# Mission: Impossible season 7

The seventh and final season of the original Mission: Impossible originally aired Saturdays at 10:00–11:00 pm (EST) on CBS from September 16 to December 9, 1972 and Fridays at 8:00–9:00 pm (EST) from December 22, 1972 to March 30, 1973.

## Cast

| Character | Actor | Main |
| Jim Phelps | Peter Graves | Entire season |
| Barney Collier | Greg Morris | Entire season |
| Lisa Casey | Lynda Day George | Entire season |
| Willy Armitage | Peter Lupus | Entire season |
| Mimi Davis | Barbara Anderson | Seven episodes |

## Episodes

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code |
| 150 | 1 | "Break!" | Paul Krasny | Samuel Roeca & James L. Henderson | September 16, 1972 (1972-09-16) | 151 |
| In New Orleans, Jim Phelps poses as a pool shark in order to locate microfilm in a (murdered) undercover agent's wristwatch; Phelps tricks a Syndicate enforcer into becoming trapped between two crime bosses who each put a "hit contract" on him. Robert Conrad guest stars. This is the first of seven episodes in which Barbara Anderson starred as Mimi Davis, who replaced Lynda Day George while she was on maternity leave (George's character Lisa Casey is explained to be "on some special assignments in Europe"). |||||||
| 151 | 2 | "Two Thousand" | Leslie H. Martinson | Harold Livingston | September 23, 1972 (1972-09-23) | 148 |
| A nuclear physicist (Vic Morrow) who stole 50 kg of plutonium to sell to foreign interests is made to believe that the United States was leveled by a nuclear holocaust, that he has been catatonic for 28 years, and that the surviving remnants of the US government plan to execute him. In a comic relief twist ending. a banker acting for the Syndicate eavesdrops on the IMF radio transmissions in order to "hijack" the plutonium, only to be involved in a gunfight with the Foreign Buyer and his henchmen; in the nick of time the IMF team arrests the buyer and his henchmen. The physicist realizes that he has been tricked and has a emotional breakdown before being arrested. Guest stars include David White (actor) and Mort Mills. This episode is similar to the episodes "Operation Rogosh" and "Invasion". |||||||
| 152 | 3 | "The Deal" | Leslie H. Martinson | T : Stephen Kandel S/T : George F. Slavin | September 30, 1972 (1972-09-30) | 152 |
| The IMF must find the key to a safety deposit box containing $5 million, which is earmarked to buy the Syndicate's way into a country's takeover. |||||||
| 153 | 4 | "Leona" | Leslie H. Martinson | Howard Browne | October 7, 1972 (1972-10-07) | 150 |
| To rescue an undercover federal agent whose cover was blown, the IMF turns two mobsters (Dewey Martin, Robert Goulet) against one another by making one of them think he is seeing visions of his dead wife. |||||||
| 154 | 5 | "TOD-5" | Lewis Allen | James D. Buchanan & Ronald Austin | October 14, 1972 (1972-10-14) | 155 |
| In order to recover a stolen bioweapon canister and ferret out a diabolical scientist's (Ray Walston) terrorist organization, the IMF makes the organization's courier believe he has been infected himself. |||||||
| 155 | 6 | "Cocaine" | Reza S. Badiyi | S : Norman Katkov S/T : Harold Livingston | October 21, 1972 (1972-10-21) | 156 |
| In order to find out the drop location of the largest cocaine shipment ever to come to the United States, the IMF sets up an assistant (William Shatner) of a drug kingpin with what the assistant thinks is an opportunity to undercut him for a bigger payoff. |||||||
| 156 | 7 | "Underground" | David Lowell Rich | Leigh Vance | October 28, 1972 (1972-10-28) | 149 |
| In order to locate $27 million of Syndicate money, the IMF must take down a human smuggling ring which purports to smuggle criminals out of the country but, in reality, brainwashes them to give up the location of their stolen money and then disposes of them. This was the final episode of the original series to be scored by Lalo Schifrin. |||||||
| 157 | 8 | "Movie" | Terry Becker | T : Arthur Weiss and Stephen Kandel S/T : Anthony Bowers | November 4, 1972 (1972-11-04) | 159 |
| Barney poses as a director making a film about an unsolved murder committed by a Syndicate money man (John Vernon) in order to get hold of Syndicate financial records. |||||||
| 158 | 9 | "Hit" | Reza S. Badiyi | Douglas Weir | November 11, 1972 (1972-11-11) | 158 |
| The IMF plans to remove the remaining allies of an incarcerated Syndicate chief (Dane Clark) in order to obtain both the proof of his guilt in an unsolved murder and the identity of his secret partner known only as "The General." Robert Reed guest stars as a corrupt assistant DA. |||||||
| 159 | 10 | "Ultimatum" | Barry Crane | S : Shirl Hendryx S/T : Harold Livingston | November 18, 1972 (1972-11-18) | 160 |
| The IMF has less than one day to locate and disarm a hydrogen bomb planted somewhere in the western United States by a small group led by a brilliant nuclear physicist demanding the resignation of named Congressmen and cabinet officials and the reversal of certain foreign policies of US Government. This is the last of seven episodes in which Barbara Anderson starred as Mimi Davis. |||||||
| 160 | 11 | "Kidnap" | Peter Graves | Samuel Roeca & James L. Henderson | December 2, 1972 (1972-12-02) | 161 |
| In an off-book mission, a mob boss who lost money and records as a result of the IMF operation of the sixth season episode "Casino" (S06/E21) holds Jim Phelps hostage for the purpose of using the team to steal a letter from a safe deposit box that can be used to convict him of murder. |||||||
| 161 | 12 | "Crack-Up" | Sutton Roley | S : Robert & Phyllis White S/T : Arthur Weiss | December 9, 1972 (1972-12-09) | 154 |
| In order to bring down a brilliant hitman (Alex Cord), the team tricks him into believing he kills people during blackouts. |||||||
| 162 | 13 | "The Puppet" | Lewis Allen | Leigh Vance | December 22, 1972 (1972-12-22) | 162 |
| After the head of a criminal family is injured in a hunting accident and confined to bed, his younger brother (Roddy McDowall) wants to take control of the empire and change its policies. The IMF must determine the family's new criminal enterprise involving more than $100 million, discover the reason for the change of policy, and smash the new plan. |||||||
| 163 | 14 | "Incarnate" | Barry Crane | T : Stephen Kandel S/T : Buck Houghton | January 5, 1973 (1973-01-05) | 165 |
| When the ruthless leader of a criminal gang (Kim Hunter) flees to a Caribbean island that has no extradition treaty with the U.S., the IMF uses her belief in the occult to induce her to return to the US of her own free will so she can be captured and the gold she stole can be recovered. |||||||
| 164 | 15 | "Boomerang" | Leslie H. Martinson | Howard Browne | January 12, 1973 (1973-01-12) | 164 |
| After a mobster's wife kills him and takes his vital criminal records into her possession, the IMF induces a false belief in her that he survived and is trying to kill her so that the records can be located and turned over to the authorities. |||||||
| 165 | 16 | "The Question" | Leslie H. Martinson | Stephen Kandel | January 19, 1973 (1973-01-19) | 157 |
| A top KGN assassin (Gary Lockwood) claims to be defecting, and the IMF team (which includes Elizabeth Ashley guest-starring in place of Lynda Day George) must kidnap him from the headquarters of the untrustworthy Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) in order to determine whether he's a genuine defector (or "defecting" for the purpose of feeding false intelligence). |||||||
| 166 | 17 | "The Fountain" | Barry Crane | Stephen Kandel | January 26, 1973 (1973-01-26) | 163 |
| After a Syndicate executive (George Maharis) steals incriminating computerized records, the IMF makes him believe he has stumbled onto a mystical society with the secret of eternal youth to gain possession of the records before his crippled arch-rival (Cameron Mitchell) does. To be convincing Casey ( using elaborate makeup techniques) "ages" without the water and "dies" at age 143 years before both Syndicate bosses! Similar to episode 6.12 "The Visitors" |||||||
| 167 | 18 | "The Fighter" | Paul Krasny | S : Orville H. Hampton T : Stephen Kandel and Nicholas E. Baehr | February 9, 1973 (1973-02-09) | 167 |
| The IMF returns to boxing to expose and destroy the criminal boxing operations of the Syndicate handled by a top operative (Joe Maross) and the crooked promoter working with him (William Windom) by tricking the latter in believing that his daughter, the lover of a top prospect, is set to be murdered by the Syndicate. The IMF was previously involved in the boxing ring in the third season, two-part episode "The Contender" (S03/E02 & S03/E03). |||||||
| 168 | 19 | "Speed" | Virgil W. Vogel | Lou Shaw | February 16, 1973 (1973-02-16) | 147 |
| The team is sent after a powerful drug-dealer (Claude Akins), whose motorcyclist daughter (Jenny Sullivan) is addicted to amphetamines. Partly filmed on location in San Francisco. This was the first episode produced for the seventh and final season of the original series. |||||||
| 169 | 20 | "The Pendulum" | Lewis Allen | Calvin Clements Jr. | February 23, 1973 (1973-02-23) | 168 |
| Within 24 hours in order to prevent a secret terrorist organization known as "The Pendulum" from disrupting the power centers of the United States and executing a major attack on the country in a plan called "Project Nightfall," the IMF must convince a brilliant planner but ruthless member of the organization (Dean Stockwell) he's being recruited by a more powerful terrorist organization "World Resources Limited," to become the new leader of "The Pendulum". This was the last episode produced for the original series. Frank Maxwell guest stars as an Army General and his imposter. |||||||
| 170 | 21 | "The Western" | Leslie H. Martinson | Arnold & Lois Peyser | March 2, 1973 (1973-03-02) | 166 |
| After a brilliant thief Ed Nelson and his accomplice looted a country's national treasure of pre-Columbian art worth $5 million, the IMF makes the thief believe that he has precognitive visions in order to locate the art and prove his guilt. At the end is a surprising twist ending. |||||||
| 171 | 22 | "Imitation" | Paul Krasny | Edward J. Lakso | March 30, 1973 (1973-03-30) | 153 |
| A jewel thief (Barbara McNair) and her crew (which includes Pernell Roberts) steal the crown jewels of Marnsburg, a country hostile to the US. To prevent the sale of the jewels to the Syndicate, the IMF must recover the jewels and place them in a vault of Marnsburg's consulate without any help from the unfriendly country. |||||||