What’s on the Mission Impossible Timeline?
Most people would consider the old Mission Impossible television shows to be seperate from the film series. However, that doesn’t have to be the case. The first Mission: Impossible film acted as a way to pass on the torch from the original generation to the next, since the leader of the original team defects in the film and it’s Ethan Hunt’s (Tom Cruise) responsibility to hunt him down. Since characters from the shows appeared in the film series as old agents, this Mission Impossible timeline includes the shows and the films in the same timeline.
# | Time/Series: | Buy: | Name: | Type: | Author/Director: | Year: | Notes: |
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1 | Original Series | Buy | Mission Impossible: The Original Series (Season 1) | Television | Bruce Geller | 1967 | |
2 | Original Series | Buy | Mission Impossible: The Original Series (Season 2) | Television | Bruce Geller | 1968 | |
3 | Original Series | Buy | Mission Impossible: The Original Series (Season 3) | Television | Bruce Geller | 1969 | |
4 | Original Series | Buy | Mission Impossible: The Original Series (Season 4) | Television | Bruce Geller | 1970 | |
5 | Original Series | Buy | Mission Impossible: The Original Series (Season 5) | Television | Bruce Geller | 1971 | |
6 | Original Series | Buy | Mission Impossible: The Original Series (Season 7) | Television | Bruce Geller | 1972 | |
7 | Original Series | Buy | Mission Impossible: The Original Series (Season 7) | Television | Bruce Geller | 1973 | |
8 | Series Reboot | Buy | Mission Impossible: Series Remake (Season 1) | Television | Bruce Geller | 1989 | Same timeline, mostly different characters. |
9 | Series Reboot | Buy | Mission Impossible: Series Remake (Season 2) | Television | Bruce Geller | 1990 | |
10 | Film Reboot | Buy | Mission: Impossible | Film | Brian De Palma | 1996 | Characters from the series make an appearance. |
11 | Film Reboot | Buy | Mission: Impossible 2 | Film | John Woo | 2000 | |
12 | Film Reboot | Buy | Mission: Impossible 3 | Film | J. J. Abrams | 2006 | |
13 | Film Reboot | Buy | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | Film | Brad Bird | 2011 | |
14 | Film Reboot | Buy | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation | Film | Christopher McQuarrie | 2015 |