Season 1 poster

Season 1

(1966)

Overview

The first season of the original Mission: Impossible originally aired Saturdays at 9:00-10:00 pm on CBS from September 17, 1966 to January 7, 1967 and at 8:30-9:30 pm from January 14 to April 22, 1967.

Cast

Steven Hill as Daniel Briggs
Steven Hill

as Daniel Briggs

Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter
Barbara Bain

as Cinnamon Carter

Greg Morris as Barney Collier
Greg Morris

as Barney Collier

Peter Lupus as Willy Armitage
Peter Lupus

as Willy Armitage

Bob Johnson as Man On Tape (voice)
Bob Johnson

as Man On Tape (voice)

Episodes

Pilot poster

Pilot 7.3

September 17, 1966

IMF team leader Dan Briggs assembles his team for the first time. The mission: to recover two nuclear warheads belongin…

Memory poster

Memory 7.0

September 24, 1966

The IMF must undermine ""the Butcher of the Balkans"", Janos Karq, by having his head of security capture an agent, Spa…

Operation Rogosh poster

Operation Rogosh 7.5

October 1, 1966

Imry Rogosh is a mass murderer who kills to forment political upheaval. He is targeting Los Angeles, so the IMF knock h…

Old Man Out (1) poster

Old Man Out (1) 7.0

October 8, 1966

The IMF team goes in as a circus team to rescue Anton Cardinal Vossek, who is being held in the impregnable Seravno Pri…

Old Man Out (2) poster

Old Man Out (2) 7.2

October 15, 1966

Rollin manages to avoid the guards and escape, but Vossek is moved to a new cell in solitary confinement. Briggs comes …

Odds on Evil poster

Odds on Evil 7.5

October 22, 1966

Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work: IMFer A…

Wheels poster

Wheels 7.5

October 29, 1966

In the country of Valeria, the IMF must assure that the corrupt Nationalist party's rigged voting machine doesn't give …

The Ransom poster

The Ransom 7.5

November 5, 1966

Mobster Frank Egan kidnaps the daughter of Dan's friend and uses her as a hostage to force Dan and the team to break ou…

A Spool There Was poster

A Spool There Was 7.0

November 12, 1966

Rollin and Cinnamon go it alone to recover a reel of recording wire containing information on a chemical warfare projec…

The Carriers poster

The Carriers 7.5

November 19, 1966

Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bac…

Zubrovnik's Ghost poster

Zubrovnik's Ghost 7.5

November 26, 1966

The wife of a deceased scientist, Kurt Zubrovnik, is being pressured by Eastern forces to work for them. They are using…

Fakeout poster

Fakeout 7.5

December 3, 1966

Anastas Poltroni is the head of an international narcotics syndicate, and has taken refuge in a country with no extradi…

Elena poster

Elena 5.0

December 10, 1966

Double-agent Elena Del Barra is acting bizarrely, sending a microfilm of defense secrets from her own country. Rollin i…

The Short Tail Spy poster

The Short Tail Spy 5.0

December 17, 1966

A defector has been targeted by two rival groups from the same foreign country. The team is to discredit the younger gr…

The Legacy poster

The Legacy 5.0

January 7, 1967

The IMF must get hold of a horde of Nazi gold through four young men, sons of Hitler's top aides, who are sent to Switz…

The Reluctant Dragon poster

The Reluctant Dragon 5.0

January 14, 1967

Dr. Cherlotov, a scientist of an enemy power, failed to defect to the West when his wife did. Now that he has developed…

The Frame poster

The Frame 5.0

January 21, 1967

Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with…

The Trial poster

The Trial 5.0

January 28, 1967

Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power. Rollin, disguised a…

The Diamond poster

The Diamond 5.0

February 4, 1967

Henrik Durvard has taken over the country of Lombounda by military coup, and holds the natives in terror. He has obtain…

The Legend poster

The Legend 5.0

February 11, 1967

An imprisoned member of the Nazi party, Herbert Raynor, is released from prison and is being flown (along with his daug…

Snowball in Hell poster

Snowball in Hell 5.0

February 18, 1967

A former prison guard, Sefra, has got hold of a supply of cesium 138, which explodes at temperatures above 70 degrees. …

The Confession poster

The Confession 5.0

February 25, 1967

Andreas Solowiechek, a member of a Communist trade delegation, is arrested after assassinating a U.S. Senator, Townsend…

Action! poster

Action! 5.0

March 4, 1967

Miklos Klaar, an Iron Curtain filmmaker, has film of American soldiers and plans to edit it into an atrocity movie to d…

The Train poster

The Train 5.0

March 18, 1967

Prime Minister Larya of Svardia is working to establish democracy, but is unaware that his personal protege, Deputy Pre…

Shock poster

Shock 5.0

March 25, 1967

Enemy operative Kiri has kidnapped U.S. envoy Carl Wilson and has an imposter, Gort, who is impersonating him to discre…

A Cube of Sugar poster

A Cube of Sugar 5.0

April 1, 1967

Vincent Deane is a jazz musician and undercover U.S. intelligence operative who has memorized the plans to a microcircu…

The Traitor poster

The Traitor 5.0

April 15, 1967

An American intelligence officer, Hughes, has defected to the enemy with the only copy of an encoded top-secret message…

The Psychic poster

The Psychic 5.0

April 22, 1967

An investment promoter, Alex Lowell, gained control of manufacturer of NATO top-secret defense hardware and absconded …