8.0/101 votes#1 - Deadly Pawn
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1969
The Earthlings must play a game of real-life chess with a demented giant industrialist.
Director: Nathan Juran
Writer: Arthur Weiss
6.5/102 votes#2 - The Killer
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/1988
When an IMF team leader is assassinated, Jim Phelps comes out of retirement and assembles a new team to bring the killer to justice.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Arthur Weiss
6.3/103 votes#3 - The Killer
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1970
Hired killer Eddie Lorca does everything randomly, making him impossible to anticipate. The IMF must find out who his boss, Scorpio, is and all they know is Lorca is arriving in town for an assignment - they don't know who he's going up against. The team creates a ""blank"" hotel and Paris as a cabdriver intercepts Lorca at the airport. Paris and Willy have to stall when it takes more time to set up the hotel then it takes according to the phone book to get to ""their"" hotel. They then put the room number Lorca randomly chooses on the bugged room they have set up. They intercept Lorca's call to his contact, and Paris-as-Lorca meets her instead to find out the target. Dana then delivers the contract to Lorca using the information Paris obtained. The target is a black union leader, and Barney must take the man's place. Lorca eludes surveillance and almost kills Barney with a planted explosive, but Jim figures things out just in time. The team then fake Dana's death, and she gives a dying-b
Director: Paul Krasny
Writer: Arthur Weiss
6.0/102 votes#4 - Takeover
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1971
Phelps must stop Charles Peck from using violence, created by professional provocateur Billy Walsh, to elevate his puppet, Mayor Steven Tallman to the governorship. Dana is a provocateur herself, arrested by Barney the current governor's representative. Walsh gets Dana out, and Paris is a blackmailer who convinces Tallman that Dana is his previously-unknown illegitimate daughter. Peck is concerned that Tallman (actually Paris in disguise) will confess their plans to save his ""daughter"", and orders Walsh to kill Barney and Dana. Barney stops Walsh on TV before he can blow up a crowd of demonstrators and police during a protest, and Paris-as-Tallman confesses to Peck's involvement.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Arthur Weiss
5.0/102 votes#5 - The Missile (aka Torpedo)
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1971
James Read, an enemy agent, is posing as an analyst to get to a top-secret U.S. missile guidance system being tested and steal the plans - the IMF must have him take back fake plans and unwittingly pass on the incorrect information to his superiors. Dana takes the place of Read's contact and he and fake boss Jim fake a romantic relationship so Read can get blackmail photos and use them to turn over the system. Read tells Dana of his plan to kill Jim, but before she can warn Jim, Dana is kidnapped by Hecker, a psychopath who believes Dana is a former girlfriend he killed. After Willy saves Barney from a firetrap meant for Jim, Paris and Barney manage to rescue Dana and alert Jim just in time to avoid a rigged car, convincing Read he's in the clear with the guidance system.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Arthur Weiss
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"Deadly Pawn" is the best rated episode written by Arthur Weiss. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Nathan Juran. It aired on 10/12/1969 and is rated 1.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Killer".