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The System

October 30, 1988

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The team must force a mobster to turn evidence against his partner and mentor.

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Mission: Impossible: Season 1 - 19 Episode s

1x1 - The Killer
October 23, 1988
When an IMF team leader is assassinated, Jim Phelps comes out of retirement and assembles a new team to bring the killer to justice.
1x2 - The System
October 30, 1988
The team must force a mobster to turn evidence against his partner and mentor.
1x3 - Holograms
November 6, 1988
The IMF must lure a canny drug lord on to U.S. territory so he can be arrested for his crimes.
1x4 - The Condemned
November 20, 1988
The team must free a falsely-condemned prisoner - former IMF techno-genius Barney Collier.
1x5 - The Legacy
November 26, 1988
When the sons of four Nazis come together to recover a fortune in gold and create the Fourth Reich, the team must infiltrate the group and locate the gold.
1x6 - The Wall
December 11, 1988
A East German doctor makes money by tricking political refugees into paying to use his escape route, and kidnaps a diplomat's daughter to prevent the reunification which would make his services obsolete. The IMF must rescue the girl, who is trapped on a life support machine with time running out.
1x7 - The Cattle King
December 18, 1988
The IMF teams up with Australian aborigines to bring down a superstitious cattle king and arms dealer.
1x8 - The Pawn
January 15, 1989
When a Russian scientist and chess player decides to defect, Nicholas must take his place under the watchful eyes of the KGB while the rest of the team gets the scientist and his daughter out of the country.
1x9 - The Haunting
January 28, 1989
When a rich young sociopath kills a Middle Eastern princess and her father threatens war, the IMF must bring him to justice.
1x10 - The Lions
February 4, 1989
A king's son returns to his Asian country to take the test that will confirm him as the king, but his uncle, a rabid anti-American, has rigged it so that he can fail, so the IMF must rig it back.
1x11 - The Greek
February 11, 1989
Jim and Grant must get close to a Greek billionnaire who runs a black market drug ring, and turn his partners against him.
1x12 - The Fortune
February 18, 1989
A team member is killed on solo assignment against the wife of a mentally-weak exiled dictator, and the others resolve to bring them both to justice.
1x13 - The Fixer
February 25, 1989
A Washington journalist uses his connections to gain information to blackmail politicians, posing a threat to the U.S.
1x14 - Spy
March 18, 1989
An ex-MI6 agent sells lethal chemical weapons and the IMF must team up with a Russian spy whose people also want to eliminate the threat.
1x15 - The Devils
March 25, 1989
A rash of insanity among diplomats requires Jim to go undercover as...the Devil, to get the goods on a British lord in charge of a Satanic cult.
1x16 - The Plague
April 8, 1989
An industrial spy prepares to sell a vial of bacteria, unaware of how virulent it is if accidentally released.
1x17 - Reprisal
April 15, 1989
A deranged ex-IMFer targets retired IMF agents, killing them and framing Jim Phelps for the crimes. The IMF gives Jim only a little time to prove his innocence before they must turn him over to the authorities.
1x18 - Submarine
April 29, 1989
A retired admiral prepares to sell a computer virus that can sink any naval vessel, but the plan goes awry when he destroys the computer ""cure"" before the IMF can get it. Now they must force the admiral to reveal the ""cure.""
1x19 - Bayou
May 6, 1989
The IMF must use voodoo rituals to break up a white slavery ring run by a sadistic Louisiana bar owner and millionnaire.

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