In 1996, 30 years after the Mission: Impossible TV series first aired on CBS, Paramount Pictures recruited Tom Cruise to bring the franchise to the big screen. In the 27 years since, Cruise has ...

Opinion The best movie series ever made about unelected bureaucrats. Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise has a lot to say about Washington.

Ever since director Brian De Palma first brought the classic Mission: Impossible TV series to the big screen nearly 30 years ago, there’s always been an overt silliness to the stories of these ...

Tasha Robinson is Polygon’s entertainment editor. She’s covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. If you watch all the Mission ...

For the record, I loved the TV series that started the IMF franchise. “Mission Impossible” was an intelligent TV show, in which the Mission team outwitted and outthought the puzzle du jour.

After nearly 30 years, three on-screen deaths, and at least a dozen wild stunts, Ethan Hunt and Mission: Impossible have approached some kind of end with The Final Reckoning.The question now is ...

Tom Cruise stars in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Paramount Pictures. In this article you can expect massive spoilers for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which released ...

It might have lacked Tom Cruise, but the ‘Mission: Impossible’ TV series on CBS sparked one of Hollywood’s biggest action franchises 60 years ago.

Originally composed in 1967 for the Mission Impossible TV series (1966–1973), the piece has since become a defining element of the franchise, appearing in the films, ...

As played by Peter Graves, Jim Phelps was the hero of the IMF in the original Mission: Impossible series, which ran from 1966 to 1973.Graves took on the role in Season 2 in 1967 and remained the ...

The “Mission: Impossible” TV series ran on CBS from 1966 to 1973. Courtesy Everett Collection Schifrin wrote the theme without seeing any of the series.