Episode
Mission: Impossible: For Art's Sake
Overview
A valuable painting and a foreign country's national treasure is stolen by a master thief during its exhibition in the U.S., and the team must recover it before the situatioin turns hostile.
Details
- Series
- Mission: Impossible
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1989-12-14
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
For Art's Sake is Episode 10 in Season 2 of Mission: Impossible. It aired on 1989-12-14. The runtime is 50 min.
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