Episode
MythBusters: Drain Disaster
Overview
Find out whether a sewer drain full of combustible gas, when ignited, will turn an innocent manhole cover into a missile, and whether truck bedliners are truly bite, crash, and bomb proof.
Details
- Series
- MythBusters
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 2011-11-02
Episode context
Drain Disaster is Episode 18 in Season 9 of MythBusters. It aired on 2011-11-02.
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