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Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
19 Episodes 1988 - 1989
Episode 1
The Killer
Sun, Oct 23, 1988 60 mins
Phelps returns to the IMF to learn the identity of the thug who ordered the murder of his protégé. Tim: Paul Smith. Drake: John De Lancie. Grant: Phil Morris. Casey: Terry Markwell. Chambers: Ted Hamilton. Tom Copperfield: Vince Martin.
Episode 2
The System
Sun, Oct 30, 1988 60 mins
After a key witness against the mob is killed, the team tries to turn a casino manager against his mobster boss. Frank Marley: James Sloyan. Wilson: Roger Ward. Phelps: Peter Graves. Grant: Phil Morris.
Episode 3
Holograms
Sun, Nov 6, 1988 60 mins
The IMF team tries to lure a dictator out of his lair so they can nab him for drug trafficking. Maj. Duvall: William Zappa. Kieron: Gavin Harrison. Phelps: Peter Graves.
Episode 4
The Condemned
Sun, Nov 20, 1988 60 mins
Grant's father awaits execution in a Turkish prison after being framed for the murder of a corrupt police official. Hamidou: Adrian Wright. Lydia Adem: Anna-Maria Monticelli. Sirlak: Errol O'Neill. Phelps: Peter Graves. Grant: Phil Morris.
Episode 5
The Legacy
Sat, Nov 26, 1988 60 mins
Nicholas infiltrates a secret society consisting of grandsons of Nazi officers, who are planning a Nazi renaissance. Peter Graves, Terry Markwell. Graff: Judson Scott. Kubler: Shane Briant. Wolfe: Wayne Cull.
Episode 6
The Wall
Sun, Dec 11, 1988 60 mins
The daughter of a West German diplomat is kidnapped in order to maintain East-West tensions, which have been facilitating the kidnappers' other illegal activities. Peter Graves, Terry Markwell. Gerstner: Alan Cassell. Col. Batz: Peter Curtin.
Episode 7
The Cattle King
Sun, Dec 18, 1988 60 mins
An Aborigine medicine man assists the IMF in its attempt to stop an arms dealer from completing a missile deal with a terrorist group. Matthews: David Bradshaw. Casey: Terry Markwell. Phelps: Peter Graves. Grant: Phil Morris.
Episode 8
The Pawn
Sun, Jan 15, 1989 60 mins
The IMF helps a Soviet defense scientist who wants to defect to the West with his daughter (Rowena Wallace). Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis. Antonov: Bryan Marshall. Bakunin: Justin Monjo.
Episode 9
The Haunting
Sat, Jan 28, 1989 60 mins
Phelps poses as a mentalist and Max as a mental case when the team plays with the mind of an international serial killer whose latest crime may cancel an oil-trade agreement. Peter Graves, Tony Hamilton. Victoria: Janis Paige. Champ: Parker Stevenson.
Episode 10
Lions
Sat, Feb 4, 1989 60 mins
The heir to an Asian kingdom is a boy whose uncle has rigged the traditional test of kings so that the boy will die and the uncle can claim the throne. Mike: Jeremy Angerson. Michelle: Dian Craig. Jaru: John O'Brien.
Episode 11
The Greek
Sat, Feb 11, 1989 60 mins
Phelps and Grant (Phil Morris) pose as drug dealers to meet with a Greek supplier who uses his yacht to pirate medicines destined for Third World relief. Colonnades: Cesare Danova. Alvarado: Joe Spano. Woodward: Nicholas Hammond.
Episode 12
The Fortune
Sat, Feb 18, 1989 60 mins
The team has a personal interest in dealing with a deposed dictator and his wife (Barbara Luna), who plan a return to power with the fortune they stole from their national treasury. Shannon Reed: Jane Badler. Crothers: Anthony Hawkins. Phelps: Peter Graves. Grant: Phil Morris.
Episode 13
The Fixer
Sat, Feb 25, 1989 60 mins
A powerful journalist plans to blackmail Congressmen to fend off a grand-jury indictment against him. Peter Graves, Jane Badler. Arthur Six: Richard Romanus. Doyle: John Calvin. Oxenford: Terence Donovan.
Episode 14
The Spy
Sat, Mar 18, 1989 60 mins
A KGB colonel joins the team to stop production at a chemical-weapons plant being built in Africa by a former British-intelligence operative. Christie: Tim Hughes. Carl: Lee Rice. Dr. Yuri Nicolai: Shane Briant. Heather: Francine Bell. Phelps: Peter Graves. Shannon: Jane Badler.
Episode 15
The Devils
Sat, Mar 25, 1989 60 mins
Phelps takes on a devilish appearance when a British aristocrat is suspected of blackmailing civil servants after involving them in sacrificial rituals. Lord Holman: John Stanton. Phelps: Peter Graves. Challis: Ron Graham. Egerton: Russell Newman. Grant: Phil Morris.
Episode 16
The Plague
Sat, Apr 8, 1989 60 mins
In Paris, the IMF paints a grim picture for a black marketeer who has stolen a deadly chemical that accelerates the aging process. Catherine: Maud Adams. Laroux: Gary Day. Alain: Sylvester Iwinski. General: Bryon Williams. Phelps: Peter Graves.
Episode 17
The Reprisal
Sat, Apr 15, 1989 60 mins
Lynda Day George reprises her role as Lisa Casey, whose life is threatened by a deranged former colleague who is framing Phelps (Peter Graves) for murder. Russell Acker: David Cameron. Talbot: Marshall Napier. Marilyn: Paula Goodman.
Episode 18
Submarine
Sat, Apr 29, 1989 60 mins
The team locates a device that sank a U.S. submarine by generating a computer virus, but the seller destroys the "antidote." Adm. Sheppard: Mitchell Ryan. Reynard: Jonathan Hardy. Cdr. O'Neal: Andrew Clarke. Max: Tony Hamilton.
Episode 19
Bayou
Sat, May 6, 1989 60 mins
The team stages a voodoo ritual to create distrust between a man and a woman operating a white-slavery ring. Phelps: Peter Graves. Morgan: Frank Thring. Pepper Leveau: Paula Kelly. Sax: Maurice Leeke. Diane Marshall: Danielle Spencer.
