Category: Dangerous Assignment

Dangerous Assignment, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dangerous Assignment: A Trap in Freedom House (EP4373)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to London to investigate an apparent traitor at an organization that’s supposed to help refugees from behind the Iron Curtain, but is instead getting them sent back.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 22, 1953

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Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Jan Arvan; Jean Tatum; Jeanne Bates; Tony Barrett; Paul Dubov

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Dangerous Assignment: Find Lenny Fenway (EP4367)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve travels to Tibet to rescue an American pilot who provides the key to a critical mission to re-supply Chinese nationalists.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 15, 1953

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Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Frank Gerstle; Paul Dubov; Sidney Miller; Stacy Harris

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Dangerous Assignment: The Mine Story (Video Theater 269)

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Join Steve Mitchell as he embarks on a perilous journey behind the Iron Curtain, infiltrating a slave labor camp to extract vital intelligence. With time running against him and danger at every turn, will Steve secure the information and make it out alive, or will this assignment prove too deadly?

Season 1, Episode 39

Original Air Date: Spring 1952

 

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Dangerous Assignment: Boy Is Used as Courier (EP4355)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve is hired as tutor to a French boy with a near photographic memory whose father believes his current tutor is using him to smuggle top secret information.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 8, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Jeanne Bates; Paul Frees; Larry Dobkin; Jay Novello

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Dangerous Assignment: Rescue Rick Perez (EP4355)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Venezuela to rescue a U.S. agent who was investigating a Latin American revolutionary organization.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 1, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Paul Frees; Paul Dubov; Ben Wright; Betty Lou Gerson; Don Diamond

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Dangerous Assignment: Find Antonina (EP4349)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Portugal to find a young woman who’d been in the U.S. illegally and find out why she intentionally had herself deported.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 25, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Bill Conrad; Virginia Gregg; Harry Bartell; Tony Barrett; Ralph Moody

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Dangerous Assignment: Stolen Information Group (EP4343)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Norway to impersonate a captured courier who was about to collect a payoff from a gang that dealt in stolen information. Steve arrives to find someone’s beaten him to the punch – and got murdered for his effort.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 18, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Betty Lou Gerson; Dan O’Herlihy; GeGe Pearson; Paul Frees

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Dangerous Assignment, Video Theater

Dangerous Assignment: The Missing Diplomat Story (Video Theater 267)

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Steve Mitchell embarks on a high-stakes mission to locate a missing European diplomat and recover top-secret records. As tensions rise and loyalties are questioned, join Mitchell in the bustling streets of Barcelona, where every corner could hold a clue or a deadly trap.

Season 1, Episode 17

Original Air Date: December 1951

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Dangerous Assignment: Ghost Ship (EP4337)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent to locate a phantom ship that’s smuggling supplies to guerillas in the Philippines and attacking local fishing boats.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 11, 1953

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Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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Dangerous Assignment: Henrich Schwandorff (EP4331)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Germany to find a displaced person who may be able to identify a Nazi war criminal.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 4, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Henry Roland; Jim Davis; Paul Frees

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Dangerous Assignment: Black Market in Jewels (EP4325)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent to break up a black market founded on jewel thefts that is destabilizing the Mediterranean. In order to fight them, Steve plans to steal a necklace before the thief can.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 25, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Dan Riss; Hal Gerard; Betty Lou Gerson; Paul Dubov; Tony Barrett

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Dangerous Assignment: Doctor Mitsuko Kidnapping (EP4319)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Tokyo to get to the bottom of the kidnapping of a prominent scientist by Americans claiming to be with the U.S. government.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 18, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Paul Frees, Paul Dubov, Peter Leeds, Rye Bilsbury, Sidney Miller

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Dangerous Assignment: Family Squabble (EP4313)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to the Belgian Congo to resolve a family dispute between two women that’s threatened the U.S. access to a strategic mineral mine.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 11, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchel; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Peter Leeds; Tony Barrett; Ben Wright; Betty Lou Gerson.

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Dangerous Assignment: The Caboose Story (Video Theater 265)

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Steve Mitchell travels to Tokyo on a dangerous assignment that reunites him with Marta Siba, an old flame with a new agenda. Dive into a tale of espionage where trains derail, bridges explode, and love might just be the deadliest force of all.

Season 1, Episode 16

Original Air Date: December 1951

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Dangeorus Assignment: Arnold Freed Kidnapped (EP4307)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Greece, where he’s to follow the trail of phony documents in hopes of finding a kidnapped American scientist.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 4, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Jan Arvan; Paul Dubov; Paul Frees; Ramsay Hill; Tony Barrett

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