It’s based on a TV series Paramount Pictures Given the film franchise’s enormous popularity, one can easily forget that Mission: Impossible is based on Bruce Geller’s TV show from the ’60s.

From 1966 to 1973, the TV series Mission: Impossible stuck covert government agents into complicated caper plots, showing how an "Impossible Missions Force" busted up terrorist cells, mob bosses ...

The TV series that inspired Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ films is ultimate geek heaven The show, created and produced by Bruce Geller, ran for seven seasons from 1966 to 1973 and ...

I’ve long felt the Mission: Impossible series was a near-perfect template tonally and kinetically for how Marvel Studios could’ve hypothetically approached an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. movie ...

Here’s how you know the “Mission: Impossible” movies are great: They were only made because the TV series “Mission: Impossible” was a gigantic, award-winning hit, and now hardly anyone ...