If you weren’t previously aware, Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise is based off a television series of the same name, which ran for seven seasons from 1966-1973. The movies took those things ...
Years before Tom Cruise began running faster than Olympic sprinters, there was the Mission: Impossible TV series. The show aired from 1966 to 1973 on CBS, before being revived in the late ’80s by ABC.
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 led ...