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Mission: Impossible

TV·1966–1973·7 seasons, 171 episodes·CBS·Action, Adventure, Espionage·1h·7.8·Created by Bruce Geller

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The IMF is a top-secret branch of the U.S. government that takes on missions deemed "impossible" by all other agencies. Each of the team members can be disavowed if necessary. Leading the team is first Daniel Briggs, and then Jim Phelps. Each week they recruit a team of specialists to accomplish the mission, whether it's break into an impenetrable safe, or bring a fugitive to justice, or simply deal with mobsters who are beyond the reach of conventional law enforcement.

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  1. 01Mission: Impossible S01E15The LegacyS01E15 · 9.3The IMF must get hold of a hoard 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.
  2. 02Mission: Impossible S03E12The ExchangeS03E12 · 9.3Cinnamon is captured and the enemy discovers the one thing that would unmask her identity and expose the Impossible Mission Force.
  3. 03Mission: Impossible S01E21Snowball in HellS01E21 · 9.0A former prison guard, Sefra, has acquired a supply of cesium 138, which explodes at temperatures above 70 degrees. Rollin and Barney go in as a photographer and model respectively, and Sefra "learns" that Barney is a former prisoner returning for revenge.

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Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode28Episodes1966–67Aired 7.7Season avg
  1. S01E01Mission: Impossible S01E01PilotSeptember 17, 1966 8.1IMF team leader Dan Briggs assembles his team for the first time. His team includes a master of disguise, a femme fatale, an electronics whi
  2. S01E02Mission: Impossible S01E02MemorySeptember 24, 1966 7.8The IMF must undermine "the Butcher of the Balkans," Janos Karq, by having his head of security capture an agent, Sparrow, who will then inc
  3. S01E03Mission: Impossible S01E03Operation RogoshOctober 1, 1966 8.5Imry 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 accid
  4. S01E04Mission: Impossible S01E04Old Man Out (1)October 8, 1966 7.5The IMF team goes in as a circus team to rescue Anton Cardinal Vossek, who is being held in the impregnable Seravno Prison.
  5. S01E05Mission: Impossible S01E05Old Man Out (2)October 15, 1966 7.8Rollin manages to avoid the guards and get to the roof but is arrested before he can rescue Vossek.
  6. S01E06Mission: Impossible S01E06Odds on EvilOctober 22, 1966 8.0Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war, the IMF team must stop him before its too late.
  7. S01E07Mission: Impossible S01E07WheelsOctober 29, 1966 8.3In the country of Valeria, the IMF must assure that the corrupt Nationalist party's rigged voting machine doesn't give them the election.
  8. S01E08Mission: Impossible S01E08The RansomNovember 5, 1966 8.8Mobster 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, Augi
  9. S01E09Mission: Impossible S01E09A Spool There WasNovember 12, 1966 8.3Rollin and Cinnamon go it alone to recover a reel of recording wire containing information on a chemical warfare project aimed at the U.S.
  10. S01E10Mission: Impossible S01E10The CarriersNovember 19, 1966 8.8Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bacteriological warfare.
  11. S01E11Mission: Impossible S01E11Zubrovnik's GhostNovember 26, 1966 5.7The wife of a deceased scientist, Kurt Zubrovnik, is being pressured by Eastern forces to work for them.
  12. S01E12Mission: Impossible S01E12FakeoutDecember 3, 1966 7.7Anastas Poltroni is the head of an international narcotics syndicate, and has taken refuge in a country with no extradition treaty. The IM F
  13. S01E13Mission: Impossible S01E13ElenaDecember 10, 1966 4.3Double-agent Elena Del Barra is acting bizarrely, sending a microfilm of defense secrets from her own country. Rollin is sent into investiga
  14. S01E14Mission: Impossible S01E14The Short Tail SpyDecember 17, 1966 6.3A 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.
  15. S01E15Mission: Impossible S01E15Season's bestThe LegacyJanuary 7, 1967 9.3The IMF must get hold of a hoard of Nazi gold through four young men, sons of Hitler's top aides, who are sent to Switzerland to meet for th
  16. S01E16Mission: Impossible S01E16The Reluctant DragonJanuary 14, 1967 7.3Dr. 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 a
  17. S01E17Mission: Impossible S01E17The FrameJanuary 21, 1967 7.0Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with men more sympathetic
  18. S01E18Mission: Impossible S01E18The TrialJanuary 28, 1967 5.0Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power.
  19. S01E19Mission: Impossible S01E19The DiamondFebruary 4, 1967 8.7Henrik Durvard has taken over the country of Lombuanada by military coup, and holds the natives in terror. He has obtained a diamond from th
  20. S01E20Mission: Impossible S01E20The LegendFebruary 11, 1967 7.7An imprisoned member of the Nazi party, Herbert Raynor, is released from prison and is being flown to Puerto Huberra in South America, along
  21. S01E21Mission: Impossible S01E21Snowball in HellFebruary 18, 1967 9.0A former prison guard, Sefra, has acquired a supply of cesium 138, which explodes at temperatures above 70 degrees. Rollin and Barney go in
  22. S01E22Mission: Impossible S01E22The ConfessionFebruary 25, 1967 7.6To determine who hired a Soviet assassin to kill an American Senator, Rollin plays an escaped convict who takes the killer with him in the h
  23. S01E23Mission: Impossible S01E23Action!March 4, 1967 8.3Miklos Klaar, an Iron Curtain filmmaker, has film of American soldiers and plans to edit it into an atrocity movie to discredit the U.S.
  24. S01E24Mission: Impossible S01E24The TrainMarch 18, 1967 7.0Prime Minister Larya of Svardia is working to establish democracy, but is unaware that his personal protege, Deputy Premier Pavel, plans to
  25. S01E25Mission: Impossible S01E25ShockMarch 25, 1967 6.7Enemy operative Kiri has kidnapped U.S. envoy Carl Wilson and has an imposter, Gort, who is impersonating him to discredit a U.S. trade agre
  26. S01E26Mission: Impossible S01E26A Cube of SugarApril 1, 1967 9.0The IMF team must rescue a U.S. intelligence operative who has top secret military plans on a microcircuit chip.
  27. S01E27Mission: Impossible S01E27The TraitorApril 15, 1967 8.7An American intelligence officer, Hughes, has defected to the enemy with the only copy of an encoded top-secret message. The IMF must get to
  28. S01E28Mission: Impossible S01E28The PsychicApril 22, 1967 7.3The team must trick a crooked investment promoter into endorsing $80 million in stolen stocks and then getting them back from him.

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode25Episodes1967–68Aired 7.7Season avg
  1. S02E01Mission: Impossible S02E01The WidowSeptember 10, 1967 7.7The Impossible Missions Force is asked to destroy an international narcotics ring operated by Alex Cresnic and his partner Mark Walters.
  2. S02E02Mission: Impossible S02E02Season's bestTrekSeptember 17, 1967 9.0The Impossible Missions Force matches wits with a hijacker and a disloyal prison commandant.
  3. S02E03Mission: Impossible S02E03The SurvivorsSeptember 24, 1967 8.7A grave threat to national security is posed when an enemy agent kidnaps two of the three key scientists who collectively know the formula f
  4. S02E04Mission: Impossible S02E04The BankOctober 1, 1967 8.7The Impossible Missions Force is dispatched to Berlin's East Zone.
  5. S02E05Mission: Impossible S02E05The Slave (1)October 8, 1967 9.0The IMF is called upon to end an inhuman situation which the United Nations has been unable to abolish: slave trade in the country of Elkaba
  6. S02E06Mission: Impossible S02E06The Slave (2)October 15, 1967 9.0The IMF continues to battle slave-trading in a Middle Eastern country by eliminating De Groot, one of the principal suppliers of victims for
  7. S02E07Mission: Impossible S02E07Operation HeartOctober 22, 1967 8.3The IMF races against time to convince the president of a small country that his chief of secret police plans to overthrow the government an
  8. S02E08Mission: Impossible S02E08The Money MachineOctober 29, 1967 7.7The economy of the small African country of Ghalea is threatened by a mass counterfeiting scheme directed by Walter DuBruis, one of the coun
  9. S02E09Mission: Impossible S02E09The SealNovember 5, 1967 8.0America's relations with Kuala Rokat, a small neutral country on the China-India border, are threatened when a priceless national treasure,
  10. S02E10Mission: Impossible S02E10CharityNovember 12, 1967 8.3The fraudulent international activities of Gerald and Catherine Hagar, professional fund raisers for charity, take the IMF to an estate on t
  11. S02E11Mission: Impossible S02E11The Council (1)November 19, 1967 7.3Jim Phelps leads the IMF on an assignment to destroy the syndicate, a criminal empire headed by Frank Wayne.
  12. S02E12Mission: Impossible S02E12The Council (2)November 26, 1967 8.0The IMF continues its fight against organized crime.
  13. S02E13Mission: Impossible S02E13The AstrologerDecember 3, 1967 7.0The IMF accepts a critical mission to rescue Nikolai Kurzon, the leader-in-exile of the Baltic state of Veyska who has been kidnapped by Col
  14. S02E14Mission: Impossible S02E14Echo of YesterdayDecember 10, 1967 8.7The resurgence of neo-Nazism in Germany takes the IMF to Bavaria, where Marcus von Frank threatens to become a second Hitler.
  15. S02E15Mission: Impossible S02E15The PhotographerDecember 17, 1967 9.0The imagination of the IMF is put to the test when a massive spy ring in the U.S. headed by fashion photographer, David Redding, threatens t
  16. S02E16Mission: Impossible S02E16The SpyJanuary 7, 1968 7.7NATO's missile defense system plans, mapped on two separate overlays for security reasons, are the target of a Central European spy organiza
  17. S02E17Mission: Impossible S02E17A Game of ChessJanuary 14, 1968 8.3Recovering a million dollars in gold bullion is the job of the IMF.
  18. S02E18Mission: Impossible S02E18The EmeraldJanuary 21, 1968 7.3The IMF is assigned to recover microfilm plans for manipulating international gold reserves.
  19. S02E19Mission: Impossible S02E19The CondemnedJanuary 28, 1968 6.3Jim Phelps comes to the aid of a personal friend.
  20. S02E20Mission: Impossible S02E20The CounterfeiterFebruary 4, 1968 7.0Destroying a drug ring is the task of the IMF.
  21. S02E21Mission: Impossible S02E21The TownFebruary 18, 1968 4.7IMF leader Jim Phelps is marked for murder.
  22. S02E22Mission: Impossible S02E22The KillingFebruary 28, 1968 4.7The IMF sets out to destroy a murder-for-hire organization.
  23. S02E23Mission: Impossible S02E23The PhoenixMarch 3, 1968 7.3The IMF foils the attempts of a once-powerful communist to regain power.
  24. S02E24Mission: Impossible S02E24Trial by FuryMarch 10, 1968 7.3The IMF goes to the aid of a friendly South American government which has been overthrown by revolutionaries.
  25. S02E25Mission: Impossible S02E25RecoveryMarch 17, 1968 8.3The IMF takes the task of recovering a secret fail-safe device.

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode25Episodes1968–69Aired 7.1Season avg
  1. S03E01Mission: Impossible S03E01The Heir ApparentSeptember 29, 1968 8.3Cinnamon must pose as a long-lost princess to trick a scheming general into using her to try and take over his country.
  2. S03E02Mission: Impossible S03E02The Contender (1)October 6, 1968 3.7The Impossible Missions Force is assigned to knock out a boxing syndicate which fixes fights to create favorable odds for a bookmaking opera
  3. S03E03Mission: Impossible S03E03The Contender (2)October 13, 1968 4.0Barney poses as a fighter making his comeback, who boxes his way to a title bout with Staczek in the second half of a two-part episode.
  4. S03E04Mission: Impossible S03E04The MercenariesOctober 27, 1968 9.0The Impossible Missions Force enters Equatorial Africa to crush an army of mercenaries, led by a self-styled colonel, and to return plundere
  5. S03E05Mission: Impossible S03E05The ExecutionNovember 10, 1968 9.0Not knowing when, where or how a dangerous adversary will strike, Jim Phelps and Cinnamon use themselves as human quarries.
  6. S03E06Mission: Impossible S03E06The CardinalNovember 17, 1968 8.8An army commander plots to become dictator by imprisoning an influential cardinal and using a look-alike actor for a public endorsement.
  7. S03E07Mission: Impossible S03E07The ElixirNovember 24, 1968 4.8The Impossible Missions Force offers a "fountain of youth" to the vain and dictatorial widow of the late president of a small South American
  8. S03E08Mission: Impossible S03E08The DiplomatDecember 1, 1968 7.0A playboy diplomat romances a colleague's wife, a decoy in an IMF plan to foil enemy operatives.
  9. S03E09Mission: Impossible S03E09The PlayDecember 8, 1968 7.3With Phelps and Rollin as the leading men, the Impossible Missions Force stages an anti-American play which could prove to be a strong propa
  10. S03E10Mission: Impossible S03E10The BargainDecember 15, 1968 8.3The former dictator of a Caribbean island is made to have hallucinatory visions in which he sees his ominous destiny as part of an ingenious
  11. S03E11Mission: Impossible S03E11The FreezeDecember 22, 1968 7.5Before a statute of limitations expires on a 10-million dollar robbery, the Impossible Missions Force must spring the suspect from prison an
  12. S03E12Mission: Impossible S03E12Season's bestThe ExchangeJanuary 5, 1969 9.3Cinnamon is captured and the enemy discovers the one thing that would unmask her identity and expose the Impossible Mission Force.
  13. S03E13Mission: Impossible S03E13The Mind of Stefan MiklosJanuary 12, 1969 8.0The team must convince the Other Side's top intelligence officer, Stefan Miklos, that his legitimate contact is feeding him accurate informa
  14. S03E14Mission: Impossible S03E14The Test CaseJanuary 19, 1969 8.5The Impossible Missions Force must end the murderous career of a bacteriologist working for the enemy, who has succeeded in developing a mut
  15. S03E15Mission: Impossible S03E15The SystemJanuary 26, 1969 7.8The Impossible Missions Force sets out to persuade the trusted henchman of a crime syndicate leader to testify against his boss.
  16. S03E16Mission: Impossible S03E16The Glass CageFebruary 2, 1969 7.8An electronically guarded prison confronts the Impossible Missions Force when it tries to free a political prisoner from an escape-proof gla
  17. S03E17Mission: Impossible S03E17DoomsdayFebruary 16, 1969 6.8When an unscrupulous manufacturer risks World War III by offering a hydrogen bomb for sale, the Impossible Missions Force enters the bidding
  18. S03E18Mission: Impossible S03E18Live BaitFebruary 23, 1969 6.5The Impossible Missions Force invades the intricate world of spies to protect an American double agent and comes up against a human time bom
  19. S03E19Mission: Impossible S03E19The Bunker (1)March 2, 1969 8.0The IMF races a paid killer who is stalking a nuclear scientist forced by the enemy to work on a device that could upset the world power bal
  20. S03E20Mission: Impossible S03E20The Bunker (2)March 9, 1969 8.5While trying to free a nuclear scientist and his wife from enemy hands, the IMF is trapped when a would-be assassin takes over one of Rollin
  21. S03E21Mission: Impossible S03E21NitroMarch 23, 1969 5.3The IMF find themselves only a second away from eternity when they intercept a nitroglycerine expert who plans to blow up the government hou
  22. S03E22Mission: Impossible S03E22NicoleMarch 30, 1969 5.5Phelps jeopardizes a vital IMF plan when he falls in love with a beautiful double agent.
  23. S03E23Mission: Impossible S03E23The VaultApril 6, 1969 6.4A corrupt Latin American official plots to loot his own country of $40,000,000 with the connivance of the IMF.
  24. S03E24Mission: Impossible S03E24IllusionApril 13, 1969 6.4Cinnamon and Rollin become cabaret performers in a plot to get a deranged man to fall in love with Cinnamon, then kill her.
  25. S03E25Mission: Impossible S03E25The InterrogatorApril 20, 1969 5.2In a bold experiment with a man's mind, the IMF blanks out an enemy agent's memory, then sets out to make him think he is someone else.

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season04Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode26Episodes1969–70Aired 7.0Season avg
  1. S04E01Mission: Impossible S04E01The CodeSeptember 28, 1969 6.8The IMF cracks a vital code when Paris hijacks a plane to allow the enemy to capture a passenger carrying a message.
  2. S04E02Mission: Impossible S04E02The Numbers Game (aka The Key)October 5, 1969 7.6Closed-circuit TV simulates the opening of World War III as the IMF tries to prevent a dictator's return to power.
  3. S04E03Mission: Impossible S04E03The Controllers (1)October 12, 1969 7.6A mind-controlling drug that could enslave mankind is the threat in this two-part adventure. Phelps poses as a defecting scientist to destro
  4. S04E04Mission: Impossible S04E04The Controllers (2)October 19, 1969 8.2Jim Phelps lets himself be framed for murder in a scheme to discredit a scientist who has developed a mind-destroying drug in the second of
  5. S04E05Mission: Impossible S04E05Fool's GoldOctober 26, 1969 7.8Paris must pierce an ultrasonic barrier to reach counterfeit money plates before they are used to ruin a friendly country.
  6. S04E06Mission: Impossible S04E06CommandanteNovember 2, 1969 7.8To free an imprisoned priest whose life is at stake, Jim Phelps poses as a missionary, Paris becomes a Chinese general and Barney builds a h
  7. S04E07Mission: Impossible S04E07The Double CircleNovember 9, 1969 8.0The IMF sets out to prevent destruction of a secret formula vital to America's missile defense system.
  8. S04E08Mission: Impossible S04E08Season's bestSubmarineNovember 16, 1969 8.8To locate a hoard of stolen money, the IMF takes the one man who knows its hiding place on a bizarre submarine voyage.
  9. S04E09Mission: Impossible S04E09RobotNovember 23, 1969 7.6Assumed identities and a robot figure in the IMF's plan to foil a leader with hopes of becoming a dictator.
  10. S04E10Mission: Impossible S04E10MastermindNovember 30, 1969 6.2In a battle with organized crime, the IMF sets up a bizarre mind-transfer experiment to convince a syndicate leader he is being double-cross
  11. S04E11Mission: Impossible S04E11The BrothersDecember 7, 1969 7.8The IMF turns itself into a surgical team to operate on a tyrannical ruler who has imprisoned the rightful king, his twin brother.
  12. S04E12Mission: Impossible S04E12Time BombDecember 14, 1969 8.0Phelps poses as a temperamental artist to create a diversion while the team races to prevent a threatened nuclear explosion.
  13. S04E13Mission: Impossible S04E13The AmnesiacDecember 21, 1969 5.2As a doctor with a startling new treatment for amnesia, Jim Phelps forces Paris to relive another man's past when the IMF pushes a search fo
  14. S04E14Mission: Impossible S04E14The Falcon (1)January 4, 1970 7.6The IMF plans to stop a tyrant from marrying a member of the royal family and taking over a friendly monarchy in the first of a three-part e
  15. S04E15Mission: Impossible S04E15The Falcon (2)January 11, 1970 8.2Barney is blinded in an accident, a bride-to-be is buried alive and Paris poses as a man he is unaware is marked for death in the second of
  16. S04E16Mission: Impossible S04E16The Falcon (3)January 18, 1970 8.2A trained falcon is summoned in a last-ditch rescue attempt when Jim Phelps finds his IMF endangered by a traitor's assassination plot in th
  17. S04E17Mission: Impossible S04E17ChicoJanuary 25, 1970 6.4Rare coins, a priceless stamp collection and a trained dog figure in the IMF's plan to retrieve a list of undercover narcotics agents.
  18. S04E18Mission: Impossible S04E18Gitano (aka Toys)February 1, 1970 6.2The IMF hides a young prince from assassins by disguising him as a gypsy girl, then Paris sets out to betray the boy to his pursuers.
  19. S04E19Mission: Impossible S04E19PhantomsFebruary 8, 1970 4.6To fight an aging dictator's purge of young artists, an IMF member becomes a ghost and Paris assumes the guise of a man long dead.
  20. S04E20Mission: Impossible S04E20TerrorFebruary 15, 1970 6.4To calm a Middle East trouble spot, the IMF tries to keep a man in prison long enough to make it look as though he is trying to break out.
  21. S04E21Mission: Impossible S04E21Lover's KnotFebruary 22, 1970 6.0In the midst of delicate operations to identify the chief of an espionage ring, Jim Phelps suspects that Paris has fallen in love with an en
  22. S04E22Mission: Impossible S04E22OrpheusMarch 1, 1970 6.2Jim Phelps assumes a risky pose as a drug addict with information to sell to get behind the Iron Curtain where he seeks to stop an unknown a
  23. S04E23Mission: Impossible S04E23The CraneMarch 8, 1970 7.4After rescuing a prisoner from execution by a dictator, the IMF has to find a hiding place so conspicuous it will be overlooked by police hu
  24. S04E24Mission: Impossible S04E24Death SquadMarch 15, 1970 6.6Jim Phelps leads the IMF to aid one of its own members when Barney is arrested and marked for execution by a sadistic police chief.
  25. S04E25Mission: Impossible S04E25The ChoiceMarch 22, 1970 5.0Paris impersonates a power-mad mystic trying to win control of a friendly country by hypnotizing its female ruler.
  26. S04E26Mission: Impossible S04E26The MartyrMarch 29, 1970 5.4To keep a student congress from being used as a rubber stamp by a repressive premier, the IMF sets Phelps up for capture so he can betray Pa

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season05Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode23Episodes1970–71Aired 7.1Season avg
  1. S05E01Mission: Impossible S05E01The KillerSeptember 19, 1970 8.2The IMF goes after a hitman who never misses... and does everything randomly, making him impossible to anticipate.
  2. S05E02Mission: Impossible S05E02Flip SideSeptember 26, 1970 7.4Dana and Paris infiltrate an international drug ring headed by a ruthless man.
  3. S05E03Mission: Impossible S05E03Season's bestThe InnocentOctober 3, 1970 8.6The IMF enlists a non-cooperative young computer genius who has "dropped-out" of society, but is desperately needed by the IMF to complete t
  4. S05E04Mission: Impossible S05E04HomecomingOctober 10, 1970 6.4Phelps returns to his hometown on personal business, only to find his once happy surroundings in a state of panic caused by a mysterious ser
  5. S05E05Mission: Impossible S05E05FlightOctober 17, 1970 8.0A rebellious Caribbean government official plans to take over his country by having his president assassinated while in the United States to
  6. S05E06Mission: Impossible S05E06My Friend, My EnemyOctober 24, 1970 8.0Paris is caught by enemy agents who had recognized as an IMF team member. The operatives implant a device in Paris' brain to control him and
  7. S05E07Mission: Impossible S05E07ButterflyOctober 31, 1970 6.8Dana places her life in danger as the IMF tries to prove an American businessman innocent of the murder of his Japanese wife.
  8. S05E08Mission: Impossible S05E08DecoyNovember 7, 1970 7.2Phelps falls in love with a woman that the IMF have been assigned to bring out of an iron curtain country over the seemingly insurmountable
  9. S05E09Mission: Impossible S05E09The AmateurNovember 14, 1970 6.4Before the IMF can get the prototype of an Iron Curtain country's secret weapon to the United States, part of the weapon falls into the hand
  10. S05E10Mission: Impossible S05E10HuntedNovember 21, 1970 8.0While rescuing an imprisoned patriot, Barney is critically wounded and must be left behind in order for the IMF to complete their mission.
  11. S05E11Mission: Impossible S05E11The RebelNovember 28, 1970 7.6Phelps poses as an archeology professor and Dana as one of his graduate students, as the IMF goes to the aid of a group of young guerilla fi
  12. S05E12Mission: Impossible S05E12Squeeze PlayDecember 12, 1970 6.2A leading illegal supplier of heroin is dying of cancer and is about to designate a successor and turn over to him the only known list conta
  13. S05E13Mission: Impossible S05E13The HostageDecember 19, 1970 8.0Paris, still in his cover from a completed mission, is kidnapped and held hostage by a group of treacherous revolutionists.
  14. S05E14Mission: Impossible S05E14TakeoverJanuary 2, 1971 6.8A political boss hires a professional provocateur to stage a violent protest, in a maneuver to discredit his state's governor and elevate hi
  15. S05E15Mission: Impossible S05E15Cat's PawJanuary 9, 1971 4.6An underworld leader with links to a police precinct chief is the object of Barney's brother's newspaper crusade.
  16. S05E16Mission: Impossible S05E16The MissileJanuary 16, 1971 5.0The team's efforts to palm off a fake guidance system on an enemy agent are threatened when a psychotic killer abducts Dana.
  17. S05E17Mission: Impossible S05E17The FieldJanuary 23, 1971 8.0The IMF is assigned to destroy a satellite containing thermonuclear bombs that have been launched by a hostile power as a means for internat
  18. S05E18Mission: Impossible S05E18BlastJanuary 30, 1971 8.0The IMF team infiltrates a revolutionary group which commits robberies to finance plans to overthrow the American government.
  19. S05E19Mission: Impossible S05E19The CatafalqueFebruary 6, 1971 6.2With the threat of another off-shore missile crisis and perhaps a confrontation that could lead to war, the IMF is called upon to expose a n
  20. S05E20Mission: Impossible S05E20KitaraFebruary 20, 1971 7.8The IMF is called upon to free John Darcy, the leader of a liberation movement in West Africa, and end the tyrannical rule of his captor, Co
  21. S05E21Mission: Impossible S05E21A Ghost StoryFebruary 27, 1971 5.6A deceased defector's body must be recovered since it contains the only sample of a deadly nerve gas.
  22. S05E22Mission: Impossible S05E22The PartyMarch 6, 1971 7.2The whereabouts of a list of enemy agents operating in the United States is locked in the memory of a captured spy, Col. Vanin, and no one,
  23. S05E23Mission: Impossible S05E23The MerchantMarch 17, 1971 7.2An arms dealer concocts a plan to supply American arms captured in Vietnam to guerrilla groups in Africa and the Middle East.

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

Season06Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode22Episodes1971–72Aired 7.2Season avg
  1. S06E01Mission: Impossible S06E01BlindSeptember 18, 1971 7.4An FBI man is blinded while investigating a crime syndicate attempting to take over a large chemical plant. Jim Phelps undergoes a delicate
  2. S06E02Mission: Impossible S06E02EncoreSeptember 25, 1971 4.8The team must convince an aging mobster he is back in the 1930s to get evidence to close an unsolved case.
  3. S06E03Mission: Impossible S06E03The TramOctober 2, 1971 8.0The leaders of two underworld factions call a top-level meeting at a ski resort to set up a financial holding company capable of hiding mill
  4. S06E04Mission: Impossible S06E04MindbendOctober 9, 1971 8.0To help the IMF team break up a crime syndicate that specializes in brainwashing ex-convicts into committing political assassinations, Barne
  5. S06E05Mission: Impossible S06E05Shape-UpOctober 16, 1971 5.6The IMF sets out to stop two crime bosses extorting huge sums from every ship docking at a west coast port.
  6. S06E06Mission: Impossible S06E06The MiracleOctober 23, 1971 7.2An undercover agent is murdered while trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment in the Pacific Northwest, and the IMF team is called to tak
  7. S06E07Mission: Impossible S06E07EncounterOctober 30, 1971 7.6Casey becomes an assassin's target when she attempts to get information from a mobster's alcoholic wife on his involvement in an intimidatio
  8. S06E08Mission: Impossible S06E08Season's bestUnderwaterNovember 6, 1971 8.4Stolen gems worth seventy-five million dollars are scheduled to be fenced to an underworld figure. After they suddenly disappear and the shi
  9. S06E09Mission: Impossible S06E09InvasionNovember 13, 1971 7.6The IMF must retrieve material on America's nuclear arsenal, which a defense expert sold to a foreign power.
  10. S06E10Mission: Impossible S06E10BluesNovember 20, 1971 6.2Barney poses as a prospective rock-music recording artist to get evidence linking an organized crime figurehead to the sudden death of a bea
  11. S06E11Mission: Impossible S06E11The VisitorsNovember 27, 1971 8.4The team stages an alien visit to influence a communications magnate who has sold a majority of his empire to the underworld.
  12. S06E12Mission: Impossible S06E12NervesDecember 4, 1971 7.2A psychotic ex-convict plans to get revenge on society with nerve gas.
  13. S06E13Mission: Impossible S06E13Run for the MoneyDecember 11, 1971 7.4Two gangsters attempt to gain control of all the illegal betting parlors in the country as well as a virtual takeover of all thoroughbred ho
  14. S06E14Mission: Impossible S06E14The ConnectionDecember 18, 1971 7.0Jim Phelps and his IMF team are given the assignment of breaking an underworld ring attempting to set up one of the world's largest drug man
  15. S06E15Mission: Impossible S06E15The BrideJanuary 1, 1972 7.2Casey poses as a young peasant girl from Europe imported to be the bride of Joe Corvin, the top man at getting underworld millions into Swis
  16. S06E16Mission: Impossible S06E16Stone PillowJanuary 8, 1972 7.2An imprisoned private detective knows the location of a film roll that incriminates a mobster in murder.
  17. S06E17Mission: Impossible S06E17ImageJanuary 15, 1972 5.8Barney assumes the identity of a powerful psychic from a Caribbean island kingdom in order to trick a crime syndicate leader into revealing
  18. S06E18Mission: Impossible S06E18CommittedJanuary 22, 1972 8.0Nora Dawson, a witness to a murder, is committed to an asylum and is being systematically driven out of her mind with drugs when the IMF tea
  19. S06E19Mission: Impossible S06E19Bag WomanJanuary 29, 1972 8.2Posing as a "bag woman" for a crooked politician, Casey unknowingly carries an attached case locked to her wrist filled with both money and
  20. S06E20Mission: Impossible S06E20Double DeadFebruary 12, 1972 7.6Gangsters running a loan-shark racket in Hawaii short-circuit the IMF team's plan when they capture Willy and inject him with truth serum.
  21. S06E21Mission: Impossible S06E21CasinoFebruary 19, 1972 8.2The IMF is sent to gather sufficient evidence on a former hoodlum to force him to testify against mobsters.
  22. S06E22Mission: Impossible S06E22TrappedFebruary 26, 1972 5.6The impossible mission this time is to recover the multi-million dollar booty stolen by a family of smugglers. But when the action gets hot,

Season 6 ranked & reviewed

Season07Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode22Episodes1972–73Aired 7.0Season avg
  1. S07E01Mission: Impossible S07E01Break!September 16, 1972 7.4With the aid of Barney's electronic wizardry, Phelps takes on the guise of a hot-shot pool hustler to break up an illegal gambling operation
  2. S07E02Mission: Impossible S07E02Two ThousandSeptember 23, 1972 8.2The IMF dupes a scientist who stole plutonium into thinking he is a prisoner in the year 2000.
  3. S07E03Mission: Impossible S07E03The DealSeptember 30, 1972 7.4Phelps and Barney pose as foreign military officials to find $5 million earmarked to finance a coup.
  4. S07E04Mission: Impossible S07E04LeonaOctober 7, 1972 6.6To free an undercover agent, the IMF must convince a mob boss that his late wife had an affair with a rival.
  5. S07E05Mission: Impossible S07E05TOD-5 (aka The Carrier)October 14, 1972 8.0To locate a terrorist ring called Alpha Group, the IMF convinces turncoat intelligence agent Gordon Holt that he's been exposed to the stole
  6. S07E06Mission: Impossible S07E06CocaineOctober 21, 1972 7.0A drug dealer becomes the unwitting dupe of the Impossible Missions Force in their plan to capture the largest shipment of cocaine ever brou
  7. S07E07Mission: Impossible S07E07UndergroundOctober 28, 1972 6.8To locate several hundred million dollars in illegal gambling funds, Phelps poses as a murderer to infiltrate a gang that specializes in spi
  8. S07E08Mission: Impossible S07E08MovieNovember 4, 1972 6.0Phelps poses as the head of a Hollywood movie studio intent on making a motion picture that parallels exactly the unsolved murder committed
  9. S07E09Mission: Impossible S07E09HitNovember 11, 1972 6.8Phelps poses as a government investigator who must work through a crooked district attorney to prove that a crime syndicate boss killed his
  10. S07E10Mission: Impossible S07E10Season's bestUltimatumNovember 18, 1972 8.4The IMF must stop a rogue scientist, who has threatened to set off a huge hydrogen bomb unless certain members of Congress step down and for
  11. S07E11Mission: Impossible S07E11KidnapDecember 2, 1972 7.8Phelps is kidnapped and held for ransom until Barney, Casey and Willy can steal an incriminating letter from a safe deposit box and turn it
  12. S07E12Mission: Impossible S07E12Crack-UpDecember 9, 1972 7.8To trap an ingenious criminal and his boss, the IMF team must convince a man he is going insane.
  13. S07E13Mission: Impossible S07E13The PuppetDecember 22, 1972 7.4A crime syndicate boss becomes the target of the IMF when he launches a mysterious one hundred million dollar scheme.
  14. S07E14Mission: Impossible S07E14IncarnateJanuary 5, 1973 5.4A superstitious criminal escapes to a Caribbean country and is drawn into a voodoo ceremony by the IMF to locate a cache of stolen gold she
  15. S07E15Mission: Impossible S07E15BoomerangJanuary 12, 1973 7.0Both the IMF and the underworld pursue a crime lord's wife who stole her husband's syndicate records after having him killed.
  16. S07E16Mission: Impossible S07E16The QuestionJanuary 19, 1973 8.2Only an IMF agent can learn whether a spy is truly defecting to the West.
  17. S07E17Mission: Impossible S07E17The FountainJanuary 26, 1973 5.8An underworld figure with access to the syndicate's top secret computerized records is convinced by the IMF that he has found the fountain o
  18. S07E18Mission: Impossible S07E18The FighterFebruary 9, 1973 7.2A boxing promoter tied to a crime syndicate becomes a target of the IMF when one of his fighters is killed before he can talk to the police.
  19. S07E19Mission: Impossible S07E19SpeedFebruary 16, 1973 7.0A breathtaking motorcycle chase over the hills of San Francisco figures prominently in the IMF's plan to recover three tons of the drug comm
  20. S07E20Mission: Impossible S07E20The PendulumFebruary 23, 1973 6.0A secret terrorist organization known as the Pendulum plans a major attack on the government that the Impossible Missions Force is assigned
  21. S07E21Mission: Impossible S07E21The WesternMarch 2, 1973 6.8The IMF must make a thief believe he is clairvoyant as part of a scheme to recover $5 million in stolen artworks.
  22. S07E22Mission: Impossible S07E22ImitationMarch 30, 1973 5.8The beautiful leader of a band of jewel thieves falls in love with Barney, who has infiltrated her operation to recover the stolen crown jew

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