Mission: Impossible is an American espionage television series  from September 1966 to March 1973.

The show chronicled the exploits of a small covert team of secret government agents, known as the Impossible Missions Force, and their sophisticated methods of deceiving, manipulating and thwarting hostile governments, dictators, corrupt industrialists, crime lords, among others. In the first season, the team takes charge and 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.