Brought out of retirement by the death of his successor and protege, he brings together a team of four skilled operatives and leads them as they travel the globe conducting impossible covert missions for the u. Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. It was a good time to be a kid in front of the tube. The everett collectionlong before tom cruise was dangling from the sides of airplanes, mission. Sabattini is forcing stefans fiancee francesca into marrying him, placing him in line to the throne. If you are experiencing problems, please describe them. That unmistakable theme sent chills down the spine. The 1970s book club is here 3 months ago pattinase. Jim phelps is the head of a supersecret government agency, the imf impossible missions force, and is often given secret anonymous covert missions to attempt. Impossible tv series 19661973 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. But when the action gets hot, jim sustains a head injury and wakes up with amnesia and nothing but a fake id to tell him who he is.
Jim phelps continued as head of the imf team, for his fourth year this was the great paris second and last season on the series, played by leonard nimoy of star trek fame. The series is coproduced by and stars tom cruise, whose character is ethan hunt, an agent of the impossible missions force imf. My wife and i love to watch an episode or two in the evenings. Jim phelps peter graves gets his assignment, barney collier greg morris makes the required special effects, and willy armitage peter lupus.
Impossible tv series info, cast listing, theme song, trivia, dvds. One of its best elements were the famous guest stars that appeared in the show, which added more interest to the already interesting storylines. This article lists both broadcast order and production order, which often differed considerably. An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death or capture. An undercover agent, hays, assigned to gather evidence against syndicate head john lawton, is blinded in an explosion. Impossible, a unique spy drama based around a adhoc covert operations team employed though not officially by the us government for dicey missions requiring maximum deniability. Impossible is an american television series that was created and initially produced by bruce geller. Impossible 1966 tv series episodes the fifth season of the original mission. Impossible is a series of american action spy films both based on and a followon from the television series of the same name created by bruce geller. Each episode deals with the imf performing a mission, usually with world. Imf team leader dan briggs assembles his team for the first time. In the first season, the team is led by dan briggs, played by steven hill. The fifth season lasted from september 19, 1970 to march 17, 1971, and consisted of 23 episodes.
Phelps devises a plan to rescue barney and destroy the chemical. Impossible, this 7year series chronicled the adventures of the impossible missions force imf, a team of government spies and specialists who were. The series is best known for its standard but not invariable opening mission contact conducted by a prerecorded message, the theme composed by lalo schifrin, the leaders selection of mission agents from a dossier, the opening briefing, the intricate use of disguises and a typical mask pulloff scene near the end of most episodes, and the. His new team consists of nicholas black, master of. Impossible the original tv series, part 3 plus mailbag by light the fuse. By the fifth season, the shows changing times meant changing crimes, as the emerging drug culture forced the imf to spend more time in america, battling organized crime and drug czars. In this update of the original 60s series, peter graves returns as jim phelps, head of the impossible missions force imf.
Impossible is an american television series created and initially produced by bruce geller, chronicling the exploits of a team of secret government agents known as the impossible missions force imf. Barney has been captured infiltrating an enemy laboratory in the middle east. Five favorite mission impossible episodes i commandeered well. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the impossible missions force. Original mission impossible intro 1969 shatner method. Impossible ran from 19661973 on cbs, and in light of all the amazing television thats been produced since then, one would be hard pressed to call it one of the best shows of all time. Mission impossible series complete 89 tv season dvd set. To make matters worse he has been exposed to the chemical weapon being manufactured at the lab. Anastas poltroni is the head of an international narcotics syndicate, and has taken refuge in a country with no extradition treaty. May 26, 2016 from one of the series slickest episodes. The television series lasted from september 1966 to march 1973. The original series premiered on the cbs network in september 1966 and consisted of 171 onehour episodes running over seven seasons before ending in march 1973. Series 4 sees leonard nimoy fresh from playing mr spock in star trek join the cast. Rogue nation, uses a pastiche of this opening in homage to the pilots tape scene, where the team leader enters an unusual shop an oddities store in the pilot and a vintage record shop in the movie and asks for an obscure record.
Ctva ctva us adventure series ctva australian series guide peter graves series. Phelps joins a group of dutch tourists while the rest. With so many new series popping up on streaming services and dvd every day, it gets harder and harder to keep up with new shows, much less the alltime classics. The costars in this version were thaao penghlis as nicholas black, tony hamilton as max harte, phil morris as grant collier. Ethan hunt luther stickell benji dunn julia meade william brandt. This 7year series chronicled the adventures of the impossible missions force imf, a team of government spies and specialists who were offered impossible missions should they decide to accept. The plots shifted from an almost exclusively cold war focus to new, more contemporary 1970 s issues for the impossible mission force involving criminal syndicates, terrorists, protesters. Although anna believes that the defection is genuine its really a trap set by alexi and police chief petrovitch. Impossible was a television series that aired from 1966 to 1973 on cbs and from 1988 to 1990 on abc. Impossible was known for thrills, suspense and ripping off rubber faces.
But i do think, in its own clandestine way, its one of tv s most influential series, and not just on the spy shows that followed in. Mission impossible tv series exposed imfcia atrocities in the sixties. Impossible is an american television series that chronicles the missions of. In the middle east, an alienated american computer technician figures in the imfs sabotage of a computer used to make lethal gas. His recorded instructions include the words, welcome back, dan. The original television series premiered in 1966, a glorious year for the medium, along with star trek and batman. All seven seasons of the original television series mission. The original television series offers something like six 24hour days worth of entertainment for a very reasonable price. Here you will find all the episodes of the seriesmission. Impossible 1966 season 2 opening schifrin and variations edited by trent pruitt. Leslie martinson director of batman, pt109, the brady bunch.
The 1966 tv series ran for 7 seasons and was revived in 1988 for two seasons. Lawtons lieutenant dietrich and his business adviser matula are rivals matula is actually an fbi undercover plant so the imf must keep him from being exposed and make sure he takes lawtons place. Quite often, they are unmasking criminals or rescuing hostages. Greg morris and linda day george from the first series also appeared.
Impossible season 4 1969 1970 opening titles by melecucche tv. His team includes a master of disguise, a femme fatale, an electronics whiz, an incredibly strong man and a safecracker. Mission impossible the fifth tv season originally aired in 19701971 and featured a few subtle changes to the standard format of this classic tv drama. Pilot dan briggs apparently rejoins the impossible missions force after some sort of sabbatical. Classic tv shows mission impossible with peter graves. A trained falcon is summoned in a lastditch rescue attempt when jim phelps finds his imf endangered by a traitors assassination plot in the last of a threepart episode. They resurrected mission impossible in 1988 as a workaround to the then ongoing writers strike. Briggs will need all their skills to steal two atomic. They hope to get the list and embarrass the west in one. Based in australia, they used old scripts and a mostly new cast.
Follow the globetrotting exploits of a team of government spies leader jim phelps peter graves, electronics whiz barney collier greg morris, muscle man willy armitage peter lupus, plus a new team member, the master magician paris leonard nimoy the series. My watchlist keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. Impossible is on tv, including series 3 episode 17. If you watch these 10, youll have a better idea of what that series was about, without having to watch the whole thing. Impossible tm returns to dvd, featuring all 23 season five episodes. They began to tinker with the original winning premise. Theme song dvds watch episodes photos trivia comments.
Governments impossible missions force imf consists of a group of secret agents to stop any kind of threats to the nations security. Impossible tv series 19661973 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses. Impossible is a multimedia franchise based on fictional secret espionage agency known as impossible missions force imf. By the fifth season, the shows changing times meant changing crimes, as the emerging drug culture frced the imf to spend more time in america, battling organized crime and drug. Mission impossible the fifth tv season originally aired in 1970 1971 and featured a few subtle changes to the standard format of this classic tv drama.
It is also the only episode of the series written by creator bruce geller. Imry rogosh is a mass murderer who kills to forment political upheaval. Also a wider cast of the impossible mission force from here on. Impossible and get the latest breaking news, exclusive videos and pictures, episode recaps and much more at. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. With peter graves, leonard nimoy, lesley ann warren, greg morris. Jim phelps takes charge for the remaining seasons, played by. Tvguide has every full episode so you can stayuptodate and watch your favorite show mission. An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in.
The plots shifted from an almost exclusively cold war focus to new, more contemporary 1970s issues for the impossible mission force involving criminal syndicates, terrorists, protesters, apartheid, private crimes, and in one instance, a serial killer. With tv club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a tv series, classic or modern. Impossible 1966 is an excellent crafted tv show that was ahead of its time in some areas of special effects. Here you fint both the broadcast episodes as the next episodes. Mission impossible captivated television audiences with its first glimpse into the world of international espionage. Peter graves returned as phelps and phil morris, gregs real life son, took over as grant collier. In order to solve a cold case the imf and scores of actors go to extreme lengths to convince one of the killers, thomas kroll, that he is reliving the day of the murder june 30, 1937. Amazons choice for mission impossible tv series dvd. Cast steven hill as dan briggs season 1 barbara bain as cinnamon carter seasons 1 to 3 peter lupus as willy armitage seasons 1 to 7 greg morris as barney collier seasons 1 to 7. Impossible returns to dvd, featuring all 23 season five episodes. In the country of valeria, the imf must assure that the corrupt nationalist partys rigged voting machine doesnt give them the election.
Between 1968 and 1971 atlas publishing produced three mission impossible annuals for the british market to tie in with the long running us tv show, apparently skipping 1970 which would have been. The original mission impossible series that went on from there for another four seasons was never again as strong or, to my mind, as watchable. Long before tom cruise was dangling from the sides of airplanes, mission. Season 1 season 2 season 3 season 4 season 5 season 6 season 7. Over seven seasons worth of episodes, this bruce gellercreated drama tracks the exploits of a covert crimefighting unit led by jim phelps peter graves. Trivia, description, cast and episodes list for the mission impossible tv show. By the fifth season of mission impossible, the shows changing times meant changing crimes, as the emerging drug culture forced the imf to spend more time in america, battling organized crime and drug czars. Brother and sister alexi and anna kerkoska want to defect, and give the u. The packaging is ugly and unhelpful but where it counts the superb video transfers, great audio, and extremely high quality of the show itself make this a musthave for classic tv and espionage fans. Briggs assembles a team that includes a master of disguise, a femme fatale, an electronics whiz, an incredibly strong man and a safecracker. The imf must bring down colonel hans krim, the head of a mercenary army who has a ton of loot in gold bars hidden away in an inaccessible enclave. Impossible the fifth tv season the worlds greatest spies return. The impossible mission this time is to recover the multimillion dollar booty stolen by a family of smugglers.