Mission: Impossible

Season 3

Episode 7: The Elixir

TV-PGNov 24, 1968
Riva Santel is the recent widow of the President of San Cordova. Deputy Premier Avilla plans to announce free elections but Riva will declare herself dictator in a coup. The IMF must stop her. Pretending to be a film crew, the IMF team gets in. Hostess Cinnamon fakes a collapse and the guys comment on her age. Rollin as a plastic surgeon comes in and Riva finds out Cinnamon is actually seventy years old. She insists on surgery for herself. Since the surgery can only be done on the night of the speech, she has herself taped by her own camera crew. Barney and Willy get hold of the tape footage, reedit it, and switch the IMF tape for Riva's. Riva is sedated during the speech and so her men use the tape. When she awakens, her face in bandages, she is shocked to hear ""herself"" announcing her retirement. While Cinnamon disguised as old-Riva conspicuously leaves the country, Riva takes off the bandages to find she has her wish: she is now a younger woman...with a totally different face.
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Type
Scripted
Status
Ended
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English
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Guest Stars

Alfred Shelly
Guard #1 (uncredited)
Ruth Roman
Riva Santel
George Gaynes
Dr. Paul van Bergner
Ivor Barry
Deputy Premier Tomas Avilla
Charlie Picerni
Border Guard
Morgan Sterne
Raoul Lenz
Richard Angarola
Colonel Diaz
Guest Stars

Cast

Peter Graves
Jim Phelps
Barbara Bain
Cinnamon Carter
Greg Morris
Barney Collier
Peter Lupus
Willy Armitage
Martin Landau
Rollin Hand
Bob Johnson
Man On Tape (voice)
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