Mission: Impossible

Original title : Mission : Impossible
First Aired : 17.09.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Bernard L. Kowalski
Writing credits : Bruce Geller
Cast : Wally Cox (Terry Targo), Patrick Campbell (Day Vault Clerk), Harry Davis (I) (Alisio), Paul Micale (Desk Clerk), Fred Villani (Night Vault Clerk), Joe Breen (Loft Manager), Martin Walker (Lobby Guard), Victor Dunlap (Head Waiter), David Renard (TV Floorman), Sandra Kerr (Girl Clerk), Martin Landau (General Dominguez), Josh Adams (New Guard)

The Story : IMF team leader Dan Briggs assembles his team for the first time. The mission: to recover two nuclear warheads belonging to General Rio Dominguez from a hotel vault in Santa Costa. Jim and Willy sneak safecracker Terry Targo into the vault, who figures out how to get out. The team then captures Dominguez but Targo's fingers are broken in the attempt. With no other alternative, Briggs has himself and Dominguez put into the vault, and Briggs threatens to enter a random combination if Alicio doesn't tell him the code. Dominguez breaks. With the bombs defused, Willy takes the warheads out of the vault. Briggs remains behind and uses the information Targo gathered earlier to get out during a fireworks distraction set off by Barney. Briggs and the rest of the team make a desperate race for safety and get onto a plane heading to safety seconds before the military can catch up to them.

Original title : Memory
First Aired : 24.09.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Charles R. Rondeau
Writing credits : Robert Lewin
Cast : Paul Busch (Jeep Guard), John Magnusson (Policeman), Donald Journeaux (Passport Clerk), Heinz Brinkmann (Prison Guard), William Keene (Janos Karq), Gene Dynarski (Sergeant of Guard), Eddie Carroll (Street Photographer), Leonard Stone (Dimitri Soska), Albert Paulsen (Joseph Baresh), Bill Foster (Fireman), Forrest Burns (First Security), Max Klevin (Second Security)

The Story : The IMF must undermine "the Butcher of the Balkans," Janos Karq, by having his head of security capture an agent, Sparrow, who will then incriminate Karq. To pull off the ruse, they need a memory expert, Baresh, who can memorize the necessary information in the short time allowed and pretend to be Sparrow. Baresh will later be traded back. However, during a faked "rescue" to make Sparrow look more convincing, Baresh gets a look at Soska's master list of agents, and the team must rescue him from the prison immediately to get the information.

Original title : Operation Rogosh
First Aired : 01.10.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leonard Horn
Writing credits : Jerome Ross
Cast : Dick Dial (Stunt Double), Howard Curtis (Stunt Driver), Dina Harmsen (Matron), Svea Grunfeld (Woman Judge), James Lanphier (Colonel Klimi), Charles Maxwell (Lazloff), Allan Joseph (Dr. Ira Green, M.D.), Fritz Weaver (Imry Rogosh)

The Story : Imry Rogosh is a mass murderer who kills to forment political upheaval. He is targeting Los Angeles, so the IMF knock him out in a car accident. When Rogosh "wakes up" he is in a cell in a prison in his own country, three years later, and ready to be executed as an American agent. To "prove" his loyalty to the cause, Rogosh has to spill the information on his secret operation during a mock trial, or be executed as a traitor.

Original title : Old Man Out (1/2)
First Aired : 08.10.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Charles R. Rondeau
Writing credits : Ellis Marcus
Cast : Mary Ann Mobley (Crystal Walker), Joseph Ruskin (Colonel Jovann , Scutari), Oscar Beregi (Commandant), Cyril Delevanti (Anton Cardinal Vossek), William Wintersole (Captain), Monte Markham (Tosk), Eddie Durkin (Maintenance Man), Chris Anders (Special Guard), Norbert Siegfried (Officer), Jon Cedar (Second Guard), George Margo (Sergeant), Jon Silo (Victim)

The Story : The IMF team goes in as a circus team to rescue Anton Cardinal Vossek, who is being held in the impregnable Seravno Prison. Vossek is the leader of the country's freedom movement, in rebellion against Colonel Scutari, and is awaiting a fake trial before execution. With the aid of circus acrobat Crystal Walker, the team must get Vossek out. To do so, Rollin fakes being a pickpocket so as to be arrested. Once inside Servano, he has to sneak through the prison and get Vossek out of his cell as a test run for the next day...only for the guards to interrupt at an inopportune moment.

Original title : Old Man Out (2/2)
First Aired : 15.10.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Charles R. Rondeau
Writing credits : Ellis Marcus
Cast : Norbert Siegfried (Officer), Chris Anders (Special Guard), Eddie Durkin (Maintenance Man), Monte Markham (Tosk), William Wintersole (Captain), George Margo (Sergeant), Cyril Delevanti (Anton Cardinal Vossek), Oscar Beregi (Commandant), Joseph Ruskin (Colonel Jovann , Scutari), Mary Ann Mobley (Crystal Walker), Jon Cedar (Second Guard)

The Story : Rollin manages to avoid the guards and escape, but Vossek is moved to a new cell in solitary confinement. Briggs comes up with a new plan and manages to relay it to the imprisoned Rollin. They manage to do so, and manage to rescue Vossek from the prison. With Barney providoing distraction as a clown, the team manages to get Vossek over the border before Vossek's captors can catch up to them.

Original title : Odds on Evil
First Aired : 22.10.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Charles R. Rondeau
Writing credits : William Read Woodfield, Allan Balter
Cast : Greg Benedict (Karl), Alex Bookston (Man in Arcade), Nehemiah Persoff (Prince Iben Kostas), Roger Til (Baccarat Croupier), Nico Minardos (Andre Malif), Vincent Van Lynn (Oliver Borgman), Lawrence Montaigne (Kostas' Aide), Joe E. Tata (Roulette Croupier)

The Story : Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work: IMFer Andre (pretending to be Cinammon's husband) breaks the bank at roulette thanks to a not-so-portable computer worn by Willie underneath his tux while Roliln prepares to cheat at baccarat.

Original title : Wheels
First Aired : 29.10.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Tom Gries
Writing credits : Laurence Heath
Cast : Dianna Denning (Young Woman), Paul Bertoya (Young Man), Mario Badolati (Dr. Brosa), George Sawaya (Weapons Guard), Tom Hernandez (Desk Sergeant), David Fresco (Libertadist), Edmund Tontini (Nationalist), Jonathan Kidd (Registrar), Mark Lenard (Felipe Mora), Percy Rodriguez (Captain Trez), Larry Gelman (Voter), Roy Sickner (Guard), Jimmy Casino (Plainclothesman), Ernesto S. Cervera (Radio Voice), Ray Martell (Policeman)

The Story : In the country of Valeria, the IMF must assure that the corrupt Nationalist party's rigged voting machine doesn't give them the election.

Original title : The Ransom
First Aired : 05.11.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Harry Harris
Writing credits : William Read Woodfield, Allan Balter
Cast : Chuck Courtney (Gorman's Double), Richard Mansfield (Intern), Don Marshall (Police Officer), Lin McCarthy (George Forrester), Ted Jordan (Gunman), Eddie Paskey (Steve), Jack Donner (Driver), Vic Tayback (Man in Car), Michael Barrier (II) (Intern), Cheryl Callaway (Sandy Forrester), Walter Mathews (Detective), Allan Joseph (Dr. Ira Green), Joe Mantell (Augie Gorman), William Smithers (Frank Egan)

The Story : Mobster Frank Egan kidnaps the daughter of Dan's friend and uses her as a hostage to force Dan and the team to break out a key witness, Augie Gorman, against him.

Original title : A Spool There Was
First Aired : 12.11.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Bernard L. Kowalski
Writing credits : Ellis Marcus
Cast : Eric Lord (Concessionaire), Michael Shea (II) (Pieter Stakovar), Curt Lowens (Lt. Daglieri), Warren Vanders (Holbeck), Richard Devon (Inspector Gulik), Lynn Wood (Mrs. Stakovar), Todd Martin (Mr. Stakovar), Gene LeBell (Sudow), Harry Basch (Konya), Ben Astar (Diplomat), Horst Ebersberg (Rissko)

The Story : Rollin and Cinnamon go it alone to recover a reel of recording wire containing information on a chemical warfare project aimed at the U.S. The courier carrying it was killed by the enemy, and the wire is missing. Rollin must recreate the agent's last minute to figure out under pressure where the agent hid the vital information.

Original title : The Carriers
First Aired : 19.11.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Sherman Marks
Writing credits : Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield
Cast : Rick Traeger (Instructor), Barry Cahill (Guard), Phil Posner (Tigran Portisch), Arthur Hill (Janos Passik), George Takei (Roger Lee), Barry Russo (Tiso Kastner), Rick Richards (Trainee), Josh Adams (Guard), Beatriz Monteil (Dancer)

The Story : Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bacteriological warfare. The team figures out that Passik has created a replica of a "typical American town" so as to train his agents to learn how to blend into American society. Rollin, Cinnamon, Barney, and bacteriologist Roger Lee replace the new group of recruits and must then find their way to the research lab. They soon realize that the American-trained agents will be infected with a highly contagious plague and then sent into American to kill millions. The group must not only destroy the plague samples but make sure that Passik and his superiors do not find out that the destruction has occurred.

Original title : Zubrovnik's Ghost
First Aired : 26.11.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leonard Horn, Jan Van Tamelen
Writing credits : Robert Lewin
Cast : Frank Obershall (Kroeger), Beatrice Straight (Dr. Martha Richards , Zubrovnik), Donald Davis (Sigismund Poljac), Martine Bartlett (Ariana Domi)

The Story : The wife of a deceased scientist, Kurt Zubrovnik, is being pressured by Eastern forces to work for them. They are using a phony psychic to convince the wife her dead husband wants to defect. Accompanied by IMF "psychic consultant" Ariana Domi, Rollin and Barney try to disrupt the fraud and convince her to return to working for the U.S.

Original title : Fakeout
First Aired : 03.12.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Bernard L. Kowalski
Writing credits : Leigh Chapman
Cast : Sid Haig (Hidalgo), Lloyd Bridges (Anastas Poltroni (aka , Ted Carson)), Alberto Monte (Attendant), Ken Renard (Assistant Manager), Cal Brown (Barney (double)), Dante Orgolini (Old Zookeeper), Eli Behar (Aniso), Monte Mansfield (Paolo), Mike Steele (Holloway), Dehl Berti (Young Zookeeper), Lee Delano (First Cop), Gary Lasdun (Zack), Kathleen O'Malley (Researcher), Richard Angarola (Policeman)

The Story : Anastas Poltroni is the head of an international narcotics syndicate, and has taken refuge in a country with no extradition treaty. The IM Force is assigned to lure him out without kidnapping him (to avoid the publicity).

Original title : Elena
First Aired : 10.12.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Marc Daniels
Writing credits : Ellis Marcus
Cast : Abraham Sofaer (Tomas de Cuarto), Barbara Luna (Elena Maria Del Barra), Barry Atwater (Dr. Carlos Enero), Ben Hammer (Callao), Renzo Cesana (Presidente Gustavo , Alfredo Fortuna), Anne Ayars (Consuelo Del Barra), Paul Kent (Frederico), Blaisdell Makee (Morrito), Valentin de Vargas (Miguel de Ramos)

The Story : Double-agent Elena Del Barra is acting bizarrely, sending a microfilm of defense secrets from her own country. Rollin is sent into investigate, and return the microfilm without its theft ever being detected. Complicating matters is that an assassin, Callao, has been sent to kill her if Rollin can't figure things out in two days. With time running out, Rollin must return the microfilm, figure out the traitor, and save Elena.

Original title : The Short Tail Spy
First Aired : 17.12.1966 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leonard Horn
Writing credits : Julian Barry
Cast : Albert Dekker (Colonel Shtemenko), Eric Braeden (Andrei Fetyukov), Joe Breen (Projectionist), Edward Colmans (Professor Napolsky), Joseph Sirola (Suverin)

The Story : A defector has been targeted by two rival groups from the same foreign country. The team is to discredit the younger group, so that the U.S. can more easily handle the old-line group. The IMF sets it up so that the younger group's assassin, Fetyukov, must seduce Cinnamon to get to the defector. The two play a dangerous romantic game, while Dan convinces the older group's assassin, Shtemenko, that Fetyukov betrayed him to the Americans.

Original title : The Legacy
First Aired : 07.01.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Michael O'Herlihy
Writing credits : William Read Woodfield, Allan Balter
Cast : Donald Harron (Graff), Richard Peel (Guide), Walter Friedel (Lieutenant Eiler), Claude Woolman (Paul von Schneer), John Crawford (Professor Franz Lubell), Patrick Horgan (Erich Wolfe), Bill Fletcher (Max Brucker), Lee Bergere (Alfred Kuderlee)

The Story : The IMF must get hold of a hoard of Nazi gold through four young men, sons of Hitler's top aides, who are sent to Switzerland to meet for the first time and pool their parts of the "puzzle" together. One of the men, the only one known to them, is replaced by Rollin.

Original title : The Reluctant Dragon
First Aired : 14.01.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leonard Horn
Writing credits : Chester Krumholz
Cast : Fred Krone (Jankowski's Double), Mala Powers (Dr. Karen Cherlotov), Michael Forest (Lupesh), John Colicos (Commissioner Taal , Jankowski), Joseph Campanella (Dr. Helmut , Cherlotov), Elsa Ingram (Sofia), Alex Rodine (Duchinoff), Norbert Schiller (Lauchek), Judy Levitt (Girl), Liz Bronte (Anya), Frank Kreig (Bartender), Maria Schroeder (Carla), Fred Carson (Lupesh's Double), Chuck Couch (Rollin's Double), Howard Curtis (Man)

The Story : Dr. Cherlotov, a scientist of an enemy power, failed to defect to the West when his wife did. Now that he has developed a cheap, effective anti-ballistic system, the IMF are ordered to get him out. Unfortunately, they find out that Cherlotov doesn't wasn't to defect: he merely wants to convince his superiors he is loyal and live out his life.

Original title : The Frame
First Aired : 21.01.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Allen H. Miner
Writing credits : William Read Woodfield, Allan Balter
Cast : Mort Mills (Al Souchek), Joe De Santis (Vito Scalesi), Simon Oakland (Jack Wellman), Joe Maross (Frank Bates), Arthur Batanides (Tino)

The Story : Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with men more sympathetic to the Syndicate.

Original title : The Trial
First Aired : 28.01.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Lewis Allen
Writing credits : Laurence Heath
Cast : Gail Kobe (Lisa Goren), Michael Strong (Barsky), David Opatoshu (Deputy Premier Anton , Kudnov), Carroll O'Connor (Josef Varsh), Don Keefer (Zubin), Ivan Triesault (Platinov), Chuck Couch (Rollin's Double), Paul Lukather (Moisev)

The Story : Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power.

Original title : The Diamond
First Aired : 04.02.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Robert Douglas
Writing credits : Allan Balter
Cast : Jason Johnson (Proprietor), Gil Stuard (Man), Peter Bourne (Peters), Woodrow Parfrey (Henks), Harry Davis (I) (Hans Van Meer), John Van Dreelen (Prime Minister , Henrik Durvard), Ivor Barry (Ian McCloud)

The Story : Henrik Durvard has taken over the country of Lombuanada by military coup, and holds the natives in terror. He has obtained a diamond from the native miners, and the IMF are assigned to take it away from him. At an auction in London, they convince Durvard that they have a machine that can distribute artificial diamonds, and want to use his country as a blind to distribute them.

Original title : The Legend
First Aired : 11.02.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Richard Benedict
Writing credits : Mann Rubin
Cast : Larry Black (Eckhart), Paul Genge (Frick), Ben Wright (Kleister), Gene Roth (General von Cramm), Gunnar Hellstrom (Frederick Rudd), Lou Robb (Guard 2)

The Story : An imprisoned member of the Nazi party, Herbert Raynor, is released from prison and is being flown (along with his daughter) to Puerto Huberra in South America, along with other Nazis. All of them are being flown there by an unknown benefactor. Dan and Cinnamon take the Raynors' place and discover that the heard of the new Nazi resurgence is... Martin Bormann!

Original title : Snowball in Hell
First Aired : 18.02.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Lee H. Katzin
Writing credits : Robert Guy Barrows
Cast : John Garwood (Guard), Emile Genest (Dr. Kronen), Steven Marlo (Faud), Warren Kemmerling (Raff), Ricardo Montalban (Gerard Sefra)

The Story : A former prison guard, Sefra, has acquired a supply of cesium 138, which explodes at temperatures above 70 degrees. Sefra plans to sell the sample and the formula from the closed-down prison base where he once worked. Rollin and Barney go in as a photographer and model respectively, and Sefra "learns" that Barney is a former prisoner returning for revenge.

Original title : The Confession
First Aired : 25.02.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Herschel Daugherty
Writing credits : Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield
Cast : Robert Williams (Proprietor), Biff Elliot (Guard), James W. Gavin (Deputy), Kent Smith (Senator William Townsend), Pat Hingle (R.J. McMillan), David Sheiner (Andreas Solowiechek)

The Story : The team must break a Russian assassin who killed a U.S. Senator and claims to be working for his government, but the Secretary believes someone else may be involved.

Original title : Action!
First Aired : 04.03.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leonard Horn
Writing credits : Robert Lewin
Cast : Tom Troupe (David Day), J.D. Cannon (Miklos Klaar), Marilyn Moe (Cinnamon's double), Jerry Sommers (David's double), Mark de Vries (Messenger), Peter Tenen (Third Floor Guard), Fred Villani (George Bengst), Harold Dyrenforth (Sokoloff), Helen Boll (First Floor Guard), Alfred Shelly (Guard), Eric Feldary (Assistant Director), Julian Burton (Petyov), Arline Anderson (Receptionist)

The Story : Miklos Klaar, an Iron Curtain filmmaker, has film of American soldiers and plans to edit it into an atrocity movie to discredit the U.S. He has recreated the jungle as a set from the one print of the film he has. The team must destroy the existing footage and force Klaar to reshoot... and get the reshoot on camera.

Original title : The Train
First Aired : 18.03.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Ralph Senensky
Writing credits : William Read Woodfield, Allan Balter
Cast : Don Sherman (Technician), Paul Prokop (Guard), William Windom (Deputy Premier Milos , Pavel), Rhys Williams (Prime Minister Ferenc , Larya), William Schallert (Dr. Harrison Selby), Noah Keen (Androv), Richard Bull (Oliver Donovan), Booth Colman (Dr. Huss), Ray Baxter (Conductor), Kris Tel (Girl)

The Story : Prime Minister Larya of Svardia is working to establish democracy, but is unaware that his personal protege, Deputy Premier Pavel, plans to set up a dictatorship. The team must persuade Larya of Pavel's plans.

Original title : Shock
First Aired : 25.03.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Lee H. Katzin
Writing credits : Laurence Heath
Cast : Donald Ein (Waiter), Mike Kopcha (Droka), Jean-Michel Michenaud (Fydor), Patrick Michenaud (Duv), Stanley Waxman (Jonathan Davis), Sorrell Booke (Peter Kiri), James Daly (Carl Wilson), Vic Perrin (Dr. Ira Drake)

The Story : Enemy operative Kiri has kidnapped U.S. envoy Carl Wilson and has an imposter, Gort, who is impersonating him to discredit a U.S. trade agreement. The team have to rescue Wilson and foil the impersonation before Kiri kills Wilson. Cinnamon impersonates Wilson's niece while Willy kidnaps Gort and Briggs-as-Wilson takes Gort's place, pretending to be Gort. The team put Gort in an asylum and give him electro-shock to scramble his memories, then claim he is is a delusional accountant.

Original title : A Cube of Sugar
First Aired : 01.04.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Joseph Pevney
Writing credits : William Read Woodfield, Allan Balter
Cast : Sharon Garrett (Dancer), Jill Gordon (Dancer), Rico Cattani (Workman), Ivan Ivarson (Maintenance Man), Eric Forst (Policeman), Kurt Kreuger (Polya), Joyce Easton (Clerk), Max Kleven (Attendant), Francis Lederer (Senko Brobin)

The Story : Vincent Deane is a jazz musician and undercover U.S. intelligence operative who has memorized the plans to a microcircuit code but was then captured and imprisoned. The IMF must get him out. Deane's interrogator, Brobin, has hooked Deane on drugs to try and break him using the withdrawal symptoms, unaware that the chip is concealed among some sugar cubes Deane had.

Original title : The Traitor
First Aired : 15.04.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Lee H. Katzin
Writing credits : Edward J. Lakso
Cast : Eartha Kitt (Tina Mara), Michael Rye (Victor Belson), Buzz Henry (Officer), Walter Alzmann (Foyer Guard), Ed McCready (Telegraph Clerk), Socrates Ballis (Maintenance Man), Paul Sorensen (First Floor Guard), Frank Marth (Koler), Lonny Chapman (Edward Hughes), Malachi Throne (Ambassador , Brazneck)

The Story : An American intelligence officer, Hughes, has defected to the enemy with the only copy of an encoded top-secret message. The IMF must get to him, get him out, discredit him, and recover the message before the enemy can get a cryptographer, Belson, to work on the message. Rollin takes Belson's place, while Willy gets special agent Tina Mera, a contortionist and acrobat, into the embassy through a fake air duct to steal the message and incriminate Hughes.

Original title : The Psychic
First Aired : 22.04.1967 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Charles R. Rondeau
Writing credits : Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield
Cast : Michael Pataki (Ed), Paul Mantee (Byron Miller), Richard Anderson (Judge Wilson , Chase), Barry Sullivan (Alex Lowell), Rita D'Amico (Girl at Party), Eric Mason (Man at Party), Shepherd Sanders (Politician), Jay Ose (Dealer), Milton Selzer (Jan Vornitz)

The Story : The team must trick a crooked investment promoter into endorsing $80 million in stolen stocks and then getting them back from him.