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The Best Episodes of Mission: Impossible Season 4

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 1 - The Code
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - The Code

    S4:E1

    In order to stop an invasion and shatter an alliance between two countries, the IMF team must photograph and break a code in a matter of minutes.

    Director:Stuart Hagmann
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 2 - The Numbers Game (aka: The Key)
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - The Numbers Game (aka: The Key)

    S4:E2

    The team tries to get a deposed dictator to divulge his Swiss bank account number by tricking him into believing World War III is about to begin.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Leigh Vance

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  3. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 3 - The Controllers (1)
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - The Controllers (1)

    S4:E3

    Jim and a female agent pose as scientists who have invented a new drug in order to replace a real drug that turns people into willing slaves.

    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  4. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 4 - The Controllers (2)
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - The Controllers (2)

    S4:E4

    As Barney taints the water system with a mind-numbing drug, Jim is captured and put on trial, where he must discredit an enemy scientist.

    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  5. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 5 - Fool's Gold
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Fool's Gold

    S4:E5

    Paris poses as a counterfeiter in order to gain access to a safe and destroy millions in phony money, as well as the plates used to make it.

    Director:Murray Golden
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  6. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 6 - Commandante
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Commandante

    S4:E6

    An imprisoned priest is about to be executed, so Jim and Willie pose as U.S. religious workers who are willing to trade guns in exchange for his safety.

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  7. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 7 - Submarine
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Submarine

    S4:E7

    Upon his release, a prisoner plans to fund neo-Nazis with stolen money. So a submarine voyage is simulated in order to transport him to his contact.

    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writer:Donald James

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  8. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 8 - Mastermind
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Mastermind

    S4:E8

    As Barney Collier attempts to break into a safe that contains an incriminating file, Paris convinces a mob figure that he can read the mind of his double-crossing boss.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Jerrold L. Ludwig

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  9. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 9 - Robot
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Robot

    S4:E9

    A country is unaware that its premier is dead and that a double is about to appoint a successor. So Barney Collier concocts a mechanical man to take his place.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Howard Berk

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  10. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 10 - The Double Circle
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #10 - The Double Circle

    S4:E10

    An art lover is made to believe he can own a priceless work of art, but it is really a plot to retrieve a valuable formula from his impenetrable safe.

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Jerrold L. Ludwig

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  11. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 11 - The Brothers
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - The Brothers

    S4:E11

    A Middle Eastern king needs to be restored to the throne. So a medical operation is replicated where he will seemingly donate his kidney to his murderous brother.

    Director:Murray Golden
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 12 - Time Bomb
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Time Bomb

    S4:E12

    The IMF team has to try and gain access to a nuclear reactor complex, where a terminally ill officer plans to detonate an atomic bomb.

    Director:Murray Golden
    Writer:Paul Playdon

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  13. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 13 - The Amnesiac
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - The Amnesiac

    S4:E13

    Jim Phelps poses as an amnesia victim in order to retrieve a stolen isotope, one that could make nuclear weapons affordable to any country.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 14 - The Falcon (1)
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - The Falcon (1)

    S4:E14

    Paris masquerades as Zastro, a magician who has come to entertain during an arranged wedding between the king's sister and a ruthless usurper.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Paul Playdon

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  15. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 15 - The Falcon (2)
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - The Falcon (2)

    S4:E15

    With the king's sister rescued during the wedding, the team now turns its attention to the true heir, who's locked up in prison.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Paul Playdon

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  16. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 16 - The Falcon (3)
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - The Falcon (3)

    S4:E16

    Just as Jim Phelps and the others unwittingly become caught up in a royal power struggle, a bomb goes off, seriously injuring Paris and revealing his disguise.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Paul Playdon

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  17. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 17 - Chico
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Chico

    S4:E17

    Two halves of a microfilm add up to one dangerous list for the agents it will incriminate. But Barney plans to use a trained dog to retrieve it.

    Director:Herb Wallerstein
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  18. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 18 - Gitano (aka Toys)
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Gitano (aka Toys)

    S4:E18

    A 12-year-old king whose life is in danger is rescued by gypsies - Paris and Willie in disguise - and forced to dress up like a girl to fool his assassins.

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  19. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 19 - Phantoms
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Phantoms

    S4:E19

    A murderous dictator's belief in ghosts is used against him when Barney fashions a clever system that projects spirits of his dead victims before his eyes.

    Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  20. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 20 - Terror
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Terror

    S4:E20

    Jim and his team must infiltrate a prison in order to block the release of a ruthless Middle Eastern terrorist about to be pardoned.

    Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  21. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 21 - Lover's Knot
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Lover's Knot

    S4:E21

    While in London to break a spy ring, Paris develops feelings for the beautiful Lady Weston after he is cast as a jealous lover in a romantic triangle.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  22. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 22 - Orpheus
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Orpheus

    S4:E22

    An unknown assassin must be stopped, so Barney infiltrates the foreign agency that employs him while Jim poses as a drug addict with information to sell.

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Paul Playdon

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  23. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 23 - The Crane
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #23 - The Crane

    S4:E23

    Jim and his team rescue a prisoner and place him in a spot his captors will never think to look - a conspicuous location right under their noses.

    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  24. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 24 - Death Squad
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Death Squad

    S4:E24

    Barney kills a man in self-defense and is marked for execution by the victim's brother, a chief of police who heads a death squad.

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  25. Mission: Impossible Season 4 Episode 25 - The Choice
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #25 - The Choice

    S4:E25

    A duchess is under the powerful spell of a mystic, who notices his uncanny resemblance to Paris and plans to use him in a plot to ascend to the throne.

    Director:Alan Greedy
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"The Code" is the best rated episode of "Mission: Impossible" season 4. It scored 6/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Stuart Hagmann and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/28/1969. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Numbers Game (aka: The Key)".