6.5/102 votes#1 - Mindbend
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1971
Alex Pierson, a rising Syndicate member, has recruited Dr. Burke, a psychopathic behavioral psychologist who has developed a way to program men into killers. Pierson lures in underworld criminals with an offer of plastic surgery and turns them over to Burke, who programs them to kill Pierson's targets three times then kill themselves. Barney infiltrates as a crook on the run but when he fails to dose himself with a counter-drug, he is converted into a psychotic killer as well. They lose contact with Barney - Jim plants evidence on Burke making him look like he's turning against Pierson and another IMF agent made up to look like Barney goes after but fails to kill Pierson before fake-killing himself. Pierson confronts Burke while Jim gets the info on Barney's location out of Burke's assistant, and Willy stops the tech expert from killing his target in the nick of time.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer: Ronald Austin
6.5/102 votes#2 - TOD-5 (aka The Carrier)
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1972
A government scientist, Paul Morse, plans to sell a biological weapon, TOD-5, to terrorist Alpha Group led by Dr. Flory. The IMF must get to Morse's contact, Gordon Holt, and get him to take them to Alpha HQ. When Holt gets to the small town where he is to get the weapon from Morse, he finds the town under quarantine and people dying - then he starts showing (IMF-faked) symptoms of the disease. He grabs Mimi, who is supposedly immune, and takes her with him to Alpha HQ and infects them to force them to come up with an antidote - the IMF trail him and arrest the whole operation.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: Ronald Austin
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"Mindbend" is the best rated episode written by Ronald Austin. It scored 6.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. It aired on 10/9/1971 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "TOD-5 (aka The Carrier)".