Mission: Impossible is a television show.
The Impossible Missions Force ( IMF ) is a fictional agency with varying designations depending on the medium , an independent espionage agency in the television version or a governmental agency of the United States government in the film version . Mission: Impossible . The series was revived in 1988 for two seasons on ABC , retaining only Graves in the cast . Mission: Impossible (film) . The film 's success spawned the Mission : Impossible film series .