September 17, 1966 - March 30, 1973
CBS Adventure Series - 171 Filmed Episodes
Cast:
| Jim Phelps: | Peter Graves |
| Dan Briggs: | Steven Hill |
| Cinnamon Carter: | Barbara Bain |
| Rollin Hand: | Martin Landau |
| Barney Collier: | Greg Morris |
| Willy Armitage: | Peter Lupus |
| Paris: | Leonard Nimoy |
| Dana Lambert: | Lesley Ann Warren |
| Lisa Casey: | Lynda Day George |
| Mimi Davis: | Barbara Anderson |
| Doug: | Sam Elliott |
| Tracey: | Lee Meriwether |
| The recorded voice: | Bob Johnson |
The cases of the I.M.F. (Impossible Missions Force),
a top secret U.S. government organization that handles
dangerous and highly sensitive international assignments.
Stories depict the step-by-step planning and final
execution of highly tense and complicated missions.
At the opening of each episode, the leader of the I.M.F.
would receive a tape-recorded message outlining
instructions for an assignment he was to consider taking.
The voice on the tape would give him some background
information, usually tied to the pictures of adversaries
that were included with the tape, and would conclude with
"Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it,
is...As always, should you or any member of your I.M.
Force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow
any knowledge of your actions. This tape will
self-destruct in five seconds."
The top-secret assignments taken on by this elite group
of agents usually involved disrupting the activities of
various small foreign powers seeking to create problems
for America or the Free World. By the last season the
agents began to run out of little Communist countries
and obscure principalities, so they concentrated their
efforts more on dealing with organized crime within the
U.S. All the plans executed by the I.M.F. were incredibly
complex and depended on split-second timing and an
astounding array of sophisticated electronic gadgetry.
The leader of the group, Daniel Briggs during the first
season and Jim Phelps in subsequent seasons, devised
the complex plans used to accomplish the teams missions.
Barney Collier was the electronics expert and Willie
Armitage provided the muscle. Rollin Hand was an expert
at disguise and Cinnamon Carter was the versatile,
beautiful female member of the team.
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ABC revived the series in the fall of 1988. A now
white-haired Jim Phelps returned to head up the IMF
when his protege and successor was killed.
35 episodes were made of this new version.
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Episode Guide
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Greg Morris Obituary
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Mission: Impossible
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Paramount Movie Site
The Steven Hill Tribute Site
By S. Campbell Meeks
The Un-Official Mission: Impossible Homepage
By rollinhand@geocities.com
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