Category: Dangerous Assignment

Dangerous Assignment: The Football Play (EP4007)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to North Indo-China (modern-day Vietnam) to retrieve an American clerk who’d been framed as a spy and then captured by guerillas.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 25, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: Memory Chain Equation (EP4001)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Munich to intercept a stolen formula that’s traveling by way of an inventive new route – the Memory Chain.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 18, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: The Key Story (Video Theater 242)

Steve goes to the Swiss alps to obtain a foreign document that could stabilize a friendly country.

Season 1, Episode 6

Original Air Date: Fall 1951

Based on Radio Play that aired March 20, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: Contact Marta Gelber and Smash Sabotage Ring (EP3995)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Tokyo to investigate a sabotage operation for which an old flame is the prime suspect.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 6, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: Forged Identification Papers Racket (EP3989)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve has to put a stop to an organization that’s killing American tourists overseas and stealing their identities in order to smuggle their agents across the border.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 29, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: Retrieve Slarga from Latin America (EP3983)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Latin America to retrieve a foreign agent who is willing to give the US vital secrets if they can protect him from the police and his former organization.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 27, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: Contact Lefty the Trained Seal (EP3977)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Istanbul where a seal and his trainer are at the center of a murder case involving an agent investigating a spy ring.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: The Manger Story (Video Theater 240)

The son of a man who knows the truth about a lecture circuit spy ring disappears from a Swiss boarding school and steve has to find the missing boy.

Original Release Date: Fall 1951

Season 1, Episode 5

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Dangerous Assignment: Chromite Mine Disaster (EP3971)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent to the Balkans to find out what’s behind a series of murders at an allegedly cursed chromite mine.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 6, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: Recover Stolen Missile Plan Microfilm (EP3965)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent on a chase across Great Britain and Ireland to try and locate stolen microfilm.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 30, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: Get Gouda Before the Gunrunners (EP3953)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Bombay to get in touch with the key witness who got an American businessman convicted of gunrunning.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 23, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: Find Hired Killer Lupac (EP3947)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Paris to locate the murderer of a legendary detective before the killer can add key diplomats to his list of victims.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 16, 1955

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Dangerous Assignment: Defeat African Hate (EP3941)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Africa to bring back an enemy agent who is stirring up anti-American sentiment.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 9, 1950

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Dangerous Assignment: Recover Lost Troop Movement Document (EP3935)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Vienna to find a female Nazi war criminal who was believed dead, but is in possession of top-secret documents showing U.S. Troop movements in Europe.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 2, 1951

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Dangerous Assignment: Find Guerilla Chief and Stop Him (EP3929)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Indochina to capture a guerilla leader.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 26, 1950

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