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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.
Cast
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01The TruthJanuary 1, 1952—
- S01E02Displaced Persons Story—
- S01E03The Displaced Persons Story—Refugees on a ship bound for a new home are terrorized by a saboteur.
- S01E04The Memory Chain—Steve must smash a spy ring that transmits top secret information the old-fashioned way--by word of mouth.
- S01E05The Manager Story—In Stockholm, a child is kidnapped in order to prevent his father from exposing an espionage ring.
- S01E06The 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.
- S01E07The Bhandara Story—Steve travels to Bombay in order to clear a jailed American citizen of sabotage charges.
- S01E08Civil War Map Story—
- S01E09Italian Movie Story—
- S01E10The Blood Stained Feather Story—
- S01E11The 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.
- S01E12Sunflower Seed Story—
- S01E13The Burma Temple Story—Steve is sent to Burma to investigate the murder of a newspaperman who was posing as a political refugee.
- S01E14The 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.
- S01E15The Caboose Story—Steve must discover whether or not an old galpal, who's now an enemy agent, is behind acts of sabotage in Japan.
- S01E16The Missing Diplomat StoryMay 19, 1952—In Barcelona, Steve tries to retrieve a taped conversation of a European diplomat who has disappeared.
- S01E17The Briefcase Story—Steve must stop a saboteur's attack on a conference in Paris between Western and Eastern bloc nations.
- S01E18The 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.
- S01E19The 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.
- S01E20The 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 i
- S01E21The 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.
- S01E22The Parachute Story—Steve parachutes into Eastern Europe to search for a witness who can clear the United States of an international frame.
- S01E23The Paris Sewer Story—Steve discovers a Commie spy ring operating out of the sewers of Paris.
- S01E24Bodyguard AssignmentMarch 10, 1952—
- S01E25The Bodyguard Story—In Paris, Steve's only clue to the identity of an assassin is a bowl of cold stew.
- S01E26The One Blue Chip StoryApril 14, 1952—
- S01E27The 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.
- S01E28The Red Queen Story—Steve is sent to Singapore to recover a million dollars worth of rubber that was stolen from the United States.
- S01E29The 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.
- S01E30The 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
- S01E31The Decoy Story—Steve uses a decoy to smuggle a U.S. diplomat out of Eastern Europe.
- S01E32The Perfect AlibiMay 26, 1952—
- S01E33The Stolen Letter—Steve is sent to South America to expose a plot against the United States.
- S01E34The Black Stocking Story—
- S01E35The 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 couri
- S01E36The Archeological Story—Steve poses as an agitator in Transjordan to stop a fanatic bent on starting a revolt against his government.
- S01E37The Perfect Alibi StoryMay 26, 1952—After a murder in Rome, Steve discovers that someone has been impersonating him.
- S01E38The 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.
- S01E39The Full Dress Suit Story—Steve negotiates the dangerous back alleys of Havana in search of a spy in possession of stolen documents on microfilm.
- S01E40The Alien Smuggler StoryFebruary 13, 1950—Agent Steve Mitchell journeys to Portugal to help his friend and fellow agent bust a human smuggling operation.
- S01E41The Havana Microfilm StoryMay 19, 1952—
