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
August 20, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: September 6, 2023
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to a South American country where an American is wanted for killing the leader of the Fascist Party in order to prevent the election of an anti-US Government.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1951
Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, William Conrad, Betty Lou Gerson, Tony Barrett, Paul Frees, Willia...
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to a South American country where an American is wanted for killing the leader of the Fascist Party in order to prevent the election of an anti-US Government.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1951
Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, William Conrad, Betty Lou Gerson, Tony Barrett, Paul Frees, Willia...
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August 13, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: August 30, 2023
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Rome to find out why someone tried to bribe a student into smuggling a recording cylinder to Europe that contained a routine report on the prevalence of the common cold.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 26, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Raymond Burr, Tony Barrett, Lou Krugman, Betty Lou Ge...
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Rome to find out why someone tried to bribe a student into smuggling a recording cylinder to Europe that contained a routine report on the prevalence of the common cold.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 26, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Raymond Burr, Tony Barrett, Lou Krugman, Betty Lou Ge...
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August 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Original Release Date: August 23, 2023
Today's Mystery:Steve investigates a series of explosions targeting treaty negotiations in Japan.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 19, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
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Today's Mystery:Steve investigates a series of explosions targeting treaty negotiations in Japan.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 19, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
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July 30, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: August 16, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Trinidad in search of a scientist who has discovered an important microbe but failed to report on time.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 18, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Trinidad in search of a scientist who has discovered an important microbe but failed to report on time.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 18, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
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July 23, 2025 • 40 mins
Original Release Date: August 9, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to a U.S.-occupied town in West Germany to find the source of an epidemic that's making everyone sick.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 11, 1951
Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
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Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to a U.S.-occupied town in West Germany to find the source of an epidemic that's making everyone sick.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 11, 1951
Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
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July 16, 2025 • 40 mins
Original Release Date: August 2, 2023
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Rotterdam, Netherlands on a tip from a female track athlete who claims to have seen a Nazi war criminal at a china shop. The problem? The china shop has disappeared and everyone claims it was never there.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 4, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Martha Wentworth, Sid...
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Rotterdam, Netherlands on a tip from a female track athlete who claims to have seen a Nazi war criminal at a china shop. The problem? The china shop has disappeared and everyone claims it was never there.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 4, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Martha Wentworth, Sid...
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July 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Original Release Date: July 26, 2023
Steve is called in to a Balkan country to stop an American who is running an illegal radio station broadcasting anti-American propaganda.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 28, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Paul Frees, Jeanne Bates, Don Diamond, Stacy Harris, Tim Graham, Shepard Menken
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Steve is called in to a Balkan country to stop an American who is running an illegal radio station broadcasting anti-American propaganda.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 28, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Paul Frees, Jeanne Bates, Don Diamond, Stacy Harris, Tim Graham, Shepard Menken
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July 2, 2025 • 38 mins
Original Release Date: July 19, 2023
Today's Mystery:On the French Riviera, the life of a key scientist, who wants to defect, depends on Steve solving the murder of a famous writer
.Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 21, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Betty Lou Gerson, Don Diamond, Hal Girard, Lynn Allen, Fitz Feld
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Today's Mystery:On the French Riviera, the life of a key scientist, who wants to defect, depends on Steve solving the murder of a famous writer
.Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 21, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Betty Lou Gerson, Don Diamond, Hal Girard, Lynn Allen, Fitz Feld
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June 25, 2025 • 37 mins
Original Release Date: July 5, 2023
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to the Middle East to find out how sensitive diplomatic information disappeared from an official's home, and finds himself investigating the official's wife's murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 14, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Jan Arvan, Don Diamond, Wally Maher, Paul Dubov
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to the Middle East to find out how sensitive diplomatic information disappeared from an official's home, and finds himself investigating the official's wife's murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 14, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Jan Arvan, Don Diamond, Wally Maher, Paul Dubov
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June 18, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: June 28, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to the Balkans to recapture a stolen top-secret file from an official of a Balkan Country who offers to return it...for a price.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 7, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Tony Barrett, Raymond Burr, Paul Dubov, Don Diamond
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to the Balkans to recapture a stolen top-secret file from an official of a Balkan Country who offers to return it...for a price.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 7, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Tony Barrett, Raymond Burr, Paul Dubov, Don Diamond
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June 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: June 21, 2023
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Java to make himself a target for someone who's stolen half of a top-secret formula...and killed the person who had it.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 31, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Java to make himself a target for someone who's stolen half of a top-secret formula...and killed the person who had it.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 31, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
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Support the show on a one-time basis at http://sup...
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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
Support the show monthly at patreon.gre...
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
Support the show monthly at patreon.gre...
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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
Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net
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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
Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net
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