Video: 'Mission Impossible S01E01 - Pilot' (Sep. 17, 1966)

(Saturday, September 17, 1966, 9:00-10:00 p.m. EDT) — Mission: Impossible, an action/adventure television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) (starring Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris and Peter Lupus), premiered tonight on CBS.

The show would also star Martin Landau, Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Sam Elliott and Lynda Day George in later years.

Video: 'mission impossible pilot episode intro' (Sep. 17, 1966)