Episode
Mission: Impossible: Time Bomb
Overview
The IMF team has to try and gain access to a nuclear reactor complex, where a terminally ill officer plans to detonate an atomic bomb.
Details
- Series
- Mission: Impossible
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1969-12-21
Episode context
Time Bomb is Episode 12 in Season 4 of Mission: Impossible. It aired on 1969-12-21.
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Episode 11: The Brothers
A Middle Eastern king needs to be restored to the throne. So a medical operation is replicated where he will seemingly donate his kidney to his murderous brother.
Episode 13: The Amnesiac
Jim Phelps poses as an amnesia victim in order to retrieve a stolen isotope, one that could make nuclear weapons affordable to any country.
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