
Mission: Impossible
This 7-year series chronicled the adventures of the Impossible Mission Taskforce (IMF), a team of government spies and specialists who were assigned "impossible missions" by the unseen "Secretary". Although the cast varied over the years, the main characters included The Team Leader (Dan Briggs the first season, then Jim Phelps the other six), The Techno-Wizard (Barney Collier), The Strongman (Willy Armitage), The Master of Disguise (first Rollin Hand, then The Amazing Paris), and The Femme Fatale (Cinnamon Carter, Casey, Dana Lambert, Mimi Davis). The series is best known for its opening mission assignment (conducted by a pre-recorded tape), the leader's selection of mission agents from a dossier, the opening briefing, the intricate use of disguises and a typical "mask pulloff" scene near the end of most episodes, and the relative lack of characterization of the characters.
Jim Phelps is the new leader of the Impossible Missions Force, with no explanation, or even reference made, about the departure of predecessor Dan Briggs. First up for Phelps is a mission involving the drug trade. Cresnik and Walters have cornered the heroin market and sell it at a handsome profit to gangs around the world. Phelps devises an operation which will drive a wedge between the heroin dealers and their customers.
Jack Cole has been imprisoned for stealing the art treasures of a fictional Latin-American nation. The IMF's mission is to retrieve the objects, which won't be easy because the colonel running the prison wants to make Cole talk.
An enemy agent's kidnapped 2 scientists and their wives and is holding them in San Francisco. He wants a third scientist, who can help develop an ultimate weapon. Phelps devises a plan where he'll pose as the scientist being sought, whilst the rest of the IM force fakes an earthquake.
Belzig, head of a bank in East Berlin, tricks unwary people anxious to escape to the West that he can help them. Instead, he steals their money and kills them. He's amassing a fortune to launch a new Nazi movement. The mission for the IM force is to put him out of business.
The Impossible Missions Force takes on the absolute ruler of a Middle East nation who is running a secret slave market. Barney poses as a slave, part of an effort to construct a replica of the slave cells, before escaping. Phelps poses as a slave trader and Rollin as an Interpol investigator. Finally, Cinnamon will be the bait for the trap. The ruler of the country has a brother who married a British wife, Amara. The brother, if he assumed power, would abolish slavery in the country -- but he has accepted assurances that slavery doesn't exist there. As part of the plan, Willy abducts Amara and she is put in the IMF replica of the slave cell.
Phelps & Co. continue their plan to smash the renegade slavery operation of the absolute ruler of a Middle Eastern nation. Phelps, posing as a slave trader, works his way into the confidence of the ruler. In that role, Phelps "sells" Cinnamon into slavery. Meanwhile, the rest of the IMF team is preparing to pull a switch that will force the ruler's brother to confront the situation and force the end of slavery in his nation.
Cinnamon poses as the wife of an archaeologist with a serious heart condition. He needs to be rescued, and an assassination plot needs to be foiled.
The economy of the fictional African country of Ghalea is threatened by a vast counterfeiting scheme directed by Walter DuBruis, one of the country's richest financiers. The IMF is tasked with ending his scheme to ruin the economy.
Taggert, a U.S. industrialist, has acquired a jade figure, which has great religious significance to Kuala Rokat. That nation is a small but strategically located nation which borders China. Taggert's acquisition threatens to undo years of sensitive U.S. diplomacy but there is no legal way to force him to give the figure back. Phelps devises a plan which, among other things, calls for causing havoc with Taggert's mainframe computer, Rollin impersonating an academic from Kuala Rokat and using a highly trained cat in getting the jade away from Taggert.
The IMF is on a mission to bust a bogus charity run by a married couple called the Hagars who pocket the money donated by people who have been duped into believing the donations are going to help disabled children.
Top mob leader Frank Wayne's criminal enterprises are endangering the U.S. economy. The IMF plan is to attack Wayne on various fronts putting an end to his nefarious criminal machinations.
Rollin Hand, impersonating mobster Frank Wayne, has a counter-proposal for the other mob bosses. He says he'll undergo plastic surgery to look like a different man. In comes Cinnamon to change his appearance.
An opposition leader of an Eastern Bloc nation has been captured by the chief of the country's secret police. Also seized was microfilm with a list of people who secretly support the opposition. Phelps develops a plan that plays upon the astrology obsession the nation's leader has. Cinnamon poses as a famous astrologer while Barney and Rollin will have to operate from the cargo compartment of a plane transporting the captured opposition leader.
Cinnamon works to stop a munitions magnate who is supplying arms to neo-nazis. She reawakens memories of his late wife, who was murdered by Hitler.
The team's latest mission is to root out a network of spies who were brought into the country by an American photographer. The IMF must first decipher the "unbreakable" code the spies use to communicate with each other.
The exact rendering of a map is duplicated in order to fool a female spy. It's the second part of an overlay that details NATO's missile defense system.
The IMF's target is an international chess grandmaster who also is planning to steal gold seized from the opposition movement of an unnamed Soviet Bloc country. Rollin poses as an amateur chess player, helped by a computer Barney is running that is unbeatable at chess. The plan, devised by Phelps, also calls for a devious way of snatching the gold from both the chess player and the authorities.
An emerald, with vital U.S. security information attached and hidden on it, has fallen into the hands of an arms dealer. What's more, a Soviet Bloc agent is determined to secure the emerald. Both will be on a cruise ship. Phelps and the IMF must both get the emerald and neutralize the opposition agent. Phelps' plan involves a high stakes poker game utilizing Barney's technology and Rollin's sleight of hand. But that's only the beginning.
A childhood friend of Phelps' is on death row in a Latin American country. He asks the "Impossible Mission Force" to help him spring him. Even though this is a personal mission, the "Force" agrees.
Halder, who runs respectable medical clinics, is really a counterfeiter of drugs responsible for many deaths. The Impossible Missions Force aims to prove Halder's involvement in the production of the counterfeit drugs. As part of the plan, Phelps will pose as a federal drug enforcement agent who's willing to go on the take.
Jim Phelps is held captive by townsfolk after learning they're part of an assassination network. The clock is ticking as a pair of assassins head out to perform a hit in LA. The IMF must first rescue Jim and then prevent the hit.
Bert Gordon has created a criminal organization that will get rid of anyone, anywhere -- no bodies are ever found. Gordon is untouchable through conventional means of investigation and prosecution. Phelps devises a plan that takes advantage of Gordon's superstitions. Phelps and Cinnamon pose as a bickering couple, where the wife is eager to employ Gordon's services. The IMF will also make it appear that the dead are trying to reach people in the world of the living. The goal is to manipulate Gordon into a fix where even he cannot escape from the law.
When the curator of a museum plans to turn an experimental alloy over to a foreign power, the IMF creates a diversion - an attempt on his life.
The IMF goes to a prison camp inside a totalitarian Latin American country. At the camp, an opposition leader is kept in isolation. One of his followers arranged to be arrested and has become a trustee, helping to get the opposition leader's messages out to his countrymen. Prisoners believe the trustee to be an informer. Phelps and Barney arrive as prisoners, aiming to expose the real informer. They're aided by Cinnamon (posing as a Red Cross official) and Rollin (as a guard). The question is whether Phelps can work fast enough to save an innocent man's life.
A U.S. bomber crashes behind the Iron Curtain. Its Fail-Safe device, however, failed to self destruct. A brilliant U.S. scientist who defected to the unnamed country is supervising efforts to take the device apart, which will yield valuable information about the entire U.S. defense system. The IMF must recover the Fail-Safe device and abduct the scientist. As part of the plan devised by Phelps, Rollin and Cinnamon will pose as U.S. scientists on a tour.
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Martin Landau | Rollin Hand |
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Peter Graves | James Phelps |
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Barbara Bain | Cinnamon Carter |
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Peter Lupus | Willy Armitage |
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Greg Morris | Barney Collier |
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Bob Johnson | Person on Tape |
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Robert Board | Chess Match Spectator |
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John Breen | Chess Match Spectator |
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Nick Borgani | Patient |
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Albert Cavens | Guard |
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Michael Jeffers | Chess Match Spectator |
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Rudy Doucette | Chess Match Spectator |
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George Sawaya | Poker Player |
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Richard LaMarr | Chess Match Spectator |
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Leon Alton | Party Guest |
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Sid Haig | Musha |
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Hans Moebus | Party Guest |
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John Arndt | Surgical Orderly |
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Joseph Ruskin | King Ibn Borca |
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Steve Franken | Akim Hadramut |
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George DeNormand | Pharmaceutical Executive |
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Vincent Gardenia | Vito Lugana |
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Vic Perrin | Cheever |
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Paul Lambert | Al Morgan |
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Abdullah Abbas | Customer at Jara's |
Packaging | Digipak |
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Nr Discs | 7 |
Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
Subtitles | Allemande | Anglaise | Danoises | Espagnol | Finlandaise | Français | Hollandaise | Norvégien | Suédoises |
Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
Edition Release Date | Apr 20, 2007 |
Regions | Région 2 |
Owner | Serge Algarotti |
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Quantity | 1 |
Seen | |
Index | 417 |
Added Date | Sep 19, 2016 17:00:30 |
Modified Date | Jun 12, 2018 09:57:05 |