Category: Dangerous Assignment

Dangerous Assignment: Prevent Disclosure of Compromised Codes (EP4079)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to London to intercept someone who is trying to sell a U.S. Intelligence secret.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 3, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy

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Dangerous Assignment: The Nazi Buzz Bomb (EP4073)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve sets out to recover stolen plans the Nazis had for an improved buzz bomb before they can be sold to the highest bidder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 24, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy

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Dangerous Assignment: The Pat and Mike Story (Video Theater 248)

Steve is sent to Africa to bring back a British Agent transporting an enemy agent stirring up U.S. interest but when Steve arrives he finds his life depends on figuring out which is the Brtish Agent and which is the enemy.

Season 1, Episode 9

Original Air Date: Fall 1951

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Dangerous Assignment: Kroner Cutlass (EP4067)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Europe to clear the U.S. of having stolen a cutlass that’s a powerful national symbol. The problem? A U.S. Navy officer’s wife is in possession of one of the jewels from the cutlass.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 10, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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Dangerous Assignment: Nazi Fugitive (EP4061)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Malaysia to find an ex-Nazi fugitive who is stirring up rebellion and disrupting rubber production.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 3, 1951

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Dangerous Assignment: A Box of Busted Bells (EP4055)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Cairo to search for a missing government official whose accusation could bring down a U.S.-friendly Middle Eastern government.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 27, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy

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Dangerous Assignment: Missing Arctic Warfare Report (EP4049)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent to Quebec to recover a report on new arctic warfare equipment that had been in the possession of a murdered scientist.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 20, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Stacy Harris

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Dangerous Assignment: The Salami Story (Video Theater 246)

Steve boards a train in hopes of receiving a report from a plastic company CEO, but finds the CEO murdered and the report missing.

Original Air Date: Fall 1951

Season 1 Episode 8

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Dangerous Assignment: Find Missing Scientist Dr. Wieczek (EP4043)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Madrid, Spain to find a prominent scientist who disappeared while defecting to the United States.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 13, 1950

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Tony Barrett, William Conrad, Paul Frees

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Dangerous Assignment: Operation Fish Hook (EP4037)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent to Haiti to find out if some missing scientists are alive and to recover their research on submarine warfare.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 6, 1951

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Dangerous Assignment: Intercept Dr. Korvel (EP4031)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve has to intercept the leading citizen of an Eastern European country before he walks into a trap set by a false friend.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 30, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: Missing Civil War Map (EP4025)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Richmond to find out why a foreign agent stole a Civil War map.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 16, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: The Bhandara Story (Video Theater 244)

Steve goes to Bombay to meet with a witness who accused an American businessman of gunrunning. The witness wants to change his story, but he is killed, and Steve has to go on the run from the police.

Original Air Date: Fall 1951

Season 1, Episode 7

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Dangerous Assignment: Berlin Kidnapping Ring (EP4019)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Berlin to stop a kidnapping and extortion racket that kidnaps German citizens and threatens to hand them over to the Eastern Bloc if their relatives don’t pay a ransom.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 9, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: The Empty Matchbook (EP4013)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to a South American country where the President of a US ally is accused of plotting war against a neighbor with the assistance of the U.S.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 2, 1950

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