Mission: Impossible

Original title : Break!
First Aired : 16.09.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Paul Krasny
Writing credits : Samuel Roeca, James L. Henderson
Cast : Francine York (Waitress), Allen Joseph (Willard), Robert Mandan (Tim Sharkey), Robert Lee Woods (Stick Hudson), Eddie Robin (Endicott), James Michael (Jerry Cross), Hal Needham (Mork), Larry Watson (Colton), Med Flory (Fred Stenrock, aka Toledo), Robert Conrad (Press Allen), Carl Betz (Dutch Krebbs), Gail Bryant Cameron (Artist), Barbara Anderson (Mimi Davis)

The Story : The IMF must recover the corpse of an undercover agent and the watch he wears that has incriminating evidence on a major Syndicate boss.

Original title : Two Thousand
First Aired : 23.09.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leslie H. Martinson
Writing credits : Harold Livingston
Cast : Joanna Cassidy (Model), Russ Conway (Civilian), Mort Mills (Marshall), David White (Max Bander), Vic Morrow (Joseph Collins), Marvin Miller (Smith), Harry Lauter (Admiral), Don Diamond (White), Charles MacArthur (Photographer), Harold Jones (Second Agent), Marian Nichols (Policewoman), Dallas Mitchell (First Agent), Lee Raymond (Soldier), Tom Pace (Corporal), Jim Beach (Young Policeman)

The Story : Joseph Collins, a nuclear physicist, steals plutonium and is going to sell it to a unidentified foreign interest through a man named Haig. The IMF must identify Haig and locate the plutonium, so they feed Collins fake news story about military action in the Middle East, then arrest him for murder and show him film of Los Angeles under attack before knocking him out. When he wakes up, for Collins its the year 2000, he's been unconscious for 28 years, and the state exterminates anyone at the age of 65...which Collins will be in two days.

Original title : The Deal
First Aired : 30.09.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leslie H. Martinson
Writing credits : George F. Slavin, Stephen Kandel, George F. Slavin
Cast : Van Williams (Arnold Sanders), Lloyd Bochner (General Oliver Benjamin , Hammond), Robert Phillips (I) (Lawrence Chalmers), Lee Paul (Schmidt), Peter Leeds (John Larson), Roberto Contreras (Fisherman), Paul Gleason (Blair), George Sawaya (Guard), Robert Webber (Charles Rogan), Lana Wood (Marcy Carpenter)

The Story : The Syndicate plans to finance the head of the army's takeover of his country in return for the right to operate the country's vices. The IMF team must intercept the safe deposit key before it reaches the general. Willy replaces a crewman aboard the yacht, but can't find the key and is discovered. He is forced overboard, almost drowns, but escapes and helps warn the team. Jim, Barney and Mimi craft an elaborate plot to convince the bad guys' courier to reveal the location of the key.

Original title : Leona
First Aired : 07.10.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leslie H. Martinson
Writing credits : Howard Browne
Cast : Dick Valentine (Plainclothesman), Beverly Ralston (Leona Epic), Bruce Watson (Kelly), William Boyett (Louis Parnell), Nate Esformes (Jules Cordova), Dewey Martin (Mike Apollo), Pippa Scott (Edith Thatcher), Robert Goulet (Joe Epic), Will Kaluva (Anton Malta)

The Story : To determine the location of a missing Federal agent, the IMF must turn two Syndicate bosses against each other.

Original title : TOD-5
First Aired : 14.10.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Lewis Allen
Writing credits : Ronald Austin, James D. Buchanan
Cast : Owen Bush (Clerk), Peg Stewart (Screaming Woman), James McCallion (Green), Peter Haskell (Gordon Holt), Michael Conrad (Ralph Davies), Ross Elliott (Paul Morse), Ray Walston (Dr. Victor Flory), Susan Brown (Alpha Woman), Barbara Anderson (Mimi Davis)

The Story : A government scientist, Paul Morse, plans to sell a biological weapon, TOD-5, to terrorist Alpha Group led by Dr. Flory. The IMF must get to Morse's contact, Gordon Holt, and get him to take them to Alpha HQ. When Holt gets to the small town where he is to get the weapon from Morse, he finds the town under quarantine and people dying - then he starts showing (IMF-faked) symptoms of the disease. He grabs Mimi, who is supposedly immune, and takes her with him to Alpha HQ and infects them to force them to come up with an antidote - the IMF trail him and arrest the whole operation.
Note : aka : The Carrier

Original title : Cocaine
First Aired : 21.10.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Reza Badiyi
Writing credits : Harold Livingston, Harold Livingston, Norman Katkov
Cast : Tol Avery (Samuels), Miguel Angel Landa (Rene Santoro), Annette Molen (Alice Chambers), King Moody (Detective Lt. Bruce , Leonard), Barbara Darrow (Proprietress), Emile Beaucard (Steve), Charles Napier (Roland), Timothy Brown (Barret), James Essex (White), Bob Golden (Patrolman), Milton Selzer (Stanley), Stephen McNally (Carl Reid), Gregory Sierra (Fernando Laroca), William Shatner (Joseph Conrad), Carol Henry (Clerk), Barbara Anderson (Mimi Davis)

The Story : Carl Reid, a Syndicate cocaine distributor and his chief supplier Fernando Laroca have created an undetectable series of pickup and payoff locations that have baffled conventional law enforcement agencies. They're planning a huge shipment in 72 hours and the IMF must stop them and recover the drug. Their plan: trick Reid's right hand man, Joseph Conrad, into taking them to the drug. But even Conrad doesn't know where it will be.

Original title : Underground
First Aired : 28.10.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : David Lowell Rich
Writing credits : Leigh Vance
Cast : H.M. Wynant (Gunther Schell), John Stephenson (Director), Carl Byrd (Takis), Herman Poppe (Kales), Robert Rhodes (Barman), Bill McKeever (First Officer), Joe Hooker (Driver), Duffy Hamilton (Driver), George Wilbur (Jim's Double), Dennis Cross (Arnold Lutz), Jeff Morris (Smiler), Robert Middleton (Clavering), Joseph Bernard (Karp), Peter Mark Richman (Dr. Hargreaves), Ham Minn (Mioshi)

The Story : Gunther Schell, the brains behind many Syndicate operations, escaped with the aid of a gang specializing in smuggling criminals out of the country - the IMF must locate Schell and the millions in Syndicate money he hid. The gang apparently brainwashes their "clients" and steals their money. Jim goes in as a doctor wanted for murder with his cash hidden after Barney hypnotically programs him only to divulge the information they want. Jim is contacted by the gang, led by Clavering, but the IMF loses contact with him when he's moved in a lead-lined casket to the gang's location, where Schell (who hasn't broke yet) is also at. Jim manages to knock Schell into a coma by triggering his diabetes and claims only he can save him. Jim calls in Willy as an anesthelogist and then the two of them knock out the gang and get Schell out. Barney sell's Schell's location to his superior, Lutz, and they all go to the hidden cash, where the police take them into custody.

Original title : Movie
First Aired : 04.11.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Terry Becker
Writing credits : Stephen Kandel, Arthur Weiss, Anthony Bowers, Anthony Bowers
Cast : Rhodes Reason (Theodore Dane), Douglas Henderson (Henry Packard), James Whitworth (Heath), Lee Farr (Jack Wellon), Ron Pinkard (Barr), Walker Edmiston (Dave Waley), Jerry Douglas (Daniel Moore), Eric Server (Reporter), Joanna Cassidy (Stewardess), Kahana (Trainer), William Smith (I) (John Brent), John Vernon (Norman Shields), David Brian (Benjamin Dane), Paul Factor (Mixer), Barbara Anderson (Mimi Davis)

The Story : The IMF stage a movie in order to provoke the Syndicate's operation's man.

Original title : Hit
First Aired : 11.11.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Reza Badiyi
Writing credits : Douglas Weir
Cast : Jan Peters (The General), Stack Pierce (Barry), Judson Pratt (Warden Lorimer), Leonard Stone (Paul Lewis), Tony Young (Gordon), Frank Christi (Ben Murdock), Robert Reed (Assistant D.A. Arthur , Reynolds), Dane Clark (Sam Dexter), Barbara Rhoades (Vicki Wells), Barbara Anderson (Mimi Davis)

The Story : The IMF needs to get proof that Syndicate chief Sam Dexter murdered his girlfriend Vicki - Dexter is currently in prison on tax evasion and his unknown partner, The General, continues to extort millions. Jim the prosecutor produces Mimi the eyewitness who can place Dexter at the crime scene - when Dexter sends his hood Murdock, the IMF replace him by guest-agent Jack and after a faked accident implicates The General. Dexter's paid-off D.A., Reynolds, incriminates himself and ends up arrested but Dexter still refuses to cooperate. In the prison Dexter forces fellow con Barney to help him escape so he can confront the General and then return. When Dexter plans to kill Barney and the General, the IMF step in just in time.

Original title : Ultimatum
First Aired : 18.11.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Barry Crane
Writing credits : Harold Livingston, Harold Livingston, Shirl Hendryx
Cast : Vince Howard (Patrolman Frank , Dagget), Fred Holliday (Carl), Judy Brown (Lisa), Robert Legionnaire (Police Sergeant), Dale Tarter (Jack), Vic Vallaro (Frederick Rogers), Flip Mark (Delivery Boy), Scott Allen (Williams), Robert Nash (Police Sergeant), Donnelly Rhodes (Joel Morgan), Madlyn Rhue (Adele Cooper), Murray Hamilton (Dr. Jerome Cooper), Barbara Anderson (Mimi Davis)

The Story : The IMF must trick a man seeking ultimate power through the threat of a nuclear explosion into calling off his threat.

Original title : Kidnap
First Aired : 02.12.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Peter Graves
Writing credits : James L. Henderson, Samuel Roeca
Cast : Ed Gilbert (Armsby), Chuck Hicks (Security Guard), Glenn Wilder (Henzel), Monty Margetts (Dowager), Arline Anderson (Sandra), Marc Hannibal (Eckworth), Jack Ging (Hawks), Geoffrey Lewis (Proctor), Charles Drake (Mitchell Connally), John Ireland (Andrew Metzger), Gwil Richards (Parmel)

The Story : The IMF must do Jim's kidnappers' bidding in order to save him. Just as they acquire the evidence the kidnappers have demanded, they lose it to an unexpected third party. Barney and Jim improvise independently to save the situation.

Original title : Crack-Up
First Aired : 09.12.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Sutton Roley
Writing credits : Arthur Weiss, Arthur Weiss, Robert White, Phyllis White
Cast : Arthur Franz (Dr. Adler), Stephen Roberts (President), Robert Kenneally (Bartender), Earl Eby (Gentleman), Edward Knight (Driver), John Pickard (Doctor), Cathleen Cordell (Mrs. Taylor), Marlyn Mason (Sandy), Peter Breck (Harry Cordel), Bart La Rue (Goon), Britt Leach (Leslie Harper), Michael Masters (Orderly), Ralph Johns (Samuels), Alex Cord (Peter Cordel)

The Story : The IMF must bring a hitman and chess champion to justice, and determine the identity of his employer.

Original title : The Puppet
First Aired : 22.12.1972 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Lewis Allen
Writing credits : Leigh Vance, Leigh Vance
Cast : Val Avery (Augie Leach), Richard Devon (Hank), Joseph Ruskin (Khalid), John Crawford (Paul Ostro), Lewis Charles (Sam Zercos), Ken Scott (Fusco), Shirley Washington (Girl Travel Agent), Colin Male (Guard), John Larch (Larry Gault), Roddy McDowall (Leo Ostro), Joe Haworth (Police Officer)

The Story : The IMF must determine what family Syndicate member Leo Ostro, who shot his older brother Paul while hunting, is plotting and stop him. They devise an elaborate con to replace the injured Paul with their agent and bring the wrath of the Syndicate down on Leo.

Original title : Incarnate
First Aired : 05.01.1973 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Barry Crane
Writing credits : Buck Houghton, Buck Houghton, Stephen Kandel
Cast : Alex Rocco (Dall), Robert Hagan (Thomas O'Connel), Robert F. Hoy (Kelso), Solomon Sturges (Robert O'Connel), Kim Hunter (Hannah O'Connel)

The Story : Hannah O'Connel rules over a Syndicate family, including her two sons who act as her lieutenants. Hannah masterminded the theft of a million dollars in gold bullion, and escaped to the Caribbean with her surviving son Thomas - Robert turned government witness but Hannah shot and killed him. The IMF must get her to return to the U.S. and recover the gold. The O'Connel's are set up in a house run by Casey and led to believe it's haunted by Robert - their gunsels turn up "dead" and Hannah contacts shopkeeper Barney to arrange a voodoo exorcism. Hannah blacks out thanks to the IMF and they send her son Thomas running after faking him killing Willy over Casey. When Hannah wakes up Barney tells her that Robert is alive and got her to tell him the location of the gold while she was unconscious. Hannah hires Jim as a pilot to take her to the gold and the IMF move in for the arrest.

Original title : Boomerang
First Aired : 12.01.1973 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leslie H. Martinson
Writing credits : Howard Browne
Cast : Charles Picerni (Ollie Maybrick), Jerry Jones (Cabbie), Amzie Strickland (Mildred), Charles Guardino (Johnny Vayle), Walter Barnes (Homer Chill), Ron Feinberg (Stanley Luchek), Laraine Stephens (Eve Vayle), Richard Reed (Dorlan)

The Story : Jim poses as a hit man, who has fallen for his supposed victim, in order to convince her to reveal where she has hidden the incriminating records.

Original title : The Question
First Aired : 19.01.1973 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leslie H. Martinson
Writing credits : Stephen Kandel
Cast : Paul Ryan (Attendant), Duke Stroud (Jameson), John Baer (Belden), George O'Hanlon (Capt. Douglas), Richard Van Vleet (Coleman), Elizabeth Ashley (Andrea), Jason Evers (Ben Nelson), Gary Lockwood (Nicholas Varsi)

The Story : Nicholas Varsi, an enemy assassin, has been captured but claims to be a defector who will reveal his mission to a government agency, the FIS...when he is guaranteed safe asylum. But the FIS may have been infiltrated by a deep-cover operative and Varsi may be selling fake information, so the IMF must verify if he really wants to defect.

Original title : The Fountain
First Aired : 26.01.1973 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Barry Crane
Writing credits : Stephen Kandel
Cast : George Maharis (Thomas Bachman), Luke Askew (Dawson), Pepe Callahan (Bartender), Charlita (Waitress), Carlos Rivas (Perez), Ed Connelly (Mallory), Cameron Mitchell (Matthew Drake)

The Story : The IMF must retrieve stolen Syndicate records by convincing a Syndicate exec that he's discovered the Fountain of Youth.

Original title : The Fighter
First Aired : 09.02.1973 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Paul Krasny
Writing credits : Orville H. Hampton, Nicholas E. Baehr, Stephen Kandel
Cast : William 'Billy' Benedict (Denver), Martin Ashe (Steve Lawson), Conrad Bachmann (Cashier), Walker Edmiston (Dave Rawls), Herbert Jefferson Jr. (James "Gunner" , Loomis), Jennifer Shaw (Susan Mitchell), Geoffrey Deuel (Pete Novick), Joe Maross (Jay Braddock), William Windom (Paul Mitchell), Arline Anderson (Telephone Voices)

The Story : The mob has inflitrated the fight game and murdered one of their fighters who wanted out. The IMF's plan is to break the weaker of the two partners by convincing him that his ruthless partner has turned on him.

Original title : Speed
First Aired : 16.02.1973 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Virgil Vogel
Writing credits : Lou Shaw
Cast : Charles Bateman (Dayton), Russ Grieve (Shiner), George Wilbur (Driver), Dick Ziker (Operative), Tom Winston (Guard), David S. Cass Sr. (Hugo), Jesse Vint (Zine), Ron Soble (Phalen), Jenny Sullivan (Margaret Hibbing), Claude Akins (Sam Hibbing), Ross Hagen (Fred Snelling)

The Story : Sam Hibbing, a major Syndicate drug dealer, stole three tons of amphetamines from a chemical plant and hit the stash in a secret location - the IMF must get it before he sells it. The IMF replaces Hibbert's drug-addicted daughter Margaret with Casey and her new friend Jim, who turns out to own a charter plane and served time for murder. Meanwhile Barney teams up with Hibbing's buyer Dayton to purchase the drugs but they must have them the next day - Jim sets it up so Hibbing's regular courier gave drugs to Margaret/Casey, leaving Hibbing with no other choice then to use Jim as the delivery man. Hibbing sees through Casey's disguise and she escapes, but Hibbing tries to stop Jim - Barney and Willy stop him and Margaret goes into rehab.

Original title : The Pendulum
First Aired : 23.02.1973 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Lewis Allen
Writing credits : Calvin Clements Jr.
Cast : Don Reid (Manny), Beverly Moore (Telephone Operator), Jack Collins (Admiral), Peter Mamakos (Arab), Leon Lontoc (Houseman), Jack Donner (Leader), Frank Maxwell (General Weston), Scott Brady (Allen Brock), Dean Stockwell (Gunnar Malstrom)

The Story : Gunnar Malstrom leads the Pendulum, a secret terrorist group that is planning Operation Nightfall, targeted at the U.S. government - the IMF must stop it and bring Malstrom to justice. Casey dates Malstrom and brings him to World Resources Ltd., an IMF front company and supposed rival organization to Pendulum, and offer him a job if he leaves Pendulum. The IMF use a hidden polygraph to determine that Pendulum plans the assassination of a general - they fail to learn that the assassination has already taken place and Pendulum plans to have their general blow up the Chiefs of Staff in an explosion. Jim tries to warn the fake general, who asks him to sit in on the meeting. Thanks to a planted transmitter, the IMF discover Pendulum's true plan and Jim gets rid of the bomb just in time.

Original title : The Western
First Aired : 02.03.1973 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Leslie H. Martinson
Writing credits : Lois Peyser, Arnold Peyser
Cast : Joanna Cassidy (Stewardess), Don Gazzaniga (Walker), Frank Farmer (Driscoll), Barry Atwater (Matthew Royce), Michael Ansara (Ed Stoner), Ed Nelson (Van Cleve), Troy Melton (Driver)

The Story : Van Cleve and his partner, Royce, robbed a museum of pre-Colombian artifacts - Cleve apparently killed his partner and has the artwork hidden somewhere in the U.S. and the IMF must find it and bring him to justice. The IMF convince Cleve that he has the ability to see the future with some rigged incidents. Then they convince him that he'll die in an earthquake that will cause a dam nearby to burst - Cleve flees to the desert where he has the art hidden. The IMF follow him and manage to grab him and Royce, who faked his death and planned to kill Cleve and grab the artifacts.

Original title : Imitation
First Aired : 30.03.1973 (USA)(CBS)
Director : Paul Krasny
Writing credits : Edward J. Lakso
Cast : Pernell Roberts (Boomer), Oscar Beregi (Mellon), Charles McGraw (Stevens), Thalmus Rasulala (Eddie), Alfonso Williams (Honey), Olan Soule (Desk Clerk), Lew Brown (II) (Dunson), Jack Bernardi (Gerald Carter), Ray Ballard (Duval), Barbara McNair (Jena Cole)

The Story : When the crown jewels of Marnsburg are stolen, the IMF must trick thief Jena Cole into revealing the location of the jewels before she can turn them over to the Syndicate, and before the government of Marnsburg turns hostile.

Original title : Mission Impossible Versus the Mob
First Aired :
Director : Paul Stanley
Writing credits : Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield
Cast : Eduardo Ciannelli (Jack Rycher), Stuart Nisbet (Dr. Emerson Reese), Joan Staley (Ginny), Paul Lambert (Al Morgan), Nicholas Colasanto (Jimmy Bibo), Vincent Gardenia (Vito Lugana), Nelson Olmsted (Janitor), Robert Phillips (I) (Johnny), Vic Perrin (Cheever)

The Story : Compilation of the two-part series episode "The Council," released theatrically.