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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

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Season 1

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Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1966
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.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Bruce Geller
7.3/10588 votes
Memory
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1966
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.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Robert Lewin
8.2/10635 votes
Operation Rogosh
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1966
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.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Jerome Ross
7.3/10544 votes
Old Man Out (1)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1966
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.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Ellis Marcus
7.3/10507 votes
Old Man Out (2)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1966
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.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Ellis Marcus
7.7/10517 votes
Odds on Evil
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1966
Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield
6.8/10467 votes
Wheels
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1966
In the country of Valeria, the IMF must assure that the corrupt Nationalist party's rigged voting machine doesn't give them the election.
Director: Tom Gries
Writer: Laurence Heath
7.6/10488 votes
The Ransom
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1966
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.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: Allan Balter
7.2/10467 votes
A Spool There Was
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1966
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.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Ellis Marcus
8.0/10511 votes
The Carriers
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1966
Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bacteriological warfare.
Director: Sherman Marks
Writer: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield
6.1/10467 votes
Zubrovnik's Ghost
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1966
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!
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Robert Lewin
7.0/10417 votes
Fakeout
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1966
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).
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Leigh Chapman
6.4/10437 votes
Elena
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1966
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.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Ellis Marcus
7.2/10421 votes
The Short Tail Spy
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1966
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.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Julian Barry
7.9/10448 votes
The Legacy
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/7/1967
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.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield
7.2/10377 votes
The Reluctant Dragon
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/14/1967
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.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Chester Krumholz
7.7/10424 votes
The Frame
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/21/1967
Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with men more sympathetic to the Syndicate.
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: Unknown
7.6/10400 votes
The Trial
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/28/1967
Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: Laurence Heath
7.4/10389 votes
The Diamond
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/4/1967
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.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield
7.4/10430 votes
The Legend
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/11/1967
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.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: Mann Rubin
7.5/10386 votes
Snowball in Hell
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/18/1967
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.
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Robert Guy Barrows, Judith Barrows
7.4/10379 votes
The Confession
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/25/1967
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.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield
7.3/10385 votes
Action!
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/4/1967
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.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Robert Lewin
8.1/10441 votes
The Train
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1967
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.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield
7.5/10369 votes
Shock
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/25/1967
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.
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Laurence Heath
7.4/10361 votes
A Cube of Sugar
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/1/1967
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.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield
7.8/10377 votes
The Traitor
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/15/1967
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Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.5/10364 votes
The Psychic
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/22/1967
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.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield