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The Best Episodes of Mission: Impossible Season 1

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 3 - Operation Rogosh
    8.2/10(636 votes)

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Jerome Ross

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  2. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 24 - The Train
    8.1/10(441 votes)

    S1:E24

    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.

    Director:Ralph Senensky
    Writers:Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield

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  3. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 10 - The Carriers
    8.0/10(519 votes)

    S1:E10

    Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bacteriological warfare.

    Director:Sherman Marks
    Writers:Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield

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  4. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 15 - The Legacy
    7.9/10(449 votes)

    S1:E15

    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.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writers:Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield

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  5. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 27 - The Traitor
    7.8/10(377 votes)

    S1:E27

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    Director:Lee H. Katzin
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  6. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    7.7/10(833 votes)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Bruce Geller

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  7. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 6 - Odds on Evil
    7.7/10(519 votes)

    S1:E6

    Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writers:Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield

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  8. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 17 - The Frame
    7.7/10(426 votes)

    S1:E17

    Gangster Jack Wellman is moving syndicated crime into politics, killing off certain politicians and replacing them with men more sympathetic to the Syndicate.

    Director:Allen H. Miner
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 8 - The Ransom
    7.6/10(492 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  10. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 18 - The Trial
    7.6/10(402 votes)

    S1:E18

    Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power.

    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  11. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 21 - Snowball in Hell
    7.5/10(387 votes)

    S1:E21

    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.

    Director:Lee H. Katzin
    Writers:Robert Guy Barrows, Judith Barrows

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  12. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 25 - Shock
    7.5/10(370 votes)

    S1:E25

    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.

    Director:Lee H. Katzin
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  13. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 28 - The Psychic
    7.5/10(365 votes)

    S1:E28

    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.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writers:Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield

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  14. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 19 - The Diamond
    7.4/10(390 votes)

    S1:E19

    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.

    Director:Robert Douglas
    Writers:Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield

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  15. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 20 - The Legend
    7.4/10(431 votes)

    S1:E20

    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.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Mann Rubin

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  16. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 22 - The Confession
    7.4/10(380 votes)

    S1:E22

    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.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writers:Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield

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  17. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 26 - A Cube of Sugar
    7.4/10(362 votes)

    S1:E26

    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.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writers:Allan Balter, William Read Woodfield

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  18. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 2 - Memory
    7.3/10(592 votes)

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Robert Lewin

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  19. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 4 - Old Man Out (1)
    7.3/10(544 votes)

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Ellis Marcus

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  20. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 5 - Old Man Out (2)
    7.3/10(508 votes)

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Ellis Marcus

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  21. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 23 - Action!
    7.3/10(387 votes)

    S1:E23

    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.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Robert Lewin

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  22. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 9 - A Spool There Was
    7.2/10(478 votes)

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Ellis Marcus

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  23. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 14 - The Short Tail Spy
    7.2/10(422 votes)

    S1:E14

    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.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Julian Barry

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  24. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 16 - The Reluctant Dragon
    7.2/10(377 votes)

    S1:E16

    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.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Chester Krumholz

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  25. Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 12 - Fakeout
    7.0/10(419 votes)

    S1:E12

    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).

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Leigh Chapman

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Operation Rogosh" is the best rated episode of "Mission: Impossible" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 636 votes. Directed by Leonard Horn and written by Jerome Ross, it aired on 10/1/1966. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Train".