Mission: Impossible - Season 3 Episode 7 The Elixir
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.
Year: 1973
Genre: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: United States of America
Studio: CBS
Director: Bruce Geller
Cast: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bob Johnson, Lynda Day George
Crew: William Woodfield (Producer), Barry Crane (Producer), Robert H. Justman (Producer), William Woodfield (Writer), Bruce Geller (Executive Producer), Allan Balter (Producer)
First Air Date: Sep 17, 1966
Last Air date: Mar 30, 1973
Season: 7 Season
Episode: 171 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 7.61/10 by 266.00 users
Popularity: 97.168
Language: English
Episode
The Heir Apparent
The Contender (1)
The Contender (2)
The Mercenaries
The Execution
The Cardinal
The Elixir
The Diplomat
The Play
The Bargain
The Freeze
The Exchange
The Mind of Stefan Miklos
The Test Case
The System
The Glass Cage
Doomsday
Live Bait
The Bunker (1)
The Bunker (2)
Nitro
Nicole
The Vault
Illusion
The Interrogator