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Mission: Impossible

Action, Adventure, Crime · 1988 · Rated 7.4/10

Last aired: S2 E16, The Sands of Seth · 1990-02-24

In this sequel to the original 1960s series, IMF agent Jim Phelps comes out of retirement when a protégé is killed. He creates a new team of agents, and decides to stick around after his protégé is avenged. Jim and his team take on "impossible missions" for the government, dealing with spies and criminals that normal agencies can't touch.

Cast

Peter Graves Jim Phelps

Antony Hamilton Max Harte

Bob Johnson Voice on Disc

Phil Morris Grant Collier

Thaao Penghlis Nicholas Black

Jane Badler Shannon Reed

Terry Markwell Casey Randall

Season 2

Season 1 Season 2

E1 The Golden Serpent (1) 1989-09-21 · 60 min The team goes after the Golden Serpent, an international opium-smuggling operation, with the help of their inside man... Grant's father, Barney Collier.

E2 The Golden Serpent (2) 1989-09-28 · 60 min With Barney presumed dead, the IM team has no choice but to continue with their mission against the Golden Serpent, pitting the organization's leader and Prince Selimun against each other.

E3 The Princess 1989-10-05 · 60 min The team goes after an assassin who is targeting a princess for death.

E4 Command Performance 1989-10-12 · 60 min The IMF must rescue a dissident priest from a security tower and find a missing holy relic, all under the eye of the sadistic Defense Minister.

E5 Countdown 1989-10-26 · 60 min Grant goes undercover as a mercenary to convince a religious fanatic to lead him to the nuclear warhead that she plans to use against her country's capital city.

E6 War Games 1989-11-02 · 60 min Shannon poses as an astrologer to get close to a East European general who plans to use war games as a cover to invade a neighboring country.

E7 Target Earth 1989-11-09 · 60 min After secretly murdering the lead pilot, terrorists take over a private space consortium... and Shannon is launched into space on a shuttle along with the terrorist's pilot.

E8 The Fuehrer's Children 1989-11-16 · 60 min Neo-Nazi leader Richard Kester plans to use a "secret weapon" to convince all other neo-Nazi organizations to elect him their world leader.

E9 Banshee 1989-11-30 · 60 min An Irish arms dealer blows up a bus filled with old people to turn Republicans versus Nationalist and boost his arms sales, and the team put on a hologrammtic show to convince the dealer to confess his sins.

E10 For Art's Sake 1989-12-14 · 60 min Suave, debonair hotelier Daniel Travers is secretly an art thief. He steals a painting belonging to a foreign country, putting U.S. negotiations at risk, and the team must recover the painting and put Travers out of business once and for all.

E11 Deadly Harvest 1990-01-06 · 60 min Nicholas poses as a terrorist scientist who has undergone plastic surgery, to find the contaminated wheat seeds that the scientist's organization plans to use to destroy America's wheat crop.

E12 Cargo Cult 1990-01-13 · 60 min A ruthless criminal uses natives as slave labor to mine cyanide-laced gold, preying on their superstitions. The IMF has to out-superstition the criminal with some tricks of their own.

E13 The Assassin 1990-01-20 · 60 min The team goes after someone who can program innocent people into assassins... and an undercover Nicholas ends up programmed to kill a national leader.

E14 Gunslinger 1990-02-03 · 60 min Jim and the team take on a crooked ex-Congressman who is using his Old West tourist town as a cover to steal uranium for terrorists.

E15 Church Bells in Bogota 1990-02-10 · 60 min While going undercover to extradite a Columbian drug lord, Shannon is stricken with amnesia and falls in love with the drug lord's nephew.

E16 The Sands of Seth 1990-02-24 · 60 min The IMF take on the curator of an Egyptian museum who wants to bring back Egypt's ancient past... with himself as Pharaoh.

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