Theater of the Mind
Dangerous Assignment
103 episodes · 1949–1953 · NBC · Adventure
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Brian Donlevy created Dangerous Assignment, produced it, and starred as Steve Mitchell, the agent "the Commissioner" sent to trouble spots around the world, usually posing as a foreign correspondent. It began on NBC on July 9, 1949, as a seven-week summer series, returned February 6, 1950, and ran until July 8, 1953. Donlevy also made 39 episodes for television with his own money.
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Episodes
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19496 episodes
- Stolen Relief Supplies
The first show: Steve Mitchell goes to Sicily after stolen relief supplies and ends up in the mountains, fighting a bandit. - Sabotage in Saigon
Steve is sent to Saigon to find out why three ships went down. - Manganese in Nigeria
Steve goes to Nigeria to secure the rights to a new manganese find. - The Millionaire Murders
Steve flies to Paris to look into the murders of several millionaires. - The Smuggling Ring
A fellow agent is found hanged in the bell tower of a Portuguese fishing village, and Steve sets out to break a smuggling racket. - Recover File 307
Steve Mitchell goes to Zurich to recover File 307. Who is the mysterious Bruner?
195034 episodes
- Find Bill Thorne and Missing Japanese Weapons
The first show of the season: Steve flies to Panama after missing Japanese weapons and a friend's killer. - Investigate Who Stabbed Captain Rocq
In Tangier, Steve impersonates a captain who has just been murdered. - Stolen Radar Plans
Steve is sent to Athens to recover stolen radar plans. - White Jade Cafe (Macao)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists a broadcast on this date but gives no title. - The Wire Recorder Spool
Steve Mitchell goes to San Diego after a spool of wire recording a threat to world security, and the trail leads to a bumpy bus ride in Latin America. - 012-recover Wire Spool
- International Blackmail
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Renew Sheik Haroun's Uranium Deal
Steve goes to Cairo to persuade a sheik to renew his uranium agreement. - Recover Underwater Demolition Secrets
In Trinidad, Steve signs on as a diver searching for a modern sunken treasure. - Flying Saucers
Steve is sent to Ecuador to look into flying saucers. - The Nazi and the Physicist
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Alaska-Missing Scientists.” - Find Szabo and the Briefcase (Paris)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Sabotage in Paris.” - Smash Lecture Circuit Spy Ring
One of six traveling lecturers is a spy, and Steve goes to Oslo to unmask him. - The Lost City
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Solve Kent Jackson's Murder
Steve goes to Mandalay, where the biggest fish turns up in a freight car. - Administer the Little White Pill Antidote
Steve is sent behind the Iron Curtain to free an imprisoned agent. - Find Champlin and His Reel of Tape
In Istanbul, Steve tracks deadly bacteria, and a tape recorder helps solve the case. - Find the Guerrilla Chief and Stop Him
Steve goes to the Far East to find a guerrilla leader and stop a civil war. - Recover Lost Troop Movement Document
Steve is sent to the consulate in Vienna to recover stolen documents. - Defeat African Hate Campaign
Steve goes to the Gold Coast of Africa, where local witch doctors are stirring up trouble. - Find Hired Killer Lupac (Paris)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Get Gouda Before the Gun Runners
In Bombay, Steve helps an American framed for gunrunning. - Recover Stolen Missle Plan Microfilm (London)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Guided Missile.” - Keep Chromite Mine Operating
Trouble at a Balkan chromite mine threatens a vital supply. - Trained Seal
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “South America.” - Retrieve Slarga from Latin America
Steve flies to South America to keep two countries from going to war. - Forged Identification Papers Ring (Trinidad)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Tokyo
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Memory Chain
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Munich.” - The Football Play (Indo-China)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Dispel Alleged Overthrow Plot
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Empty Matchbook.” - Berlin Kidnapping Ring
A kidnapping ring is at work in Berlin, and the case takes some strange turns for Steve. - Assignment Richmond
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Intercept Dr. Korvel Before the Opposition
In Eastern Europe, Steve must find a doctor traveling in disguise who can unite his country.
195124 episodes
- Operation Fish Hook (Haiti)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Anti-Sub Plans.” - Find Missing Scientist Dr. Wieczek
In Madrid, Steve looks for a missing scientist and his new radio tube, and meets a lady bullfighter. - Mighty Powder Puff
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - A Box of Busted Bells (Cairo)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Raiders on the Rubber Plantation
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Nazi Fugitive.” - Recover Kroner Cutlass
Steve goes to Eastern Europe to recover a jeweled cutlass, a symbol of the nation. - Retrieve Data on Nazi Buzz Bombs
Plans for an improved Nazi buzz bomb are stolen, and the trail starts in the Bronx. - The Compromised Codes
In London, Steve must stop a meeting that would compromise American diplomatic codes, and ends up on a plane to Athens with four suspects. - Solve Your Own Murder
Steve flies to South America to solve his own murder. - Macau
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists a broadcast on this date but gives no title. - Recover Stolen Dynamite
Dynamite is stolen in the Canal Zone. - Java possibly
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists a broadcast on this date but gives no title. - Recover File 72, Seal Unbroken
File 72 is stolen and offered as bait in the Balkans. - Recover Stolen U.N. Documents
In the Middle East, Steve helps talks for an American base, and his life depends on a tray. - Retrieve Gouczek from French Riviera
On the French Riviera, Steve is to smuggle out an atomic scientist, but his contact is found murdered. - Smash Outlaw Propaganda Broadcasts
Steve goes into radio, putting an outlaw station on the air in the Balkans. - Find Rudolf Karpel
In Rotterdam, Steve hunts a former Nazi. - Find Cause of Landsberg Epidemic
An epidemic in a West German town looks like germ warfare. - Operation Hot Foot
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Assignment Japan
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Japan-Mr. Big.” - The Suspicious Cylinder
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Italy-Continental Defense Corp..” - Did the American Hartley Kill Borrego?
Steve tries to save a South American democracy after an American seems to have killed a politician. - Assignment China Sea
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Luzon-Smuggling Operation.” - Nazi Fugitive - Captain Shiller
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists a broadcast on this date but gives no title.
195215 episodes
- Find Eli Bryant, American Traitor
Steve goes to Darwin, Australia, to solve a murder. - The Stolen Treaty
Steve goes to Port Said to recover a stolen treaty. - Underground Press
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - To Ask a Guy to Shoot You (Indonesia)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Thief Spotted in Indonesia.” - Recover Document from Butterfly Chasers
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Smash Smuggling Racket Organization
In Havana, Steve learns that sometimes the only way to win is to forget the whole thing. - The Smuggling Racket (Havana)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Havana-Smuggling Ring.” - Recover the Diplomatic File from Mr. Alexander
In Istanbul, Steve goes after a secret defense survey stolen from the embassy in Rome. - The Private Sanatorium
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Bring Back Emerson.” - A Nursery Rhyme
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Peddling Secret Information.” - Nice - Italian Actress
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Protection Racket.” - Uncover G.i.Attackers Frame-up
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Riot.” - Assignment Turkey
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Turkey-Road Sabotage.” - Lecturing Professors (Sweden)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Usa-A Trip Down the Hall.” - Street Car 17 (Trieste)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Atomic Secrets.”
195324 episodes
- Smash Gun-running Operation
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Colonel Chan.” - The Blue Lion (London)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Leak of Strategic Materials (Burma)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Get Evidence to Nail Mr. Charon
In Mexico City, the way to catch the right man is to chase the wrong one. - Arnold Freed Kidnapped (Greece)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Missing Scientist.” - Resolve a Strategic Mining Lease Family Squabble
In the Belgian Congo, Steve has to stop a family feud over a mining lease. - Resolve Doctor Mitsuko Scandal
In Tokyo, Steve looks for whoever kidnapped a doctor. - Smash Black Market Jewel Ring
Steve turns jewel thief in Nice to catch a black-market gang. - Retrieve Peter Mettnick, Alive
In Germany, Steve hunts for a man who can identify a Nazi killer. - Ghost Ship (North Borneo)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Nail Mr. Big of the Bureau
In Oslo, Steve takes on the Bureau, a gang that deals in stolen information. - Find Antonina (Portugal)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Lisbon.” - Rescue Rick Perez (Venezuela)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Caribbean.” - Boy Used as Courier (Paris)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Paris.” - Find Lenny Fenway and Get Him Out of Tibet
Steve goes to India to find an airline owner who flew to Tibet. - Bait a Trap with Nikolai Debarov
In London, Steve is bodyguard to a man who doesn't exist. - Put an End to Anti-submarine Base Sabotage
Steve goes to New Guinea to stop sabotage of an anti-submarine project. - Intercept Strategic Materials Smuggling Ring
In Rome, Steve breaks up a gang smuggling strategic materials behind the Iron Curtain. - Get the Man Trying to Sabotage Cooperation Talks
In Cairo, Steve tries to stop the sabotage of talks with the Egyptian government. - Recover Stolen Blueprints
In Oslo, Steve recovers stolen plans for a new Navy computer. - Find a Hired Assassin
In Havana, Steve hunts a hired killer who uses poison. - Grab James C. Stroller
In Damascus, Steve goes after an American wanted for murder. - Find Anthony Targou
In Montreal, is the mobster really dead? And where is the plastic surgeon? - Picking Up a Bomb
Steve is sent to Saigon to pick up a bomb.