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Dangerous Assignment

TV·1952–1952·1 season, 41 episodes·Action & Adventure·30m

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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

Season0141Episodes1952AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01The TruthJanuary 1, 1952
  2. S01E02Displaced Persons Story
  3. S01E03The Displaced Persons StoryRefugees on a ship bound for a new home are terrorized by a saboteur.
  4. S01E04The Memory ChainSteve must smash a spy ring that transmits top secret information the old-fashioned way--by word of mouth.
  5. S01E05The Manager StoryIn Stockholm, a child is kidnapped in order to prevent his father from exposing an espionage ring.
  6. S01E06The Key StorySteve must risk his life in the Swiss Alps to recover a document that proves a country's recently deceased leader was murdered.
  7. S01E07The Bhandara StorySteve travels to Bombay in order to clear a jailed American citizen of sabotage charges.
  8. S01E08Civil War Map Story
  9. S01E09Italian Movie Story
  10. S01E10The Blood Stained Feather Story
  11. S01E11The Italian Movie StorySteve's assignment this time is to travel to Rome in order to recover vital film footage stolen from a movie company.
  12. S01E12Sunflower Seed Story
  13. S01E13The Burma Temple StorySteve is sent to Burma to investigate the murder of a newspaperman who was posing as a political refugee.
  14. S01E14The Sunflower Seed StoryIt's Steve to the rescue when an American citizen is accused of murdering the head of a South American political party.
  15. S01E15The Caboose StorySteve must discover whether or not an old galpal, who's now an enemy agent, is behind acts of sabotage in Japan.
  16. S01E16The Missing Diplomat StoryMay 19, 1952In Barcelona, Steve tries to retrieve a taped conversation of a European diplomat who has disappeared.
  17. S01E17The Briefcase StorySteve must stop a saboteur's attack on a conference in Paris between Western and Eastern bloc nations.
  18. S01E18The Civil War Map StorySteve tries to find out the connection between the murder of a well-known foreign agent and the theft of a Civil War map.
  19. S01E19The Piece of String StorySteve tries to determine the connection between a piece of string found on a corpse and the theft of dynamite in Panama.
  20. S01E20The Salami StorySteve 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
  21. S01E21The Dead General's StoryIn the Balkans, Steve must locate a murdered general's secret documents before enemy agents can get their hands on them.
  22. S01E22The Parachute StorySteve parachutes into Eastern Europe to search for a witness who can clear the United States of an international frame.
  23. S01E23The Paris Sewer StorySteve discovers a Commie spy ring operating out of the sewers of Paris.
  24. S01E24Bodyguard AssignmentMarch 10, 1952
  25. S01E25The Bodyguard StoryIn Paris, Steve's only clue to the identity of an assassin is a bowl of cold stew.
  26. S01E26The One Blue Chip StoryApril 14, 1952
  27. S01E27The Blue Chip StorySteve travels to Macao and poses as a crook to stop a counterfeiting ring that's flooding the Far East with phony United States currency.
  28. S01E28The Red Queen StorySteve is sent to Singapore to recover a million dollars worth of rubber that was stolen from the United States.
  29. S01E29The Knitting Needle StorySteve must protect an Italian journalist with information about Mafia activity in an election on the newsman's flight back to Italy.
  30. S01E30The Assassin Ring StoryAn American businessman is framed for assassinating the King of Transjordan. Steve travels to the country to prove that other elements were
  31. S01E31The Decoy StorySteve uses a decoy to smuggle a U.S. diplomat out of Eastern Europe.
  32. S01E32The Perfect AlibiMay 26, 1952
  33. S01E33The Stolen LetterSteve is sent to South America to expose a plot against the United States.
  34. S01E34The Black Stocking Story
  35. S01E35The Black Hood StoryIn Berlin, Steve is on the trail of two masked men who swiped a valuable briefcase containing confidential documents from a diplomatic couri
  36. S01E36The Archeological StorySteve poses as an agitator in Transjordan to stop a fanatic bent on starting a revolt against his government.
  37. S01E37The Perfect Alibi StoryMay 26, 1952After a murder in Rome, Steve discovers that someone has been impersonating him.
  38. S01E38The Mine StorySteve 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.
  39. S01E39The Full Dress Suit StorySteve negotiates the dangerous back alleys of Havana in search of a spy in possession of stolen documents on microfilm.
  40. S01E40The Alien Smuggler StoryFebruary 13, 1950Agent Steve Mitchell journeys to Portugal to help his friend and fellow agent bust a human smuggling operation.
  41. S01E41The Havana Microfilm StoryMay 19, 1952

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