Episode
Mission: Impossible: The Fortune
Overview
A team member is killed on solo assignment against the wife of a mentally-weak exiled dictator, and the others resolve to bring them both to justice.
Details
- Series
- Mission: Impossible
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1989-02-18
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
The Fortune is Episode 12 in Season 1 of Mission: Impossible. It aired on 1989-02-18. The runtime is 50 min.
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