Mission: Impossible (1988)
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. The show is a revival of the 1966 TV series of the same name. The only actor to return for the series as a regular cast member was Peter Graves who played Jim Phelps, although two other cast members from the original series returned as guest stars. The only other regular cast member to return for every episode was the voice of "The Tape", Bob Johnson.
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Episode 1 - The Golden Serpent (1)
Release Date: 1989-09-21The IMF must take down Selimun, who works for the Golden Serpent triad running drugs. Complicating matters, Grant's father Barney has already infiltrated Selimun's operation, but is captured and the team must weigh whether to help him or complete the mission.
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Episode 2 - The Golden Serpent (2)
Release Date: 1989-09-28The team turn Selimun against his Golden Serpent masters, but when they kill him they must deal with the head of the organization to recover the hidden gold and destroy the Serpent once and for all.
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Episode 3 - The Princess
Release Date: 1989-10-05A militant group hires an assassin, Coyote, to take out the princess of a country who she is turning toward Western ways. The IMF must go undercover to infiltrate the group, find out the identity of the assassin, and take him out before he can complete his assignment.
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Episode 4 - Command Performance
Release Date: 1989-10-12The IMF team must rescue an imprisoned holy man and recover a holy relic which holds evidence of the Defense Minister's atrocities.
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Episode 5 - Countdown
Release Date: 1989-10-26To prevent the detonation of a nuclear bomb by a fanatic unaware that she is being mislead by a general seeking to take over his country, Grant must get close to the woman and find the location of the bomb.
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Episode 6 - War Games
Release Date: 1989-11-02The IMF must stop the general of a European country from using a series of war games as a cover to invade a neighboring country.
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Episode 7 - Target Earth
Release Date: 1989-11-09When an IMF operative at a commercial orbital launch site goes missing, Shannon takes her place, only to find herself trapped on a space shuttle in orbit when terrorists take it over to launch a global blackmail scheme.
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Episode 8 - The Fuehrer's Children
Release Date: 1989-11-16The head of a neo-Nazi organization plans to ally similar groups with an elaborate computer scheme, and has a ""master plan"" which guarantees him success.
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Episode 9 - Banshee
Release Date: 1989-11-30An Irish arms dealer plays both sides of the country's conflict against each other, and the IMF must trick them into uniting to defeat him.
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Episode 10 - For Art's Sake
Release Date: 1989-12-14A valuable painting and a foreign country's national treasure is stolen by a master thief during its exhibition in the U.S., and the team must recover it before the situatioin turns hostile.
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Episode 11 - Deadly Harvest
Release Date: 1990-01-06Terrorist Jouseff K., a native of the country of Orambach, plans to release a deadly virus over the wheat fields of the U.S. The team must stop the production of the virus in Orambach and destroy the terrorist cell.
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Episode 12 - Cargo Cult
Release Date: 1990-01-13The IMF take on a criminal organization that is using the image of a vulcano-god and his prophet to scare a primitive tribe into mining gold for them.
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Episode 13 - The Assassin
Release Date: 1990-01-20The team must discover the cause of a series of bizarre assassinations caused by seemingly innocent people, but Nicholas is targeted as the next killer.
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Episode 14 - The Gunslinger
Release Date: 1990-02-03An arms dealer who runs a mock-Western town in Nevada is the team's next target.
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Episode 15 - Church Bells in Bogota
Release Date: 1990-02-10The IMF team is sent to Bogota in order to destroy a vicious druglord's operation. All attempts to even meet the druglord is met with failure - Nicholas as an arms dealer, Max as a drill sergeant for the troups. Finally, Shannon is set up as a singer, but her plane to Bogota crashes, and she loses her memory. She is brought to the druglord, and his nephew sees this as an opportunity to woo her, and eventually he proposes to her. She says yes. On the wedding day, the team makes their move. Jim poses as a doctor, restores her memory, and under cover of Nicholas'impression of a priest, they manage to sneak her out while destroying the operation.
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Episode 16 - The Sands of Seth
Release Date: 1990-02-24When several progressive Egyptian leaders are killed, the IMF team is sent to stop the head of the department for ancient studies at the Cairo museum. It turns out that he has revived the cult of Seth, with sacrificial ceremonies. His henchman has been impersonating a mummy to kill anyone who might talk. Jim, Shannon and Max pose as part of a dig, claiming they have found important relics from the original worship of Seth, while Nicholas and Grant try to break the trust between the leader and his followers. But Grant is caught and is scheduled to be the next sacrifice...