What nickname is Leonard Nimoy's Paris given in the original Mission: Impossible TV series?

Leonard Nimoy’s Paris is nicknamed The Great Paris in the original Mission: Impossible television series. He is an IMF specialist who joins the team in the fourth season and remains through the fifth.

Paris serves as a replacement for Rollin Hand, the team’s earlier master of disguise. Like Rollin, Paris is an accomplished actor and illusionist whose skills support elaborate impersonation missions. Nimoy’s character therefore fits the series’ recurring pattern of recruiting specialists with useful civilian talents.

The nickname is part of the character’s theatrical identity, not the name of a separate agent or a mission title. The alternatives “The Master Paris,” “The Masked Paris,” and “The Grand Paris” sound plausible because disguise and performance are central to the series, but they are not the canonical nickname.

Mission: Impossible premiered on CBS in 1966 and ran for seven seasons, ending in 1973. Nimoy, already famous as Spock in Star Trek, joined during the show’s transition after Martin Landau’s Rollin Hand left the regular cast. Paris was later replaced by other IMF specialists.