Overview[]
The fourth season lasted from September 28, 1969 to March 29, 1970, and consisted of 26 episodes, two of which were part of a 2-part episode ("The Controller") and three of which were part of a 3-part episode ("The Falcon").
Jim Phelps continued as head of the IMF team, for his third year.
This was The Great Paris' first season on the series, played by Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame.
Episode List: 1969-1970[]
| Image | Title | Writer(s) | Director(s) | Airdate | # |
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| File:401.jpg | The Code | Writer: | Director: | 9/28/69 | #79 401 |
| In order to stop an invasion and shatter an alliance between two countries, the IMF team must photograph and break a code in a matter of minutes.
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| File:402.jpg | Numbers Game | Writer: | Director: | 10/05/69 | #80 402 |
| The team tries to get a deposed dictator to divulge his Swiss bank account number by tricking him into believing World War III is about to begin.
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| File:403.jpg | The Controller - PART 1 | Writer: | Director: | 10/12/69 | #81 403 |
| Jim Phelps and a female agent pose as scientists who have invented a new drug in order to replace a real drug that turns people into willing slaves.
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| File:404.jpg | The Controller - PART 2 | Writer: | Director: | 10/19/69 | #82 404 |
| As Barney Collier taints the water system with a mind-numbing drug, Jim Phelps is captured and put on trial, where he must discredit an enemy scientist.
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| File:405.jpg | Fool's Gold | Writer: | Director: | 10/26/69 | #83 405 |
| Paris poses as a counterfeiter in order to gain access to a safe and destroy millions in phony money, as well as the plates used to make it.
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| File:406.jpg | Commandante | Writer: | Director: | 11/02/69 | #84 406 |
| An imprisoned priest is about to be executed, so Jim Phelps and Willy Armitage pose as U.S. religious workers who are willing to trade guns in exchange for his safety.
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| File:407.jpg | The Submarine | Writer: | Director: | 11/16/69 | #85 407 |
| Upon his release, a prisoner plans to fund neo-Nazis with stolen money. So a submarine voyage is simulated in order to transport him to his contact.
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| File:408.jpg | Mastermind | Writer: | Director: | 11/23/69 | #86 408 |
| As Barney Collier attempts to break into a safe that contains an incriminating file, Paris convinces a mob figure that he can read the mind of his double-crossing boss.
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| File:409.jpg | Robot | Writer: | Director: | 11/30/69 | #87 409 |
| A country is unaware that its premier is dead and that a double is about to appoint a successor. So Barney Collier concocts a mechanical man to take his place.
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| File:410.jpg | Double Circle | Writer: | Director: | 12/07/69 | #88 410 |
| An art lover is made to believe he can own a priceless work of art, but it is really a plot to retrieve a valuable formula from his impenetrable safe.
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| File:411.jpg | The Brothers | Writer: | Director: | 12/14/69 | #89 411 |
| A Middle Eastern king needs to be restored to the throne. So a medical operation is replicated where he will seemingly donate his kidney to his murderous brother.
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| File:412.jpg | Time Bomb | Writer: | Director: | 12/21/69 | #90 412 |
| The IMF team has to try and gain access to a nuclear reactor complex, where a terminally ill officer plans to detonate an atomic bomb.
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| File:413.jpg | The Amnesiac | Writer: | Director: | 12/28/69 | #91 413 |
| Jim Phelps poses as an amnesia victim in order to retrieve a stolen isotope, one that could make nuclear weapons affordable to any country.
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| File:414.jpg | The Falcon - PART 1 | Writer: | Director: | 1/04/70 | #92 414 |
| Paris masquerades as Zastro, a magician who has come to entertain during an arranged wedding between the king's sister and a ruthless usurper.
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| File:415.jpg | The Falcon - PART 2 | Writer: | Director: | 1/11/70 | #93 415 |
| With the king's sister rescued during the wedding, the team now turns its attention to the true heir, who's locked up in prison.
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| File:416.jpg | The Falcon - PART 3 | Writer: | Director: | 1/18/70 | #94 416 |
| Just as Jim Phelps and the others unwittingly become caught up in a royal power struggle, a bomb goes off, seriously injuring Paris and revealing his disguise.
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| File:417.jpg | Chico | Writer: | Director: | 1/25/70 | #95 417 |
| Two halves of a microfilm add up to one dangerous list for the agents it will incriminate. But Barney Collier plans to use a trained dog to retrieve it.
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| File:418.jpg | Gitano | Writer: | Director: | 2/01/70 | #96 418 |
| A 12-year-old king whose life is in danger is rescued by gypsies (Paris and Willy Armitage in disguise) and forced to dress up like a girl to fool his assassins.
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| File:419.jpg | Phantoms | Writer: | Director: | 2/08/70 | #97 419 |
| A murderous dictator's belief in ghosts is used against him when Barney Collier fashions a clever system that projects spirits of his dead victims before his eyes.
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| File:420.jpg | Terror | Writer: | Director: | 2/15/70 | #98 420 |
| Jim Phelps and his team must infiltrate a prison in order to block the release of a ruthless Middle Eastern terrorist about to be pardoned.
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| File:421.jpg | Lover's Knot | Writer: | Director: | 2/22/70 | #99 421 |
| While in London to break up a spy ring, Paris develops feelings for the beautiful Lady Weston after he is cast as a jealous lover in a romantic triangle.
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| File:422.jpg | Orpheus | Writer: | Director: | 3/01/70 | #100 422 |
| An unknown assassin must be stopped, so Barney Collier infiltrates the foreign agency that employs him while Jim Phelps poses as a drug addict with information to sell.
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| File:423.jpg | The Crane | Writer: | Director: | 3/08/70 | #101 423 |
| Jim Phelps and his team rescue a prisoner and place him in a spot his captors will never think to look ... a conspicuous location right under their noses.
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| File:424.jpg | Death Squad | Writer: | Director: | 3/15/70 | #102 424 |
| Barney Collier kills a man in self-defense and is marked for execution by the victim's brother, a chief of police who heads a death squad.
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| File:425.jpg | The Choice | Writer: | Director: | 3/22/70 | #103 425 |
| A duchess is under the powerful spell of a mystic, who notices his uncanny resemblance to Paris and plans to use him in a plot to ascend to the throne.
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| File:426.jpg | The Martyr | Writer: | Director: | 3/29/70 | #104 426 |
| As a duplicitous dictator courts the young people of his country, Paris poses as the son of his predecessor, a martyred youth leader.
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