Modern audiences may forget that the "Mission: Impossible" movies are based on a TV show, but it's easy to see why the series provided solid cinematic inspiration. The self-contained nature of most ...

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 ...

One of Hollywood's biggest action franchise began as a TV show that went through a divisive revival in the 1980s.