Peter GravesFilmography

Television: The First 50 Years

Men in Black II

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rosario Dawson, Tony Shalhoub, Johnny Knoxville

Synopsis: Otherworldly villains are on the loose again, and it's up to Earth's interstellar police force to bring them to justice in this sequel to the sci-fi comedy blockbuster Men in Black. Agent Jay (Will Smith) has become a high-ranking member of the Men in Black, the secret government task force Read More

These Old Broads

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Jonathan Silverman

Synopsis: Four of Tinseltown's greatest glamour queens came together for this tartly comic made-for-TV movie which pokes gentle (and not so gentle) fun at their histories and reputations. Kate Westburn (Shirley MacLaine), Addie Holden (Joan Collins), and Piper Grayson (Debbie Reynolds) are three legendary Read More

The Unexplained: Witches, Werewolves & Vampires

Synopsis: They are the stuff of legends, ghost stories, and scores of horror movies. But do they really exist? Narrated by Peter Graves, Witches, Werewolves and Vampires examines the myths behind these frightening supernatural creatures, as well as their bases in fact. Included are interviews with people Read More

Doris Day: It's Magic

Synopsis: Doris Day: It's Magic employs film clips, newsreel footage, trailers, home movies, and interviews with a variety of people in order to tell the life story of Doris Day, an actress who symbolized the ideal American woman for much of the '50s. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Soviet Union Chronicles: 1905 - 1924

Biography: Andy Griffith - Hollywood's Homespun Hero

Synopsis: This edition of Biography chronicles the life of one of America's most endearing entrertainers, Andy Griffith. Griffith made his television debut on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1954. That same year, he won a role in the TV version of Ira Levin's play, No Time for Sergeants. When the play was produced Read More

The Soviet Union Chronicles: 1924 - 1945

Addams Family Values

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci

Synopsis: The ghoulish cartoon family created by Charles Addams returns for a second big-screen outing darker and nastier than the first. When Morticia Addams (Anjelica Huston) gives birth to new baby boy Pubert, the other Addams children, Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) and Wednesday (Christina Ricci), devise any Read More

Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

Synopsis: This video chronicles the history of the Soviet Union beginning with the reign of Czar Nicholas II through the fall of communism through the use of rare film footage. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Doing Things the Old Way

Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 2

Synopsis: Each episode of this series presents different battles of the war. Each uses re-enactments, expert commentary, and readings by actors such as Burt Reynolds, Charlton Heston, and Richard Dreyfuss, to bring the events of the war to vivid life. Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 2 Read More

Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 5

Synopsis: Each episode of this series presents different battles from the war. Each uses re-enactments, expert commentary, and readings by actors such as Burt Reynolds, Charlton Heston, and Richard Dreyfuss to bring the events of the war to vivid life. Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 5 Read More

Mission: Impossible: Cargo Cult

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Fugitive gangster Michael Otagi (Lani Tupu) has established himself as "the God" of a remote Pacific Island. With the help of his partner Regehr (Adrian Wright), not to mention a lethal mixture of "magic" chemicals, Otagi has also enslaved the native populace for the purpose of mining gold. Read More

Mission: Impossible: Deadly Harvest

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Having been soundly thrashed in the ratings wars by The Cosby Show, ABC wisely (if belatedly) moved the contemporary Mission: Impossible from Thursday to Saturday evenings on January 6, 1990. The first episode in the new time slot was "Deadly Harvest," written by Jan Sardi. In this episode, IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Sands of Seth

Synopsis: Written by Jeffrey M. Hayes, "The Sands of Seth" guest stars Tim Elliot as Dr. Selim, the curator of a Cairo archeological museum -- and head of an ancient Egyptian cult. Determined to restore the glories of the Egyptian empires of old, Selim murders anyone who does not share his lofty vision. To Read More

Mission: Impossible: Church Bells in Bogota

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: IMF agent Shannon Reed is dispatched to Bogota by air. Her mission: to locate vicious drug lord Luis Magdalena (Tony Xauet) and put him out of business for keeps. En route, Shannon's plane crashes, causing her to suffer a total loss of memory. Upon awakening, she falls in love with her handsome Read More

I Hired a Contract Killer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, Serge Reggiani

Synopsis: In this Finnish comedy, which features all-English dialogue and nary a Scandanavian in it, Henri Boulanger (Jean-Pierre Leaud), is a colorless English civil servant, who was given a speedy retirement when his agency was "privatized," complete with a gold watch. His life is so barren that removing Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Assassin

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Several unlikely assassins, all minor government functionaries, have themselves died immediately after bumping off their employers. While investigating, the IMF discovers that all of the killers had been treated at the same Boston stress clinic. Posing as an alcoholic newspaperman, IMF agent Read More

Mission: Impossible: Gunslinger

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: The IMF pays a visit to a popular Old West theme park in Nevada, but it isn't for the purpose of rest and relaxation. The park is the headquarters of former congressman Ian McClintock (Michael Greene), the head of an organization specializing in arming terrorists. Well aware that McClintock was Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Princess

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Guest star Totti Goldsmith is cast as Elaine, the American-born princess of a European kingdom. The IMF must protect Elaine from being assasinated by an anti-American terrorist group run by George Caron (Robert Coleby). To do this, IMF agents Nicholas and Grant go undercover to join Caron's Read More

Mission: Impossible: Command Performance

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: In the fine tradition of the original Mission: Impossible series, the new IMF team poses as a European circus troupe. The purpose: to locate an artifact proving the atrocities committed by military leader Savitch (Grigor Taylor) and to rescue imprisoned freedom fighter Father Vallis (Ivor Kants). Read More

Mission: Impossible: Submarine

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: The IMF is assigned to cure a computer virus that is capable of sinking the US Navy's entire submarine fleet. But when the only antidote to the virus is destroyed, the agents resort to "Plan B" --- which requires the assistance of a brilliant Hollywood art director. Mitchell Ryan guest-star as Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Golden Serpent, Part Two

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Golden Serpent," Prince Selimun (Patrick Bishop), one of the heads of an international drug-running operation, comes face to face with his long-dead twin brother. This "reunion" is actually the first stage of an IMF plan to Read More

Mission: Impossible: Bayou

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Season One of the "new" Mission:Impossible came to an end with the episode titled "The Bayou." Veteran Australian movie villain Frank Thring guest-stars as Jake Morgan, who in concert with his partner Pepper Leveau (Paula Kelly) operates a thriving white-slavery ring in New Orleans. To put Morgan Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Plague

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: On assignment in Paris, the new IMF team harks back to the glory days of the original Mission:Impossible by staging a phony plague. It is all part of a strategy to foil black marketeer Catherine Balzac (Maud Adams), who has stolen the only sample of a new chemical that accelerates the aging Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Golden Serpent, Part One

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Exceeding all expectations, the weekly Mission: Impossible revival of 1988 managed to weather its first 19 episodes, graduating to a second season beginning September 21, 1989. In a truly ill-considered move, ABC rescheduled the series to Thursdays, opposite NBC's blockbuster sitcom The Cosby Show Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Fuhrer's Children

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: In another variation of a familiar Mission: Impossible theme, the IMF is assigned to prevent a neo-Nazi uprising. Making the task all the more difficult is the fact that several white-supremacist groups have melded into an international coalition. Posing as a pro-Nazi computer genius, Phelps Read More

Mission: Impossible: Banshee

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Arms dealer Brian McCarron (Peter Adams) has grown wealthy by supplying both sides of the never ending "troubles" in Ireland. He is aided and abetted by his faithful lieutenant O'Rourke (Rob Steele), who stages phony acts of terrorism to promote weapon sales. Hoping to put both men out of Read More

Mission: Impossible: For Art's Sake

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Alex Cord guest stars as master art thief Daniel Travers, whose latest heist has stirred up political unrest in a Far Eastern nation. The IMF learns that Travers is using his knowledge of his employers' motives to extort an enormous sum of money. As a means of crushing Travers and restoring peace Read More

Mission: Impossible: Target Earth

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: The launching of the first privately funded, manned space shuttle is postponed by the mysterious death of the vessel's pilot. Investigating the possibility of sabotage, the IMF heads to the Australian launching site, only to be swept up in a terrorist takeover of the facilities. Once again, plucky Read More

Mission: Impossible: Countdown

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Preempted by the World Series on October 19, 1989, Mission: Impossible returned on October 26 with the nail-biting episode "Countdown." The IMF heads to Central Asia to disarm a nuclear device that is timed to explode in less than 48 hours. The problem lies in locating the bomb, which has been Read More

Mission: Impossible: War Games

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: General Szabos (Kevin Miles), military leader of the European dictatorship of Sardavia, plans to use his army's annual war games as a cover for his invasion of neighboring Nachbarland. The IMF hopes to thwart Szabos' scheme by capitalizing upon his obsession with astrology. Agent Shannon Reed puts Read More

Mission: Impossible: Reprisal

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Lynda Day George, who from 1971 to 1973 played IMF agent Lisa Casey on the original Mission:Impossible, here reprises the role in the "new" episode "Reprisal." Casey's life is being threatened by a former colleague, now confined to a mental institution, who has also managed to frame IMF head Jim Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Devils

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: British aristocrat Lord Holman (John Stanton) is fattening his bank account by blackmailing high-ranking civil servants. Holman's strategy is to lure his victims into getting involved in a devil-worshipping cult which specializes in human sacrifice. To put His Lordship out of business, the IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Lions

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: Prince Mikos (Jeremy Angerson), the 16-year-old heir to the throne of an Asian kingdom, is targetted for assassination by his uncle Ki (James Shigeta). To cover his tracks, Ki has arranged for the murder to take place during Mikos' traditional "Test of Kings" ritual. The IMF shows up to make Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Greek

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: Even by drug-dealer standards, Greek millionaire Socrates Colonnades (Cesare Danova) is a particularly odious example. Using his lavish yacht as his headquarters, Colonnades callously diverts funds meant for Third World relief for his own nefarious purposes. To put the scoundrel out of business Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Pawn

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: Written by Billy Marshall-Stoneking, "The Pawn" takes place at a Czechoslovakian test tournament. The IMF is assigned to expedite the defection of Soviet scientist and chess champion Dr. Gregor Antonov (Bryan Marshall) --- and also to rescue Antonov's daughter, who is being held by the police as Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Haunting

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: The "new" Misison:Impossible moved from Sunday to Saturday evenings with the January 28, 1989 episode "The Haunting." The IMF's target is an elusive serial killer whose latest murder may cancel a crucial oil-trade agreement. To stop the villain in his tracks, the IMF agents play a dangerous series Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Fortune

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: While in the Florida Keys to prevent deposed dictator Luis Berezan's (Michael Pate) return to power, the IMF tragically loses one of its best agents, the lovely Casey Randall. Thus, the team's efforts to thwart Berezan and his Evita-like wife Emilia (Barbara Luna) becomes a personal vendetta. Jane Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Fixer

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: To avoid a Federal Grand Jury indictment, unscrupulous Washington journalist Arthur Six (Richard Romanus) blackmails Senator Oxenford (Terence Donovan) into silence. To put an end to Six's perfidy, the IMF assembles a deucedly clever "turnabout" scheme. Also appearing as a key player in the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Spy

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Times had certainly changed since the original Mission:Impossible. First telecast March 18, 1989, as part of the "M:I" revival series, "Spy" guest-stars Shane Briant as Dr. Yuri Nicolai, a KGB colonel --- not the villain of the peace, but instead a new member of the IMF team! The mission: To Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Wall

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: Once the 1988 Hollywood writers strike had been settled, the Mission:Impossible series revival could stop offering remakes of episodes from the earlier Mission:Impossible and start concentrating on new material. The first "original" episode of the new series was "The Wall," which aired December Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Condemned

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: Greg Morris, who played electronics expert Barney Collier on the original Mission:Impossible series, guest-stars on the "new" version in the November 20, 1988 episode "The Condemned." Framed for murder, Barney is locked up in a brutal Turkish prison and sentenced to death. It is up to Barney's Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Killer

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: Premiering October 23, 1988, the revival of the classic suspense series Mission:Impossible was hobbled during its first few weeks on the air by a Hollywood writer's strike. Thus, several episodes of the new series were remakes of scripts from the "old" version. Case in point was the series' pilot Read More

Mission: Impossible: The System

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: The IMF's assignment: To persuade Frank Marley (James Sloyan), the manager of a casino in the Bahamas, to turn against his boss, mob kingpin Connors (Gus Mercurio). The strategy: To convince Marley that he is being framed for a money-skimming racket perpetrated by his employer. Robert Hammer's Read More

Mission: Impossible: Holograms

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: Broadcast on November 6, 1988 as the third episode of the "new" Mission: Impossible, "Holograms" was actually a remake of "Fakeout", a 1966 installment of the original series. Guest star Gerard Kennedy plays Colonel Usher, a drug-trafficking Carribean dictator. To topple both Usher and his whole Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Cattle King

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: Set in Australia (where the new version of Mission:Impossible was filmed), "The Cattle King" guest-stars David Bradshaw as ruthless arms dealer Douglas Matthews. To prevent Matthews from selling missiles to a terrorist organization, the IMF agents join forces with Mulwara (Warren Owens), an Read More

War & Remembrance

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Michael Jeffrey Woods, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick

Mission: Impossible: The Legacy

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: In the original 1966 version of the Mission: Impossible adventure "The Legacy," IMF agents were assigned to thwart a plan hatched by the sons of four high-ranking Nazi officers to finance the launching of a Fourth Reich. In the1988 remake, the sons were rewritten as grandsons, but the basic plot Read More

Number One with a Bullet

Actors: Robert Carradine, Billy Dee Williams, Valerie Bertinelli, Peter Graves, Doris Roberts

Synopsis: Detective Berzak (Robert Carradine) and his suave partner Hazeltine (Billy Dee Williams) combine forces to track down a notorious drug lord in this routine action feature. Captain Ferris (Peter Graves) monitors the progress of the decidedly different detectives. The trail leads to Dacosta (Barry Sattels Read More

If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium

Synopsis: When a tour bus driver plans to save his daughter from her captors, a Belgian circus performer, the Americans on his European bus tour lend a help hand. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Tennis Court

Synopsis: There's little "love" lost in the British Tennis Court (so kill us for using a strained play on words). American leading man Peter Graves heads the cast of this terse melodrama. The plot zeroes in on the strange goings-on in a musty Victorian mansion. Made for British TV, Tennis Court premiered in Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Lovers and Other Killers

Synopsis: This episode was filmed on location in Seattle, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) has been asked to deliver a university lecture. During her first few days in town, Jessica is impressed by the efficiency and vast intellect of her temporary secretary David Tolliver (Andrew Stevens). When his wealthy Read More

Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street

Actors: Sam Hui, Karl Maka, Sylvia Chang

Synopsis: After appearing in cameos in the first two Aces Go Places movies, it was only a matter of time before cult filmmaker Tsui Hark took a turn in the director's chair himself, and the result is a spectacularly silly send-up of the spy genre and one of the series' best installments. King Kong (Sam Hui) Read More

Winds of War, Part 4: Defiance

Synopsis: Set in 1940, the fourth episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War finds American troubleshooter Cmdr. "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) heading to England on a secret mission for President Roosevelt. Here he is reunited with his secret love, Pamela Tudsbury (Victoria Tennant) Read More

Winds of War, Part 2: The Storm Breaks

Synopsis: In the second episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, several of the characters introduced in part one are swept up in the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland. Among these are Byron Henry (Jan-Michael Vincent), Natalie Jastrow (Ali McGraw) and Leslie Slote (David Dukes), who Read More

Guns & Fury

Synopsis: An Arab sheik and his tribe wage war on 2 American oil riggers in the Middle East in this action adventure film set in 1908. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Winds of War

Synopsis: This World War II epic drama, based on the book by Herman Wouk, follows the life and trials of a career naval officer (Robert Mitchum) sent to Germany during Hitler's rise to power, who witnesses the gradual escalation of the war. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Guns and the Fury

Actors: Peter Graves, Cameron Mitchell, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: In this period adventure, Cameron Mitchell and Peter Graves star as a pair of Americans seeking their fortune overseas at the dawn of the 20th century. When they discover valuable oil reserves in Persia, they attempt to claim them for themselves, but their plan is not received enthusiastically by Read More

Winds of War, Part 6: Changing the Guard

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman, Polly Bergen

Synopsis: The sixth episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War takes place in early 1941. Government attache "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) commands a fleet of destroyers escorted a US convoy that is unoffically heading to England, there to aid in the war effort against Germany. En Read More

Winds of War, Part 5: Of Love and War

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, US Naval Commander "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) continues acting as President Roosevelt's emissary of peace in war-torn Europe, even as Hitler (Gunter Meisner) secretly prepares to double-cross Stalin (Anatoly Read More

Airplane II: The Sequel

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, William Shatner

Synopsis: With the Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker team absent, this sequel to the cash-cow 1980 spoof Airplane once again finds garrulous man-with-a-past Ted Striker (Robert Hays) compelled to take over the controls of crippled aircraft, all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Read More

Savannah Smiles

Actors: Mark Miller, Donovan Scott, Bridgette Andersen, Peter Graves, Chris Robinson

Synopsis: Savannah Smiles is a sweet little film that proved a surprising hit on the Saturday matinee circuit. Mark Miller and Donovan Scott play a pair of good-natured escaped convicts who cross the path of precocious runaway Bridgette Andersen. When Andersen explains that she's hit the road because her Read More

The Hunter

Actors: Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Steve McQueen's last film concerns a modern day bounty hunter who searches for bail jumpers. Based on real life bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson, the film details his exciting life, traveling from one city to another, trying to track down fugitives and continually risking his life in the Read More

Three Hundred Miles for Stephanie

Actors: Tony Orlando, Peter Graves, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: In this drama, a policeman tries to get God to heal his brain-damaged daughter by promising to run the 320 miles between San Antonio and the Shrine of San Juan de los Lagos. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Survival Run

Actors: Peter Graves, Ray Milland, Vincent Van Patten, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Alan Conrad

Synopsis: In this youthful adventure, six adolescents head for a vacation in Arizona and end up stranded in the desert after their car crashes. They decide to hike to the closest town. En route they encounter drug smugglers who are willing to kill to keep their location a secret. Bloody mayhem ensues as the Read More

The Memory of Eva Ryker

Actors: Natalie Wood

Synopsis: Donald A. Stanwood's original novel The Memory of Eva Ryker used the Titanic tragedy as its launching pad. This made-for-TV adaptation of Stanwood's book moved the action up some 27 years, motivating its plotline with the torpedoing of an Athenia-type luxury liner in 1939. The film flashes forward Read More

Airplane!

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack

Synopsis: This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear Read More

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Return of the Fighting 69th

Synopsis: An episode of the television series, where Buck leads a squad of pilots, including a friend of Wilma's father, into a fight with interplanetary gunrunners. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Rebels

Synopsis: The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the first was The Bastard). The saga of Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens), illegitimate son of a British blueblood, picks up with Kent fighting in the Continental Army during the Read More

Parts: The Clonus Horror

Actors: Timothy Donnelly, Dick Sargent, Peter Graves, Paulette Breen, David Hooks

Synopsis: This routine, relatively low-budget horror film with a few well-known actors (Peter Graves, Keenan Wynn) unfolds a tale that has echoes in George Orwell's 1984 or in various sci-fi movies. The premise: Americans have not realized that their government is in cahoots with certain industrial and Read More

Death Car on the Freeway

Actors: Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: Former stuntman Hal Needham employed several of his old professional comrades in his made-for-TV Death Car on the Freeway. Shelley Hack plays a TV reporter investigating a series of freeway murders. Some demented van driver is swerving around and about, killing female motorists. This being Los Read More

Cruise Missile

Synopsis: Cruise Missile takes its time getting to its much-anticipated climax, but by and large it's worth the wait. Peter Graves heads a special task force, assigned to literally save the world. A wacko has gotten hold of a nuclear cruise missile, and has threatened to touch off World War 3. What possible Read More

High Seas Hijack

Synopsis: Five years after Mission: Impossible, Peter Graves accepted a starring assignment in the modestly budgeted High Seas Hijack. Most of the film takes place on a highly valuable oil tanker. A group of terrorists decide that the best way to advance their cause is to steal the tanker and imprison its Read More

SST: Death Flight

Actors: George Maharis, Doug McClure, Martin Milner, Robert Reed, Susan Strasberg, Billy Crystal, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Death Flight was originally known as SST: Death Flight when it was first telecast February 25, 1977. Though fairly expensive so far as TV movies go, the film is brought down to earth by its standard B-flick plot. On its maiden flight, America's first supersonic transport runs into deadly danger Read More

Dead Man on the Run

Synopsis: In this thriller a federal officer acts upon his suspicion that the recent death of his predecessor was part of a conspiracy to kill a presidential candidate. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mysterious Monsters

Actors: Peter Graves

Synopsis: Delve into the mysteries of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Abominable Snowman. Peter Graves serves as narrator. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Sidecar Racers

Actors: Ben Murphy, Wendy Hughes, John Clayton, Peter Graves, John Meillon

Synopsis: In this lively sports drama, Jeff Rayburn has no direction in his life since he competed in the Olympic games as a swimmer. The American had been simply bumming around Australia until he teamed up with biker Dave Ferguson and began sidecar racing. When not involved in racing, the two tussle for Read More

Where Have All the People Gone?

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, the majority of the Earth's population is wiped out during a solar explosion, leaving the Anders family as some of the few remaining people struggling to stay alive. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Scream of the Wolf

Synopsis: Written by Richard Matheson, the made-for-television horror movie Scream of the Wolf is about an author (Peter Graves) being stalked by a terrifying, mysterious and lethal beast. The creature is also being tracked by a big-game hunter, who has come out of retirement to make one final big score. Read More

The Underground Man

Synopsis: The Underground Man was the pilot film for a series based on Ross MacDonald's private eye hero Lew Archer (the source of Paul Newman's film appearances as "Lew Harper"). Most of the elements of the factory-approved MacDonald formula are put into effect here: An old flame, a seemingly cut-and-dried Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Pendulum

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: "Nightfall" is the code name of a widespread terrorist attack planned by a secret organization called the Pendulum. The IMF must learn the nature of the attack, and also bring down Pendulum leader Gunnar Malstrom (Dean Stockwell). As an interesting change of pace, the viewer is given far more plot Read More

Mission: Impossible: Incarcerate

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: Guest star Kim Hunter is cast as brilliant but superstitious master criminal Hannah O'Connel, who engineers a million-dollar bullion heist with her sons Thomas (Robert Hogan) and Robert (Solomon Sturges. The O'Connels escape to the safety of a remote Caribbean island which has no extradition Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Fountain

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, George Maharis

Synopsis: While stealing computerized Syndicate secrets, minor hoodlum Tom Bachman (George Maharis) injures mob chieftan Matt Drake. With Drake hot on his trail, Bachman escapes to the jungles of Mexico --- where the IMF is waiting for him. Hoping to extract the aformentioned secrets from the fugitive Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Western

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Ed Nelson

Synopsis: Art thief Van Cleve (Ed Nelson) steals $5 million worth of priceless pre-Columbian artifacts. To determine the hiding place of the precious booty, the IMF hatch a scheme whereby Van Cleve becomes convinced that he has precognitive powers. Essential to the mission's success is an outsized simulated Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Question

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Gary Lockwood, Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: Elizabeth Ashley, whose guest-star turn as a pathetic alcoholic on the sixth-season Mission:Impossible episode "Encounter" won her the praise of critics and viewers alike, again tackles a difficult and demanding role in the seventh-season entry "The Question." This time, Ashley is cast as IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Fighter

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, William Windom

Synopsis: The IMF again invades the world of professional boxing to get the goods on crooked sports promoter Paul Mitchell (William Windom) and his Syndicate boss Jay Braddock (Joe Braddock). Terrified by Braddock's homicidal tendencies, Mitchell is on the verge of turning informer, but he needs a little Read More

Mission: Impossible: Speed

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Three tons of narcotics are stolen by dealer Sam Hibbing (Claude Akins). To recover the drugs, and to ruin both Hibbing and his higher-ups, the IMF concoct an undermining scheme that once again requires agent Casey to pose as a criminal's daughter. Filmed on location in San Francisco, this episode Read More

Mission: Impossible: Boomerang

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Laraine Stephens

Synopsis: Laraine Stephens guest-stars as Eve Vayle, who masterminds the death of her mobster husband Johnny (Charlie Guardino) in order to steal the records of Syndicate boss Stanley Luchek (Ronald Feinberg). Though forced to hide from the mob, Eve hopes to eventually extort millions of dollars from Luchek Read More

Mission: Impossible: Imitation

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Barbara McNair, Pernell Roberts

Synopsis: Originally seen on March 30, 1973, "Imitation" was the final first-run Mission:Impossible episode to be broadcast on CBS, even though it was the seventh of the 22 episodes filmed for the series' climactic 1972-73 season. Singer Barbara McNair guest stars as Jena Cole, the beautiful leader of a Read More

Call to Danger

Synopsis: Call to Danger was a title that had already been applied to two unsold pilot films before this TV movie made its first appearance in February of 1973. Like the previous 1968 Call to Danger, the 1973 film stars Peter Graves as a federal agent who enlists "ordinary" people to solve crimes. Read More

Mission: Impossible: Two Thousand

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Vic Morrow, David White

Synopsis: In a reversal of the situation in the sixth-season episode "Encore," in which a gangster was persuaded that he had gone back in time from 1971 to 1937, the IMF must jump forward some 27 years in the seventh-season Mission:Impossible entry "Two Thousand." Vic Morrow guest-stars as master thief Read More

Mission: Impossible: Leona

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Robert Goulet

Synopsis: "Leona" was the name of the late wife of Syndicate chieftan Joe Epic (Robert Goulet). In order to rescue a captured undercover agent, the IMF must force a schism in the new partnership between Epic and his former gangland rival Mike Apollo (Mike Apollo). The Mission: to convince Epic that Apollo Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Deal

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Robert Webber, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: Syndicate boss Charles Rogan (Robert Webber) has salted away $5,000,000 in order to finance a mob-benefiting political coup in the Carribean nation of Camagua. Commandeering a Navy patrol boat, the IMF stages a characteristically elaborate scam (including the "murder" of agent Barney) in order to Read More

Mission: Impossible: Break!

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Carl Betz, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The seventh and final season of Mission:Impossible commenced on September 16, 1972 with the episode titled "Break!" In his second series appearance, guest star Carl Betz is cast as Syndicate gambling boss Dutch Krebs, who has just finished murdering a federal undercover agent. The IMF must recover Read More

Mission: Impossible: Trapped

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bert Convy

Synopsis: Scripted by Rick Husky from a story by Sam Roeca, "Trapped" is a radical departure from the usual Mission:Impossible format. Things start traditionally enough, as the IMF sets about to recover an $8 million army payroll from a family of smugglers: Joe, Arthur and Doug Stafford (Tom Tully, Jon Read More

Mission: Impossible: Cocaine

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, William Shatner, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: The IMF has only 72 hours to intercept a huge shipment of cocaine, which is being delivered to supplier Carl Reid (Stephen McNally) by smuggler Fernando Lorca (Gregory Sierra). In order to undermine the main villains, agents Phelps and Willy prey upon the gullibility of Reid's second-in-command Read More

Mission: Impossible: TOD-5

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Peter Haskell, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: The title of this Mission:Impossible episode refers to a potentially devastating new biological weapon. Traitorous government scientist Paul Morse (Ross Elliot) intends to sell TOD-5 to Gordon Holt (Peter Haskell), special representative of a terrorist organization known as the Alpha Group. With Read More

Mission: Impossible: Image

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, George Voskovec

Synopsis: The IMF's mission: To retrieve a list of crooked public officials from fleeing vice lord Emil Gadsen (George Voskovec), and to utterly destroy both Gadsen and his boss Thor Coffin (Warren Stevens). The strategy: To convince Gadsen that he has a long-lost twin brother named Bruno. Future Hill Read More

Mission: Impossible: Stone Pillow

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: Although crooked private eye Larry Edison (Bradford Dillman) has been thrown into prison, he still wields a great deal of power over Syndicate boss Vincent Vochek (Robert Ellenstein). Edison has in his possession a roll of film proving Vochek's involvement in a recent murder. The IMF hopes to get Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Bride

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, James Gregory

Synopsis: "The Bride" is none other than IMF agent Casey in this Mission: Impossible episode from January 1, 1972. This time, the IMF has targetted Syndicate hit man Joe Corvin (James Gregory), who has turned "money man" and is smuggling millions of underworld dollars out of the country. To get the goods on Read More

Mission: Impossible: Committed

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Susan Howard

Synopsis: "Committed" was first telecast on January 22, 1972, the same day that the latest cast of Mission:Impossible appeared on the cover of TV Guide. Bert Freed guest stars as Syndicate chieftan Leon Chandler, whose trial for murder may end in acquittal thanks to the actions of a corrupt lieutenant Read More

Mission: Impossible: Casino

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Jack Cassidy

Synopsis: Once again, the IMF agents must break the bank of a popular casino to bring down a master criminal. In this case, the villain is Syndicate chieftan Orin Kerr (Orin Kerr), who controls not only the casino but the entire resort town where it is located. The IMF's mission is twofold: Hit both the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Double Dead

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Lou Antonio

Synopsis: Syndicate loan sharks Ollie Shanks (Paul Koslo) and Rudy Blake (Lou Antonio) must be intercepted before they can transfer $10 million from Hawaii to California. Assigned to put Shanks and Blake out of business, IMF agent Willy ends up being captured himself. As the villains inject Willy with Read More

Mission: Impossible: Bag Woman

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: The IMF is assigned to learn the identity of a corrupt political higher-up, known only by his code name C6. To that end, Casey poses as a Syndicate delivery girl. The catch: The briefcase Casey is to deliver has been wired with a live bomb, set to explode the moment the briefcase is opened. A Read More

Mission: Impossible: Crack-Up

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Alex Cord, Peter Breck

Synopsis: With Mission:Impossible regular Lynda Day George still on maternity leave, Marlyn Mason makes a guest appearance as IMF agent Sandy in "Crack-Up." For her first assignment with the team, Sandy plays a major role in a scheme to determine the identity of the Syndicate higher-up who hired Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Puppet

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: After two and a half seasons in its familiar Saturday-evening network berth, Mission:Impossible moved to Fridays on December 22, 1972, with the episode titled "The Puppet." Roddy McDowall guest stars as Leo Ostro, the acting Syndicate boss during the convalescence of his injured brother Paul. To Read More

The President's Plane Is Missing

Synopsis: A crisis ensues when Air Force One crashes while on a flight out west, apparently killing all those aboard, including President Jeremy Haines (Tod Andrews). The United States is in the midst of a confrontation with China that could lead to a nuclear war between the two countries, and the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Season 07

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: Halfway through its seventh and final season on CBS, Mission: Impossible moved from its 10:00 p.m. Saturday-night slot to an earlier berth on Friday evening. Nor was this the only change implemented during the series' terminal year on the air. Having sent the Impossible Missions Force all over the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Kidnap

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, John Ireland

Synopsis: This departure from the usual Mission:Impossible formula is a neat twist on the series' first-season episode "The Ransom." It all begins when IMF agent Jim Phelps is kidnapped by Syndicate boss Andrew Metzger (John Ireland). If his fellow agents ever want to see Phelps again, they must break into Read More

Mission: Impossible: Movie

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, John Vernon, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: Frequent Mission:Impossible villain John Vernon makes a return appearance in "Movie," this time as mob-connected Hollywood mogul Norman Shields. In order to wrest the Syndicate's financial records from Shields, Phelps poses as Theo Dane, the courier brother of mob financier Benjamin Dane (David Read More

Mission: Impossible: Underground

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Peter Mark Richman, H.M. Wynant

Synopsis: Imprisoned mobster Gunther Schell (H.M. Wynant) is the only person who knows where a stolen cache of money is located. Before the IMF can reach Schell, he is sprung from jail by a mob-controlled "underground railroad", which specializes in robbing its clients before smuggling them out of the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Ultimatum

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Murray Hamilton, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: Murray Hamilton guest-stars as deranged nuclear scientist Dr. Jerome Cooper, who threatens to destroy an unspecified American city with a hydrogen bomb unless the President capitulates to his demands. Normally, the IMF would have no trouble defusing such a bomb; the problem here is to find out Read More

Mission: Impossible: Hit

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Dane Clark, Robert Reed

Synopsis: Although he is locked up in prison on a tax-evasion charge, Syndicate boss Sam Dexter (Dane Clark) is still running his criminal operation with the outside assistance of his silent partner, a shadowy figure known only as The General. The IMF must determine the identity of the General, and also Read More

Mission: Impossible: A Ghost Story

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: American defector Howard Bainbridge (Frank Farmer) returns to the US for one last reunion with his son Paul (Anthony Norwalk). Unfortunately, Bainbridge gets into an argument with his ultra-right wing father Justin Bainbridge (Andrew Duggan), who ends up killing Howard and burying the body on his Read More

Mission: Impossible: Blind

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Jason Evers

Synopsis: Lynda Day George joins the Mission:Impossible cast as agent Lisa Casey in the episode entitled "Blind." Guest star Tom Bosley is cast as government undercover operative Henry Matula, who has been infiltrated into the criminal empire of John Lawton (Harold J. Stone), and is in line for a Syndicate Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Merchant

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Written by Harold Livingston, "The Merchant" guest-stars George Sanders in one of his final acting roles, as illegal arms dealer Armand Andressarian. To prevent Andressarian from completing an arrangement to sale guns to unfriendly guerilla groups in Africa and the middle East, the IMF swings into Read More

Mission: Impossible: Mindbend

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Leonard Frey

Synopsis: Fresh from his Broadway triumph in The Boys in the Band, Leonard Frey guest-stars as Thomas Burke, a pscyhopathic doctor who brainwashes underworld fugitives into becoming political assassins, then committing suicide before the cops catch up with them. The IMF must not only put Burke out of Read More

Mission: Impossible: Shape Up

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Gerald O'Loughlin

Synopsis: Gerald S. O'Loughlin makes a return visit to Mission: Impossible, this time in the role of Syndicate chieftan Frank Delaney. To break the mob's stranglehold on the waterfront, the IMF endeavor to terrify Delaney into providing evidence against himself and his cohorts. Phelps impersonates the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Encore

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, William Shatner

Synopsis: William Shatner delivers a bravura performance as septugenarian hoodlum Thomas Kroll. In order to solve a 34-year-old mob murder for which Kroll was responsible, the IMF has to stage a meticulous re-enactment of the crime. The easy part is constructing a realistic replica of a 1937 Chicago Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Tram

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Victor French

Synopsis: The IMF must prevent a merger between Vic Hatcher (Victor French) and Johnny Thorne (Felice Orlandi), the leaders of two rival underworld factions. Should the merger go through, the economy of the United States will collapse. The two gangsters are holding their meeting at a ski resort, accessible Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Missile

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Enemy agent James Reed (David Sheiner) intends to steal the plans for a new missile guidance system. The IMF is assigned to hoodwink Reed into pilfering a set of bonus plans. Endangering the mission is escaped mental patient Hecker (John Beck), who believes that IMF agent Dana is his former Read More

Mission: Impossible: Cat's Paw

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: This time it's personal for IMF agent Barney Collier: His brother Larry (Marc Hannibal), a crusading newspaper editor has been murdered at the behest of a crooked police chief. Larry had been on the verge of proving the chief's connection with a ghetto gang that is in the employ of the Syndicate. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Takeover

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Ken Swofford guest-stars as corrupt political boss Charles Peck, who will stop at nothing to get his hand-picked flunkey Steve Tallman (Lloyd Bochner) elected governor. To accomplish this, Peck stirs up a violent campus riot, for which the gubernatorial incumbent will surely be blamed. The IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Field

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In order to deactive a satellite armed with thermonculear bombs, the IMF must penetrate a heavily guarded island and destroy the missile's control center. Part of the plan requires Barney to arrive on the island alone via submarine. Alas, something goes wrong, placing Barney--and, by extention Read More

Mission: Impossible: Kitara

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Robert DoQui guest-stars as African liberation leader John Darcy, code name Kitara. The IMF must rescue Darcy from the clutches of white supremacist ruler Colonel Alex Kohler (Lawrence Kohler)--and also smash the Colonel's brutally rigid segregationist policies. To accomplish this, the agents Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Catafalque

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: A seemingly benign nuclear arms treaty threatens to explode into another Cuban Missile Crisis. The IMF is assigned to squelch the treaty before any damage can be done. Their plan requires Paris to pose as both a fugitive and the fugitive's father--a tour de force that won an Emmy Award for makeup Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Blast

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: While starring on the TV western The High Chapparal, Henry Darrow took time off to play a villain on the Mission: Impossible episode "The Blast." Darrow is cast as revolutionary leader Gregory Tolan, whose group has committed several robberies in hopes of financing a revolution against the United Read More

Mission: Impossible: Run for the Money

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Forming an unholy alliance, mobsters Frank Mason (Frank Mason) and Edward Trask (Richard Jaeckel) have been successfully modernizing, computerizing and (violently) streamlining the Syndicate's gambling activities. The IMF is assigned to break up the relationship between the two master criminals. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Visitors

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Steve Forrest

Synopsis: This time, the IMF takes on the challenge of staging an invasion from outer space. It is all part of a plan to derail the political ambitions of mob-connected publishing tycoon Edward Granger (Steve Forrest). Highlights include Phelps and Casey's pose as a pair of futuristic physicians. Written by Harold Livingston Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Connection

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: In still another virtuoso Mission:Impossible guest appearance, Anthony Zerbe is cast as heroin supplier Reese Dolan. It is up to the IMF to locate Dolan's source of raw opium, and to put him out of business permanently. Step Number One: The IMF agents must convert a tiny speck of land off the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Season 06

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Still being seen on Saturday nights -- albeit in a later time slot -- Mission: Impossible entered its sixth season with hopes that its ever-diminishing ratings (brought about by the defection of its two most popular regulars, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain) would take an upward turn. In this Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Party

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: To prevent himself from breaking under interrogation, captured enemy spy Colonel Vanin (Frank Marth) has hypnotized himself into forgetting the whereabouts of a top-secret spy roster. The IMF's only key to unlocking Vanin's memory is his wife Olga (Antoinette Bower), who may or may not know the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Encounter

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: Elizabeth Ashley shines in an extremely difficult guest-star turn in the Mission:Impossible episode "Encounter." The IMF is assigned to halt the extortionist activities of crooked business executives Frank Brady (Val Avery) and Martin Stoner (Lawrence Dane). The key to the mission's success is the Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Miracle

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Written by Dan Ullman, "The Miracle" focuses in on $8,000,000 worth of heroin. The IMF must determine the location of the heroin and put Syndicate operatives Taynor (Ronald Feinberg) and Kearney (Joe Don Baker) out of business. The gimmick: a phony heart transplant, which will convert the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Underwater

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Fritz Weaver

Synopsis: $75 million in stolen diamonds is hidden somewhere on the ocean floor. Only Frederick Hoffman (Jeremy Slate) knows the actual whereabouts of the gems, and Hoffman is currently the prisoner of sadistic master criminal George Berlinger (Fritz Weaver). The IMF must recover the diamonds before Hoffman Read More

Mission: Impossible: Blues

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, William Windom

Synopsis: William Windom makes a return visit to Mission: Impossible, again in a villainous characterization. This time, Windom is cast as Stu Gorman, a music-industry executive fronting for the Syndicate. To get the goods on Gorman, IMF agents Barney and Casey pose as blues singers--with Casey taking her Read More

Mission: Impossible: Invasion

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: The worst has happened: The United States has been invaded and occupied by an unfriendly foreign power. At least, that is what the IMF wants American turncoat Whitmore Channing (Kevin McCarthy) to believe. The purpose of this charade is to prevent Channing from handing over top secret information Read More

Mission: Impossible: My Friend, My Enemy?

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Captured by brainwashing expert Dr. Paul Tabor (Mark Richman), IMF agent Paris is transformed into a human killing machine. Released from captivity, Paris remembers nothing of his ordeal, and returns to his colleagues--unaware that he has been programmed to assassinate IMF leader Jim Phelps. Jill Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Homecoming

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In a change-of-pace Mission:Impossible episode, Jim Phelps makes a sentimental journey to his rural home town. Even here, however, Phelps finds himself waist-deep in a danger, as a series of unexplained murders terrorizes the community. Summoning the aid of his fellow IMF agents, Phelps conducts Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Flight

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: John Colicos makes another guest-star appearance on Mission:Impossible, this time as Manuel Ferrar, the would-be dictator of small Caribbean island republic. To prevent Ferrar from assassinating the republic's rightful ruler, the IMF stages an elaborate and often bizarre ruse. The spotlight is on Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Innocent

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: While attempting to break into a Middle Eastern chemical plant, the better to destory a computer which is manufacturing poison gas, Barney is captured and put out of commission. The successful completion of Barney's mission now rests in the hands of computer expert Dr. Jerry Carlin (Christopher Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Martyr

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, John Larch

Synopsis: Season Four of Mission: Impossible came to a thrilling conclusion with the series' March 29, 1970 episode "The Martyr." This time, the IMF must discredit the repressive regime of Communist leader Anton Rojek (John Larch). To solidify his base of power, Rojek intends to destroy a youthful cult Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Killer

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Lesley Ann Warren makes her first appearance as IMF agent Dana Lambert in Mission: Impossible's fifth-season opener "The Killer." Guest star Robert Conrad plays the title character, a professional assassin named Eddie Lorka. With only a few hours at their disposal, the IMF team must determine the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Flip Side

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In order to smash an international drug cartel, the IMF must stop the three men involving in an intricate smuggling route. Sal Mineo plays Mel Bracken, the Los Angeles distributor of the illicit drugs; Dana Elcaris seen as C.W. Cameron, the midwestern drug manufacturer; and Robert Alda rounds out Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Butterfly

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Harry Kellem (Russ Conway), an American businessman working in Tokyo, has been accused of murdering his Japanese wife. The actual culprit is Kellem's brother-in-law Toshio Masaki (Khigh Dheigh), who for political reasons is bent on destroying Japanese-American diplomatic relations. Assigned to Read More

Mission: Impossible: Squeeze Play

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Albert Paulsen guest-stars as Albert Zembra, a terminally ill Syndicate drug dealer. The IMF's mission: to extract details of Zembra's operation from the dying mobster, thereby severely crippling the heroin trade. The strategy: Paris poses as an underworld kingpin who aspires to become Zembra's Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Hostage

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: As part of his latest IMF assignment, Paris assumes the idenitity of an influential American industrialist. Unfortunately he his kidnapped and held hostage by a band of Latin-American revolutionaries who are convinced he is the man he pretends to be. The kidnappers demand that three political Read More

The Adventurers

Actors: Bekim Fehmiu, Charles Aznavour, Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Tommy Berggren

Synopsis: Based on Harold Robbins' bestseller, The Adventurers stars Yugoslav heartthrob Bekim Fehmiu as Porfirio Rubirosa clone Dax Xenos. Having suffered mightily as a child in a fictional South American country due to the political activities of his parents, Xenos grows up to become a sleazy, sexually Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Rebel

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The IMF works hand in hand with a band of guerillas to rescue three rebellious scientists from a Communist prison. One of the captives is the beautiful Irina (Davana Brown), who has committed to memory all the secret information gathered by a recently executed scientist. The question: Will the IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: Decoy

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Assigned to assist in the defection of Anna Kerkoska (Julie Gregg), the daughter of a recently deceased IMF dictator, Phelps becomes aware that both he and Anna have been set up as "dead ducks" by the woman's government. With his usual professional aplomb, Phelps contacts his fellow IMF agents and Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Amateur

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The "amateur" in this Mission:Impossible adventure is greedy Iron Curtain nightclub owner Eric Schilling (Anthony Zerbe). Having come into possession of one of the pieces of a new secret weapon, Eric endangers the IMF's effort to smuggle the weapon--and resistance leader Father Bernard (Peter Read More

Mission: Impossible: Hunted

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: During the IMF's attempt to rescue black freedom fighter Dr. Frederick Kolda from the sadistic minions of an Apartheid African nation, Barney is wounded and left stranded in the jungle. He takes refuge in the hut of Gabby (Ta-Tanisha), a beautiful deafmute. Falling in love with Barney, Gabby is Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Falcon, Part Three

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Noel Harrison

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the three-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Falcon," Phelps manages to rescue Prince Stephan (Joseph Reale), who has been imprisoned to force a marriage between his fiancee Princess Francesca (Diane Baker) and royal usurper General Sabattini (John Vernon). Meanwhile, the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Chico

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Fernando Lamas

Synopsis: A microfilmed list of undercover narcotics agents has been stolen and divided into two halves, with each half in the possession of a different drug kingpin. Though bitter enemies, Ramon (Fernando Lamas) and Arturo Sandoval (Percy Rodriguez) are poised to forget their differences so that the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Gitano

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Mark Richman

Synopsis: The title of this Mission:Impossible episode refers to a Gypsy tribe indigenous to the European country ruled by youthful King Victor (Barry Williams). Intent upon seizing the throne, Regent General Aragas (Mark Richman) hatches a scheme to murder the young monarch and to frame Victor's uncle for Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Falcon, Part Two

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Noel Harrison

Synopsis: In Part Two of the three-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Falcon", Willy poses as the Bishop who is to perform the marriage ceremony between General Sabattini (John Vernon), the pretender to a European throne, and the General's reluctant fiancee Princess Francesca (Diane Baker). Meanwhile Read More

Un Esercito di Cinque Uomini

Actors: Peter Graves, James Daly, Bud Spencer, Nino Castelnuovo, Tetsuro Tamba

Synopsis: Five Man Army can best be described as a marked-down Magnificent Seven. Peter Graves, James Daly, Bud Spencer, Testuro Tamba and Nino Castelnuovo play the quintet of the title. Caught in the middle of the 1914 Mexican Revolution, the five men pool their individual skills in hopes of Read More

Mission: Impossible: Season 05

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Season five of Mission: Impossible finds only two of the series' original regulars still in the cast: Greg Morris as the IMF team's electronics genius Barney Collier and Peter Lupus as muscle man Willie Armitage. Peter Graves, cast as IMF leader Jim Phelps, had been with the series since season two Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Falcon, Part One

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Noel Harrison

Synopsis: The only three-part adventure in the history of Mission: Impossible, "The Falcon" was written by series stalwart Paul Playdon. The IMF's assignment is to restore the rightful heir to a European throne. The usurping General Ramon Sabattini (John Vernon) hopes to gain control of the monarchy by Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Crane

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Carl Betz

Synopsis: Iron Curtain functionary Kozani (Carl Betz, in an offbeat characterization) has captured guerilla leader Constantine (Eric Mason) and sentenced him to death within 24 hours. Within this extremely limited time-frame, the IMF must rescue Constantine and smuggle him back to his followers. The key to Read More

Mission: Impossible: Death Squad

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Pernell Roberts

Synopsis: With no pressing assignments at hand, Phelps and Barney head to the Caribbean for a long-overdue vacation. Falling in love with gorgeous artist Alma Ross (Cicely Tyson), Barney finds himself framed for the murder of Alma's ex-boyfriend. The instigator of the frame-up is crooked police chief Manuel Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Choice

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In a replay of the "Rasputin" story, phony mystic Emile Vautrain holds the Grandduchess Theresa of Trent (Nan Martin) in his power. To prevent Vautrain from taking full control of the tiny duchy, the IMF stages a real-life Grand Guignol presentation, complete with a fully functioning electric Read More

Mission: Impossible: Orpheus

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Jessica Walter

Synopsis: The IMF has a mere 48 hours to prevent an elusive enemy assassin from striking again. Posing as a drug-addicted defector, Phelps gains the confidence of the shadowy killer's contact man Eric Bergmann (Albert Paulsen). Also crucial to the success of the IMF is "guest" agent Valerie, played by Read More

Mission: Impossible: Phantoms

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Luther Adler

Synopsis: Luther Adler guest stars as Leo Vorka, an aging European dictator who intends to purge his country of all young artists and intellectuals. The IMF hopes to topple Vorka from power and install his friendlier deputy Bartzin (Ben Astar) in his place. The mission: To drive Vorka insane and convince Read More

Mission: Impossible: Terror

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, David Opatoshu, Christopher George

Synopsis: The fate of a Middle Eastern nation hangs in the balance as terrorist Ismet El Kabir (Michael Tolan) is scheduled to be pardoned from prison. The IMF must prevent Kabir's release, thereby forcing him into an escape attempt that will cost him his life. The plan involves the infiltration of Kabir's Read More

Mission: Impossible: Lover's Knot

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Jane Merrow

Synopsis: The IMF heads to London with instructions to identify the head of an espionage ring, a mysterious figure known only as K. To flush out their quarry, the agents enlist the unwitting aid of the beautirful and aristocratic enemy agent Lady Cora Weston (Jane Merrow). Maneuvering Lady Cora into a Read More

Mission: Impossible: Season 04

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Fans of Mission: Impossible greeted the start of the series' fourth season with fear and trepidation. To be sure, the series was still second to none in serving up exciting action sequences and labyrinthine counterespionage plotlines. And, yes, most of the familiar cast members were still in Read More

Mission: Impossible: Nitro

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: General Zek (Titos Vandis) conspires with munitions manufacturer Ismir Najiid (Sandor Szabo) to kill Middle Eastern potentate King Said (Joe E. Tata) with a truckload of nitroglycerin. The conspirators then plan to place the blame for the assassination on a neighboring country, thereby sparking a Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Bunker, Part Two

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Bunker", the IMF team continue their efforts to rescue rocket scientist Erich Rojak (Milton Selzer) and his wife Anna (Lee Meriwether from the Enemy. Complicating matter is the fact that Rojak is being held in bunker some 300 Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Bunker, Part One

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The second multipart adventure of Mission: Impossible's third season, "The Bunker" was written by Paul Playdon. The IMF is assigned to rescue rocket scientist Erich Rojak (Milton Selzer), who is being forced to cooperate with the enemy. Not only must the agents release Rojak from an impenetrable Read More

Mission: Impossible: Illusion

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The IMF's mission is to smash the unholy alliance between East European officials Skarbeck (Fritz Weaver) and Lom (Kevin Hagen) and enable a pro-US candidate to win an important government post. The plan requires Cinammon to pose as a recently deceased cabaret entertainer, with Rollin Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Vault

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Nehemiah Persoff makes his second Mission: Impossible guest appearance, this time in the role of corrupt Latin American official Phillipe Pereda. Planning to loot his country's treasury of $40,000,000, Pereda intends to pin the blame on the country's honest president, De Varo (Rodolfo Acosta). The Read More

Mission: Impossible: Nicole

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Guest star Joan Collins plays the title character in this offbeat Mission: Impossible episode. While on a particularly delicate recovery mission, Phelps is shot, wounded and left for dead. Upon awakening, he finds that he has been nursed back to health by the beautiful Nicole. Despite being Read More

Mission: Impossible: Live Bait

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Kellerman (Anthony Zerbe), chief of security in an Iron Curtain country, suspects that defector Orin Selby (John Crawford) is actually a double agent for the Americans. Having captured the only person who knows Selby's true identity, Kellerman holds the man in a booby-trapped cell in a state of Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Test Case

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In order to prevent Dr. Oswald Beck (David Hurst) from inaugurating wholesale bacteriological warfare against the Free World, IMF agent Rollin takes the place of a political prisoner chosen as Beck's guinea pig. To discredit Beck, Phelps and his colleagues are forced to make certain that the Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Mind of Stefan Miklos

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Steve Ihnat guest-stars as eponymous master spy Stefan Miklos in this psychologically complex Mission: Impossible episode. Discovered to be a double agent, Walter Townsend (Jason Evers) is fed false information by the Americans. In order to throw Miklos off the track, the IMF must convince him Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Exchange

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The focus in this Mission: Impossible episode is on Cinnamon Carter, who has been captured behind the Iron Curtain. Chief interrogator Strom (John Vernon) discovers that Cinnamon suffers from a mortal terror of small, confined spaces, and uses this knowledge as a means of breaking her cover and Read More

Mission: Impossible: Doomsday

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: European business tycoon Carl Vandaam (Alf Kjellin) hopes to recoup his lost fortune by building a hydrogen bomb and selling it to the highest bidder. The IMF's mission is to stop Vandaam in his tracks, a strategy that requires Rollin to pose as one of the potential buyers. The more dangerous Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Glass Cage

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: East European resistance leader Anton Reisner (Richard Garland) is being held in a prison cage surrounded by escape-proof glass. The cage can only be opened automatically via a newly created security device. The IMF agents hope to trick Reisner's captor Major Zelinko (Lloyd Bochner) into Read More

Mission: Impossible: The System

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: To get the evidence necessary to destroy mob kingpin Constantine Victor (Val Avery), the IMF preys upon Johnny Costa (James Patterson), Victor's most trusted henchmen. Knowing that Costa would never rat out his boss under normal circumstances, the IMF agents stage a complex scam to convince Costa Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Interrogator

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Written by Paul Playdon, "The Interrogator" opens as enemy submarines converged off the Atlantic Coast, poised to launch a nuclear attack against the United States. Racing against time, the IMF agents must persuade captured spy Novan Kruger (Henry Silva) to reveal his country's war plans. Read More

Mission: Impossible: Mastermind

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Donnelly Rhodes

Synopsis: The IMF must prevent blackmailer Lou Merrick (Donnelly Rhodes) from turning over a file of information on top government officials to the Syndicate. Infiltrating one of the mob's biggest fronts, Phelps and his fellow agents set in motion an intricate mind-transfer experiment to convince Merrick Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Robot

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Malachi Throne

Synopsis: Gregor Kamirov (Malachi Throne) has hired a double to pose as deceased East European premier Pavel Zagov. Having concealed Zagov's death from the public, Kamirov hopes to use the phony premier to install himself as dictator. In order to foil Kamirov's plans, Phelps must substitute a robot for the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Submarine

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Stephen McNally

Synopsis: Stephen McNally guest-stars as Nazi war criminal Kruger Schtelman, the only man who knows the whereabouts of a fortune hidden by the Germans during WW2. To prevent Schtelman from using the money to finance a neo-Nazi revolt, the IMF must trick him into revealing the whereabouts of the hidden cash. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Amnesiac

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: A rare radioactive isotope known as Trivanium is the prize in this tense Mission:Impossible episode. With only 48 hours at their disposal, the IMF must recover the isotope before it can be applied to the manufacture of nuclear weaponry. Paris poses as Stefan, the amnesiac former partner of Johan Read More

Mission: Impossible: Time Bomb

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Barbara Luna

Synopsis: With nothing to lose, terminally ill American agent Anton Malik (Morgan Sterne) has planted an detonation device in a nuclear reactor. It is up to the IMF to convince the embittered Malik to remove the device. Their strategy involves a dangerous waiting game which may result in the deaths of all Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Brothers

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Michele Carey

Synopsis: Friendly Middle Eastern potentate King Selim (Lloyd Battista) has been imprisoned by his lookalike brother Prince Samandal (also Lloyd Battista), the better to usurp Selim's throne and hand over the kingdom to enemies of the West. To rescue Selim and restore the status quo of his country, the IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Double Circle

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Anne Francis

Synopsis: The technical wizardry of the IMF is given a real workout in "The Double Circle." Anne Francis guest stars as IMF agent Gillian Colbee, who poses as the owner of a valuable antique. Gillian's impersonation is part of a master plan to recover a stolen rocket fuel formula from mercurial art Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Controllers, Part One

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Dina Merrill

Synopsis: The first multipart Mission: Impossible adventure of the 1969-70 season, "The Controllers" was written by Laurence Hearth. A mind-controlling drug known as B-230 has been developed by enemy scientist Dr. Karl Turek (David Sheiner). To prevent Turek from turning the populaiton of the Free World Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Numbers Game

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, May Britt

Synopsis: Guest stars Torin Thatcher and May Britt are cast as Rados and Eva Gollan, respectively the exiled dictator of a South American nation and his ambitious wife. In preparation for regaining power, Gollan has deposited millions in a Swiss bank account. In order to get the account's number, the IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Code

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Leonard Nimoy joins the Mission:Impossible cast as The Great Paris, master of disguise and jack of all trades, in the series' fourth-season opener, "The Code." The IMF heads to the Latin American democracy of San Cristobal, presently in danger of invasion by dictator Vincente Bravo (Harold Gould). Read More

Mission: Impossible: Commandante

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Lawrence Z. Dane

Synopsis: The "Commandante" in this Mission:Impossible episode is a man named Acero, played by Lawrence Dane. Joining forces with his longtime political foe Major Martillo (Sig Haig), Acero has imprision Father Paolo Dominguin (Arthur Batanides), the leader of a Latin American revolutionary movement. In Read More

Mission: Impossible: Fool's Gold

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: In his third Mission:Impossible guest appearance, Nehemiah Persoff is cast as Igor Stravos, finance minister of the Federated Peoples' Republic. As part of a plan to take over the Kingdom of Bahkan, Stravos has flooded the friendly country with counterfeit money. In order to prevent Bahkan's Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Controllers, Part Two

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Dina Merrill

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission:Impossible episode "The Controllers", Phelps has been charged with murder and placed on trial. It is all part of a plan to destroy the credibility of Dr. Karl Turek (David Sheiner), the creator of a dangerous mind-controlling drug called B-230. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Town

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Taking a well-deserved vacation, Phelps finds himself in a small town populated almost exlclusively by political assassins. Captured, Phelps is drugged and left in a paralytic state. Despite his helplessness, he manages to blink a message to Rollin, who rallies the rest of the IMF to prevent the Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Counterfeiter

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The title character in this Mission: Impossible episode is Raymond Calder (Edmond O'Brien), the unscrupulous manufacturer of counterfeit drugs. Distressed that Calder has exploited the needs of the desperately ill, his former colleague Dr. McConnell (Noah Keen) conspires with the IMF agents to Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Condemned

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Like the first-season Mission: Impossible episode "The Ransom," the second-season installment "The Condemned" is an unusual departure from the series' format. Racing against the clock, Jim Phelps hopes to save the life of his close friend Kevin Hagen, who has been convicted of murder and sentenced Read More

Mission: Impossible: Trial by Fury

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Written by Sy Salkowitz, "Trial by Fury" takes place in a South American dictatorship. When resistance leader Manuel Delgardo (Ernest Sarracino) is thrown into prison, his associate Santos Cardoza (Michael Tolan) has himself arrested so that he can pass on valuable information to Delgardo's Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Phoenix

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Frequent Mission: Impossible director Alf Kjellin appears in this episode as art museum director Stefan Prohosh, the ousted party chairman of a small Eastern Bloc country. Hoping to regain his power, Prohosh steals a secret alloy which has been welded into a metal sculpture. The IMF's mission is Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Killing

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Gerald S. O'Loughlin guest-stars as Burt Gordon, the suspected head of a nationwide organization of contract killers. To get the goods on Gordon, Phelps and Cinnamon pose as a married couple and move next door to the suspect. The next step is to convince Gordon that he has murdered Phelps--and Read More

Mission: Impossible: Season 03

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: After two years of playing to respectable but not spectacular ratings, Mission: Impossible finally attained the gold ring in season three, when it was ranked as America's 11th most popular series by the A.C. Nielsen Company. At this point in time, the series' formula had been committed to memory Read More

Sergeant Ryker

Synopsis: It's 1951 in Korea, a time that the United States Army doesn't like to remember. The Communists, led by Chinese forces, are tearing up the battlefield and overrunning American and South Korean positions, and in the midst of it, Sgt. Paul William Ryker (Lee Marvin), decorated World War II hero Read More

The Ballad of Josie

Actors: Peter Graves, Doris Day, George Kennedy, Andy Devine, William Talman

Synopsis: Doris Day peers through layers of camera gauze to star in The Ballad of Josie, a second-rate variation of Cat Ballou. For openers, Day is arrested for the billiard-cue bludgeoning of her late husband. Upon her acquittal, she takes up sheep ranching in Wyoming. To prove herself as good as any man, Day Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Emerald

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Boarding the S.S. Star of Suez, the cleverly disguised agents of the IMF attempt to prevent Communist agent Yorgi Petrosian (Michael Strong) from getting his hands on a valuable microfilm. Unbeknownst to himself, gun salesman Victor Tomar (William Smithers) is in possession of the film, which is Read More

Mission: Impossible: A Game of Chess

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The IMF agents are assigned to recapture $1,000,000 in gold bullion, which was targetted for a pro-Democracy underground group but has been confiscated by the Communists. The money is being held under maximum-security conditions at a hotel where an important chess tournament is being held. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Spy

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Beautiful but dangerous enemy agent Felicia Vabar (Kate Woodville) engineers the theft of valuable NATO missile-defense plans. Fortunately, only half of the plans are in Vabar's possession: It is up to the IMF to protect the other half--and, of course, to recover the already stolen documents. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Diplomat

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Unable to recover valuable documents concerning America's missile system, the IMF must resort to a contingency plan. In order to convince enemy agents that the documents are worthless, Phelps and his cohorts work hand in glove with Susan Buchanan (Lee Grant), the wife of an American diplomat. Mrs. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Elixir

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Ruth Roman guest-stars as Riva Sentel, the Evita-like widow of a popular Latin American leader. Santel plans to make a television broadcast that will enable her to abolish democracy in her nations and set herself up as dictator. Banking on Sentel's notorious vanity, the IMF hopes to ruin her Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Cardinal

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Borrowing a page from "The Man in the Iron Mask," an impostor poses as Cardinal Soucheck (Paul Stevens), the much-beloved spiritual leader of a Balkan nation, while the real Cardinal languishes in prision. It is all part of a scheme by would-be dictator General Zepke (Theodore Bikel) to gain Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Freeze

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Having stolen $10 million, Albert Jenkins (Donnelly Rhodes) allows himself to be arrested for another offense under an assumed name, secure in the belief that, by the time his 14-year sentence has been served, the statute of limitations will have expired and he will be able to recover his stolen Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Bargain

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Miami-based gambling kingpin Frank Layton (Warren Stevens) has agreed to finance the return of a deposed Latin American dictator General Neyron (Albert Paulsen). In exchange, Layton will receive all gambling rights in Neyron's home country. The IMF agents hope to derail this bargain, and destroy Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Play

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, John Colicos

Synopsis: Milos Kuro (John Colicos), minister of culture in an Eastern Bloc nation, plans to use an anti-American play to sabotage the peacful negotations between pro-Western premier Leon Vados (Barry Atwater) and the United States. To that end, Kuro, hires a travelling theatrical troupe to do his dirty Read More

Mission: Impossible: Recovery

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: When a SAC bomber crashes in a Communist country, the palne's fail-safe mechanism falls into the hands of American defector Paul Shipherd (Bradford Dillman). The IMF agents must retrieve the mechanism before Shipherd inadvertently triggers its self-destruct device. Posing as the husband-and-wife Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Contenders, Part One

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: World champion boxer Sugar Ray Robinson makes a guest appearance in the two-part Mission: Impossible episode "The Contenders", which was loosely based on an actual event in Robinson's career. The IMF must prevent Charles Buckman (Ron Randell) from gaining control of all American sports events, and Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Heir Apparent

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Mission: Impossible launched its third season on September 29 1968 with the episode titled "The Heir Apparent." To save a Balkan monarchy from falling into the hands of Envir Quaisette (Charles Aidman), the IMF concocts a plan built around the legend of Princess Celine, the real heiress to the Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Mercenaries

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Mercenary leader Colonel Han Krim (Pernell Roberts) promises to bring freedom to emerging African nations, all the while robbing the economic resources of those nations to fatten his own coffers. In order to discredit Krim and return his ill-gotten gains to their rightful owners, the IMF stages a Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Execution

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Racketeer Lewis Parma (Vincent Gardenia) intends to take control of the food distribution industry and pose exorbitant consumer prices. To destroy Parma, the IMF agents must extract information from the gang leader's most trusted lieutenant, a man named Ducho (Luke Askew). The plan hinges upon a Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Contenders, Part Two

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Contenders", crooked sports promoter Charles Buckman (Ron Randell) still hopes to gain control of all professional and amateur athletics in the United States. Posing as an aspiring boxer, IMF agent Barney has managed to Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Widow

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) takes over as head of the Impossible Missions Force in "The Widow." This time, the target is Alex Cresnic (William Cresnic), the world's largest heroin dealer. The IMF's mission is to persuade Cresnic's buyers that he has double-crossed them. First step: to convince Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Slave, Part Two

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Slave", the IMF force has kidnapped Amara (Antoinette Bower), the niece of corrupt Elkabaran King Ibn Borca (Joseph Ruskin), Fasar (David Mauro), and sold her into slavery. It is all part of a plan to end the slave trade in Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Slave, Part One

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The first multipart adventure of Mission: Impossible's second season, "The Slave" was written by William Read Woodfield and Alan Balter. The scene is the Persian Gulf state of Elkabar, where King Ibn Borca (Joseph Ruskin) supervises a vicious but entirely legal slave ring with the aid of his crony Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Escape

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Promising to smuggle wealthy Eastern Europeans across the Iron Curtain, banker Alfred Belzig 9James Daly) lures the hapless escapees to their deaths, then deposits the victims' money in his own bank to finance a neo-Nazi party. The IMF hopes to put Belzig out of business permanently by stealing Read More

The Invaders, Vol. 6: Moonshot

Synopsis: Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: Rope of Gold

Synopsis: A series of truck hijackings has coincided with the appearance of stolen American cargoes behind the Iron Curtain. Investigating, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) follows the trail of clues to Manning Fryes (Peter Graves), an outwardly respectable businessman who is harboring a terrible Read More

Valley of Mystery

Actors: Richard Egan, Harry Guardino, Joby Baker, Lois Nettleton

Synopsis: In this adventure, a commercial plane crashes in a remote South American jungle. All but one of the passengers survive. Unfortunately, he was the sheriff in charge of taking a dangerous criminal to the executioner. During the excitement of the crash, the prisoner killed the lawman. Among the other Read More

Mission: Impossible: Season 02

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Season two of Mission: Impossible found a new man at the helm of the top-secret Impossible Missions Force: Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, replacing the first season's Steven Hill, who played Dan Briggs. At the time, there was much speculation in the industry over the reason for Hill's departure, with Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Astrologer

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Baltic freedom fighter Nikolai Kurzon (Bob Tiedemann) has been kidnapped by Colonel Alex Stahl (Steve Ihnat), leader of the secret police in Kurzon's homeland. To rescue both Kurzon and his thousands of followers, the IMF must make it appear that Stahl has sold out his government. To accomplish Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Council, Part Two

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Council", the IMF's plan to topple a gangland syndicate is threatened when one of the mobsters apparently sees through Rollin's impersonation of crooked businessman Frank Wayne (Paul Stevens). Meanwhile, the real Stevens lies Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Council, Part One

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, "The Council" was the second multipart story of Mission: Impossible's second season. In their most ambitious assignment to date, the IMF must destroy a criminal empire that threatens to drain America's gold reserves. As part of the plan, Rollin Read More

Mission: Impossible: Echo of Yesterday

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Powerful but gullible German industrialist Otto Kelmann (Wilfred Hyde-White) is on the verge of handing over his munitions empire to a "new Hitler" named Colonel Marcus Von Frank (Hans Gudegast), aka Eric Braeden). It is up to the IMF to smash Marcus' movement by forcing Kelmann to realign his Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Survivors

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Two of the three scientists working on a cobalt bomb have been kidnapped by enemy agent Eric Stavak (Albert Paulsen), who has hidden his captives somewhere in San Francisco. The IMF must protect remaining scientist Dr Robert Webster, who holds the equations for the deadly weapon. Posing as Read More

Mission: Impossible: Trek

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: A priceless collection of Inca gold treasures has disappeared, threatening the financial stability of Santales, a tiny Latin American republic. The IMF is assigned to retrieve the treasures from master thief Jack Cole (Dan O'Herlihy), a task made doubly difficult by the treacherous terrain of Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Photographer

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Anthony Zerbe guest-stars as David Redding, a high-profile fashion photographer--and treacherous double agent. In league with 150 fellow spies, Redding intends to destroy the U.S. with a deadly bubonic plague epidemic. With only 72 hours at their disposal, the IMF agents must stop Redding and his Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Seal

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The sacred gold seal of the Far Eastern nation of Kuala Rokat has been stolen. Masterminding the heist is American industrialist Taggart (Darren McGavin), who intends to hold on to the seal despite the danger of a major diplomatic breakdown. The IMF is assigned to recover the seal, a job that Read More

Mission: Impossible: Sweet Charity

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Guest stars Fritz Weaver and Hazel Court are cast as Erik and Catherine Hagar, who operate a fraudulent charity organization from their lavish European estate. The IMF agents attempt to destroy the Hagars' racket by ruining the couple's "perfect" marriage. Essential to the success of this plan is Read More

Mission: Impossible: Operation

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Communist agent Stephan Gomalk (Michael Strong) intends to take control of the small European democracy ruled by his "friend", President Beyron Rurich (Pernell Roberts). Caught in the middle is archaeologist William Bennett (Aaron Fletcher), who stumbled onto Gomalk's scheme, suffered a heart Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Money Machine

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: African stockbroker Walter DuBruis (Brock Peters) is poised to destroy the economy of Ghalea by flooding the nation with counterfeit money. His partner in crime is master forger Raf Tagoor (Michael Shilo), who has come into possession of a shipment of genuine currency paper. Assigned to dispose of Read More

Branded: The Assassins, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) is again summoned to Washington by President Grant (William Bryant). This time, Jason is asked to infiltrate a group of insurrectionists who may or may not be plotting to assassinate the President and overthrow the government. Read More

Texas Across the River

Actors: Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth, Joey Bishop, Tina Marquand

Synopsis: Dean Martin stars as an amiable gunrunner in the tongue-in-cheek western Texas Across the River. Martin teams up with fugitive from justice Alain Delon, a Spanish nobleman engaged to the beautiful Rosemary Forsyth. Amidst several Indian attacks, hairbreadth escapes and wild chases, Martin does his Read More

Branded: The Assassins, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second episode of a two-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) has infiltrated a group of insurrectionists who plan to assassinate President Grant. When Jason's cover is blown, the assassins boldly make a public attempt on both his life and Grant's--leaving an incriminating dagger behind. Read More

A Rage to Live

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves, Bethel Leslie

Synopsis: This soapy melodrama based on the novel by John O'Hara earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design. Suzanne Pleshette stars as Grace Caldwell, a newspaper heiress and nymphomaniac whose numerous dalliances threaten to destroy her wealthy Pennsylvania family's image. Taken on a Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: I'll Be Judge, I'll Be Jury

Actors: Peter Graves, Albert Salmi, Sarah Marshall, Ed Nelson, Rodolfo Hoyos

Synopsis: A Mexican honeymoon turns into a nightmare when Laura Needham (Eileen O'Neill), the young wife of tourist Mark Needham (Peter Graves), is murdered. The police suspect that the crime was committed by wealthy businessman Theodore Bond (Albert Salmi), but they lack the evidence to make an arrest. Read More

A Stranger in My Arms

Actors: June Allyson, Jeff Chandler, Sandra Dee, Charles Coburn, Mary Astor

Synopsis: Though billed fifth, Mary Astor is the one to watch in the Ross Hunter-produced soapera Stranger in My Arms. Astor portrays a neurotically possessive mother who'll stop at nothing to win a posthumous medal of honor for her son. But air force major Jeff Chandler knows that the dead boy was a coward Read More

Wolf Larsen

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Peter Graves, Gita Hall, Thayer David, John Alderson

Synopsis: Legend of the Sea Wolf is the alternate title of two separate film versions of Jack London's allegorical The Sea Wolf. The first of the two, released in 1958, was originally titled Wolf Larsen. Barry Sullivan stars as the brutal captain of a scavenger ship, who rides his men mercilessly and Read More

Lux Video Theatre: The Armed Venus

Actors: Esther Williams, Steve Forrest, Peter Graves, John Hudson, Robert Richards

Synopsis: Moviedom's favorite aquatic star Esther Williams made her TV dramatic debut--as a villainess--in this 1957 episode of the NBC anthology Lux Video Theatre. Williams plays Vicki, an apparently schizophrenic young woman who goes from sweet to sinister and back again at a moment's notice. No one can Read More

Poor White Trash

Actors: Peter Graves, Lita Milan, Douglas Fowley, Timothy Carey, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: The calculatedly sleazy Bayou stars Lita Milan as Marie, the daughter of slovenly Cajun fisherman Herbert (Douglas Fowley). Marie falls in love with Northern architect Martin (Peter Graves), which rests not at all well with her ardent--and psychotic--local suitor Ulysses (Tim Carey at his most Read More

Beginning of the End

Actors: Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Richard Benedict, James Seay

Synopsis: Produced by Bert I. Gordon, The Beginning of the End a menacing onslaught of giant-sized grasshoppers. Department of Agriculture functionary Peter Graves and photojournalist Peggie Castle discover that the huge grasshoppers are the product of a gone-awry experiment in radioactivity. Before the Read More

Death in Small Doses

Actors: Peter Graves, Mala Powers, Chuck Connors, Merry Anders, Roy Engel

Synopsis: Pill poppin' truckers provide the focus of this anti-drug drama. Much of the story centers upon an investigator for the US Food and Drug Department who has been assigned to stop all truckers from taking amphetamines while they drive. The drivers take the pills to help them stay awake on Read More

Casey Jones and Fury

Synopsis: This hour-long tape consists of an episode from the syndicated Golden Age of Television series. The first half-hour consists of a 1957 episode of the TV adventure weekly Casey Jones. Alan Hale Jr. stars as the legendary railroad engineer in this "eastern western." The second half-hour is devoted Read More

Canyon River

Actors: George Montgomery, Marcia Henderson, Peter Graves, Richard Eyer, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Canyon River stars George Montgomery as trail boss Steve Patrick. Reversing the procedure usually depicted in westerns of this nature, Patrick is assigned to guide a cattle drive from the west-coast state of Oregon to the wilds of Wyoming. En route, our hero must fend off attacks from both Read More

It Conquered the World

Actors: Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef, Sally Fraser, Charles B. Griffith, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: Though Roger Corman was still new to sci-fi in 1956, he made up for lost time with the above-average quickie It Conquered the World. Peter Graves heads the cast as Paul Nelson, who suspects that his best friend, eccentric genius Tom Anderson (Lee Van Cleef), is up to no good. Sure enough, Tom has Read More

Hold Back the Night

Actors: John Payne, Mona Freeman, Peter Graves, Chuck Connors, Audrey Dalton

Synopsis: Hold Back the Night is one of Allied Artists' down-and-dirty World War II dramas of the 1950s and 1960s. John Payne stars as a tough commanding officer, guiding the fighting retreat of an Allied platoon in the snowy hills of Korea. Payne always carries with him an unopened bottle of whiskey, which Read More

Wichita

Actors: Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest--and to some, more entertaining--slant on the Wyatt Earp legend. Joel McCrea does his usual smooth, underplayed job as Earp, who aims to bring law and order to the wide-open cow town of Wichita. His least popular Read More

The Night of the Hunter

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves

Synopsis: Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with "good" represented by a couple of farm Read More

The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell

Actors: Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts Mitchell's efforts to prove the viability of a strong air force. The hidebound military higher-ups refuse to finance aviation any further, figuring that the strength of the Read More

The Long Gray Line

Actors: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Ward Bond, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in flashback, the film recalls the first days at the Point for Irish immigrant Maher (Tyrone Power), a pugnacious boy who can't seem to fit in with the institution's regimen of Read More

Fury [TV Series]

Actors: Peter Graves, Bobby Diamond

Synopsis: Long-running series about an orphan and the black horse given to him by his foster father. The show was syndicated under the title Brave Stallion. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Naked Street

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, Peter Graves, Else Neft

Synopsis: A ruthless crime lord saves his sister from social embarrassment by working diligently to get the gangster who fathered her unborn baby off death row and out of prison so he can do the decent thing and marry the girl. The freed gangster is not thrilled with his new bride, but stays loyal until the Read More

Robbers' Roost

Actors: George Montgomery, Richard Boone, Sylvia Findley, Bruce Bennett, Peter Graves

Synopsis: The 1955 western Robbers' Roost was the second film version of the venerable Zane Grey yarn. George Montgomery stars as a taciturn outlaw who lands an honest job on the spread managed by physically disabled Bruce Bennett. When Bennett's sister Sylvia Findley is kidnapped by crooked Richard Boone Read More

Fort Yuma

Actors: Peter Graves, Joan Vohs, John Hudson, Joan Taylor, Addison Richards

Synopsis: In this western, a white man kills an Apache Chief and starts a war. This time the Apaches choose an interesting way to exact their revenge: they will dress up as federal soldiers and sneak into the fort. The problem is that they must attack a supply column in order to get the uniforms. They do so Read More

Black Tuesday

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Peter Graves, Jean Parker, Milburn Stone, Warren Stevens

Synopsis: On the eve of his execution, killer Edward G. Robinson busts out of prison with the help of his girlfriend (Jean Parker) and a crook posing as a reporter (Warren Stevens). Robinson takes along five hostages, including the daughter of the murdered head guard (Sylvia Findley), a real reporter (Jack Kelly Read More

The Yellow Tomahawk

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Peggie Castle, Noah Beery, Jr., Warner Anderson, Peter Graves

Synopsis: The Yellow Tomahawk stars Rory Calhoun as a Wyoming Indian scout who forms a strong friendship with Cheyenne warrior Lee Van Cleef. Their relationship is sorely tested when martinet army major Warner Anderson inaugurates a vicious anti-Indian policy, targetted at the Cheyenne women and children. Read More

Killers From Space

Actors: Peter Graves, James Seay, Gaylord "Steve" Pendleton, Barbara Bestar

Synopsis: The Killers from Space in this low-budget sci-fier are a group of aliens bent on conquering the earth. To this end, they overtake the mind and body of atomic scientist Peter Graves, using the poor man as a combination spy and saboteur. When Graves realizes this, he tries to warn mankind, but no Read More

The Raid

Actors: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Lee Marvin, Richard Boone, Tommy Rettig

Synopsis: Based on a true story from the Civil War, this drama follows a band of Confederate POWS who escape from a New England prison head for Canada and begin planning to distract Union forces by looting and pillaging a Vermont town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

East of Sumatra

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Marilyn Maxwell, Anthony Quinn, Suzan Ball, John Sutton

Synopsis: Director Budd Boetticher moves out of his traditional western surroundings for the Technicolor programmer East of Sumatra. Jeff Chandler stars as an American miner, who journeys east of Sumatra in search of tin ore. He runs afoul of Anthony Quinn, a local despot who rules the Pacific island which Chandler Read More

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

Actors: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland, J. Carrol Naish, Richard Boone

Synopsis: At the time of its release, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef was considered more notable for its technical achievements than its artistic virtues, a judgment that is still valid, up to a point. It wasn't the most earth-shattering drama ever made, though the performances seem better than they were probably Read More

War Paint

Actors: Robert Stack, Joan Taylor, Charles McGraw, Keith Larsen, Peter Graves

Synopsis: War Paint stars Robert Stack as a courageous U.S. Cavalry lieutenant, assigned to deliver a peace treaty to a powerful Indian chief. Unfortunately, a band of bloodthirsty renegades have vowed to kill the officer before he completes his mission. Will our hero be able to deliver the treaty at the Read More

Stalag 17

Actors: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck

Synopsis: The scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is overseen by sadistic commandant Oberst Von Schernbach (Otto Preminger) and the deceptively avuncular sergeant Schultz (Sig Ruman). The inmates spend their waking hours Read More

Red Planet Mars

Actors: Peter Graves, Andrea King, Orley Lindgren, Walter Sande, Marvin Miller, Herbert Berghof

Synopsis: A husband-and-wife scientist team (Peter Graves, Andrea King) are experimenting with a "hydrogen tube" invention (which he got from a missing German scientist, lost in the collapse of the Reich), when they get signals back from what appears to be Mars. The culture-shock of that event is serious Read More

Fort Defiance

Actors: Dane Clark, Ben Johnson, Peter Graves, George Cleveland

Synopsis: Fort Defiance stars Dane Clark as Civil War deserter Johnny Tallon. Despite his checkered past, Johnny is idolized by his blind brother Ned (Peter Graves). All this changes when Ben Shelby (Ben Johnson), whose brother's death was caused by Johnny, comes to town in seeking revenge. Though it hardly Read More

Rogue River

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Peter Graves, Frank Fenton, Ralph Sanford, George Stern

Synopsis: Rogue River stars Rory Calhoun as Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge (Frank Fenton). A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once framed on a bank robbery charge, unleashes innumerable family skeletons. Ownie is obliged to solve the long-ago Read More

Biography: Ronald Reagan - The Role of a Lifetime

Synopsis: This video presents a portrait of Ronald Reagan. In a story that reads like a Hollywood script, this star of film and television went on to play the leading man in national politics. The video chronicles Reagan's journey, with clips from films, including The Knute Rockne Story, and his television Read More

World of Cross Country Skiing with Peter Graves

Synopsis: This instruction video teaches skiing techniques and ski maintenance. Includes a look at choosing good equipment. ~ All Movie Guide Read More