Dr. Douglas "Doug" Robert, also believed to have been named Dr. Douglas Robert Lang, was a doctor and an Impossible Missions Force agent.
Personality[]
Doug had great confidence in his own skills and his professional ethics.
He became the only field agent ever to win an argument with James Phelps (Peter Graves). In the "declassified mission" "The Rebel," Phelps had sustained a severe bullet wound in one arm. Doug refused to let it go untreated, despite Phelps's insistence that other things took precedence. In the end, Phelps sat down and allowed Doug to work, receiving only a glare in return when he urged the physician to hurry it up.
Even in his short on-screen time with the IMF, for unknown reasons, Doug repeatedly used aliases with the surname "Lang."
Abilities[]
Jim would call upon Doug for missions that required administering medical treatment to field agents or safely incapacitating targets. In Doug's final appearance, "Encore," Doug anesthetized elderly mobster Thomas Kroll (William Shatner) and administered hormones and a mask (applied with paraffin wax) to trick Kroll into believing he was more than 30 years younger than he actually was.
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Actor Sam Elliott was disinclined, subsequently, to list his involvement in the series as a cast member among his credits, considering himself primarily a Westerns actor. The husband of actress Katharine Ross, he later insisted that she be his castmate in all his future work.