The opening of the show kept me on the edge of my seat! I couldn't stop my heart from racing and I find it difficult to believe no other TV show tried to duplicate this type of opening, talk about fast paced! This show was the best -
I loved this show. They showed in reruns on a local channel and I got to watch them all again. I used to watch the opening credits with each of those little snippets and spot them again during the show. Thanks for the memories.
IMF had a great theme score. It kept you on the edge of your seat. My favorite years is when Martin Landau(Rollin Hand) & Barbra Bain(Cinnimon) were on the show...those were the best years... Thank you for posting this.. Have a great 2008 Summer! David
This show is a classic!!! I used to watch the reruns of this show in the 1970's when i was little. I liked Peter Graves, Phillip Morris the only black character and Barbra Bain and Martin Landau in which i remembered for space 1999. Again i was a child back in the day but this was good tv. Thank you RUclips for all the classic tv shows
well this was the most amazing thing to relive cause my Dad was the biggest fan ever and loads of them flooded back the memories of days gone by. Cool as heck Dude...Thanks ! Peace
That last intro clip was part of a two-part episode about the IMF force going after the mafia (and was my personal favorite along with the boxer episode).
great post crocoboxer!!! I love anyone old school!!! this show was and still is one of my all time favorites!!! you wanna have a marathon, throw this show in the mix!!! but hats off to ya!!!!
Thank you so much for this montage. I love how each episode's opening theme had pictures from THAT episode. This is the only TV show I know of that ever did that. I hope you have some other montages with Lesley Ann Warren, Leonard Nimoy and the opening theme from the 1988 series.
Oh superb! I was so young when I first saw this programme.. I couldn't even understand the plots... I just loved the characters, the intrigue, almost like I was 'in' on something.. fabulous. All my friends wanted to play Star Trek or Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea, but I loved MI.
As a kid, Mission Impossible was the most fascinating on television to me. Thanks crocoboxer for the extra-long opening credits! As always, this message will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
My mother who was buried 22 years ago today loved this show; I'm viewing to remember her. I also wrote a "screenplay" on this when I was a 6th grader and the parts were all read out in the classroom back in 1970.
There are not too many tv shows that transcend the gemerations and can be truly called iconic. In my opinion Mission Impossible is once such show. The concept, the cast and who will ever forget that theme tune!
The ORIGINAL MI RULES! The newer MI movies don't even come close to lighting the fuse, much less can hold a candle to this one! Barbara Bain in the day: YUM! Great work!
I used to love this as a child. I particularly remember that gold bullion melting episode (fragments in your vid here), and being wowed at how clever that was. Ahh, nostalgia.
Nice job editing. Thanks, this series was and still is a timeless classic - imitated frequently, but never exceeded. The content may look dated but transcends the fancy fx today - with nuanced plot and human intrigue... Thanks again for this great flashback. !
No offense, but calling something "dated" is a superficial and detracting way of pointing out its age, a factor which should not be considered an imperfection.
I will never. EVER. Forgive Tom Cruise and the producers of the films for giving the original cast the shaft the way they did. I will ALWAYS love the series more! And great idea, putting the different openings together. You cannot beat Lalo Schifrin's original theme, or the punch it has!
This is an incredible piece of scoring. The tone is meticulously and methodiccly set in the first strains...then at 02:11 the theme "shifts", as if to reaffirm and step up the power of the piece...then lead us to the conclusion Awesome.
The baddest theme song ever! It was composed in the 60's by Lalo Schrifrin and still is as fresh as ever today in the year 2010. 5/4 time. This series was way ahead of its time.
"The Seal" is correct and it's one of my favorite episodes. Barney gets smuggled into the office inside a computer! I don't think you could pull that off today.
I was a child too, and only started watching after Peter Graves became team leader, but I loved the stories and the intricacy of the plots. A great show.
I didn't grow up with this, but I'm beginning to understand why Austin Powers' judo chop was so spot on. An excellent technique, the montage. I'm glad Ron Moore held his ground and stuck with it for Battlestar Galactica's opening sequence.
I think I love T.V. and big screen movies scores, just as much as everything else I listen to as a musician. Lalo Schifrin is incredible! The moods he conjures up with his scores are intensely memorable and stay with you. I was and am, a huge fan of the classic Mission:Impossible series and sometimes wonder if it's theme song, isn't more famous than the series itself. The jury's still out. Let's not forget Enter the Dragon and the Dirty Harry scores. Heavy stuff! Peace.
This is THE BEST TV Themed Music EVER written. The show was cutting edge in its day too.U.N.C.L.E. is pretty good also. I think written by the same man as Mission Impossible.
Mission Impossible certainly had one of the most memorable theme songs in TV history. So long, Peter Graves. I hated you in "Stalag 17" and "Beneath the 12 Mile Reef," and I loved you in "Mission Impossible" and in the "Airplane" movies. The sign of a great actor. Rest in peace.
I looked at these videos this morning to see how the fuse actually worked, and it's interesting how it changed. In most later seasons, the fuse animates from left to right, and as soon as it gets to the far right it just jumps back to the left (on a cut). In the first season, when the fuse gets to the right, it animates back to the left, WITH THE NEXT SHOT, which pushes, along with the fuse, from right to left. A fine distinction, perhaps, but one that adds to the excitement of the montage.
My condolences and prayers to the family and close friends of Mr. Peter Graves. As kid and also as an adult I really enjoyed watching Mission Impossible and Airplane. RIP Mr. Graves.
An incredible show! I'll never forget the episode where they stole the gold out of an impregnable vault. By drilling a hole in the floor, inserting a heater, melting the gold and draining it out through the hole in the floor!
Definitly agree...the movie is tastless compare to the tv series, was my all time favorite...I remember vividly when this opening "Mission Impossible" theme song started, we're running my sister and I in front the T.V set...and glued to it !! Good old time...
Eveything was better in the sixties/seventies especially the TV and the themes, Pity we cannot go back in time because today life is terrible!! All this nostalgia reminds me of a very happy youth and better days.
I also wish they tried to reboot this series again. However the last time they tried it was blah. They need to stay truer to the original way it started, with a core group of characters and then cycle guest stars in/out!
OMG!!! i didn't know it was a real song!!! i can play this on my trumpet, a little on the piano, and about 1 bar on my violon!!!! it's so much fun to play this!!! ♥♫ ♪
I loved this show because of the authenticity it represented. The Cold War was no joke as many programs emulated the period of secret agents on dangerous missions.
Unlike other spy series of that era (Man From UNCLE, Wild Wild West, etc.), Mission: Impossible didn't insult the viewers' intelligence or rely too heavily on suspension of disbelief. That's what made it arguably the greatest spy series of all time.
Great show, bad ass theme song, HOT looking cast members and Peter Graves proved to the world that he hold his own, dispite being the younger brother of the BIG, BOSS MAN, Jim Arness.Your MISSION was to entertain and you did so in SPADES. RIP
Very cool show...I remember how cool all the characters were...so classy, and the simple story lines with all the "CIA" type gadgets, made for clean show, that your kids could watch even back then.
I always preferred the theme song to Mission Impossible over the one to Hawaii Five 0. When they premiered this song on American Bandstand, only one person really tried to dance to it! LOL!
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A classic show and theme song. I never missed it. So long,Mr.Phelps. Rest in peace Peter Graves.
The opening of the show kept me on the edge of my seat! I couldn't stop my heart from racing and I find it difficult to believe no other TV show tried to duplicate this type of opening, talk about fast paced! This show was the best -
One of the all-time great TV openings. I LOVE how they used scenes from each episode.
I loved this show. They showed in reruns on a local channel and I got to watch them all again. I used to watch the opening credits with each of those little snippets and spot them again during the show. Thanks for the memories.
Fantastic job; tried hard to not miss a single episode over here in the 70's. One of the greatest musical themes for TV or any other medium, too!
will you share the link of those classic gem of the 70's mission impossible themes ?
Lalo Schifrin is a genius.
And this show will always be a classic.
IMF had a great theme score. It kept you on the edge of your seat. My favorite years is when Martin Landau(Rollin Hand) & Barbra Bain(Cinnimon) were on the show...those were the best years... Thank you for posting this.. Have a great 2008 Summer! David
Ahhhh! One of my most favorite shows of all time!! Luv,luv,luv it when they show it on Classic TV!!
thank you for posting, the best theme song ever...Joe in NH.
BEST THEME EVER MADE IN HISTORY
Theme from Route 66 isn't too bad either.
Greatest theme music ever!! Lalo Schifrin is a genius
This show is a classic!!! I used to watch the reruns of this show in the 1970's when i was little. I liked Peter Graves, Phillip Morris the only black character and Barbra Bain and Martin Landau in which i remembered for space 1999.
Again i was a child back in the day but this was good tv. Thank you RUclips for all the classic tv shows
I loved this music so much.A very nice television series.
A timeless masterpiece!
Yes, very good, was part of my childhood!!
This series were my favourite, I loved it.
This cool! I always loved this show and the opening theme.
well this was the most amazing thing to relive cause my Dad was the biggest fan ever and loads of them flooded back the memories of days gone by. Cool as heck Dude...Thanks ! Peace
RIP Peter Graves supercool spy, and also thanks Lalo Shifrin for the gorgeous theme tune :)
That last intro clip was part of a two-part episode about the IMF force going after the mafia (and was my personal favorite along with the boxer episode).
great post crocoboxer!!! I love anyone old school!!! this show was and still is one of my all time favorites!!! you wanna have a marathon, throw this show in the mix!!! but hats off to ya!!!!
Thank you so much for this montage. I love how each episode's opening theme had pictures from THAT episode. This is the only TV show I know of that ever did that. I hope you have some other montages with Lesley Ann Warren, Leonard Nimoy and the opening theme from the 1988 series.
Oh superb! I was so young when I first saw this programme.. I couldn't even understand the plots... I just loved the characters, the intrigue, almost like I was 'in' on something.. fabulous. All my friends wanted to play Star Trek or Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea, but I loved MI.
As a kid, Mission Impossible was the most fascinating on television to me. Thanks crocoboxer for the extra-long opening credits! As always, this message will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
My mother who was buried 22 years ago today loved this show; I'm viewing to remember her. I also wrote a "screenplay" on this when I was a 6th grader and the parts were all read out in the classroom back in 1970.
Playing this in band. Glad do say I have the melody
This is fabulous.. Just remembering it is plain nostalgia
There are not too many tv shows that transcend the gemerations and can be truly called iconic. In my opinion Mission Impossible is once such show. The concept, the cast and who will ever forget that theme tune!
The ORIGINAL MI RULES! The newer MI movies don't even come close to lighting the fuse, much less can hold a candle to this one!
Barbara Bain in the day: YUM!
Great work!
Brilliant stuff. Really good editing. M:I was one of my favourite programmes in the sixties when I was a kid.
I used to love this as a child.
I particularly remember that gold bullion melting episode (fragments in your vid here), and being wowed at how clever that was.
Ahh, nostalgia.
Nice job editing. Thanks, this series was and still is a timeless classic - imitated frequently, but never exceeded. The content may look dated but transcends the fancy fx today - with nuanced plot and human intrigue... Thanks again for this great flashback. !
No offense, but calling something "dated" is a superficial and detracting way of pointing out its age, a factor which should not be considered an imperfection.
They dont make shows like these anymore - BUT THEY SHOULD !! Bloody BRILLIANT !!
I will never. EVER. Forgive Tom Cruise and the producers of the films for giving the original cast the shaft the way they did. I will ALWAYS love the series more! And great idea, putting the different openings together. You cannot beat Lalo Schifrin's original theme, or the punch it has!
This is an incredible piece of scoring. The tone is meticulously and methodiccly set in the first strains...then at 02:11 the theme "shifts", as if to reaffirm and step up the power of the piece...then lead us to the conclusion Awesome.
The baddest theme song ever! It was composed in the 60's by Lalo Schrifrin and still is as fresh as ever today in the year 2010. 5/4 time. This series was way ahead of its time.
"The Seal" is correct and it's one of my favorite episodes. Barney gets smuggled into the office inside a computer! I don't think you could pull that off today.
Top job. One of the best tv-intros ever!
This show was too slick! Feature film quality drama, stories and acting.
I was a child too, and only started watching after Peter Graves became team leader, but I loved the stories and the intricacy of the plots.
A great show.
I didn't grow up with this, but I'm beginning to understand why Austin Powers' judo chop was so spot on. An excellent technique, the montage. I'm glad Ron Moore held his ground and stuck with it for Battlestar Galactica's opening sequence.
Thanks for the editing effort...it was well executed...
great show watched every week as a family. not like the junk on tv today. this was a real classy, well written and acted show
On of the best tv shows and musical themes ever!
Crocoboxer, you've got my vote for Best Editing Award on RUclips! Great job! Fantastic series choice!
I think I love T.V. and big screen movies scores, just as much as everything else I listen to as a musician.
Lalo Schifrin is incredible! The moods he conjures up with his scores are intensely memorable and stay with you. I was and am, a huge fan of the classic Mission:Impossible series and sometimes wonder if it's theme song, isn't more famous than the series itself. The jury's still out.
Let's not forget Enter the Dragon and the Dirty Harry scores. Heavy stuff! Peace.
This is THE BEST TV Themed Music EVER written. The show was cutting edge in its day too.U.N.C.L.E. is pretty good also. I think written by the same man as Mission Impossible.
Perfect! Best show EVER!!
Mission Impossible certainly had one of the most memorable theme songs in TV history. So long, Peter Graves. I hated you in "Stalag 17" and "Beneath the 12 Mile Reef," and I loved you in "Mission Impossible" and in the "Airplane" movies. The sign of a great actor. Rest in peace.
One great guy!!All those years and still married to the same lady. God Bless him and may his family be comforted in that he was loved by us all.
damn i miss it. the damn 70's and 80's greatest era of television and music ever.
I looked at these videos this morning to see how the fuse actually worked, and it's interesting how it changed. In most later seasons, the fuse animates from left to right, and as soon as it gets to the far right it just jumps back to the left (on a cut). In the first season, when the fuse gets to the right, it animates back to the left, WITH THE NEXT SHOT, which pushes, along with the fuse, from right to left. A fine distinction, perhaps, but one that adds to the excitement of the montage.
thanks..its great..lov ethis movie trilogy..thanks mr.hoffman
Never missed an episode of this back in day. Looking back I see it was a textbook example of great dramatic screenwriting.
The actor at 0:30 is Darren McGavin. You may remember him from "A Christmas Story" or "Night Stalker".
Two and a half minutes for an opening. Those were the days!!
It was pleasant to remember those youthful times.
Thank you! RIP Peter Graves
One of the absolute best shows ever made...EVER!!!
My condolences and prayers to the family and close friends of Mr. Peter Graves. As kid and also as an adult I really enjoyed watching Mission Impossible and Airplane. RIP Mr. Graves.
I love Lalo! He did the fabulous theme from Mannix, too! Always playing with time signatures...and you gotta just dig the retro flute jazzz!
Pure coolness! Thank you. The Mission Impossible Extended Remix, lol!!
An incredible show! I'll never forget the episode where they stole the gold out of an impregnable vault. By drilling a hole in the floor, inserting a heater, melting the gold and draining it out through the hole in the floor!
A labor of love, good job!!
Definitly agree...the movie is tastless compare to the tv series, was my all time favorite...I remember vividly when this opening "Mission Impossible" theme song started, we're running my sister and I in front the T.V set...and glued to it !! Good old time...
That was a really good episode. The second part. This didn't need to be looped 4 times
This is classic, thanks for sharing.
Eveything was better in the sixties/seventies especially the TV and the themes, Pity we cannot go back in time because today life is terrible!! All this nostalgia reminds me of a very happy youth and better days.
Very cool, this must be a compilation of the various entries.
Great video mate loving it !
Superb editing!
One of the best TV shows ever!
You had me at montage! Great show
I also wish they tried to reboot this series again. However the last time they tried it was blah. They need to stay truer to the original way it started, with a core group of characters and then cycle guest stars in/out!
luv this intro song danced to it once for a show it was great!
OMG!!! i didn't know it was a real song!!! i can play this on my trumpet, a little on the piano, and about 1 bar on my violon!!!! it's so much fun to play this!!! ♥♫ ♪
Never would have thought this was in 5/4 !
No one could even come close to Peter Graves, not even Cruise.
God Bless you Peter!!
What great stuff...Ahhh my childhood...
You said it.
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I loved this show because of the authenticity it represented. The Cold War was no joke as many programs emulated the period of secret agents on dangerous missions.
Perfect tribute!
RIP Peter Graves, you made your mark. Stalag 17, Mission Impossible and of course Airplane, classics that live on.
Lalo Shifrin's music is fresh even today:D
awesome show!!!
Unlike other spy series of that era (Man From UNCLE, Wild Wild West, etc.), Mission: Impossible didn't insult the viewers' intelligence or rely too heavily on suspension of disbelief. That's what made it arguably the greatest spy series of all time.
Great show, bad ass theme song, HOT looking cast members and Peter Graves proved to the world that he hold his own, dispite being the younger brother of the BIG, BOSS MAN, Jim Arness.Your MISSION was to entertain and you did so in SPADES. RIP
que grande mision imposible!!!! que buena musica. Una de las mejores series, cabeza a cabeza con las mas grandes de todos los tiempos.
I don't know why anyone would give you an thumbs down for this. I think you are right on the money.
My favorite show as a kid. Seriously xD
The guy playing the wood block is killing it.
RIP...Stephen Hill...though he doesn't show up in these...
Brilliant editing job! It seems some of the folks who have commented didn't read or understand your intentions here. You did a great job with this.
Very cool show...I remember how cool all the characters were...so classy, and the simple story lines with all the "CIA" type gadgets, made for clean show, that your kids could watch even back then.
@OctopuPilot I remember when I was a kid watching this I could never figure out why nothing blew up.
Done of the most unwise theme songs I have ever heard, aside from the, Avengers. Very creative
classic vintage intro 😊😊
I always preferred the theme song to Mission Impossible over the one to Hawaii Five 0. When they premiered this song on American Bandstand, only one person really tried to dance to it! LOL!
ahhhh un detalle mas del Sr. Lalo Schifrin, es que es argentino y un argullo para toda latinoamerica.
sweeeet!! havent heard this in eons!!
M:I 3's villain, if my memory is correct, was played by Phillip Michael Hoffman, who was also "Capote".