"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The man
you are looking at is Alex Cresnic, one of the world's largest
dealers in heroin. Cresnic made his biggest deal: he bought the
entire heroin crop of an Asiatic country and smuggled it into
Marseilles, where he will wholesale it to his major buyers. In order
to get financing for such a big operation, Cresnic took in a partner.
His name is Mark Walters, head of the numbers bank in Miami. Your
mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is to prevent Cresnic
and Walters from selling the heroin and put them out of business -
permanently. As always, should you or any member of your IM Force be
caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your
actions. This recording will self-destruct in five seconds. Good
luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Alex Cresnic and his partner Walters have
bought out an entire nation's heroin crop and are smuggling it into
Marseilles for a sale - the IMF needs to put them out of business.
Barney and Jim fake an elevator crash and fake blind Walters. In the
hospital, Rollins impersonates Cresnic's voice and gives Walters
specific instructions. Meanwhile, Cresnic believes Walters to be dead
and meets Walters' widow, played by Cinnamon. She blackmails Cresnic
into taking her on as his new partner, and then leads him to a rival
competitor, played by Rollin. Jim is the chemist in the set-up, and
has a jacket that lets him switch Cresnic's heroin for powdered milk.
This was Peter Graves' first appearance in the role of Jim Phelps.
There was never any explanation given for Dan Briggs' departure.
Director: Lee H. Katzin, Writer: Barney Slater
Guest starring: William Windom, Joe
Maross, George Tyne, John Orchard, Britt Lomond, George Sawaya, Walt
Davis, Howard Beckler
William Windom who plays the drug dealer
Alex Cresnic played 4 different characters in 4 seasons of Mission Impossible.
When selecting IM Force members to
participate, Phelps (in a head-on shot) places the folders down with
his left hand. When the camera perspective changes, he's using his
right hand for all four regular members.
2.
Trek
September 17, 1967
"Good afternoon, Mr. Phelps.
Recently, in a desperate attempt to save its economy, the government
of Santales sold its priceless collection of Incan gold artifacts.
Before the treasure could be delivered, it was hijacked by this man -
Jack Cole. Cole's accomplices were all killed. He was captured and is
being held in a provisional prison, where a Colonel Cardoza is trying
to persuade him to reveal where the treasure is hidden. We know
Cardoza to be a traitor who intends to take the treasure for himself
and flee, bankrupting the country. Your mission is to recover the
treasure and expose Cardoza. As always, should you or any member of
your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any
knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five
seconds. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
The country of Santales sold a collection
of Incan gold artifacts to save its economy, which were stolen by
Jack Cole. Cole's accomplices are killed and Colonel Cardoza of
Santales is in charge of extracting the location of the artifacts
from Cole. However, Cardoza is a tratiro who plans to take the
artifacts and leave Santales in financial ruin. The IMF must both
recover the treasure and expose Cardoza. Phelps goes in as Cardoza's
fence, and plots with the Colonel to get Cole to reveal the treasure.
Director: Leonard Horn, Writer: Laurence Heath
Guest starring: Dan O'Herlihy, Mark
Lenard, Michael Pate, Jack Donner, Ralph Mauer, Alfred Shelly
Dan O'Herlihy who play's 'Jack Cole' is
the real life brother of Michael O'Herlihy, the director of the
'Mission Impossible (1966)' episodes 'Legacy', 'Emerald' and 'Town' .
Many of the extras are reused in different
shots. At 28:30, after placing Rollins money in the vault, there is
an exterior shot panning left. There are two extras on the far left,
an elderly woman wearing a purple outfit and scarf and a woman in
white. The woman in purple misses her cue to begin walking and seems
to be looking towards the cameras. The woman in white begins walking
and turns back to alert the woman in purple to begin walking. The
purple woman can be seen a little earlier, about 22:30, walking with
a package. She is also seen outside the bank when Barney and Paul are
arrested and escorted into the truck. There is also a green sports
car that stops while Willy closes the truck door. There is plenty of
room for the car to pass. The same green car appears in the same
shots with the purple woman.
3.
The Survivors
September 24, 1967
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. These men
are Edward Stoner and Wilson Cardel, two of the three key scientists
vital to the development of U.S. Project 12. They have been
kidnapped, along with their wives, by this agent - Erik Stavak. The
Wilsons and Cardels are in great danger as they are useless to Stavak
without the third scientist on the project - Dr. Robert Webster. But
should Stavak succeed in getting all three men and forcing them to
talk, the solution to what has been described as the Ultimate Weapon,
will be in enemy hands. The mission, Jim, is to prevent that at all
costs and get these two scientists and their wives back alive. As
always, should you or any member of your IM Force be caught or
killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Two scientists and their wives have been
kidnapped by enemy agent Eric Stavak. If Stavak doesn't get ahold of
a third scientist, the other two are useless and will be killed. If
he gets the third, than Stavak will have the key to an ultimate
weapon project. Phelps and Cinnamon pretend to be the third scientist
and his wife and alllow themselves to be kidnapped and taken to the
other two scientists and their wives. Phelps predicts an upcoming
earthquake, which the IMF team goes to work and fake-implements.
Director: Paul Stanley, Writer: Allan
Balter / William Read Woodfield
Guest starring: Albert Paulsen, Lawrence
Dane, John McLiam, Angela Clarke, Nancy Jeris, Robert Homel, Marc
Adams, William Sargent, Jack Carol, Brett Dunham, Win de Lugo
Albert Paulsen who plays Eric Stavak in
this episode, played 5 different roles throughout the Mission
Impossible series; one each year. His first role was in Season 1,
Episode 2 as an alcoholic with a photographic memory.
In the "dossier" scene, one of
the photos of an agent not chosen for the mission is that of producer
Joseph Gantman.
In the tape message, the voice first
correctly cites US scientists "Edward Stoner and Wilson
Cardel" and their wives, but later refers to "The Wilsons
and Cardels..."
After Jim crushes the light bulb in the
flashlight (at around the 40:24 mark), the electrical wire that was
pulled by "Ed" is clearly a single-strand wire. Jim says to
"lead the wire back to the cell" but at the 41:41 mark, the
wires are multi-stranded.
Phelps takes the gunpowder from ten
cartridges, wraps the powder in a handkerchief and uses it to blow a
large hole in the wall. Gunpowder will not explode unless confined
which it is not. Used as in the show it will only burn. Even if he
could get it to explode the amount of powder he used would be
insufficient to blow that large a hole in the wall.
4.
The Bank
October 1, 1967
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The man
you are looking at is Alfred Belzig, director of the Socialist
People's Bank in the East Zone, but secretly a fanatic who has never
given up working for a supreme fascist state. Using his position,
Belzig offers to help anyone who has money and wishes to escape to
the West. He helps them and they're never heard from again, and
Belzig appropriates their bank accounts. The mission, should you
decide to accept it, is to stop Belzig and prevent the over
$300,000,000 which he has appropriated from falling into the hands of
his new Nazi Party. As always, should you or any member of your IM
Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge
of your actions. This record will self-destruct when it reaches the
final groove. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Alfred Belzig, a bank director in the East
Zone, takes money from those trying to escape to the West, then
disposes of them and keeps the money. Belzig plans to use the $3
million he's accumulated to support a new Nazi party. Rollin pretends
to be an escapee, allowing the team to track the money to a safe
deposit box. Barney and guest team member Paul Lebarre (a former bank
robber) stage a raid on Belzig's bank and steal only his deposit box.
Director: Alf Kjellin, Writer: Brad Radnitz
Guest starring: James Daly, Pierre
Jalbert, Gene Dynarski, Ray Baxter, Julian Burton, Kurt Lander, Sacha
Berger, Kris Tel, Richard Anders
In the "dossier" scene, the
picture of one the agents not selected for mission is that of Allan
Balter, a leading writer of the show (but not this story).
This is the first episode in which Jim
Phelps is guided to his instruction tape by another agent, rather
than locating it himself.
5.
The Slave (Part 1)
October 8, 1967
6.
The Slave (Part 2)
October 15, 1967
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. As you
know, for the past twenty years, the United Nations has worked
throughout the Near East to abolish slave markets. This effort has
been successful except in El Kabar, a small country on the Persian
Gulf, where Ibn Borca, an absolute monarch, continues to auction
thousands of human beings into slavery each year. Borca's principle
source of slaves is this man, Karl de Groot. His raids into nearby
nations to abduct free men and women into slavery could aggravate the
tense situation in the Near East. Your mission, Jim, should you
decided to accept it, is to stop this traffic in slaves and rid El
Kabar of de Groot and Borca. As always, should any of your IM force
be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your
actions. This recording will self-destruct in five second. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
In the country of Elkabar, King Ibn Borca
is conducting a brisk slave business with the aid of supplier Karl de
Groot. de Groot raids into neighboring countries. The IMF team must
put the two men out of business. Barney lets himself be captured by
de Groot, gets the info on a cell, then escapes with the info so they
can create an exact duplicate of the cell. In part two, Willy kidnaps
Princess Amara, wife of the king's brother Fasar, who knows nothing
of his brother's slave racket. They put Amara in the duplicate cell
and then Rollin-as-Borca tells her she will be sold at the next
auction. Jim delivers Cinnamon to Borca, and then they dress up a
sedated Amara as Cinnamon, and Barney and Willy switch her for
Cinnamon. Rollin, masquerading as an Interpol agent, convinces Fasar
to go to a slave auction to expose Borca.
Director: Lee H. Katzin, Writer: Allan
Balter / William Read Woodfield
Guest starring: Joseph Ruskin, Percy
Rodriguez, Warren Stevens, Antoinette Bower, Sid Haig, Steve Franken,
David Mauro, Peter Lorre Jr., Michael St. Clair, Socrates Ballis, Jan
Arvan, Kanan Awni, George Sawaya, John Arndt, Josh Adams
Before Willie and Barney kidnap Amara,
their van is a Volkswagon. As they drive away, it is a Chevrolet.
During the flying bat scene, in the wide
shots the bats are birds.
7.
Operation Heart
October 22, 1967
"Good afternoon, Mr. Phelps. This is
Professor William Bennett, the Nobel Prize winning archeologist, who
is becoming the innocent pawn in a political coup being planned by
this man - Stephan Gomalk. The Chief of the Security Police, Gomalk
plans to overthrow the pro-Western government of his closest friend,
Beyron Rurich. The plan to assassinate Rurich is code-named
Anniversary. Professor Bennett has a chronically weak heart. When he
was arrested by mistake and intensively questioned by Gomalk,
Bennett's heart failed. He is now in a hospital in maximum security.
Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is to get Bennett
out alive and prevent Rurich's assassination by Gomalk. As usual,
should you or any member of your IM Force be caught or killed, the
Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This recording
will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Professor Bennett is an archaeologist who
is caught up in political coup by Gomalk, the Chief of Security
Police. The coup is aimed at President Rurich. Bennett was
accidentally arrested and interrogated, inducing a heart attack. The
team must both rescue Bennett and prevent the coup.
Director: Leonard Horn, Writer: John O'Dea
/ Arthur Rowe
Guest starring: Pernell Roberts, Michael
Strong, Michael Fox, Peter Coe, Aaron Fletcher, Robert Karnes, Helen
Boll, Joe Ryan, Alan Bleiweiss, Svea Grunfeld, Arline Anderson
After selecting Rollin for this mission,
Phelps uses his left hand to toss his file on the table. The next
shot shows the file leaving Phelp's right hand.
In the opening sequence, Phelps drives to
where he is to get his assignment. A camera records his face in
close-up as he drives. As he gets out of the car and goes into the
building the car is seen reflected in a window and a mat or platform
can be seen on the hood of the car where the cameraman lay while the
car was moving to film the opening close-up.
During the surgery, Rollin has a hand-held
device that can be used to manipulate the display on the heart rate
monitor and fool the surgeon into thinking the patient is
fibrillating. However, whenever the patient supposedly goes into
fibrillation, the close-up of the monitor shows the rhythm is still normal.
Professor Bennett is described as a
"Nobel Prize-winning archeologist". There is no such prize
in that field.
The grate in the photo booth has a series
of identical, round holes cut into it. After listening to the tape,
Phelps closes and locks the grate. A camera cuts to the smoking tape
recorder behind a grate with different designs and larger openings.
8.
The Money Machine
October 29, 1967
"Good afternoon, Mr. Phelps. The man
you are looking at is Walter DuBris, the most unscrupulous financier
in Africa. DuBris' brokerage firm is in Ghalea, a small African
nation, whose pro-Western democracy is the key to stability in the
area. Last week, the shipment of paper used to make currency was
hijacked by this man, a counterfeiter, Raf Tigoor. We believe Tigoor
has made a deal with DuBris to pass the paper, which would wreck the
Ghalean economy. Because DuBris is powerful and influential, he
cannot be arrested on suspicion alone. Your mission, should you
decide to accept it, is to recover the paper and put DuBris out of
business - permanently. As always, should you or any of your IM Force
be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your
actions. Please dispose of this recording in the usual manner. Good
luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Walter DuBruis is a criminal financier in
Africa, and has made a deal with a countefeiter, Rag Tagoor. DuBruis
will pass the fake money that Tagoor manufactures, wrecking the
pro-Western country of Ghalea. DuBruis is above the law unless there
is firm evidence, so the IMF have to put him out of business.
Cinnamon tries to corner the market on a company's copper stock,
interesting DuBruis by mentioning her husband has found a new vein of
copper. DuBruis plans to buy the stock for himself, but needs money.
Conveniently, Rollin fakes an epileptic seizure, and DuBruis
discovers that Rollin is a counterfeiter. DuBruis makes a deal with
Rollin and his partner Jim to print counterfeit money using their
state-of-art computer that will make copies of DuBruis $3 million and
turn it into $8 million. But Barney is hiding inside the machine
switching the real money for fake.
Director: Paul Stanley, Writer: Richard M. Sakal
Guest starring: Brock Peters, John Copage,
Rockne Tarkington, Michael Shillo, Tom Steel
Two scenes are presented out-of-order. As
shown, DuBruis orders his counterfeiter to move up his production
schedule from 6 months to 6 days because, he says, the government has
advanced a deadline. The scene in which DuBruis is informed about his
changed deadline is not shown until AFTER the scene with the counterfeiter.
9.
The Seal
November 5, 1967
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. For the
past 25 years, this country has depended on the friendship of Koala
Rokat, a small but strategic nation on the China-India border. This
is the Imperial Seal of Koala Rokat, a priceless 2,000 year old jade
figure on a golden rope. Two weeks ago, it turned up in the art
collection of the famous American industrial, J. Richard Taggart.
Yesterday, our government, on behalf of Koala Rokat, requested that
Taggart return the stolen jade to its rightful owners, who regard the
seal as sacred. Taggart refused, and there appears to be no legal way
that we can compel him to do so, despite the fact that his refusal
will undo years of diplomacy and drive Koala Rokat into the Communist
camp. Your mission, should you decided to accept it, is to get the
seal so that it can be returned to Koala Rokat. As always, should you
or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will
disavow any knowledge of your actions. Please dispose of this
recording in the usual manner. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Taggart. an industrialist, has a rare
stolen statue that America needs to maintain a friendly relationship
with a foreign country. He refuses to turn it over and IM Force are
sent to get it. They need a cat, Rusty, to bypass Taggert's elaborate
security. Phelps fouls the computer with a doctored key card,
requiring Willy to deliver a replacement containing Barney and the
cat. Cinnamon is a reporter investigating a supposed curse on the
statue, while Rollin pretends to be a professor from the statue's
country of origin.
Director: Alexander Singer, Writer: Allan
Balter / William Read Woodfield
Guest starring: Darren McGavin, Mort
Mills, Joan Tompkins, Russ Bender, Pete Kellett, Eric Cooper
There were as many as 12 different cats
used, each trained to do one specific task.
Phelps finds the instructions on a tape,
which has a black and a white side. When he puts the tape into the
recorder the black side is uppermost. In the close-ups, only the
white side can be seen. In the final shot, by removing the tape, you
can see, that the black side is up again.
Willy uses the stamp stuck to his finger
to add Phelps's signature ("Wilkins") to the sign-out book.
Later, when the guard checks the book, the signature is there, but
the one below is missing and the other signatures have changed places.
10.
Sweet Charity
November 12, 1967
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The man
you are looking at is Eric Hagar who, for years, has collected vast
sums of money for charities, most of which he keeps for himself. He
steals from the sick, the hungry, the destitute. Hagar's partner in
these despicable activities is his wife, Catherine. The latest fraud
of the Hagars is the collection of a million dollars, which is
supposed to build a new hospital wing. To get this money, they have
invited a group of millionaires to spend the weekend on their estate
in Montaine, on the French-Italian border. The mission, should you
decide to accept it, is to recover the millions which the Hagars have
stolen from the needy and put a stop to their charity racket for
good. As always, should you or any member of your IM Force be caught
or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
This recording will self-destruct in ten seconds. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
A husband-and-wife con team, the Hagars,
rip off the wealthy for donations to charity, only to take it all for
themselves. The IMF crashes the Hagars' get-together with a group of
millionaires at an estate on the French-Italian border. The Hagars
have converted their ill-gotten gains to platinum, and have it stored
in the base of a pool table. Jim goes in as a gigolo supposedly hired
by Erik Hagar to keep his wife Catherine occupied, while Cinnamon
keeps Erik occupied by pretending to be a wealthy invalid. Barney
tunnels into the estate and switches out the platinum bricks with an
inflatable duplicate while Rollin pretends to be a hitman trying to
kill Catherine, but is caught and confesses he was hired by Erik.
Director: Marc Daniels, Writer: Barney Slater
Guest starring: Fritz Weaver, Hazel Court,
J.P. Burns, Lilyan Chauvin, Jean Del Val, Linda Sue Risk, Arline
Anderson, Roger Til, Dan Gazzaniga
The exterior scenes outside of what is
supposed to be the Hagar's European mansion were filmed at 380 South
San Rafael Ave, Pasadena, California - the same house used as the
exterior of Wayne Manor in the "Batman" series that was
also on the air at the same time.
The briefing scene (Phelps entering the
industrial shop, turning off the blowtorch and listening to the tape)
is re-used in Mission: Impossible: The Phoenix (1968). The only
changes are the audio content of the tape and the photographs of the Hagars.
When Cinamon plugs the device into the
wall socket to kill the electric power to the house she plugs in a
device that has a two-pin American plug and she plugs it into an
American socket. European plugs, and sockets have two round pins.
Barney and Rollin could not have picked up
$2 million worth of platinum. Platinum, in 1967 was approximately
$160 per troy oz. $2 million worth of platinum would weigh 857
pounds. However, the volume would be only about .64 cubic feet as a
cubic foot of platinum is 1340 pounds. This would be a cube about 7.4
inches per side.
Toward the end when Barney is parked
waiting in his truck for the Lincoln to drive down the highway, the
front license plate on Barney's truck is from California. Later when
stopped at the border checkpoint it changes to the correct European
license plate.
Rollin has silencer on a revolver.
Revolvers can't have silencers because the sound would come through
the cylinder. Also no bullets can be seen in the cylinder.
11.
The Council (Part 1)
November 19, 1967
12.
The Council (Part 2)
November 26, 1967
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The man
you are looking at is Frank Wayne, head of the syndicate and number
one man in a vast criminal empire that is corrupting our nation's
economy. Wayne is not content with merely running the rackets and
controlling vice and gambling but has taken over heretofore honest
businesses. Recently, Wayne launched a new system whereby the
syndicate's income, now over $10 billion, is being deposited in Swiss
banks causing an intolerable drain on U.S. gold reserves. Your
mission, should you decide to accept it, is to get the syndicate's
records, which are kept at Wayne's country estate, and see that they
are turned over to the proper authorities, and put an end to Frank
Wayne and his organization. As always, if you or your IM Force are
caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your
actions. This recording will self-destruct in five seconds. Good
luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Frank Wayne is the head of the Syndicate,
and by putting the Mob's ill-gotten gains in a Swiss bank account, he
threatens to ruin the U.S. gold reserve. The IMF must recover the
funds and put Wayne away. Jim harasses Wayne, forcing the gangster to
move his records to the Syndicate's office HQ. Then Jim and Barney
subpoena and grill Wayne, while Rollin studies Wayne to impersonate
his mannerisms. They fake an escape for Wayne long enough for him to
call his henchman, but Rollin then takes his place.
In part two, Rollin-as-Wayne orders the
death of Jim, who is impersonating a federal investigator, without
getting the approval of the Syndicate Council. With Jim's killing as
a distraction, Rollin breaks into the safe at Syndicate HQ and
duplicates the financial records. The Council, unhappy with Wayne's
independence and the fact that the murder is attracting headlines,
condemn him to death. Rollin runs, but at the last moment switches
place with the real Wayne.
Director: Paul Stanley, Writer: Allan
Balter / William Read Woodfield
Guest starring: Paul Stevens, Vincent
Gardenia, Nicholas Colasanto, Paul Lambert, Vic Perrin, Joan Staley,
Stuard Nisbet, Robert Phillips, Eduardo Ciannelli, Nelson Olmstead
Although played by Paul Stevens, the
character of Frank Wayne was dubbed by Martin Landau, who regularly
played Rollin Hand. In 1971, 'The Council' (Part 1 & 2) was
released in French movie theaters as "Mission impossible".
This episode also marks the first use of new dossier pictures for
Cinnamon, Rollin, and Barney.
As Jim plays the mission statement, he
places the player arm in the middle of the recording. During the
playing of the statement, several shots show the arm first moving in
toward the center, then back to the outside - an impossibility.
Records (remember them) always play from the outside toward the center.
When they start digging Jimmy up they
insert an aerator near his head. This wouldn't do any good. There is
too much dirt on top of him and he would not be able to breathe as
his chest would be unable to expand.
Untitled
13.
The Astrologer
December 3, 1967
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Nickolai
Kurzon, in spite of his exile from Veyska by the military junta that
took over, has continued to lead a popular movement to overthrow this
dictatorship. We know that, two days ago, Colonel Alex Stahl, head of
the Veyskian secret police, seized Kurzon outside the country but we
don't know where. Kurzon had in his possession a frame of microfilm
containing the names of Veyskian officials and leading citizens who
support him. If Kurzon and the microfilm are returned to Veyska, it
will lead to the murder of these patriots and kill their chance to
liberate the country. You mission, Jim, should you decide to accept
it, is to rescue Nickolai Kurzon and ensure that the microfilm does
not get to Veyska. As always, if you or any of your IM Force are
caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your
actions. Please dispose of this tape in the usual manner. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Nicholai Kurzon, despite being exiled from
his home country of Veyska by a military junta, leads a popular
rebellion. He has been captured by the country's head of security,
Colonel Stahl, and has a microfilm that contains the leaders of the
revolution. The IMF must rescue Kurzon. Cinnamon gets closer to
Deputy Chancellor Grigov by pretending to be an astrologer who
predicts danger for the Chancellor. Thanks to Rollin's impersonation
the ruse succeeds. Barney and Rollin sneak onto the plane Stahl is
using to fly Kurzon back to Veyska. Rollin cracks the safe holding
the microfilm and replaces it with a fake listing implicating Grigov.
Meanwhile, Cinnamon has used her predictions to turn Grigov and Stahl
against each other.
Director: Lee H. Katzin, Writer: James Griffith
Guest starring: Bob Tiedemann, David
Hurst, Steve Ihnat, Ed McCready, Barbara Bishop, Don Hanmer
Barney and Rollin are in the baggage
compartment of the plane and are running out of air. Barney drills
what appears to be a 3/8 inch hole into the main plane and
immediately they have enough air. A hole that small would require at
least half an hour to allow enough air in to make a difference.
When Barney picks the deadbolt lock into
the baggage room, there is no deadbolt visible when the door swings
open as viewed from inside the room.
14.
Echo of Yesterday
December 19, 1967
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The man
you are looking at is Colonel Marcus von Frank, who has led the
recent resurgence of the neo-Nazis. Otto Kelmann, head of the largest
munitions plant in all Europe, is preparing to turn over to von Frank
complete control of his vast industrial empire. With such a huge
financial base, there is no question that von Frank could become a
second Adolph Hitler, dedicated to the overthrow of democracy
wherever it exists. Your mission, Jim, should decide to accept it, is
to stop Kelmann and von Frank. As always, should you or any of your
IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any
knowledge of your actions. This recording will self-destruct in five
seconds. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Neo-nazi Colonel Marcus von Frank is
planning a resurgence of the Party with the aid of munitions magnate
Otto Kelmann. With Kelmann's financial base, von Frank plans to
become a second Hitler. Jim infiltrates their meeting as an American
Nazi leader, while Cinnamon gets close to Kellman, aided by her
resemblence to his dead wife, murdered by Hitler in 1932. Jim goads
the paranoid von Frank into distrusting Cinnamon, who is convinced
that she will destroy him. The IMF drugs Kelmann and sets up an
elaborate hallucination of Rollin-as-Hitler murdering Cinnamon-as-Kelmann's
wife back in 1932.
Director: Leonard Horn, Writer: Mann Rubin
Guest starring: Eric Braeden, Wilfrid
Hyde-White, Greg Mullavey, Richard Morrison
A photograph of an agent Phelps doesn't
select for the mission is that of William Paley, then the head of CBS.
A new dossier picture for Cinnamon appears
in this episode.
In other episodes Jim Phelps is left
handed. In the saber duel he uses his right hand. This left hand
right hand switch happens a lot and the only explanation is that
Phelps is ambidextrous.
At end of episode, Kelmann goes to foyer
to call police and there is a purse on the round table. After Jim
helps Cinnamon to her feet and they go back to Kelmann walking up the
stairs, the purse is gone.
15.
The Photographer
December 17, 1967
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The man
you are looking at is David Redding, one of the top photographers in
the country. He is also the contact for a spy apparatus that has
secretly brought 150 agents into the United States in the past few
months. Yesterday, one of the agents was picked up. We have not been
able to get any information from him, except that they carry deadly
Bubonic plague bacillus, which is to be released on our population
within 72 hours. We have dozens of coded messages in and out of
Redding's headquarters which we are certain locate and identify the
agents. But we have so far been unable to break Redding's code. Your
mission, should you decided to accept it, is the get the key to the
code so we can pick up those agents before it's too late. As always,
if you or any of your IM Force is caught or killed, the Secretary
will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
David Redding is a photographer and a spy
working for the other side, who has supervised the infiltration of
150 agents into the U.S. The agents are apparently carrying some kind
of biological plague, and only Redding knows the code. The IMF must
get it from him. To do so, they set up Cinnamon as a former fashion
model and scientist married to Jim who is working with a
bacillus-suspension formula. This gives Redding a reason to accept
the assignment - he tortures Jim who claims the U.S. is planning a
nuclear strike. Redding and his assistant Morley plan to take refuge
in Redding's bomb shelter and command center after sending a signal
to his country (which is blocked by Barney), but Rollin and Willy
arrest them. When the IMF fakes a nuclear attack Redding leads the
others to the shelter and tries to send more coded messages that are
intercepted by the IMF team.
Director: Lee H. Katzin, Writer: Allan
Balter / William Read Woodfield
Guest starring: Anthony Zerbe, John
Randolph, Kathleen Hughes, Ludmila, Josh Adams
Redding names the formula that Cinnamon
wrote on the white board as Eosin Methylthionine Chloride. Chloride
indicates that it contains chlorine, but none is present in the
photograph of formula.
16.
The Spy
January 1, 1968
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. A secret,
detailed map of NATO's missile defense system was recently prepared
on two overlays, neither of which is complete without the other. They
were sent by separate couriers to a meeting between NATO and one of
Europe's small, uncommitted nations. Felicia Vabar, a member of an
enemy spy apparatus, had one of the couriers intercepted and the
overlay he was carrying stolen. To get the other, she has recruited
Captain Miklos Cherno, an internal security officer in the country
where the conference was being held. Your mission, should you decide
to accept it, is to prevent Ms. Vabar from getting the second
overlay, without which the first is useless. As always, should you or
any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow
any knowledge of your actions. This recording will self-destruct in
five seconds. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Felicia Vabar, an enemy spy, has procured
one of two overlays that was being sent to a meeting between NATO and
a small European country. The overlays combined form a detailed map
of NATO's missile defense system. Felicia has recruited Captain
Cherno, head of the European country's security, to get her the
second overlay. The IMF must stop her. Felicia plans to get the
overlay out of a safe during an air-raid drill, but Jim beats her to
it when Barney fakes an air-raid siren. Jim fires the overlay out to
Rollin who slips a picture of it to Cinnamon who makes a fake. While
Rollin negotiates with Felicia, Cinnamon (pretending to be an
American embassy official) convinces Dubov, Cherno's superior, that
she knows where the overlay is.
Director: Paul Stanley, Writer: Barney Slater
Guest starring: Joseph Campanella,
Katherine Woodville, Karl Swenson, Edward Knight, Dehl Berti, Walter
Alzman, Nikita Knatz, George Sperdakos
The overlay Jim takes pictures of has 16
red lines on it. The image of the overlay from the pictures Jim took
does not match the original overlay. There are only 8 red lines on
the image Cinnamon projects on the table. Then, after exposing the
projected image onto print paper, the red lines on the image that
develops are not even close to the original projection. The 'fake'
image Cinnamon creates is actually the same as the image that was
originally projected on the table (which was supposed to be the real overlay).
When Phelps is looking at the IMF team
photo of Rollin Hand, you can see a reflection of the person holding
the photo (it is not Phelps), and it is clear that that person is talking.
Cinnamon is shown processing photographic
film and making prints in white light. Did someone point out the
mistake? In the very next episode a character is shown doing the
exact same thing, only he is correctly filmed under red lamps.
17.
A Game of Chess
January 14, 1968
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Two weeks
ago, a million dollars in gold bullion, intended for the underground
in one of the anti-Western satellites, was intercepted by that
government's military police. Preparations are now being made to ship
the gold behind the Iron Curtain. This loss to the underground
movement will set back for years any chance of liberty in this
country. The man you are looking at is Nicholas Groat, whose
reputation as a brilliant chess master has given him entrée
and enabled him to con and steal on an international scale. Groat has
organized a group which plans to steal the gold for itself before it
is shipped out of the country. Your mission, Jim, should you decide
to accept it, is to stop Groat, get the gold, and turn it over to the
underground. As always, should any of your IM Force be caught or
killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
This recording will self-destruct in ten seconds. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Nicholas Groat, a grandmaster chessplayer,
organizes a team that plans to steal gold intended for the
underground in an Eastern bloc country that was intercepted by the
country's authorities. The IMF must recover the gold from the
authorities and keep Groat from getting it. Groat forces the
authorities to move the gold from a bank to a vault at the hotel
where he (and Rollin) are playing in a tournament. The hotel puts a
time lock on the vault for extra security, but Groat notices that
Rollin is cheating, using a hearing aid. When he forces Rollin to
demonstrate, the computer inadverently accelerates timepieces, so
Groat wants to use it to get into the vault.
Director: Alf Kjellin, Writer: Richard M. Sakal
Guest starring: Don Francks, Curt Lowens,
Lou Robb, Jason Johnson, Will J. White, Michael Guarini, William Wintersole
The tape scene where Jim Phelps receives
his taped instructions is re-used from the episode "Trek"
broadcast earlier this same season. The scene takes place in a
telephone booth, and to obtain the photograph accompanying the tape
recording, Phelps (Peter Graves) unlocks the coin box to remove a
small, folded envelope containing the photo of their opponent. The
photo that Phelps supposedly looks at is much larger than the small
envelope he removes from the coin box but has no visible creases.
(The contents of the envelope in the earlier episode was a small
folded news article.)
The last number in the combination to the
vault is established as 15, but when the desk clerk opens the vault
to put in Cinnamon's "jewels", he stops at 2 for the last
number. When closing the vault in front of the Captain after the gold
arrives, the dial is on 88.
The water main for the hotel is too small.
At most it is a 1-inch supply, which is barely enough for a small
house (if that). A hotel that handles 400 guests would probably need
a main of at least 12 or 13 inches diameter. Also, when hooking up
the plastic canister of 'poison,' there is no way the 'poisoned'
water would not get back into the supply to the rest of the hotel.
When the guards are bringing in the cart
full of gold two of them lift the wheels of the cart over the lip of
the door. That much gold would weigh over 700 pounds so two men could
not lift it so easily.
The show portrayed grandmaster chess in an
unrealistic manner. The top computers of that era couldn't beat a
grandmaster. Phelps scored each player's piece move move as a
separate numbered move; in real chess, one numbered move would
consist of a piece move by each side. In grandmaster tournaments, one
game is played a day, not the several games in the show. Many of the
moves made by the players in the games were rank mistakes that a
grandmaster would never make. Players never give checkmate in top
level chess. Players resign before checkmate is given.
18.
The Emerald
January 21, 1968
"Man overboard!"
- Rollin Hand
A plan to devaluate U.S. currency was
concealed on a valuable emerald by a U.S. spy, and the emerald was
inadvertently obtained by Victor Tomar, an international arms dealer.
Tomar is traveling by ship, as is Yorgi Petrosian, an enemy agent
sent to recover the emerald. Rollin as a card shark gets together
with Petrosian and they make a deal - Rollin will cheat Tomar and
give Petrosian the gem and keep the winnings and Cinnamon tricks
Tomar into getting to a game when Jim pretends to take her expensive bracelet.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy, Writer: Allan
Balter / William Read Woodfield
Guest starring: William Smithers, Michael
Strong, Claude Woolman, Francisco Ortega, Jacques Denbeaux, A.G.
Vitanza, Albert Carrier, Robert Ondean, George Sawaya, Walter Linden,
Tom Curtis, Josh Adams, Albert D'Arno, Phillip de Firmian
This episode uses the same opening
sequence of Phelps driving in close-up, then getting his assignment
in a photo booth as the episode "Operation Heart".
In the casino scene, Michael Strong is
reading a French-language newspaper. The headline reads "Mais
Oui, On Peut Manger du Cheval". The English translation is,
"Of course you can eat horse".
After Rollin wins the climatic poker hand
against Yorgi Petrosian and Victor Tomar, he places the emerald case
in the breast pocket of his suit jacket. But in the next frame, as he
is collecting the cash from the table, the emerald case can be
observed amid the pile of money.
Williams throws Yorgi's body (disguised as
Rollin) through a ship's porthole into the sea. Yorgi is wearing a
black tuxedo and a white shirt. There is a cut of the body falling
into the water, but this body is wearing white trousers and a blue shirt.
In the game when Jim beats Cinnamon and
takes her bracelet, she calls his raise, but shows her cards first,
contrary to the rules of poker.
19.
The Condemned
January 28, 1968
"This could be as dangerous as
anything I've ever put you through."
- James Phelps
In Spain, David Webster, a friend of
Jim's, is framed for murder by his girlfriend. Acting on Jim's
personal behalf, the team goes into action. Rollin and Willy,
disguised as priests, hide Webster in his own cell thanks to a
collapsible wall. The murdered man, Corley, had apparently stolen a
Greek crown worth ten million dollars. Constantine, the financier for
the theft, hires Jim to get the crown back and Rollin, disguised as
Webster, confronts the girlfriend and she reveals her accomplice.
Director: Alf Kjellin, Writer: Laurence Heath
Guest starring: Marianna Hill, Peter
Donat, Kevin Hagen, Nate Esformes, Will Kuluva, Steven Marlo, Jon
Cedar, Phil Donati, Keith McConnell
The third episode to have no mission tape.
The mission comes from Jim Phelps, who is helping out a personal
friend. Daniel Briggs helped a friend in the episode "The Ransom".
20.
The Counterfeiter
February 4, 1968
"The secretary will disavow any
knowledge of your actions."
- voice on tape
Raymond Halder is the owner of a chain of
clinics and runs a drug counterfeiting ring. Gant Pharamaceuticals
released a drug that helps against primary vascular disease, but the
drug is being withdrawn since Halder flooded the market with
potentially fatal counterfeits. Gant plans to resissue the drug and
the IMF must stop Halder from counterfeiting the new version.
Director: Lee H. Katzin, Writer: Allan
Balter / William Read Woodfield
Guest starring: Edmund O'Brien, Frank
Campanella, Noah Keen, Roy Engel, Joe Breen, Jon Lormer, Dave
Armstrong, Aaron Fletcher, Bob Board
When Jim is listening to the tape, the
selector on the player is in the rewind position.
On the laser machine, the word
"RECEIVE" is spelled "RECIEVE".
During the demonstration of the ultrasonic
projector, the wine goblet would not have danced the way it did, as
the resonant frequency for the goblet would be in the audible range,
not the ultrasonic range.
21.
The Town
February 18, 1968
"Mrs. Phelps?"
- Rollin Hand
On holiday and going to meet Rollin at a
mountain lodge, Jim stops off in a small town. However, a young
couple drop a package containing a gas gun. Exposed, an old man named
Doc takes Jim prisoner. The town is populated entirely by enemy
agents and they plan to kill a Soviet defector in L.A.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy, Writer: Sy Salkowitz
Guest starring: Will Geer, William
O'Connell, Eddie Ryder, Brioni Farrell, Robert Pickering, Robyn
Millan, Dee Carroll, Gregg Palmer, George Perina, Glen Gordon
In a rare instance, the episode does not
start with Phelps receiving an assignment via a recording. Instead,
he stumbles into an assignment while on vacation.
When Rollin and Cinnamon have to make a
mask of the doctor (played by Will Geer) "on the fly,"
Cinnamon takes a fairly stiff piece of clear plastic and melts it in
the doctor's sterilizing oven to create the mask. Such plastic, if
melted and reconstituted, would have hardened into a rigid, mostly
clear constituent; it never would have provided the flexible,
flesh-like material of the mask depicted, which would have required
some kind of latex. Also, the mask Rollin makes of the doctor's face
has a smooth upper lip even though the original mold was made with
the doctor's mustache intact.
22.
The Killing
February 28, 1968
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. We
recently learned that, in order to carry out the underworld's policy
of enforcement, this man, Bert Gordon, has set up an organization
similar to the old 'Murder, Inc.' Gordon will arrange for the
disposal of anyone, anywhere, for a price. The victims always
disappear with no evidence of foul play and the body is never
recovered. Although we are sure Gordon is behind this murder ring, he
has kept himself so far removed from the actual killings, we have
been unable to pin anything on him. Your mission, should you decide
to accept it, is put him away for good. As always, should you or any
member of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will
disavow any knowledge of your actions. Please dispose of this
recording in the usual manner. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Burt Gordon has set up a new version of
Murder, Inc. for the Synidcate. The IMF need to get evidence of his
actions. Jim and Cinnamon become Gordon's new neighbors, and their
brother Rollin claims they are being haunted by the ghost of their long-dead
sibling. Cinnamon seduces Gordon and wants him to kill her husband
(Jim) who later comes back to haunt Gordon.
Director: Lee H. Katzin, Writer: Allan
Balter / William Read Woodfield
Guest starring: Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Roy
Jenson, Walter Mathews
When Connie takes Jim's "body"
to the lumber yard for incineration, Connie enters the yard in a
Chrysler Imperial. Connie then gets out of a Lincoln Continental.
Finally, he takes Jim's "body" out of the Chrysler.
Barney's 'repair' of the cut telephone
cord would have failed. He reconnected each of the four conductors,
but did not insulate the individual conductors when taping the
splice. This would have caused the telephone line to short out,
making the telephone unusable. In addition, because of the short,
none of the telephones in the entire house connected to that
telephone line would work.
The IMF team runs wind machines and create
fake lightning and thunder for a long period of time. So how come
none of the other neighbors noticed the disturbance?
23.
The Phoenix
March 3, 1968
"I learned a long time ago it is much
easier to explain too much caution then to bleed for not enough.
Perhaps that's why I'm still alive."
- Prohosh
Former internal security director Stefan
Prohosh has been demoted to director of a museum. He has stolen an
experimental metal alloy and concealed it in a modern sculpture at
his museum, and plans to sell it to a foreign power to get them to
back his bid for power. The IMF must recover the metal and stop Prohosh.
Director: Robert Totten / John D.F. Black,
Writer: John D.F. Black / Edward de Blasio
Guest starring: Norbert Siegfried, Max
Klevin, Louis Massad, Charles Hovarth, Mills Watson, Peggy Rea,
Charles H. Radilak, Scott Hale, Alf Kjellin
The briefing scene (Phelps entering the
industrial shop, turning off the blowtorch and listening to the tape)
is re-used footage from the season two episode, "Charity".
the only changes are the audio content of the tape and the photograph
of Prohosh.
24.
Trial by Fury
March 10, 1968
"Good afternoon, Mr. Phelps. Manuel
Delgado, the patron saint of his country's freedom body, recently was
sent to prison by the totalitarian regime now in power. To help
Delgado continue to lead the resistance movement from behind bars,
this man, Santos Cardoza, had himself arrested and imprisoned.
Needing freedom of action in order to act as liaison, Cardoza managed
to become a trustee. This is a grave danger to him because the other
convicts believe him to be an informer and Cardoza cannot reveal the
true reasons for his actions. Your mission is to expose the real
informant and keep Cardoza alive so he may continue to aid Mendoza.
As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed,
the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This
recording will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
The head of a country's freedom party,
Manuel Delgado, has been imprisoned by the dictatorship of his
country. Cardoza, Delgado's assistant and liaison with the outside,
has had himself arrested but is now believed to be an informer by the
other convicts. The IMF must keep Cardoza from being killed by his
fellow inmates and expose the real informer. Jim and Barney go in as
prisoners, while Rollin goes in as a guard and Cinnamon as a Red
Cross officer.
Director: Leonard Horn, Writer: Sy Salkowitz
Guest starring: Michael Tolan, Sid Haig,
Joseph Bernard, Shep Sanders, Gil Galvano, Jay Della, Don Paulin,
Ernest Sarracino, Edmund Hashim, Victor French, Paul Winfield
The prison camp in this episode is the
"Stalag 13" set from Hogan's Heroes (1965) with some minor
redressing. In the original movie Stalag 17 (1953) which this episode
was based on, Peter Graves played Sgt Price, the informer for the
Nazi POW camp.
25.
Recovery
March 17, 1968
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Last
night, one of our SAC bombers crashed behind the Iron Curtain. The
plane's fail-safe mechanism did not destruct and it's been taken to
the Vatria Institute, which is headed by the brilliant American
physicist Paul Shipherd, who defected several years ago. If Shipherd
succeeds in dissembling the mechanism, he will learn the key to our
entire fail-safe system. Your mission, Jim, should you decide to
accept it, is to recover the fail-safe before Shipherd can take it
apart and bring Shipherd back. As always, should you or any of your
IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any
knowledge of your actions. Please dispose of this recording in the
usual manner. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Paul Shipherd, a defector from the U.S.,
has been put in charge of dissecting a SAC bomber fail-safe at the
Vatzia Institute. The IMF must steal the fail-safe and recover
Shipherd. As the pilot of the bomber, Jim plants the idea Shipherd
should talk to the manufacturer in Duluth, and conveniently a
wheelchair-bound Rollin and his wife Cinnamon are from the factory in Duluth.
Director: Robert Totten, Writer: Allan
Balter / William Read Woodfield
Guest starring: Art Stewart, Judy Levitt,
Gregory Gaye, Peter Hellman, Peter Coe, Emile Genest, Bradford Dillman
This appears to be the first episode in
the series which has a "Your mission, should you decide to
accept it" scene that is not followed by the usual Jim-selects-his-team-from-his-photo-dossier
scene. The story moves directly from the flaming tape in the ash
tray to the standard "final briefing" scene, where Jim and
the usual team members (no guest stars on the good guys' side in this
one) review the overall mission and the last details are confirmed.
When they are trying to open the device
they are using small microphones to listen to the clicks of the
combination lock. The "microphones" are clearly made of
glass and are, in actuality, miniature light bulbs. This is something
that would have gone unnoticed in 1968 but we can spot easily on
modern big screen TVs.
