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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - The Ransom
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #1 - The Ransom

    S1:E8

    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:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - The Carriers
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #2 - The Carriers

    S1:E10

    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:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Odds on Evil
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #3 - Odds on Evil

    S1:E6

    Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  4. undefined Season 3 Episode 5 - The Execution
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - The Execution

    S3:E5

    The IMF must stop Lewis Parma, a Syndicate man who is close to gaining total control of the food distribution industry in the U.S. To stop him, the IMF must get his hired assassin Vic Duchell to turn state's evidence, but Duchell is resolute. Jim pretends to be a merchant who resists Parma's extortion efforts so as to become a target. Duchell bombs Jim's apartment but is knocked out. He wakes up ""years later"" to find himself on death row: he's been convicted for Jim's murder and is hours away from execution. Duchell believes Parma will get him out as he did one time before, but thanks to the IMF's staging, of course Parma is nowhere in sight. Just as he is is about to be fake-executed, Duchell breaks and turns evidence on Parma, just as Parma arrives at the warehouse where the scam is going on.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 7 - Revenge of the Gods
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Revenge of the Gods

    S1:E7

    Tony and Doug arrive at the Siege of Troy, and are taken before Ulysses. Ulysses believes them to be gods, while his lieutenant Sardis doubts them. Doug wins a swordfight with Sardis to prove his divinity, so Sardis goes to Troy and tries to betray Ulysses and the Greeks. In the next battle the two travellers are almost overwhelmed, so the Project scientists send back Jiggs with a bag of hand grenades. Doug is captured during the next battle and put on the rack to be tortured. Jiggs is returned, but ages horrendously while trapped in the infinity of the Tunnel. The scientists manage to reverse the effects, but accidentally pull a Greek soldier forward (they manage to send him back). Tony ""inspires"" Ulysses to create the Trojan Horse, and goes inside it to rescue Doug. The ploy is successful. Ulysses kills Paris and rescues Helen, while Tony rescues Doug and the two vanish before the astounded Greeks.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - The Hundred Days of the Dragon
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #6 - The Hundred Days of the Dragon

    S1:E2

    A sinister foreign power replaces the President of the United States with its own agent via the use of a powerful drug allowing the skin to be temporarily molded into any likeness.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 24 - The Train
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - The Train

    S1:E24

    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:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 22 - The Confession
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #8 - The Confession

    S1:E22

    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.

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    Writer:Allan Balter

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 15 - The Legacy
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - The Legacy

    S1:E15

    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:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 19 - The Diamond
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - The Diamond

    S1:E19

    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.

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    Writer:Allan Balter

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - The Legacy
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - The Legacy

    S1:E5

    When the sons of four Nazis come together to recover a fortune in gold and create the Fourth Reich, the team must infiltrate the group and locate the gold.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  12. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - The Survivors
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Survivors

    S2:E3

    Two scientists and their wives have been kidnapped by enemy agent Eric Stavak. If Stavak doesn't get ahold of a third scientist, the other two are useless and will be killed. If he gets the third, than Stavak will have the key to an ""ultimate weapon"" project. Phelps and Cinnamon pretend to be the third scientist and his wife and alllow themselves to be kidnapped and taken to the other two scientists and their wives. Phelps predicts an upcoming earthquake, which the IMF team goes to work and fake-implements. Phelps digs out an escape route through a storm drain, only to be shoved aside by Stavak and his henchmen as they make their escape. While Jim leads everyone out of a perfectly-working elevator, Stavak and the others are captured as they emerge onto a perfectly-intact San Francisco street.

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    Writer:Allan Balter

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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 12 - The Council (2)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Council (2)

    S2:E12

    Rollin-as-Wayne orders the death of Jim, who is impersonating a federal investigator, without getting the approval of the Syndicate Council. With Jim's killing a a distraction, Rollin breaks into the safe at Syndicate HQ and duplicates the financial records. The Council, unhappy with ""Wayne's"" independence and the fact that the murder is attracting headlines, condemn him to death. Rollin runs, but at the last moment switches place with the real Wayne, who has received plastic surgeon to make him look like Rollin. Wayne is killed by the hitman, Johnny, and the records are used to bust the Syndicate.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  14. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - The Slave (1)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Slave (1)

    S2:E5

    In the country of Elkabar, King Ibn Borca is conducting a brisk slave business with the aid of supplier Karl de Groot. de Groot raids into neighboring countries. The IMF team must put the two men out of business. Barney lets himself be captured by de Groot, gets the info on a cell, then escapes with the info so they can create an exact duplicate of the cell. Jim "sells" Cinnamon to de Groot, then Willy retrieves her and captures de Groot. Jim then approaches de Groot's partner Jara and tells him he killed de Groot and that Jara has a new partner...

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    Writer:Allan Balter

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  15. undefined Season 2 Episode 11 - The Council (1)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Council (1)

    S2:E11

    Frank Wayne is the head of the Syndicate, and by putting the Mob's ill-gotten gains in a Swiss bank account, he threatens to ruin the U.S. gold reserve. The IMF must recover the funds and put Wayne away. Jim harasses Wayne, forcing the gangster to move his records to the Syndicate's office HQ. Then Jim and Barney subpoena and grill Wayne, while Rollin studies Wayne to impersonate his mannerisms. They fake an escape for Wayne long enough for him to call his henchman, but Rollin then takes his place. ""Wayne"" then orders Barney's death. With ""Wayne"" on the lam, the Syndicate insist that he leave town, but Rollin sells them on the idea of plastic surgery...to make ""Wayne"" look like Rollin!

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    Writer:Allan Balter

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  16. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - The Slave (2)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Slave (2)

    S2:E6

    Willy kidnaps Princess Amara, wife of the king's brother Fasar, who knows nothing of his brother's slave racket. They put Amara in the duplicate cell and then Rollin-as-Borca tells her she will be sold at the next auction. Jim delivers Cinnamon to Borca, and then they dress up a sedated Amara as Cinnamon, and Barney and Willy switch her for Cinnamon. Rollin, masquerading as an Interpol agent, convinces Fasar to go to a slave auction that Borca is holding. Disguised, the men watch as "Cinnamon" is put up for auction. Fasar reveals himself and Amara's disguise is revealed. She tells her husband of the slave cells. Borca is killed and Fasar puts an end to slavery in Elkabar.

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    Writer:Allan Balter

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  17. undefined Season 2 Episode 9 - The Seal
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Seal

    S2:E9

    The team must get back a valuable statue taken by a rich US industrialist, who threatens diplomatic relations by refusing to give it up.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  18. undefined Season 2 Episode 20 - The Counterfeiter
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Counterfeiter

    S2:E20

    Raymond Halder is the owner of a chain of clinics and runs a drug counterfeiting ring. Gant Pharamaceuticals released a drug that helps against primary vascular disease, but the drug is being withdrawn since Halder flooded the market with potentially fatal counterfeits. Gant plans to resissue the drug and the IMF must stop Halder from counterfeiting the new version. The IMF as Federal agents put pressure on Halder, but he escapes. Cinnamon pretends to be a Gant employee in charge of protecting against counterfeits. Gang bribes Rollin the Federal Agent to frame Cinnamon to force her to give him Gant's anticounterfeiting strategy. However, the team use an ultarsonic laser to make Halder think he is suffering from primary vascular disease, and he ends up at one of his own clinics where Barney-as-a-doctor prescribes one of Gant's counterfeits. Terrified for his life, Halder confesses so that he won't get a dose of his own medicine.

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    Writer:Allan Balter

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  19. undefined Season 2 Episode 15 - The Photographer
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - The Photographer

    S2:E15

    David Redding is a photographer and a spy working for the other side, who has supervised the infiltration of 150 agents into the U.S. The agents are apparently carrying some kind of biological plague, and only Redding knows the code. The IMF must get it from him. To do so, they set up Cinnamon as a former fashion model and scientist married to Jim who is working with a bacillus-suspension formula. This gives Redding a reason to accept the assignment - he tortures ""Jim"" who claims the U.S. is planning a nuclear strike. Redding and his assistant Morley plan to take refuge in Redding's bomb shelter and command center after sending a signal to his country (which is blocked by Barney), but Rollin and Willy arrest them. When the IMF fakes a nuclear attack Redding leads the others to the shelter, then ""kills"" Willy. He tries to send more coded messages (again, blocked by Barney), and Rollin witnesses Redding coding them. At the end he leaves as it is revealed that the IMF switched Redding and

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    Writer:Allan Balter

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  20. undefined Season 2 Episode 22 - The Killing
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Killing

    S2:E22

    Burt Gordon has set up a new version of Murder, Inc. for the Synidcate. The IMF need to get evidence of his actions. Jim and Cinnamon become Gordon's new neighbors, and their brother Rollin claims they are being haunted by the ghost of their long-dead sibling. Cinnamon seduces Gordon and wants him to kill her husband. A provoked Jim then attacks Gordon and is ""killed"" by Gordon's hitman, Connie and fake-disposed of in an incinerator. But then Jim's ghost comes back to haunt Gordon, ""killing"" Cinnamon. Gordon follows Jim's ghost-voice to his body and shoots it again...only to find out that the IMF disguised Connie as Jim. The police arrive and arrest Gordon for murder.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 18 - The Emerald
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Emerald

    S2:E18

    A plan to devaluate U.S. currency was concealed on a valuable emerald by a U.S. spy, and the emerald was inadvertently obtained by Victor Tomar, an international arms dealer. Tomar is traveling by ship, as is Yorgi Petrosian, an enemy agent sent to recover the emerald. Rollin as a card shark gets together with Petrosian and they make a deal - Rollin will cheat Tomar and give Petrosian the gem and keep the winnings. Cinnamon tricks Tomar into getting to a game when Jim pretends to take her expensive bracelet. Tomar loses to Petrosian, but Rollin double-crosses Petrosian and gets the cash and the emerald. Petrosian tries to kill Rollin but Willy knocks him out and they fake that he's been lost overboard and found by a passing trawler. Petrosian wires a message to his aide, William, to kill Petrosian. Then they knock out Petrosian, put him in Rollin's cabin with a mask, and Williams kills Petrosian-as-Rollin and disposes of the body.

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    Writer:Allan Balter

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  22. undefined Season 2 Episode 25 - Recovery
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Recovery

    S2:E25

    Paul Shipherd, a defector from the U.S., has been put in charge of dissecting a SAC bomber fail-safe at the Vatzia Institute. The IMF must steal the fail-safe and recover Shipherd. As the pilot of the bomber, Jim plants the idea Shipherd should talk to the manufacturer in Duluth, and conveniently a wheelchair-bound Rollin and his ""wife"" Cinnamon are from the factory in Duluth. Jim is released and Rollin and Cinnamon are captured and forced to defuse the explosive device on the fail-safe. Rollin fakes a heart attack to get Shipherd away from his guards. Jim sneaks into the building after Barney fouls the disposal system, gets the fail-safe, and gives it to Barney, who has knocked out Shipherd. Rollin substitutes himself for Shipherd, and they wheel the ""dead"" Shipherd-as-Rollin out in the wheelchair in which the fail-safe is hidden. Rollin-as-Shipherd then strolls casually out with Cinnamon.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  23. undefined Season 1 Episode 28 - The Psychic
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Psychic

    S1:E28

    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.

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    Writer:Allan Balter

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  24. undefined Season 1 Episode 26 - A Cube of Sugar
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - A Cube of Sugar

    S1:E26

    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.

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    Writer:Allan Balter

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  25. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - The Contender (1)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - The Contender (1)

    S3:E2

    Charles Buckman is attempting to gain a stranglehold on all professional and amateur sports. If successful, the U.S. will be discredited in the world athletic community. Buckman is working with Syndicate man Dan Whelan. The IMF must eliminate them. Barney takes a crash course in boxing and impersonates Richy Lamoine. Barney-as-Richy announces a comeback, and Buckman forces manager-Rollin to sign with him. Meanwhile, Jim gets a job with Whelan. But as he sneaks through an access tunnel to get to Whelan's office, Whelan and his men come down the tunnel...

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Allan Balter Ratings Summary

"The Ransom" is the best rated episode written by Allan Balter. It scored 7.7/10 based on 3 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 11/5/1966 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Carriers".