Lalo Schifrin, the composer of the Mission: Impossible theme, studied with Messiaen in the nineteen-fifties. In an interview with Royal S. Brown (published in Brown's excellent book Overtones and Undertones), Schifrin described how his time with Messiaen left its mark on his Hollywood work: the cue above, from the music for the Mission: Impossible TV show, is based on Messiaen's second mode of limited transpositions, better known as the octatonic scale.