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The Play

Action & Adventure

50

Dec 7, 1968

With Phelps and Rollin as the leading men, the Impossible Missions Force stages an anti-American play which could prove to be a strong propaganda device for the enemy.

Full Episodes

Season 3, 25 episodes

The Heir Apparent,

Cinnamon poses as a 50-year-old blind princess, heiress to a Balkan kingdom.

50m Sep 28, 1968

The Contender, Pt. 1,

The Impossible Missions Force is assigned to knock out a boxing syndicate which fixes fights to create favorable odds for a bookmaking operation, in the first half of a two-part story.

45m Oct 5, 1968

The Contender, Pt. 2,

Barney poses as a fighter making his comeback, who boxes his way to a title bout with Staczek (Robert Phillips) in the second half of a two-part episode.

45m Oct 12, 1968

The Mercenaries,

The Impossible Missions Force, led by Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) enters Equatorial Africa to crush an army of mercenaries, led by a self-styled colonel, and to return plundered gold to its rightful owners.

50m Oct 26, 1968

Not knowing when, where, or how a dangerous adversary will strike, Jim Phelps and Cinnamon use themselves as human quarries.

50m Nov 9, 1968

An army commander (played by guest star Theodore Bikel) plots to become dictator by imprisoning an influential cardinal and using a look-alike actor for a public endorsement.

50m Nov 16, 1968

The Impossible Missions Force offers a "fountain of youth" to the vain and dictatorial widow (guest star Ruth Roman) of the late president of a small South American country in order to depose her.

50m Nov 23, 1968

Guest star Fernando Lamas portrays a diplomat-playboy who romances another diplomat's wife, played by Lee Grant.

50m Nov 30, 1968

With Phelps and Rollin as the leading men, the Impossible Missions Force stages an anti-American play which could prove to be a strong propaganda device for the enemy.

50m Dec 7, 1968

The former dictator of a Caribbean island is made to have hallucinatory visions in which he sees his ominous destiny as part of an ingenious plot designed by the Impossible Missions Force.

50m Dec 14, 1968

Before a statute of limitations expires on a 10-million dollar robbery, the Impossible Missions Force must spring the suspect from prison and dupe him into leading police to the hiding place of the money.

50m Dec 21, 1968

Cinnamon is captured and the enemy discovers the one thing that would unmask her identity and expose the Impossible Mission Force.

50m Jan 4, 1969

The Mind of Stefan Miklos,

The Impossible Missions Force is pitted against the ingenious logic of an enemy agent (guest Steve Ihnat) as the IMF attempts to lead the agent through a maze of complicated clues in order to reach a false conclusion.

50m Jan 11, 1969

The Impossible Missions Force must end the murderous career of a bacteriologist working for the enemy, who has succeeded in developing a mutant strain of a deadly bacteria which could be used as a practical battlefield weapon.

50m Jan 18, 1969

The Impossible Missions Force led by Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) sets out to persuade the trusted henchman of a crime syndicate leader to testify against his boss.

50m Jan 25, 1969

The Glass Cage,

An electronically guarded prison confronts the Impossible Missions Force when it tries to free a political prisoner (Richard Garland) from an escape-proof glass cell.

50m Feb 1, 1969

When an unscrupulous manufacturer risks World War III by offering a hydrogen bomb for sale, the Impossible Missions Force enters the bidding with a dangerous plan to keep the weapon out of enemy hands.

50m Feb 15, 1969

The Impossible Missions Force invades the intricate world of spies to protect an American double agent and comes up against a human time bomb.

50m Feb 22, 1969

The Bunker, Pt. 1,

The IMF races a paid killer who is stalking a nuclear scientist forced by the enemy to work on a device that could upset the world power balance in the first of a two-part episode.

50m Mar 1, 1969

The Bunker, Pt. 2,

While trying to free a nuclear scientist and his wife from enemy hands, the IMF is trapped when a would-be assassin takes over one of Rollin's disguises in Part 2.

50m Mar 8, 1969

The IMF finds itself only a second away from eternity when they intercept a nitroglycerine expert who plans to blow up the government house of a small country, thus provoking war with its neighbor nation.

50m Mar 22, 1969

Guest star Joan Collins, as a seductive double agent, endangers a vital IMF project when Jim Phelps falls in love with her.

50m Mar 29, 1969

Guest star Nehemiah Persoff as a corrupt Latin American official plots to loot his own country of $40,000,000 with the connivance of the IMF.

50m Apr 5, 1969

Cinnamon and Rollin become cabaret performers in a plot to get a deranged man (guest Fritz Weaver) to fall in love with Cinnamon, then kill her.

50m Apr 12, 1969

The Interrogator,

In a bold experiment with a man's mind, the IMF blanks out an enemy agent's memory (guest star Henry Silva), then sets out to make him think he is someone else.

50m Apr 19, 1969