Mission: Impossible: Season 4
Paramount Pictures (1969)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
In Collection
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IMDB   8.0
21 hr 54 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 4   NR
Peter Graves Jim Phelps
Steven Hill Daniel Briggs
Leonard Nimoy Paris
Martin Landau Rollin Hand
Barbara Bain Cinnamon Carter
Greg Morris Barney Collier
Lesley Ann Warren Dana Lambert
Lynda Day George Lisa Casey
Sam Elliott Doug Robert
Peter Lupus Willy Armitage
Barbara Anderson Mimi Davis
Alexandra Hay Lynn
Michael Constantine Janos
Harold Gould Vincente Bravo
Director
Stuart Hagmann
Producer Stanley Kallis
Writer Bruce Geller
Cinematography Al Francis
Paul Uhl
Musician Jerry Fielding
Lalo Schifrin

This 7-year series chronicled the adventures of the Impossible Mission Taskforce (IMF), a team of government spies and specialists who were assigned "impossible missions" by the unseen "Secretary". Although the cast varied over the years, the main characters included The Team Leader (Dan Briggs the first season, then Jim Phelps the other six), The Techno-Wizard (Barney Collier), The Strongman (Willy Armitage), The Master of Disguise (first Rollin Hand, then The Amazing Paris), and The Femme Fatale (Cinnamon Carter, Casey, Dana Lambert, Mimi Davis). The series is best known for its opening mission assignment (conducted by a pre-recorded tape), the leader's selection of mission agents from a dossier, the opening briefing, the intricate use of disguises and a typical "mask pulloff" scene near the end of most episodes, and the relative lack of characterization of the characters.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    9/28/1969  1.  The Code
In order to stop an invasion and shatter an alliance between two countries, the IMF team must photograph and break a code in a matter of minutes.
Director:  Stuart Hagmann  Writer:  Ken Pettus 
Guest starring:  A Martinez, Joaquin Martinez, Art Lewis, Roberto Contreras, Nate Esformes,  Harold GouldMichael Constantine, Alexandra Hay, Victor Campos, Joany Playdon, Jay Tavars
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/5/1969  2.  Numbers Game (aka The Key)
The team tries to get a deposed dictator to divulge his Swiss bank account number by tricking him into believing World War III is about to begin.
Director:  Reza Badiyi  Writer:  Leigh Vance 
Guest starring:  Torin ThatcherMay BrittDon FrancksKarl Swenson, Than Wyenn, Gil Perkins, Vincent Deadrick, Erik Holland, Bob Bralver, Lew Palter
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/12/1969  3.  The Controllers (1)
Jim and a female agent pose as scientists who have invented a new drug in order to replace a real drug that turns people into willing slaves.
Director:  Paul Krasny  Writer:  Laurence Heath 
Guest starring:  Dina MerrillDavid SheinerAlfred Ryder, Brooke Bundy,  H.M. WynantRobert Ellenstein, Harry Davis,  Leonard Stone, Jonathan Brooks, Michael Stefani, Ralph Leabow, Lee Duncan, Ben Dobbins
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/19/1969  4.  The Controllers (2)
As Barney taints the water system with a mind-numbing drug, Jim is captured and put on trial, where he must discredit an enemy scientist.
Director:  Paul Krasny  Writer:  Laurence Heath 
Guest starring:  Dina MerrillDavid SheinerAlfred Ryder, Brooke Bundy,  H.M. WynantRobert Ellenstein, Harry Davis,  Leonard Stone, Jonathan Brooks, Michael Stefani, Ralph Leabow, Lee Duncan, Ben Dobbins
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/26/1969  5.  Fool's Gold
Paris poses as a counterfeiter in order to gain access to a safe and destroy millions in phony money, as well as the plates used to make it.
Director:  Murray Golden  Writer:  Ken Pettus 
Guest starring:  Sally Ann HowesNehemiah PersoffDavid Opatoshu, Ronald Long, Paul Marin,  Arline Anderson, Jak Brami
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/2/1969  6.  Commandante
An imprisoned priest is about to be executed, so Jim and Willie pose as U.S. religious workers who are willing to trade guns in exchange for his safety.
Director:  Barry Crane  Writer:  Laurence Heath 
Guest starring:  Lawrence DaneArthur BatanidesSid Haig, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr, Pepe Callahan, David Sachs, Ann Morell, Robert Padilla, Victor Leona
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/9/1969  7.  Double Circle
An art lover is made to believe he can own a priceless work of art, but it is really a plot to retrieve a valuable formula from his impenetrable safe.
Director:  Barry Crane  Writer:  Jerry Ludwig 
Guest starring:  Anne Francis, James Patterson,  Jason Evers, Thom Barr, Robert Ritchie, Albert Sklar
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/16/1969  8.  The Submarine
Upon his release, a prisoner plans to fund neo-Nazis with stolen money. So a submarine voyage is simulated in order to transport him to his contact.
Director:  Paul Krasny  Writer:  Donald James 
Guest starring:  Stephen McNallyRamon Bieri, William Wintersole, Albert Kramer, Steve London, Gene Tyburn
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/23/1969  9.  Robot
A country is unaware that its premier is dead and that his double is about to appoint a successor. So Barney concocts a mechanical man to take his place.
Director:  Reza Badiyi  Writer:  Howard Berk 
Guest starring:  Malachi Throne, Larry Linville,  Jan Merlin, Vic Perrin, Richard Anders, Socrates Ballis, Ken Delo, Sergi Tschernisch
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/30/1969  10.  Mastermind
As Barney attempts to break into a safe that contains an incriminating file, Paris convinces a mob figure that he can read the mind of his double-crossing boss.
Director:  Georg Fenady  / Jerry Ludwig  Writer:  Jerry Ludwig 
Guest starring:  Lee Duncan, Alice Reinheart, Lucas White, Joel Lawerence,  Ben Wright, Gerald Hiken, William Bryant,  Paul StewartDonnelly Rhodes
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/7/1969  11.  The Brothers
A Middle Eastern king needs to be restored to the throne. So a medical operation is replicated where he will seemingly donate his kidney to his murderous brother.
Director:  Murray Golden  / Robert C. Dennis  Writer:  Leigh Vance 
Guest starring:  Michele CareyLloyd BattistaJoseph Ruskin, Lee Bergere, David Fresco, Noel De Souza,  Henry Brandon, Elizabeth Perry, Fred Villani, Lee Duncan
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/14/1969  12.  Time Bomb
The IMF team has to try and gain access to a nuclear reactor complex, where a terminally ill officer plans to detonate an atomic bomb.
Director:  Murray Golden  Writer:  Paul Playdon 
Guest starring:  Barbara Luna,  Bert Freed, Morgan Sterne, William Hansen, Michael T. Mikler, Jacques Denbeaux, Art Koulias, Mario Machado, Lucetta Jenison, Bob Bralver, Allen Bleiweiss, Peter Church, John Aniston
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/21/1969  13.  The Amnesiac
Jim poses as an amnesia victim in order to retrieve a stolen isotope, one that could make nuclear weapons affordable to any country.
Director:  Reza Badiyi  / Robert Malcolm Young  Writer:  Ken Pettus  / Robert Malcolm Young 
Guest starring:  Tony Van Bridge,  Anthony Zerbe, Victor Paul, Philippe Nemonn,  Steve Ihnat, Bruce Kirby, Julie Gregg, Lisabeth Hush, Jerry Spicer, Kurt Grayson
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/4/1970  14.  The Falcon (1)
Paris masquerades as Zastro, a magician who has come to entertain during an arranged wedding between the king's sister and a ruthless usurper.
Director:  Reza Badiyi  Writer:  Paul Playdon 
Guest starring:  Noel Harrison,  John Vernon, Logan Ramsey,  Marcel Hillaire, Joseph Reale, Dal Jenkins, Tony Giorgio, Josh Adams,  Marjorie Bennett, Jason Heller,  Jack Donner, William Visteen, John Rose, Peter Kilman,  Arline Anderson
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/11/1970  15.  The Falcon (2)
With the king's sister rescued during the wedding, the team must now turn its attention to the true heir, who's locked up in prison.
Director:  Reza Badiyi  Writer:  Paul Playdon 
Guest starring:  Noel Harrison,  John Vernon, Logan Ramsey,  Marcel Hillaire, Joseph Reale, Dal Jenkins, Tony Giorgio, Josh Adams,  Marjorie Bennett, Jason Heller,  Jack Donner, William Visteen, John Rose, Peter Kilman,  Arline Anderson
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/18/1970  16.  The Falcon (3)
Just as Jim and the others unwittingly become caught up in a royal power struggle, a bomb goes off, seriously injuring Paris and revealing his disquise.
Director:  Reza Badiyi  Writer:  Paul Playdon 
Guest starring:  Lee Meriwether, Noel Harrison,  John Vernon, Logan Ramsey,  Marcel Hillaire, Joseph Reale, Dal Jenkins, Tony Giorgio, Josh Adams,  Marjorie Bennett, Jason Heller,  Jack Donner, William Visteen, John Rose, Peter Kilman
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/25/1970  17.  Chico
Two halves of a microfilm add up to one dangerous list for the agents it will incriminate. But Barney plans to use a trained dog to retrieve it.
Director:  Herb Wallerstein  Writer:  Ken Pettus 
Guest starring:  Chuck Hicks, Jay Tavars,  Gregory Sierra, Jock Gaynor, Thomas A. Geas, Percy Rodriguez,  Fernando Lamas
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/1/1970  18.  Gitano (aka Toys)
A 12-year-old king whose life is in danger is rescued by gypsies - Paris and Willie in disguise - and forced to dress up like a girl to fool his assassins.
Director:  Barry Crane  Writer:  Laurence Heath 
Guest starring:  Margarita Cordova,  Peter Mark Richman, Rudy Solari,  Barry Atwater, Barry Williams, Roberto Contreras,  Robert Carricart, John Rayner, Leo G. Morrell, Richard Romanos, Jack Baker, Ted White, James Turley
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/8/1970  19.  Phantoms
A murderous dictator's belief in ghosts is used against him when Barney fashions a clever system that projects spirits of his dead victims before his eyes.
Director:  Marvin Chomsky  Writer:  Laurence Heath 
Guest starring:  Ralph Leabow, Walter Alzmann, Eli Behar, Jack Barnardi, Ben Astar,  Ivor Barry, Michael Baseleon, Jeff Pomerantz,  Antoinette BowerLuther AdlerGregory Sierra
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/15/1970  20.  Terror
Jim and his team must infiltrate a prison in order to block the release of a ruthless Middle Eastern terrorist about to be pardoned.
Director:  Marvin Chomsky  Writer:  Laurence Heath 
Guest starring:  David Opatoshu, Joe De Santis, Arlene Martel, Michael Tolan, Ronald Feinberg, Blaizdell MaKee, Leland Murray
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/22/1970  21.  Lover's Knot
While in London to break a spy ring, Paris develops feelings for the beautiful Lady Weston after he is cast as a jealous lover in a romantic triangle.
Director:  Reza Badiyi  Writer:  Laurence Heath 
Guest starring:  Jane MerrowJohn Williams, Don Knight, Jerry Douglas, Charles Macaulay, Peter Ashton, William Beckley, Ford Lile, George Wilbur, Tony Giorgio, Vic Perrin
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/1/1970  22.  Orpheus
An unknown assassin must be stopped, so Barney infiltrates the foreign agency that employs him while Jim poses as a drug addict with information to sell.
Director:  Gerald Mayer  Writer:  Paul Playdon 
Guest starring:  Jessica WalterAlbert PaulsenBruce GloverBooth Colman, Gene Benton, Pitt Herbert,  Allen Joseph, Bart La Rue, Pat Newby, Karl Bruck, Donna Ashbrook, Dan Deitch
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/8/1970  23.  The Crane
Jim and his team rescue a prisoner and place him in a spot his captors will never think to look - a conspicuous location right under their noses.
Director:  Paul Krasny  Writer:  Ken Pettus 
Guest starring:  Carl BetzFelice Orlandi, Don Eitner, Eric Mason, George Fisher, Ralph Ventura, Micil Murphy, John Blower, Conrad Bachmann
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/15/1970  24.  Death Squad
Barney kills a man in self-defense and is marked for execution by the victim's brother, a chief of police who heads a death squad.
Director:  Barry Crane  Writer:  Laurence Heath 
Guest starring:  Pernell RobertsCicely TysonLeon AskinJohn SchuckRichard AngarolaValentin de Vargas, Natividad Vacio, Luanne Roberts, Trish Mahoney
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/22/1970  25.  The Choice
A duchess is under the powerful spell of a mystic, who notices his uncanny resemblance to Paris and plans to use him in a plot to ascend to the throne.
Director:  Barry Crane  / Henry Sharp  Writer:  Ken Pettus 
Guest starring:  Nan Martin,  Arthur Franz, Alan Bergmann,  Sid Haig, Dick Poston, Josh Adams, Kurt Grayson
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/29/1970  26.  The Martyr
As a duplicitous dictator courts the young people of his country, Paris poses as the son of his predecessor, a martyred youth leader.
Director:  Virgil Vogel  Writer:  Ken Pettus 
Guest starring:  Anna LeeJohn Larch, Scott Marlowe, Lynn Kellogg,  Ken SwoffordPeter Brocco, Ed Bakey, Buck Holland
Edition Details
Series Mission: Impossible
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; Portuguese; Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Dolby Digital Mono [English]
Dolby Digital Mono [Spanish]
No. of Disks/Tapes 7