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.