{"title":"Mission: Impossible","dateDebut":"1966","dateEnd":"1973","description":"The cases of the I.M.F. (Impossible Missions Force),\r\na top secret U.S. government organization that handles\r\ndangerous and highly sensitive international assignments.\r\nStories depict the step-by-step planning and final\r\nexecution of highly tense and complicated missions.\r\n\r\nAt the opening of each episode (in the early seasons), the leader of the I.M.F.\r\nwould receive a tape-recorded message outlining\r\ninstructions for an assignment he was to consider taking.\r\nThe voice on the tape would give him some background\r\ninformation, usually tied to the pictures of adversaries\r\nthat were included with the tape, and would conclude with\r\n\"Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it,\r\nis . . . As always, should you or any member of your I.M.\r\nForce be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow\r\nany knowledge of your actions. This tape will\r\nself-destruct in five seconds.\"\r\n\r\nThe top-secret assignments taken on by this elite group\r\nof agents usually involved disrupting the activities of\r\nvarious small foreign powers seeking to create problems\r\nfor America or the Free World. By the last season the\r\nagents began to run out of little Communist countries\r\nand obscure principalities, so they concentrated their\r\nefforts more on dealing with organized crime within the\r\nU.S. All the plans executed by the I.M.F. were incredibly\r\ncomplex and depended on split-second timing and an\r\nastounding array of sophisticated electronic gadgetry.\r\nThe leader of the group, Daniel Briggs during the first\r\nseason and Jim Phelps is subsequent seasons, devised\r\nthe complex plans used to accomplish the teams missions.\r\nBarney Collier was the electronics expert and Willie\r\nArmitage provided the muscle. Rollin Hand was an expert\r\nat disguise and Cinnamon Carter was the versatile,\r\nbeautiful female member of the team.","leadImageMedUrl":"http:\/\/distro-1.retrojunk.com\/secure\/bda837de37c4029851d3177aab76990ddee1d1aef7f3de97df412a7a0ae48798b38c42\/image\/199_4bedead631.jpg"}