of stolen gold she has hidden away on US soil.

E15 Boomerang 1973-01-12 · 60 min Both the IMF and the underworld pursue a crime lord's wife who stole her husband's syndicate records after having him killed.

E16 The Question 1973-01-19 · 60 min Only an IMF agent can learn whether a spy is truly defecting to the West.

E17 The Fountain 1973-01-26 · 60 min An underworld figure with access to the syndicate's top secret computerized records is convinced by the IMF that he has found the fountain of youth.

E18 The Fighter 1973-02-09 · 60 min A boxing promoter tied to a crime syndicate becomes a target of the IMF when one of his fighters is killed before he can talk to the police.

E19 Speed 1973-02-16 · 60 min A breathtaking motorcycle chase over the hills of San Francisco figures prominently in the IMF's plan to recover three tons of the drug commonly known as "speed" from Sam Hibbing's illegal drug operation.

E20 The Pendulum 1973-02-23 · 60 min A secret terrorist organization known as the Pendulum plans a major attack on the government that the Impossible Missions Force is assigned to uncover.

E21 The Western 1973-03-02 · 60 min The IMF must make a thief believe he is clairvoyant as part of a scheme to recover $5 million in stolen artworks.

E22 Imitation 1973-03-30 · 60 min The beautiful leader of a band of jewel thieves falls in love with Barney, who has infiltrated her operation to recover the stolen crown jewels of a foreign nation.

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