'MIssion: Impossible', 'Eyewitness News' Theme Composer Dies at 93

[Mark Jeffries]

Lalo Schifrin enjoyed a distinguished career as a composer for films and television and for arranging jazz recordings, most notably in TV for the spy drama "M:I" (his themes were heard in the scores for the Tom Cruise film series of "M:I"), "Mannix" and something not originally written for television, a piece called "Tar Sequence" for the film "Cool Hand Luke" that became better known on the ABC-owned  stations (and other local news programs) as the theme for "Eyewitness News" for years (in Australia, the Nine Network still uses it for their newscasts)--his last work, an orchestral piece in tribute to his home country of Argentina, was first performed in Buenos Aries in April--complications from pneumonia on Thursday:

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/lalo-schifrin-dead-mission-impossible-film-composer-1236442000/

[M-D November]

Geez. Talk about a strong sense memory.  I pulled up the track, and when it hit 1:06, all I could hear in my head was "EYEWITNESS NEWS...with Roger Grimsby and Blll Beutell..."

[Joe Hass]

That's funny...I had Bill Bonds and John Kelly in my brain. :)

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[Bob Jersey]

And Cruise said this would be the last M:I film... he's BS-ing us, folks...

B

Mark Jeffries, June 27th:

[Bob Jersey]

Today I Learned™ ABC7 Detroit, onetime home of said Bonds and Kelly, was divested to Scripps in the 80s when CapCities acquired the alphabet-net... and sure as **** contributes to the streaming Scripps News, fka Newsy (link)...     B

Joe Hass, to M-D November's reply to Mark Jeffries, June 27th:

That's funny...I had Bill Bonds and John Kelly in my brain. :)