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Dangerous Assignment
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- 1949–1962
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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 2 of 4
Where it comes from 30
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.
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Dangerous Assignment 1950-12-09 The Berlin Kidnapping Ring
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1950-09-27 Retrieve Slarga from Latin America
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1950-04-24 The Nazi and the Physicist
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1949-07-09 Relief Supplies in Sicily
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1950-10-06 The Tokyo Assignment
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1953-01-21 Leak of Strategic Materials - Burma
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1952-11-05 The Smuggling Racket - Havana
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1951-05-18 Operation Hotfoot in Trinidad
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1950-12-02 The Empty Matchbook
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1950-05-10 Smash Lecture Circuit Spy Ring - Stockholm
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1949-08-13 Smash Alien Smuggling Ring - Portugal
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1951-06-19 Suspicious Explosions in Japan
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1953-02-11 Family Squabble - Belgian Congo
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1950-09-06 Chromite Mine Disaster - Balkans
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1949-07-09 Dr. Mao
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1952-12-17 The Road to Mandalay
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Dangerous Assignment 1955-04-29 Solve Kent Jackon's Murder - Burma
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1949-07-16 Ghost Ship in North Borneo
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1952-11-12 Road Sabotage - Turkey
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1950-03-20 International Blackmail - Switzerland
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1950-11-18 Memory Chain Equation - Munich
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1950-05-31 Antidote in the Balkans
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1955-11-24 Rescue Rick Perez - Venezuela
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1950-09-13 Chromite Mine Disaster - Balkans
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1953-04-01 Assignment Caribbean
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1953-02-25 Black Market in Jewels - France
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1951-01-27 A Box of Busted Bells - Cairo
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Dangerous Assignment 1955-05-20 The Nazi Buzz Bomb - Ny, London, Denmark, Holland
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
28 more sets hold only episodes played here from a set above.
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