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Mission: Impossible

Sun, Oct 23, 1988
  • Drama
  • Action & Adventure
  • Crime
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Synopsis

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. The show is a revival of the 1966 TV series of the same name. The only actor to return for the series as a regular cast member was Peter Graves who played Jim Phelps, although two other cast members from the original series returned as guest stars. The only other regular cast member to return for every episode was the voice of "The Tape", Bob Johnson.

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Cast

Top of the call sheet

  • Peter Graves
    Peter Graves
    as Jim Phelps
  • Thaao Penghlis
    Thaao Penghlis
    as Nicholas Black
  • Antony Hamilton
    Antony Hamilton
    as Max Harte
  • Phil Morris
    Phil Morris
    as Grant Collier
  • Jane Badler
    Jane Badler
    as Shannon Reed
  • Bob Johnson
    Bob Johnson
    as Voice on Disc
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Episodes

2 seasons · 35 episodes

Ended · 35 aired
Season 1
19 episodes · 19 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Killer
    Aired · Mon, Oct 24, 1988 · 60m

    Jim Phelps comes out of retirement to head a new team... in the search for the man who killed his protege, an assassin who does everything randomly to make it impossible to anticipate his next move.

  • E2
    The System
    Aired · Mon, Oct 31, 1988 · 60m

    The team must convince a young mobster to turn evidence against the older mobster that he's partnered with.

  • E3
    Holograms
    Aired · Mon, Nov 7, 1988 · 60m

    The team must lure a drug lord onto America territory--and ensure his arrest--by convincing him that his long-lost son is still alive.

  • E4
    The Condemned
    Aired · Mon, Nov 21, 1988 · 60m

    The team must clear the name of an American framed for a crime he didn't commit: Grant's father, and Jim's former teammate, Barney Collier.

  • E5
    The Legacy
    Aired · Sun, Nov 27, 1988 · 60m

    The grandsons of four World War II Nazis come out of hiding to collect the cache of gold that their grandfathers hid... and Nicholas must go undercover as one of them to find out the cache's location first.

  • E6
    The Wall
    Aired · Mon, Dec 12, 1988 · 60m

    An East German doctor convinces refugees that he can get them over the Berlin Wall and then sells them out to the local colonel.... and he kidnaps the daughter of a negotiator to increase hostilities and maintain his profit.

  • E7
    The Cattle King
    Aired · Mon, Dec 19, 1988 · 60m

    The team goes after an Australian arms dealer and recruits the local Aborigine tribe to help them.

  • E8
    The Pawn
    Aired · Mon, Jan 16, 1989 · 60m

    The team must get a defecting scientist and chess master out of Czechoslovakia in the middle of the world chess championships, under heavy guard by his Soviet masters.

  • E9
    The Haunting
    Aired · Sun, Jan 29, 1989 · 60m

    The team goes after a rich sociopath who has killed an Arabic princess. Now her father is threatening to pull out of an oil treaty unless his daughter's fate is determined and the killer brought to justice.

  • E10
    The Lions
    Aired · Sun, Feb 5, 1989 · 60m

    When the brother of a dead king sabotages the test his nephew must pass to become the new king, the IMF gets involved to make sure the boy has a fair chance.

  • E11
    The Greek
    Aired · Sun, Feb 12, 1989 · 60m

    The team goes after a Greek tycoon who uses his yacht to distribute illegally obtained drugs worldwide.

  • E12
    The Fortune
    Aired · Sun, Feb 19, 1989 · 60m

    The team takes on the ruthless wife of a dictator who is planning a return to power. The mission costs one team member their life.

  • E13
    The Fixer
    Aired · Sun, Feb 26, 1989 · 60m

    The team takes on a crooked DC columnist who uses the information he gathers to blackmail and intimidate to gain what he wants.

  • E14
    Spy
    Aired · Sun, Mar 19, 1989 · 60m

    The team goes up against an ex-MI6 agent selling chemical weapons. To stop him, Jim must team up with a KGB operative who he's battled in the past... and must now rely on to save his life.

  • E15
    The Devils
    Aired · Sun, Mar 26, 1989 · 60m

    A British lord forms a fake Satanic coven and uses it to blackmail the high-ranking officials who participate. The team sets out to convince him that the Devil is real.

  • E16
    The Plague
    Aired · Sun, Apr 9, 1989 · 60m

    The IMF must recover a lethal bacteria from the black-market dealer who had it stolen.

  • E17
    Reprisal
    Aired · Sun, Apr 16, 1989 · 60m

    The team goes up against its most dangerous opponent: a former IMF scientist driven insane by a head injury, who plans to frame Jim for the murder of his former female teammates.

  • E18
    Submarine
    Aired · Sun, Apr 30, 1989 · 60m

    The IMF goes after a crooked admiral who has engineered a computer virus that has already sunk one submarine.

  • E19
    Bayou
    Aired · Sun, May 7, 1989 · 60m

    The IMF used voodoo to break up a white slavery ring in Louisiana,

Season 2
16 episodes · 16 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Golden Serpent (1)
    Aired · Fri, Sep 22, 1989 · 60m

    The team goes after the Golden Serpent, an international opium-smuggling operation, with the help of their inside man... Grant's father, Barney Collier.

  • E2
    The Golden Serpent (2)
    Aired · Fri, Sep 29, 1989 · 60m

    With Barney presumed dead, the IM team has no choice but to continue with their mission against the Golden Serpent, pitting the organization's leader and Prince Selimun against each other.

  • E3
    The Princess
    Aired · Fri, Oct 6, 1989 · 60m

    The team goes after an assassin who is targeting a princess for death.

  • E4
    Command Performance
    Aired · Fri, Oct 13, 1989 · 60m

    The IMF must rescue a dissident priest from a security tower and find a missing holy relic, all under the eye of the sadistic Defense Minister.

  • E5
    Countdown
    Aired · Fri, Oct 27, 1989 · 60m

    Grant goes undercover as a mercenary to convince a religious fanatic to lead him to the nuclear warhead that she plans to use against her country's capital city.

  • E6
    War Games
    Aired · Fri, Nov 3, 1989 · 60m

    Shannon poses as an astrologer to get close to a East European general who plans to use war games as a cover to invade a neighboring country.

  • E7
    Target Earth
    Aired · Fri, Nov 10, 1989 · 60m

    After secretly murdering the lead pilot, terrorists take over a private space consortium... and Shannon is launched into space on a shuttle along with the terrorist's pilot.

  • E8
    The Fuehrer's Children
    Aired · Fri, Nov 17, 1989 · 60m

    Neo-Nazi leader Richard Kester plans to use a "secret weapon" to convince all other neo-Nazi organizations to elect him their world leader.

  • E9
    Banshee
    Aired · Fri, Dec 1, 1989 · 60m

    An Irish arms dealer blows up a bus filled with old people to turn Republicans versus Nationalist and boost his arms sales, and the team put on a hologrammtic show to convince the dealer to confess his sins.

  • E10
    For Art's Sake
    Aired · Fri, Dec 15, 1989 · 60m

    Suave, debonair hotelier Daniel Travers is secretly an art thief. He steals a painting belonging to a foreign country, putting U.S. negotiations at risk, and the team must recover the painting and put Travers out of business once and for all.

  • E11
    Deadly Harvest
    Aired · Sun, Jan 7, 1990 · 60m

    Nicholas poses as a terrorist scientist who has undergone plastic surgery, to find the contaminated wheat seeds that the scientist's organization plans to use to destroy America's wheat crop.

  • E12
    Cargo Cult
    Aired · Sun, Jan 14, 1990 · 60m

    A ruthless criminal uses natives as slave labor to mine cyanide-laced gold, preying on their superstitions. The IMF has to out-superstition the criminal with some tricks of their own.

  • E13
    The Assassin
    Aired · Sun, Jan 21, 1990 · 60m

    The team goes after someone who can program innocent people into assassins... and an undercover Nicholas ends up programmed to kill a national leader.

  • E14
    Gunslinger
    Aired · Sun, Feb 4, 1990 · 60m

    Jim and the team take on a crooked ex-Congressman who is using his Old West tourist town as a cover to steal uranium for terrorists.

  • E15
    Church Bells in Bogota
    Aired · Sun, Feb 11, 1990 · 60m

    While going undercover to extradite a Columbian drug lord, Shannon is stricken with amnesia and falls in love with the drug lord's nephew.

  • E16
    The Sands of Seth
    Aired · Sun, Feb 25, 1990 · 60m

    The IMF take on the curator of an Egyptian museum who wants to bring back Egypt's ancient past... with himself as Pharaoh.