Mission: Impossible: Season 4

1969 · 26 episodes · ★ 6.3

What Season 4 of Mission: Impossible

Season 4 of Mission: Impossible Has 26 episodes and premiered on September 28, 1969. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

26episodes

Sep 28, 1969premiered

Mar 29, 1970Latest episode

19.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 The Code
Sep 28, 1969 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Stuart Hagmann · Starring: Harold Gould, Roberto Contreras, Michael Constantine, Joaquín Martínez
4x02 The Numbers Game (aka: The Key)
Oct 5, 1969 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Reza Badiyi · Writing: Leigh Vance · Starring: May Britt, Lee Meriwether, Vince Deadrick Sr., Lew Palter
4x03 The Controllers (1)
Oct 12, 1969 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Paul Krasny · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Dina Merrill, Brooke Bundy, David Sheiner, Alfred Ryder
4x04 The Controllers (2)
Oct 19, 1969 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Paul Krasny · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Dina Merrill, Brooke Bundy, Leonard Stone, David Sheiner
4x05 Fool's Gold
Oct 26, 1969 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Murray Golden · Writing: Ken Pettus · Starring: Sally Ann Howes, Nehemiah Persoff, David Opatoshu, Ronald Long
4x06 Commandante
Nov 2, 1969 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Barry Crane · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Lawrence Dane, Sid Haig, Robert Padilla, Arthur Batanides
4x07 Submarine
Nov 16, 1969 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Paul Krasny · Writing: Donald James · Starring: Stephen McNally, Lee Meriwether, Ramon Bieri, William Wintersole
4x08 Mastermind
Nov 23, 1969 · 45 min
As Barney Collier 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.
Directing: Georg Fenady · Writing: Jerrold L. Ludwig · Starring: Paul Stewart, Donnelly Rhodes, William Bryant, Gerald Hiken
4x09 Robot
Nov 30, 1969 · 45 min
A country is unaware that its premier is dead and that a double is about to appoint a successor. So Barney Collier concocts a mechanical man to take his place.
Directing: Reza Badiyi · Writing: Howard Berk · Starring: Ken Delo, Lee Meriwether, Malachi Throne, Larry Linville
4x10 The Double Circle
Dec 7, 1969 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Barry Crane · Writing: Jerrold L. Ludwig · Starring: Anne Francis, James Patterson, Jason Evers, Al Sklar
4x11 The Brothers
Dec 14, 1969 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Murray Golden · Writing: Leigh Vance · Starring: Michele Carey, Lloyd Battista, Joseph Ruskin, Lee Bergere
4x12 Time Bomb
Dec 21, 1969 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Murray Golden · Writing: Paul Playdon · Starring: Bert Freed, BarBara Luna, Bert Freed, Morgan Sterne
4x13 The Amnesiac
Dec 28, 1969 · 45 min
Jim Phelps poses as an amnesia victim in order to retrieve a stolen isotope, one that could make nuclear weapons affordable to any country.
Directing: Reza Badiyi · Writing: Ken Pettus, Robert M. Young · Starring: Julie Gregg, Anthony Zerbe, Steve Ihnat, Lisabeth Hush
4x14 The Falcon (1)
Jan 4, 1970 · 45 min
Paris masquerades as Zastro, a magician who has come to entertain during an arranged wedding between the king's sister and a ruthless usurper.
Directing: Reza Badiyi · Writing: Paul Playdon · Starring: Noel Harrison, Lee Meriwether, Diane Baker, Tony Giorgio
4x15 The Falcon (2)
Jan 11, 1970 · 45 min
With the king's sister rescued during the wedding, the team now turns its attention to the true heir, who's locked up in prison.
Directing: Reza Badiyi · Writing: Paul Playdon · Starring: Noel Harrison, Lee Meriwether, Diane Baker, Tony Giorgio
4x16 The Falcon (3)
Jan 18, 1970 · 45 min
Just as Jim Phelps and the others unwittingly become caught up in a royal power struggle, a bomb goes off, seriously injuring Paris and revealing his disguise.
Directing: Reza Badiyi · Writing: Paul Playdon · Starring: Noel Harrison, Lee Meriwether, Arline Anderson, Diane Baker
4x17 Chico
Jan 25, 1970 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Herb Wallerstein · Writing: Ken Pettus · Starring: Fernando Lamas, Percy Rodriguez, Thomas A. Geas, Gregory Sierra
4x18 Gitano (aka Toys)
Feb 1, 1970 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Barry Crane · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Margarita Cordova, Richard Romanus, Peter Mark Richman, Barry Williams
4x19 Phantoms
Feb 8, 1970 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Marvin J. Chomsky · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Luther Adler, Antoinette Bower, Jeff Pomerantz, Michael Baseleon
4x20 Terror
Feb 15, 1970 · 45 min
Jim and his team must infiltrate a prison in order to block the release of a ruthless Middle Eastern terrorist about to be pardoned.
Directing: Marvin J. Chomsky · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Arlene Martel, Joe De Santis, David Opatoshu, Michael Tolan
4x21 Lover's Knot
Feb 22, 1970 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Reza Badiyi · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Jane Merrow, John Williams, Don Knight, Jerry Douglas
4x22 Orpheus
Mar 1, 1970 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Gerald Mayer · Writing: Paul Playdon · Starring: Bruce Glover, Booth Colman, Jessica Walter, Albert Paulsen
4x23 The Crane
Mar 8, 1970 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Paul Krasny · Writing: Ken Pettus · Starring: Carl Betz, Felice Orlandi, Don Eitner, Ernesto Macias
4x24 Death Squad
Mar 15, 1970 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Barry Crane · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Cicely Tyson, Leon Askin, Pernell Roberts, John Schuck
4x25 The Choice
Mar 22, 1970 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Alan Greedy · Writing: Ken Pettus · Starring: Arthur Franz, Nan Martin, Sid Haig, Rudy Doucette
4x26 The Martyr Season Finale
Mar 29, 1970 · 45 min
As a duplicitous dictator courts the young people of his country, Paris poses as the son of his predecessor, a martyred youth leader.
Directing: Virgil W. Vogel · Writing: Ken Pettus · Starring: Peter Brocco, Anna Lee, John Larch, Scott Marlowe