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Memory

Episode Number: 2    Season Num: 1    First Aired: September 24, 1966    Prod Code: 104
The IMF must undermine "the Butcher of the Balkans," Janos Karq, by having his head of security capture an agent, Sparrow, who will then incriminate Karq. To pull off the ruse, they need a memory expert, Baresh, who can memorize the necessary information in the short time allowed and pretend to be Sparrow. Baresh will later be traded back. However, during a faked "rescue" to make Sparrow look more convincing, Baresh gets a look at Soska's master list of agents, and the team must rescue him from the prison immediately to get the information.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Robert Lewin
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Star: Bob Johnson (IMF Voice on Tape (uncredited, 1966-1973)),  Peter Lupus (Willy Armitage),  Martin Landau (Rollin Hand (1966-69)),  Greg Morris (Barney Collier),  Barbara Bain (Cinnamon Carter (1966-1969)),  Steven Hill (Daniel Briggs (1966-1967))
Guest Star: Paul Busch (Jeep Guard),  John Magnusson (Policeman),  Donald Journeaux (Passport Clerk),  Heinz Brinkmann (Prison Guard),  William Keene (Janos Karq),  Gene Dynarski (Sergeant of Guard),  Eddie Carroll (Street Photographer),  Leonard Stone (Dimitri Soska),  Albert Paulsen (Joseph Baresh),  Bill Foster (Fireman),  Forrest Burns (First Security),  Max Klevin (Second Security)

Notes

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Injoke: Willy shares the same birthplace as the actor who plays him: Indiana. (edit)
Rollin Hand makes a "special guest appearance" in this episode to assist the IMF. (edit)

Quotes

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(after distracting two policemen while shooting their film clip)
Dan: Keep it rolling, Barney. We can splice Cinnamon out.
Cinnamon: Oh, my big scene.
Dan: Sorry.
Cinnamon: You waited two buttons longer than you had to. (refers to her mock striptease) (edit)
Dan: Coastline's only four hundred yards. Boat's waiting... how was it?
Baresh: ...I forget. (edit)
Cinnamon: Will there be any flames?
Barney: (rigging a smoke bomb) Yes. An affluence of carbonaceous opaque material.
Cinnamon: Thanks.
Barney: A lot of smoke.
Cinnamon: Nobody likes that.
Barney: Sorry… (edit)
Willy: In Indiana, fire engine red was, I don’t know… redder.
Dan: You were ten years old in Indiana, Willy. At ten everything is more so. (edit)
Dan: How much juice in that fence?
Barney: Enough. You can’t get deader then dead. (edit)

Trivia

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While packing the equipment to go into the projectile, Barney dictates an accompanying note for Baresh, which is typed by Cinnamon. Problem is, the note is typed exactly as we, the audience, hear it, skipping vital information about the contents that Barney must have spoken after the camera cut to the next scene, and picking up where the camera cuts back to Barney. The finished note reads: "Joseph, follow these instructions precisely. Inside this projectile.. .work up rage...." which should have been utterly confusing to Baresh. (edit)
Trivia: On-screen dialogue establishes that Willy was almost certainly born in Indiana. (edit)
Trivia: Instead of a taped message, Briggs is handed a card on the street with a short mission briefing on it, which he then destroys. (edit)
When Briggs looks at Willy's picture at the beginning of the episode, he tosses it onto the discarded pile even though Willy is used on this mission. After Briggs looks at Rollin's photo, Willy's picture is now in the accepted pile. Also, after Rollin's photo there is a man without glasses whom Briggs rejects. After accepting Baresh's picture, there is photo of a man wearing glasses on the reject pile we didn't see before. (edit)

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Episode: Memory
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