Peter LupusFilmography

Love, Cheat & Steal

Actors: John Lithgow, Eric Roberts, Mädchen Amick, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: A woman's greed wreaks havoc on those in her life in this made-for-cable movie. Madchen Amick stars as Lauren Harrington, the seemingly perfect and beautiful wife of Paul (John Lithgow). What Paul doesn't know is that Lauren set up a former boyfriend (Eric Roberts) and sent him to jail as part of Read More

Acting on Impulse

Actors: Linda Fiorentino, C. Thomas Howell, Nancy Allen, Judith Hoag, Adam Ant

Synopsis: In this behind-the-scenes thriller, a movie actress finds herself accused of hacking up her producer. She tries to flee with two lovers preparing to marry. The three get into all sorts of trouble that ends with the death of the fiancee. Once again, the actress finds herself accused of the crime Read More

Hangfire

Actors: Brad Davis, Kim Delaney, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ken Foree, George Kennedy, Lee de Broux

Synopsis: This Peter Maris action begins at New Mexico State Penitentiary, where a spew of toxic gas from the crash of a tanker truck leads to the evacuation of the prison by the warden (George Kennedy). In the ensuing confusion, anti-social cons Kuttner (Lee De Broux) and Patch (James Tolkan) kidnap prison Read More

Driving Me Crazy

Actors: Thomas Gottschalk, Billy Dee Williams, Michelle Johnson, James Tolkan, Steve Kanaly, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: It probably takes an intimate acquaintance with East Germany's famously awful car, a smoky, noisy two-cylinder lawnmower on wheels, the Trabant 601, to fully appreciate the jokes in this extremely popular, celebrity-filled comedy. In the story, Gunther (German television star Thomas Gotttschalk) Read More

Think Big

Actors: Peter Paul, David Paul, Ari Meyers, Martin Mull, David Carradine

Synopsis: Professional wrestlers Peter Paul and David Paul star in this muscle-bound comedy about two slowwitted truck drivers who are hired to transport a heap of toxic waste across the country to Los Angeles. Along the way, the boys run into a 16-year-old girl genius who is on the run from a secret Read More

Assassination

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Jan Gan Boyd, Randy Brooks, Erik Stern

Synopsis: In Assassination, a routine political thriller directed by Peter Hunt, Jay Hillion (Charles Bronson) is a secret service agent assigned to protect First Lady Lara Royce Craig (Jill Ireland). Lara hates Hillion and tries to get away from him but finds she needs him when her life is threatened by a Read More

Pulsebeat

Actors: Daniel Greene, Bob Small, Alice Moore, Helga Liné

Synopsis: This drama about dueling health clubs focuses on Roger (Daniel Greene), who runs a gym called (logically enough ) "Roger's Gym." But Roger is fast losing business to The Rejuvenarium, a health club owned by Marlene (Helga Liné). It seems Marlene is making off with Roger's best instructors and is Read More

Modern Day Houdini

Actors: Bill Shirk, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The producer of this undistinguished film Bill Shirk backed its creation in Indianapolis with funds from mortgaging his radio station, all so he could show off some of the escape stunts (like being buried with spiders, rats, and a live boa constrictor) in his role as himself in the film. In the Read More

The Escapist

Synopsis: This adventure is essentially a showcase for the talents of escape artist Bill Shirk. The story has him (playing himself) attempting to escape from a crooked corporate leader who wants to prevent him from performing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

More! Police Squad

Synopsis: The seminal early-'80s cop spoof is reprised here, with three classic episodes: "Revenge and Remorse," "The Butler Did It" and "Testimony of Evil." ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide 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: 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 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: 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 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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Kidnap

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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 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: 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 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: 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 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

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 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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 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 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 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: 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: 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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 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 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: 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

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 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: 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Diamond

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Having gained control of the African nation of Lombuanda, despotic Henrik Durvard (John Van Dreelen) has compounded this outrage by confiscating a 27,000-carat diamond. He intends to sell the diamond to the highest bidder in order to finance the invasion of his neighboring nations. The IMF's Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Trial

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Though filmed as the twelfth episode of Mission: Impossible, "The Trial" was the seventeenth to be telecast, on January 28, 1967. While visiting an Eastern European nation, Briggs is mistaken for an American tourist and arrested by public prosecutor Josef Varsh (Carroll O'Connor). It is Varsh's Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Frame

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The IMF agents pose as caterers to prevent mob boss Jack Wellman (Simon Oakland) from infiltrating the government of an unnamed state government. While Briggs, Rollin and Willy prepare a lavish dinner for Wellman and his cronies, Barney undertakes a delicate safecracking operation--while Cinnamon Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Legend

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The IMF is assigned to infiltrate a South American stronghold, where a group of unregenerate Nazis have gathered in hopes of reestablishing the Third Reich. Much to the agents' amazement, the leader of the Nazis is the infamous Martin Bormann! Will the agents be able to convince the old but wily Read More

Mission: Impossible: Action!

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Eastern European movie mogul Miklos Klaar (J.D. Cannon) plans to combine genuine American newsreel footage with faked "re-enactments" to show US soldiers committing atrocities in Southeast Asia. The IMF's assignment is to discredit Klaar in the eyes of his government. Series regular Barbara Bain Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Confession

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: US Senator William Townsend (Kent Smith), the head of a right-wing extremist group, has been assassinated. Confessing to the crime is Andreas Solowiechek (David Sheiner), a member of a Communist Trade delegation, who insists that he was acting on orders from his own government. In truth, however Read More

Mission: Impossible: Snowball in Hell

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban guest-stars as Gerard Sefra, formerly the sadistic overseer of the defunct Boradur penal colony. Sefra has somehow come into possession of a sample of Cesium 138, the catalyst for a low-cost nuclear arsenal. To prevent Sefra from selling the Cesium to the highest bidder, the IMF 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

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 Reluctant Dragon

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Once more penetrating the Iron Curtain, the IMF agents attempt to rescue rocket scientist Helmut Cherlotov (Joseph Campanella), who has developed a high-tech antiballistic missle system. Unfortunately, Cherlotov, who was supposed to have defected to the West along with his wife Karen (Mala Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Legacy

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The scene is Zurich, Switzerland, where four young men, all sons of top-ranking Nazi officials, have gathered. Armed with information that will lead them to the long-hidden personal fortune of Adolf Hitler, the men hope to establish a Fourth Reich. The IMF's mission is to intercept the money (a 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 Train

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The scene is the tiny European republic of Svardia. Dying prime minister Laryra (Rhys Williams) has arranged to be succeeded by his protégé Milos Pavel (William Windom), little realizing that Pavel intends to set up a Communist dictatorship. In concert with an Oscar-winning Hollywood art director 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 Psychic

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The first season of Mission: Impossible came to a close with the April 22, 1967 episode "The Psychic." Some valuable NATO secrets have been appropriated in a hostile corporate takeover by ruthless industrialist Alex Lowell (Barry Sullivan). The IMF heads to South America, where Lowell has 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: 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 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: 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 Traitor

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Guest star Eartha Kitt is cast as a petite circus contortionist named Tina. American agent Hughes (Lonny Chapman) has defected to the East, intending to sell top-secret information to the Communists. In order to retrieve that information, the IMF must penetrate an Iron Curtain embassy, via the air 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: 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

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: Shock

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Enemy agent Peter Kiri (Sorrell Booke) has kidnapped US special envoy Wilson (James Daly) and replaced him with an exact lookalike named Gort. Kiri's plan is to discredit Wilson by having "him" behave in a disgraceful manner while on a delicate diplomatic assignment in a neutral nation. The IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: A Cube of Sugar

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Under the guise of an LSD addict, US secret agent Vincent Deane (Jacques Denbeaux) has managed to hide some top-secret information in one of his "doped" sugar cubes. Unfortunately, Deane is arrested and placed in a Communist-controlled rehabilitation clinic. Posing as Deane's wife, Cinnamon Read More

Mission: Impossible: Memory

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Albert Paulsen

Synopsis: The IMF agents arrive in the Iron Curtain country of Lubjanka. Their mission: to topple the regime of dictator Janos Karq (William Keene), "The Butcher of the Balkans." The success of their scheme depends upon the photographic memory of embittered ex-agent Barrish (Albert Paulsen). If all else Read More

Mission: Impossible: Pilot Episode

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Returning from a much-needed vacation, Briggs is asked to take his Impossible Missions Force to the South American dictatorship of Santa Costa. General Rio Dominguez has gotten hold of two nuclear warheads and locked them in the impenetrable vault of the Hotel Nacionale. Briggs' mission--should he Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Ransom

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Briggs is forced to play along with powerful mobster boss Frank Egan (William Smithers when the daughter of Briggs' friend Joe Mantell is kidnapped. In order to secure the girl's release, Briggs and the IMF must themselves kidnap the key witness against Egan in an upcoming Grand Jury Read More

Mission: Impossible: Season 01

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Season one of Mission: Impossible finds Steven Hill heading the cast as Dan Briggs, head of the top-secret Impossible Missions Force. Issued instructions at the outset of each episode by that famous "self-destructing" tape recorder, Briggs proceeds to select the IMF operatives best suited to the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Old Man Out, Part Two

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In Part Two of "Old Man Out," the IMF is still posing as a carnival troupe: Briggs as a mind reader, Cinnamon as his assistant, Willy as a strongman, Barney as a clown, and freelance agent Crystal Walker (Mary Ann Mobley) as a high-wire artist and Rollin as a light-fingered roustabout. It is all Read More

Mission: Impossible: Zubrovnik's Ghost

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The IMF agents arrive in Austria, where widowed American scientist Dr. Martha Zubrovnik (Beartice Straight) has fallen under the influence of the Communists. Though Dr. Zubrovnik is not a traitor, she has been hoodwinked into cooperating with the enemy by phony medium Sigismund Poljact (Donald Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Carriers

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, "The Carriers" features George Takei as IMF agent Roger Lee and Arthur Hill as enemy agent Janos Passik. An expert on infiltration, Passik has set up a training school for spies in an Iron Curtain replica of a "typical" American town. It is all Read More

Mission: Impossible: A Spool There Was

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: IMF agents Rollin and Cinnamon are assigned to an Iron Curtain nation, where they hope to retrieve a reel of recording wire containing details of an enemy chemical-warfare project. To avoid detective, Rollin poses as dockworker, while Cinnamon impersonates a news photographer. Finding the reel is Read More

Mission: Impossible: Operation Rogosh

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Mercenary anarchist Imry Rogosh (Fritz Weaver) has concocted a scheme to kill off most of the population of Los Angeles. With only 36 hours at their disposal, the IMF must "break" the unbreakable Rogosh to uncover his plans. Their strategy hinges upon convincing Rogosh that he has been imprisoned Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Short Tail Spy

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The IMF is faced with an assignment that virtually requires them to be in two places at once. First, they must prevent the murder of Professor Napolsky (Edward Colmans), who has defected to the West. Simulatenously, they must discredit the more dangerous of the two enemy spy groups who are Read More

Mission: Impossible: Fakeout

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Ken Renard, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Lloyd Bridges guest-stars as Anasta Poltroni, heads of an international drug ring. Under the alias of Ted Carson, Poltroni has avoided prosecution by finding sanctuary in a country that has no extradition treaty with United States. To lure Poltroni out of hiding, the IMF concocts a Read More

Mission: Impossible: Old Man Out, Part One

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The first of Mission: Impossible's multipart adventures, "Old Man Out" began its two-episode run on October 8, 1966. The IMF agents disguise themselves as a carnival troupe in order to rescue 80-year-old freedom fighter Anton Cardinal Vossek (Cyril Delevanti) from an impregnable Balkan prison. Read More

Mission: Impossible: Odds on Evil

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Nehemiah Persoff guest-stars as Prince Iben Kostas, absolute ruler of a tiny Middle Eastern country whose income derives solely from a famous gambling casino. In order to prevent Kostas from raising the money necessary to wage war upon a neighboring oil-rich country, the IMF must arrange to break Read More

Mission: Impossible: Wheels

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The IMF journeys to the Free World country of Valeria, where an election is about to be held. The police-controlled Nationalists intend to rig the votes so that they will emerge triumphant over the Liberty Party. The agents' mission is to "unfix" a crucial voting machine that has been tampered Read More

Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon

Synopsis: This one was also released as Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules. Closer to the truth is the original title: Goliath, King of the Slaves. Ex-Tarzan Gordon Scott plays Goliath, not Hercules (though the film was part of the Sons of Hercules TV package). Ancient Babylonian emperor Read More

Muscle Beach Party

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, John Ashley, Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett

Synopsis: The Beach Party Gang meets a coterie of muscle-men who try to take over their spot on the beach in Muscle Beach Party. Surfing sensations Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) have their security threatened when Flex Martian (Rock Stevens) and a collection of well-oiled Read More

Challenge of the Gladiator

Synopsis: The musclebound star of the Italian Challenge of the Gladiator is billed as "Rock Stevens." To anyone even casually familiar with Mission: Impossible (or, for that matter, Playgirl magazine) it will be abundantly obvious that Rock Stevens is really American leading man Peter Lupus. Our hero plays Read More

Giant of the Evil Island

Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus

Synopsis: Goliath may be a villain in the Bible, but he's a good guy so far as the makers of this sword-and-sandal epic are concerned. Played by Rock Stevens (we'll just bet) that's his real name, Goliath comes to the aid of one King Selim. The villains have appropriated Selim's throne, and the Big One Read More