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James "Jim" Phelps (portrayed by Peter Graves, in his Golden Globe-winning role in the first two series, and later by Jon Voight in the 1996 movie) was the director of the Impossible Missions Force, or IMF, in seasons two through seven of the initial television series (1967-1973), and all of the second series, taking over the position from ...
Mission: Impossible is an American espionage television series, financed and filmed by Desilu Productions, [1] that aired on CBS from September 1966 to March 1973. It was revived in 1988 for two seasons on ABC , and later inspired the series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise beginning in 1996.
Mission: Impossible is an American multimedia franchise based on a fictional secret espionage agency known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). The 1966 TV series ran for seven seasons and was revived in 1988 for two seasons.
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he made four appearances over five years on the TV series Mission: Impossible as four different lead villains. In 1974, Vernon turned in a supporting performance in Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night.
Lupus with Mission: Impossible cast in 1970. Lupus played Willy Armitage in the original Mission: Impossible television series in the 1960s. [3] Armitage was the Impossible Missions Force's muscle man, and featured in nearly all episodes of the series. The character of Willy Armitage was the strong, silent type, usually with very little dialogue.
The events of the series take place 15 years after the last season of the original Mission: Impossible TV series. After his protégé and successor as leader of the top-secret Impossible Missions Force is killed, Jim Phelps is called out of retirement and asked to form a new IMF team and track down the assassin. His team consists of:
A Latin American dictator with the help of a European military "advisor" (Michael Constantine) conspire to invade a neighboring country to "unite" both countries under the dictators rule; in order to stop the invasion and shatter an alliance between two countries, the IMF team must photograph and break a code in a matter of minutes, by mounting a chosen-plaintext attack.