Dangerous Assignment

 

 

Steve Mitchell É two-fisted government agent.

At all those places of the world where danger and intrigue walk hand in hand,

 there you will find Steve Mitchell on another dangerous assignment!

 

Starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Dangerous Assignment is a product of the Cold War, with mystery and intrigue cropping up across the globe. Mitchell, an agent for an unnamed U.S. government agency, is dispatched to some exotic, faraway place at the beginning of each episode. Herb Butterfield is the Commissioner, a taskmaster shrouded in secrecy who serves up the situations that Mitchell never refuses. The Commissioner's secretary is played by Betty Moran. She seems to care about the Steve's welfare, whilst the Commissioner is just concerned about Steve getting the job done.

Mitchell's narration is done in the first person, present tense, adding an unusual twist for this type of show. But the plot is always good (USA and Freedom) against unspeakable evil (Communism and the Iron Curtain).

The worldwide locations are dealt up with a feeling of local, and the characters that inhabit these far-away places are solid and capably acted by veterans.

Brian Donlevy carries the plots with a world-weary and wary tone that makes sense, based on his occupation. But he's given to action and this radio show certainly delivers on that score.

 

Yeah, danger is my assignment.

I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce,

but they all spell the same thing: trouble !

 

The radio show ran for 3 seasons commencing with a "summer run" on 9th July 1949 before settling into a regular slot on 6th February 1950.

In all, 94 different thirty minute episodes have survived.

 

Want to check out an episode? - why not "taste & try"?

 

This episode can be freely downloaded to your computer - just right button click on any link below and chose "Download Linked File" (or words to that effect). The file is on an average about 17Mb - download time will depend on your (broadband) speed

 

DA_1950-05-17 The Lost City.mp3

 

There was also an Australian version of Dangerous Assignment. This time Steve Mitchell was played by Lloyd Berrell but the set up was the much the same as that of the US version: The adventures of Steve Mitchell on special and dangerous assignments for his Government, in the ceaseless undercover war against the enemies of freedom

 

These 3 MP3 CDs contain all 94 of the Brian Donlevy episodes of Dangerous Assignment (there were 2 repeat shows, but they are not included here).

Also included here are two episodes of the Australian version of the series starring Lloyd Berrell.

 

 

Dangerous Assignment Radio Log

A. US Series

 

1.           DA_1949-07-09 Relief Supplies.mp3

2.           DA_1949-07-16 Sunken Ships.mp3

3.           DA_1949-07-23 Nigerian Safari.mp3

4.           DA_1949-08-06 Millionaire Murders.mp3

5.           DA_1949-08-13 Alien Smuggling Ring.mp3

6.           DA_1949-08-20 File #307.mp3

7.           DA_1950-02-06 Missing Japanese Weapons.mp3

8.           DA_1950-02-13 Captain Rock.mp3

9.           DA_1950-02-20 The Greek Connection.mp3

10.       DA_1950-03-06 Wire Spool.mp3

11.       DA_1950-03-20 International Blackmail.mp3

12.       DA_1950-03-27 The Sheik's Secret.mp3

13.       DA_1950-04-10 Pirate Loot.mp3

14.       DA_1950-04-17 UFO's in Equador.mp3

15.       DA_1950-04-24 The Nazi and the Physicist.mp3

16.       DA_1950-05-03 Sabotage in Paris.mp3

17.       DA_1950-05-10 Oslo - The Professor is a Spy.mp3

18.       DA_1950-05-17 The Lost City.mp3

19.       DA_1950-05-24 Burmese Witness.mp3

20.       DA_1950-05-31 Little White Pill.mp3

21.       DA_1950-06-07 Deadly Bacteria.mp3

22.       DA_1950-07-26 Five Gardenias.mp3

23.       DA_1950-08-02 Vienna Mystery.mp3

24.       DA_1950-08-09 Death Drums.mp3

25.       DA_1950-08-16 Hired Killer.mp3

26.       DA_1950-08-23 Bombay Gun Runners.mp3

27.       DA_1950-08-30 Guided Missile Plans.mp3

28.       DA_1950-09-06 Assignment Mine Disaster.mp3

29.       DA_1950-09-20 Trained Seal.mp3

30.       DA_1950-09-27 Latin America.mp3

31.       DA_1950-09-29 Forged Papers.mp3

32.       DA_1950-10-06 Tokyo.mp3

33.       DA_1950-11-18 Memory Chain.mp3

34.       DA_1950-11-25 The Football Play.mp3

35.       DA_1950-12-02 The Empty Matchbook.mp3

36.       DA_1950-12-09 Berlin Kidnapping.mp3

37.       DA_1950-12-16 Assignment Richmond.mp3

38.       DA_1950-12-30 Assignment Eastern Europe.mp3

39.       DA_1951-01-06 Anti-Sub Plans.mp3

40.       DA_1951-01-13 Missing Scientist.mp3

41.       DA_1951-01-20 Mighty Powder Puff.mp3

42.       DA_1951-01-27 A Box of Busted Bells.mp3

43.       DA_1951-02-03 Nazi Fugitive.mp3

44.       DA_1951-02-10 Kroner Cutlass.mp3

45.       DA_1951-02-17 Malaya and Rubber.mp3

46.       DA_1951-02-24 The Bronx- The Nazi Buzz Bomb.mp3

47.       DA_1951-03-03 London - The Secret Code.mp3

48.       DA_1951-03-10 Roquel - Steve's Murder.mp3

49.       DA_1951-03-24 The Canal Zone - A Piece of String.mp3

50.       DA_1951-03-31 The Balkans - File 72.mp3

51.       DA_1951-04-14 Middle East - A Tray of Dirty Dishes.mp3

52.       DA_1951-04-21 Pen Mightier than the Sword.mp3

53.       DA_1951-04-28 Assignment The Balkans.mp3

54.       DA_1951-05-04 Find Rudolf Karpel.mp3

55.       DA_1951-05-11 Needle in a Haystack.mp3

56.       DA_1951-05-18 Operation Hot Foot.mp3

57.       DA_1951-06-19 Assignment Japan.mp3

58.       DA_1951-06-26 The Suspicious Cylinder.mp3

59.       DA_1951-07-03 South America - A Country's Democracy Threatened.mp3

60.       DA_1951-07-10 Assignment China Sea.mp3

61.       DA_1952-03-10 Assignment  Ghost Hunters.mp3

62.       DA_1952-10-13 To Ask a Guy to Shoot You.mp3

63.       DA_1952-10-20 Butterfly Chasers.mp3

64.       DA_1952-10-27 The Smuggling Racket.mp3

65.       DA_1952-11-10 Assignment Turkey.mp3

66.       DA_1952-11-17 The Private Sanitorium.mp3

67.       DA_1952-11-24 A Nursery Rhyme.mp3

68.       DA_1952-12-01 Nice - Italian Actress.mp3

69.       DA_1952-12-08 Attacking Guards.mp3

70.       DA_1952-12-15 Turkish Road Sabotage.mp3

71.       DA_1952-12-22 Assignment USA.mp3

72.       DA_1952-12-29 Street Car 17.mp3

73.       DA_1953-01-05 Assignment Ellis Chandler.mp3

74.       DA_1953-01-12 The Blue Lion.mp3

75.       DA_1953-01-19 The Jade Knife.mp3

76.       DA_1953-01-26 Assignment Mexico.mp3

77.       DA_1953-02-02 Assignment Greece.mp3

78.       DA_1953-02-09 Family Squabble.mp3

79.       DA_1953-02-18 Doctor MacDougal.mp3

80.       DA_1953-02-25 Black Market in Jewels.mp3

81.       DA_1953-03-04 Henrich Swindorff.mp3

82.       DA_1953-03-11 Ghost Ship.mp3

83.       DA_1953-03-18 Stolen Information.mp3

84.       DA_1953-03-25 Assignment in Portugal.mp3

85.       DA_1953-04-01 Assignment Caribbean.mp3

86.       DA_1953-04-08 Assignment Paris.mp3

87.       DA_1953-04-15 Lenny Fenway.mp3

88.       DA_1953-04-22 London - Nikoli Debarov.mp3

89.       DA_1953-04-29 The Anti-Submarine Project.mp3

90.       DA_1953-05-06 Assignment Trieste.mp3

91.       DA_1953-05-20 Oslo - The Stolen Blueprints.mp3

92.       DA_1953-05-27 A Hired Assassin.mp3

93.       DA_1953-06-24 James Stroller.mp3

94.       DA_1953-07-01 Anthony Tagul.mp3

 

B. Australian Series

 

1.           DAAU_1955-10-26 Burma.mp3

2.           DAAU_1956-05-16 Tibet.mp3

 

 

 

Old Time Radio Home