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Mission: Impossible

Season 1 Episode 16: The Reluctant Dragon

The IM force seeks to smuggle an valuable scientist, with the help of his wife, out from behind the iron curtain. Soon, they discover he doesn't want to leave, and have to change plans to convince him otherwise.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Pilot

1. Pilot

Aired: Sep 17, 1966

IMF team leader Dan Briggs assembles his team for the first time. The mission...

Episode 2 Memory

2. Memory

Aired: Sep 24, 1966

IMF is tasked with defamation of Janos Karq, a dangerous politician from the ...

Episode 3 Operation Rogosh

3. Operation Rogosh

Aired: Oct 1, 1966

Rogosh is an operative for a country hostile to the United States. When he st...

Episode 4 Old Man Out: Part 1

4. Old Man Out: Part 1

Aired: Oct 8, 1966

An elderly cardinal has been taken prisoner in a fictional Eastern European c...

Episode 5 Old Man Out: Part 2

5. Old Man Out: Part 2

Aired: Oct 15, 1966

When the IMF's original scheme to free an elderly cardinal from an "inescapab...

Episode 6 Odds on Evil

6. Odds on Evil

Aired: Oct 22, 1966

A prince, the absolute ruler of a principality, has $1.5 million which he pla...

Episode 7 Wheels

7. Wheels

Aired: Oct 29, 1966

The IM force is tasked to prevent a rigged election in a small Latin American...

Episode 8 The Ransom

8. The Ransom

Aired: Nov 5, 1966

In a rare episode of the series in which the IM Force isn't sent on a governm...

Episode 9 A Spool There Was

9. A Spool There Was

Aired: Nov 12, 1966

Rollin and Cinnamon are sent on a mission to locate and retrieve a wire recor...

Episode 10 The Carriers

10. The Carriers

Aired: Nov 19, 1966

The foreign inhabitants of a replica American small town are being used as un...

Episode 11 Zubrovnik's Ghost

11. Zubrovnik's Ghost

Aired: Nov 26, 1966

Rollin and Barney are sent to investigate the case of a scientist who believe...

Episode 12 Fakeout

12. Fakeout

Aired: Dec 3, 1966

The IMF's target is Poltroni, an international drug dealer. Poltroni, alias T...

Episode 13 Elena

13. Elena

Aired: Dec 10, 1966

Rollin's sent to investigate the case of a beautiful Latin American spy who's...

Episode 14 The Short Tail Spy

14. The Short Tail Spy

Aired: Dec 17, 1966

Cinnamon does her job all too well when the latest mission requires her to fe...

Episode 15 The Legacy

15. The Legacy

Aired: Jan 7, 1967

The IMF must thwart four young Nazis from claiming Hitler's fortune, which th...

Episode 16 The Reluctant Dragon

16. The Reluctant Dragon

Aired: Jan 14, 1967

The IM force seeks to smuggle an valuable scientist, with the help of his wif...

Episode 17 The Frame

17. The Frame

Aired: Jan 21, 1967

The Impossible Missions Force mixes dinner and danger at a crime czar's priva...

Episode 18 The Trial

18. The Trial

Aired: Jan 28, 1967

Briggs poses as an American tourist and subjects himself to a show trial in o...

Episode 19 The Diamond

19. The Diamond

Aired: Feb 4, 1967

Briggs and company pretend to have found a means of synthesizing diamonds in ...

Episode 20 The Legend

20. The Legend

Aired: Feb 11, 1967

The IMF team infiltrates a top-secret meeting of Nazis in South America, and ...

Episode 21 Snowball in Hell

21. Snowball in Hell

Aired: Feb 18, 1967

Barney faces the cat o' nine tails and a cruel ex-guard at a former penal col...

Episode 22 The Confession

22. The Confession

Aired: Feb 25, 1967

A Communist Bloc operative has been arrested for the assassination of U.S. Se...

Episode 23 Action!

23. Action!

Aired: Mar 4, 1967

Miklos Klaar runs a movie studio in the Communist Bloc. He is preparing a fil...

Episode 24 The Train

24. The Train

Aired: Mar 18, 1967

The protégé of the dying prime minister of a fictional European nation is rea...

Episode 25 Shock

25. Shock

Aired: Mar 25, 1967

Wilson, a U.S. ambassador stationed in a neutral country, has been abducted b...

Episode 26 A Cube of Sugar

26. A Cube of Sugar

Aired: Apr 1, 1967

An American agent in possession of advanced computer chip. has been captured ...

Episode 27 The Traitor

27. The Traitor

Aired: Apr 15, 1967

A U.S. intelligence operative has defected to an Eastern Bloc country and is ...

Episode 28 The Psychic

28. The Psychic

Aired: Apr 22, 1967

Cinnamon poses as a psychic as part of a typically complicated plan devised b...

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Info about Mission: Impossible

Seasons: 7

Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Drama, Adventure, Crime, Thriller, Action

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