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Dangerous Assignment — Season 1

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About this season

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.

Episodes (41)

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E1

1. The Truth

Aired 1 January 1952 • 30 min

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2. Displaced Persons Story

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E3

3. The Displaced Persons Story

Refugees on a ship bound for a new home are terrorized by a saboteur.

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E4

4. The Memory Chain

Steve must smash a spy ring that transmits top secret information the old-fashioned way--by word of mouth.

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E5

5. The Manager Story

In Stockholm, a child is kidnapped in order to prevent his father from exposing an espionage ring.

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E6

6. The Key Story

Steve must risk his life in the Swiss Alps to recover a document that proves a country's recently deceased leader was murdered.

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E7

7. The Bhandara Story

Steve travels to Bombay in order to clear a jailed American citizen of sabotage charges.

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E8

8. Civil War Map Story

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E9

9. Italian Movie Story

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E10

10. The Blood Stained Feather Story

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11. The Italian Movie Story

Steve's assignment this time is to travel to Rome in order to recover vital film footage stolen from a movie company.

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12. Sunflower Seed Story

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E13

13. The Burma Temple Story

Steve is sent to Burma to investigate the murder of a newspaperman who was posing as a political refugee.

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14. The Sunflower Seed Story

It's Steve to the rescue when an American citizen is accused of murdering the head of a South American political party.

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E15

15. The Caboose Story

Steve must discover whether or not an old galpal, who's now an enemy agent, is behind acts of sabotage in Japan.

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E16

16. The Missing Diplomat Story

Aired 19 May 1952 • 30 min

In Barcelona, Steve tries to retrieve a taped conversation of a European diplomat who has disappeared.

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E17

17. The Briefcase Story

Steve must stop a saboteur's attack on a conference in Paris between Western and Eastern bloc nations.

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E18

18. The Civil War Map Story

Steve tries to find out the connection between the murder of a well-known foreign agent and the theft of a Civil War map.

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E19

19. The Piece of String Story

Steve tries to determine the connection between a piece of string found on a corpse and the theft of dynamite in Panama.

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E20

20. The Salami Story

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.

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E21

21. The Dead General's Story

In the Balkans, Steve must locate a murdered general's secret documents before enemy agents can get their hands on them.

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E22

22. The Parachute Story

Steve parachutes into Eastern Europe to search for a witness who can clear the United States of an international frame.

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23. The Paris Sewer Story

Steve discovers a Commie spy ring operating out of the sewers of Paris.

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24. Bodyguard Assignment

Aired 10 March 1952 • 30 min

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25. The Bodyguard Story

In Paris, Steve's only clue to the identity of an assassin is a bowl of cold stew.

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26. The One Blue Chip Story

Aired 14 April 1952 • 30 min

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27. The Blue Chip Story

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.

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E28

28. The Red Queen Story

Steve is sent to Singapore to recover a million dollars worth of rubber that was stolen from the United States.

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E29

29. The Knitting Needle Story

Steve must protect an Italian journalist with information about Mafia activity in an election on the newsman's flight back to Italy.

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E30

30. The Assassin Ring Story

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.

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E31

31. The Decoy Story

Steve uses a decoy to smuggle a U.S. diplomat out of Eastern Europe.

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32. The Perfect Alibi

Aired 26 May 1952 • 30 min

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E33

33. The Stolen Letter

Steve is sent to South America to expose a plot against the United States.

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E34

34. The Black Stocking Story

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E35

35. The Black Hood Story

In Berlin, Steve is on the trail of two masked men who swiped a valuable briefcase containing confidential documents from a diplomatic courier.

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E36

36. The Archeological Story

Steve poses as an agitator in Transjordan to stop a fanatic bent on starting a revolt against his government.

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E37

37. The Perfect Alibi Story

Aired 26 May 1952 • 30 min

After a murder in Rome, Steve discovers that someone has been impersonating him.

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E38

38. The Mine Story

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.

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E39

39. The Full Dress Suit Story

Steve negotiates the dangerous back alleys of Havana in search of a spy in possession of stolen documents on microfilm.

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E40

40. The Alien Smuggler Story

Aired 13 February 1950 • 30 min

Agent Steve Mitchell journeys to Portugal to help his friend and fellow agent bust a human smuggling operation.

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41. The Havana Microfilm Story

Aired 19 May 1952 • 30 min

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