Title: Theme from Mission: Impossible
Content:  "Theme from Mission: Impossible" is the theme tune of the TV series Mission: Impossible (1966–1973). The theme was written and composed by Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin and has since gone on to appear in several other works of the Mission: Impossible franchise, including the 1988 TV series, the film series, and the video game series.
Title: Mission: Impossible – Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture
Content: 1) "Theme from Mission: Impossible" – Larry Mullen & Adam Clayton (3:27) ; 2) "Spying Glass" – Massive Attack (5:21) ; 3) "I Spy" – Pulp (5:56) ; 4) "Impossible Mission" – Danny Elfman (5:35) ; 5) "Headphones" – Björk (5:40) ; 6) "Weak" – Skunk Anansie (3:31) ; 7) "On and On" – Longpigs (4:11) ; 8) "Claire" – Danny Elfman (2:55) ; 9) "Dreams" (Radio Edit) - The Cranberries (4:13) ; 10) "You, Me and World War III" ('Big' Single Remix) - Gavin Friday (4:28) ; 11) "So" – Salt (3:33) ; 12) "Trouble" – Danny Elfman (3:32) ; 13) "No Government" – Nicolette (5:31) ; 14) "Alright" – Cast (3:35) ; 15) "Mission: Impossible Theme (Mission Accomplished)" – Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen (3:05)  Note: Only five of the fifteen tracks on the album (Clayton & Mullen's first rendition of Lalo Schifrin's theme music, the contribution of The Cranberries and the three Danny Elfman score suites) are actually heard in the movie.
Title: Mission: Impossible – Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture
Content:  Mission: Impossible: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture is the official soundtrack for the 1996 film Mission: Impossible. The soundtrack was a success, peaking at No. 16 on the Billboard 200 and spawning the top-10 hit "Theme from Mission: Impossible" by U2 members Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr.. "Theme from Mission: Impossible" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies on July 2, 1996, while the soundtrack reached gold status just two weeks later on July 16.
Title: Mission: Impossible (film)
Content:  The film uses Lalo Schifrin's original "Theme from Mission: Impossible". Alan Silvestri was originally hired to write the film's score, but his music was rejected and replaced with a new score by composer Danny Elfman. According to some sources, Silvestri had written and recorded some 20 minutes of music, and the decision to replace him was made by producer Tom Cruise during post-production. Elfman had only a few weeks to compose and produce the final score, which used Schifrin's "The Plot" theme in addition to his main theme, as well as new themes composed by Elfman for the characters Ethan Hunt, Claire and the IMF. U2 bandmates Larry Mullen, Jr. and Adam Clayton were fans of the TV show and knew the original 
Title: Theme from Mission: Impossible
Content:  In 1996, the theme was remade by U2 members Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. for the soundtrack to the film. The duo recorded two versions of the song, the main theme and another subtitled "Mission Accomplished". The main theme was used during the end credits. Unlike the original, the majority of this version is in common time, with the exception of the intro.
Title: Theme from Mission: Impossible
Content: 7" Single 1) "Mission: Impossible" - 2:31 1) "Jim on the Move" - 3:12 Side A: Side B:
Title: Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)
Content:  The main theme was composed by Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor Lalo Schifrin and is noted for being in time. About the unusual time signature, Schifrin joked that "things are in or  because people dance with two legs. I did it for people from outer space who have five legs." The Morse code for M.I., the initials of Mission: Impossible, is two dashes followed by two dots, corresponding to the rhythm of the main theme. Schifrin wrote in his book Music Composition for Film and Television that he sometimes used Morse code for inspiration, to create unusual rhythms, for instance on the score for The Concorde ... Airport '79. "The Plot" was also composed by Schifrin, who scored three episodes in the first season and went on to score at 
Title: Mission: Impossible (film)
Content:  were brought in. Mission: Impossible went into pre-production without a shooting script: De Palma devised several action sequences, but Koepp and Towne were dissatisfied with the story that led up to those events. U2 band members Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton produced a dance rendition of the original theme music, which became a top-ten hit in the US (receiving gold record certification) and six other countries and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. Mission: Impossible was a commercial success, eventually becoming the third highest-grossing film of 1996, and garnered a mostly favorable response from critics. Its success spawned the Mission: Impossible film series.
Title: Theme from Mission: Impossible
Content:  Landau recalled. "Lalo interrupted the band and said, 'no, no, it should be like this.' They resumed and before we could say anything, they had recorded it. I was stunned. It was so perfect. I came out humming that tune." The original single release peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 19 on the magazine's Adult Contemporary chart in 1967. Also in that year, two years before Leonard Nimoy began playing the role of Paris in Mission Impossible, the theme appeared on the album Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space (Nimoy did not perform on the song). In 2010, a fictionalized account of Lalo Schifrin's creation of the Mission: Impossible tune was featured in a Lipton TV commercial aired in a number of countries around the world.
Title: Theme from Mission: Impossible
Content:  at the end credits of the third film. Brave Combo covered the theme as a "deep groove cumbia" on their 2008 album, The Exotic Rocking Life. Houston rapper Chamillionaire, remixed the theme song for his cancelled third album Venom in 2010. Tiësto created a dance remix version of the theme to promote the fourth film in the series Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011). In January 2013, violinist and dancer Lindsey Stirling and The Piano Guys, Steven Sharp Nelson (cello) and Jon Schmidt (piano), released their interpretation of the "Theme from Mission: Impossible". The arrangement is true to the Schifrin original, 

Question: who wrote the theme song for mission impossible?
Answer: Lalo Schifrin.
Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin.