Episode
Mission: Impossible: Banshee
Overview
An Irish arms dealer plays both sides of the country's conflict against each other, and the IMF must trick them into uniting to defeat him.
Details
- Series
- Mission: Impossible
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1989-11-30
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
Banshee is Episode 9 in Season 2 of Mission: Impossible. It aired on 1989-11-30. The runtime is 50 min.
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