Category: Dangerous Assignment

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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