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.

For television viewers of the late '60s and early '70s, "Mission: Impossible" was an accessible gateway into the thrilling world of disguises, gadgetry, and international espionage. The lauded CBS spy ...