Mission: Impossible

1. S01E01Season's bestThe KillerOctober 23, 1988 8.3Jim Phelps comes out of retirement to head a new team... in the search for the man who killed his protege, an assassin who does everything r
2. S01E02The SystemOctober 30, 1988 8.0The team must convince a young mobster to turn evidence against the older mobster that he's partnered with.
3. S01E03HologramsNovember 6, 1988 7.8The team must lure a drug lord onto America territory--and ensure his arrest--by convincing him that his long-lost son is still alive.
4. S01E04The CondemnedNovember 20, 1988 7.0The team must clear the name of an American framed for a crime he didn't commit: Grant's father, and Jim's former teammate, Barney Collier.
5. S01E05The LegacyNovember 26, 1988 8.3The grandsons of four World War II Nazis come out of hiding to collect the cache of gold that their grandfathers hid... and Nicholas must go
6. S01E06The WallDecember 11, 1988 6.7An East German doctor convinces refugees that he can get them over the Berlin Wall and then sells them out to the local colonel.... and he k
7. S01E07The Cattle KingDecember 18, 1988 7.8The team goes after an Australian arms dealer and recruits the local Aborigine tribe to help them.
8. S01E08The PawnJanuary 15, 1989 7.7The team must get a defecting scientist and chess master out of Czechoslovakia in the middle of the world chess championships, under heavy g
9. S01E09The HauntingJanuary 28, 1989 6.0The team goes after a rich sociopath who has killed an Arabic princess. Now her father is threatening to pull out of an oil treaty unless hi
10. S01E10The LionsFebruary 4, 1989 7.7When the brother of a dead king sabotages the test his nephew must pass to become the new king, the IMF gets involved to make sure the boy h
11. S01E11The GreekFebruary 11, 1989 6.8The team goes after a Greek tycoon who uses his yacht to distribute illegally obtained drugs worldwide.
12. S01E12The FortuneFebruary 18, 1989 7.2The team takes on the ruthless wife of a dictator who is planning a return to power. The mission costs one team member their life.
13. S01E13The FixerFebruary 25, 1989 5.3The team takes on a crooked DC columnist who uses the information he gathers to blackmail and intimidate to gain what he wants.
14. S01E14SpyMarch 18, 1989 8.2The team goes up against an ex-MI6 agent selling chemical weapons. To stop him, Jim must team up with a KGB operative who he's battled in th
15. S01E15The DevilsMarch 25, 1989 7.5A British lord forms a fake Satanic coven and uses it to blackmail the high-ranking officials who participate. The team sets out to convince
16. S01E16The PlagueApril 8, 1989 7.7The IMF must recover a lethal bacteria from the black-market dealer who had it stolen.
17. S01E17ReprisalApril 15, 1989 8.2The team goes up against its most dangerous opponent: a former IMF scientist driven insane by a head injury, who plans to frame Jim for the
18. S01E18SubmarineApril 29, 1989 7.7The IMF goes after a crooked admiral who has engineered a computer virus that has already sunk one submarine.
19. S01E19BayouMay 6, 1989 7.7The IMF used voodoo to break up a white slavery ring in Louisiana,

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01Season's bestThe Golden Serpent (1)September 21, 1989 8.3The team goes after the Golden Serpent, an international opium-smuggling operation, with the help of their inside man... Grant's father, Bar
2. S02E02The Golden Serpent (2)September 28, 1989 7.8With Barney presumed dead, the IM team has no choice but to continue with their mission against the Golden Serpent, pitting the organization
3. S02E03The PrincessOctober 5, 1989 8.2The team goes after an assassin who is targeting a princess for death.
4. S02E04Command PerformanceOctober 12, 1989 8.0The IMF must rescue a dissident priest from a security tower and find a missing holy relic, all under the eye of the sadistic Defense Minist
5. S02E05CountdownOctober 26, 1989 7.2Grant goes undercover as a mercenary to convince a religious fanatic to lead him to the nuclear warhead that she plans to use against her co
6. S02E06War GamesNovember 2, 1989 7.3Shannon poses as an astrologer to get close to a East European general who plans to use war games as a cover to invade a neighboring country
7. S02E07Target EarthNovember 9, 1989 7.7After secretly murdering the lead pilot, terrorists take over a private space consortium... and Shannon is launched into space on a shuttle
8. S02E08The Fuehrer's ChildrenNovember 16, 1989 7.7Neo-Nazi leader Richard Kester plans to use a "secret weapon" to convince all other neo-Nazi organizations to elect him their world leader.
9. S02E09BansheeNovember 30, 1989 6.7An Irish arms dealer blows up a bus filled with old people to turn Republicans versus Nationalist and boost his arms sales, and the team put
10. S02E10For Art's SakeDecember 14, 1989 7.3Suave, debonair hotelier Daniel Travers is secretly an art thief. He steals a painting belonging to a foreign country, putting U.S. negotiat
11. S02E11Deadly HarvestJanuary 6, 1990 7.8Nicholas poses as a terrorist scientist who has undergone plastic surgery, to find the contaminated wheat seeds that the scientist's organiz
12. S02E12Cargo CultJanuary 13, 1990 5.7A ruthless criminal uses natives as slave labor to mine cyanide-laced gold, preying on their superstitions. The IMF has to out-superstition
13. S02E13The AssassinJanuary 20, 1990 8.0The team goes after someone who can program innocent people into assassins... and an undercover Nicholas ends up programmed to kill a nation
14. S02E14GunslingerFebruary 3, 1990 6.8Jim and the team take on a crooked ex-Congressman who is using his Old West tourist town as a cover to steal uranium for terrorists.
15. S02E15Church Bells in BogotaFebruary 10, 1990 6.5While going undercover to extradite a Columbian drug lord, Shannon is stricken with amnesia and falls in love with the drug lord's nephew.
16. S02E16The Sands of SethFebruary 24, 1990 6.6The IMF take on the curator of an Egyptian museum who wants to bring back Egypt's ancient past... with himself as Pharaoh.

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