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- Mission: Impossible ran for seven seasons and 172 episodes on CBS before ending 50 years ago, on March 30, 1973.
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Peter Graves. Barbara Bain. Greg Morris. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. S1-7. +3. Add to Watchlist. Added by 15.0K users. 63 User reviews. 27 Critic reviews.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
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- 1966-09-17
Ham-fisted, dull, and silly, “The Fountain” is a late-run flop that, like many season seven episodes, is derivative of earlier ones—and, in this case, not even good earlier ones. Nice robes, though. Phelps (Peter Graves) and Barney (Greg Morris) drug Bachman (George Maharis) in “The Fountain”
- The 1964 Film Topkapi Inspired The Show.
- Creator Bruce Geller (Literally) Lit The Fuse on The Show.
- Steven Hill’s Sabbath Schedule Was One Factor in His Departure.
- Barbara Bain Won Three Consecutive Emmy Awards For The Show.
- That Iconic Theme Song Came Together in minutes.
- Mission: Impossible Had Its Own Language.
- You Can Thank The Show For The Verb “Self-Destruct.”
- The 1988 Revival Initially Recycled Scripts from The Original Show.
- 1966’s Mission: Impossible and Its 1988 Revival Were A Father-Son Act.
Topkapi, written by Monja Danischewsky and directed by Jules Dassin, centered on a band of thieves stealing a priceless treasure from a museum. Mission: Impossible creator Bruce Geller took inspiration from the film but shifted the focus to the good guys. (Topkapi also features a wire-dangling stunt similar to that of the 1996 Mission: Impossible f...
In the original version of the TV show’s explosive opening credits, it’s Geller’s hand holding a match to the fuse. In the TV revival — more on that below — actor Peter Graves is the one holding the match.
Hill, later a star of Law & Order, played IMF leader Dan Briggs in Mission: Impossible’s first season. But as an Orthodox Jew, he had to be home by sundown every Friday to observe the Sabbath and wasn’t available until that Saturday night. This requirement was part of his contract, but it still caused conflict with Mission: Impossibleproducers, who...
Bain, who was married to Mission: Impossiblecostar Martin Landau at the time, won Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series — a precursor of the Emmys’ Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category — in 1967, 1968, and 1969 for playing IMF operative Cinnamon Carter.
Lalo Schifrin told Emmy magazine in 2016 that he composed the Mission: Impossibletheme song under an impossibly tight deadline. “I sat at my desk and wrote that theme in exactly one-and-a-half minutes,” he said. “It was not inspiration; it was a need to do it. It was a little mission — impossible! The whole thing — including the chorus, the bongos,...
The series employed a fictitious language, nicknamed “Gellerese” by crew members, that was meant “to be easily intelligible to English-speaking audiences but look distinctly German or Polish,” as the Deseret Newsreported. For example, “machina werke” translates to “machine repair,” “gäz” was “gas,” “emerženc̄iskija” was “emergency,” and “mina din s...
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, “self-destructive” appeared in the written record in the 1650s, and “self-destruction” appeared even earlier, in the 1580s. But “self-destruct”? “Apparently first attested in the U.S. television series ‘Mission Impossible’ (1966),” the dictionary says.
Amid a writers’ strike in 1988, ABC Entertainment struck a deal with Paramount Television and commissioned a remake of Mission: Impossible — using the original series’ scripts but shuffling up the locales and the cast members, aside from Graves, who reprised his role as Jim Phelps. (A spokesperson for ABC put his best spin on the rehash, saying, “W...
The 1988 revival starred Phil Morris as electronics expert Grant Collier, son of Barney Collier (Greg Morris) from the original series. Phil Morris — who would later go on to recur in Seinfeld, Smallville, and Doom Patrol— is the real-life son of Greg Morris. (See them together in this photo from the 1988 episode “The Condemned.”) But as Phil told ...
Mission: Impossible is an American espionage television series that aired on CBS from September 1966 to March 1973. It was revived in 1988 for two seasons on ABC. It also inspired the series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise beginning in 1996.
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- 171 (list of episodes)
- September 17, 1966 –, March 30, 1973
- CBS
Jul 4, 2023 · There are currently six Mission: Impossible movies, and they all range from being good, to mind-blowing.
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The first season of the original Mission: Impossible originally aired Saturdays at 9:00-10:00 pm on CBS from September 17, 1966 to January 7, 1967 and at 8:30-9:30 pm from January 14 to April 22, 1967. Season 2. 50 % 1967 • 25 Episodes. Season 2 of Mission: Impossible premiered on September 10, 1967.
