Jim Phelps is the head of a super-secret government agency ("Impossible Missions"), and is often given secret anonymous covert missions to attempt; quite often they are unmasking of criminals or the rescuing of hostages. He picks his team depending on which tasks need to be done. One thing is vital on an Impossible Mission: the mission must be carried out in entire secrecy, often relying on high-tech equipment and elaborate deceptions.
Episodes:
#1- Pilot
A foreign power has given the tiny island nation of Santa Costa two nuclear warheads. Santa Costa's anti-American ruler General Dominguez plans to use the devices soon against the U.S. The IMF must devise a plan to enter the vault, retrieve the warheads, and escape the country. The plan goes well, until ill fortune leaves safecracker Terry Targo with broken hands. Now Dan Briggs must draw on Targo's expert knowledge and take his place.
#2- Memory
Behind the Iron Curtain, Janos Karq tries to foment war, and he seems likely to succeed. As a matter of policy, assassination is off the table, so the IMF must devise a way to discredit Karq so that his own people will neutralize him. To do this, they enlist the aid of a master of memory, Joseph Baresh, who memorizes the details of an agent called “Sparrow.” Chief of Security Dmitri Soska has long sought Sparrow, so the IMF arranges for him to capture Sparrow – their own Sparrow. He will reveal that Karq has given him orders, suggesting Karq is a traitor. To lend authenticity, the IMF stages a rescue attempt planned to fail – and when Steven Briggs discovers that Baresh has managed to memorize Karq’s own list of agents, he realizes that he can’t chance waiting for diplomats to arrange a trade for Baresh – he must add a rescue to the plan!
#3= Operation Rogash
Imry Rogosh, a freelance mass murderer working to cause political anarchy, has been spotted in the U.S. The IMF must break him and find out what his plan is, and set off an elaborate scheme to convince Rogosh he's been in a coma for three years, and his employers' country has taken over the U.S. after his murder plan succeeded. Now they plan to execute him as an American agent unless he can prove what his plan was.
#4- Old Man Out(Part 1)
The IMF must break the elderly resistance leader Anton Cardinal Vossek out of the impenetrable Seravno Prison. To get Vossek out, Rollin must let himself be captured and put in the prison.
#5- Old Man Out(Part 2)
When Vossek is transferred to a guarded solitary confinement cell, Briggs must alter the IMF's rescue plan... and get word to the imprisoned Rollin.
#6- Odds on Evil
The IMF must break the bank at the casino of Prince Kostas, who plans to use his ill-gotten gains to buy arms for an attack on a neighboring country.
#7- Wheels
The IMF must stop the Nationalist party of Valaria from rigging the elections and establishing a terrorist dictatorship. To un-rig the machines, they have to sneak into police headquarters... but Barney is shot in the back during their first attempt.
#8- The Ransom
Gangster Frank Egan kidnaps the daughter of Dan's friend and forces the IMF leader to get a key witness out of police protection. Dan assembles the team and plays along... well aware that Egan will double-cross him no matter what.
#9- A Spool there Was
Rollin and Cinnamon have to go undercover to recover a wire reel with vital information. To trace the path of the dead agent who hid it, Rollin must place his own life in danger and recreate the incident.
#10- The Carriers
The IMF is sent to infiltrate an organization that plans to unleash 200 agents unwittingly infected with a deadly plague on an unsuspecting U.S. Barney, Cinnamon, Rollin, and bacteriologist Roger Lee end up in an enemy camp that trains agents to be "real" Americans and they must destroy the bacteria without revealing that it was deliberately destroyed.
#11- Zubrovniks Ghost
Dr. Martha Richards married a scientist, Kurt Zubrovnik, who subsequently died in a lab fire. It's one year later and a psychic working for a foreign power is trying to convince Martha that her husband's ghost wants her to defect. Barney and Rollin team up with a psychic consultant and go in as psychic investigators to stop Poljac... but a real ghost may be at work.
#12- Fakeout
The IMF must lure Ted Carson, head of the International Narcotics Syndicate, out of the country he's hiding in, and into a neighboring one where the U.S. has an extradition treaty.
#13- Elena
Rollin and an IMF psychiatrist are sent in to evaluate Elena, an agent in a foreign government helping the U.S. to prevent her country's takeover. Elena has recently sent the U.S. government a copy of her country's own defense plans, and Rollin must determine the reason for her actions... or an assassin will kill her.
#14- The Short Tail Spy
The IMF must intervene when two of an enemy country's espionage groups vie to see who can assassinate a defecting scientist. The team must assure that the older group, lead by Shtemenko, rises to power by discrediting the younger assassin, Fetyukov, while making sure the scientist isn't killed.
#15- The Legacy
The sons of four Nazis who have never met are brought together with pieces that will lead them to a treasure. Rollin must infiltrate the group and pass himself off as one of the members so that they can secretly get hold of the pieces and locate the treasure before the others.
#16- The Reluctant Dragon
Rollin and Barney go behind the Iron Curtain to help a scientist, Dr. Cherlotov, defect, as he failed in his first attempt to escape with his wife. But it becomes clear that Cherlotov isn't interested in escaping, so the IMF must show him what his government is really like then get him out.
#17- The Frame
Syndicate head Jack Wellman is killing politicians in "accidents" and replacing them with men easier on organized crime. The IMF must discredit him by showing his partners that Wellman is stealing their money and hiding it in his bedroom safe... when he hasn't.
#18- The Trial
Josef Varsh, East European prosecutor and head of the secret police, plans to frame an American then stage a show trial so he can discredit the West and gain more power for himself. The IMF must stop Varsh and discredit him for good.
#19- The Diamond
A dictator, Prime Minister Henrik Durvard, has taken a rare diamond from a local tribe and plans to use it to finance his operations. The team rig up an elaborate fake diamond-duplicating machine to convince Durvard to give them the original.
#20- The Legend
Dan and Cinnamon must infiltrate an enclave of Nazis in South America... where it turns out that Martin Bormann and his loyal secretary Frederick Rudd are planning a resurgence of the Third Reich.
#21- Snowball in Hell
A former prison guard, Gerard Sefra, has acquired an unstable explosive that is sensitive to high temperatures. He stores it at the prison he once worked at and the IMF have to cause a breakdown in the refrigerator unit to get him to move it to a hospital where they can make the switch.
#22- The Confession
A Russian trade delegate assassinates a U.S. Senator, infuriating businessman R.J. McMillan and his followers. But the IMF has to determine who really killed Townsend, and McMillan is the primary suspect.
#23- Action!
An Iron Curtain propaganda expert, Miklos Klaar, combines real footage of American soldiers with his excellently crafted fake film of those soldiers killing innocent civilians. The IMF must destroy the film and discredit Klaar once and for all.
#24- The Train
An ailing prime minister's successor, Milos Pavel, plans to conduct a bloody purge once his leader has died. The prime minister will hear nothing against Pavel and the IMF must convince Larya that Pavel plans to become a dictator after his death.
#25- Shock
Enemy agent Peter Kiri has kidnapped American envoy Carl Wilson and replaced him with an impostor, Gort. Kiri plans to have Gort kill the American Undersecretary and frame Wilson, so a disguised Dan takes Gort's place while the team put Gort in a fake mental institute and convince him he's an accountant who thinks he's a secret agent, so he'll tell them Kiri's plan.
#26- A Cube of Sugar
Jazz singer and undercover U.S. agent Vincent Deane has been captured by a Eastern Europe government, while holding a microcircuit with valuable information. The microcircuit is hidden in a cube of sugar but the main interrogator, Brobin, hasn't found it yet. The IMF must get Deane and the microcircuit out before Brobin breaks Deane.
#27- The Traitor
The IMF must discredit an American intelligence officer who has defected and taken vital coded information with him. Rollin must infiltrate the embassy where Hughes is located, pretending to be a cryptographer, while IMF agent Tina Mara must slip through the ventilator shafts, get the information from a high-security vault, and make it appear that the defector has slipped out of the embassy to receive payment for his betrayal.
#28- The Psychic
Alex Lowell has acquired controlling interest in a company that manufactures U.S. defense hardware and plans to sell the patents. The IMF must stop Lowell from selling the patents and trick him into losing control of the company.
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