The essential episodes of Mission: Impossible
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Mission: Impossible — each pick states its reason.
- 01
IMF team leader Dan Briggs assembles his team for the first time. His team includes a master of disguise, a femme fatale, an electronics whiz, an incredibly strong man and a safecracker. Briggs will need all their skills to steal two atomic bombs from a hostile South American country.
- 02
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.
- 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
Cinnamon is captured and the enemy discovers the one thing that would unmask her identity and expose the Impossible Mission Force.
- 11
To locate a hoard of stolen money, the IMF takes the one man who knows its hiding place on a bizarre submarine voyage.
- 12
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.
- 13
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.
- 14
The IMF must stop a rogue scientist, who has threatened to set off a huge hydrogen bomb unless certain members of Congress step down and foreign policy is changed.
- 15
The beautiful leader of a band of jewel thieves falls in love with Barney, who has infiltrated her operation to recover the stolen crown jewels of a foreign nation.
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