Mission: Impossible

…is based on the 1966 TV show of the same name. Over its three-decade history, the franchise evolved from Cruise’s character, field operative Ethan Hunt, pursuing a double agent in the shadowy government agency he belongs to—the Impossible Mission Force (IMF)—to Hunt’s team fighting global terrorist organizations and taking down…

…television series The Untouchables (1959–63), Mission: Impossible (1966–73), and Star Trek (1966–69), among others.

…in the popular TV series Mission: Impossible (1966–73) brought him widespread recognition and three Emmy Award nominations (1966–69), as well as a Golden Globe Award (1968). He left the series after the first three seasons, however.

…Nimoy joined the cast of Mission: Impossible for two seasons (1969–71) as Paris, an undercover operative and former magician, and later lent his voice to an animated version of Star Trek (1973–74). In 1978 he was cast in a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Star Trek, in the…