![]() ![]() Randall was killed partway through the series and replaced by Shannon Reed ( Jane Badler). Other members were Nicholas Black ( Thaao Penghlis), a university drama professor Max Harte ( Tony Hamilton), an Australian mercenary and Casey Randall ( Terry Markwell), a fashion designer. Grant Collier, a prodigy and son of the original series' Barney Collier, is also a member (played by Phil Morris, son of Greg Morris). Jim Phelps is still leader of an IMF team. In the 1980s revival series, the IMF is implied to be an independent agency, with multiple IMF teams as well as specialized divisions for research and development. Other "missions" are undertaken by the team as personal favors to the team leader. This has not yet been shown to happen in either television series or any of the movies. The IMF team leader is also given the option to reject a mission with which he does not feel comfortable or if he believes it truly is impossible to accomplish. In the secret tape messages issued to the team leaders, reference is made to "the Secretary", but exactly which secretary is never specified. They operate under non-official cover status, and if they are captured or killed, their employers will disavow any knowledge of their actions. The television series never directly specifies who oversees the IMF, though it is assumed to be the United States government or the United Nations all team members are American. ![]() Their international actions tend to counter Communists, dictatorships, and other opponents of democracy. IMF agents are anonymously sent on covert missions to tackle the dangerous worlds of counterterrorism, espionage, political subversion, international crime and domestic organized crime. In the first season of the original series, this is, played by Steven Hill starting in the second season and continuing into the revival series, the team leader is James Phelps.Īll team members displayed skill in social engineering and misdirection, improvisational acting, hand-to-hand combat, sleight of hand, and fluency in multiple languages. The only "full-time" member identified was the team leader. Other occasional members included specialized experts such as doctors, lawyers, circus acrobats, and even entire repertory companies. Later regulars included Leonard Nimoy as stage magician The Great Paris and Lynda Day George as Lisa Casey. Regulars included Rollin Hand ( Martin Landau), a performer billed as "The Man Of A Million Faces" Cinnamon Carter ( Barbara Bain), a fashion model and cover girl Barney Collier ( Greg Morris), a technological genius who had founded an electronics company and William "Willy" Armitage ( Peter Lupus), a bodybuilder known as "The World's Strongest Man". The agents are able to deceive their targets into cooperating with them without detecting a set-up until the mission is accomplished by that time, the IMF personnel have already vanished from the scene.Īs depicted in the original series, IMF agents were mostly part-time operatives who kept regular day jobs. In the television series, thanks largely to the involvements of William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter as writers, story editors and producers, the IMF operates primarily by executing confidence tricks on its mission targets, sometimes with the aid of high-tech gadgetry. ![]() Beginning in 1996, the IMF has been featured in three theatrical films starring Tom Cruise, ', ', and '. It was introduced in the 1966-73 television series ', and later in the that ran from 1988 to 1990. The "Impossible Missions Force (IMF)" is a fictional independent espionage agency commonly employed by the United States government. ![]()
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