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  • Dangerous Assignment: The Private Sanitorium

    Dangerous Assignment: The Private Sanitorium
    Oct 29 2025
    Today's Mystery:Steve is sent to Bavaria to infiltrate a sanitarium, where an American journalist who is wanted for trumped-up charges behind the Iron Curtain is being held incommunicado.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 19, 1952

    Originated in HollywoodStarring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Byron Kane; Paul Frees; Tony Barrett; Jack Kruschen; Jeanne Tatum

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    30 min
  • Dangerous Assignment: Mr. Alexander's File

    Dangerous Assignment: Mr. Alexander's File
    Oct 22 2025
    Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Turkey to intercept a thief before he sells a sensitive file before to the highest bidder.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 12, 1952

    Originated in Hollywood

    Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Harry Bartel

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    32 min
  • Dangerous Assignment: The Smuggling Racket

    Dangerous Assignment: The Smuggling Racket
    Nov 1 2023
    Today's Mystery:Steve Mitchell is sent to Havana to meet an informant and break up a smuggling racket. He soon finds himself investigating the murder of the informant.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 5, 1952

    Originated in Hollywood

    Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Harry Bartell; Herb Ellis; Kay Stewart; Tony Barrett; Nestor Paiva

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    36 min
  • Dangerous Assignment: The Butterfly Chasers

    Dangerous Assignment: The Butterfly Chasers
    Oct 8 2025
    Today's Mystery:Steve parachutes into Brazil in pursuit of a party of lepidopterists, one of whom has a sensitive document that belongs to the US and has been auctioned off to the highest bidder.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 22, 1952

    Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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    38 min
  • Dangerous Assignment: To Ask a Guy to Shoot You

    Dangerous Assignment: To Ask a Guy to Shoot You
    Oct 1 2025
    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Indonesia to get the help of an embittered ex-Navy officer to identify and stop a dangerous gun runner.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 15, 1951

    Originated in Hollywood

    Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Stacy Harris, Dan Riss, Paul Dubov, Betty Lou Gerson, Jakm Moyles

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    31 min
  • Dangerous Assignment: The Underground Press

    Dangerous Assignment: The Underground Press
    Sep 24 2025
    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Austria to obtain a dummy newspaper that has information on foreign agents.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 8, 1952

    Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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    30 min
  • Dangerous Assignment: A Stolen Treaty

    Dangerous Assignment: A Stolen Treaty
    Sep 17 2025
    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Port Said in Egypt to retrieve a stolen signed treaty that was taken from a courier who was beaten and left for dead.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 25 1952

    Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Raymond Burr, Jack Moyles

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    33 min
  • Dangerous Assignment: Ghost Hunters

    Dangerous Assignment: Ghost Hunters
    Sep 10 2025
    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Darwin, Australia, because a man who offered the U.S. information on the location of a World War II traitor has been murdered.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 10, 1952

    Originated in Hollywood

    Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Kay Stewart, Dan O'Herliy, Don Morrisson, Ben Wright

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    31 min