Mission: Impossible is an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. The show is a revival of the 1966 TV series of the same name. The only actor to return for the series as a regular cast member was Peter Graves who played Jim Phelps, although two other cast members from the original series returned as guest stars. The only other regular cast member to return for every episode was the voice of "The Tape", Bob Johnson.
The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.
The team must stop a British, devil worshiping aristocrat who performs dark rituals including human sacrifices to brainwash influential guests of his manor and get all their secrets so he can use them or sell them to the enemy.
After the death of his wife and the murder of his son, Professor Gregor Antonov, a European chess master and key scientist in an important Soviet defense project, has become increasingly disillusioned with his work in the Cold War arms race. Disheartened, he has thoughts of defecting to the west, where he will live a quiet life together with his 15-year-old daughter Sasha, his only remaining family member. Soviet officials are however well aware of Antonov's hopes, and thus the security around him is rigorous. Jim Phelps and his team of agents are assigned to the mission of smuggling Antonov and his daughter out of the Soviet Union and to safety in the west. The perfect opportunity to do this appears to be during a chess tournament in Czechoslovakia, where the chess master Antonov is due to participate.
Jim Phelps and his team of agents are sent on a mission to locate and destroy a hidden chemical plant, where rumours report that a former spy and MI6 agent has illegally begun to manufacture his own chemical weapons.
In the Northern Irish town of BallyNaGragh, hotel owner Brian McCarron operates as a successful arms dealer. His success is mainly due to the fact that McCarron continually likes to provoke further violence in the ongoing Northern Irish conflict by secretly performing his own acts of atrocity, and then blaming them on both the respective sides, thus creating a better market for his weapon enterprise. Jim Phelps and his team of agents are assigned to the mission of putting Brian McCarron out of business, to bring him to justice, and to get the different fighting parties in BallyNaGragh to start friendly peace negotiations.
Each point is an episode, plotted in order. Colored bands mark season boundaries. Look for the rise, the plateau, or the decline.
High votes + high rating = beloved classic. High votes + low rating = notorious stinker. Low votes + high rating = hidden gem.
Did each season build or fizzle? Green means the finale outscored the premiere. Red means the opposite. Longer arrows, bigger swings.
How steady is each season? Tightly clustered dots mean reliable quality. Scattered dots mean a wild ride.
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