The Great Detectives Present Dangerous Assignment (Old Time Radio)

Mar 04 2025 101 ep. 35 mins 38
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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.

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Dangerous Assignment: Berlin Kidnapping Ring

Mar 04 2025 40 mins  
Original Release Date: March 8, 2023Today'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, 1950Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at http://

Dangerous Assignment: The Empty Matchbook

Feb 25 2025 39 mins  
Original Release Date: March 1, 2023Today'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, 1950Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.'Mail

Dangerous Assignment: The Football Play

Feb 18 2025 38 mins  
Original Release Date: February 22, 2023Today'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, 1950Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.'Mail a d

Dangerous Assignment: Memory Chain Equation

Feb 11 2025 37 mins  
Original Release Date: February 15, 2023Today'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, 1950Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Grah

Dangerous Assignment:Contact Marta Gelber and Smash Sabotage Ring

Feb 04 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, 1950Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.netMail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 159

Dangerous Assignment: Forged Identification Papers Racket

Jan 28 2025 43 mins  
Original Release Date: February 1, 2023Today'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, 1950Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at http://support.gre

Dangerous Assignment: Retrieve Slarga from Latin America

Jan 21 2025 41 mins  
Original Release Date: January 25, 2023Today'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, 1950Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at https://

Dangerous Assignment: Contact Lefty the Trained Seal

Jan 14 2025 35 mins  
Original Release Date: January 18, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Istanbul where a seal and his trainer are at the center of a murder case involving an agent investigating a spy ring.Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1950Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.Mail a donation to

Dangerous Assignment: Chromite Mine Disaster

Jan 07 2025 36 mins  
Original Release Date: January 11, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to the Balkans to find out what's behind a series of murders at an allegedly cursed chromite mine.Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 6, 1950Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Bo

Dangerous Assignment: Recover Stolen Missile Plan Microfilm

Dec 31 2024 37 mins  
Original Release Date: January 4, 2023Today's Mystery:Steve is sent on a chase across Great Britain and Ireland to try and locate stolen microfilm.Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 30, 1950Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 8