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Dangerous Assignment
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A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.
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- E1 The TruthNext upJan 1, 1952 · 30 min
- E2 Displaced Persons StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Robert Easton, Dayton Lummis
- E3 The Displaced Persons StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Refugees on a ship bound for a new home are terrorized by a saboteur.
Guest stars: Pamela Duncan, Henry Rowland
- E4 The Memory ChainDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve must smash a spy ring that transmits top secret information the old-fashioned way--by word of mouth.
Guest stars: Stanley Waxman, Dan Seymour (Gordell), Jeanne Bates (Eve Schaeffer), Larry J. Blake (August), Benjie Bancroft (Lodge Guest (uncredited)), John Breen (Hotel Guest (uncredited))
- E5 The Manager StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
In Stockholm, a child is kidnapped in order to prevent his father from exposing an espionage ring.
Guest stars: Peter Brocco, Sandy Descher, Hugh Beaumont, Paul Frees, Arthur Space
- E6 The Key StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve must risk his life in the Swiss Alps to recover a document that proves a country's recently deceased leader was murdered.
Guest stars: Dan Seymour, Stanley Waxman
- E7 The Bhandara StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve travels to Bombay in order to clear a jailed American citizen of sabotage charges.
Guest stars: Shepard Menken, Hillary Brooke, Philip Van Zandt, Stanley Waxman, Lee Tung Foo, Leonard Strong
- E8 Civil War Map StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Ted Hecht, Dan Seymour (Gluka), Jan Arvan (Policeman), Jim Davis (Holcomb), Ben Wright (Duval)
- E9 Italian Movie StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Nelson Leigh, Leslie Denison, John Warburton
- E10 The Blood Stained Feather StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: John Hoyt, John Wengraf
- E11 The Italian Movie StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve's assignment this time is to travel to Rome in order to recover vital film footage stolen from a movie company.
Guest stars: Fritz Feld, Harry Guardino, Peter Leeds, Martín Garralaga
- E12 Sunflower Seed StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Henry Corden, Lyle Talbot, Bruce Lester
- E13 The Burma Temple StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve is sent to Burma to investigate the murder of a newspaperman who was posing as a political refugee.
Guest stars: Steven Geray, Elisabeth Fraser, Arthur Space, Ted Hecht
- E14 The Sunflower Seed StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
It's Steve to the rescue when an American citizen is accused of murdering the head of a South American political party.
Guest stars: Steven Geray, Steve Pendleton, Edgar Barrier, David Bauer
- E15 The Caboose StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve must discover whether or not an old galpal, who's now an enemy agent, is behind acts of sabotage in Japan.
Guest stars: Lyle Talbot
- E16 The Missing Diplomat StoryMay 19, 1952 · 30 min
Synopsis
In Barcelona, Steve tries to retrieve a taped conversation of a European diplomat who has disappeared.
Guest stars: Rudolph Anders, Edgar Barrier, Lyle Talbot (George), Elena Verdugo (Ketti), Edgar Barrier (Majak), Keith Richards (Emil), Sidney Miller (Xavier)
- E17 The Briefcase StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve must stop a saboteur's attack on a conference in Paris between Western and Eastern bloc nations.
Guest stars: Don Dillaway (Comstock)
- E18 The Civil War Map StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve tries to find out the connection between the murder of a well-known foreign agent and the theft of a Civil War map.
Guest stars: Thurston Hall, Betty Lou Gerson, Harry Bartell, Harry Hayden
- E19 The Piece of String StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve tries to determine the connection between a piece of string found on a corpse and the theft of dynamite in Panama.
Guest stars: Steve Pendleton, Dan Seymour, Hugh Beaumont, Robert B. Williams
- E20 The Salami StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve hops on a French train to protect the head of an American plastics corporation who's traveling to a foreign conference. He finds the industrialist shot dead and missing are the man's documents detailing a new discovery in weapons. With the help of a French businessman, Steve goes undercover among the passengers looking for a suspect.
Guest stars: Dan Seymour (Gluka), Jan Arvan (Policeman), Jim Davis (Holcomb), Ben Wright (Duval), Elena Verdugo (Karen)
- E21 The Dead General's StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
In the Balkans, Steve must locate a murdered general's secret documents before enemy agents can get their hands on them.
Guest stars: Nestor Paiva, John Dehner
- E22 The Parachute StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve parachutes into Eastern Europe to search for a witness who can clear the United States of an international frame.
Guest stars: John Dehner
- E23 The Paris Sewer StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve discovers a Commie spy ring operating out of the sewers of Paris.
Guest stars: Jean Del Val, Jim Davis, Leo Penn
- E24 Bodyguard AssignmentMar 10, 1952 · 30 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: William Tannen
- E25 The Bodyguard StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
In Paris, Steve's only clue to the identity of an assassin is a bowl of cold stew.
Guest stars: Steven Geray, Nestor Paiva, Michael Ansara, James Flavin, Ted Hecht
- E26 The One Blue Chip StoryApr 14, 1952 · 30 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Nestor Paiva, George D. Wallace, Adele Jergens (Marilyn), Joseph Mell, Ted Hecht
- E27 The Blue Chip StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve travels to Macao and poses as a crook to stop a counterfeiting ring that's flooding the Far East with phony United States currency.
Guest stars: Michael Ansara, Elisabeth Fraser, Douglass Dumbrille
- E28 The Red Queen StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve is sent to Singapore to recover a million dollars worth of rubber that was stolen from the United States.
Guest stars: Mabel Paige, Elena Verdugo (Lana), Percy Helton (Max), Henry Rowland (Rudolph Beiser)
- E29 The Knitting Needle StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve must protect an Italian journalist with information about Mafia activity in an election on the newsman's flight back to Italy.
Guest stars: Clancy Cooper, Frances Rafferty, William Boyett, James Flavin
- E30 The Assassin Ring StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
An American businessman is framed for assassinating the King of Transjordan. Steve travels to the country to prove that other elements were responsible for the killing.
Guest stars: Hugh Beaumont, Edgar Barrier
- E31 The Decoy StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve uses a decoy to smuggle a U.S. diplomat out of Eastern Europe.
Guest stars: Peter Brocco, Jim Davis, Michael Ansara
- E32 The Perfect AlibiMay 26, 1952 · 30 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Peter Brocco, Harry Guardino, Gordon Jones
- E33 The Stolen LetterDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve is sent to South America to expose a plot against the United States.
Guest stars: Nestor Paiva, Lyle Talbot, Dan Seymour, Jim Davis, Elisabeth Fraser, John Dehner
- E34 The Black Stocking StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Strother Martin, Lawrence Dobkin, James Griffith
- E35 The Black Hood StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
In Berlin, Steve is on the trail of two masked men who swiped a valuable briefcase containing confidential documents from a diplomatic courier.
Guest stars: John Alvin, Joe Turkel
- E36 The Archeological StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve poses as an agitator in Transjordan to stop a fanatic bent on starting a revolt against his government.
Guest stars: Henry Corden, Lyle Talbot, Jim Davis, Rick Vallin
- E37 The Perfect Alibi StoryMay 26, 1952 · 30 min
Synopsis
After a murder in Rome, Steve discovers that someone has been impersonating him.
Guest stars: Dolores Moran, Virginia Christine (Carla Fabri), Jan Arvan (Umberto), Philip Van Zandt (Angelo), John Doucette (Armand Ratka)
- E38 The Mine StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve gets smuggled into a slave labor camp to get vital information but then finds that it's going to be a lot harder getting out.
Guest stars: Fritz Feld, Michael Ansara, Joseph Mell
- E39 The Full Dress Suit StoryDate to be announced · 30 min
Synopsis
Steve negotiates the dangerous back alleys of Havana in search of a spy in possession of stolen documents on microfilm.
- E40 The Alien Smuggler StoryAirs Feb 13, 1950 · 30 min
Synopsis
Agent Steve Mitchell journeys to Portugal to help his friend and fellow agent bust a human smuggling operation.
- E41 The Havana Microfilm StoryAirs May 19, 1952 · 30 min
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