The worst episodes of Mission: Impossible
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- 01
The Impossible Missions Force is assigned to knock out a boxing syndicate which fixes fights to create favorable odds for a bookmaking operation, in the first half of a two-part story.
- 02
Barney 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.
- 03
Double-agent Elena Del Barra is acting bizarrely, sending a microfilm of defense secrets from her own country. Rollin is sent into investigate, and return the microfilm without its theft ever being detected.
- 04
To 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.
- 05
An underworld leader with links to a police precinct chief is the object of Barney's brother's newspaper crusade.
- 06
IMF leader Jim Phelps is marked for murder.
- 07
The IMF sets out to destroy a murder-for-hire organization.
- 08
The Impossible Missions Force offers a "fountain of youth" to the vain and dictatorial widow of the late president of a small South American country in order to depose her.
- 09
The team must convince an aging mobster he is back in the 1930s to get evidence to close an unsolved case.
- 10
Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power.
- 11
Paris impersonates a power-mad mystic trying to win control of a friendly country by hypnotizing its female ruler.
- 12
The team's efforts to palm off a fake guidance system on an enemy agent are threatened when a psychotic killer abducts Dana.
- 13
In 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.
- 14
As 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 for stolen nuclear material.
- 15
The IMF find themselves only a second away from eternity when they intercept a nitroglycerine expert who plans to blow up the government house of a small country, thus provoking war with its neighbor nation.
- 16
To 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 Paris as a turncoat student leader.
- 17
A 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 has hidden away on US soil.
- 18
Phelps jeopardizes a vital IMF plan when he falls in love with a beautiful double agent.
- 19
A deceased defector's body must be recovered since it contains the only sample of a deadly nerve gas.
- 20
The IMF sets out to stop two crime bosses extorting huge sums from every ship docking at a west coast port.
- 21
The impossible mission this time is to recover the multi-million dollar booty stolen by a family of smugglers. But when the action gets hot, Jim sustains a head injury and wakes up with amnesia and nothing but a fake ID to tell him who he is.
- 22
The wife of a deceased scientist, Kurt Zubrovnik, is being pressured by Eastern forces to work for them.
- 23
Barney assumes the identity of a powerful psychic from a Caribbean island kingdom in order to trick a crime syndicate leader into revealing his secret list of government officials on the take.
- 24
An underworld figure with access to the syndicate's top secret computerized records is convinced by the IMF that he has found the fountain of youth.
- 25
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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