Category: Dangerous Assignment

Dangerous Assignment: Investigate Flying Saucers (EP3881)

Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Ecuador to look into crashes by a small cargo airline that are apparently caused by UFOs.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 17, 1950

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EP3875: Dangerous Assignment: Recover Underwater Demolition Secrets

Steve goes to Trinidad to help another agent recover some sunken military secrets.

Original Air Date: April 10, 1950

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EP3869: Dangerous Assignment: Renew Sheik Haroun’s Uranium Deal

Steve is sent to Cairo where an old friend, a sheik, who controls valuable uranium mines, is threatening not to renew the lease held by the U.S. and its allies.

Original Air Date: March 27, 1950

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Video Theater 233: Dangerous Assignment: The Submarine Story

Steve is assigned to impersonate a sea captain who doesn’t exist in order to trap a gang of gunrunners.

Original Air Date: Fall 1951

Season 1, Episode 2

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EP3863: Dangerous Assignment: International Blackmail

Steve goes to Switzerland to reclaim a forced confession that could destabilize a Central European government.

Original Air Date: March 20, 1950

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EP3857: Dangerous Assignment: Recover Wire Recorder Spool

Steve goes to San Diego to recover a stolen recorded wire of an international conference.

Original Air Date: March 6, 1950

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EP3851:Dangerous Assignment: White Jade

Steve goes to Macao to bring back a fellow agent. Things get complicated when Steve finds a dead man in the agent’s hotel and the agent is wanted for murder.

Original Air Date: February 27, 1950

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EP3845: Dangerous Assignment: Recover Stolen Radar Plans

Steve goes to Athens to retrieve radar plans stolen from the U.S. but finds himself dealing with multiple groups trying to profit from them.

Original Air Date: February 20, 1950

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EP3839: Dangerous Assignment: Who Killed Captain Rocq?

Steve goes to Tangiers undercover as a soldier of fortune who bore an uncanny resemblance to Steve. Steve has to find out who killed his doppleganger without being murdered himself.

Original Air Date: February 13, 1950

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EP3833: Dangerous Assignment: Find Missing Japanese Weapons

Steve goes to Panama to complete the mission of a friend, who was killed trying to locate a cache of Japanese weapons from World War II.

Original Air Date: February 6, 1950

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EP3827: Dangerous Assignment: File No. 307

Steve goes to Zurich in search of a stolen Defense Department file.

Original Air Date: August 20, 1949

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EP3821: Dangerous Assignment: Smash Alien Smuggling Racket

Steve travels to Lisbon to stop a refugee smuggling racket after a friend was killed attempting the same mission.

Original Air Date: August 13, 1949

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Video Theater 229: Dangerous Assignment: The Alien Smuggler Story

Steve is sent to Portugal to investigate a refugee smuggling racket.

Original Air Date: Fall 1951

Based on a radio play from August 13, 1949

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EP3809: Dangerous Assignment: Millionaire: Murder Conspiracy

Steve goes to Paris to find out who’s killing off the millionaires who have created a joint venture that will help the developing world.

Original Air Date: August 6, 1949

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EP3803: Dangerous Assignment: On Safari for Nigerian Manganese

After another agent disappears, Steve goes to Nigeria to take his place and locate a tribal chieftain to negotiate for valuable Manganese deposits.

Original Air Date: July 23, 1949

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