Mission: Impossible

Original title : The Killer
First Aired : 19.09.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Paul Krasny
Writing credits : Arthur Weiss
Cast : Rachel English (Woman), Dick Karie (Man), Tommy J. Huff (Bellhop), Victoria Hale (Maid), Pegi Boucher (Girl), Helen Spring (Old Lady), Martin Ashe (Clerk), Byron Morrow (Alfred E. , Chambers/Scorpio), Carole Carle (Flo), Davis Roberts (William Barton), Robert Conrad (Eddie Lorca)

The Story : Hired killer Eddie Lorca does everything randomly, making him impossible to anticipate. The IMF must find out who his boss, Scorpio, is and all they know is Lorca is arriving in town for an assignment - they don't know who he's going up against.

Original title : Flip Side
First Aired : 26.09.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : John Llewellyn Moxey
Writing credits : Jackson Gillis
Cast : Kasey Rogers (Bunny Cameron), Bob Golden (Customs Man), Ford Lile (Pusher), Joy Bang (Girl), Jose De Vega (Freddie), Robert Alda (Diego Maximillian), Dana Elcar (C.W. Cameron), Sal Mineo (Mel Bracken), John Rivera (Tito)

The Story : The IMF must break up a drug-smuggling ring - Bracken gets his drugs from Mexico compliments of Diego Maximillian, who gets his drugs legally from C.W. Cameron. The IMF must connect Cameron to Bracken. Jim plays a Syndicate man who orders the pills from Bracken, and Barney tracks the shipment and switches out the drugs. The team has Maximillian picked up in Mexico so that Bracken has to go directly to Cameron to buy the drugs - the IMF get everything on camera and turn them both over to the authorities.

Original title : The Innocent
First Aired : 03.10.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : John Llewellyn Moxey
Writing credits : Marc Norman, Laurence Heath, Marc Norman
Cast : Christopher Connelly (Dr. Jerome Carlin), Larry Linville (Colonel Leo Orlov), Than Wyenn (General Skolpin), Katherine Darc (Kudy Moore), Victor Brandt (Doctor), Gene Tyburn (Technician Tirkin), Sy Prescott (Security Guard), Jorge Ben-Hur (Waiter), Robert Ellenstein (Dr. M. Vazan)

The Story : In the Middle East Willy and Barney infiltrate a chemical plant to gain access to Dehominant-B, a quick-acting lethal gas. Barney is exposed to Dehominant-A while trying to get to the computer and crippled - Willy escapes and Barney is captured. Barney is interrogated and only has four hours to live. The team find out that Dr. Jerry Carlin, a dropout, is the only other person with the skills to access the computer. When Carlin rejects the team's appeal for help, Jim and Paris frame Carlin's girlfriend and threaten to keep her in jail unless he helps them. Dana provides a distract and Paris takes the head scientist Vazan's place and have Barney first fake a confession implicating the technicians and then his own death - they get Barney to the autopsy room where Doug revives him in the nick of time. Jim and Carlin take the incriminated technicians' place and Carlin manages to ruin the Dehominant and erase the computer, then everyone escapes with Vazan.

Original title : Homecoming
First Aired : 10.10.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Reza Badiyi
Writing credits : Laurence Heath
Cast : Owen Bush (Reynolds), Jacqueline Scott (Cynthia Owens), James B. Sikking (Corrigan), Larry Pennell (Karl Burroughs), Sharon Acker (Connie Hastings), Patricia Smith (Julia Keith), Frank Webb (Seth Morley), Loretta Swit (Midge Larson), Fred Beir (Joe Keith), Jack Donner (Stan Sherman), Joe Maross (Sheriff Brad Owens)

The Story : When Jim returns to his hometown of Norville to donate family property to the community, he finds it plagued by a serial killer. Jim secretly brings in Barney to help investigate. A disturbed Vietnam vet is the suspected killer but Jim and Barney figure out he's innocent and get him out of jail one step ahead of a mob, then call in the rest of the IMF team to find the real killer.

Original title : Flight
First Aired : 17.10.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Barry Crane
Writing credits : Leigh Vance, Harold Livingston
Cast : James Almanzar (Lieutenant Barata), Tol Avery (Stone), John S. Ragin (Butler), Shepherd Sanders (Plato), Conrad Parham (Airline Clerk), Shirley Washington (Stewardess), Dom Tattoli (Presidente Adolfo Rojas), Ron Henriquez (Airport Guard), Lloyd Battista (Chief of Police Francisco , Diaz), John Colicos (Chief of Internal Security , Manuel Ferrar), Bill Baldwin (Announcer)

The Story : Presidente Rojas plans to give a speech to the U.S. Congress while his Chief of Internal Security Ferrar plans a takeover and sends an assassin known only as Plato (and known only to Ferrar) to kill the Presidente before he gives his speech. The IMF must find out who Plato is and thwart the assassination. Ferrar follows Rojas to the U.S. where the IMF fake a plane crash - when Ferrar wakes up he is on an uncharted island colony inhabited by the prisoners from a missing penal ship. Paris pretends to be a double-agent working for Ferrar that the Chief knows of but never met. Paris reveals his plan to escape and convinces Ferrar that Plato plans a double-cross. When the other "prisoners" come after them, Ferrar is forced to hold them off so Paris can go off to thwart Paris, whose identity Ferrar reveals. Paris gets the information to the team in Washington just in time to stop the assassination.

Original title : My Friend, My Enemy
First Aired : 25.10.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Gerald Mayer
Writing credits : William Wood, Gene Kearney, Gene Kearney
Cast : Bruce Glover (Ernst Bandar), Wesley Lau (Karl Maur), Jill Haworth (Enid Brugge/Marla Kassel), Chris Holter (Inga), Aaron Fletcher (Desk Clerk), Edward Bach (Guard #1), Peter Mark Richman (Dr. Paul Tabor), Walter Davis (Attendant), Tony Giorgio (Meerghan), Bart La Rue (Guard #2)

The Story : A Communist agent, Karl Maur, spots Paris on vacation, knocks him out and turns him over to Dr. Tabor, who is a brain specialist and mind control expert. Unable to break Paris, Tabor blanks out Paris' memories and uses an implanted electrode to program him to attack Jim by convincing the disguise expert Jim represents an authority figure, similar to the ones he has lost two women to in the past. Doug and Jim find nothing wrong with him, but Barney finds fingerprints pointing to Maur and Jim delays reporting to the Secretary and tries to find out what's going on with Paris. Paris is befriended by a Communist agent working with Tabor - Tabor murders her and makes it set up as if Jim did it. Paris attacks Jim but snaps out of it when Jim's life is threatened and turns against Tabor.

Original title : Butterfly
First Aired : 31.10.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Gerald Mayer
Writing credits : Sheldon Stark, Jerry Ludwig, Eric Bercovici
Cast : Roy Ogata (Fighter), Bill Sato (Fighter), Leonard Pronko (Specialty Dancer), Fuji (Osaki), Dale Ishimoto (Saburi), Russ Conway (Harry Kellem), Helen Funai (Nobu Kellem), James Shigeta (Shiki), Lisa Lu (Mioshi Kellem), Benson Fong (Inspector Akita), Khigh Dhiegh (Toshio Masaki)

The Story : Toshio Masaki, a powerful anti-American industrialist, kills his sister and frames her husband, an American businessman named Harry Kellem, so as to discredit America and discredit the Economic Council.
Note : aka : Poor Butterfly

Original title : Decoy
First Aired : 07.11.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Seymour Robbie
Writing credits : John D.F. Black
Cast : Rosanna Hoffman (Guide), Richard Eric Winter (Orishev), Arthur Malet (Undertaker), Joshua Bryant (Stefan), Michael Strong (Police Chief Petrovitch), Julie Gregg (Anna Kerkoska), Victor Paul (Chauffeur), Tom McDonough (Agent #7), Bart La Rue (Agent #6), Sid Haig (Agent #1)

The Story : Anna Kerkoska plans to defect with a list of American agents given to her by her father, the late Premier. Her brother Alexi also plans to defect, but it's actually a plan to grab the list, turn it over to Police Chief Petrovitch, and sell out his sister. Jim and Dana pretend to be a publisher brother-and-sister team and Paris kidnaps Dana to fake-force Jim to kidnap Anna for the Americans. Petrovitch and Alexi let the plan go ahead, while Jim becomes romantically involved with Anna. The bad guys overhear Jim "confess" how he is going to smuggle Anna out of the country, unaware its a ploy to draw them away from the real means of escape via a mini-race car in the back of the hearse - Jim and Anna use it to bypass the mined security gate and exit the country.

Original title : The Amateur
First Aired : 14.11.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Paul Krasny
Writing credits : Ed Adamson
Cast : Biff Manard (Lieutenant Seelik), Peter Brocco (Father Bernard), Allen Joseph (Max Wittstock), Don Eitner (Danzig), Lisa Pera (Clara Schram), Ron Feinberg (Colonel Kurt Eckert), Al Roberts (II) (Drunk), Anthony Zerbe (Eric Schilling)

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Original title : Hunted
First Aired : 21.11.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Terry Becker
Writing credits : Helen Hoblock Thompson
Cast : Joseph Lancaster (Policeman), Edgar Winston (Police Seargeant), Dick Dial (Masked Barney (uncredited)), Michael St. Clair (Blacksmith), Kirk Scott (Guard), Herbert Jefferson Jr. (Luddy), Elaine Church (Pharmacist's Wife), John Alderson (Follet), Joe Morton (Clerk), John S. Ragin (Pharmacist), Ivor Barry (Chief Inspector Banco), Ta-Tanisha (Maryana "Gabby" , Renfrow)

The Story : A mission to rescue a South African dissident goes awry when Doug and his white assistant get the man out of the hospital, but the assistant is shot in the leg. Separated from the rest of the IMF team, the assistant staggers into a shop where a deaf girl discovers the man is Barney in a mask. The rest of the team gets the dissident out of the country and then goes back for Barney. To draw off the police, Paris pretends to be a limping white man, but is injured for real by two men trying to capture him.

Original title : The Rebel
First Aired : 28.11.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Barry Crane
Writing credits : Ken Pettus, Norman Katkov, Ken Pettus
Cast : Ralph Ventura (Soldier), Diane Holly (Girl), Richard Shelfo (Haratch), David Roya (Klos), Davana Brown (Irina), Bob Purvey (Alex Khora), Mark Lenard (Colonel Bakram), Jonathan Goldsmith (Father Sebastian), Arthur Batanides (Lieutenant Kappelo)

The Story : The IMF must rescue three scientists in a dictatorial country and destroy their notes. They rescue two but the third one, Khora refuses to leave and is executed. Jim and Dana meet with his son Alex (a rebel leader) to get his notes and Dana is captured by the militia along with Alex's girlfriend, who has memorized the doctor's notes.

Original title : Squeeze Play
First Aired : 12.12.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Virgil Vogel
Writing credits : David Moessinger, David Moessinger, Walter Brough
Cast : Albert Carrier (Pierre Morat), Nicholas Georgiade (Vito Nicola), Victoria Vetri (Eve Zembra), Nico Minardos (Carlos Empori), Peter Kilman (Paul Corrigan), Albert Paulsen (Albert Zembra)

The Story : Albert Zembra, head of the Mediterranean branch of the Syndicate, is dying of cancer and plans on passing his list of opium farms to his chosen successor. He plans on turning power over to Carlos Empori, engaged to his granddaughter. Paris poses as a mobster and old friend of Eve's and "renews" his friendship with her, while Phelps, as Zembra's rival, warns Carlos that Paris plans to take over. Barney stages a fake assassination on Zembra, thwarting Carlos' security and making him look incompetent, then Paris and Paris-as-Zembra stage a conversation to make Carlos believe Zembra will give power to Paris. Carlos helps Jim kidnap Eve, but the plan goes awry when Eve reveals she knows Paris is a fake. Paris puts his life on the line by counting on her silence to complete the plot. Eve stays silent, Carlos is set up as a traitor to Zembra, and the dying mobster turns the information over to Paris.
Note : aka : Sicily

Original title : The Hostage
First Aired : 19.12.1970 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Barry Crane
Writing credits : Harold Livingston
Cast : Lee Duncan (Frederico), David Renard (Carlos Marchese), Pepe Callahan (Ortega), Conrad Parham (Roerca), Ron Castro (Luis Cabal), Lou Antonio (Robert Siomney), Joe De Santis (Jorge Cabal)

The Story : When Paris is kidnapped by Latin American revolutionaries seeking to force the govenment to release their comrades, the IMF must galvanize into action to rescue him.

Original title : Takeover
First Aired : 02.01.1971 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Virgil Vogel
Writing credits : Arthur Weiss, Arthur Weiss, Jerry Thomas
Cast : Russell Thorson (Chief Danby), Byron Mabe (First Officer), Gordon DeVol (Alec), Ken Swofford (Charles Peck), Lloyd Bochner (Steve Tallman), Richard Kelton (Billy Walsh), Todd Martin (Lieutenant Ross), Tom McDonough (College Guard)

The Story : Phelps must stop Charles Peck from using violence, created by professional provocateur Billy Walsh, to elevate his puppet, Mayor Steven Tallman to the governorship. Dana is a provocateur herself, arrested by Barney the current governor's representative. Walsh gets Dana out, and Paris is a blackmailer who convinces Tallman that Dana is his previously-unknown illegitimate daughter. Peck is concerned that Tallman (actually Paris in disguise) will confess their plans to save his "daughter", and orders Walsh to kill Barney and Dana. Barney stops Walsh on TV before he can blow up a crowd of demonstrators and police during a protest, and Paris-as-Tallman confesses to Peck's involvement.

Original title : Cat's Paw
First Aired : 09.01.1971 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Virgil Vogel
Writing credits : Howard Browne
Cast : Morgan Farley (Wyatt), Manuel Paul Thomas (District Attorney , Scanlon), Marc Hannibal (Larry Collier), Chuck Wood (Pod Hamp), Kelly Thordsen (Captain Dave Abbott), Abbey Lincoln (Millie Webster), Hari Rhodes (George Corley), David S. Cass Sr. (Pinari), William Wintersole (William Goslin)

The Story : Larry Collier, newspaper editor and Barney's brother, is killed while trying to establish a link between corrupt police chief Abbott and Corley, the head of a ghetto mob who masks his illegal activities with an insurance front company. Barney, set up with a past as a crooked accountant, gets close to Corley by rescuing is secretary Millie - Corley hires him on when he finds out about his "past." Barney plants money to make it look like Corley's assistant Goslin is working against him, while the IMF use a phony seance to convince Goslin to quit with some incriminating evidence. Jim arrests Goslin with the evidence, a codebook, and uses it to force Abbott to back him as a mob boss then bribes Corley's guard to try and kill the mob leader. Barney rescues him and Corley runs into Jim, who threatens to take him to Abbott - knowing Abbott will have him killed, Corley turns state's evidence.

Original title : The Missile
First Aired : 16.01.1971 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Charles R. Rondeau
Writing credits : Arthur Weiss
Cast : Percy Helton (Daily), John Dennis (II) (Duke), Karen Carlson (Doris Gordon), Gerald Hiken (Farrell), John Pickard (Commander Wardman), John Beck (John Hecker), Barry Coe (Bob Willard), Jimmy Bracken (Bobby), David Sheiner (James Reed)

The Story : James Read, an enemy agent, is posing as an analyst to get to a top-secret U.S. missile guidance system being tested and steal the plans - the IMF must have him take back fake plans and unwittingly pass on the incorrect information to his superiors. Dana takes the place of Read's contact and he and fake boss Jim fake a romantic relationship so Read can get blackmail photos and use them to turn over the system. Read tells Dana of his plan to kill Jim, but before she can warn Jim, Dana is kidnapped by Hecker, a psychopath who believes Dana is a former girlfriend he killed. After Willy saves Barney from a firetrap meant for Jim, Paris and Barney manage to rescue Dana and alert Jim just in time to avoid a rigged car, convincing Read he's in the clear with the guidance system.
Note : aka : Torpedo

Original title : The Field
First Aired : 23.01.1971 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Reza Badiyi
Writing credits : Wesley Lau, Wesley Lau, Judy Burns
Cast : Denny Miller (Arthur Norris), H.M. Wynant (Captain Strom), Patricia Priest (Kathrine Berat), Burt Nodella (General Bloch), Erik Holland (Lieutenant), Michael Baseleon (Detective , Lieutenant Rab), Milton Selzer (Inspector Koder), Barry Atwater (General Marin)

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Original title : Blast
First Aired : 30.01.1971 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Sutton Roley
Writing credits : James L. Henderson, Samuel Roeca
Cast : Douglas Henderson (George Miller), Susan Odin (Grace), Pitt Herbert (Hendricks), Tamara Elliot (Monica Anderson), Don Edwards (Policeman), Laurence Haddon (Lee Sheels), Kevin Hagen (Dave Klinger), Henry Darrow (Gregory Tolan), Tony Brubaker (Barney's Double), Charles Picerni (Juan Delgado), Tom McDonough (William Cabot), Dick Ziker (Finley), George Wilbur (Phelps' Double)

The Story : Gregory Tolan leads an underground cell specializing in bank robberies with the money going to finance an American revolution. His mysterious sponsor is Jonathan Brace, who runs other such cells throughout the U.S. The IMF must find out Brace's identity and apprehend him. Phelps (as a demo expert) and Dana (as his insider at Tolan's next target) get recruited and has to make sure Tolan steals the money without the police knowing so he can lead them to Brace. When Jim stops the trigger-happy gunman Klinger from shooting Willy (disguised as a clerk), the police are alerted and Tolan's team takes refuge. Jim goes to get a (bugged) car since Brace won't come to them, Paris and IMF guest agent Grace play the homeowners, and Dana and Tolan exit with the money when Brace orders them to. Jim stops the hostages from getting killed and they follow Tolan to Brace and bring them both in.

Original title : The Cataflaque
First Aired : 06.02.1971 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Barry Crane
Writing credits : Paul Playdon
Cast : John Cardoza (Man #1), Miguel Riva (First Policeman), Tony De Costa (Operative #1), Sam Irvin ("Victorio Fuego"), Ramon Bieri (Colonel Rodriguez), Will Kaluva (Premier Miguel Fuego), Johnny Bench (II) (Captain of the , Guards), Arline Anderson (Nun), John Vernon (Ramone Fuego)

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Original title : Kitara
First Aired : 20.02.1971 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Murray Golden
Writing credits : Mann Rubin
Cast : Ken Renard (Grandfather), Jason Wingreen (Hawn), Robert DoQui (John Darcy), Rex Holman (Captain Maxfield), Lawrence Dobkin (Colonel Alex Kohler), Buck Holland (First Guard)

The Story : John Darcy, codename 'Kitara', leads a liberation movement in the African country of Bocamo and has been inadvertently captured by the ruthless Colonel Kohler. Kohler plans to torture Kitara, who if he confesses his true identity will result in the destruction of the entire movement. Kohler is after a truckful of government gold bullion Kitara stole. Jim and Doug play agents while Barney is captured and gets the location of the bullion from Kitara and gets it to Jim. Doug warns Kohler about "lamposa hycondra", a disease that causes blacks to turn white. After Kohler takes a IMF-rigged shower he wakes up the next morning to find himself black! Dana as a reporter introduces Kohler to shopkeeper Paris, who has "proof" that Kohler's grandfather was black. Kohler goes on the run and Paris hides him out at the gold's location. The authorities find Kohler there and believe he is Kitara and have him arrested, then hand the gold over to Jim to deliver it to headquarters.
Note : aka : The Bigot

Original title : A Ghost Story
First Aired : 27.02.1971 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Reza Badiyi
Writing credits : Ed Adamson, Ken Pettus, John D.F. Black, Ed Adamson
Cast : William Smith (I) (Vincent Sandler), Anthony Norwalk (Paul Bainbridge), Marion Ross (Mrs. Foster), Andrew Duggan (Justin Bainbridge), John Winfield (Morgan), Frank Farmer (Howard Bainbridge)

The Story : Howard Bainbridge, a chemical warfare expert who defected to East, was contaminated by his own experiments and then returned back to the U.S. and his family manor, where his father (a paranoid arch-conservative) had him killed and the body buried. Since Howard destroyed the records before defecting, the IMF must recover the body to get a sample of the chemicals. The elder Bainbridge, Justin, is unaware that his head of security is an enemy agent also trying to find Howard' sbody. The IMF gain access to a air-raid shelter on the grounds and start "haunting" Justin with a secretly-implanted microphone and holographic projectors. Plagued by visions only he can see of his son and his dead wife Janette (played by Dana), Justin calls in physician Paris, who recommends he assauge his guilt conscience and Justin ends up digging up his son's body, which the IMF take.

Original title : The Party
First Aired : 06.03.1971 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Murray Golden
Writing credits : Harold Livingston
Cast : Alfred Ryder (Gregor Mishenko), Frank Marth (Alexander Vanin), Robert Sampson (Fitzgerald), Athena Lorde (Mme. Mishenko), Albert Szabo (Kovitch), Yuri Smaltzoff (Dancer), Oleg Korbyn (Dancer), Antoinette Bower (Olga Vanin), Arthur Batanides (Valenkoff)

The Story : Alexander Vanin, arrested and convicted for espionage, hid a list of agents operating in the U.S. His control, Mishenko of the EEPR, has been ordered to get the list but Vanin refuses to give in because then Mishenko would cut him loose. The IMF must get the list. Vanin hypnotized himself to forget the list's location and only his wife Olga can give the trigger command to let him remember. Jim gets Olga to the U.S. while Barney and the others clear out the EEPR Consulate with a bomb ruse and then take it over and stage a party where the reunited couple meet (while Mishenko waits across the street for Barney to defuse the bomb). The IMF fake partygoers sneak out and Mishenko shows up to find Vanin there. To prove his loyalty and that he didn't talk, Vanin has his wife give the trigger, unaware that the IMF are listening in and get to the bus where Vanin hid the list before Mishenko can.

Original title : The Merchant
First Aired : 17.03.1971 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leon Benson
Writing credits : Harold Livingston
Cast : Noel de Souza (Player #2), Carmelo Manto (Manager), James Hong (Yin), Todd Martin (Captain Ionescu), Jan Merlin (Leon), Jo Morrow (Nicole Dubois), Ken Drake (Minister of Defense Karel , Sartori), George Sanders (Armand Anderssarian), Riza Royce (Player #5), Tony Giorgio (Croupier)

The Story : Armand Anderssarian is an illegal arms dealer who is about to complete a multi-million dollar deal selling arms to guerrilla groups around the world - the IMF must stop him. Jim pretends to be setting up a theft of a secret radar system and Anderssarian "sponsors" Jim with $5 million through Minister Sartori then plans to sell the system for $20 million. Meanwhile Anderssarian loses his $5 million to Paris (with Barney providing an assist) in a poker game. The IMF team perform a fake raid (under the scrutiny of Anderssarian's aide Leon) on a IMF-staged radar station but the stuff is useless and Sartori wants to be reimbursed. When Anderssarian can't do so Sartori takes care of him for good.