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S3 E2 The Contender, Pt. 1

Action & Adventure

TV-PG

45m

Oct 5, 1968

The Impossible Missions Force is assigned to knock out a boxing syndicate which fixes fights to create favorable odds for a bookmaking operation, in the first half of a two-part story.

Season 3, 25 Episodes

The Heir Apparent,

Cinnamon poses as a 50-year-old blind princess, heiress to a Balkan kingdom.

The Contender, Pt. 1,

The Impossible Missions Force is assigned to knock out a boxing syndicate which fixes fights to create favorable odds for a bookmaking operation, in the first half of a two-part story.

The Contender, Pt. 2,

Barney poses as a fighter making his comeback, who boxes his way to a title bout with Staczek (Robert Phillips) in the second half of a two-part episode.

The Mercenaries,

The Impossible Missions Force, led by Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) enters Equatorial Africa to crush an army of mercenaries, led by a self-styled colonel, and to return plundered gold to its rightful owners.

Not knowing when, where, or how a dangerous adversary will strike, Jim Phelps and Cinnamon use themselves as human quarries.

An army commander (played by guest star Theodore Bikel) plots to become dictator by imprisoning an influential cardinal and using a look-alike actor for a public endorsement.

The Impossible Missions Force offers a "fountain of youth" to the vain and dictatorial widow (guest star Ruth Roman) of the late president of a small South American country in order to depose her.

Guest star Fernando Lamas portrays a diplomat-playboy who romances another diplomat's wife, played by Lee Grant.

With Phelps and Rollin as the leading men, the Impossible Missions Force stages an anti-American play which could prove to be a strong propaganda device for the enemy.

The former dictator of a Caribbean island is made to have hallucinatory visions in which he sees his ominous destiny as part of an ingenious plot designed by the Impossible Missions Force.

Before a statute of limitations expires on a 10-million dollar robbery, the Impossible Missions Force must spring the suspect from prison and dupe him into leading police to the hiding place of the money.

Cinnamon is captured and the enemy discovers the one thing that would unmask her identity and expose the Impossible Mission Force.

The Mind of Stefan Miklos,

The Impossible Missions Force is pitted against the ingenious logic of an enemy agent (guest Steve Ihnat) as the IMF attempts to lead the agent through a maze of complicated clues in order to reach a false conclusion.

The Impossible Missions Force must end the murderous career of a bacteriologist working for the enemy, who has succeeded in developing a mutant strain of a deadly bacteria which could be used as a practical battlefield weapon.

The Impossible Missions Force led by Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) sets out to persuade the trusted henchman of a crime syndicate leader to testify against his boss.

The Glass Cage,

An electronically guarded prison confronts the Impossible Missions Force when it tries to free a political prisoner (Richard Garland) from an escape-proof glass cell.

When an unscrupulous manufacturer risks World War III by offering a hydrogen bomb for sale, the Impossible Missions Force enters the bidding with a dangerous plan to keep the weapon out of enemy hands.

The Impossible Missions Force invades the intricate world of spies to protect an American double agent and comes up against a human time bomb.

The Bunker, Pt. 1,

The IMF races a paid killer who is stalking a nuclear scientist forced by the enemy to work on a device that could upset the world power balance in the first of a two-part episode.

The Bunker, Pt. 2,

While trying to free a nuclear scientist and his wife from enemy hands, the IMF is trapped when a would-be assassin takes over one of Rollin's disguises in Part 2.

The IMF finds itself only a second away from eternity when they intercept a nitroglycerine expert who plans to blow up the government house of a small country, thus provoking war with its neighbor nation.

Guest star Joan Collins, as a seductive double agent, endangers a vital IMF project when Jim Phelps falls in love with her.

Guest star Nehemiah Persoff as a corrupt Latin American official plots to loot his own country of $40,000,000 with the connivance of the IMF.

Cinnamon and Rollin become cabaret performers in a plot to get a deranged man (guest Fritz Weaver) to fall in love with Cinnamon, then kill her.

The Interrogator,

In a bold experiment with a man's mind, the IMF blanks out an enemy agent's memory (guest star Henry Silva), then sets out to make him think he is someone else.

Details

Mission: Impossible

Action & Adventure

TV-PG

7 Seasons

50m

An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death, or capture.

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