Season 1

Overview

The first season lasted from September 17, 1966 to April 22, 1967, and consisted of 28 episodes, two of which were part of a 2-part episode ("Old Man Out"). Joseph Gantman served as producer.

The first season was the only season in which Steven Hill (Dan Briggs) was part of the main cast. And even though Martin Landau (Rollin Hand) was in almost every episode (he does not appear in the episodes "Fakeout" and "The Short Tail Spy"), he was only billed as a guest star.

Episode List: 1966-1967

Image	Title	Writer(s)	Director(s)	Airdate	#
File:101.jpg	Pilot	Writer: Bruce Geller	Director: Bernard L. Kowalski	9/17/66	#1 101
	Dan Briggs, the head of the Impossible Missions Force, puts together an elite team of agents in order to remove two nuclear warheads from an impenetrable vault, under the nose of a military dictator.
File:102.jpg	Memory	Writer: Robert Lewin	Director: Charles R. Rondeau	9/24/66	#2 102
	In order to remove a militarist from power and make him look like a traitor, Dan Briggs enlists the help of a memory expert, who poses as an enemy agent with the code name "Sparrow".
File:103.jpg	Operation Rogosh	Writer: Jerome Ross	Director: Leonard J. Horn	10/01/66	#3 103
	The IMF agents have only 36 hours to trick a cunning mass murderer into telling them how he intends to kill thousands of people in the Los Angeles area.
File:104.jpg	Old Man Out - PART 1	Writer: Ellis Marcus	Director: Charles R. Rondeau	10/08/66	#4 104
	The IMF team poses as circus performers in order to divert attention from their planned rescue of a freedom-fighting cardinal being held in an Eastern European prison.
File:105.jpg	Old Man Out - PART 2	Writer: Ellis Marcus	Director: Charles R. Rondeau	10/15/66	#5 105
	Agent Rollin Hand's plan to escape with the cardinal is right on schedule ... until orders come down for the old man to be executed!
File:106.jpg	Odds on Evil	Writer: William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter	Director: Charles R. Rondeau	10/22/66	#6 106
	The team's mission is to ensure that the ruler of a small country gambles away the 1.5 million dollars he plans to use to buy arms.
File:107.jpg	Wheels	Writer: Laurence Heath	Director: Tom Gries	10/29/66	#7 107
	Dan Briggs and his team of agents travel to the country of Valeria, where they must "unfix" a rigged election about to take place.
File:108.jpg	The Ransom	Writer: William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter	Director: Harry Harris	11/05/66	#8 108
	A teenage girl is being held hostage in order to blackmail Dan Briggs into kidnapping a key witness in the trial of a mobster.
File:109.jpg	A Spool There Was	Writer: Ellis Marcus	Director: Bernard L. Kowalski	11/12/66	#9 109
	Beautiful agent Cinnamon Carter goes undercover as a photographer and joins Rollin Hand at a lake resort in order to search for a spool of recording wire planted by an agent who was killed.
File:110.jpg	The Carriers	Writer: William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter	Director: Sherman Marks	11/19/66	#10 110
	Barney Collier, Rollin Hand, and Cinnamon Carter infiltrate a town where foreign agents are being trained to act like U.S. citizens ... and who will carry a deadly plague to America.
File:111.jpg	Zubrovnik's Ghost	Writer: Robert Lewin	Director: Leonard J. Horn	11/26/66	#11 111
	Electronics whiz Barney Collier and a psychic help Rollin Hand try to prevent a female scientist from going to work behind the Iron Curtain. They do it by conjuring up the ghost of her dead husband.
File:112.jpg	Fakeout	Writer: Leigh Chapman	Director: Bernard L. Kowalski	12/03/66	#12 112
	In order to lure him across the border where he can be extradited to the U.S. for trial, Cinnamon Carter romances a drug lord and Dan Briggs plays the part of her jealous husband.
File:113.jpg	Elena	Writer: Ellis Marcus	Director: Marc Daniels	12/10/66	#13 113
	A beautiful agent's behavior has become unpredictable. And if Rollin Hand can't discover the reason why, she'll be labeled untrustworthy and killed.
File:114.jpg	The Short Tail Spy	Writer: Julian Barry	Director: Leonard J. Horn	12/17/66	#14 114
	Cinnamon Carter needs to discredit an enemy's chief hitman. But could she be falling for the attractive assassin she's been assigned to bring down?
File:115.jpg	The Legacy	Writer: William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter	Director: Michael O'Herlihy	01/07/67	#15 115
	Four men gather in Zurich, each with a piece of a puzzle that will lead them to Hitler's fortune. Once they find it, they plan to use it to launch the Fourth Reich.
File:116.jpg	The Reluctant Dragon	Writer: Chester Krumholz	Director: Leonard J. Horn	01/14/67	#16 116
	The mission is to get a rocket expert to follow his wife and defect before his government discovers his recent findings. Unfortunately, he refuses to leave!
File:117.jpg	The Frame	Writer: William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter	Director: Allen Miner	01/21/67	#17 117
	The IMF team poses as caterers, preparing a dinner party for a crime lord. They hope to frame him by making it look like he's stealing from his fellow syndicate chiefs.
File:118.jpg	The Trial	Writer: Laurence Heath	Director: Lewis Allen	01/28/67	#18 118
	The most dangerous man in Eastern Europe plans to solidify his power by bringing to trial an innocent American - the IMF's Dan Briggs.
File:119.jpg	The Diamond	Writer: William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter	Director: Robert Douglas	02/04/67	#19 119
	Dan Briggs and his team need to stop a man who has seized power in a small country, and who has confiscated the largest diamond ever found - 27,000 carats.
File:120.jpg	The Legend	Writer: Mann Rubin	Director: Richard Benedict	02/11/67	#20 120
	The IMF team infiltrates a top-secret meeting of Nazis in South America and is shocked to learn that their leader is the legendary war criminal Martin Bormann.
File:121.jpg	Snowball in Hell	Writer: Judith Barrows & Robert Guy Barrows	Director: Lee H. Katzin	02/18/67	#21 121
	The sadistic head of a penal colony has hidden a sample of cesium within the prison. It's of the utmost importance that it be found, as it's the key to a low-cost nuclear arsenal.
File:122.jpg	The Confession	Writer: William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter	Director: Herschel Daugherty	02/25/67	#22 122
	A Communist has been arrested and charged with assassinating a U.S. senator. The mission is to get him to admit he was not acting on orders of his government ... and do it on network television!
File:123.jpg	Action!	Writer: Robert Lewin	Director: Leonard J. Horn	03/04/67	#23 123
	When the head of a movie studio behind the Iron Curtain alters newsreel footage to make it look like American soldiers are murderers, the plot must be exposed.
File:124.jpg	The Train	Writer: William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter	Director: Ralph Senensky	03/18/67	#24 124
	A staged train ride is expertly simulated by Dan Briggs and his agents. They need to prove to a dying prime minister that his successor is not to be trusted.
File:125.jpg	Shock	Writer: Laurence Heath	Director: Lee H. Katzin	03/25/67	#25 125
	When an enemy agent kidnaps a U.S. envoy and replaces him with an imposter, the IMF replaces him with their own imposter ... Dan Briggs.
File:126.jpg	A Cube of Sugar	Writer: William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter	Director: Joseph Pevney	04/01/67	#26 126
	An American agent posing as a jazz musician needs to be rescued, as he's holding a vital microcircuit hidden in a cube of sugar laced with LSD.
File:127.jpg	The Traitor	Writer: Edward J. Lakso	Director: Lee H. Katzin	04/15/67	#27 127
	In order to get an American agent who has defected, Dan Briggs hires a diminutive female agent, who crawls through a foreign embassy's air-conditioning system.
File:128.jpg	The Psychic	Writer: William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter	Director: Charles R. Rondeau	04/22/67	#28 128
	The team is counting on Cinnamon Carter's ability as a "psychic". She'll need to gain the confidence of an industrialist and have him lose stolen patents to Rollin Hand in a poker game.