"Good evening, Mr. Phelps. This man,
Vincente Bravo, the dictator of Nueva Tierra, intends to launch an
invasion against the neighboring democracy of San Cristobal. Within
forty-eight hours, the final detail plans of the invasion will
arrive, in code, from the UPR, the United People's Republic, which
has sent this man, Nico Janos, to Nueva Tierra. Janos is to supervise
the invasion and the installation of Bravo as President of the public
regime in San Cristobal. Your mission, Jim, should you decide to
accept it, is to break the code, get the details of the invasion
plan, and shatter the alliance between Nueva Tierra and the United
People's Republic. As always, should you or any 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
Paris poses as a legendary and colorful
revolutionary leader to get close to two conspirators planning an
invasion and takeover of the democratic nation of San Cristobal and
turn them against each other. Meanwhile, the rest of the IMF team
hurries to obtain the invasion plans, decode them and relay the plans
to the San Cristobal defense forces before the invasion begins.
Director: Stuart Hagmann, Writer: Ken Pettus
Guest starring: A Martinez, Joaquin
Martinez, Art Lewis, Roberto Contreras, Nate Esformes, Harold Gould,
Michael Constantine, Alexandra Hay, Victor Campos, Joany Playdon, Jay Tavars
The science of encoding hidden messages in
pictures, as Vincente does, is called steganography. This was Leonard
Nimoy's debut as Paris.
2.
Numbers Game (aka The Key)
October 5, 1969
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. After five
years in exile, General Rados Gollan, the deposed dictator of
Luxania, is ready to launch the invasion which will return him to
power. Such an invasion would succeed in overthrowing the present
democratic regime and lead to general war in the area. Gollan intends
to pay his mercenary army with funds from the six hundred million
dollars he stole during his tenure of office. Your mission, Jim,
should you decide to accept it, is to stop Gollan. As always, if 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 team tries to get the deposed dictator
of Luxania (a lovely country, I spent a month there one week) to
divulge his Swiss bank account number by tricking him into believing
World War III is about to begin.
Director: Reza Badiyi, Writer: Leigh Vance
Guest starring: Torin Thatcher, May Britt,
Don Francks, Karl Swenson, Than Wyenn, Gil Perkins, Vincent Deadrick,
Erik Holland, Bob Bralver, Lew Palter
3.
The Controllers (Part 1)
October 12, 1969
4.
The Controllers (Part 2)
October 19, 1969
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The people
you are looking at have become useless catatonics from being used as
guinea pigs in experiments with a compound called B-230. It is a
super-hypnotic, mind-controlling drug being developed by this man,
Dr. Karl Turek. The solutions to Turek's problems of B-230's
catatonic side effects is in the hands of two disloyal American
scientists, Dr. Arthur Jarvis and his wife, Vera, who have undergone
plastic surgery. Their defection in Geneva is now being arranged by
this man, Colonel Borodin. Once they are working together, Turek's
country will soon have the power to enslave the world. Your mission,
should you decide to accept it, is to stop Turek and B-230. As
always, should you or any 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
An Eastern Bloc nation is trying to
develop a mind-controlling drug, a project led by Dr. Karl Turek.
Phelps devises a plan to play Turek off against a rival, Colonel
Borodin. Phelps and Meredyth pose as a pair of defecting U.S.
scientists, who supposedly have developed an alternative drug to the
one that Turek is working on. The IMF's scheme calls for Turek to try
to kill Borodin, which will result in a trial where Turek will be discredited.
Director: Paul Krasny, Writer: Laurence Heath
Guest starring: Torin Thatcher, May Britt,
Don Francks, Karl Swenson, Than Wyenn, Gil Perkins, Vincent Deadrick,
Erik Holland, Bob Bralver, Lew Palter
In the fist fight with a guard, the stunt
double for Willy (Peter Lupus) is obviously much smaller than Lupus.
In other scene, Jim is driving a late 60s sedan as he approaches the
cliff. However, when he jumps out and triggers the self-destruct,
stock footage of a 40's style car is used for the explosion. Stuff
like this was easy to get away with when originally broadcast on home
TV sets with smaller screens and no HD. Watch these shows again on a
50" screen these flaws are easier to spot.
5.
Fool's Gold
October 26, 1969
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. One of
these notes is the legitimate currency of the Kingdom of Bahkan; the
other is a perfect counterfeit. They have been put into circulation
by this man, Igor Stravos, of the People's Republic. He has demanded
that they redeem their currency in full. If Bahkan cannot prove the
notes are counterfeit, it must meet the demand. This will exhaust the
gold reserve and facilitate the fall of the pro-Western government.
Your mission is to get the plates and make sure they never again
possess a threat. As usual, if you or any of your IM Force is 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
To thwart a counterfeiter who has printed
enough currency to claim a pro-western democracy's entire gold
reserve and thus topple the government, Paris must penetrate a lethal
security system to substitute defective printing plates. Meanwhile
Barney and Willy must subtly destroy a vault filled with currency and
substitute easily detectable counterfeits made with the substituted
plates to catch the counterfeiter red-handed.
Director: Murray Golden, Writer: Ken Pettus
Guest starring: Sally Ann Howes, Nehemiah
Persoff, David Opatoshu, Ronald Long, Paul Marin, Arline Anderson,
Jak Brami
After
Jim gets his instructions and stops the tape player, there is tape
on both reels. In close-up, for the self-destruct sequence, all the
tape is on the take-up reel.
When Paris is exiting the vault, the
combination lock is at 10 and he turns it back to 8. As he exits, the
lock is set back at 10.
Paris and crew are to counterfeit 1
million, 100 Drona notes in approximately 6 hours. This would require
printing more then 46 notes a second. The press being used is not
even printing 1 per second.
A key part of the IMF plan involves
pumping a solvent through a fire sprinkler. But there is no
explanation given for why the flame that trips the sprinkler doesn't
also trip an alarm.
6.
Commandante
November 2, 1969
"Good morning, Jim. Until recently,
Father Paolo Dominguin has led a democratic revolution against the
cruel dictatorship that rules his country. Now, our far Eastern
enemies are taking over Father Dominguin's movement. These agents are
Carlos Martillo, a local insurgent, and the legendary international
revolutionary, Juan Acero. They are holding Father Dominguin in the
mountain village of Lagona and Acero plans to kill him as soon as he
can find a way to do so without arousing the hatred of the local
population. Your mission, if you decide to accept it, is to rescue
Dominguin and restore his control of the revolution. As always,
should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary
will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
An enemy nation has hijacked a US
supported revolutionary movement trying to overturn a dictatorship.
The IMF posses as a religious organization seeking the release of the
priest who is the true leader of the revolution. But the enemy sees
through this cover and demands a shipment of guns in exchange.
Further they plan to manipulate the IMF to provide an excuse to kill
the priest without alienating the revolutionaries. But what's that
Barney is building in an isolated location? Did Jim anticipate a
double cross and plan an escape route?
Director: Barry Crane, Writer: Laurence Heath
Guest starring: Lawrence Dane, Arthur
Batanides, Sid Haig, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr, Pepe Callahan, David Sachs,
Ann Morell, Robert Padilla, Victor Leona
As Barney assembles the various pieces of
the helicopter, the packing crates apparently just vanish. also, even
disassembled, the parts of the helicopter are significantly larger
than the truck in which they were supposedly hidden from during an inspection.
7.
Double Circle
November 9, 1969
"Good afternoon, Mr. Phelps. This
man, Victor Lazlo, is the eccentric art collector, who recently
arranged the theft of the only copy of a new fuel formula vital to
America's missile defenses. The theft was executed by Lazlo's
partner, Ray Dunson, who also killed the one American scientist
capable of duplicating the formula. Enemy scientists have recently
solved the same problem so they don't need our copy of the formula
but they will pay Lazlo handsomely for the privilege of destroying
it, thereby putting us years behind them in military capability. Your
mission, Jim, if you choose to accept it, is to recover the formula.
As always, should you or any 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 IMF team tempts an art lover, who
stole a secret missile fuel formula, to return the formula in
exchange for a one of a kind art object. But he declines. So Jim
begins a complex deception to convince his partner he has been double
crossed. But the formula is still locked in a safe rigged to explode
when enemy agents arrive.
Director: Barry Crane, Writer: Jerry Ludwig
Guest starring: Anne Francis, James
Patterson, Jason Evers, Thom Barr, Robert Ritchie, Albert Sklar
Earlier in the episode a heavy false wall
was lowered by Willy, with the help of some guy named Nick, through a
hole cut in the ceiling. Nick is part of the mission yet his photo is
not included in the opening choosing of agents sequence. Near the end
of the episode the wall must have gotten lighter somehow and is no
longer a two man job because Nick lifts the false wall up all by himself.
This may not be technically a Goof but we
think it is. Anne Francis was this weeks guest fill-in agent for
Barbara Bain who left along with husband Martin Landau over a contact
dispute at the end of season three. Bain was not initially replaced
because of her contract problems so this season saw a rotating female
character. Didn't any producer think Anne Francis would have made the
perfect permanent replacement for Bain? Honey West joins the Mission:
Impossible team! How did this not happen?
8.
The Submarine
November 16, 1969
"Stelman, you yourself know whether
or not you disclosed the information. That should be enough."
- James Phelps
Kruger Stelman an ex-SS officer serving
time in a communist prison is kidnapped by the IMF and made to
believe he is on board a submarine. The team must get Stelman to
reveal the location of funds stolen by the Nazis before the military
police close in on the IMF operation.
Director: Paul Krasny, Writer: Donald James
Guest starring: Stephen McNally, Ramon
Bieri, William Wintersole, Albert Kramer, Steve London, Gene Tyburn
The fake submarine is said to be the
U-613. In reality, the U-613 was lost with all hands in 1943.
It would have taken several months and a
team of construction workers to build and equip the fake submarine,
yet it was all accomplished in about a day. No one, not even a movie
studio, would have had such a set just lying around.
9.
Robot
November 23, 1969
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. You're
looking at a picture of Premier Pavel Zagov taken yesterday. But
Zagov died a month ago. It was kept a secret by this man, Deputy
Premier Gregor Kamirov, who substituted this double called Gemini.
He's forcing Gemini to keep posing as Premier Zagov until a
television address two days from now when he will announce his
retirement because of failing health and name Kamirov as his
successor. Kamirov plans to kill Gemini, abandon his country's policy
of strict neutrality, and ally with the Iron Curtain bloc. Your
mission, Jim, if you choose to accept it, is to stop Kamirov. As
always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the
Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will
self-destruct in five second. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Premier Pavel Zagov's death has been
covered up by Deputy Premier Gregor Kamirov. He is using an actor to
take Zagov's place, and endorse Kamirov as his successor. The team
convinces Kamirov that another official is planning a similar coup
with the help of a lookalike mechanical Zagov. Led to believe that
his co-conspirators are unreliable, Kamirov takes over the alternate
(IMF provided) plan which ends with him exposing his deception on
national television.
Director: Reza Badiyi, Writer: Howard Berk
Guest starring: Malachi Throne, Larry
Linville, Jan Merlin, Vic Perrin, Richard Anders, Socrates Ballis,
Ken Delo, Sergi Tschernisch
About 30 mins into the show as the VW van
passes through a check point you can clearly see the square light
from the camera equipment. This is visible along with a few people in
the reflection of the van.
During the team's planning meeting, a very
nimble, lifelike "artificial arm" (clearly a human arm
coming up through the table) is shown writing on a pad of paper. But
the dexterity of the mechanical arm plays no part whatsoever in the
IMF plan as executed. Through the rest of the story, it's nothing but
an immobile dummy hand.
10.
Mastermind
November 30, 1969
"Good afternoon, Mr. Phelps.
Blackmail evidence, which will provide organized crime with an
unprecedented hold on high government officials, has been engineered
by this ambitious man, Lou Merrick, who plans to turn it over to the
syndicate at their convention which will be held here next week.
Merrick's blackmail file is being held for safekeeping for him under
close guard by his boss, aging syndicate local chief Jonas Stone, who
is grooming Merrick as his successor. Your mission, Jim, if you
choose to accept it, is to get his blackmail file. As always, should
you or any 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 team is sent to stop a criminal who
has obtain information on high ranking government officials that the
Syndicate can use to coerce them. So they use the man's eagerness to
be the new head of the Syndicate and a rival's dislike for him to get him.
Director: Georg Fenady / Jerry Ludwig,
Writer: Jerry Ludwig
Guest starring: Lee Duncan, Alice
Reinheart, Lucas White, Joel Lawerence, Ben Wright, Gerald Hiken,
William Bryant, Paul Stewart, Donnelly Rhodes
When the crossword puzzle is shown in
closeup, it is clear that aside from the word being entered and the
words immediately surrounding that entry, the letters entered are gibberish.
Merrick's safe has a dial with sixty
numbers on it, and three combination numbers. However, on the inside
there are only four single-digit numbers on the tumblers. It would be
impossible to dial three two-digit numbers given that.
Although Joel Lawrence's character is
named Carter in the credits, everyone calls him Carson.
11.
The Brothers
December 7, 1969
"The king is dead."
- First Nurse
The IMF team is charged with the overthrow
of the leader of an oil rich Arab nation to be replaced by his twin
brother being held captive in an an unknown location. The IMFs team
of crack medical pretenders stages an emergency organ transplant to
create an opportunity to switch the brothers. But the ruthless head
of the nation's military sees an opportunity to dispose of both
brothers and seize power for himself.
Director: Murray Golden / Robert C.
Dennis, Writer: Leigh Vance
Guest starring: Michele Carey, Lloyd
Battista, Joseph Ruskin, Lee Bergere, David Fresco, Noel de Souza,
Henry Brandon, Elizabeth Perry, Fred Villani, Lee Duncan
Guest star Michele Carey appeared in
"Savage" (1973), an unsold TV pilot starring Martin Landau
as an investigative reporter and Barbara Bain as his producer. Landau
and Bain portrayed Rollin Hand and Cinnamon Carter for the first
three seasons of Mission: Impossible.
12.
Time Bomb
December 14, 1969
"Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Anton Malek is a mole sent years ago to
monitor the nuclear program of an Iron Curtain nation. Suffering from
a terminal illness Malek has become a rogue agent, and rigged a
nuclear reactor to explode. Convinced by the team that his illness
can be cured, Malek (unknowingly) disassembles an IMF replica of the
bomb, while Barney mimics his procedure on the real device. But,
Phelps suddenly realizes that Malek has discovered the deception;
forcing the team to rely on intuition alone in disarming the bomb.
Director: Murray Golden, Writer: Paul Playdon
Guest starring: Barbara Luna, Bert Freed,
Morgan Sterne, William Hansen, Michael T. Mikler, Jacques Denbeaux,
Art Koulias, Mario Machado, Lucetta Jenison, Bob Bralver, Allen
Bleiweiss, Peter Church, John Aniston
It's a science fun fact kids! The plane
shown overflying is a passenger jet and not capable of supersonic
flight. If it were a supersonic aircraft Bolkonsky would not have
heard the aircraft before the sonic boom since it would have been
traveling faster than its own sound.
13.
The Amnesiac
December 21, 1969
"Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Two years earlier, a rare metal isotope
important in nuclear weapons development was stolen from the U.S. and
hidden in the United People's Republic. Otto Silff, one of three men
involved in the theft, was killed by his co-conspirator, Major Paul
Johan. Johan is planning to sell the isotope to an Asian nation that
is also an enemy of the U.S. To recover the isotope before the sale
takes place, Paris poses as Silff, supposedly having had a
disfiguring injury coupled with plastic surgery, and suffering from
amnesia, but "unconsciously" displaying characteristics of
the missing Otto Silff.
Director: Reza Badiyi / Robert Malcolm
Young, Writer: Ken Pettus / Robert Malcolm Young
Guest starring: Tony Van Bridge, Anthony
Zerbe, Victor Paul, Philippe Nemonn, Steve Ihnat, Bruce Kirby, Julie
Gregg, Lisabeth Hush, Jerry Spicer, Kurt Grayson
Paris (Leonard Nimoy) and the IMF's female
operative, Monique (Julie Gregg) drop various clues that Paris is
really the dead Otto Silff suffering from amnesia about his former
identity. One of those clues is that he plays Otto's and Alena's
"theme," which Monique even refers to as "Beyond the
Shadow of Today." That is the real name of a composition written
by Lalo Schifrin (who also wrote "Mission: Impossible's"
famous theme music) for its sister program, "Mannix." The
music was written for the similarly-titled episode "Beyond the
Shadow of a Dream" from the first season of "Mannix."
Untitled
14.
The Falcon (Part 1)
January 4, 1970
15.
The Falcon (Part 2)
January 11, 1970
16.
The Falcon (Part 3)
January 18, 1970
"Stephan, it won't cost you anything
to find out whether I'm lying or not. The only cooperation I want
from you now is your silence."
- James Phelps
Paris masquerades as Zastro, a magician
who has come to entertain during an arranged wedding between the
king's sister and a ruthless usurper. After the king's sister is
rescued during the wedding, the team must now turn its attention to
the true heir, who's locked up in prison. Just as Jim and the others
unwittingly become caught up in a royal power struggle, a bomb goes
off, seriously injuring Paris and revealing his disquise.
Director: Reza Badiyi, Writer: Paul Playdon
Guest starring: Noel Harrison, John
Vernon, Logan Ramsey, Marcel Hillaire, Joseph Reale, Dal Jenkins,
Tony Giorgio, Josh Adams, Marjorie Bennett, Jason Heller, Jack
Donner, William Visteen, John Rose, Peter Kilman, Arline Anderson
Tony Giorgio, who occasionally played
small parts in the show (he appears as the Palace Foyer Guard in this
episode - the fellow who almost makes Willy (Peter Lupus) open the
crate holding Barney (Greg Morris), and who later tries to shoot the
falcon) - was also a skilled magician. He taught Leonard Nimoy the
conjuring tricks, such as making a golden egg and coins appears, that
Nimoy performs in this episode in his guise as "Zastro the Magician".
The shots depicting Barney (Greg Morris)
climbing down an elevator shaft in part three is an example of the
re-use of existing footage on the show - most of it was taken from
the Season 3 episode "Doomsday," which also involved the
extensive use of an elevator shaft.
17.
Chico
January 25, 1970
"I can explain that!"
- Paris
Two halves of a microfilm add up to one
dangerous list for the agents it will incriminate. But Barney plans
to use a trained dog to retrieve it.
Director: Herb Wallerstein, Writer: Ken Pettus
Guest starring: Chuck Hicks, Jay Tavars,
Gregory Sierra, Jock Gaynor, Thomas A. Geas, Percy Rodriguez,
Fernando Lamas
18.
Gitano
February 1, 1970
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. General
Aragas, Regent of the Kingdom of Saudia, plans to murder young King
Victor and make it appear that his uncle, Grand Duke Clements of
Montagno, was responsible for the crime. By disposing of the royal
family in this way, Aragas will make himself permanent ruler and
embark on a course of international adventurism that will engulf the
whole region in war. Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept
it, is to stop Aragas. 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 teen-aged king of a small central
European principality has been convinced, falsely, that his regent
intends to harm him, and so he has taken refuge in a neighboring
country where he is under the "protection" of strongman
General Aragas. But Aragas in fact is the one who intends to kill the
young ruler. The IMF arranges for an attempted "kidnapping"
of the boy during a journey, and then to have him be "found"
by a traveling group of gypsies -- putting him temporarily out of
Gen. Aragas' hands, so that the IMF can show the boy that Aragas in
fact intends to kill him.
Director: Barry Crane, Writer: Laurence Heath
Guest starring: Margarita Cordova, Peter
Mark Richman, Rudy Solari, Barry Atwater, Barry Williams, Roberto
Contreras, Robert Carricart, John Rayner, Leo G. Morrell, Richard
Romanos, Jack Baker, Ted White, James Turley
19.
Phantoms
February 8, 1970
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Leo Vorka,
the aging dictator, has assigned the notorious Georgi Kull to begin a
purge which will decimate his country's young artists. If carried
out, such a bloodbath would crush all hope for the new generation
that is friendly to the West. Your mission, Jim, should you decide to
accept it, is to remove Vorka from power and ensure Deputy Premier
Bartzin's succession to the Premiership. 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 tape will self-destruct
in five seconds. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
A murderous dictator's belief in ghosts is
used against him when Barney fashions a clever system that projects
spirits of his dead victims before his eyes.
Director: Marvin Chomsky, Writer: Laurence Heath
Guest starring: Ralph Leabow, Walter
Alzmann, Eli Behar, Jack Barnardi, Ben Astar, Ivor Barry, Michael
Baseleon, Jeff Pomerantz, Antoinette Bower, Luther Adler, Gregory Sierra
When Paris is applying makeup to Nora's
face, he checks a photograph and then looks at Nora, who has two dark
lines under her left eye. The camera cuts to a shot from behind Nora
showing him using a brush on her, and when the camera cuts back to
her face Paris is just applying the second line.
20.
Terror
February 15, 1970
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The Middle
East's most ruthless terrorist, Ismet El Kabir, who has been
sentenced to death for mass murder, is about to be pardoned and
released. A proclamation by his secret supporter, Ahmed Vassier, the
Propaganda Minister of Suroq, will declare that El Kabir committed
his crimes only out of concern for his people. El Kabir's release
would signal a terror uprising that could engulf the whole region in
war. Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to see
that El Kabir is not released. 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 tape will self-destruct in five
seconds. Good luck, Jim."
- voice on tape
Jim and his team must infiltrate a prison
in order to block the release of a ruthless Middle Eastern terrorist
about to be pardoned.
Director: Marvin Chomsky, Writer: Laurence Heath
Guest starring: David Opatoshu, Joe De
Santis, Arlene Martel, Michael Tolan, Ronald Feinberg, Blaizdell
MaKee, Leland Murray
Arlene Martel (Athena) is known to fans of
Star Trek: The Original Series as T'Pring, Spock's (Leonard Nimoy)
Vulcan bride. She also frequently starred as "Tiger" on
Hogan's Heroes (1965).
When Barney is pouring the nitroglycerine
into the bottle you can hear it splashing as it falls. Nitroglycerine
is unstable, especially when warm and doing it this way would result
in an explosion. The only semi-safe way would be to tilt the bottle
and let the nitro slide down the wall of the bottle.
When Barney's fake ID card is shown to the
camera, it shows his name as Ahmed Mahal and his rank as
"Sargent". If a Middle Eastern army is obligingly going to
print its ID cards in English rather than Arabic, they'd be sure to
spell it correctly.
21.
Lover's Knot
February 22, 1970
"She's totally committed, Paris. You
aren't her target,
but as soon as you are, she'll treat you
as coldly..."
- Jim Phelps
The IMF's task is to find out who is
running a U.K. spy ring. The team's lead is Lady Cora Weston, who
seduces men in sensitive intelligence positions. Phelps' plan calls
for him to pose as a U.S. naval officer who will be Lady Cora's next
target. The plan is complicated when Lady Cora falls for Paris,
posing as another U.S. official. Paris also falls for Lady Cora.
These entanglements become even more complicated when the IMF
discovers the identify of the spy ring's leader.
Director: Reza Badiyi, Writer: Laurence Heath
Guest starring: Jane Merrow, John
Williams, Don Knight, Jerry Douglas, Charles Macaulay, Peter Ashton,
William Beckley, Ford Lile, George Wilbur, Tony Giorgio, Vic Perrin
Guest star Jane Merrow played Susan
Rushton in The Avengers' "Mission... Highly Improbable" in 1967.
Other guest star Jerry Douglas was married
to last week's guest star Arlene Martel (1962 - 1973)
The steering wheel on Lord Weston's Rolls
Royce is on the left side. The cars in England have the steering
wheel on the right side. Early in the episode, as Paris and Lady
Weston go horseback riding, the trees have red and orange leaves and
she remarks that autumn is her favorite season. When she and Jim
Phelps go to the casino a day or so later, however, the date on the
check he writes is February 14th, 1970, which is almost the end of
winter in Britain.
22.
Orpheus
March 1, 1970
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. All
attempts to identify the enemy assassin known as Werner Stavros have
failed. There are no photographs of him and his only contact is Eric
Bergman of his country's internal security. Stavros' next victim is
to be killed two days from now at 4:00. You mission, Jim, should you
choose to accept it, is to stop Stavros and end his murderous career.
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
An unknown assassin must be stopped, so
Barney infiltrates the foreign agency that employs him while Jim
poses as a drug addict with information to sell.
Director: Gerald Mayer, Writer: Paul Playdon
Guest starring: Jessica Walter, Albert
Paulsen, Bruce Glover, Booth Colman, Gene Benton, Pitt Herbert, Allen
Joseph, Bart La Rue, Pat Newby, Karl Bruck, Donna Ashbrook, Dan Deitch
23.
The Crane
March 8, 1970
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. This is a
man known only as Constantine. He's the leader of the People's
Republican Army, a guerilla force which is fighting the brutal
military junta that overthrew the Republic of Lagosia five years ago.
The junta is headed by General of the Army Yuri Kozani.
Second-in-command is Alex Strabo, Chief of the Elite National
Security Force. Several days ago, the struggle against the military
junta was dealt a heavy blow with the capture of Constantine. He is
to be brought into the capital of Lagosia within 24 hours for
execution. Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to
prevent the execution of Constantine and pave the way for his
guerilla force to smash the military junta and restore Lagosia's
democratic government. 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
Jim and his team rescue a prisoner and
place him in a spot his captors will never think to look - a
conspicuous location right under their noses.
Director: Paul Krasny, Writer: Ken Pettus
Guest starring: Carl Betz, Felice Orlandi,
Don Eitner, Eric Mason, George Fisher, Ralph Ventura, Micil Murphy,
John Blower, Conrad Bachmann
This is the final episode with a dossier scene.
24.
Death Squad
March 15, 1970
"I'll see you again. Soon. The next
time there's a showing of your paintings in the States, I promise."
- Barney Collier
Jim and Barney vacation together in a
Latin American country. While there, Barney falls in love with artist
Alma Ross. But the brother of the local police chief obsesses over
Alma and is enraged that she and Barney are dating. He goes into her
room with a knife. Barney defends Alma but in the process sidesteps
the jealous man, who lunges through the window, landing on the knife.
Barney is now arrested and marked for execution by the police chief,
who is operating a secret death squad. Phelps summons Paris and Willy
and the IMF must act fast before Barney becomes the death squad's
latest victim.
Director: Barry Crane, Writer: Laurence Heath
Guest starring: Pernell Roberts, Cicely
Tyson, Leon Askin, John Schuck, Richard Angarola, Valentin de Vargas,
Natividad Vacio, Luanne Roberts, Trish Mahoney
There has been some fan speculation on who
is Barney's wife, and the mother of his son Grant Collier in the
sequel TV series. Barney refers to his wife in "The
Condemned" (1988) but no name is ever given. Alma (Cicely Tyson)
is the only serious romance that Barney has in the seven years of the
the series, and Grant is gifted artistically (a trait he got from his
mother?) as well as technically making Alma the only on-screen
character who qualifies.
25.
The Choice
March 22, 1970
"Then the only thing we don't know is
how Vautrain will try to kill us."
- Paris
The Grandduchess Theresa of the European
duchy of Trent has come under the sway of a self-proclaimed mystic,
the Rasputin-like Emile Vautrain. The IMF's assignment is to prevent
Vautrain from using his influence over the Grandduchess to make
himself ruler of Trent, turning it into a dictatorship that will ally
itself with the U.S.' enemies. To stop Vautrain, the IMF relies on
Vautrain's amazing resemblance to the IMF's agent, Paris (what a
coincidence), in order to reveal Vautrain's true nature to the Grandduchess.
Director: Barry Crane / Henry Sharp,
Writer: Ken Pettus
Guest starring: Nan Martin, Arthur Franz,
Alan Bergmann, Sid Haig, Dick Poston, Josh Adams, Kurt Grayson
26.
The Martyr
March 29, 1970
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. To
counteract heavy pressure from their country's young people, Premier
Anton Rojek and his special advisor, Josef Czerny, have summoned a
special Congress of the government-controlled Youth Organization. Its
purpose: to endorse Rojek's repressive regime. Your mission, Jim,
should your choose to accept it, is to stop the Congress from being
used as a rubber stamp and to expose Rojek and Czerny before the
young people and the world. 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
Premier Anton Rojek, the anti-Western head
of an East Bloc state, plans to hold a "youth congress,"
hoping to get the young people of his country to endorse his
repressive regime. The IMF's plan to prevent this involves the
talents of folk singer Roxy, as well as having Paris pose as the
missing son of the country's late President, Eduard Malik, whom many
young people there still idolize.
Director: Virgil Vogel, Writer: Ken Pettus
Guest starring: Anna Lee, John Larch,
Scott Marlowe, Lynn Kellogg, Ken Swofford, Peter Brocco, Ed Bakey,
Buck Holland
Paris (Leonard Nimoy) is posing as a 25
year old "Peter Malek" (dialogue establishes Malek died 20
years before at age 5). Nimoy was in fact 39 at the time.
Stock footage of the young demonstrators
shown during the opening credits are flipped, probably to disguise
the English language signage.
After the body of the child is exhumed,
Premiere Rojak says that the teeth matched the dental chart of the
young Peter Malek. But earlier, when Czerny brought him the Peter
Malek file, Rojek said the file was essentially useless because there
was no dental chart.
When Barney enters Dr. Valari's office
through the window there is a cushion in middle of the couch, but
when he leaves through the window the middle cushion is missing.
After
Jim gets his instructions and stops the tape player, there is tape
on both reels. In close-up, for the self-destruct sequence, all the
tape is on the take-up reel.
