Mission: Impossible (season 6)

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Mission: Impossible (1966–1973) (season 6)
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 22
Release
Original network CBS
Original release September 18, 1971 (1971-09-18) – February 26, 1972 (1972-02-26)
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List of Mission: Impossible episodes

The sixth season of the original Mission: Impossible originally aired Saturdays at 10:00–11:00 pm (EST) on CBS from September 18, 1971[1] to February 26, 1972.[2]

Cast

Character Actor Main Recurring
Jim Phelps Peter Graves Entire season
Barney Collier Greg Morris Entire Season
Casey Lynda Day George Entire Season
Willy Armitage Peter Lupus Entire Season
Dr. Doug Robert Sam Elliott Episode 2

Episodes

Series
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Episode
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Title Directed by Written by Original Airdate Production
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128 1 "Blind" Reza S. Badiyi Arthur Weiss September 18, 1971 (1971-09-18) 126
Lynda Day George joins the regular cast as Casey. Jim undergoes surgery to be temporarily blinded in order to pose as a federal investigator who had been caught in an explosion caused by the Syndicate at an industrial facility.
129 2 "Encore" Paul Krasny Harold Livingston September 25, 1971 (1971-09-25) 125
To bring down a pair of crime syndicate bosses by finding evidence of a murder committed by them years before, the IMF must convince one of them (William Shatner) that he has travelled back in time to his youth in 1937. Final appearance of Sam Elliott as Doug.
130 3 "The Tram" Paul Krasny Teleplay: James L. Henderson & Samuel Roeca
Story: Paul Playdon
October 2, 1971 (1971-10-02) 131
The IMF must infiltrate a Syndicate financial meeting – held at a mountain resort only accessible by aerial tramway – to discover the group's Swiss bank account number.
131 4 "Mindbend" Marvin Chomsky James D. Buchanan & Ronald Austin October 9, 1971 (1971-10-09) 130
A Syndicate boss has been using a psychopathic doctor to brainwash former prison inmates to assassinate public officials and then kill themselves immediately after, and Barney must go undercover and resist the doctor's "training" to expose them.
132 5 "Shape-Up" Paul Krasny Ed Adamson and Norman Katkov October 16, 1971 (1971-10-16) 133
The IMF has to break the Syndicate control over a waterfront and its docks by making the local boss believe a ship is haunted by the ghost of a man he killed.
133 6 "The Miracle" Leonard J. Horn Dan Ullman October 23, 1971 (1971-10-23) 129
The IMF makes a Syndicate drug smuggler (Joe Don Baker) believe he has received the heart of a priest in a transplant operation, faked for the benefit of him and his associate (Billy Dee Williams), and that he is taking on the donor's personality traits in order to intercept a large heroin shipment.
134 7 "Encounter" Barry Crane Howard Berk October 30, 1971 (1971-10-30) 132
In order to put two Syndicate operators out of commission, Casey poses as the wife (Elizabeth Ashley) of one of the operators attending a group encounter alcohol rehab center in order to convince the two operators that each is double-crossing the other.
135 8 "Underwater" Sutton Roley Arthur Weiss November 6, 1971 (1971-11-06) 134
When an underling steals a shipment of diamonds out from under the nose of a Syndicate fence (Fritz Weaver) and hides them underwater offshore, Casey makes the fence and the underling believe SCUBA diver Jim has already found them in order to retrieve the gems and the $75 million earmarked for their sale.
136 9 "Invasion" Leslie H. Martinson James L. Henderson & Samuel Roeca November 13, 1971 (1971-11-13) 137
After an enemy agent (Kevin McCarthy) steals the secrets of the US Distant Early Warning (DEW) system against nuclear missile strikes, he is made to believe the United States has been invaded by the country he's spying for in order to retrieve the document and uncover the identity of his "control".
137 10 "Blues" Reza S. Badiyi Teleplay: Howard Berk
Story: Howard Berk and Orville H. Hampton
November 20, 1971 (1971-11-20) 139
Posing as an aspiring singer, Barney makes a Syndicate record executive (William Windom) believe he has an audio recording of the night the executive threw a woman off a balcony.
138 11 "The Visitors" Reza S. Badiyi Harold Livingston November 27, 1971 (1971-11-27) 135
Jim and Casey make a Syndicate-controlled media tycoon (Steve Forrest) believe they are extraterrestrials with the secret to eternal life in order to expose corrupt candidates in an upcoming election.
139 12 "Nerves" Barry Crane Teleplay: Henry Sharp and Garrie Bateson
Story: Henry Sharp
December 4, 1971 (1971-12-04) 140
When a paranoid Syndicate enforcer (Christopher George, Lynda Day George's husband) threatens to release deadly nerve gas in a heavily populated area to force the release of his brother from prison, the IMF must recover the defective gas canister before it leaks and kills thousands. Guest starring Tyne Daly as the enforcer's girlfriend and Rafer Johnson as his partner.
140 13 "Run for the Money" Marvin Chomsky Edward J. Lakso December 11, 1971 (1971-12-11) 128
To bring down a Syndicate man running illegal parimutuel betting parlors and stop the saboteur blowing up their competition, the IMF pits the two men against each other by making the saboteur believe he's buying a stolen and disguised super-horse.
141 14 "The Connection" Barry Crane Teleplay: Edward J. Lakso and Ken Pettus
Story: Edward J. Lakso
December 18, 1971 (1971-12-18) 136
In order to take down the largest supplier of uncut heroin on the eastern seaboard (Anthony Zerbe) and uncover his opium source, the IMF makes him believe an island off the coast of Georgia is really off the coast of Africa.
142 15 "The Bride" John Llewellyn Moxey Jackson Gillis January 1, 1972 (1972-01-01) 127
Casey poses as the Irish mail-order bride of a Syndicate boss (James Gregory) in order to disrupt an international money laundering ring.
143 16 "Stone Pillow" Leslie H. Martinson Howard Browne January 8, 1972 (1972-01-08) 142
In order to discover the location of film negatives an inmate is using to blackmail a Syndicate boss, cellmate Jim must bust the inmate out of prison for real.
144 17 "Image" Don McDougall Samuel Roeca & James L. Henderson January 15, 1972 (1972-01-15) 138
When a Syndicate boss threatens to flee the country to avoid prosecution and take a secret list of corrupt officials with him, tarot reader Barney convinces him he has a heretofore unknown (and separated) conjoined twin to get him to divulge the list's location.
145 18 "Committed" Reza S. Badiyi Teleplay: Arthur Weiss
Story: Laurence Heath
January 22, 1972 (1972-01-22) 141
Casey gets herself committed to a prison-like mental hospital in order to save the only witness in a murder trial against a Syndicate boss from being driven insane by the corrupt staff.
146 19 "Bag Woman" Paul Krasny Ed Adamson and Norman Katkov January 29, 1972 (1972-01-29) 144
After Barney's cover is blown during an operation to discover the identity of a politician demanding bribes from the Syndicate, the rest of the team races to warn bag woman Casey that the satchel she's carrying is actually a bomb.
147 20 "Double Dead" Barry Crane Teleplay: Jackson Gillis and Laurence Heath
Story: Jackson Gillis
February 12, 1972 (1972-02-12) 143
When Willy is captured stealing the $10 million bankroll of a pair of Syndicate loan sharks, the rest of the IMF must not only turn the loan sharks against each other in order to get the money, but also rescue Willy before a Syndicate doctor can break him using a truth serum. The set of the Brady home from the TV series The Brady Bunch is featured in this episode (Barry "Greg Brady" Williams previously appeared in season four's "Gitano," and Robert "Mike Brady" Reed appears in the final season's "Hit").
148 21 "Casino" Reza S. Badiyi Walter Brough and Howard Berk February 19, 1972 (1972-02-19) 145
To take down a Syndicate casino owner (Jack Cassidy), the IMF makes his Syndicate bosses believe he's planning to rob his own vault and flee with the money to the Caribbean. The seventh season episode "Kidnap" (S07/E11) refers to this episode.
149 22 "Trapped" Leslie H. Martinson Teleplay: Samuel Roeca & James L. Henderson
Story: Rick Husky
February 26, 1972 (1972-02-26) 146
To recover $8 million stolen during an Army payroll heist in Southeast Asia and nab a smuggling family, the IMF convinces one brother (Bert Convy) that the other brother (Jon Cypher) is trying to have him killed. However, after Jim is shot during the mission, he develops amnesia.


References

  1. TV Listings for September 18, 1971
  2. TV Listings for February 26, 1972
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