Mission: Impossible season 3#ep65

{{see also|List of Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series) episodes}}

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|EpisodeNumber=54

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=The Heir Apparent

|DirectedBy=Alexander Singer

|WrittenBy=Robert E. Thompson

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|9|29}}

|ProdCode=52

|ShortSummary=Cinnamon impersonates a lost princess to foil the planned coup of a would-be military dictator (Charles Aidman). Cinnamon Carter poses as the blind elderly Princess who apparently survived the attempt on her life.

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|EpisodeNumber=55

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=The Contender: Part 1

|DirectedBy=Paul Stanley

|WrittenBy=William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|10|6}}

|ProdCode=54

|ShortSummary=Barney impersonates a boxer to prevent gangsters (Ron Randell, John Dehner) from corrupting U.S. sports. Sugar Ray Robinson guest stars as a gangster's henchman; Robert Conrad has a cameo as Barney's sparring partner. The IMF will return to the boxing ring in the seventh season episode "The Fighter" (S07/E17).

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|EpisodeNumber=56

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=The Contender: Part 2

|DirectedBy=Paul Stanley

|WrittenBy=William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|10|13}}

|ProdCode=55

|ShortSummary=The conclusion of the previous episode.

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|EpisodeNumber=57

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=The Mercenaries

|DirectedBy=Paul Krasny

|WrittenBy=Laurence Heath

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|10|27}}

|ProdCode=51

|ShortSummary=The IMF travel to Africa to stop a gold-hungry mercenary (Pernell Roberts) and end his reign of terror.

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|EpisodeNumber=58

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=The Execution

|DirectedBy=Alexander Singer

|WrittenBy=William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|11|10}}

|ProdCode=56

|ShortSummary=To stop a brutal racketeer (Vincent Gardenia) from controlling the U.S. grocery industry, the IMF must convince his hitman to turn state's evidence.

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|EpisodeNumber=59

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=The Cardinal

|DirectedBy=Sutton Roley

|WrittenBy=John T. Dugan

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|11|17}}

|ProdCode=58

|ShortSummary=To secure power, a general (Theodore Bikel) replaces a country's beloved cardinal (Paul Stevens) with a lookalike (also played by Paul Stevens); the team devises a plan to switch them back.

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|EpisodeNumber=60

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=The Elixir

|DirectedBy=John Florea

|WrittenBy=Max Hodge

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|11|24}}

|ProdCode=59

|ShortSummary=In South America, the IMF must prevent a vain, Evita-like matriarch (Ruth Roman) from seizing power in a coup.

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|EpisodeNumber=61

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=The Diplomat

|DirectedBy=Don Richardson

|WrittenBy=Jerry Ludwig

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|12|1}}

|ProdCode=53

|ShortSummary=The IMF must discredit an enemy diplomat (Fernando Lamas) who is supplying a foreign power with the locations of U.S. missile control centers. Cinnamon did not appear in this episode.

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|EpisodeNumber=62

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=The Play

|DirectedBy=Lee H. Katzin

|WrittenBy=Lou Shaw

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|12|8}}

|ProdCode=57

|ShortSummary=The IMF must discredit a foreign minister of culture whose influence prevents his premier from establishing a non-aggression pact with the United States. Willy did not appear in this episode. There is no dossier scene.

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|EpisodeNumber=63

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=The Bargain

|DirectedBy=Richard Benedict

|WrittenBy=Robert E. Thompson

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|12|15}}

|ProdCode=61

|ShortSummary=In Miami, the IMF must prevent a crime syndicate from funding an exiled dictator's (Albert Paulsen) plan to launch a counter-revolution. There is no dossier scene.

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|EpisodeNumber=64

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=The Freeze

|DirectedBy=Alexander Singer

|WrittenBy=Paul Playdon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|12|22}}

|ProdCode=63

|ShortSummary=A bank robber (Donnelly Rhodes) plans to wait in prison on a lesser charge until the statute of limitations expires on his theft; the IMF must convince him to retrieve the loot early, before his double-crossed partners get wind of the con.

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|EpisodeNumber=65

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=The Exchange

|DirectedBy=Alexander Singer

|WrittenBy=Laurence Heath

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|1|5}}

|ProdCode=60

|ShortSummary=Cinnamon is captured behind the Iron Curtain, and Jim must kidnap, break, and trade an enemy agent before she breaks, bargaining with a treacherous officer (John Vernon) in the process. This is the first episode which begins in medias res, showing the IMF team in the middle of an ongoing mission before Cinnamon is captured and imprisoned.

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|EpisodeNumber=66

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=The Mind of Stefan Miklos

|DirectedBy=Robert Butler

|WrittenBy=Paul Playdon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|1|12}}

|ProdCode=62

|ShortSummary=A double agent within U.S. intelligence is being fed false information, but his suspicious handler (Edward Asner) asks for a security check. Miklos (Steve Ihnat), an enemy mastermind, is sent to investigate and the IMF must convince him that the information is true and the handler is the traitor.

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|EpisodeNumber=67

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=The Test Case

|DirectedBy=Sutton Roley

|WrittenBy=Laurence Heath

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|1|19}}

|ProdCode=64

|ShortSummary=A "hired gun" bacteriologist (David Hurst) is developing a deadly but short-lived virus for the Warsaw Pact; the IMF must eliminate him and his virus.

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|EpisodeNumber=68

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=The System

|DirectedBy=Robert Gist

|WrittenBy=Robert Hamner

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|1|26}}

|ProdCode=65

|ShortSummary=When a crime boss escapes justice the IMF must trick an underling (James Patterson) operating a crooked casino into turning state's evidence. This episode was remade as the second episode in the revival series.

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|EpisodeNumber=69

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=The Glass Cage

|DirectedBy=John Moxey

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay

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| t = Paul Playdon

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|2|2}}

|ProdCode=66

|ShortSummary=Barney and Willy get arrested in an Eastern Bloc nation to fake the escape of a resistance leader, who is in an escape-proof cell. Larry Linville guest stars.

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|EpisodeNumber=70

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=Doomsday

|DirectedBy=John Moxey

|WrittenBy=Laurence Heath

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|2|16}}

|ProdCode=68

|ShortSummary=When a nearly bankrupt European industrialist (Alf Kjellin) tries to recover his fortune by selling a nuclear bomb to the highest bidder, the IMF must keep the weapon out of the hands of third-world nations.

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|EpisodeNumber=71

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=Live Bait

|DirectedBy=Stuart Hagmann

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay

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| ex1 = Michael Adams

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|2|23}}

|ProdCode=67

|ShortSummary=An enemy internal security chief (Anthony Zerbe) uses his own assistant (Martin Sheen) in the hope of out-foxing the IMF and exposing a high-ranking American agent. Willy did not appear in this episode.

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|EpisodeNumber=72

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=The Bunker: Part 1

|DirectedBy=John Moxey

|WrittenBy=Paul Playdon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|3|2}}

|ProdCode=69

|ShortSummary=Imprisoned underground in an Eastern European nation, a brilliant scientist is being forced to develop a deadly missile.

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|EpisodeNumber=73

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=The Bunker: Part 2

|DirectedBy=John Moxey

|WrittenBy=Paul Playdon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|3|9}}

|ProdCode=70

|ShortSummary=In the conclusion of the previous episode, the IMF must rescue the scientist (Milton Selzer) and his wife (Lee Meriwether) before another nation's master of disguise can assassinate him.

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|EpisodeNumber=74

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=Nitro

|DirectedBy=Bruce Kessler

|WrittenBy=Laurence Heath

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|3|23}}

|ProdCode=71

|ShortSummary=A near-eastern ultra-nationalist assigns a demolitions expert (Mark Lenard) to kill his nation's leadership so a peace treaty can be replaced with a declaration of war. The IMF must act in time.

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|EpisodeNumber=75

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=Nicole

|DirectedBy=Stuart Hagmann

|WrittenBy=Paul Playdon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|3|30}}

|ProdCode=73

|ShortSummary=Jim, shot and captured during exfiltration, is joined by an attractive double agent (Joan Collins) – but whose side is she really on? (Unusual for a non-season 1 episode, only two regular IMF members – Jim and Rollin – appear.) Neither Cinnamon nor Barney nor Willy appear in this episode.

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|EpisodeNumber=76

|EpisodeNumber2=23

|Title=The Vault

|DirectedBy=Richard Benedict

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay

| s = John Kingsbridge

| ex1 = Judy Burns

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|4|6}}

|ProdCode=72

|ShortSummary=Coup plotters (Nehemiah Persoff, Jerry Riggio) have looted a treasury to unseat a South American president (Rodolfo Acosta).

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|EpisodeNumber=77

|EpisodeNumber2=24

|Title=Illusion

|DirectedBy=Gerald Mayer

|WrittenBy=Laurence Heath

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|4|13}}

|ProdCode=74

|ShortSummary=The IMF must eliminate two of the three contenders for chief of secret police in an eastern European nation.

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|EpisodeNumber=78

|EpisodeNumber2=25

|Title=The Interrogator

|DirectedBy=Reza S. Badiyi

|WrittenBy=Paul Playdon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|4|20}}

|ProdCode=75

|ShortSummary=An enemy officer (Henry Silva) knows a deadly secret, but is under interrogation in another hostile nation. This is the final episode to feature Martin Landau as Rollin Hand and Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter.

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