Dangerous Assignment| Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Cold War Thrillers
Adam Graham is your guide as each week we present another episode of Dangerous Assignment, a 1949-53 radio starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, a troubleshooter who throws into danger all around the world in stories of mystery and international intrigue.
Episodes
June 4, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: June 7, 2023
Today's Mystery:Steven goes to Panama to take up the case of an old friend who was murdered while looking for stolen dynamite. Steve's only clue? A piece of string found in his pocket.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 24, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Stacy Harris, Al Brown, Kay Stewart, Byron Kane, Don Diamond, Raymond ...
Today's Mystery:Steven goes to Panama to take up the case of an old friend who was murdered while looking for stolen dynamite. Steve's only clue? A piece of string found in his pocket.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 24, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Stacy Harris, Al Brown, Kay Stewart, Byron Kane, Don Diamond, Raymond ...
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May 28, 2025 • 37 mins
Original Release Date:May 31, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Macao to locate a hospital chart that could lead to a US ally being defeated for re-election.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 17, 1951
Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Buttefield as the Commissioner, Jack Moyles, Tony Barrett, Tyler McVeigh, Bill Johnstone, Peter Leeds, Betty Lou Gerson
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Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Macao to locate a hospital chart that could lead to a US ally being defeated for re-election.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 17, 1951
Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Buttefield as the Commissioner, Jack Moyles, Tony Barrett, Tyler McVeigh, Bill Johnstone, Peter Leeds, Betty Lou Gerson
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May 21, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: May 24, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to a South American country to find out who killed a man with papers identifying him as Steve Mitchell.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 10, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Wally Maher
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to a South American country to find out who killed a man with papers identifying him as Steve Mitchell.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 10, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Wally Maher
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May 14, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: May 17, 2023
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to London to intercept someone who is trying to sell a U.S. Intelligence secret.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 3, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to London to intercept someone who is trying to sell a U.S. Intelligence secret.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 3, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy
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May 7, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: May 10, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve sets out to recover stolen plans the Nazis had for an improved buzz bomb before they can be sold to the highest bidder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 24, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy
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Today's Mystery: Steve sets out to recover stolen plans the Nazis had for an improved buzz bomb before they can be sold to the highest bidder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 24, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy
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April 30, 2025 • 34 mins
Original Release Date: May 3, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Europe to clear the U.S. of having stolen a cutlass that's a powerful national symbol. The problem? A U.S. Navy officer's wife is in possession of one of the jewels from the cutlass.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 10, 1951
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Europe to clear the U.S. of having stolen a cutlass that's a powerful national symbol. The problem? A U.S. Navy officer's wife is in possession of one of the jewels from the cutlass.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 10, 1951
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
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April 23, 2025 • 33 mins
Original Release Date: April 27, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Malaysia to find an ex-Nazi fugitive who is stirring up rebellion and disrupting rubber production.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 3, 1951
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Malaysia to find an ex-Nazi fugitive who is stirring up rebellion and disrupting rubber production.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 3, 1951
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April 16, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: April 19, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Cairo to search for a missing government official whose accusation could bring down a U.S.-friendly Middle Eastern government.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 27, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Cairo to search for a missing government official whose accusation could bring down a U.S.-friendly Middle Eastern government.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 27, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy
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April 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: April 12, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Quebec to recover a report on new arctic warfare equipment that had been in the possession of a murdered scientist.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 20, 1951
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Stacy Harris
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Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Quebec to recover a report on new arctic warfare equipment that had been in the possession of a murdered scientist.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 20, 1951
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Stacy Harris
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April 2, 2025 • 34 mins
Original Release Date: April 5, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Madrid, Spain to find a prominent scientist who disappeared while defecting to the United States.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 13, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Tony Barrett, William Conrad, Paul Frees
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Madrid, Spain to find a prominent scientist who disappeared while defecting to the United States.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 13, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Tony Barrett, William Conrad, Paul Frees
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March 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: March 29, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Haiti to find out if some missing scientists are alive and to recover their research on submarine warfare.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 6, 1951
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Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Haiti to find out if some missing scientists are alive and to recover their research on submarine warfare.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 6, 1951
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March 19, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: March 28, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve has to intercept the leading citizen of an Eastern European country before he walks into a trap set by a false friend.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 30, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve has to intercept the leading citizen of an Eastern European country before he walks into a trap set by a false friend.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 30, 1950
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March 12, 2025 • 36 mins
Orignal Release Date: March 15, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Richmond to find out why a foreign agent stole a Civil War map.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 16, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Richmond to find out why a foreign agent stole a Civil War map.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 16, 1950
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March 5, 2025 • 40 mins
Original Release Date: March 8, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Berlin to stop a kidnapping and extortion racket that kidnaps German citizens and threatens to hand them over to the Eastern Bloc if their relatives don't pay a ransom.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 9, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Berlin to stop a kidnapping and extortion racket that kidnaps German citizens and threatens to hand them over to the Eastern Bloc if their relatives don't pay a ransom.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 9, 1950
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February 26, 2025 • 39 mins
Original Release Date: March 1, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to a South American country where the President of a US ally is accused of plotting war against a neighbor with the assistance of the U.S.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 2, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to a South American country where the President of a US ally is accused of plotting war against a neighbor with the assistance of the U.S.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 2, 1950
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February 19, 2025 • 38 mins
Original Release Date: February 22, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to North Indo-China (modern-day Vietnam) to retrieve an American clerk who'd been framed as a spy and then captured by guerillas.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 25, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to North Indo-China (modern-day Vietnam) to retrieve an American clerk who'd been framed as a spy and then captured by guerillas.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 25, 1950
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February 12, 2025 • 37 mins
Original Release Date: February 15, 2023
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Munich to intercept a stolen formula that's traveling by way of an inventive new route - the Memory Chain.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 18, 1950
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Munich to intercept a stolen formula that's traveling by way of an inventive new route - the Memory Chain.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 18, 1950
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February 5, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: February 8, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Tokyo to investigate a sabotage operation for which an old flame is the prime suspect.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 6, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Tokyo to investigate a sabotage operation for which an old flame is the prime suspect.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 6, 1950
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January 29, 2025 • 43 mins
Original Release Date: February 1, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve has to put a stop to an organization that's killing American tourists overseas and stealing their identities in order to smuggle their agents across the border.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 29, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve has to put a stop to an organization that's killing American tourists overseas and stealing their identities in order to smuggle their agents across the border.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 29, 1950
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January 22, 2025 • 41 mins
Original Release Date: January 25, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Latin America to retrieve a foreign agent who is willing to give the US vital secrets if they can protect him from the police and his former organization.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 27, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Latin America to retrieve a foreign agent who is willing to give the US vital secrets if they can protect him from the police and his former organization.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 27, 1950
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