As Tom Cruise’s spy film franchise is supposedly coming to a close with “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” we uncover secrets of the classic theme song.

The Brief Lalo Schifrin, the composer who created the "Mission: Impossible" theme song, has died. Schifrin was 93 years old. The composer wrote more than 100 songs for film and television.

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. Schifrin’s son Ryan ...