Mission: Impossible: Season 1

1966 · 28 episodes · ★ 6.4

What Season 1 of Mission: Impossible

Season 1 of Mission: Impossible Has 28 episodes and premiered on September 17, 1966. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

28episodes

Sep 17, 1966premiered

Apr 22, 1967Latest episode

21.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Pilot
Sep 17, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.5
IMF team leader Dan Briggs assembles his team for the first time. The mission: to recover two nuclear warheads belonging to General Rio Dominguez from a hotel vault in Santa Costa.
Directing: Bernard L. Kowalski · Writing: Bruce Geller · Starring: Martin Landau, Wally Cox, Harry Davis, Paul Micale
1x02 Memory
Sep 24, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.1
The IMF must undermine "the Butcher of the Balkans", Janos Karq, by having his head of security capture an agent, Sparrow, who will then incriminate Karq.
Directing: Charles R. Rondeau · Writing: Robert Lewin · Starring: Martin Landau, Gene Dynarski, Albert Paulsen, Leonard Stone
1x03 Operation Rogosh
Oct 1, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.5
Imry Rogosh is a mass murderer who kills to forment political upheaval. He is targeting Los Angeles, so the IMF knock him out in a car accident. When Rogosh "wakes up" he is in a cell in a prison in his own country, three years later, and ready to be executed as an American agent.
Directing: Leonard Horn · Writing: Jerome Ross · Starring: Martin Landau, Fritz Weaver, Charles Maxwell, James Lanphier
1x04 Old Man Out (1)
Oct 8, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
The IMF team goes in as a circus team to rescue Anton Cardinal Vossek, who is being held in the impregnable Seravno Prison. Vossek is the leader of the country's freedom movement, in rebellion against Colonel Scutari, and is awaiting a fake trial before execution.
Directing: Charles R. Rondeau · Writing: Ellis Marcus · Starring: Martin Landau, Mary Ann Mobley, Oscar Beregi Jr, Cyril Delevanti
1x05 Old Man Out (2)
Oct 15, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
Rollin manages to avoid the guards and escape, but Vossek is moved to a new cell in solitary confinement. Briggs comes up with a new plan and manages to relay it to the imprisoned Rollin.
Directing: Charles R. Rondeau · Writing: Ellis Marcus · Starring: Martin Landau, Mary Ann Mobley, Oscar Beregi Jr, Cyril Delevanti
1x06 Odds on Evil
Oct 22, 1966 · 46 min · ★ 7.4
Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work.
Directing: Charles R. Rondeau · Writing: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield · Starring: Martin Landau, Nico Minardos, Nehemiah Persoff, Vincent Van Lynn
1x07 Wheels
Oct 29, 1966 · 46 min
In the country of Valeria, the IMF must assure that the corrupt Nationalist party's rigged voting machine doesn't give them the election.
Directing: Tom Gries · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Martin Landau, Perry Lopez, Joe Lo Presti, Percy Rodriguez
1x08 The Ransom
Nov 5, 1966 · 45 min
Mobster Frank Egan kidnaps the daughter of Dan's friend and uses her as a hostage to force Dan and the team to break out a key witness, Augie Gorman, against him.
Directing: Harry Harris · Writing: Allan Balter · Starring: Martin Landau, Don Marshall, Vic Tayback, Lin McCarthy
1x09 A Spool There Was
Nov 12, 1966 · 60 min · ★ 7.2
Rollin and Cinnamon go it alone to recover a reel of recording wire containing information on a chemical warfare project aimed at the U.S.
Directing: Bernard L. Kowalski · Writing: Ellis Marcus · Starring: Martin Landau, Richard Devon, Warren Vanders, Michael Shea
1x10 The Carriers
Nov 19, 1966 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bacteriological warfare.
Directing: Sherman Marks · Writing: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield · Starring: Martin Landau, George Takei, Arthur Hill, Phil Posner
1x11 Zubrovnik's Ghost
Nov 26, 1966 · 45 min
The wife of a deceased scientist, Kurt Zubrovnik, is being pressured by Eastern forces to work for them. They are using a phony psychic to convince the wife her dead husband wants to defect!
Directing: Leonard Horn · Writing: Robert Lewin · Starring: Martin Landau, Martine Bartlett, Beatrice Straight, Donald Davis
1x12 Fakeout
Dec 3, 1966 · 45 min · ★ 7.4
Anastas Poltroni is the head of an international narcotics syndicate, and has taken refuge in a country with no extradition treaty. The IM Force is assigned to lure him out without kidnapping him (to avoid the publicity).
Directing: Bernard L. Kowalski · Writing: Leigh Chapman · Starring: Dehl Berti, Lloyd Bridges, Sid Haig, Alberto Monte
1x13 Elena
Dec 10, 1966 · 45 min
Double-agent Elena Del Barra is acting bizarrely, sending a microfilm of defense secrets from her own country. Rollin is sent in to investigate, and return the microfilm without its theft ever being detected. Complicating matters is that an assassin, Callao, has been sent to kill her if Rollin can't figure things out in two days.
Directing: Marc Daniels · Writing: Ellis Marcus · Starring: Martin Landau, Abraham Sofaer, Renzo Cesana, BarBara Luna
1x14 The Short Tail Spy
Dec 17, 1966 · 45 min
A defector has been targeted by two rival groups from the same foreign country. The team is to discredit the younger group, so that the U.S. can more easily handle the old-line group.
Directing: Leonard Horn · Writing: Julian Barry · Starring: Albert Dekker, Eric Braeden, Joseph Sirola, Edward Colmans
1x15 The Legacy
Jan 7, 1967 · 45 min
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 Switzerland to meet for the first time and pool their parts of the "puzzle" together.
Directing: Michael O'Herlihy · Writing: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield · Starring: Martin Landau, Donald Harron, Lee Bergere, Richard Peel
1x16 The Reluctant Dragon
Jan 14, 1967 · 45 min
Dr. Cherlotov, a scientist of an enemy power, failed to defect to the West when his wife did. Now that he has developed a cheap, effective anti-ballistic system, the IMF are ordered to get him out. Unfortunately, they find out that Cherlotov doesn't wasn't to defect: he merely wants to convince his superiors he is loyal and live out his life.
Directing: Leonard Horn · Writing: Chester Krumholz · Starring: Martin Landau, Joseph Campanella, Michael Forest, Norbert Schiller
1x17 The Frame
Jan 21, 1967 · 45 min
Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with men more sympathetic to the Syndicate.
Directing: Allen H. Miner · Starring: Martin Landau, Simon Oakland, Arthur Batanides, Joe Maross
1x18 The Trial
Jan 28, 1967 · 45 min
Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power.
Directing: Lewis Allen · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Martin Landau, Carroll O'Connor, Michael Strong, David Opatoshu
1x19 The Diamond
Feb 4, 1967 · 45 min
Henrik Durvard has taken over the country of Lombounda by military coup, and holds the natives in terror. He has obtained a diamond from the native miners, and the IMF are assigned to take it away from him.
Directing: Robert Douglas · Writing: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield · Starring: Martin Landau, John van Dreelen, Harry Davis, Woodrow Parfrey
1x20 The Legend
Feb 11, 1967 · 45 min
An imprisoned member of the Nazi party, Herbert Raynor, is released from prison and is being flown (along with his daughter) to Puerto Huberra in South America, along with other Nazis. All of them are being flown there by an unknown benefactor.
Directing: Richard Benedict · Writing: Mann Rubin · Starring: Martin Landau, Gunnar Hellström, Gene Roth, Paul Genge
1x21 Snowball in Hell
Feb 18, 1967 · 45 min
A former prison guard, Sefra, has got hold of a supply of cesium 138, which explodes at temperatures above 70 degrees. Sefra plans to sell the sample and the formula from the closed-down prison base where he once worked.
Directing: Lee H. Katzin · Writing: Robert Guy Barrows, Judith Barrows · Starring: Martin Landau, Émile Genest, Ricardo Montalban, Warren J. Kemmerling
1x22 The Confession
Feb 25, 1967 · 45 min
Andreas Solowiechek, a member of a Communist trade delegation, is arrested after assassinating a U.S. Senator, Townsend. Townsend's backer, McMillan, is rallying his supporters for the U.S. to break off all trade talks with the Russians.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield · Starring: Martin Landau, Kent Smith, David Sheiner, Pat Hingle
1x23 Action!
Mar 4, 1967 · 45 min
Miklos Klaar, an Iron Curtain filmmaker, has film of American soldiers and plans to edit it into an atrocity movie to discredit the U.S.
Directing: Leonard Horn · Writing: Robert Lewin · Starring: Martin Landau, J.D. Cannon, Helen Boll, Eric Feldary
1x24 The Train
Mar 18, 1967 · 45 min
Prime Minister Larya of Svardia is working to establish democracy, but is unaware that his personal protégé, Deputy Premier Pavel, plans to set up a dictatorship. The team must persuade Larya of Pavel's plans.
Directing: Ralph Senensky · Writing: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield · Starring: Martin Landau, William Windom, Rhys Williams, William Schallert
1x25 Shock
Mar 25, 1967 · 45 min
Enemy operative Kiri has kidnapped U.S. envoy Carl Wilson and has an imposter, Gort, who is impersonating him to discredit a U.S. trade agreement. The team have to rescue Wilson and foil the impersonation before Kiri kills Wilson.
Directing: Lee H. Katzin · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Martin Landau, James Daly, Sorrell Booke, Stanley Waxman
1x26 A Cube of Sugar
Apr 1, 1967 · 45 min
Vincent Deane is a jazz musician and undercover U.S. intelligence operative who has memorized the plans to a microcircuit code but was then captured and imprisoned. The IMF must get him out.
Directing: Joseph Pevney · Writing: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield · Starring: Martin Landau, Francis Lederer, Jack Denbo, Kurt Kreuger
1x27 The Traitor
Apr 15, 1967 · 45 min
Directing: Lee H. Katzin · Writing: Edward J. Lakso · Starring: Martin Landau, Malachi Throne, Eartha Kitt, Lonny Chapman
1x28 The Psychic Season Finale
Apr 22, 1967 · 45 min
An investment promoter, Alex Lowell, gained control of NATO top-secret defense hardware and absconded to South America to sell them to enemy powers. The IMF needs to recover the stock documents worth $80 mil.
Directing: Charles R. Rondeau · Writing: Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield · Starring: Martin Landau, Barry Sullivan, Milton Selzer, Richard Anderson