The BEST episodes of Mission: Impossible season 4
Every episode of Mission: Impossible season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Mission: Impossible season 4!
Elite special agents undertook top-secret assignments in crackerjack episodes, which kicked off with the team leader receiving instructions via a tape-recorded message that self-destructed in five seconds. What followed were usually breakneck spyjinks set to a pulsating Lalo Schifrin score. Martin Landau turned down the Spock role in 'Star Trek' to play IMFer Rollin Hand. When Landau left the series in 1969, his replacement was the man who built a career on Spock, Leonard Nimoy.
#1 - Death Squad
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/1970
Barney 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.
#2 - The Controller (1)
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1969
Jim 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.
#3 - The Falcon (3)
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1970
Just as Jim and the others unwittingly become caught up in a royal power struggle, a bomb goes off, seriously injuring Paris and revealing his disquise.
#4 - The Brothers
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1969
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.
#5 - The Falcon (2)
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1970
With the king's sister rescued during the wedding, the team must now turn its attention to the true heir, who's locked up in prison.
#6 - Double Circle
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1969
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.
#7 - The Submarine
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1969
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.
#8 - The Controller (2)
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1969
As Barney taints the water system with a mind-numbing drug, Jim is captured and put on trial, where he must discredit an enemy scientist.
#9 - Phantoms
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1970
A murderous dictator's belief in ghosts is used against him when Barney fashions a clever system that projects spirits of his dead victims before his eyes.
#10 - Time Bomb
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1969
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.
#11 - The Martyr
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1970
As a duplicitous dictator courts the young people of his country, Paris poses as the son of his predecessor, a martyred youth leader.
#12 - The Crane
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1970
Jim 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.
#13 - The Falcon (1)
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1970
Paris masquerades as Zastro, a magician who has come to entertain during an arranged wedding between the king's sister and a ruthless usurper.
#14 - Orpheus
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1970
An unknown assassin must be stopped, so Barney infiltrates the foreign agency that employs him while Jim poses as a drug addict with information to sell.
#15 - Robot
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1969
A country is unaware that its premier is dead and that his double is about to appoint a successor. So Barney concocts a mechanical man to take his place.
#16 - Mastermind
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1969
As Barney 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.
#17 - The Choice
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1970
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.
#18 - Commandante
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1969
An imprisoned priest is about to be executed, so Jim and Willie pose as U.S. religious workers who are willing to trade guns in exchange for his safety.
#19 - Numbers Game (aka The Key)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1969
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.
#20 - Fool's Gold
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1969
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.
#21 - The Amnesiac
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/1969
Jim poses as an amnesia victim in order to retrieve a stolen isotope, one that could make nuclear weapons affordable to any country.
#22 - Terror
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1970
Jim and his team must infiltrate a prison in order to block the release of a ruthless Middle Eastern terrorist about to be pardoned.
#23 - Chico
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1970
Two halves of a microfilm add up to one dangerous list for the agents it will incriminate. But Barney plans to use a trained dog to retrieve it.
#24 - Lover's Knot
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1970
While in London to break a spy ring, Paris develops feelings for the beautiful Lady Weston after he is cast as a jealous lover in a romantic triangle.
#25 - The Code
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1969
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.