Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)

Mission: Impossible
Genre	Action Spy fiction
Created by	Bruce Geller
Starring	Steven Hill Barbara Bain Greg Morris Peter Lupus Peter Graves Martin Landau Leonard Nimoy Lee Meriwether Lesley Ann Warren Sam Elliott Lynda Day George Barbara Anderson
Theme music composer	Lalo Schifrin
Opening theme	"Theme from Mission: Impossible"
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	171 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	50 minutes
Production companies	Desilu Productions (1966–1968) (seasons 1–2) Paramount Television (1968–1973) (seasons 2–7)
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 17, 1966 (1966-09-17) – March 30, 1973 (1973-03-30)
Related
Mission: Impossible (1988–1990)
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Mission: Impossible is an American espionage television series, financed and filmed by Desilu Productions,^[1] that aired on CBS from September 1966 to March 1973. It was revived in 1988 for two seasons on ABC, and later inspired the series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise beginning in 1996.

Created and initially produced by Bruce Geller, the show chronicled the exploits of a small team of covert government agents, known as the Impossible Missions Force, and their sophisticated methods of deceiving, manipulating and thwarting, amongst others, hostile Iron Curtain governments, third world dictators, corrupt industrialists, and crime lords.

In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs (played by Steven Hill); Jim Phelps (played by Peter Graves) takes charge for the six remaining seasons. Briggs and Phelps usually assemble the same core team of agents, all of whom have careers and some degree of celebrity outside of espionage. The team is occasionally supplemented by other specialists.