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** Although the latter averted it in three episodes ("The Cattle King" and the two-parter "The Golden Serpent"), which were set wholly or partly in Australia.
** Although the latter averted it in three episodes ("The Cattle King" and the two-parter "The Golden Serpent"), which were set wholly or partly in Australia.
* [[Camera Spoofing]]
* [[Camera Spoofing]]
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* [[Casting Gag]]: The 80's sequel series starred Greg Morris's son (Phil Morris, perhaps best known as [[Seinfeld|Jackie Chiles]]) as Barney Collier's son.
* [[The Caper]]
* [[The Caper]]
* [[Caper Crew]]: one in every installment.
* [[Caper Crew]]: one in every installment.
* [[The Captain]]: Dan Briggs, initially, and Jim Phelps thereafter.
* [[The Captain]]: Dan Briggs, initially, and Jim Phelps thereafter.
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* [[Casting Gag]]: The 80's sequel series starred Greg Morris's son (Phil Morris, perhaps best known as [[Seinfeld|Jackie Chiles]]) as Barney Collier's son.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Pretty much all the "boilerplate" language in the tape scenes.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Pretty much all the "boilerplate" language in the tape scenes.
* [[Cat Fight]]: Cinnamon and Crystal stage a prolonged cat fight as a distraction in "Old Man Out".
* [[Cat Fight]]: Cinnamon and Crystal stage a prolonged cat fight as a distraction in "Old Man Out".
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** Arguably What It Doesn't Say On The Tin, since episode titles weren't shown on screen. While not unheard of for a 1960s-70s-era series, it was somewhat unusual for a program of this nature not to display episode titles on screen.
** Arguably What It Doesn't Say On The Tin, since episode titles weren't shown on screen. While not unheard of for a 1960s-70s-era series, it was somewhat unusual for a program of this nature not to display episode titles on screen.
* [[Fake Defector]]
* [[Fake Defector]]
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* [[Fake Guest Star]]: It wasn't until the second season to that Martin Landau name appeared in the show's titles. This was Landau's choice. He was impressed with Geller's pilot script, but wanted to make sure the series would be of the same high quality before committing himself to a multi-year contract. Even at that he insisted on only one-year contracts instead of the customary five-year ones.
* [[Faked Rip Van Winkle]]: Frequently used in later seasons, sometimes combined with [[Fauxtastic Voyage]] as one of the excuses given to a mark was that the mark was involved in an accident and was unconscious for a long time.
* [[Faked Rip Van Winkle]]: Frequently used in later seasons, sometimes combined with [[Fauxtastic Voyage]] as one of the excuses given to a mark was that the mark was involved in an accident and was unconscious for a long time.
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* [[Fake Guest Star]]: It wasn't until the second season to that Martin Landau name appeared in the show's titles. This was Landau's choice. He was impressed with Geller's pilot script, but wanted to make sure the series would be of the same high quality before committing himself to a multi-year contract. Even at that he insisted on only one-year contracts instead of the customary five-year ones.
* [[Fakeout Escape]]: "The Crane"
* [[Fakeout Escape]]: "The Crane"
* [[Fauxtastic Voyage]]: "The Train", "Submarine"... practically an M.I. staple.
* [[Fauxtastic Voyage]]: "The Train", "Submarine"... practically an M.I. staple.
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* [[Trope Workshop:Impossible Mission]]: trope-namer.
* [[Trope Workshop:Impossible Mission]]: trope-namer.
* [[Indy Ploy]]: When Bruce Geller first came up with the show's concept, he imagined ''every'' IMF plan to go wrong at some point, forcing the team to improvise from that point on. Luckily in practice this was not established as it most like would get A) repetitive, and B) Make Briggs/Phelps look like he doesn't know what he's doing. Indy ploys did appear occasionally, usually in the [[It's Personal|'personal']] episodes.
* [[Indy Ploy]]: When Bruce Geller first came up with the show's concept, he imagined ''every'' IMF plan to go wrong at some point, forcing the team to improvise from that point on. Luckily in practice this was not established as it most like would get A) repetitive, and B) Make Briggs/Phelps look like he doesn't know what he's doing. Indy ploys did appear occasionally, usually in the [[It's Personal|'personal']] episodes.
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* [[I Never Said It Was Poison]]: "Elena".
* [[Insert Cameo]]
* [[Insert Cameo]]
* [[Instant Sedation]]
* [[Instant Sedation]]
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* [[I Never Said It Was Poison]]: "Elena".
* [[It's Personal]]: A handful of episodes have Briggs or Phelps plotting a plan to right a wrong affecting someone close to them instead of a mission given to them by the Secretary. In one episode Phelps is kidnapped and the team members are blackmailed into helping his kidnapper commit a crime. Arguably the most "personal" of these comes in the '80s version, when {{spoiler|Casey, the new version's initial [[Femme Fatale]], becomes the ''only'' regular in either version to be killed off. Note: not to be confused with Lynda Day George's Casey character from the original series.}} The "it's personal" aspect of the storylines is usually emphasized by there being no tape scene shown.
* [[It's Personal]]: A handful of episodes have Briggs or Phelps plotting a plan to right a wrong affecting someone close to them instead of a mission given to them by the Secretary. In one episode Phelps is kidnapped and the team members are blackmailed into helping his kidnapper commit a crime. Arguably the most "personal" of these comes in the '80s version, when {{spoiler|Casey, the new version's initial [[Femme Fatale]], becomes the ''only'' regular in either version to be killed off. Note: not to be confused with Lynda Day George's Casey character from the original series.}} The "it's personal" aspect of the storylines is usually emphasized by there being no tape scene shown.
** The '80s revival series notably ''opened'' with a personal mission - Jim's is forced out of retirement when [[Remember the New Guy?|his protegé]] is murdered, but getting to the killer and his employee is still an official IMF mission... at least as official as those missions got.
** The '80s revival series notably ''opened'' with a personal mission - Jim's is forced out of retirement when [[Remember the New Guy?|his protegé]] is murdered, but getting to the killer and his employee is still an official IMF mission... at least as official as those missions got.
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* [[Vehicular Sabotage]]: In the episode "The Missile", a psychotic mechanic tampers with the brakes in Dana's car.
* [[Vehicular Sabotage]]: In the episode "The Missile", a psychotic mechanic tampers with the brakes in Dana's car.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]
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* [[Voice with an Internet Connection]]: Regularly, particularly in cons that need to take place at the mark's residence. The crew will plant hidden surveillance cameras all over the mark's residence and/or wear a camera brooch and two way radio, and a one of the members (usually Barney in the original or Grant in the revival) will monitor the cameras and conversations the other members have with the marks, and provide assistance remotely through two-way radio.
* [[The Voice]]: Two, in fact. Any disembodied voice you hear that isn't telling Mr. Phelps about the mission is probably professional announcer Vic Perrin.
* [[The Voice]]: Two, in fact. Any disembodied voice you hear that isn't telling Mr. Phelps about the mission is probably professional announcer Vic Perrin.
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* [[Voice with an Internet Connection]]: Regularly, particularly in cons that need to take place at the mark's residence. The crew will plant hidden surveillance cameras all over the mark's residence and/or wear a camera brooch and two way radio, and a one of the members (usually Barney in the original or Grant in the revival) will monitor the cameras and conversations the other members have with the marks, and provide assistance remotely through two-way radio.
* [[We Do the Impossible]]: Rather appropriately.
* [[We Do the Impossible]]: Rather appropriately.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: in the series the team was often sent to the vaguely named [[People's Republic of Tyranny]]. Other locations included the nation of "San X" in South America or the Caribbean Sea. Whenever the mission was in the [[United States]], the city or state was rarely named beyond "Western" or "Central". Any named nation, used for a mission in Africa, was never a real nation. Finally, Western Europe was referred to as a friendly or neutral nation.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: in the series the team was often sent to the vaguely named [[People's Republic of Tyranny]]. Other locations included the nation of "San X" in South America or the Caribbean Sea. Whenever the mission was in the [[United States]], the city or state was rarely named beyond "Western" or "Central". Any named nation, used for a mission in Africa, was never a real nation. Finally, Western Europe was referred to as a friendly or neutral nation.
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