As is tradition in the "Mission: Impossible" series, the opening title sequence of "Rogue Nation" shows up after a thrilling, stunt-filled cold open, in which Ethan manages to retrieve some nerve ...

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 ...

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.

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. By Benjamin Svetkey It didn’t have Tom ...