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Dangerous Assignment
- Heard
- 1949–1953
- Episodes
- 202
DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT
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Film actor Brian Donlevy played Steve Mitchell, international operative whose had two jobs. Get in and out of danger. Donlevy had the voice and delivery to make the show sound plausible, even if it was routine Cold War brush fire stuff. Herb Butterfield was the Commissioner, a taskmaster shrouded in secrecy who served up the situations that Mitchell seems never to refuse. The Commissioner's secretary is played by Betty Moran. She actually seems to care about the Steve's welfare. The Commissioner is just concerned about the fare. The worldwide locations are dealt up with a feeling of local, and the characters that inhabit these faraway places with strange sounding names are solid and capably acted by veterans. Music is an almost harsh orchestra. Donlevy carries the plots with a world-weary and wary tone that makes sense, based on his occupation. Though not top-drawer adventure like Escape, nor character more fully developed like The Third Man, The Lives of Harry Lime (and not having the benefit of decades to develop or great talent like these two did), Dangerous Assignment carries enough radio punch to keep the fan of tough-guys This series synopsis is provided by www.otrcat.com From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Notes" Section below for more information on the OTRR.
Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 3
Where it comes from 2
The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.
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Dangerous Assignment - Single Episodes
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.
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Dangerous Assignment
CC BY 3.0: CC BY 3.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.
18 more sets hold only episodes played here from a set above.
A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.
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