Season 5
(1970)
Overview
The fifth season of the original Mission: Impossible originally aired Saturdays at 7:30-8:30 pm from September 19, 1970 to March 6, 1971. "The Merchant" originally aired Wednesday, March 17, 1971 at 7:30-8:30 pm.
Cast
as Jim Phelps
as Barney Collier
as Willy Armitage
as Man On Tape (voice)
as Paris
as Dana Lambert
Episodes
The Killer 6.3
September 19, 1970
Hired killer Eddie Lorca does everything randomly, making him impossible to anticipate. The IMF must find out who his b…
Flip Side 6.5
September 26, 1970
The IMF must break up a drug-smuggling ring - Bracken gets his drugs from Mexico compliments of Diego Maximillian, who …
The Innocent 6.5
October 3, 1970
In the Middle East Willy and Barney infiltrate a chemical plant to gain access to Dehominant-B, a quick-acting lethal g…
Homecoming 7.0
October 10, 1970
When Jim returns to his hometown of Norville to donate family property to the community, he finds it plagued by a seria…
Flight 6.0
October 17, 1970
Presidente Rojas plans to give a speech to the U.S. Congress while his Chief of Internal Security Ferrar plans a takeov…
My Friend, My Enemy 6.5
October 25, 1970
A Communist agent, Karl Maur, spots Paris on vacation, knocks him out and turns him over to Dr. Tabor, who is a brain s…
Butterfly (aka Poor Butterfly) 6.5
October 31, 1970
Toshio Masaki, a powerful anti-American industrialist, kills his sister and frames her husband, an American businessman…
Decoy 7.0
November 7, 1970
Anna Kerkoska plans to defect with a list of American agents given to her by her father, the late Premier. Her brother …
The Amateur 6.5
November 14, 1970
The team must steal a rocket laser and smuggle out Father Bernard and his list of Western operatives. Bernard puts the …
Hunted 7.0
November 21, 1970
A mission to rescue a South African dissident goes awry when Doug and his white assistant get the man out of the hospit…
The Rebel 6.5
November 28, 1970
The IMF must rescue three scientists in a dictatorial country and destroy their notes. They rescue two but the third on…
Squeeze Play (aka Sicily) 7.0
December 12, 1970
Albert Zembra, head of the Mediterranean branch of the Syndicate, is dying of cancer and plans on passing his list of o…
The Hostage 6.5
December 19, 1970
After completing a mission Paris is undercover as an American businessman and still in disguise when he is kidnapped by…
Takeover 6.0
January 2, 1971
Phelps must stop Charles Peck from using violence, created by professional provocateur Billy Walsh, to elevate his pupp…
Cat's Paw 6.5
January 9, 1971
Larry Collier, newspaper editor and Barney's brother, is killed while trying to establish a link between corrupt police…
The Missile (aka Torpedo) 5.0
January 16, 1971
James Read, an enemy agent, is posing as an analyst to get to a top-secret U.S. missile guidance system being tested an…
The Field 7.0
January 23, 1971
An enemy power has launched a satellite containing a thermonuclear bomb and the IMF must destroy it. The control center…
Blast 7.0
January 30, 1971
Gregory Tolan leads an underground cell specializing in bank robberies with the money going to finance an American revo…
The Cataflaque 6.5
February 6, 1971
In San Pascal Premier Miguel Fuego and his nephew Ramone have signed a secret arms treaty with a Communist power to per…
Kitara (aka The Bigot) 7.0
February 20, 1971
John Darcy, codename 'Kitara', leads a liberation movement in the African country of Bocamo and has been inadvertently …
A Ghost Story 7.0
February 27, 1971
Howard Bainbridge, a chemical warfare expert who defected to East, was contaminated by his own experiments and then ret…
The Party 6.5
March 6, 1971
Alexander Vanin, arrested and convicted for espionage, hid a list of agents operating in the U.S. His control, Mishenko…
The Merchant 6.5
March 17, 1971
Armand Anderssarian is an illegal arms dealer who is about to complete a multi-million dollar deal selling arms to guer…