Mission: Impossible

Season 5 (23 Episodes)

7 Seasons 1970 TV-PG 50m 7.9

The fifth season of the original Mission: Impossible originally aired Saturdays at 7:30-8:30 pm from September 19, 1970 to March 6, 1971. "The Merchant" originally aired Wednesday, March 17, 1971 at 7:30-8:30 pm.

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Season 5 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Killer

1. The Killer

Aired: Sep 19, 1970

The IMF is up against a contract killer who makes decisions at random at the ...

Episode 2 Flip Side

2. Flip Side

Aired: Sep 26, 1970

Mel Bracken is one of the largest distributors of illegal drugs on the West C...

Episode 3 The Innocent

3. The Innocent

Aired: Oct 3, 1970

Barney has been captured infiltrating an enemy laboratory in the Middle East....

Episode 4 Homecoming

4. Homecoming

Aired: Oct 10, 1970

This time it's personal as Jim returns home to uncover who is killing his chi...

Episode 5 Flight

5. Flight

Aired: Oct 17, 1970

The IMF must thwart a coup attempt to be triggered by a presidential assassin...

Episode 6 My Friend, My Enemy

6. My Friend, My Enemy

Aired: Oct 25, 1970

While en route to rendezvous with the IMF in Switzerland, Paris is captured b...

Episode 7 Butterfly

7. Butterfly

Aired: Oct 31, 1970

The MI team must exonerate an American businessman framed for the murder of h...

Episode 8 Decoy

8. Decoy

Aired: Nov 7, 1970

Brother and sister Alexi and Anna Kerkoska want to defect, and give the U.S. ...

Episode 9 The Amateur

9. The Amateur

Aired: Nov 14, 1970

A wannabe spy in an eastern European country happens upon an operation of the...

Episode 10 Hunted

10. Hunted

Aired: Nov 21, 1970

A picture perfect extraction mission in a white dominated African country goe...

Episode 11 The Rebel

11. The Rebel

Aired: Nov 28, 1970

Government security forces surprise the MI team during a routine information ...

Episode 12 Squeeze Play

12. Squeeze Play

Aired: Dec 12, 1970

A drug kingpin, not long for this world, is preparing to turn over his heroin...

Episode 13 The Hostage

13. The Hostage

Aired: Dec 19, 1970

Paris's cover identity as a wealthy and influential American proves a bit too...

Episode 14 Takeover

14. Takeover

Aired: Jan 2, 1971

The IMF team must stop a corrupt deputy mayor's efforts to put his puppet in ...

Episode 15 Cat's Paw

15. Cat's Paw

Aired: Jan 9, 1971

Barney convinces the IMF team to help him bring down the mobsters that killed...

Episode 16 The Missile

16. The Missile

Aired: Jan 16, 1971

The IMF fool two foreign agents into gathering intelligence on a bogus missil...

Episode 17 The Field

17. The Field

Aired: Jan 23, 1971

An adversary nation launches a nuclear weapons platform into orbit. To make m...

Episode 18 Blast

18. Blast

Aired: Jan 30, 1971

Jim and Dana infiltrate a group of bank robbers, but the IMF's real target is...

Episode 19 The Catafalque

19. The Catafalque

Aired: Feb 6, 1971

In one of the IMF's most audacious plans yet, the team blatantly frames their...

Episode 20 Kitara

20. Kitara

Aired: Feb 20, 1971

Government forces in a racist African country have captured Kitara, the leade...

Episode 21 A Ghost Story

21. A Ghost Story

Aired: Feb 27, 1971

Barney exploits his technical wizardry to convince a neo-fascist that his son...

Episode 22 The Party

22. The Party

Aired: Mar 6, 1971

A communist agent has hidden a microfilm with crucial information and then bl...

Episode 23 The Merchant

23. The Merchant

Aired: Mar 17, 1971

Jim pulls a "James Bond" letting himself be captured so he can become beholde...

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Info about Mission: Impossible

Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Production Country: United States

Genres: Drama, Adventure, Crime, Thriller, Action

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