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Mission: Impossible: The Contenders (1)
The IMF go after mobster Buckman, who plans to take control of all sporting events and rig them for big money with the help of Syndicate man Whalen. Barney goes undercover as a boxer making a comeback to get a fight with Buckman's top boxer, while Jim infiltrates Whalen's organization.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 3x2 Production Number: 304 Airdate: Sunday October 06th, 1968 |
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Recap
Jim goes to a boat rental stand to pick up his briefing. After exchanging passwords with the owner, Jim takes a boat out to the middle of a lake and starts the tape. Mobster Charles Buckman is attempting to gain a stranglehold on professional and amateur sports. If he’s successful, the U.S. will be ostracized by the world sporting community, giving their enemies a propaganda victory. Buckman works with Dan Whalen, who controls the Syndicate bookies, and makes most of his money from rigged boxing. The IMF must eliminate Buckman and his plan once and for all...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
This episode features Robert Conrad in a minor role as a boxing trainer. Conrad was a trained boxer and stuntman in real life, and would go on to play a bad guy in two M:I episodes in 1970 and 1972.
Barney's training is shown through a montage, the first of only a few times this directorial device was used in the show.
Guest agent: Boxing trainer Bobby and ex-boxer Richy Lemoine. Richy appears to be a civilian since Jim recruits him after selecting him in the dossier scene, and there's no reason to believe Richy is a full-fledged IMF agent or consultant prior to this episode.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Bruce Geller |
| • Executive Producer | Bruce Geller |
| • Producer | Allan Balter | William Read Woodfield |
| • Associate Producer | Barry Crane |
| • Casting | Joseph D'Agosta |
| • Music | Lalo Schifrin |
| • Music Editor | Dan Carlin Sr. |
| • Hairstylist | Adele Taylor (1) |
| • Make-up | Robert Dawn |
| • Set Decorator | Lucien Hafley |
| • Production Sound Mixer | Dominick Gaffey |
| • Script Supervisor | Alan Greedy |
| • Post Production Supervisor | Paul Krasny |
| • Supervising Sound Editor | Joseph G. Sorokin |
| • Re-Recording Mixer | Gordon L. Day |
| • Director of Photography | Keith C. Smith |
| • Art Director | Bill Ross (1) |
| • Production Manager | Edward Haldeman |
| • Special Effects | John Burke (3) |
| • Costume Supervisor | Sabine Manela | Forrest T. Butler |
| • Main Title Theme | Lalo Schifrin |
| • Film Editor | Robert L. Swanson |
| • Assistant Director | Ted Butcher |
| • Assistant To The Executive Producer | Philip D. Fehrle |
| • Executive Vice President In Charge Of Production | Douglas S. Cramer |
| • Script Consultant | Robert E. Thompson (3) |
| • Supervising Property Master | Arthur Wasson |
| • Vehicles | Ed Chamey |
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