The best episodes of Mission: Impossible
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- 01
The 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.
- 02
Cinnamon is captured and the enemy discovers the one thing that would unmask her identity and expose the Impossible Mission Force.
- 03
A 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.
- 04
The IMF team must rescue a U.S. intelligence operative who has top secret military plans on a microcircuit chip.
- 05
The Impossible Missions Force matches wits with a hijacker and a disloyal prison commandant.
- 06
The IMF is called upon to end an inhuman situation which the United Nations has been unable to abolish: slave trade in the country of Elkabar, ruled by King Ibn Borca.
- 07
The IMF continues to battle slave-trading in a Middle Eastern country by eliminating De Groot, one of the principal suppliers of victims for King Borca's slave market.
- 08
The 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 to cripple the country with a deadly pneumonic plague.
- 09
The Impossible Missions Force enters Equatorial Africa to crush an army of mercenaries, led by a self-styled colonel, and to return plundered gold to its rightful owners.
- 10
Not knowing when, where or how a dangerous adversary will strike, Jim Phelps and Cinnamon use themselves as human quarries.
- 11
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.
- 12
Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bacteriological warfare.
- 13
An army commander plots to become dictator by imprisoning an influential cardinal and using a look-alike actor for a public endorsement.
- 14
To locate a hoard of stolen money, the IMF takes the one man who knows its hiding place on a bizarre submarine voyage.
- 15
Henrik Durvard has taken over the country of Lombuanada 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.
- 16
An American intelligence officer, Hughes, has defected to the enemy with the only copy of an encoded top-secret message. The IMF must get to him, get him out, discredit him, and recover the message before the enemy can get a cryptographer.
- 17
A grave threat to national security is posed when an enemy agent kidnaps two of the three key scientists who collectively know the formula for the cobalt bomb.
- 18
The Impossible Missions Force is dispatched to Berlin's East Zone.
- 19
The resurgence of neo-Nazism in Germany takes the IMF to Bavaria, where Marcus von Frank threatens to become a second Hitler.
- 20
The IMF enlists a non-cooperative young computer genius who has "dropped-out" of society, but is desperately needed by the IMF to complete their assignment.
- 21
Imry 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 accident.
- 22
The Impossible Missions Force must end the murderous career of a bacteriologist working for the enemy, who has succeeded in developing a mutant strain of a deadly bacteria which could be used as a practical battlefield weapon.
- 23
While 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's disguises in Part 2.
- 24
Stolen gems worth seventy-five million dollars are scheduled to be fenced to an underworld figure. After they suddenly disappear and the ship on which they were being transported is blown up at sea, the IMF team is assigned to the case.
- 25
The team stages an alien visit to influence a communications magnate who has sold a majority of his empire to the underworld.
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