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Jim Phelps is the head of a super-secret government agency ("Impossible Missions"), and is often given secret anonymous covert missions to attempt; quite often they are unmasking of criminals or rescuing of hostages. He picks his team depending on which tasks need to be done.

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02x16 The Sands of Seth Aired: Feb. 24, 1990

When several progressive Egyptian leaders are killed, the IMF team is sent to stop the head of the department for ancient studies at the Cairo … [continue reading]

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The show had 2 seasons and 35 episodes air between 1988 and 1990.

Series Info

Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Oct. 23, 1988
Status:
Canceled/Ended
Runtime:
60 min.
Aired:
1988 - 1990
To-Date:
2 Seasons
35 Episodes
Network
ABC TV Network

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  • SPOILER: The death of Casey Randall during the first season was the first (and, on TV at least, only) time an IMF agent was actually caught, killed and disavowed.
  • The series was originally planned to be a limited series. A new cast was hired to play the characters from the original Mission: Impossible (1966), and the episodes were all going to remake…
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    The series was originally planned to be a limited series. A new cast was hired to play the characters from the original Mission: Impossible (1966), and the episodes were all going to remake original series scripts. This changed when Peter Graves returned to the role of Jim Phelps; the other characters were then renamed, and the show became a continuation of the original.
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  • Each time Phelps gets his recorded instructions in the first season, he types in a security code to get access to a compartment containing a data disc. Although the code changes between…
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    Each time Phelps gets his recorded instructions in the first season, he types in a security code to get access to a compartment containing a data disc. Although the code changes between episodes, it always contains at least one 5.
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