Mission: Impossible
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- DirectorMurray GoldenStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyGreg MorrisAnton 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.
- DirectorStuart HagmannStarsPeter GravesMartin LandauBarbara BainThe IMF manipulates a naive intelligence officer in order to free an agent who can expose a deep-cover mole. In addition to rescuing the agent, they create an elaborate ruse to neutralize the Machiavellian security chief who is on the verge of discovering the mole's identity.
- DirectorHerb WallersteinStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyGreg MorrisThe IMF must rely on a trained terrier, named Chico, to retrieve a list of undercover agents from a drug lord's underground vault.
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyGreg MorrisIn the midst of delicate operations to identify the chief of an espionage ring, Jim Phelps realizes that Paris has fallen in love with an enemy agent.
- DirectorPaul KrasnyStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyGreg MorrisThe team finds inspiration from Poe's "The Purloined Letter" in their plan to rescue a resistance fighter, and sow discord among the leaders of the military junta hunting him.
- DirectorBarry CraneStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyGreg MorrisJim 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 ticketed 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.
- DirectorAlan GreedyStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyGreg MorrisThe Grand Duchess 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 Grand Duchess to make himself ruler of Trent, turning it into a dictatorship that will ally itself with the enemies of the U.S. To stop Vautrain, the IMF relies on Vautrain's amazing resemblance to the IMF's agent, Paris, in order to reveal Vautrain's true nature to the Grand Duchess.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyGreg MorrisPremier 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.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenMel Bracken is one of the largest distributors of illegal drugs on the West Coast. Pharmaceutical magnate Cameron legally sells drugs to a middleman's laboratory in Mexico who then smuggles it to Bracken in Los Angeles. In order to expose the operation the IMF forces Cameron to deal directly with Bracken on U.S. soil.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenBarney has been captured infiltrating an enemy laboratory in the Middle East. To make matters worse he has been exposed to the chemical weapon being manufactured at the lab. Phelps devises a plan to rescue Barney and destroy the chemical. However, in order for the mission to succeed the IMF needs the assistance of a computer genius who wants nothing to do with the plan.
- DirectorBarry CraneStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenThe IMF must thwart a coup attempt to be triggered by a presidential assassination. The team apprehends the coup leader and employs an elaborate ruse to convince him to reveal the killer. But government security forces uncover the operation and capture Dana. So begins parallel games of cat and mouse with dire consequences for the losers.
- DirectorGerald MayerStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenWhile en route to rendezvous with the IMF in Switzerland, Paris is captured by a team of enemy agents, brainwashed, and programmed to kill his control: Phelps. While the enemy team creates a scenario which will trigger Paris' programming, the IMF must figure out exactly what has happened to their fellow agent to save his career and life.
- DirectorGerald MayerStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenThe MI team must exonerate an American businessman framed for the murder of his wife and marked for death in Japan. Undercover in the guise of various masters of Japanese art forms they dupe the true killer into confessing.
- DirectorSeymour RobbieStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenBrother and sister Alexi and Anna Kerkoska want to defect, and give the U.S. a list of government officials sympathetic to the West. Although Anna believes that the defection is genuine it's really a trap set by Alexi and Police Chief Petrovitch. They hope to get the list and embarrass the West in one fell swoop. Despite the trap the IMF must rescue Anna and recover the list. Meanwhile during the course of the mission Phelps and Anna begin to develop romantic feelings for each other.
- DirectorTerry BeckerStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenA picture perfect extraction mission in a white dominated African country goes suddenly awry when an interrogator arrives unexpectedly. A well disguised member of the MI team is wounded but is aided by an angel of mercy with a secret past and reward seeking friend. As their fondness for each other grows, Paris serves as an all too convincing decoy while the rest of the team searches for their lost comrade.
- DirectorBarry CraneStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenGovernment security forces surprise the MI team during a routine information exchange with insurgents. Dana and two rebels are captured including the rebel who, unknown to government forces, has the secret "notebook." Jim has a plan but the rebels are skeptical. With the possibility of a traitor in their midst and the help of a local priest of uncertain reliability, the MI must rescue the captives before they break under torture, before the security forces uncover the notebook and before the rebels take matters into their own hands.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenA drug kingpin, not long for this world, is preparing to turn over his heroin empire to his heir apparent. Paris and Dana go undercover to turn the kingpin against his heir and convince him that Paris is the better candidate to trust with the secrets of his organization.
- DirectorBarry CraneStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenParis's cover identity as a wealthy and influential American proves a bit too convincing. He is kidnapped and held for the ransom by rebels demanding the release of three of their comrades. The government agrees to cooperate in Jim's plan to rescue Paris only if he will capture one of the rebel leaders. But the rebels are very careful.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenThe IMF team must stop a corrupt deputy mayor's efforts to put his puppet in the Governor's seat by manipulating a student protest group.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenBarney convinces the IMF team to help him bring down the mobsters that killed his brother.
- DirectorCharles R. RondeauStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenThe IMF fool two foreign agents into gathering intelligence on a bogus missile guidance system. However, the mission is interrupted when a psychotic kidnaps Dana before she can give Phelps the details of the enemy agents' plan to kill him.
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenAn adversary nation launches a nuclear weapons platform into orbit. To make matters worse, the weapon's control station is on an impregnable island. That can only mean it's time for Jim to find a way to slip Barney into the station to sabotage the weapon.
- DirectorSutton RoleyStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenJim and Dana infiltrate a group of bank robbers, but the IMF's real target is the mysterious leader of the group who uses the thieves' booty to fund anti-American revolutionary activities. Natural conflicts in the robbers' personal agendas play right into Jim's hands.
- DirectorBarry CraneStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenIn one of the IMF's most audacious plans yet, the team blatantly frames their victim and attempts to snatch the body of a deceased leader literally from under the noses of the honor guards. It's all part of Jim's plan to infuriate an official into revealing a sensitive document the US government wants to get its hands on.
- DirectorMurray GoldenStarsPeter GravesLeonard NimoyLesley Ann WarrenGovernment forces in a racist African country have captured Kitara, the leader of the revolutionary forces, and will torture him to death in their effort to find the gold bullion he has hidden. To rescue Kitara and secure the gold, Jim plans to manipulate the security official interrogating him. What better way to manipulate a racist than to turn him into what he least wants to be and turn his own forces against him?