It was September 17th, 1966, when the television show, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, first came on the air. I was six years old and I did not watch it. During the seven years, a group of extraordinary spies took on only the most difficult assignments, if they chose to except it. The beginning of each show had them receiving their mission by tape recorder and then it would "self-destruct. The theme song was great and as you heard it clips of the show flashed in front of you.
It was a very good cast that included Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Martin Landau, and for a couple years, Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame. In 1988, due to an actor's strike, the show was revived for two years. Since then, seven movies have come out beginning in 1996 with Tom Cruise as the star. Some of the other known actors and actresses in these movies have been, Jon Voight, Vanessa Redgrave, Josh Holloway("Lost"), Jeremy Renner("The Avengers"), and Henry Cavill.("Superman)
The seventh movie, "Dead Reckoning, Part 1) just came out and the conclusion will be out next year. My wife and I have seen all the movies and they have always been good. We went to the movies last week and saw the earliest show and this is what the theatre looked like before twelve people joined us.
It was a terrific movie and the action was non-stop. It ran close to three hours, but it did not drag. The most talked about scene is when Tom Cruise rides a motorcycle off the top of a mountain to catch a train. (Really) It's well worth watching and I'm sure when they put this idea on the air in 1966, they were not expecting people to still be enjoying it almost sixty years later.
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